Daily Affirmations - Day 3 - Focus on Gratitude - Infinite Mercies

Alisa B.
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Day 3: Infinite mercies

Accept Lord, the willing praise of my mouth… (Psalm 119:108).

We give thanks often with a tearful, doubtful voice, for our spiritual mercies positive, but what an almost infinite field there is for mercies negative! We cannot even imagine all that God has allowed us not to do, not to be.

~ Frances Ridley Havergal

Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that You have done for us. We thank You for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love.

We thank You for the blessing of family and friends, and for the loving care which surrounds us on every side.

We thank You for setting us at tasks that demand our best efforts, and for leading us to accomplishments that satisfy and delight us.

We thank You also for those disappointments and failures that lead us to acknowledge our dependence on You alone.

Above all, we thank You for Your Son Jesus Christ; for the truth of His Word and the example of His life; for His steadfast obedience, by which He overcame temptation; for His dying, through which He conquered death; and for His rising to life again, in which we are raised to the life of your kingdom.

Grant us the gift of Your Spirit, that we may know Christ and make Him known; and through Him, at all times and in all places, may give thanks to You in all things. Amen.

~ Frances Ridley Havergal

Thy mercy, my God, is the theme of my song,

the joy of my heart, and the boast of my tongue;

Thy our free grace alone, from the first to the last,

has won my affections, and bound my soul fast.

Thy mercy in Jesus has freed me from hell;

its glories I'll sing and its wonders I'll tell;

this Jesus my friend, when He hung on the tree,

there opened the channel of mercy for me.

Thy mercy is more than a match for my heart,

which wonders to feel its own hardness depart;

in awe at Your goodness, I fall to the ground,