I want to read a Scripture over you today, as we’re really stopping and thinking about being thankful. Honestly, there might be some of you that are like, “girl, I don’t have anything to be thankful for.” And I want to say, I know that’s not true. Let’s all right now just stop and think about something we have to be grateful for. Whether it’s a loved one, food on the table, that we can walk across the room, that God has given us another day of life…there is something to be thankful for. 

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”

Colossians 3.16 NKJV

I’m thankful today for His goodness and His mercy in the land of the living! We’re not just talking about in glory- He gives us joy here. Something I’ve been reminded of is that joy is a choice. Thankfulness is a choice. Gratitude is a choice. I encourage you if you have time, to go on our website, https://937thelight.com/living-life-with-lauren/ and listen to the pieces I played on 11/17/22. You can listen to them again and again and be filled up to overflowing with all the Lord has done for you. 

“Praise the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.”

Psalm 106.1 NIV

This is the thing: if the enemy can keep up down in the dumps, then he wins. He’s thinking, “you know what? If I can’t win their souls, and they’re going to Heaven, I’m going to make sure the journey there is not a good one.” But we have the power in the Word of God and all He’s given us to defeat anything the enemy lays on us any given day of the week! So the strength in your pinkie finger- because of the power of Jesus living in you with the Holy Spirit- (because when you accept Jesus into your heart, you get all that!) that will defeat the enemy! We have to learn to be warriors and we have to learn to stand. And then when you know what it’s like to be a warrior, you stop and think, “how can I live any other way?” 

“Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The Lord will do what is good in his sight.”

2 Samuel 10:12

I’m really trying this Thanksgiving to just pause and say, “Lord, thank You for all these things.” That changes your heart. It just floods over you and chases away all your worries and your cares. You know what? You’re reminding yourself that He is good all the time, even when it doesn’t make sense to our fleshly eyes. 

Cry out, “Save us, God our Savior; gather us and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.”

1 Chronicles 16.35 NIV

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

~Lauren

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