Agradecimento pela vida: o dom de respirar e existir

O dom do fôlego que sustenta o dia

Agradecer pela vida começa no instante em que você para e percebe a própria respiração. Estar vivo hoje não é obra do acaso nem do próprio esforço, mas de um sopro contínuo que Deus renova a cada instante.

Antes de qualquer palavra ou afazer, o corpo já recebe o sustento divino. No silêncio de quem se recolhe, o simples ato de respirar se torna a primeira oração.

6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD- Yah [Behold The Hand] (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). Praise you2f the LORD- Yah [Behold The Hand] (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).(Tehillim - Psalms 150:6)

13 For youi have possessed my reins (literally, kidneys; figuratively, seat of emotion): youi have covered me in my mother’s womb.

14 I will praise youi; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvelous [are] youri works; and [that] my soul knows right well.

15 My substance was not hid from youi, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

16 Your2s eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in youri book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.(Tehillim - Psalms 139:13-16)

33 I will sing unto the LORD-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] while I have my being.

34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate].(Tehillim - Psalms 104:33,34)

Quando a vida renasce da angústia

A gratidão mais profunda costuma brotar dos dias em que as forças pareceram se esgotar por completo. Quando o peso da caminhada silencia os planos, reconhecer que Deus sustentou os seus passos transforma o medo em alívio sereno.

1 I will extol (to lift up; to praise; to esteem) youi, O LORD-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate]; for youi have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

2 O LORD-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], I cried unto youi, and youi have healed me.

3 O LORD-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], youi have brought up my soul from the grave: youi have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.(Tehillim - Psalms 30:1-3)

58 O Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things], youi have pleaded the causes of my soul; youi have redeemed my life.(Lamentations 3:58)

6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me forever: yet have youi brought up my life from corruption, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and my prayer came in unto youi, into youri holy temple.(Jonah 2:6,7)

O reconhecimento do que sustenta o cotidiano

No ritmo veloz das tarefas, a mente se inclina a notar apenas o que ainda falta construir ou resolver. A Escritura convida a pousar os pés no chão, contemplar o alimento à mesa e lembrar quem é a fonte de cada dia vivido.

10 When youi have eaten and are full, then youi shall bless the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] for the good land which he has given youi.(Deuteronomy 8:10)

3 Know you2f that the LORD-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] he [is] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: [it is] he [that] has made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name.(Tehillim - Psalms 100:3,4)

7 How excellent [is] youri lovingkindness, O God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of youri wings.

8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of youri house; and youi shall make them drink of the river of youri pleasures.

9 For with youi [is] the fountain of life: in youri light shall we see light.(Tehillim - Psalms 36:7-9)

Uma existência guardada em Cristo

Agradecer pela existência é acolher não apenas os dias de sol, mas a graça invisível que envolve cada respiração. A vida encontra repouso quando descansamos na certeza de que estamos guardados nas mãos do Criador.

3 Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] the God-The Father and Father of our Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah], who has Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Moshiach [Messiah]:(Ephesians 1:3)

12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

13 Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son:

14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins:

15 Who is the image of the invisible God-The Father, the firstborn of every creature:

16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or Principalities (rulers or their territory), or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.(Colossians 1:12-17)

15 Thanks [be] unto God-The Father for his unspeakable gift.(2 Corinthians 9:15)

1 I will praise [youi], O LORD-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], with my whole heart; I will show forth all youri marvelous works.

2 I will be glad and rejoice in youi: I will sing praise to youri name, O youi most High.(Tehillim - Psalms 9:1,2)

1 Praise you2f the LORD- Yah [Behold The Hand] (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). Praise the LORD-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], O my soul.

2 While I live will I praise the LORD-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate]: I will sing praises unto my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] while I have any being.(Tehillim - Psalms 146:1,2)

20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God-The Father and the Father in the name of our Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah];(Ephesians 5:20)

Oração de agradecimento pela vida

Respire fundo e solte a pressa por um instante antes de falar com Deus:

Senhor, eu paro agora e respiro na tua presença. Obrigado pelo fôlego deste dia, pelo corpo que me sustenta e pelo teu cuidado silencioso que nunca me deixou faltar o essencial. Onde houve cansaço, tu foste abrigo; onde houve incerteza, tua mão me sustentou. Recebe a minha existência como ela é hoje, com suas alegrias e suas fragilidades. Eu descanso em ti e te agradeço pelo simples dom de viver. Amém.