be thankful and say so coming up next
hey everyone welcome to Wednesday's with crystal I'm crystal Sparks I'm so glad
that you are here on my channel whether this is your first time or maybe you're
here every single week I just want to tell you thank you for spending this
time with me I always loved my Wednesday's with you hey every week on
Wednesday I put out a new video and the goal of my channel is this to help grow
your faith and to help equip you to accomplish your dreams and your goals
well here in Texas as I am showing this video today it is Thanksgiving week I
love Thanksgiving and so in just the spirit of Thanksgiving I just wanted to
talk about gratitude being thankful and saying so have you ever done something
nice for somebody and they don't say anything I don't know about you guys but
my love language is acts of service and words of affirmation and so my staff
always teases to just take out my trash and tell me I'm pretty while you're
doing it and that's exactly it like that's how I feel like is acts of
service and words of affirmation and so for me the greatest thing that you could
do is just to say thank you or well I really appreciate that you did that or
oh my gosh that meant so much to me and not too long back and I had done
something nice for somebody and I had put all this thought into the gift I was
so excited to send it to a packages alright and I sent it off and weeks went
by and it was silence I didn't get a text message not a hey thanks so much
received the package like nothing and so it was kind of like this awkward thing
like do I say hey did you get the package cuz I thought well it could have
gotten lost in the mail maybe it got stolen off there for importunate I just
kept painting out you know maybe they didn't receive it and so finally I
cinema text hey did you get the package I sent you I was so excited about it
maybe you didn't get it and they sit back oh yeah I got it Thanks
and I was like oh you know nothing is more insulting than doing
something nice for somebody and them not telling you thank you now I know it's
all about check your motives and all of those things but what I want to say is
this is I think that's kind of the way God feels you know when he does good
things in our life and we don't even take the time to simply say thank you
you know in the Bible it talks about thanks 116 times but the word give
thanks those words together is brought up 73 times 73 times we're told to give
thanks to God so I would say if it's being mentioned that many times then
it's important in fact I love a scripture in Psalms it says inner God's
God's holy estate with the password thank you so in other words thanks is
kind of important to God in fact it's so important that in Luke 17 11 through 19
we see the story of ten lepers that come to Jesus and their sickness and the
Bible says that Jesus told them to go their way and show themselves to the
priests that they had been healed and the Bible says as they went they were
healed well one of the lepers when he realized that he was healed comes back
to Jesus to tell him thank you and Jesus asked the question we're not all ten of
you healed whenever I sent you away and the leper says yes les Lord all ten of
us received our healing and Jesus says this go your own way your faith has made
you whole you know it's interesting that all ten receive the immediate answer
that they came looking for but one received complete and total wholeness
you know made me think about in our own lives how sometimes you see people that
they're getting an answer from God here and there but it doesn't seem like it's
kind of bleeding into everything that they're doing
can I just pose the question that maybe we're not seeing everything that God
wants to do because we haven't come back and thanked him for the first thing that
he did we got so caught up with just receiving that immediate answer that we
forgot to just like my friend did send the message and say thank you for all
that he has done you know maybe we would begin to see more of God
goodness if we just began to come back to him and begin to say thank you one of
the most powerful things I ever started doing is a gratitude journal I have it
right by my bed and I try to every night and I don't make it every single night
but every single day I try to just sit down for just a few minutes and just
tell God thank you for everything that he's done I started this back in January
and since then I've seen God do so many things in this 2017 year and I really
believe it's because it's like those ten lepers I want to be the one that's
coming back and saying thank you for everything you know every single day no
matter how bad or how difficult or how hard things are you have something to be
thankful for if we would just pause and get our focus off of our problems get
our focus on off of how bad the day was how frustrated we are how stressed out
we are and just take a moment and just write down the things that we're
thankful for it's amazing how our spirits begin to
live you know ever since I started doing that my sleep has been better I used to
be plagued with having stressed-out dreams and bad dreams choking dreams all
these things that happening to me and my dreams and ever since I started
gratitude journaling all those things have gone away now I do I think that
God's Will was for me to have good night's sleep all these years the answer
is yes but I think the difference was I wasn't putting myself in a place of
