Thanksgiving Thoughts
I know it’s a day late, but in an attempt to remedy the appalling lack of posting, I thought I would share these thoughts.
More coming. It’s been a crazy, wonderful couple of weeks since last I updated…
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It’s Thanksgiving, and I would like to thank God for the chance to see one of His most amazing gifts at work. Truly, the Body of Christ, the Living Church, is an incredible gift that we often forget to thank Him for.
We can, and do, pray for them – that they would remain strong, that they would be protected and covered with His grace. Those intercessions are vital, as you well know, but let’s not forget to combine them with the thanksgiving that is due.
Maybe that sounds strange, but it’s Scriptural!
The precious saints of the persecuted Body of Christ are lights in a dark world. They are pillars that stand though the storm rage about them. To all those around them – to believer and unbeliever alike – they are proof of God’s faithfulness in the midst of suffering and pain. Have we stopped to thank God for them?
In this season of Thanksgiving, let’s praise God for our brothers and sisters in Christ. Let us thank Him for their prayers for us, for their testimony of faithfulness, and for the chance that we have to minister both with and for them.
I am reminded of the words of Paul in Ephesians:
Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.