Tag: Thanksgiving

Gratitude For What You Don’t Have

Be grateful that you don’t already have everything you desire.If you did, what would there be to look forward to?Be thankful when you don’t know something,For it gives you the opportunity to learn. Be grateful for the difficult times.During those times you grow.Be thankful for your limitations,Because they give you opportunities for improvement. Be grateful […]

Thanksgiving

Current culture would have us believe that Thanksgiving is a secular holiday, unrelated to religion. NOT. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in centuries old traditions of giving thanks and praising God for bountiful blessings from His provision. The American observance existed prior to the nation’s founding. It was strengthened on October 3, 1863 by President […]

Job On Gratitude

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” Job 1:20-21 ESV Thanksgiving is a […]

Gratitude, The Root of Both Goodness And Happiness

“The man bowed low in homage to the Lord.” Genesis 24:26 Here we have the Servant of Abraham recognizing and acknowledging the obvious movement of God in the tide of the affairs of man. Some translations say “he bowed his head.” Whether he knelt or bowed his head, “bowed low” expresses an attitude of the […]

Thanksgiving, A Time Of Gratitude

It is Thanksgiving week in the United States. A time of gratitude. Gratitude: noun: a joyful thankfulness, a desire and readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness; a sentiment of kindness or goodwill toward a benefactor. For the Christian, gratitude includes giving goodness and grace to others as the giver has first received […]

Crushed?

When we express God’s Truth, we depress the enemy’s lies. The high and lofty one who lives in eternity, the Holy One, says this: “I live in the high and holy place with those whose spirits are contrite and humble. I restore the crushed spirit of the humble and revive the courage of those with […]

A Thanksgiving Day Prayer, 2022

God the Father, maker of heaven and earth, by you we have our creation and preservation; we thank you for the great gift of life in your good creation: food to sustain us, sun to enlighten us, air to enliven us, friends and family to make our hearts glad. God the Son, redeemer of the […]

An Anthem Of Thanksgiving

For the Believer, thanksgiving is a permanent condition of the heart. Here is our anthem this Thanksgiving morning: Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth!Serve the Lord with gladness!Come into His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God!It is He who made us, and we are His,we are His […]