Power Of Please and Thank You!

Key Scripture:  “Enter His gates with Thanksgiving”.  Psalm 100

Power Point:

     I know you’ve probably seen this scripture a lot of times in the last few weeks.  Everyone is thinking about celebrating Thanksgiving. At our family celebrations when the children were growing up, I would always ask them what they were thankful for.  They would grimace and look at me with that “Oh Mom, not AGAIN!” look and finally come up with some sort of answer.

     If you think about it, we have become a “thankless” society haven’t we?  Even Christians, who are continually encouraged to “Be thankful in all things” sometimes forget. People have lost their awareness of the joy that comes from being thankful. They simply take their blessings for granted. In fact, I guess you could say that being thankful is a lost art.

     In Ecclesiastes, Solomon writes about the man that God has given riches and wealth, and the power to eat of it.  In other words, he is able to be grateful to God and enjoys the blessings in his life. If I asked you today, that question that made my kids grimace, “What are you thankful for”, would you have a ready answer?  Is your heart filled with gratitude to God for His blessings? Have you taken time to list them recently? 

     My grandchildren have been taught (thankfully) to say “thank you”.  My daughter met a family the other day and the highest praise she could give them was “Mom, they said “please and thank you”. Isn’t it sad that those words have become a rarity in our society? Scripture says that we enter into God’s presence with Thanksgiving. What does that say about us? Are we living in His presence? What a large difference there would be in our society, if we taught our children the value of saying, “please and thank you.”

     Have you ever thought about how you can demonstrate your thankful heart to him? Beyond the obvious way of speaking it out, the greatest way  we can show our gratitude to Him, is to live our lives FOR Him; following the wisdom He has given us, and using the gifts He has given us to bring Him glory. We can let His goodness be obvious in us and through us. You can be the one to bring heaven to earth on a daily basis for someone.  (And I hope they say “thank you!”)

    You are His ambassador, His beloved child, His adoring Bride and His Chosen Way to show His goodness, and change people’s lives. He’s chosen to limit Himself to your asking, your receiving, and your Blessing, because He absolutely loves His partnership with you. What powerful potential each of us has!  We should at least say “Thank You”, don’t you think?

Power Thought:

“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”

Henry Ward Beecher

Copyright © 2014, Suzanne Roberts, Unpublished Work.