As we anticipate Thanksgiving Day, from year to year, our hearts expectantly wait for some family gatherings. For the past ten years, I have celebrated this special day here in the U.S.A. I found it could also be a time for serious spiritual thinking, updating our stand in our faith in Christ: And so turn this special occasion into a cause for deep focused Prayers, Praises and Thanksgiving.

Psalm 22:3, says “But thou are Holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel ”

These beautiful words are not my own, they are words from the Bible. There are thousands others intently lodged between pages of “The Good Book.” They all proclaim our dire need to pray… and praise without ceasing.

As in the book of Job 19:25 we too have to day, “For I know that my redeemer liveth.”

Our prayers to our living God, can be our gifts to Him. As we present each daily gift, to Him they become a sign from the heart, of our inexplicable gratitude. His unshakable reassurance and eternal uplifting of His children in life, can never be priced.

Jesus proclaimed us in John 15:7, “If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.”

Here, Jesus is motivating us “to stay and remain in touch with Him” by being in touch through the Word.

With this precious utterance Jesus constructed a strong foundation for our prayers. So that God may listen to our prayers, we, as God’s children, must permanently place God as the head of our life.BUT HOW?

First of all, we need to ask ourselves: “Am I a Christian who walks by sight or by faith? Do I take God at His word, or do I ask to see a sign in order to pray? In times of stress, sickness or sorrow, do I wander at my own life, asking: “IS GOD WITH ME? THEN WHY DO I FEEL ALONE?” So, we need to set an appointed time each day in which to speak with Jesus in a quiet atmosphere; to renew our schedule with God; be in the right relation with Him, that in time of need God will look our way with a fatherly recognition.

In Psalm 18:6 the Psalmist 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 unto his ears.”

God deserves our early morning praises when the mind is rested, and the day begins. God Holy Spirit in us will show us how to pray simply and effectively.

I recall a story about a little shepherd boy who, one Sunday morning, heard the church bells ringing while he watched his sheep. He saw people walk toward the church and desired to communicate with God--but he had never learned a prayer.

So, on bent knees, closed eyes and folded hands, the boy began to recite the Alphabet--- A, B, C, D, all the way to the end. A man passing by, hid behind the bushes to listen. As the boy reached X, Y, Z, the man asked what he was doing.

“I was praying, sir. I want God to take care of me. I don’t know any prayer. I recited the Alphabet; and it is for God to put the letters together and tell what I want to say.”