“This morning I can’t help but ask us all what is it that we are grateful for?..what are those things that we do and daily thank the Lord for?..because our thankfulness before the Lord is what I am so grateful for..Amen..because if we float around our lives in ourselves..and if we go about our days in ourselves and what we think and what we want..somehow we lose the thankfulness of being grateful in our lives..somehow we get in our own mindsets as to where we lose sight of all the goodness of God that is in our lives..Amen..somehow we forget how thankful we should be considering where we could be to where we are..Amen..sometimes when we don’t stop along the way in our lives and daily so to be humbled before the Lord than we get a proud and haughty spirit within ourselves..as to where we begin murmuring about our life..murmuring about our job..murmuring about our families..about our friends..literally murmuring about everything..and every thing that concerns us and our world in which we live..until we get so ungrateful that we are not even thankful any longer..Amen!”

“And I do wonder and I do think about how easy it is to reach this place in our life..and you know we never really know that we have gotten to that place..because again how many of ya know that we never truly see ourselves for who we truly are..Amen..because we are used to ourselves..and of course how many of ya know that we are always right..I mean goodness gracious never are we wrong in the way that we act..the way that we feel about things..the way we talk..the way we communicate..surly we are right..and we are not ever so we think wrong..because you know God knows us and God knows deep down we are grateful..right?..so what do we do?..well, we stay in this ungrateful attitude as to where we overlook our self and we just get used to the murmuring that we fail to look at all the goodness as I say that God has given..Amen..because my gracious our lives truly could be bad..Amen..but honestly are they bad?..if we really think about them they’re not at all that bad..Amen!”

“So what I would ask of us all is for each of us to consider what it is that we are saying and speaking over our lives..and to really and truly consider how we are and how we are acting within our lives in which we live..Amen..because we have so much to be thankful for..and the Lord has brought us so far in our lives..Amen..and usually when we get this way to where we are being ungrateful it’s because we are spoiled people to say the least..Amen..we are used to the blessings..we are used to the lives were living..and we pay no never mind to it all..but to have Gods blessings and not be thankful on our parts is a terrible thing and terrible place to be at in our life..Amen..so to stay humble we truly bow before the Lord and daily so thanking Him in much gratitude for everything He has given and for everything that He alone does daily for us..Amen..for He loads us up daily with His goodness and His blessings..Psalm 68:19-35..He protects us..Psalm 91..He guides us..John 16:13..He strengthens us..Isaiah 40:31..He alone heals us..Psalm 103:3..and He alone has set us free..John 3:16/John 8:36..from this world and all the mess that is here..we are blessed and blessed indeed..so I do pray with all of the blessings that we are as well thankful and grateful to the Lord for them all..that we are not haughty people..nor are we or would we ever be proud ones..for it is in His name, Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today dear sweet friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi