1\u00a0Thessalonians 5:16-18<\/p>\n
“Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Being thankful is not, or at least it should not be a once a year thing. As members of God\u2019s family we are to be thankful at all times.\u00a0 It is not our prerogative to choose what we will be thankful for.<\/p>\n In today\u2019s Scripture, Paul admonishes the church at Thessalonica (as well as all of us) that we are to: “<\/em><\/strong>Be joyful always.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Do you frequently look as though you have been baptized in vinegar? That, my dear friend, is not being continually joyful.<\/p>\n Paul\u2019s second admonition is that we are to: \u201cP<\/span><\/em><\/strong>ray continually.\u201d<\/span> <\/em><\/strong>Here is another embarrassing question: How is your prayer life? Are you continually speaking to the Lord in prayer? It is a discipline that we need to pursue.<\/p>\n The last admonition is in line with today\u2019s topic. Here is what the Lord expects of us: \u201cGive thanks in all circumstances.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong> Chew on that while you are munching on your sumptuous dinner. \u00a0What if you had little or nothing to eat? Would you still give thanks? That is exactly the Lord\u2019s will in any and every circumstance. \u00a0Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day!<\/p>\n Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n – – – Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1\u00a0Thessalonians 5:16-18 “Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”\u00a0 Being thankful is not, or at least it should not be a once a year thing. As members of God\u2019s family we are to be thankful at all times.\u00a0 It is not our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-thessalonians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}