Let’s Start with Thanksgiving

Let’s Start with Thanksgiving

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Psalm 150:6 KJV

Bible Reading: Lamentations 3:22

Welcome to the second month! I believe it is a beautiful and important thing to start the new this month with thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving is giving appreciation to whom it is due. It is a heartfelt expression of gratitude. It is often said that “a grateful heart is a thoughtful heart”. To be grateful involves reflecting on our past and present and acknowledging God’s faithfulness in our lives. It is important to recognize God’s faithfulness because they are new every morning (Lamentation 3:22).

When we show appreciation, we humbly acknowledge and recognize whatever good thing that has been done for us. It is not a coincidence that the Lord’s prayer started with thanksgiving- “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name”. The prayer involves an acknowledgment of God as our heavenly Father (Matthew 6:9). It’s worth thanking the Lord for giving us life, for both spiritual and physical blessings. I encourage you to appreciate Him for your life, your family, your friends, and your colleagues. Thank Him for missionaries, pastors, the church of God, our leaders, and our nations. Thank Him for what He has done, for what He is doing and for what He will yet do in the months ahead.

Dear friends, take the time to reflect on where God brought you from and His faithfulness over your life because “if it is not of the Lord’s mercy, we would have been consumed”. (Lamentation 3:22). At KSi, we encourage you to “count your blessings and name them one by one and it will surprise you what the Lord has done”.

Action Point: Thank God by singing songs, and hymns.

Intercessory prayer: Pray for refugees in camps for God’s protection and for God to sort them out.

Hymn: Count your blessings, name them one by one,

Count your blessings, see what God has done!

Count your blessings, name them one by one,

And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.