• Nov. 18, 2007
A Spirit of Thankfulness

My Pastor's message this morning was on thankfulness.  It really ministered to me and challenged me.  A spirit of thankfulness is a choice to adopt a certain perspective on life.1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 100:4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.

Ephesians 5:20 always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father

^{Phillipians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by   prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.}

^{I suppose what stood out to me the most was the selfishness that is ungratefulness.  A spirit of thankfulness kills selfishness.  Thankfulness is a choice that you make.  It has nothing to do with what you do or do not have.  Thankfulness is a weapon against satan.  Don't be robbed of your joy by focusing on what you don't have.  Don't be so wrapped up in yourself that you can't see the needs of others.}

"We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.  We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown; but we have forgotten God.  We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.  Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."

                                                                                      - Abraham Lincoln

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• Nov. 19, 2007
Scotland

Posted by OurLittleSchoolRoom

Sounds like a good message.

When one's husband is from Scotland, and the in-laws still live there--going to Scotland isn't a choice. On the other hand, I love to visit there, and one couldn't ask for better in-laws! So we go--every year or two now that Granny is getting older and won't come here. Still, I am glad that we live here--for now anyway.

Blessings,
Karen

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