Magnify with Thanks
Dearest Father, thank You that I grow rich as l magnify You with thanks. As written in the Responsorial Psalm today.
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But these have been written in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through your faith in Him, you may have life (John 20:31 GNBDK) - the rich and satisfying life in Christ. (John 10:10 NLT)
Today's Readings
First Reading: Exodus 2: 1-15a
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 69: 3, 14, 30-31, 33-34
Alleluia: Psalms 95: 8
Gospel: Matthew 11: 20-24
Reading 1
[1] A man from Levi’s family married a Levite woman.
[2] The woman became pregnant and had a son. She saw how beautiful he was and hid him for three months.
[3] When she couldn’t hide him any longer, she took a basket made of papyrus plants and coated it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in it and set it among the papyrus plants near the bank of the Nile River.
[4] The baby’s sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
[5] While Pharaoh’s daughter came to the Nile to take a bath, her servants walked along the bank of the river. She saw the basket among the papyrus plants and sent her slave girl to get it.
[6] Pharaoh’s daughter opened the basket, looked at the baby, and saw it was a boy. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. She said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
[7] Then the baby’s sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
[8] She answered, “Yes!” So the girl brought the baby’s mother.
[9] Pharaoh’s daughter said to the woman, “Take this child, nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” She took the child and nursed him.
[10] When the child was old enough, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. Pharaoh’s daughter named him Moses [Pulled Out] and said, “I pulled him out of the water.”
[11] In the course of time Moses grew up. Then he went to ⌞see⌟ his own people and watched them suffering under forced labor. He saw a Hebrew, one of his own people, being beaten by an Egyptian.
[12] He looked all around, and when he didn’t see anyone, he beat the Egyptian to death and hid the body in the sand.
[13] When Moses went there the next day, he saw two Hebrew men fighting. He asked the one who started the fight, “Why are you beating another Hebrew?”
[14] The man asked, “Who made you our ruler and judge? Are you going to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought that everyone knew what he had done.
[15] When Pharaoh heard what Moses had done, he tried to have him killed. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (see 33) Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
I am sunk in the abysmal swamp
where there is no foothold;
I have reached the watery depths;
the flood overwhelms me.
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
But I pray to you, O LORD,
for the time of your favor, O God!
In your great kindness answer me
with your constant help.
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
But I am afflicted and in pain;
let your saving help, O God, protect me;
I will praise the name of God in song,
and I will glorify him with thanksgiving.
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
"See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
you who seek God, may your hearts revive!
For the LORD hears the poor,
and his own who are in bonds he spurns not."
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
If today you hear his voice,
harden not your hearts.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
[20] Then Jesus denounced the cities where he had worked most of his miracles because they had not changed the way they thought and acted.
[21] “How horrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How horrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles worked in you had been worked in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed the way they thought and acted long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
[22] I can guarantee that judgment day will be better for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
[23] And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to heaven? No, you will go down to hell! If the miracles that had been worked in you had been worked in Sodom, it would still be there today.
[24] I can guarantee that judgment day will be better for Sodom than for you.”
Dearest Father,
Thank You, that I grow rich as l magnify You with thanks. As written in the Responsorial Psalm today.
Psalms 69:30 CEB
[30] I will praise God’s name with song; I will magnify him with thanks
Give Thanks and Grow Rich is the title of my new book that details how God revealed to me how rich I already am in Him and that I grow richer still as I give thanks to Him.
This ebook is now available to my readers on my digital shop. It’s a Google doc, so you can easily read it even on your phone. Praise God, thank You, Lord!
Since then, I've lived by that principle: Give thanks always and for everything - good and bad, as well as for present and future blessings.
Instead of focusing on my problems, I focus on giving thanks to God for what He's done in my life, what He's doing right now, and what He's still going to do, especially in regard to my problems.
I even thank God for the difficulties and challenges I'm facing at the moment, the problems and struggles, the pains and the hurts, the disappointments and frustrations as much as for the blessings.
Because I know God will turn everything for my good and for the glory of His Name.
As I give thanks to Him, He is magnified in my life - He becomes ever greater and my problems ever smaller.
Neville Goddard’s Law of Assumption, what I call the Law of Faith, says that if I want something, I must now, at that moment that I wanted it, assume that I have it.
You manifest your desires faster when you assume your desires to be already fulfilled by living in the feeling of the wishes or desires fulfilled.
