Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for April 13, 2026

HAVE A THANKFUL HEART

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Philippians 4:6

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Additional Verses

📖 Matthew 6:25-34; Mark 11:22-24; Philippians 4:4-23

Anxiety is always activated by lack of spiritual insight into one’s future. Anxiety exists where there is no hope. Hope is the product of the transformational information that one has concerning one’s life. The information we have about what God says in His Word about us is the brick and motor of our faith as faith is the result of the amount of the Word of God we take into our spirit. Anxiety can however creep into a Christian’s life when your faith fails to work during times of trouble, tests and temptations. Such kind of faith is not the God kind of faith. It is weak faith. You are just like a person who feeds his body without doing any exercises. Such a body is just big and weak. When you study the Word of God and in time of trouble you completely forget what that Word of God said about how you could solve that problem, you are just as good as someone who never studied the Word of God at all. As a child of God you must know that God gave you His Word for a purpose and this purpose is for you to have an excellent life here and now and also in the life to come. The existence of anxiety is always a result of fear and fear involves torment. Fear will only be completely blotted out of your life only when you let Jesus Christ take full control of your life; thus allowing Him to settle down, abide or make His permanent home in your heart. This is only possible through study and practicing of God’s Word. Philippians 4:6 is reminding you to be anxious for nothing and it also teaches you how to respond to all circumstances of life. Prayer and supplication, thanksgiving and letting your requests made known to God is your response to whatever challenge you may face. When people are subject to anxiety, they never pray a prayer of thanksgiving to God but rather they will only ask and even complain as well as express their fears. This is not a prayer of faith at all. Remember that prayer is a normal conversation with your Father in heaven. You therefore make your requests known to Him by clearly stating your problem to Him. Our Father in heaven already knows our concerns even before we say them out to Him. Isaiah 65:24 says, “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, l will answer; and while they are yet speaking, l will hear.” Once you clearly state your request you must go on to thank Him for the definite response you are going to receive. Remember what the LORD Jesus Christ said in Mark 11:23 that, “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” Thank God for whatever blessing you receive, whether big or small and God will continue to pour more blessings because you are always grateful to Him. Alleluia!

Prayer

Dear LORD Jesus Christ, please forgive me for the times that I have not thanked You when I was supposed to. Please add into my spirit continuous thanksgiving for even the smallest of things. May others in Christ also realize the importance of thanksgiving within a Christian’s life. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray. Amen