Thankful Thursday

So, I am just going to lay it out on the line for all to see my humanist (is that really a word)... I saw my friend Stacy do on her blog 10 things she was thankful for and I thought that was a great idea so I wanted to start doing it once on a week, sounded easy enough... Well, there are times when I let the devil get in my head and take over my thoughts and I think of more negative stuff and I have a HARD time finding things to be thankful for. Between Nov and Jan I have a hard time and it has been like this for the past 5 yrs and it is just thoughts of not feeling worthy and one thought leads to another and well then I feel like the whole world is out against me and is falling apart. I have always tired to stay busy so it doesn't get the best of me but some reason this year it is hitting harder. Each day when I think of something else that is not right in my life or people that are not in it I remember this verse..Be joyful always, pray continually; give thanks in ALL circumstance for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus 2 Thessalonians 5:16-18... I try to be joyful always but sometimes that is hard to do and tiring, pray continually boy if I prayed for all the stuff I don't see right, right now I would be praying 24/7 but instead I just pray for strength each day, give thanks in ALL circumstance NOW that is where the hard part comes in at... But I know that my God is going to lead me out of this and he is going to show me each day things to be thankful for. So, this week I am going to share some of my favorite verses and remind myself who our God is ... Give Thanks in ALL circumstance....

1. I am thankful that God will lead each day for me. I like what Psalm 143:8-10 says and is something to really pray for each day..Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for you I lift up my soul. Rescue me from my enemies, O Lord, for I hide myself in you. Teach me to do our will for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground..

2. I am thankful that his thoughts and ways are so much greater and higher than mine. Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither your ways my ways" declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts...

3. I am thankful that my God will rescue me. Jeremiah 1:19 They will fight against your BUT will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you...

4.I am thankful that my God will take my troubles on for me.. Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

5.I am thankful for the peace that my God gives me... John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the word gives. Do not let your hearts be trouble and do not be afraid..

6. I am thankful my God has overcome troubles... John 16:33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. BUT take heart I have overcome the world!!!!

7.I am thankful that one this world is just temporary.. 2 Corinthians 4:18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal... I have to add also 5:7 We live by faith, not by sight.

8. I am thankful FORGIVENESS... boy, do I need forgiveness and I am sooooo thankful that my God has taught me how to forgive... Colossi ans 3:13 Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. FORGIVE AS THE LORD FORGAVE YOU... Ok this is not in bold for you, that is something that I am having to pound in my head right now.. it goes back to that that 5 yr thing...

9. I am thankful that my God is always there.. James 4:7-8 Submit yourselves,then to God Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you.. That is another one I need to pound in.. Turn that praise music up, sing to the top of your lungs, cry out to daddy to come rescue you, open your Bible and read it, pray, call on another Christan friend, just simply said Jesus do whatever you need to come closer God and away from the devil...

10.I am thankful that my God cares for me.. 1 Peter 5:6-7 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

11. I am thankful that my God loves me.. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

12. I am thankful I never have to walk in darkness... John 8:12 I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life..

13. I am thankful that He is trusting...Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.

14. I am thankful that He comforts us... 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 Praise be to our God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

15. I am thankful for who all God is.... loving, forgiving,healer, comfort, forever faithful, Abba, Lord our Savior, teacher, trusting,He is Everything that we need Him to be...


I know there are millions of other verses that I could have put on here but those about and these right here are some that I enjoy Psalms the whole book; Zep 3:17, Matthew 6:33-34, and on and on and on....

I am thankful that I did this cause it really just up lifted my spirits... our God is Good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!