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What are we grateful for? What things in our lives, both physical and spiritual, are we truly grateful for? These sound like such simple questions but in fact they are not. So many reasons for gratitude slip right past us each day without our slightest sense of their passing, or without our acknowledging from whence they came. Let’s look at a verse from Psalm 126 today. In this psalm the psalmist speaks of gratitude and joy when he says...
Our study this morning is on the subject or Gratitude and Thanksgiving in our prayers, and today’s scripture verse comes from the account of Jesus healing the ten lepers. All were healed but only one came back to thank Him.
This morning the title of the devotional that I read was "Love Grows as Gratitude Grows" and the author’s message was that as God answers prayer our gratitude grows which causes our love to deepen, then, as a result, our prayers themselves increase. Quite honestly I have never considered this type of relationship, between answered prayer, gratitude and love, to be true. My love for God has always been founded and centered on how powerful His love is for me, and that it is so intense, this incredible love He has for me, that He would sacrifice His only begotten son to redeem me. My love for God isn’t because I am grateful for this (although I am), it is a reflection of the love that He has for me.