{"id":823,"date":"2016-04-21T20:53:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T20:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2016-04-21T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T20:53:37","slug":"the-power-of-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/21\/the-power-of-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. &#8211; 1 Thessalonians 5:18<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone right now is desperately praying and seeking for that thing you&#8217;re grumbling and complaining about.<\/p>\n<p>Your house is too small&#8230;they&#8217;re homeless sleeping on the street. Your car keeps breaking down&#8230;they&#8217;re walking everywhere in the rain longing to be able to drive. Your shoes don&#8217;t fit&#8230;they lost both legs 10 years ago in an accident. You feel frustrated and unappreciated by your spouse&#8230;they&#8217;re desperately lonely and wishing they had the opportunity of having a marriage to work on.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge and assignment is to give thanks in <em>everything.<\/em>..regardless of how you feel or what it is.<\/p>\n<p>An attitude of gratitude. Five minute journals. Sending positive thoughts to people.<\/p>\n<p>These are all simple expressions of the powerful principle of giving thanks.<\/p>\n<p>And when you consider the times when Jesus gave thanks, you see the results of 5,000+ people being fed from seven loaves and a few fish (Matthew 15:36)&#8230;Lazarus being raised from the dead (John 11:41)&#8230;the revelation of Communion at Passover (Matthew 26:27) &#8230;and many other demonstrations of this principle.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more to this that I need to unpackage. But for now, remember that saying &#8220;thank you&#8221; is more than just good manners&#8230;it&#8217;s the will of God in <u>Christ<\/u> Jesus concerning you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. &#8211; 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Someone right now is desperately praying and seeking for that thing you&#8217;re grumbling and complaining about. Your house is too small&#8230;they&#8217;re homeless sleeping on the street. Your car keeps breaking down&#8230;they&#8217;re walking everywhere in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/21\/the-power-of-thank-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The power of thank you&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}