Do you just get thankful when you have possessions, or money. Are you thankful for your health and well-being? Are you thankful for your job for your friends and your family. How do you give your thanks? Thanks be unto God who is the head of my life what about you? Ask yourself that question daily it will change the posture of your heart. We ought to be grateful for everything of course but what causes you to really be thankful when everything is going good what about in bad times are you still trying to find the good in the bad? Or are we just completing?

This holiday season is not just about being full from food or just about being with family and watching sports. It's about giving God thanks for who he is and what he has done and kept us from. I imagine that there will be folks cheering and crying tears of joy for having seen loved ones for a year or so. I can also imagine that this will be for others the first of many holidays without their loved ones whom may have passed on. This season can bring joy and even sadness. In whatever it brings we must know that Jesus is our rock, the every rock of salvation that we can hand our everything on. Which is why we ought to do what Psalm 100:4 tells us

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

So no matter what you are facing if we but put our faith and trust in Jesus we will come out of our trials and tribulations for his Word says in 1 Corinthians 15:57

57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. So the way to victory is through Christ Jesus! How do you get through Christ you ask him to come on your life and be your God, your saviour, and ask for forgiveness of your sins, believe in your heart that he died and rose for you and allow Holy Spirit to continue to guide you to the truth in the Word of God!

Even when we are celebrating and having a great time we should be giving the first fruits of our day to our heavenly Father as

1 Timothy 2:1sats

1 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— while you cut I to your holiday meals think and really take some time reflect how you can sit there and enjoy this meal but how far God has brought you and really give him the praise do his name. Thank you Father in the mighty name of Jesus for who you are and all you have done for me and my family and friends. The next think we need to keep in mind is that God wants something from us. He wants our relationship that consists of our faith and obedience to him. He wants us to do what

2 Corinthians 2:14 says

14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.

The while key to us dating we love God is to tell folks about him. You might not be about to shout it from the roof tops but you can tell someone that God loves them and tell them how you know and why he loves us. He created us after his image and likeness so that we could do somethings like him we can never reply God for what he has kept us from. The best we can ever come close to doing anything for God is to live our lives outloud in the beauty of his Holiness with a grateful heart and a willing spirit to obey his Word. I pray you all are safe and having joy in your hearts and peace in your relationships but most importantly I pray thank in all you do you don't forget to thank God first!!!