Pray with Thanksgiving

Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving. —Colossians 4:2

Are your prayers full of thanksgiving? Prayers of thanksgiving are somewhat different than prayers of praise. In praise, I extol who God is. But in thanksgiving, I acknowledge how I benefit from what God has done. I remember His gifts and let Him know that I know where all the blessings in my life have come from. All the things I enjoy—life, health, friends, family—have come from His hand. In recognition of this, I bless Him by saying, “Thank You so much!”

A Million Thanks is a book written by a Texas businessman, who intended to hand out copies to his customers and friends. It consisted of the word “thanks” repeated one million times. How often do we stop to give thanks to God? Once a day? Twice a day? Three times? If we were to give thanks to God three times a day, that would amount to about 76,000 expressions of thanksgiving in a lifetime. That’s nowhere near the millions of thanks the businessman was willing to give a customer for just one small favor.

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 “Cultivating an Attitude of Gratitude” (ReviveOurHearts.com/blog)

Scripture taken from The CSB