Thought for the day

WHAT HAPPENS IN HEAVEN WHEN WE PRAY
Gusher (Newspaper) Tulsa; 2018/08

(The Gusher is a monthly tabloid newspaper published in Tulsa
and available FREE at numerous stores in the area)

I dreamed that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me
around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with
angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said:
'This is the first section and is the Receiving Section. Here all petitions
to GOD said in prayer are received'. I looked around in this area and
it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on
voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the World.
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the
second section. The angel then said to me, 'This is the Packaging
and Delivery Section. Here huge graces and blessings the people
asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who
asked for them'. I noticed again how busy it was there. There were
many angels working hard in that station, since so many blessings
had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.
Finally, at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at
the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one
angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. 'This is the
Acknowledgment Section', my angel friend quietly admitted to me.
He seemed embarrassed. "How is it that there is no work going
on here"? I asked. 'So sad,' the angel sighed. 'After people
receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back
acknowledgments'. "How does one acknowledge GOD's
blessings?" I asked. 'Simple', the angel answered., 'just say
"Thank you, LORD".
"What blessings should they acknowledge?" I asked. 'If
you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this
World. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare
change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the World's
wealthy.' 'If you woke up this morning with more health than
illness, you are more blessed than many who will not even
survive this day'. 'If you have never experienced the fear in
battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture,
or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 700 million people
in the World'. 'If you can attend a church without the fear of
harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and
more blessed than, three billion people in the World. If your
parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare. If
you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm,
you're unique to all those in doubt and despair'.
Ok, what now? How can I start? If you can read
this message, you just received a double blessing in that
someone was thinking of you as very special and you are
more blessed than over two billion people in the World who
cannot read at all.
Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you care
to, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we
are. Then you can send a prayer to the Acknowledge
Department.
Here is the prayer. "Thank you LORD, for giving me
the ability to share this message and for giving me so many
wonderful people with whom to share it."