“In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”                                                                                                                                (1 Thessalonians 5)

“…when they knew God, they glorified [H]im not as God, neither were they thankful…”                                                                                                                                          (Romans 1)

 

Reader, My birthday gift to you is an article on thankfulness and we will begin with this: What marijauna is to the gateway drug; Un-thankfulness is to the gateway of sin.  It is plain and simple; when thankfulness is lost, ALL is lost. On the national Thanksgiving day persons say they are thankful.  But wait a minute, to Whom are these persons thankful to? Thanksgiving should be a day where persons acknowledge God’s GOoDness and Mercy, and Righteousnesss. But it will not happen and that is to our nation’s shame. There are many types(?) styles(?) of prayer. Here are a few:
*Worshipful prayers
*Petitionary prayer
*Repentance and Confessional Prayer
*Prayers for strength and other needs
*Impecortory prayers IE praying against something and not for something.
*Exorcism prayers

Thankfulness is the prayer we will (DV) concern ourselves with. Reader, this writer is a professional Thank-er. I thank God for everything all the time. Really, if you are a lip reader you will see me thanking God for everything.  Thanking God for everything keeps me near Him all the time. READER!!! READER!!! READER!!! That is the way to stay close to God.  Give Him Thanks for every thing all day long.  If there were a secret to getting on God’s GOoD side, this is it. BE THANKFUL ALL THE TIME and acknowledge your thanks with your voice. When was the last time you thanked God and really meant Thank YOU, GOD?

We will provide you with a list of thanks:
*Air
*Water
*Minerals
*Dirt
*LIFE
*Germs
*Capabilities
*Strength
*Your body, your eyes, your nose, your nervous system, your hair, your defining qualities.
*Your mind…your ideas and imagination…the sanctified imagination.
*Your You-ness
*Born in America
*Body functions….Thank
*God when you pass gas, with out that ability you would be dead.
*Thank God you can urinate, some cannot….do you see how thankful you should be just to be able to realieve yourself?
*Red lights
*Green Lights
*Farmers
*Nutrition in our dirt
*The Sun
*THEE SON of God, Who loved you and gave Himself for you…For YOU…YOU Specifically for YOU AND YOUR SINS…Be Thankful.
*Be thankful for your salvation
Be Thankful you were chosen, Hand picked, elected, selected to be in Christ and not in Adam.
*Be Thankful you were not born in a third world country.
*BE thankful for He loved you and me before we loved Him.
*Be Thankful for family and friends.
*Be Thankful for hard times
*Be Thankful for good times
*Be Thankful for your time on this planet.
*Be Thankful for time and Order.
*Be Thankful for the persons that allow you to exercise your Longsuffering.
*Be Thankful for not being a crazy liberal
*Be Thankful for your hobbies
*Be  Thankful for jobs and careers
*Be Thankful you are not a different person in a differnt family.
*Be Thankful for pastors and ministers that care for you and your life far more than you know.
*Be Thankful for your Mother and your Father. You woudn’t be you without them.
*Be Thankful for the Bad days you learned much from.
*Be Thankful To God for loving you and the knowing and the understanding of what love is.
Be Thankful for what you perceive to be evil or bad in your life.
*Be Thankful for all the teachers that taught you what you know.
*Be Thankful for all the accidents you have avoided had God not directed you in a different way…..remember being thankful for red lights and green lights? SEE God is always protecting you…Be Thankful
*Did I mention being thankful for God’s great love for all peoples on this planet; He sent His Only Begotten Son, so that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but would receive eternal life through the Risen, Reigning, and Returning Son of God.

Reader, the best way to stay close to God is through thankfulness. Thank Him for every good thought that comes into your mind….give Him the Glory for that thought, you will never be sorry you did. Give God all the Glory and be a person that has all humility in Giving God Thanks for everything, for all things, and do it always. Never stop saying Thank You to God and your life will be an abundance of real living in Christ. I know Whom, I have believed and you can believe Him too

Godspeed.