THANKFULNESS (adj) - feeling or expressing gratitude or appreciation towards. Is this how people would describe you? When you talk about your relationship with your kids, church family, or spouse, does thankfulness, would people say it is evident in your conversation? Ok, maybe they'd say it about your feelings toward work or school? Do people around you come to you for encourage re: _______________________ because you have a thankful heart? The bottom line is this.....GOD's will is that we'd be thankful in all circumstances ( promotions, reductions in force, births, deaths, prosperity, recessions, sickness, health, etc) like Joseph.....read where he complained about being locked up for being falsley accused. You won't. Read where he cursed & blamed God for being sold intot slavery by his own brothers. You won't. Your situations should cause you to trust GOD, not complain about what you don't have or what aint the way you want it.....God is in the business of getting your heart to beat as His does, and they only way to do that is get into His will. This video is of the people of Katskatera, Africa....some of them walked 12.5 miles up a mountain to meet with us, and if you don't see their thankfulness for us, for our visit with them......then you're blind. Is this what your thankfulness looks like when you go to work, to church, to complete strangers.......?
God, we apologize for our ungrateful attitudes and may our hearts be filled with thankfulness for all that you have done & provided for us. Let us begin with saying thanks for the multitude of things you've already done for us starting with _________________ and let our life today be a reflection of our appreciation towards You.
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