Attitude of Gratitude Wrap Up

#23 Grateful to be Living Life as a Stranger
Phil. 3:20  For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ

#24 Being able to do the hard things
Psalm 18:29  For by Thee have I run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall
Phil. 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me

#25 My Divorce....
yes, I did say that.  I. Will. Be. GRATEFUL. Even. In. This.  It has caused me to be more aware of my relationship with God.
I John 4:18 "...perfect love casteth out fear..."
The One who allows difficulty is the One who loves me more than anyone else does.  I don't have to understand difficult situations to understand that God loves me deeply.

#26 Where I am at this moment in life
I Corinthians 7:17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk.
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want.  It is the realization and appreciation of how much you already have.

#27 Mint Chocolate
....can't really find a scripture for this...but I do love it anyway :-D Well, maybe I Tim. 6:6 could work??....LOL...godliness with contentment is great gain....(???) :)  J/K

#28 Joy
Prov. 17:22
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones

#29 The Hope of U-turns
Proverbs 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

#30 Safety in God
Proverbs 21:31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.
Isaiah 41:10  Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Attitude of Gratitude: Day #22 Happy Thanksgiving!

I am grateful today to be able to have a day, here in America, that is set aside to remember to be thankful for the blessings that God has bestowed on us. 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

 

Most of this month I have tried to focus on one thing each day in which to be thankful for. Focusing on having an attitude of gratitude has been so needed for me, especially in recent months. Lots of things have happened to us this year (of which I am sure that we are NOT the only ones.  I am aware that everybody has trials and makes errors), so it has been good for me to try and focus on things that make me happy and/or are good for me. :) Glad I did it!! It prepared me for the most meaningful Thanksgiving.

Today was a special day.  Family and Friends.  Eats and Sweets.  Good times.  I feel that God has blessed me beyond measure.  I'm so grateful that God has met my every basic need.  Food.  Shelter.  Clothing. Truly, as the scripture says in Psalm 23, I shall not want.  I'm so humbled by His goodness and provision.

My prayers are with all those who were involved in the 100 car pile-up on I-10 this morning, especially the families of those that lost loved ones today.  My heart is so saddened by this news.  It makes me more aware that every day...every moment...should count.  None of us are promised tomorrow.  So, not on just one day...or one month...of the year, should we focus on being thankful for every blessing, but every day of our life we should be thankful...and live in gratitude.   

 

Psalms 106:1 Praise ye the Lord, O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for this mercy endureth forever.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!   

 





Attitude of Gratitude: Day #21

What I'm grateful for today:

#21

Warning Signs

The bridge between home and work is under construction right now. It's kinda a pain...BUT I am glad that it is getting some attention. It's needed it for some time.

I'm grateful that on the days when the construction is going to effect the traffic between my home and the town where I work, I get a phone call...a recording...letting me know that traffic will be delayed.

There are also digital billboards along the interstate that flash information.

It's good to know...

to be in the know...

so that I can make the necessary adjustments.

Attitude of Gratitude: Day #20

What I'm grateful for:

#20

Grace/Mercy/Hope

Tuesday night our congregation had Communion Service. What a fitting week to remember Christ and the sacrifice He made for the world. It was such a fulfilling, yet humbling experience. I am so grateful for the blood that was shed on Calvary!

Many do not understand this concept, but I'm so thankful that I choose to believe.

God has been so gracious to me! I'm thankful all my sins have been covered by the salvation of the blood of the Lamb.

I am also thankful for the Church.

I'm thankful to be able to go to worship service with people of like-minded faith.

People to worship God with.

People to cry with.

People to rejoice with.

People to shout with.

People to pray with.

I'm blessed!

Attitude of Gratitude: Day #19

Proverbs 18:24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

New Living Translation says Proverbs 18:24 like this: There are “friends”who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.

There is a song that the Crabb family sang, called: I Am A Friend of God. 

Isn’t that such an awesome, and humbling, thought?! God…who is rich in majesty…who knows everything there is to know about me…calls me, friend???!! 

