Thankful

Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Romans 7:25). To be grateful to God's servants is to be grateful to God in all circumstances. Thanking God shows humility and acknowledges His rightful aurhority as the Sovereign Lord and the giver of every good and perfect gift (James 1:17). In Philippians 4:11 says: I am not saying this because I am in need, but rather for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. Spiritual thankfulness is put into words has a spiritual healing effect upon our souls. 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. Thankful Scripture References: Because God is Good....................Psalm 107:1-3 Because God answers prayer.........Psalm 108:1-5 Because for our salvation...............Ephesians 2:4-10 Be thankful in all prayers................Philippians 4:6 Demonstrate to others your thankfulness..........Colossians 3:15-17 Be thankful in ALL circumstances.....1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 We are to spend more time remembering the eternal blessings God is continually giving us. He gives us forgivenes. He gives us eternal life. My spiritual salvation. Now, that's a great blessing and special gift. I may not be feeling well physically today but I have learned to be thankful anyhow and to rejoice in the promises of God. God's eternal blessings do not depend on how I feel today. If my eternal hope rested on how I felt physically, which is temporal, I might as well forget eternal blessings. The point is this: my feelings (i.e. cope) in no way change my eternal blessings because of great examples in Hebrews 11. I will NOT dare not relate my faith and hope to my emotions of the moment and to how I feel today or whatever the circumstances I am facing. My eternal hope depends on God's Word and His decisions because He will make good on His eternal promises at HIS time, not mine. The subject of my human emotions and circumstances, God does not play on our emotions to bring us to the point of His spiritual decisions. God uses circumstances for His glory, not ours.