Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities,… – Psalm103:2-3
REFERENCE
Psalm 103:1-5
Thanksgiving season is one of the most memorable of all seasons; because it gives us an opportunity to pause and thank God for His many blessings. Thanksgiving gives us the benefit of hindsight; we can look back at our lives and see what God brought us through. The prayers He answered and the blessings He gave us. Also, we can see things we didn’t even pray for that He brought to us. And it gives us the privilege of foresight to look hopefully into the coming year.
Thus, Thanksgiving is more than a polite “thank you” you say when someone does something good for you, it must be your heartfelt response to the benefits of God in your life. Some of you might look at your life and say nothing changed for you this year; things were tough, you think you don’t have a testimony etc., so you wonder if there is any reason to be thankful to God.
But the very fact that you are here today is solid proof that you have been a recipient of great mercy from God. The challenges of the moment should not make you forget that God is good and He has been very good to you. Do not let ingratitude grieve the heart of God this season of thanksgiving; if you can just pause and think, you will know He has been good to you.
As a born-again Christian, one solid reason you have for thanking God this season, is for your salvation. Yes! That is sufficient reason because salvation is costly… Psalm 49:6-8 reveals to us that the richest man cannot pay for the salvation of one man; because the redemption of a man’s soul is costly.
You were not redeemed with the blood of goats and bulls, or perishable things like gold and silver. But with the blood of the Son of God. So, the fact that your name is written in the Lamb’s book of life, that you are not headed for hell, and that you have been redeemed from shame is enough reason to thank God today.
Join us the rest of this week as we look at reasons for being thankful. You definitely should SHOW and TELL of God’s goodness in your life this season.
ADDITIONAL STUDY
Psalm 34:1-3, Ephesians 2:8-9 & Titus 3:5.
TO DO
Thank God for your salvation and everything that comes with it – peace, health, wealth, joy, well-being, deliverance, etc.
Saved by Grace; undeserving and a deliberate God-act, and not by your works, deserves not only your thanksgiving but your deliberate “thanks-living”.
Thankful for the gift of Salvation.
#deliberatethanksliving #deliberateGodact #showandtell
I’m grateful to God Almighty that I started this year with my wife and now God has blessed us a handsome baby boy. Lord we are grateful!
I Thank you Lord for the gift of salvation. You are the reason why I sing. Jesus, You are the reason I am.
#ShowAndTell
#MuchGrateful
Indeed the greatest gift of all… SALVATION. The very reason of our being, to be saved and to worship God in Spirit and truth. For the countless and boundless benefits that come with bring saved, lord we are grateful.
I am greatful to God that I am alive this day in good health, peace, joy, with a Job, a roof over my head etc.
…that i am saved today is enough reason to thank God, i wonder where i would have been today, looking back at my life and my “use to be friends”. i know that God has a big plan for me. Father i thankyou for salvation.
My life is God’s gift to me, thank God for the cross.
My children are God’s gift to me,for the fact that my children are not wayward is a gift to me I will never take it for granted.
I bless Jehovah for His unmerited favour upon my life and my children.
Am glad to be alive and saved and I want to say thank you Lord for saving my family and for all he has done from the beginning of the year till now
Hmm Lord where would I have been without Your amazing grace in my life? I don’t want to think about it, today I deliberately pause to say: “Thank You for my salvation.” Imela Papa! You did it all for me, I am grateful that You did!
Am forever grateful to God, for his love and mercies.
Lord God I thank You for the gift of life. I thank You for the of peace and joy upon my life. I thank You Lord a thousand time
Thank you Lord for redeeming me with your precious blood; what would i have been doing/ where would i be if you didnt save me?Thank you for making me escape hell…
Thank you for the gift of the Holy spirit, thank you for all the benefits of salvation that i have enjoyed and still enjoying…
#showandtell #thanksgiving #2017