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Is it possible for something that is meant for good to be bad? Or for something meant for bad to be good? I don’t mean like “oh bro that’s bad… or sarcastically “oh well that’s good”. I mean can a good thing actually end up being a bad thing… it can if we don’t give thanks. 

 

THANKFULNESS immediately breaks that.

I am not married yet… but I am thankful for Gods process that will make me more like him and give him glory!

**You will yield to the process of God in order to become a part of his work.  You are thanking him for what you are going through, for what you need and the process behind it, because the process is making you more like him and making him look good. - i.e. glorifying God. 

 

Luke 17:19 

Ten Lepers Cleansed

11 Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. 12 Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. 13 And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

14 So when He saw them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.

15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, 16 and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan.

17 So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? 18 Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” 19 And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.”

HIS THANKFULNESS OPENED THE DOOR TO HIS FAITH BEING REWARDED.

 

Have you ever caught yourself stating the fact that you have faith to get a better job. You quote verses, you pray prayers of faith… and you are building your faith… But thankfulness celebrates the process. Now your faith is activated in the supernatural and eternal realm. 

 

He went from healing to wholeness, salvation. 

*Samaritans and Jews were not on good terms. They were always at each other and chippy, bad attitudes. The Samaritan could have easily felt like he deserved this healing… it would have been hard for him to give thanks to a Jew. 

 

 

INSIGHTS

A LACK OF THANKFULNESS IN THE OT… BROUGHT A CURSE ON WHAT GOD MEANT FOR GOOD!

And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, (THANK YOU FOR THE PROCESS)  saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do (Malachi 2:1, 2). 

1. We must take it to heart to continually walk in thanksgiving. WE ARE NOT under the law, failure to give thanks to God brings us back under the law.

 

Thanks giving brings about supernatural results, and a solution to every circumstance. Jesus gave thanks in seemingly hopeless situations