Enter With Praise

There's a way to enter God's presence — and Psalm 100 shows us: with thanksgiving and with praise. Not with a list of requests in hand right from the start. Not with the day's complaints. With gratitude. This doesn't mean God doesn't want to hear our requests and laments — He does, and the Psalms are full of them. But when gratitude opens the door of our prayer, the heart arrives in a different place. It arrives recognizing who God is before saying what it needs. And in that recognition, something settles in the soul. Today, before you ask, before you complain, before anything else — enter your conversation with God through the door of gratitude. Say what you're thankful for. And watch how His presence feels closer when the heart arrives that way.