CHECK YOUR 'PRAISE' TEMPERATURE

I noticed I didn't see this lady throughout last term and was wondering if she's moved home. I ran into her this morning as I previously would on school runs. She's literally gone to her grave and back. She never knew she could make it back to life but God healed her. It was a life threatening illness. For the first time ever, she mentioned God. I woke up this morning to the news of so many who looked to the weekend on Friday but never made it to Monday, not of their will. The lives lost in Kenya bombings, the worshippers killed as they came out of church in Pakistan, the Christian community maimed and massacred in a northern village in Nigerian, those killed in the US Naval base and the list goes on.
Among these deaths were women, married with children, living the life but had it snuffed out of them in their prime. 
An ingrate is anyone who may have woken up today with the gift of life but feeling like not living. The dead would have wished (I'm sure) they escaped death. You have been preserved, kept by the power of God. As rough as life may seem at the moment, you can still live through life with a hope for a brighter tomorrow. We are not better than those gone, we are just blessed to still be here.
Our gratitude level should always be on the rise. We must not wait to experience pain or have a bad time before we appreciate and praise God.
Earlier in the evening yesterday, I sympathised with a friend at her despair on being single for far too long. Later in the night, I was praying with a traumatised married woman who was wishing she had not married her man and wished she was single.
This is life. Ladies, the Lord knows what's best for us and when it's best to bring us to it. Till then, check your 'PRAISE GAUGE' and see what you measure. Are you found wanting?
Break into a song of joy to the honour of the Lord Most High, whom, even though we may not understand what He is doing and our view of His workings may be limited, we can trust that He is working for our good. His love for us is so special and so great. He has our best interest at heart. He knows what to do with that situation on your mind.
TRUST HIM and show it by being THANKFUL.
I actually just thanked God for Angela Mikel of the Christian Democratic Party of Germany who just won the election and returned to power. I celebrate women in power who fear God. Just on a thankful note. There loads of other things to praise God for even going to the rest room and being able to do it by myself, yes, as funny as that may sound. GOD IS GOOD.
You are loved.
Check your praise temperature, it is very healthy when HIGH. Make it rise.