I get excited at the very thought! I also find such peace and contentment in that thought. To know that I can be a friend of God…well, just thinking about that possibility…it settles me somehow….

Today I’m grateful to know Jesus is my friend.

I’m also grateful today for every kind person who has lifted me up in prayer. Precious souls who have taken the time to speak to God concerning my needs. Those precious individuals who have spoken to me with edifying words, and who had the discernment to know when and what to speak (and not) to speak as they’ve walked with me along this life’s pathway. 

Those gentle folks who have been so content to quietly walk along beside me, sometimes hand under my elbow (so-to-speak), and by this letting me know, without ever saying a word, that they indeed “had my back”. Individuals who I can laugh with, talk with, cry with, and be myself with. 

I am richly blessed!

Attitude of Gratitude: Day #18

Psalm 116:1-2 I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

We are so comforted to know that God listens to us.   But what about His emotions? How do you think it makes God feel when we listen to Him? I think it makes God happy. Communication is the key that opens the door to any satisfying relationship. Talking and listening to one another =Relationship.

Isaiah 50:4 The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue,to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed. 
 
Proverbs 28:9 (NIV) If anyone turns a deaf ear to the law, even his prayers are detestable.

It’s not enough that God listen to us, but we must listen and perform the duties that He would want [for us] also. 
 
Thank you, Lord, for taking the time to teach me how I must perform in the life that you have so preciously given. I move and breathe because of You. It is You who wakes me morning by morning and it is You who gives me the strength I need to do every daily task. Thank You for the faithfulness you bestow in the relatioship you have with me. It is my desire to bestow the same. Love you so! Amen.

I’m not top-notch regarding this, but I do want to have DISCERNMENT in all my ways.  As I try to discern the times we live in I also want to have the discernment I need in other areas of my life.  What I do and what I say, matters.  I’m so thankful for the Word of God I heard in Sunday school this weekend! 
 

When we call on God, He bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

—Elizabeth Charles

Attitude of Gratitude: Days #16 & #17

What I'm grateful for on November 16: 

 

CLEANLINESS

Psalm 51:10(NLV) Make a clean heart in me, O God.  Give me a new spirit that will not be moved. 

What I'm grateful for on November 17:

HARMONY

I Peter 3:8(NIV) Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. 

 



#15 Day of Gratitude: Honesty and Fairness

Proverbs 16:11 (NLT) 

The LORD demands accurate scales and balances; he sets the standards for fairness.

 

 

There is priceless value in Honesty and in Fairness

 

So thankful I've been taught and shown these in my life!

 

Day #14 of Graditude: Weight-Loss

Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

Today I am grateful for:

 

Weight-Loss  

 

I'm grateful for weight-loss in the physical...and in the matters of the spirit.  I'm thankful that it is not a must for me to carry around that which weighs me down.  I can give all my cares to Jesus!  Because of HIS HELP I am still sane!! 

 

....and it certainly has helped for me to talk with Him concerning my weight-loss journey this year too!  Because of HIS HELP I am now really close to being 30lbs. slimmer!  Because of HIS HELP my blood sugar and cholesterol levels are far better than what they were this time last year! :-) 

 

 

Day#13 of Graditude: My Friend Jesus

Proverbs 25:13, As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters

Reliable people, people who do what they say, are like cool drinks in a sweltering heat. 

 

They are so refreshing to the spirit and the mind! 

 

But, among all the faithful friends I have (and I thank God for each one), I'm so thankful for my Friend, Jesus. 

 

He's reliable. He's faithful. He sends a messege right in the nick of time. His showing of love is so  refreshing.  His love quenches the thirsty. 

 

Day #12 of Graditude: Thankful for Good Teaching

Psalms 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

 

Proverbs 6:23 For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life,

And here are some of the last words of king David. These words remind me of pastoralship.  I'm so thankful for consistent, steadfast, teachings of God’s Holy Word thoughout my entire life. 

