1. Say Thank You. 1 Thess. 5:18 NKJV "In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." #Gratitude
2. What is it that breeds lack of gratefulness? Entitlement. We take so much for granted but here, the scripture encourages us to give thanks in everything. #Gratitude
3. Tom Winston said you can complain because of roses have thorns or you can be grateful that thorns have roses. #Gratitude
4. You can complain because roses, as beautiful as they are, have thorns or you can be grateful that thorns at least have some beautiful roses in them. #Gratitude
5. Gratitude is an attitude. It's a function of your attitude; it's a function of what you to see. If your focus is on what is not working, you will be angry with God all the time. #Gratitude
6. From that quote, the situation is the same but the focus is the issue. Somebody is complaining because the roses have thorns, another person is grateful that the thorns still have beautiful roses coming out of them. #Gratitude
7. What do you see in life? Now looking back through the year, the past months and looking back all through your life, what can you see? #Gratitude
8. The roses are there but some of us are distracted by the thorns rather than being grateful for the roses. Whichever way you would describe it, God has been good to you. #Gratitude
9. Yes, there are roses in your story and thorns in all our stories but we can choose to be grateful that as many as the thorns are, Roses have come up and produced a beautiful testimony in your life. #Gratitude
10. Don't take what you have now for granted. You know why? A lot of what we have in our lives right now were once prayer points and now we're taking them for granted. #Gratitude
11. Some would think I did not have a wife, a husband, children, job what else should I have had? We are taking the degree of the prayers it took to get those things for granted. We don't need to lose what we have before we start to appreciate them. Psalm 103 #Gratitude
12. Whichever way you look at it, you can focus on the roses and be grateful for them or you focus on the thorns and miss the roses. There are beautiful things in our stories. #Gratitude
13. Since all things have been working together for your good according to Rom. 8:28, then give thanks for everything; good and bad. #Gratitude
14. Rom. 8:28 says "and we know that all things work together for good for the good of those that love God to them who are called according to His purpose and all things good and bad since all things contributed to your progress give thanks for All Things". #Gratitude
15. I want us to deeply explore that first Thess. 5:18, "in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. #Gratitude
16. And Eph. 5:20 which says "give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." Give thanks for all things. #Gratitude
17. Somebody says, wait! I understand I should give thanks for the good things that God has done in my life. Should I give thanks for the bad ones also? That's exactly what I'm saying. #Gratitude
18. This may be tough but look at how the things turned out for Joseph. He told his brothers in Gen 45 that their evil intention is God's plan for him to fulfil his dream. If you keep your attention on people you will be bitter. If you put it on God you will be happy. #Gratitude
19. You don't know where things are going yet; your sadness is premature, your complaining is premature; God is taking you somewhere. In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. #Gratitude
20. Listen to me, God is faithful he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able to bear. As long as you're giving thanks, I'm telling you multiplication will happen in your life. #Gratitude
21. I will maintain that THANKS is the highest form of thought, and GRATITUDE is the happiness that is doubled by wonders. Don't lose your sense of wonder. #Gratitude
22. I prophesy that as you thank God for the roses and thorns in your life, a season of multiplication for you like you have never seen before. And whatever the attack of the devil in your life is terminated in Jesus name. #Gratitude
