HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! AGAIN!!!

Well, what did you do for THANKSGIVING this year? Did you TRULY give thanks for ALL the blessings you enjoy? I can hear some now as they say "BAH, HUMBUG! I don't have ANYTHING to be thankful for." There are those that like to sing those old favorites: Gloom, despair, and agony on me...." And let's not forget: "The bills are all due and the baby needs shoes, and I'm busted....."

We forget what the Apostle Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 5:18; "In everything give THANKS: for this IS the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." As we DO what the Word of God teaches us, it allows the Holy Spirit to work the Word of God in our lives.

Now, God did not say that we should give thanks FOR everything, but that it should be given IN everything. There IS a difference. We heard a testimony last week of how, even though a man had lost his job, as he and his wife put God first in their lives, and trusted Him as their SOURCE, they had more money in the bank than ever before.

That is how God works. In Matthew 6:33 Jesus said: "Seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and ALL these things shall be added unto you." David writes in the Psalms that we are to give thanks in the congregation. As we all God to bless us, we can build other people's faith by "the word of our testimony."

Dee and I went to Palatka, Florida to spend Thanksgiving with her oldest sister. We didn't really have the extra money for the trip, as she is out of work for a month, but we felt that it was God's will for us to go. On Thanksgiving Day, we were able to introduce our nephew's wife to Christ. She told us that she was lost, and headed for hell. We shared some simple Scriptures with her, and led her to Christ. See, as we did what we believed God wanted us to do, we got blessed. Oh, by the way, God supplied what was spent on the trip!