How do I live in the feeling of my desires fulfilled? I give thanks to God for my desires fulfilled right now, even when I couldn’t yet see it.
My two sisters have not been speaking to each other because the elder got hurt and angry with the younger when the latter lied to us about resuming her romantic relationship with which we are all opposed to.
She thought this younger sister had no respect for her, and so this angered her. And she refused to speak to our youngest sister for a long time, almost 2 years.
I chose to support our youngest sister even if I don't like the guy. And no matter how hard I talked some sense into them about not letting a guy get between them, they remained stubborn.
So I stopped nagging them about it and instead, I started giving thanks to God for restoring my sisters’ relationship. I started imagining our whole family eating together and laughing with each other again, and gave thanks to God for it with all my heart.
Every time I see them ignoring each other, I thank God for restoring their relationship and dwell in thanksgiving, feeling grateful for this fact, even now as I see them like that.
Last weekend, there was an electricity blackout for the whole city, so we decided to stay at the beach the whole day. We started out early, and it was so nice and beautiful.
As my sister and I were lounging on our padded mat, she suddenly said for me to text or younger sister and ask her to come with her son so they can also relax at the beach with us.
I was so surprised she said that since she was so stubborn before not to give in first.
So I immediately texted my younger sis, and even she can't believe that her Diche (what we call our second eldest sister) called for her.
She came, and lo and behold, they reconciled just like that and spoke to each other like nothing happened.
Here are our before and after pics.
How amazing is that? As amazing as our great God!
Now we are all the richer, in peace and harmony.
That's what it means to give thanks and grow rich.
We are already rich in Christ. But we can still grow richer infinitely as we give thanks.
Last month, I suddenly desired to have an increase in salary from my online job. It's been a while since we were given an increase. But instead of asking for it from my employer, I asked it from God. And then I gave thanks and felt grateful for receiving it even now.
And since then, I've been thanking God for my salary increase, a specific amount per hour, and always felt grateful for it even when I couldn’t yet see it.
July is my online work anniversary month. It's my 7th year anniversary with them this year. So I emailed my employer thanking him and the team for the gift that our company and my work is to me and my family. I also claimed blessings upon each and every one of us and upon our company.
My employer replied, also appreciating my contribution to the workplace. And then, surprisingly, he emailed again asking me when the last time he gave me and my sister (who I recommended to him and is also working with us) an increase and what percentage of our salary was given.
I found out 2021 was our last increase and for 20%. So I gave him that information.
Now I'm thanking God and feeling so grateful for that increase, even when my employer has not replied yet.
I already received it in faith.
And that goes the same for all of my hopes and dreams.
But you'll only get to the point where you can thank God and feel grateful for what you still have to receive when you have already thanked God and felt grateful for what He has blessed you with in the present.
So here are other things I'm also now grateful for:
My sister just celebrated her birthday last week.
Our second eldest nephew celebrated his birthday last week too and we gathered together as a family and had fun with each other, eating, drinking, and singing karaoke.
One nephew will celebrate his 11th birthday on July 16.
Our eldest niece is graduating Cum Laude in Agriculture majoring in Horticulture this July 23.
One nephew graduated from middle school and will now go to College this month.
Another nephew graduated from elementary school and is now going to middle school.
My mother is healed of pulmonary tuberculosis and completed her treatment this month.
So many things to be grateful for. Thank You, Father. I truly magnify you by giving thanks.
I give thanks and grow rich.
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Magnify God with thanks.
Give thanks and grow rich.
You are rich now in Christ.
Grow richer still.
Give thanks and grow rich.
Free 🎁 for you.
Magnify God with thanks.
Always and for everything.
Give thanks and grow rich.
Grow infinitely rich.
Say Amen! 🙏
Psalms 69:30 CEB
[30] I will praise God’s name with song; I will magnify Him with thanks.
Now Your Turn
(Questions to ask yourself when scripture journaling)
What verses spoke to me strongly and powerfully from the scripture readings?
What is God saying to me in these verse or verses?
What does God want me to do today?
Journal prompts of the day
Are you magnifying God more than your problems by giving thanks?
Are you giving thanks to God always and for everything?
Will you commit to giving thanks to God always and for everything?
Let us pray:
Thank You, Father, that in Christ, I can give thanks to You always and for everything. I magnify You as I give thanks and grow rich. In Jesus’ Name!
This is it for now. Until next time.
Vivo dives vitae in Christo. Live the RichLife in Christ.
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