Greetings:
I come from an 'old-school' family in which I was taught to say 'please and thank you' at a very early age.
As Christians, we ought to say frequent and many 'thank yous' in our relationship with God and in our prayers.
Being thankful is key in our Christian walk.
Many wise and necessary things can be said about thanksgiving, but thanksgiving to God is a spiritual weapon God has given us to maintain our spiritual wholeness that enables us to maintain our joy and peace and confidence in Him.
Conversely, if you want to see joy and peace and faith (trust) in God diminish in your life, simply walk in thanklessness.
Demonstrating to God often that we are thankful for what we have … rather than what we don’t have, or maybe have lost, can be the difference between increase His blessings to us, or withholding them.
The Bible tells us in Psalms 100:4 (NIV) to “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
Being thankful shows honor.
Every major painful situation we go through in life may well be a trial God has designed for us - usually to test us.
A thankful person constantly stays in tune to God and inquires: "What am I to learn through this painful situation?"
A thankless person rarely asks God that question, but rather just grows angry and bitter inside for God allowing them the pain they are going through without learning a thing from it.
A thankless person tends to be a complainer or a whiner – always remaining bitter about the past over one thing or the other.
A thankless person tends to be a "Why God?" person or a person who asks 'why me God'.
A thankful person stops trying to constantly stay focused in on the 'whys' God and asks God what can I do to make it right.
Many Christians grow frustrated in their prayer lives because they have not walked in being thankful. Being thankless can greatly affect our prayers.
Though God’s mercy and grace and patience transcends limits we often have difficulty comprehending –– we can quench the Holy Spirit by failure to obey the following scripture:
Look at 1 Thessalonians 5:16-19 (NIV), it says, “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit.”
Being thankful may or may not change your circumstances. But it will change what your circumstances do to you.
Your circumstances will either destroy you or build you up depending on how you see them. But when you say "thank you", you recognize that beyond your circumstances and your control there is still a sovereign God who loves you and assures us that he is working all things together for their ultimate good.
Psalm 111:1-5 in the Living Bible sums up being thankful this way, “Hallelujah! I want to express publicly before his people my heartfelt thanks to God for his mighty miracles. All who are thankful should ponder them with me. For his miracles demonstrate his honor, majesty, and eternal goodness. Who can forget the wonders he performs—deeds of mercy and of grace? He gives food to those who trust him; he never forgets his promises.”
My Momma was right. It is the right thing to do to say, “Thank you”.
Be blessed.
I come from an 'old-school' family in which I was taught to say 'please and thank you' at a very early age.
As Christians, we ought to say frequent and many 'thank yous' in our relationship with God and in our prayers.
Being thankful is key in our Christian walk.
Many wise and necessary things can be said about thanksgiving, but thanksgiving to God is a spiritual weapon God has given us to maintain our spiritual wholeness that enables us to maintain our joy and peace and confidence in Him.
Conversely, if you want to see joy and peace and faith (trust) in God diminish in your life, simply walk in thanklessness.
Demonstrating to God often that we are thankful for what we have … rather than what we don’t have, or maybe have lost, can be the difference between increase His blessings to us, or withholding them.
The Bible tells us in Psalms 100:4 (NIV) to “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
Being thankful shows honor.
Every major painful situation we go through in life may well be a trial God has designed for us - usually to test us.
A thankful person constantly stays in tune to God and inquires: "What am I to learn through this painful situation?"
A thankless person rarely asks God that question, but rather just grows angry and bitter inside for God allowing them the pain they are going through without learning a thing from it.
A thankless person tends to be a complainer or a whiner – always remaining bitter about the past over one thing or the other.
A thankless person tends to be a "Why God?" person or a person who asks 'why me God'.
A thankful person stops trying to constantly stay focused in on the 'whys' God and asks God what can I do to make it right.
Many Christians grow frustrated in their prayer lives because they have not walked in being thankful. Being thankless can greatly affect our prayers.
Though God’s mercy and grace and patience transcends limits we often have difficulty comprehending –– we can quench the Holy Spirit by failure to obey the following scripture:
Look at 1 Thessalonians 5:16-19 (NIV), it says, “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit.”
Being thankful may or may not change your circumstances. But it will change what your circumstances do to you.
Your circumstances will either destroy you or build you up depending on how you see them. But when you say "thank you", you recognize that beyond your circumstances and your control there is still a sovereign God who loves you and assures us that he is working all things together for their ultimate good.
Psalm 111:1-5 in the Living Bible sums up being thankful this way, “Hallelujah! I want to express publicly before his people my heartfelt thanks to God for his mighty miracles. All who are thankful should ponder them with me. For his miracles demonstrate his honor, majesty, and eternal goodness. Who can forget the wonders he performs—deeds of mercy and of grace? He gives food to those who trust him; he never forgets his promises.”
My Momma was right. It is the right thing to do to say, “Thank you”.
Be blessed.
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