The church; Thankfulness
Thankfulness |
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Biblical view on thankfulness |
1. What do you understand by being thankful?
- Showing gratitude to what someone else has done to you. Appreciating him or her. For instance you can appreciate:
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Your parents for paying your school fees.
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Your mother for preparing you supper.
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Your teacher for teaching you.
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Your sister for washing your uniform etc.
2. What are the importance of being thankful?
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When you are thankfull you encourage other people to help you more.
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It shows you haven't taken those who have helped you for granted.
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You feel better in your life as a whole and more comfortable with them that have helped you.
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Brings more peace in you.
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Gratitude offers an emotional support to other people.
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Being thankful is a way of training yourself to think positively about yourself and also about others.
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Promote posive connections and relationships.
- You open your mind to awareness of many things others take for granted.
3. Being thankfull to God.
- We thank God for creating us, in His own image and likeness.
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We praise and thank God for His love for us as shown when He sent His only son Jesus Christ to die for our sins.
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We thank God for the gift of life.
- For daily provision.
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For daily protection and safety etc.
See the elements of God's care for us in Psalm 23
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