1. This document discusses living a life of thankfulness to God. It encourages believing that God is great, perfect, loving, fair, good, kind and merciful.
2. It recommends expressing thanks to God through heartfelt singing, learning to say thank you, volunteering one's abilities, and making thankfulness a regular practice.
3. The conclusion is that heaven will be filled with eternal thanks to God, and that a grateful attitude is important in life rather than taking things for granted.
3. Psalms 100:4 (MSG)
Enter with the password: "Thank you!" Make yourselves at
home, talking praise. Thank Him. Worship Him.
4. Psalms 50:23 (CEV)
The sacrifice that honours me is a thankful heart.
Psalms 50:23 (MSG)
It's the praising life that honours me.
5. 1. You gotta believe this:
God is God and you are not 😊
God is great
Psalms 145:3 (CEV)
You are wonderful, Lord, and you deserve all praise,
because you are much greater than anyone can understand.
6. 1. You gotta believe this:
God is God and you are not 😊
God is pure and perfect.
Psalms 97:12 (MSG)
97:12 So, God's people, shout praise to God, Give thanks to
our Holy God!
7. 1. You gotta believe this:
God is God and you are not 😊
God loves you
Psalms 107:8 (CEV)
You should praise the Lord for His love and for the
wonderful things He does for all of us.
8. 1. You gotta believe this:
God is God and you are not 😊
God is always fair! Never manipulative
Psalms 7:17 (CEV)
I will praise you, Lord! You always do right. I will sing about
you, the Lord Most High.
9. 1. You gotta believe this:
God is God and you are not 😊
God is good
Psalms 54:6 (CEV)
I will bring a gift and offer a sacrifice to You, Lord. I will
praise your name because You are good.
10. 1. You gotta believe this:
God is God and you are not 😊
God is always kind and merciful
Psalms 118:1 (CEV)
Tell the Lord how thankful you are, because He is kind and
always merciful.
11. 1. You gotta believe this:
God is God and you are not 😊
GOD IS:
Great
Perfect and Faultless
Loving
Fair
Good
Kind and always merciful
13. 3. Learn to say THANK YOU
Psalms 105:1 (CEV)
Praise the Lord and pray in His name!
14. 4. Have coffee with someone
Tell your story
Isaiah 12:4 (NLT)
… "Thank the LORD! Praise His name! Tell the world what
He has done.
15. 5. Volunteer and serve with your
abilities God gives you
Hebrews 12:28
“… Let us please God by serving Him with thankful
hearts ….”
16. 6. Make ‘thanks’ your new normal
Colossians 3:17 (NLT)
And whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of
the Lord Jesus, all the while giving thanks through Him to
God the Father.
17. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 (CEV)
Whatever happens, keep thanking God because of Jesus
Christ. This is what God wants you to do.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NIV)
Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for
you in Christ Jesus.
19. 7. Practice now
Heaven is filled with thanks
Revelation 7:11-12 (NLT)
And all the angels were standing around the throne and
around the elders and the four living beings. And they fell
face down before the throne and worshiped God. 12 They
said, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and
thanksgiving and honour and power and strength belong to
our God forever and forever. Amen!“
20. ‘When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether
you take things for granted or take them with
gratitude’
G.K. Chesterton