DON’T FAIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS DEEDS IN YOUR LIFE – Sunday, 17th August 2025
Text for Today: Luke 17:11-19 “Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” (vs. 18).
Your ability and readiness to regularly acknowledge the deeds of God in your life, will go a long way in shaping your life to please God. One of the things God will never compromise from us is thanksgiving. Inability to do this from time to time will cut you away from further flow of His grace and blessings, which we won’t be able to bear. From our text for today, Jesus encountered thanklessness while traversing between Samaria and Galilee.” As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”
Surely, they must have thought, if Jesus could cure the blind, heal the lame, and raise the dead, he had the power to help them too. They were already outcasts and had nothing to lose, so they raised their voices in desperate hope. When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” Will they go? How can they, because Jesus has done nothing outwardly to assure them of a cure? “This was a trial of their obedience. How would they respond to the Lord’s ambiguous command? Something in the reputation of Jesus, or perhaps in the way he looked them in the eye, encouraged them to believe what He said. And as they went, they were cleansed. Note the progression: “as they went, they were cleansed.” The obedience precedes the healing. One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?
You are a Champion!
Further Study: Ps. 103:1-22.
Covenant Prayers
- Father, I will forever remain grateful to you for your mercy.
- Thank you, Jesus, for all your deeds in my life.
- I cast out every spirit of ingratitude in Jesus’ name.
- Father, make my life an expression of your grace.
QUOTE: “WHOEVER FAILS TO THANK GOD HAS CUT HIMSELF AWAY FROM FURTHER BLESSINGS.”
