Powerful Truths On Thanksgiving (3 Attitudes That Steal Away Our Gratitude)

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

When our hearts are full of thanksgiving and praise to God, what does it say about us? ​Thanking God for His incredible gift, as well as other gifts given by His people.

Attitudes That Steal Away Our Gratitude

Our Pride​

Pride slays thanksgiving,
but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man,
or he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves

Henry Ward Beecher

Critical Spirit

- Who complains and criticize.

Spiritual Carelessness

- Not thanking or acknowledging God.
- Many people take God for granted for He has done. 

Reasons To Thank God
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Thank God For His Goodness

O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good:
for his mercy endures forever.

Psalm 107:1

We Thank God For His Grace

Grace is unmerited or undeserved favor.

I thank my God always on your behalf,
for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ

1 Corinthians 1:4

We Thank God For His Gospel

And we have sent with him the brother,
whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches

2 Corinthians 8:18

We Thank God For His Guidance

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord:
and He delights in his way

Psalm 37:23

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart;
and lean not unto your own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

Proverbs 3:5-6

We Thank God For His Gifts

13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.

15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

​2 Corinthians 9:13-15 

Our Thanksgiving Is A Mark Of A:

a. Maturing Christian
b. Generous Christian
c. Overcoming Christian

I thank thee first because I was never robbed before;
second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life;
third, because although they took my all, it was not much;
and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

Matthew Henry

The Difficult Times Will Come But It Will Not Break You!

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed;
we are perplexed, but not in despair

2 Corinthians 4:8​

17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord,
and to sing praises unto His name, O Most High

Psalm 92:1​

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions.
The more you express gratitude for what you have,
the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

Zig Ziglar