Grateful and Thankful Everyday!

“I’m thanking you, God, from a full heart.” Psalm 9:1a (MSG)

Being thankful is recognizing it’s not just that we are on earth to “enjoy” things and people and thank Him once a year. Thanksgiving allows us to acknowledge God who is loving, faithful, powerful, abounding, and full of mercy and grace. Gratefulness is being willing to acknowledge all those attributes of God and having a thankful attitude IN (not for) all circumstances. It’s a feeling of being appreciative of everything you have received that brings you enjoyment or heartache. We acknowledge the goodness of God, in the good and bad, when we are grateful.

Thanksgiving is a time for us to be grateful on the inside stirring us to action on the outside with words and acts. When we give thanks to God, we are responding to Him with love and trust in His faithfulness and goodness in an attitude of gratefulness.

If we are not thankful and grateful, what does our ingratitude say to our Father? It says we don’t acknowledge God has any part of our lives on any level. It says we are our own provider of things and all that we have achieved. Our words can be thanks but our hearts and attitude can be ingratitude at the same time. We must make sure that our hearts, mindset and actions all speak the same message.

Thanksgiving and gratitude are life, and ungratefulness and self are death. You either reject God and all He is to you or you accept His sovereignty in your life. And the outcome, then, is whatever you just decided. You’re responsible for the outcome of that which comes from unthankfulness and ungratefulness or that which comes from thanksgiving and gratitude. We have that much power in our simple response to God and who He is.

I have a heart of gratitude and I choose to give God thanks, because life is all about Him. My thanks is because of who He is. My thanks is because of what He does. My thanks isn’t about me. It isn’t about what I have-It’s about Who God is, and God is faithful to His Word and to me. And when I feel grateful and give thanks, I’m saying, “whatever you want God.”

Giving thanks with a grateful heart is a powerful thing. It helps us enter into the presence of God, remember His goodness, and appreciate all that He has done for us, all that He is doing for us and all He will do for us. It’s about who He was, who He is, and who He will be . It takes the focus off of ourselves and our problems, and onto the greatness of our God. “For although, they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God, nor give thanks to Him, but their thinking, became futile, and their foolish hearts were darkened.” Romans 1:21

Grateful and Thankful Everyday!

“I’m thanking you, God, from a full heart.” Psalm 9:1a (MSG)

Being thankful is recognizing it’s not just that we are on earth to “enjoy” things and people and thank Him once a year. Thanksgiving allows us to acknowledge God who is loving, faithful, powerful, abounding, and full of mercy and grace. Giving thanks outwardly shows our emotions from the inside.

Gratefulness is being willing to acknowledge all those attributes of God and having a thankful attitude IN (not for) all circumstances. It’s a feeling of being appreciative of everything you have received that brings you enjoyment or heartache. We acknowledge the goodness of God, in the good and bad, when we are grateful.

Thanksgiving is a time for us to be grateful on the inside stirring us to action on the outside with words and acts.

When we give thanks to God, we are responding to Him with love and trust in His faithfulness and goodness.

If we are not thankful and grateful, what does our ingratitude say to our Father? It says we don’t acknowledge God has any part of our lives on any level. Our words can be thanks but our hearts and attitude can be ingratitude at the same time.

Thanksgiving and gratitude are life, and ungratefulness and self are death. You either reject God and all He is to you or you accept His sovereignty in your life. And the outcome, then, is whatever you just decided. You’re responsible for the outcome of that which comes from unthankfulness and ungratefulness or that which comes from thanksgiving and gratitude. We have that much power in our simple response to God and who He is.

I choose to give God thanks, because life is all about Him. My thanks is because of Who He is. My thanks is because of what He does. My thanks isn’t about me. It isn’t about what I have-It’s about Who God is, and God is faithful to His Word. And when I give thanks, I’m saying, “whatever you want God.”

Giving thanks with a grateful heart is a powerful thing. It helps us enter into the presence of God, remember His goodness, and appreciate all that He has done for us, all that He is doing for us and all He will do for us. It’s about who He was, who He is, and who He will be . It takes the focus off of ourselves and our problems, and onto the greatness of our God. “For although, they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God, nor give thanks to Him, but their thinking, became futile, and their foolish hearts were darkened.” Romans 1:21

Thanks is an act of the Spirit that responds to the deeper sense of gratitude. “Not only thankful, but brimming with worship, deeply reverent before God.” Heb. 12:28 (MSG)

Don’t let thankfulness and gratefulness stop and be a one-day celebration. Make it a lifestyle of giving thanks to God every single day and in every single circumstance. Make life about thankfulness and gratitude every day!