10 Reasons To Be Grateful on Thanksgiving...

Question: "How can you have a thankful heart even though you may be facing tough times in life?"

Answer: "By focusing on what you have not on what you do not have. Take a moment right now to count your blessings and pause to thank God for each of them." Don't wait til Thanksgiving Day to be grateful. Learn more

Here are 10 reasons to be thankful.

1. You have a GREAT GOD

Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song. For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods. Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; for He is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under His care. Psalm 95:2,3,6,7

2. You have been given the GIFT of GIFTS FROM GOD (JESUS)

Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift (JESUS)!  2 Corinthians 9:15

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.
John 3:16-17
 

3. You have EXPERIENCED GOD'S GOODNESS& LOVE

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever!  Psalm 107:1

4. You have a GOD WHO DOES GREAT DEEDS FOR YOU 

And you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name, make known His deeds among the peoples, proclaim that His name is exalted. “Sing praises to the Lord, for He has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth. Isaiah 12:4-5 

 

5. You have the PEACE of CHRIST

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Colossians 3:15

6. You are blessed with a LOVING SPOUSE

Your wife (husband) will be like a fruitful vine within your house. Psalm 128:3a

 

7. You are blessed with CHILDREN & BELONG TO GOD'S FAMILY

Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a real blessing. The sons a man has when he is young are like arrows in a soldier's hand. happy is the man who has many such arrows. He will never be defeated when he meets his enemies in the place of judgment. Psalm 127:3-5 

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see him as he is.1 John 3:1-2

 

8. You have FRIENDS WHO PRAY FOR YOU

I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers. Philemon 1:4

9. You are blessed with HEALTH  

Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. 3 John 1:2

 

10. Your PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH FORM YOUR CHARACTER  

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:20 

“All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy.” --Dennis Prager

Wishing you and your family a Blessed and Happy Thanksgiving.