We need to thank God for all we have.
Thanksgiving
“Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.”
2 Thessalonians 1:1-4 NIV
Let’s look ahead to one time we can be at peace no pressure on us this is a Christian
Holiday where we show love to one another.
I. Paul was thankful Faith,Love,Hope of the Thessalonians.
Vers. 2-3
We need to thank God for Spiritual Growth.
· Thank God for the Strength of Faith.
· Thank God for a Growing Love (agape love)
· Thank God for growing Patience.
· Thank God for growing Faith.
II. We should be thankful for acceptance of God word.
“But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.”
2 Thessalonians 2:13 NIV
· Thank God for a church that Believes.
· Thank God for a church that teaches the Word.
· Thanks for preachers that preach and stand on the word.
· Thank God for people who believe the word.
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
2 Timothy 3:16-17 NIV
“Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”
2 Peter 1:20-21 NIV
III.Thank God for our Salvation.
“And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.”
1 Thessalonians 2:13 NIV
God chose us before the foundation of the world.
· Thank God for our Salvation.
· Thank God for eternal Life
· Thank God for eternal Security.
· Thank God for a home In Heaven
“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love”
Ephesians 1:4 NIV
We must be faithful.
Remember what Paul said:
“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV
