Spirit of Thanksgiving

Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Romans 7:25). Everyone at some time feels a sense of gratitude for benefits received however there are some who are not as expressive. We probably often hear hear thanks given and acknowledged right and left without mention of God. Spiritual thankfulness is put into words has a spiritual healing effect upon our souls and has a good effect upon those who hear. Spiritual thanksgiving is that we could rejoice because we count God's promises and provisions greater than our trials. We have the understanding of what pleases God; our thoughts, our desires, our affections that are transformed in over time. Christianity is radical because we change from old nature to the new nature, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of God that created us. Happy Thanksgiving !!!!

Spiritual Reality

Some that are now high will be brought low and many of the humble will be exalted. A.W. Tozer With the help from the Holy Spirit, we can be wise enough to face up to the truth that every day is another day of spiritual preparation, another day of testing or discipline. There are those who believes that Christians will not face suffering and that they will live painless. Today television preachers have become a part of our false prophets who teaches "ichy ears" sermons and invite those who listen to join their concept of Christianity. Christianity in their view is physical blessings of health and wealth rather than spiritual. Real Christians will face tests from God because in the Bible, there are many examples of men and women being tested. There does come a time when the Holy Spirit says, "Today this disciple is going to be tested." The tests are actions to find out who have an honest desire to be Christlike? We should all be aware that every day is a day of testing. It is through the goodness of God we may go to the school of our failures. Spiritual growth requires Christians learn from mistakes. While examining our mistakes, we must be careful to avoid two opposite errors: the first is being too easy on ourselves and the second is being too hard. There are lessons in life we learn best from failure as we have in the past. I have learned that there is no reason to drown myself in my trials. It is really humbling to know that I will not learn what God seeks to teach me until I have changed accordingly as He enables me.