Great Is My Thankfulness

Great is my THANKFULNESS! .

Great is my THANKFULNESS! .

Morning by morning Your praises I sing. .

All that you give to me I purely treasure; .

Great is my THANKFULNESS, Lord, unto you! .

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What if that were actually the words to that song? We sing praises to God for His faithfulness, His mercy, His forgiveness as we should but I think maybe we are forgetting to stop and say thank you in the process! We (I) don't thank God for the birds and the trees, my groceries and my gas, my hair and my nails, my clothes and my shoes, the sunrise and sunset, the sunshine and the rain, the grass and the leaves... As a Mom I often feel "unthanked" for the things I do. Not that I want a big pat on the back every single day and I would pass out if my family thanked me continuously for cooking them dinner every night but at the same time a sweet "thanks" is always welcome. So, I've been doing a serious gut check today and I've been wondering how often I say thank you to My Father?!?!

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I have noticed that as I pray I quickly rush over how wonderful I think my Savior is and get straight to the point with MY needs. I'm wondering if my needs would seem to diminish if instead of spending my prayer time asking for things I spent that time more wisely and simply spent some time with the Lord praising and thanking him?!?!?

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"Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things he does for me." Psalm 103:2 (NLT). It doesn't say let just a little bit of me praise the Lord, only praise Him for a few seconds in my prayers...it says let ALL that I am praise the Lord. ALL...that is everything! But, didn't He give us EVERYTHING when he hung on that cross for us?