 

And not only of God’s Word, but for parents who've taught me regarding how to live out (in this present world) a balanced life.  I’m so GRATEFUL for the parents that I have!!! God truly shined His Light on me when He gave me those two. I love them!!!!!!

(NIV) II Samuel 23:3-4 When one rules over people in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God, he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth.'

My pastor (and parents) are this!

 

So thankful.  So blessed.   

Day #11 of Graditude: His Word

Proverbs 17:22 A cheerful heart is a good medicine

 

I'm rejoicing in the Savior on this Fall Day today.  I've got so much to thank God for.  I have so many wonderful blessings and He has opened so many doors of love & joy.  Lots of trying times here recently but God is faithful.  I love Him so much! 

30 Days of Graditude

Day #11
I'm so thankful for the WORD of GOD!!!  It is the stablizer of my life. 
Because of the WORD being breathed into my spirit I can have a cheerful heart.
His WORD lifts me up!

What are you thankful for today?



 

 

 

Night Songstress ~

Psalms 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. 

Proverbs 6:23 For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life,

I’m so thankful for the light of the Word. It is a light which shines on the road that we all tread, so that we may see the path and that we may see any danger which may be in that path. Man needs such a guide, and the Bible is that guide. I wish I’d have picked up His Word and read it more often in my younger years. But, I’m grateful that little by little, precept upon precept it was “getting in there!” J That is all due to wonderful, Godly examples of parents/teachers/pastoralship/Godly friends. I’m thankful for their work of love. 

   

People who make God’s Word their guide and mark its teachings are not wasting there time. They are doing the right thing. They will be able to mark the road in which they ought to go and to avoid all those by-paths which would lead them astray.

 

So many times those “by-roads” turn off from the main road at a very small angle, (at least it did for me) making it seem to be no divergence for us. However, the Word will cause us to be more apt to see those divergences and get us back on the main road. 

 

The Word helps us see any obstruction which may lie in our pathway. While on this journey I’m on, I’m more apt to see the obstructions when I am walking carefully (as if there are mine-fields everywhere), then when I go full-speed ahead, not paying attention to things I’m passing up. I’ve already passed up precious opportunities. That’s not a good feeling. 

 

The Word shines in a dark night. Those times when we might fall. Trials are dark nights. And, here is where the 2 cross-roads was for me. I’m so thankful God gave me a book full of His love letters and that I had the presence of mind (in my delirium at the second major cross-road) to pick it up and read it. J It’s shone light all around me in my darkest of nights. 

 

His Word keeps me singing like as a nightinggale—It means 'night songstress' J Here is some information I received in my small research of the little bird called the nightinggale.

A nightinggale got it’s name simply for this reason: Its song is particularly noticeable at night…why??...because few other birds are singing. Singing at dawn, during the hour before sunrise, is assumed to be important in defending the bird's territory. Nightingales sing even more loudly in urban or near-urban environments, in order to overcome the background noise.

 

So….yes….I think I’ll keep singing!!! Making my melodies of praise to the One who sees all my chaos, making noise unto the One who knows me thru and thru, and diverting the enemy of my soul—confusing him—when the deafening noise around me (that he is causing) is trying to take over.

 

I will sing unto the LORD!! 

I will keep defending my territory!

I will make melody in my heart and whistle in delight.

I will sing the Psalms and Hymns. 

I will sing His WORD!! 

 

Take that, devil!J Just before the dawn, this is the darkest of night. Joy cometh in the morning! Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. (II Cor. 1:3-4)

 

II Peter 1:19 And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

 

Psalm 97:11 Light is shed upon the righteous and joy on the upright in heart.

 

Job 11:17 Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning. (spoken from the book of a man that had trial after trial!! The word makes trials more dim and LIFE more worth living).

 

Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day.

 

Psalm 84:7 They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.

 

Psalm 98:1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

J Thankful for the Light today! ~md

Election Sure

Daniel 2:20-22  Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

May the will of our God be done concerning this election and our nation.