On this day of thanks-giving, let's give thanks and enter into His holy presence. "Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name" (Psalm 100:4).

Attend to the One within you.

These words were on my mind when I awakened one Sunday morning. With these words came a picture of the previous evening.

I heard a mother tell about her son falling and getting a big gash on his leg. She washed the wound and took him to the doctor. The doctor shined his light into the wound, and she saw that the injury she thought was clean was still full of debris. 

Elijah's spirits were at the bottom. He had just prayed down fire from heaven and had 450 prophets of Baal slaughtered and what was his reward? The queen sent him this message:

"May the gods also kill me if by this time tomorrow I have failed to take your life like those you killed" (1 Kings 19:2 NLT).

In Living Faith, Helen Roseveare tells of finding herself driving a small van behind a huge truck on a 350-mile stretch in Africa. She tried to sound the horn to encourage him to find a spot along the narrow winding shoulder where he could pull off and allow her to pass. The horn failed.

“Maybe you need to think about your motives!" Donna's friend said when she said her attempts to talk to her husband about salvation were ending in disaster. Donna had a nagging feeling that her words held an uncomfortable amount of truth. Her friend's parting comment was, "Remember to pray without ceasing!"

A gentleman who reads these devotionals (and who I know to be a man of much prayer) told me that when he retired, he asked the Lord what He wanted him to do with the rest of his life. He was reading in the book of Joshua and decided to end that day's reading at the end of the 12th chapter.