God is so Great

The Lord is continually showing me how much he cares. Take the following for example:

My daughter has been in a coma for 9 years this past June. A couple of nights ago, I was standing by her bed praying before I went to bed. I prayed again, "Lord, heal her so she can tell people what you've done for her. She's been here so long. I know you're going to perform a miracle in your own good time so I guess I need to stop asking for her healing." I felt depressed. Having lost another daughter on the 6 of June 2011, on the very anniversary of Pamela's car wreck that sent her into a coma 9 years ago.

Tonight, I went to Bible Study at the church and learned my church was in revival and I didn't even know it. Well, the preacher, after a series of statements about the sermon he wanted to preach on discipleship, said this:

The Lord is saying he has already heard your prayer on the subject and you need to start thanking him for the answer. We all do this at times: ask God for something and keep asking him until we get it. Well we need to stop praying the same old prayer and start praising him for the answer."

Now this is something I've been taught often during the last 50 years and still I forget and keep praying for the same old, same old.

So...Thank you, Lord, for answering my prayers asking for Pamela's healing.
Thank you, Lord, for answering my prayers asking for my family's salvation.
Thank you, Lord, for listening as I whined and cried while praying these lengthy prayers over and over again.
Thank you, Lord, for the message tonight that you have heard my prayers and have already answered them.
Thank you, Lord, for being such a loving, caring God.
Thank you, Lord, for saving my soul and filling me with the precious Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking in a language unknown to me.
Thank you, Lord, for providing my every need, even the little ones like this confirmation that you have heard and answered my prayers.
Thank you, Lord, for being there for me, for loving me, for listening to me, for taking care of all my doubts, fears, and needs, and many of my wants.
I love you, Lord, because you are so great, so wonderful, so caring, so patient with me, so forgiving, so merciful, and all the things I can't remember in this moment, I thank you for those as well.
One more thing, Thank you, Lord, for the trials and tribulations I've suffered since I've been born because it is through all my sufferings that I, like Jesus, am learning obedience and have become the woman I am today. Thank you, Lord.