gratitude a place of thankfulness and when you go to sleep thinking about
God's goodness he awakens you with his loving kindness I love the scripture in
1st Thessalonians 5:18 let's read this together it says thank God in everything
no matter what the circumstance may be be thankful and give thanks for this is
the will of God for you if you're wondering what the will of God is it's
for you to be thankful it says it right there right you who are in Christ the
reviewer and the meditator of that will I love this scripture so much because
Paul is writing here be thankful in all things in every circumstance okay if
you're taking notes I want you to write this down there's two benefits of being
thankful and saying so number one it reminds us of all that God is currently
doing it reminds ourselves as a miracles that we've seen along the way
you know when you read through the Bible especially in the Old Testament they had
so many feasts it seems like they were constantly celebrating you have the
Feast of the trumpets you've got the Feast of the Tabernacles you see them
whenever they cross the Red Sea Jesus God tells them hey get a monument and
build it up here and have a celebration and this shall serve as a reminder for
you and your children and your children's children and here the thing
is is that God was a God of celebration every time that he did a victory in
their life he wanted them to begin to celebrate whether it was a big victory
or a small victory he wanted them to take the time to enjoy the progress that
they've seen I want to ask you in your own life how good are you at celebrating
the big and the little things that God's doing
sometimes we're waiting until we reach that full weight-loss goal - our
business is completely where we want it to be till we're totally overcome
depression till we totally get to the place that we want to be but what if we
just begin to celebrate along the way I think if we would begin to celebrate
along the way it would remind us of all God's doing and in turn it fills us with
hope it fills us with God's joy and we're able to keep moving forward to all
that he has for us the next thing that being thankful does is it reminds us
that God isn't finished you know the great thing about giving thanks people
say well if I say thank you that means it's over
no when you're saying thankful you're reminding yourself and you're reminding
the devil that you know what God's not finished with me yet I'm thankful for
that all that I've seen but god I thank you that my best days ahead god I thank
you that my marriage is the best it's ever been
god I thank you that you're restoring my finances god I thank you that my body is
whole god I thank you that my business is flourishing when you begin to do that
you're reminding the enemy and you're reminding yourself that God is not
finished you know instead of going well things aren't where I want them to be I
guess things aren't ever gonna work out for me you can talk yourself into
depression or you can talk yourself into victory you can talk yourself into
wanting to tap out are you and talk yourself into you know what I'm about to
how my greatest comeback when you begin to declare
out of your mouth added thankfulness for all that God's doing you're reminding
yourself God is not finished you know I love the story of Daniel in the Bible
and the Bible talks about how there was a decrease in out and Daniel was at the
threat of going into then we've all heard the story of Daniel in the lion's
den right and I love what the Bible says it says he continued as was his habit
three times a day bowing before God and giving thanks you know what if we made
it a habit in our life to bow before God several times a day
and say God thank you for this job God thank you for my car God thank you for
all that you're doing God thank you that I have a heart beating my chest God
thank you for my children what if we begin to make it a habit see here Daniel
was threatened with a terrible consequence to his thankfulness but he
thanked God anyways and you know what happened we saw him restored in fact
every person in the Bible that we see great things happen all had an attitude
of gratitude no matter if it was Joseph Esther Daniel you think about Abraham
you think about David all of them had this one reoccurring theme they were
thankful and they said so scripture records them time and time again telling
God thanks in the hardest of circumstances and in the best of times
they were relentless about having a grateful attitude friend what about you
maybe you haven't seen all that God wants to do because you haven't been
thankful what if we just started being thankful and saying so what kind of
miracles will be begins to see happening what kind of wholeness would begin to
come upon our life and what kind of victories would we begin to see if we
were thankful and said so hey did you get something out of this I hope you did
I am so thankful for every single one of you hey have you gotten my book yet it's
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event and for those of you that have been asking yes we will have another one
next year I'll be releasing the date for that soon hey thank you so much for
watching I hope you have the best Thanksgiving share this video with your
friends and family help me get the word out so we can help inspire others hey I
love you so much - have a great Thanksgiving let's do something awesome
for got this week
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