LET'S GIVE THANKS!

Let's Give Thanks
You can't help but to think about the goodness of God, it literally surrounds us! This is a time of year when many take time to be thankful for the blessings in their lives. They are just that, blessings! We have so much to be thankful for, our families, health, friendships, etc.... Truthfully each of us could think of many things we can be grateful for! Psalm 106:47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. We know that the good things in our lives are blessings because the Lord reminds us of that in scripture. In Proverbs 28 scripture tells us "A faithful man shall abound with blessings". The most wonderful blessing any of us can obtain is a close relationship with the Lord. I am very thankful for my family, Pastor and church, but mostly I am thankful for the desire God placed in my heart years ago when I was a child to serve Him. Even more so I am thankful for the seed that was planted in my Mother when she was young by her Aunt, if her Aunt had not been faithful and planted the seed of the Lord, perhaps I would have not ever known the Lord today! It is so vital that we plant a seed of truth among whom ever we come in contact with so they also can reep blessings and salvation through Him. Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God's holy people) in the Light.(Colossians1:12) Job, in the most trying of times, still gave thanks to God. Scripture time and time reveals that before a breakthrough there was thanks. Meaning people praised God and thanked Him in advance even in the midst of their adversity. When we praise God for the blessings in our lives we are acknowledging that He is the reason for them, and we give all are honor and glory to Him. "But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel."(Psalm 22:3) God will manifest His power through praise and thanks. He demonstrated this many times in the Bible. Especially in Acts 10:46 "For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God." God then gave them powerful gifts; 1Corinthians 12:7-11 7Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.[b] 11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines. Gifts of power are given to each of us through the Spirit of the Holy Ghost! His power saves, delivers and heals!Acts 10:46 He is our Comforter, our Consolation, our Father, our Friend. We have so much to be thankful for, where would we be without Him?