 Welcome to all my God ministries. I am your host Reverend Anita Morris and This week we will talk about God's answers to prayers in a Thanksgiving Psalm found in Psalm 20 20 and That is Psalm 20 the Thanksgiving for God who Processed to give him thanks of answered to prayers Heavenly Father, we thank you for your gracious gift of Your Holy Spirit who dwells in a believer in all believers We thank you Lord God for never leaving us lonely for being our compassionate father our Mother our sister our friend Thank you Lord for being so kind so so merciful Towards us and I just thank you Lord God for your love and for your tender mercies as Psalm 103 reads oh bless the Lord. Oh my soul and all that is within me Bless his holy name. Oh bless the Lord. Oh my soul and forget not all his benefits Who satisfies your mouth with good things? That means what comes out of your mouth will be good things of Thanksgiving and not with a bitter soul or bitter taste of Bitterness and sowing strife and confusion, but it will be a glory to God It will be of gratitude Because God who fills all those lonely places has answered your prayers We thank you all gracious God for answering the prayers of the many those who are saved those who are unsaved those who have come to a knowledge of the Lord and Who have received parting for their sins and those who don't know you? the darkness of their lives that they come to know you and Receive you as their Lord and Savior We thank you Lord God For this is February love month not only February love month, but it also It's United States of America as we Celebrate Black History Month, so we thank you Lord God for our pioneers who went before us who paved the way for us and Thank you Lord God that you have allowed us to see a new day a new mercy and being so kind to us and Thank you Lord God for remembering us and our prayers and all these things would give you things amen and amen And Psalm 20 a prayer for victory in battle Such a prayer can help us prepare for any great challenge David knew King David But the Old Testament who is in a lineage of Jesus Christ He knew that trust should be placed in the Lord of hosts the Lord of heaven's armies and the Lord more than in Human power, so he never even allowed himself to the steadiness to Rest in human power, but allow him to rest his faith his hope and God's power that's a mighty mighty witness of the Fortitude of someone's faith that is recognized and resound and when it's resounding like that Others can just stay in awe and witness that was a great man That was a great woman because their faith did not rest in human power But rested in God and God delivered and rescued him or her from many battles and that is credit to God my beloved God is good and greatly to be praised and Psalm 20 it reads in times of trouble may the Lord answer your cry There was many times. I'm sure that you have laid silent and In quietness silent in tears You know, you might happen have had grief Long hours people that don't even know about it But God has started to answer your prayers slowly, but surely he said he's an on-time God as one of the Gospel orders of Shirley Cesar had Sung the song said he's an on time God Yes, he is he may not come when you want to always it might be dotty peoples, but he's right on time He's an on-time God, okay? So as we recognize that even in our persistence That our answer to prayer may not be right away it might take great faith of your practicing patience of character of hope of of challenge of of Resistance of perseverance of steadiness of steadfastness of being firm of Your hope and what you believe and not being deterred by what others would like for you to do But you know what God has told you to do, but you have remained faithful and God has answered and honored your prayers And it goes on May the name of the God of Jacob keep you safe from all harm Now as you know the God of Jacob as we say in the forefathers of the old biblical testament of the Torah The fathers of Abraham of Jacob of Isaac of Jacob, okay? So those were the forefathers of the Old Testament And you know when Jacob had stole his blessing from Esau who was the eldest and His mom actually Conspired with Jacob to do so So Jacob had to run for his life from his own own brother Because of that stolen blessing and there was many many years of animosity jealousy that wrecked havoc and Jacob's life that he was afraid of Meeting ever laying eyes on his eldest brother Esau because he thought that Esau will kill him because he stole The inhabitants the proclamation of the blessing from father to son Even though Esau traded it for a soup, which he was very hungry. So It's also a responsibility level as well On Esau's part But nevertheless it said me the God of Jacob not Esau, but the God of Jacob keep you safe from all harm and as we recognize beloved that Jacob was kept from harm all those years of patience of trials of Servitude when he had to serve his life or I would say serve Yeah, his life to wed Rachel, but he was given Leah, but he had to serve additional seven years for Rachel That's the entire the total years were 14 years in awe Before he was released to be wed to Rachel of his choice and And God had answered his prayers so we can see that There will be times of affliction there will be times of trials But we want God to answer you and recover you from all those Trials of challenges that may be too hard for you to fathom too hard for you To recover in your own strength, but you have to beloved look in the strength of the Lord For in Zechariah 4 6 it reads for it's not by might nor by power Human power, okay, but it is by God's spirit Says the Lord so God will move upon whom he will move and he will show glory upon whom he showed glory and that his power will be resound in his creation and in the earth and Verse 2 It reads may he send you help from his sanctuary and Strengthen you from Jerusalem So not only is the word of God asking and Soliciting for God's help, which is the root word of Help is your shower and your shower is upright righteous, but Yeshua means help Rescue deliverance that