Prepare and Perform

Psalm 100:4 “Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise.” ~CSB

As Christians, we should enter rooms excited. We should enter the next phase of our journey through the doors of the unknown, excited because God’s presence and power are in those rooms. These are rooms that He has led us to so that His power can be used through us to bless us and others who He will place in our paths. As His servants we should always recognize His presence. It is through this recognition we have the courage to continue knowing that God will do a great work in where He has brought us. Through these doors and in these new rooms He will have people there who have prayed to Him for His healing, His guidance and His wisdom and they will be able to receive all of that from God who will use us to that.

With the passing of my mother I realize the significance of this. I feel that inside of her ceasing to exist physically, she has just finished her race. She has just accomplished a mission assigned to her by God Almighty. And in this completion of entering the next phase of her journeys in life, hearts were healed. Those who intersected with her path who were broken, became mended. After everything God has done through her was complete, it was time for her to take her place in the kingdom of heaven. To be with Him and His Son Jesus Christ. She did this because she had the spiritual courage to walk through doors of unfamiliarity. She had the strength to endure rooms filled with the unknown and confusion. She trusted God to use her in the places He brought her to.

When we lose someone, instead of looking at the space where they once lived, look at the legacy they carved throughout their life. Use what they did to affect us and we will find that we can also practice celebrating God as we enter doors to rooms we know nothing about. To trust God to use us to make a difference in this world.  I say this because my mother is a great example. During her final days and hours in this world, she made it clear that she was prepared. Her body was weak, but her spirit was stronger than ever. She knew her time in her earthly body was coming to an end. But she knew her story wouldn’t end there. She knew that because of Jesus Christ, there was a place prepared for her. She prepared herself to enter those gates, “...with thanksgiving…” and into “...His courts with praise…” And that is exactly what she did on May 13th 2025.

Are we living our lives so that God’s accomplishments in us will be done? Have we practiced walking through the doors in this life and entering into rooms with praise and thanksgiving? Instead of fear, reluctance and confusion? We need to, because this is good practice in preparing us to walk in thanksgiving and praise in everything we do. Let us live our lives allowing God to work his power and miracles through us so that we may leave His mark of healing in those who cross our paths.

May God bless and keep you in His love and protection in His Son Jesus’ name.

Amen

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