Psalm 145:2-4 [NIV] ‘Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever. Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.’

DAILY READING; • James 2; Jeremiah 23-24; Psalm 130

Charles Betts Galloway was one of the best known Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America in the 19th century. His lifestory is a reflection of God’s amazing grace.
As a young man he had ran away from home because his parents objected to him dropping out of school to become a prizefighter. He stowed away on a train and went to another town and joined a carnival.
After several months, he wanted to move on to another town and tried to stow away on another train. But as he jumped into an open boxcar in the moving train, he found himself in a dangerous position. He had fallen halfway inside the train and before he could get a proper grip and haul himself properly into the boxcar, the train began running alongside a steep ravine. With nothing to hold on to, his body began sliding out. He was terrified at his predicament. If he slipped out he would either fall beneath the train’s wheels or plummet down the steep canyon to his death.
“Please, God!” he cried out with his eyes squeezed shut. “Don’t let me die here.”
With only seconds from death, he opened his eyes and suddenly saw standing inside the train, a young muscular black man. The man reached down and pulled him by his arms into the speeding boxcar. Charles lay face down on the floor of the car for several seconds trying to catch his breath and regain his strength. When he looked up to thank the man, he saw no one. The man had vanished. The boxcar was completely empty. One of the two side doors was closed, as it had been since the train began moving. The man had simply disappeared from sight. Charles sat down slowly in a corner of the car and began shivering.
Suddenly he knew with great certainty that he needed to get home. When he returned to his parents and told them about the man on the boxcar, they concluded it must have been an angel.
Charles returned to school and later became a licensed preacher. He often said his entire life would have been different if it weren’t for that single afternoon when God sent an angel to save his life and change it into something that could glorify Him forever.
His story is contained in the book ‘There’s an angel on your shoulder: Angel encounters in everyday life’.

Psalm 18:6 says ‘In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.’

God, indeed does answer the cry of those who call upon Him in distress.
For some of us, this has been our story. As believers, we all have a history with God. When we go back over our life story we can see how God has always been faithful. He has always showed up right on time.
At several low points of life, the grace of God had reached down and pulled us up.
Even the times we had messed up and rightly deserved the consequences of our actions, yet somehow God’s grace has covered us. By His mercies we had not been consumed.
We’ve all come through mistakes and difficulties that could have truncated our journey. Some of us went through obstacles that could have defeated us early in life. But somehow, through God’s grace and mercy we were able to survive.
He caused rivers to flow for us through the desert, pulled us from the fiery furnace, delivered us from the lion’s den, healed us from deadly diseases, and gave His angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways.
Despite all the plans of the enemy, God’s will over our lives has prevailed.
From the dunghill, He lifted us and made us to sit with princes. He set our feet upon the rock and established our goings.
God has always been there, working behind the scenes and pushing back the hands of darkness from snuffing out our lives and our light.
For all the goodness of God in our lives we ought to be always grateful. His praise should continually be on our lips. Indeed, if we can think, we can thank.
Nothing should hinder the flow of praise from our lips.
No matter any challenge we may face, there’s always a reason for us to be grateful. We cannot possibly know all the details of God’s goodness; the many traps He delivered us from and the hidden battles He fought and won for us. As we praise Him for His blessings, known and unknown, certainly, He will do greater things for us; taking us from glory to glory and from victory to victory.

PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for always answering me when I call. I am grateful that Your grace and mercy are always available to deliver me in Jesus Name.
QUOTE:
What you thought was disappointment in life, was actually just a redirection from God– WORDBITE 222