is Jesus's name to send you help in the beginning was God the word in the beginning was God and Dwarf among us and we beheld his glory so as God was in the beginning. He also Was wisdom in Christ Jesus Not yet made known to the earth Okay, so but so God be the glory. He said may he send you help from his and verse 3 It reads may he read your gifts and Look favorably on your burnt offerings Have you had encountered a time? Where you utilize all your gifts all your talents or work for nonprofits? I'm raising my hand You have been overlooked or disregarded as Not of the importance or low degree You don't seek financial gain of human wealth, but you know your help and your Your favor comes from the Lord and This is what the psalm is asking as You have done that That God will see that and honor all those talents and gifts and sacrifices Which you have dispensed into the earth that you have dispensed to other humankind That you have dispensed to your fellow neighbor to your sisters and brothers that he'll look favorable Upon your talents or your gifts and shine his glory upon you that he'll act upon your behalf and Show you a good harvest. That's what I'm asking God for you today That you will receive your harvest as he has also been revealing and showing the impact of What he has endowed with in my life and showing me the harvest of the lives of others that God has allowed me to plant the seeds there and it has grown and it's Prospering and that's all to give God the glory Not of my glory, but unto God all the glory and it's so powerful at so What do you call it breathtaking to see God's word take place and other human lives other than your own and Verse four it reads may he grant your heart's desires and make all not some But all your plans succeed How many people are planners out there earn that you know exactly what you're doing from three months from now Six months from now how much money you're spending or what do you need to get out of the hole? What do you need to stay abreast how many people always fixiated on planning and planning their different seasons Whether it's summer, winter, spring or fall, but you always have a plan in mind Where you want to be what goal set what age you are at in your age group where you should be in life your career all these different sectors of Goal sets of planning and it reads that may he grant your heart's desires and Make all your plans succeed This was a prayer. I prayed years ago that once I saw this I would always proclaim it may God grant my heart's desires make all my plans succeed and Beloved it has been a trustworthy saying meaning amen that God has shown up He also makes all my plans succeed and may not be in my timing But it's in God's timing that he fulfills all of my desires and the now and also Things that I can't even see that is an expression of his love towards me that I'm grateful for And it's felt by those that have loved me and those who have entered and it came into my life to impart lessened wisdom and Allowed me to continue to aspire and grow with them and to mature into a Beautiful being that I am today and I give God all the glory and praise and verse five it reads a Verse of Psalm 20 and verse five may we shout for joy When we hear of your victory So the congregation your peers are looking and may they shout for joy when they hear of your victory recently I had What do you call it published? public news regarding my situation and to come as Being allowed to be a mother and to God be the glory that the Test which I had to take was successful and God has given me victory and all my peers my chaplains my my pair groups of my Training have always said Anita may you have an harvest? I see your harvest coming. God is God is shining upon you Congratulations all these about a whole bunch of almost More over near a hundred have Had been elated and shot at the victory chant of God's success over my life Not because of me. I'm 41 years old. So that continues to be an What do you call it? What do you want when you're Preparing to be a mother that puts you at a different bracket in your life in stages But God be the glory he has answered the prayers and he has kept me safe healthy and strong And I'm sure the child with them will be healthy safe and strong And it says may we shout for joy when we hear of your victory and raise a victory banner in the name of our God It made the Lord answer all your prayers and he has done that and I thank God For him answering all my prayers Even the things that I did not pray like I mentioned to you those things that you have prayed and things that you Didn't pray but God has answered your prayers. It says before we even ask God said I have already answered you. You already knew what you were pondering before you even uttered it on your lips He he is that good For God is good and he's greatly to be praised and so he wants to make himself known To you not among you only but to you intimately As he is known he wants to be known to you In verse 6 of Psalm 20 Now I know that the Lord rescues his anointed king He will answer him from his holy heaven and Rescue him by his great power even when David had to meet the challenge of his predecessor which is King his his predecessor or He was the predecessor however you say that saw And King David right He was fleeing from King Saul and even though David King David had an opportunity to Kill saw he said To himself that even God will not allow that for me to slay my brother It says touch not his God's anointed and do his prophet no harm So even in that stature of great power of great influence We are responsible beloved to not take Life in our own hands to will power Over those whom we can easily overcome and allow ourselves to be God in their lives and to Take a life that it does not belong to us beloved that belongs to God and The risk belongs to God the consequences is God So I just thank God he didn't rest any of that situation on you when you have been What do you call it run have it with or have been? You know a lot great atrocities as we recall Black History Month or any kind of month where you see