The weekend way of Thanksgiving

 I THINK ANOTHER WEEK
 OF THANKSGIVING 
IS DUE.

Just in case you wondered if I live what I teach, I think God will be sure to keep me on track.  This week was a challenge because I had so many things to do and my eyes and head were causing me problems I could barely read and although I could still type without seeing it's hard to put this blog together. Yet today when I started giving thanks rather then grumbling inwardly, things changed.
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So prayer and chatting with God has been at a high, and the talk to the hand was a big one today but when I did just that everything broke, I am feeling better and so now on to my plans for Saturday.  During my weekends  I spend the day worshiping and praising and thinking about just Who God is rejoicing and giving thanks.  This week I am going to see just how many things that seem awful, gross, frustrating,annoying etc. I can be thankful for and I will give God thanks anyways.
The Bible is full of thanksgiving check out the following link for lots of Scripture on thanks 
http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=thanks&version1=NKJV&searchtype=all&limit=none&wholewordsonly=no&resultspp=500&displayas=long&sort=bookorder

1 Chronicles 16:8

Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples!

 

Thanks --Hillsong

Nehemiah 12:

Nehemiah Dedicates the Wall

1.  I will spend time thanking Him with my piano

²⁷ Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings and singing, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps. 
 

3.  I will spend time thanking Him with my voice Jesus you may have to help with that

²⁸ And the sons of the singers gathered together from the countryside around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites, ²⁹ from the house of Gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had built themselves villages all around Jerusalem.  

4.  I will spend time thanking Him with repentance and purifying myself

³⁰ Then the priests and Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

5.  I will spend time thanking Him with my support of my leaders and my prayer partners

³¹ So I brought the leaders of Judah up on the wall, and appointed two large thanksgiving choirs. One went to the right hand on the wall toward the Refuse Gate.

6.  I will spend time thanking Him for my garbage by thinking how much of the stuff in my house I can use to bless others

 

7.  I will spend time thanking Him with my remembrance of others and giving Him thanks for all the people in my life

 

  ³² After them went Hoshaiah and half of the leaders of Judah, ³³ and Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, ³⁴ Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah, ³⁵ and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets—Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph, ³⁶ and his brethren, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. Ezra the scribe went before them.  

8.  I will spend time thanking Him beside the waters (maybe in a hot bath) ok you get the point

³⁷ By the Fountain Gate, in front of them, they went up the stairs of the City of David, on the stairway of the wall, beyond the house of David, as far as the Water Gate eastward.
³⁸ The other thanksgiving choir went the opposite way, and I was behind them with half of the people on the wall, going past the Tower of the Ovens as far as the Broad Wall, ³⁹ and above the Gate of Ephraim, above the Old Gate, above the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate; and they stopped by the Gate of the Prison.
⁴⁰ So the two thanksgiving choirs stood in the house of God, likewise I and the half of the rulers with me; ⁴¹ and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Minjamin,^[j] Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; ⁴² also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. 

The singers sang loudly with Jezrahiah the director.

⁴³ Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and the children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar off.

I find this chapter in Nehemiah beyond normal comprehension.  After He had been ridiculed and heckled and when they had to put weapons in one hand and a tools in the other that Nehemiah and his men didn't grumble and complain instead they took great strides to give thanks!

I find myself everyday with tools in one hand and weapons in the other and so do you.  We are building the Kingdom of God. 

Do you need some victory in your life?

1 Corinthians 15:57

New King James Version (NKJV)

⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 Something to do always not just on Saturday but I like to take at least one day a month and make this my goal. 

Corrie Ten Boom and Betsy Ten Boom were in Ravensbrook concentration camp in Germany in WW2 it was completely full of fleas and Betsey was reminding Corrie of this scripture they had read that morning the one below, Corrie answered There is no way God can make me thankful for fleas and then after she sighed and gave thanks for fleas.  It was a while later when they were talking about how the guards didn't come in their barracks the nurse assistant told them it was because of the fleas. Leaving them wide open to share the word of God to pray with people and to find a place of safety.

Ephesians 5:19-21

¹⁹ speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, ²⁰ giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ submitting to one another in the fear of God.

So for those of you were reading 2 weeks ago try to continue to increase your lists of thanks, find new ways to give thanks.  Meditate on the Word of God about Thanks and see how it all goes again.