Hearing from God Each Morning (July 10)

This blog is about today's devotion in the book Hearing from God Each Morning by Joyce Meyer.

Today's devotion was about praising God, even when it's a sacrifice to praise God because of hard times.

I feel like God has been working on me a lot with that lately. He's been pointing out little things for me to praise Him for: a beautiful display of clouds, a butterfly, or something else of His creation. I try to remember to praise Him every chance I get for those things that make me smile, because I know that my praise is pleasing to Him.

A lot of people think that if you're in a bad situation, there is nothing to praise God for, and all of your prayers should be, "Help me, God," but I don't think that's right. I think that God puts someone in our lives that we can praise Him for every day. It's one of those things where it depends how you look at it. You can look at your situation and say, "Well, my dad is in jail because he does drugs, so my life is not good at all. I wish I had a family like the Smiths over there." Or you could look at it and say, "Even though my dad made a mistake, I still have my mom, who works so hard for us kids." I think a big problem a lot of us have (me included) is that when we get into a bad situation, the bad just consumes our minds. But God wants us to look for things to praise Him for.