Giving Thanks, a Christmas Adventure – Day Eleven

 

I believe Paul learned that living in ongoing thanksgiving and acknowledgment of what was his through Christ opened him to the contentment available through communion with God— just as we established that the fellowship table of thanksgiving over the sacrifice of Christ nourishes us. Amen? Amen.

Let’s examine the gratefulness teachings of Paul.

Paul’s two major categories of gratefulness: 1) He was always thanking the Father for Jesus and what was his through Christ Jesus. 2) And two, he was always thanking Father for co-laborers that live the faith of Jesus before others. Anytime he saw true love to God and love for fellow men displayed, The Grateful Apostle Paul thanked God! Here’s a sample of verses where Paul thanked God for His salvation, for someone’s faith, for their giving nature, for their obedience, for their risking their lives, for their love for other saints, for their labor of love, and for their patience of hope.

Romans 1:8, “First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.”

Romans 7:24, “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God – through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Romans 16:3-4, “Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their own necks for my life. To whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.”

 2 Corinthians 2:14, “Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.”

2 Corinthians 8:16, “But thanks be to God who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.”

2 Corinthians 9:15, “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!”

Ephesians 1:15-16, “Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:”

Philippians 1:3-5, “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now,”

Colossians 1:3, “We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,”

1 Thessalonians 1:2-4, “We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father, knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God.”

2 Thessalonians 1:3, “We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other,”

2 Timothy 1:3, “I thank God, who I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,”

Philemon 4-5, “I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers, hearing of your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,” 

That was a feast. See you tomorrow.

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