Here's an article my friend Akina Hall wrote for my newsletter.
Hope you enjoy!
Thanks Be Unto the Lord Thy God!
* By Akina
Hall *
As teenage
girls, we want what others have. But that’s not what God wants for us. He wants
us to have gratitude over what he has already given to us. I think the very
first thing we ought to thank God for is the salvation he had planned for us
through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that we didn’t have to be crucified on the
cross and go to lake of fire!
Ephesians 5:19-20
says, “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
and making melody in your heart to the Lord. Giving thanks always for
all things unto God and the Father in the names of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Colossians 3:15-17 says,
“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called
in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you
richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever
ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to
God and the Father by him.”
These two verses say
that we need to be thankful always for everything THAT God hath given to us in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and singing with psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs on to another with thankfulness to God.
Psalm 106:1 says,
“Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for
his mercy endureth for ever.”
Thankfulness is not
what we do only in the circumstances we like, but also in the trials. He wants
us to grow and love Him more even in the worst circumstances. We should follow
our Lord and Savior’s footsteps, for He hath suffered and died for us. We
should be willing to do whatever he commands us. As 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says,
“In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus
concerning you.”
Today, let others
know that you’re thankful for them as being part of your life. Be thankful for
your wonderful Christian parents. Be thankful for your health. Be thankful for
your pastor. Be thankful for your teachers. Be thankful for your siblings. Be
thankful for the money you have to buy your everyday supplies. And be thankful
for what God hath given to you.
List five things that you are thankful for:
I am thankful for _______________________________.
I am thankful for _______________________________.
I am thankful for _______________________________.
I am thankful for _______________________________.
I am thankful for _______________________________.
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