MERCY FOLLOWS THANKSGIVING
Prophecy given through Barbara A. Williams November 20, 1999

"Oh give thanks unto the Lord," saith the Lord. "Give thanks unto me," saith the Lord. "For I am good and my mercy endures forever. I am good and my mercy endures forever. Wake up thanking me," says the Lord. "Thank me in the morning before your day gets started," says the Spirit of God. "Take time--take one minute," says the Lord. "To thank me for who I am and what I've done for you," says the Spirit. "Thank me because I am God, and I am a Merciful God," says the Lord, "and my mercies endure forever. And if you would take the time to thank me," says the Lord, "you will see my mercy all the day long," says the Spirit of God. "You will walk in my mercy," says the Spirit of God. "You will walk in my mercy and you will walk in my peace and you will walk in my provision and my love," says the Spirit. "If you would take the time to thank me," says the Lord.

"For I am good." "For you have thanked other people on the earth who are not good," says the Lord. "For some of you are well-raised and you have good manners and you thank this one and you thank that one, but thank me," says the Lord. "For I am good. And the thanks that I receive," says the Spirit, "I can take and I can make whatever it is that you need on this earth because as you thank me, my mercy flows down," says the Spirit. "As you thank me, my blessings flow down," says the Spirit. "As you thank me," says the Lord, "I multiply what you have and I give you more," says the Spirit of God. "Oh the power in Thanksgiving! Oh the power in Thanksgiving!" saith the Lord. "Oh the power in the giving of thanks! " saith the Lord. "For it was that the pilgrims stopped and they gave me thanks that you are here," says the Spirit of God. "When they thanked me for this land, I gave this land to those," says the Spirit of God, "who thanked me for it," says the Lord. "And they yet remained, their descendants yet remain, and this country yet remains what they set it up to be," says the Spirit of God. "Why? Because they took the time to give me thanks," says the Lord. "That my mercy might endure forever.

"For they knew something that my people on the earth now do not know," says the Spirit of God. "For they knew that whatever they thanked me for, they would see my glory in it," says the Spirit of God. "Whatever you thank me for," says the Lord, "you will see my glory in it," says the Lord. "Are there situations that are not right in your life? Well, thank me for them," says the Lord. "Thank me for my hand in them. Thank me for my provision in them. Thank me for my word over them," says the Lord, "And you will see my mercy in that situation," says the Spirit of God.

"So understand the power in Thanksgiving," says the Lord. "It takes a humble person to thank me, but I tell you that I give mercy--I resist the proud and I give grace to the humble--I give mercy to the humble. So thank me in the morning. Thank me in the evening. Thank me all day long. Reach out to me and rejoice in me with a thankful heart," says the Spirit of God. "For my mercy endures forever. For my peace endures forever. For my love endures forever. For I abide forever," says the Lord. "And I am in touch with those who thank me," says the Lord.

"For with thanksgiving, there is mercy. Mercy always follows thanksgivng," says the Spirit of God. "Mercy always follows thanksgiving," says the Lord. "Mercy always follows thanksgiving," saith the Lord. "Hard places are places to thank me in," says the Lord. "Hard places and hard people are people to thank me for," says the Lord. "Give thanks unto me," says the Lord, "and my mercy will be over every situation in your life. Give thanks to me for these things," says the Lord, "And my mercy will be over them," says the Lord. "And they will work out according to my plan. They will work out according to my plan. They will work out," saith the Lord, "according to my plan. For my mercy endures forever to those who would give me thanks," says the Spirit of the Lord.