I will simply ask you this. How often in a given day do you say thank you Lord
Thank you, thank you, thank you
Well, what about when you wake up in the morning when you don't have any motivation except that God is your God?
Jesus is the Lord of your life and he's going to walk with you all day long
Gratitude thanksgiving. We should teach our children that we should teach them very early in life
If a person's not grateful, you know what they're saying
I don't recognize him as a source of my blessings. I don't recognize him as a source of anything. I can make it myself
Gratitude thanksgiving. It should be a part of our thinking a part of our life a part of how we operate
If this God wakes you up every day
Allows you to breathe. See it's not your alarm clock that wakes you up
It's God allowing you to wake up
The first thing I do I sit on the edge of the bed I thank God I'm alive I just like waking up
and I'm I never say
Man, I hope I hope it's a good day today. No
I say today is going to be a great day. I claim it
I sit down. I just ask God to show me what I should learn today
And he flips it I open the book to whatever he wants me to read
And I read it. I highlight it. I take notes about what I learn
I study it and I try to put it into action
And that's every day
Now a lot of people say I don't have time to do that you do have time
If you don't have time you should make time because
gratitude
Is the number one way to become successful
So if you ever stop to just thank Him for everything He's done for you
Gratitude is the number one principle of success. That's what the average person doesn't understand you could do that today
You can start that today
That would change your life. I kid you not you you got to just try you ain't got to believe me. Try it dare you
Every single day when you and I wake up
We can still see
We can still hear we can still walk
We can still eat in other words all the functions and we enjoy every day of every day
So why not wake up every morning saying, thank you Jesus
And during the day thank you and people say well, is that what you do? I thank him all the time
In other words if something good comes my way. I just said, thank you Jesus. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
Or if I'm hurting uh somewhere in my life, I'll say, thank you Jesus
I know that you have a reason this and i'm going to trust you to heal me
Thank you Lord and let's rebuke the devil. Thank you Jesus. You're the one who's in charge
We should live lives of thanksgiving all the time
A true heartfelt daily thanksgiving has a powerful impact on our life in other words if we're thanking him daily
It's going to impact our life
and that is
Being aware that you are living in the presence of a holy almighty omnipotent omniscient
omnipresent God who loves you unconditionally
and all he's asking is
recognition
gratitude and obedience
You get up tomorrow morning you think oh, it's cold this that and the other
I'm going to tell you how to get over that right now
When you're lying there moaning and groaning about your job and the weather and the traffic you just start saying, thank you Jesus
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus
I guarantee you you'll have energy to hop out of the bed and do what you need to do
Why because praise and thanksgiving by its very nature
energizes us
Now what you've done you've got your mind off the traffic and that's on God
And it's on the blessing that he has for you during the day
It energizes us physically mentally emotionally spiritually in every single way
Giving thanks to God removes the anxiety. You can be anxious and worried about anything. You start thanking him
Praising him focusing on him and it is amazing how the anxiety disappears next thing
you know you think well
what am I worried about. I've got holy almighty sovereign God on my side taking care of me
Why am I down in the dumps listen living in the dumps isn't God's plan
And he can get you out real fast
You start thanking him and praising him the devil runs and God gets you out you're rejoicing and praising the Lord before you know it
Because anxiety and fretting over things is not the will of God
I think about almighty God and think about all the things that you and I have to be grateful for in our life