African-Americans who have been brutally beaten or lynched back in Years ago hundred and fifty years, maybe even seventy five years, maybe even sixty years Maybe that's still mention people that we don't even know about But to God be the glory it's not for us beloved to take life in our own hands Okay, even in verse six it reads In verse seven some nations both of their chariots and horses of human power of Exploits of what they did and how much harm they have caused to humanity and that is a grave danger It says but we will boast in the name of the Lord our God Because God gives us great rescue even from the wills of the power of those who want to commit atrocities upon a people group God gives great deliverance. He gives great power and he Like I said he lifts up one and he sets down the other So just know that in verse eight it says those nations will fall down and collapse But we will rise up and stand firm even when I mentioned earlier That When your faith is strong just continue to stay strong In the power of God's might for it's not by Might nor by power, but it's by God's spirit his might That overshadows and it causes you to stand firm Causes you to stand stand hopeful and cause you to not be teared By your peers when they're going a different way, but God says this is the way and I want you to walk there And I want you to stay put. I want you to still honor me. I want you to still obey me I want you to still believe what I'm going to do in your life And I am going to make your plans succeed Will you be still and stand fast and see the salvation of the Lord upon your life? In this season God is asking But your faith must stand firm Okay, and then in verse nine at closing it says give victory to our king Oh lord answer. I cry for help so even in challenging times even at times where we have also see on tv if those are people are Knowledgeable or staying current events that People might see that we might embark on another government shutdown for those who work for the federal government and some entities where Being threatened by another government shutdown through via the wall um of president trump's administration But to God be the glory that he answers our prayers when we call that we stand in the gap for others When they have areas of lack But it says no good thing Well, he withholds from you who walk upright. So I just thank god that he'll answer all of your prayers And that his plans your plans that you have planned will succeed in the things that pertain to life and godliness And that you will honor your your lifestyle To god and that you will know how to walk in love and repentance And wholeness and healing for yourself And that you'll go from glory to glory strength to strength in this season And whatever given god the glory may he uphold you And and may you have good considerable thoughts awareness And and thank you for looking out for your fellow man fellow humankind It could be your neighbor could be your relative And whoever god has called you to um To be a steward over or to show um Compassion to that you'll be faithful in your assignment And that you do not grow weary and well doing for you shall reap if you faint not So let you let god continue to arise in you may his power continue to arise in you And may his spirit overtake you where you have goodness overflowing joy overflowing Press down shaking together running over So may you have all the attributes that you need To continue to live a sustainable life a thriving life That is exhibiting god's goodness and his grace and may you offer that to others As you overcome and as god answers your prayers Thank you for standing the gap for others and see and Enchant the victory for others when they have received the victory and join in And and shout the victory with them join in It says rejoice with those who rejoice Okay, amen, and we want to do that we want to count it done And and give god all the glory for his many many many awe inspiring deeds When you look outside and see that you are still living That you have met the challenges that we have just overcome the different snowstorms and there are people who have I have been um killed by sub degree Weather freezing below negative 49 degrees some were set in minnesota or somewhere In different midwest areas or out west areas who did not survive, but you did And you got to give god the glory beloved for your life and to to say hey I am here and and you god I live I move and I have my being And when I look and I hear of my dad and I hear him progress and he's still here Fighting pancreatic cancer fourth stage Paycreatic cancer and he is still able to talk to communicate To to shine once god's victorious light upon him and god has given him victory as long as breath shall be in him God is being glorified And I just thank god for bringing him into a peace a place of rescue that even god will answer his prayers In these time of difficulties, but that he'll be strengthening with his whole humanity and in the god's might And thank you lord god for binding up my dad's wounds and with your stripes. He's been healed I pray for all of you. I don't know where your sense of struggle. I don't know what transitions of life I don't know what ailments or disease you may have But I pray that god said his word to heal you and deliver you from all destruction And with your stripes he with his stripes you have been healed Meaning some people receive that healing In this now and some people We've received that healing um once they Go and be with the lord they receive new bodies or this is a perishable bodies we decay This body decays day by day, but we are renewed in the spirit of our mind So no that wisdom of god For the wisdom of god is is sometimes counted foolishness with men But continue to be steadfast and god's presence And to continue to fill yourself with the joy of the lord Which is your strength that gets you from day to day as each day's need god bless you God be with you god make his face to shine upon you be gracious on to you and give you peace In jesus name god bless you and have an outstanding month of february god bless