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November 23
IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:18 “In every thing give thanks: for this the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”

     What an opportunity we have as believers to give God praise and thanksgiving for all of His benefits that He bestows upon us! Daily He is loading us with benefits and daily we need to be thanking Him for what He is doing! Oh how thankful we need to be in these closing hours of time!
     Paul tells the believers in our text verse that they are to give thanks, in everything! Not everything that happens to us is necessarily a good thing, but God has a plan and whatever we face He can work it out for our good and His glory. Even though the bad things in life are not pleasant when they come, they can be used to accomplish His perfect will for us.
     What if all the things that ever happened to us were only good things? Would there ever be a time in our lives when we needed to depend on the Lord to help us? He is teaching us to trust Him and to lean on Him, both in the good times and in the bad.
     Notice again the text verse never tells us to be thankful for what we are going through, but rather to give thanks in that thing that we are facing. He wants us to trust Him enough to still be thankful even though we are going through trying times. He says that “this is the will of God in Christ Jesus”. It is His will that our attitude be one of thanksgiving while we are facing the storms of life.
     We can never in this old life thank Him enough for what He has done, but we can allow our lives and our character and our attitudes to be a “thank you” to Him! Live that life that will be pleasing to Him and your life will say thank you.