Thanksgiving!!!
Hello everyone,
How are you today? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.
Primary Text:
“One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him – and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?” Then He said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.” Luke 17v15-19 (NIV).
Thanksgiving is very important. Two proverbs from my country speak along of the lines of thanksgiving. Onee of the person who knows how to give thanks for what they get today, will see another one to get tomorrow, and the second of the person who knows how to think, will know how to give thanks. Psalm 103 mentions different benefits God does for us including forgiving all our iniquities, healing all our diseases, redeeming our life for destruction, crowning us with lovingkindness and tendermercies, … Usually what happens is that we concentrate so much on the things we are looking to God for that we forget to thank Him for what He has done (Philippians 4v6), and what He is even presently doing. I was reading a book, and a small boy was upset because God had taken away his parents from him when he was so young and he didn’t have any memories. He shared this with his aunty, and she told him, well she also didn’t have memories of her mother either. But she still had memories of other things. She said “My memories are different, but they’re jest as real and jest as filled with love… I have lots of memories, … - lots of good memories.” Let’s take time to look around and be thankful for the good things God does for us and to us and through others. They may be different from what you would have liked, but they are “jest as real and jest as filled with love.”
Supplementary Text
“Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus [the Revealer and Mediator of that will].” 1 Thessalonians 5v18 (AMP)
And be ye thankful!
Book reference: Seasons of the Heart: Once upon a Summer, by Janette Oke.
How are you today? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.
Primary Text:
“One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him – and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?” Then He said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.” Luke 17v15-19 (NIV).
Thanksgiving is very important. Two proverbs from my country speak along of the lines of thanksgiving. Onee of the person who knows how to give thanks for what they get today, will see another one to get tomorrow, and the second of the person who knows how to think, will know how to give thanks. Psalm 103 mentions different benefits God does for us including forgiving all our iniquities, healing all our diseases, redeeming our life for destruction, crowning us with lovingkindness and tendermercies, … Usually what happens is that we concentrate so much on the things we are looking to God for that we forget to thank Him for what He has done (Philippians 4v6), and what He is even presently doing. I was reading a book, and a small boy was upset because God had taken away his parents from him when he was so young and he didn’t have any memories. He shared this with his aunty, and she told him, well she also didn’t have memories of her mother either. But she still had memories of other things. She said “My memories are different, but they’re jest as real and jest as filled with love… I have lots of memories, … - lots of good memories.” Let’s take time to look around and be thankful for the good things God does for us and to us and through others. They may be different from what you would have liked, but they are “jest as real and jest as filled with love.”
Supplementary Text
“Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus [the Revealer and Mediator of that will].” 1 Thessalonians 5v18 (AMP)
And be ye thankful!
Book reference: Seasons of the Heart: Once upon a Summer, by Janette Oke.
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