If anyone ever filmed me watching a football game on TV and showed it to me, I’d probably be extremely really very sincerely horrified.
I tend to get highly agitated, pace around the room, shout things at the screen and generally act like I’m in complete agony until it’s 100% clear that my team will beat the bunch of evildoers on the other team. And then once the game’s over I immediately start obsessing over whether my team will beat the next team it plays.
This week on GUWG we’re focusing on prayer for the easily distracted (like me), using this handy little acronym as a guide:
ACTS
A = Adoration
C = Confession
T = Thanksgiving
S = Supplication
Today’s topic: THANKSGIVING.
Yesterday, we officially kicked off NO GRUMBLING WEEK 2019 here on GUWG.
We started off with a pair of Bible verses that make it clear that grumbling, whining and complaining are bad things. We then issued a challenge: we asked all of our grumble-prone readers to (1) pinch themselves every time they feel a grumble coming on and instead (2) recite one of the verses.
It’s THANKS-O-RAMA 2018 here on GUWG, where for the past week we’ve been giving thanks to God for all his amazing, astounding, astonishing blessings.
I suspect that some of us are still struggling to recover from an overdose of turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie. Here’s a rather sobering passage to consider:
We continue our journey into every word spoken by Jesus in the Gospels to help us all KNOW JESUS MORE NOW.
As I’ve said before, most of my prayers go something like this:
(Something bad happens.)
Me: Help!
(God answers my prayer. Then something bad happens.)
Me: Help!
(God answers my prayer. Then something bad happens.)
Me: Help!
(Repeat the above ad nauseam)
What’s missing? The THANKS! part.
Today, we’re kicking off THANKS-O-RAMA 2017 here on GUWG, where from now through Thanksgiving Day we’ll be thanking God for all His amazing, astounding, astonishing blessings.
If I’m honest, most of my prayers go something like this:
(Something bad happens.)
Me: Help!
(God answers my prayer. Then something bad happens.)
Me: Help!
(God answers my prayer. Then something bad happens.)
Me: Help!
(Repeat the above ad nauseam)
What’s missing? The THANKS! part.
This Thursday think thoroughly thankful thoughts:
Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 5:18-20)
Thank God for everything. Now. Seriously. Please.
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