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We Need To Regain Appreciation

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"We Need To Regain Appreciation"
By Zach Wood
Psalm 9:1-2


There’s not one of us who has never given appreciation to someone else. However, sometimes in our lives we get to a point where we get so distracted and lose our focus and goals and we forget to appreciate those who mean so much to us.

We get caught up in our own agendas and we sort of put our appreciation for others on the back burner. It’s not that we don’t know how, but we have forgotten to do it as often or even at all anymore.

This is just like riding a bike, going roller skating or going for a log run. When you haven’t done these things for a while, it takes time to get back into it and you’ve done it before so you can do it again. Just takes some practice again. So is true with showing appreciation. If we’ve lost that momentum to appreciate others with intention, we can once again start doing it and get back into the habit.

The same is true with our appreciation for what Christ did for us. We can learn to regain appreciation of Him. It’s not that we didn’t before, but we may have lost focus and need to gain that back again.

Maybe you need to take some time away and just think about all that He has done for you and just shout out praises to Him for a while without anyone else around. How often have you found yourself just completely taking time to do nothing but expressing your thanks and appreciation to God for all He’s done for you? He absolutely loves it when we worship Him and express our gratitude for all He’s done and continues to do.

I invite you to take some time maybe in the next few days or even the next few weeks and just focus on doing nothing but praising God and giving Him thanks. Put aside your requests and petitions for a few moments in your time with Him and just give Him adoration and praise. Your requests and petitions are important to give to Him, but sometimes we just need to focus on giving Him praise.
 
When you give God praise, it gives you strength. iLove God and I trust God with all of my heart. I have everything I need through Grace to live a life that pleases God.
 
I think this is the first post of your I've read that I don't really agree with. I don't really think appreciation is a practice. If I schedule think about God I don't think God will be very impressed. If I am not praising God I think the problem is with me and not my schedule.
 
I'm not talking about scheduling time to think about God. That's not what I said. I simply said sometimes it is good for us to simply have time with God just giving him praise and appreciation for all He's done and continues to do. We many times bring our prayers and petitions to Him and there are times when it's good to just focus on simply praising Him without bringing our load of requests. I am NOT saying bringing requests and petitions is a bad things by any means. He wants us to, but bringing Him nothing but praises sometimes is a good thing to do.

Many people are busy and sometimes you have to plan out some time to go by yourself and just completely focus on God. It is not just an idea of doing a practice, but putting something into practice more that many times we are guilty of not doing enough.

I'm sorry you didn't agree with my devotional, but I think you misunderstood.
 
I really like your stuff I just have a different perspective on this issue. I used to read tons of personal growth self help stuff. Appreciation was presented as a practice a lot. Appreciate your kids your wife your life and so on... I just think the theme should be to really get your heart right with God. Not something to add to a busy day. If you don't treat your wife with appreciation saying nice things to her as an intention to be more nice is ok. I think it would be better to get your heart right and your appreciation would come out naturally as a way of being.
 
Yeah, I totally see where you're coming from on this. Thanks for giving a little more clarity of what's on your mind and how you see this. I know I'm not always the greatest at writing about things and I try very hard to be clear of what God has led me to write about. I do enjoy hearing other's perspectives.

It is very important to get our hearts right with God. And, like you said, appreciation is something, when our priorities are where they need to be, should flow naturally. Because when we are totally focused on Him, we see things completely differently. And I hear ya on not just adding something to a busy day. On the other hand, we all have busy lives and I was just taking the approach of that we need to take time away from the busy lives and just completely praise God and appreciate Him more because we get so distracted. And we get distracted many times because our hearts are not right with God and we are lured where we don't need to be.

Thanks for sharing.
 
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