Preparing our hearts for Thanksgiving.

We spend so much time preparing our menus and our homes for Thanksgiving, yet we prepare very little to give thanks to God. We decide where we will eat and how and when we will visit family, yet we don't even give a thought to how and when, we will spend time with God.

I encourage you to include Christ in your plans this year. Set a place setting for the Lord and invite Him to spend not just the day with you but to spend your life with Him. 

Focus on God. The Word of God is able to do what we could never do in the flesh. One person has defined gratefulness as: “Making known to God and others in what ways they have benefited my life.”  We prepare our hearts for Thanksgiving by taking the time to reflect upon God’s blessings and then give thanks unto Him for those blessings.  It is also an opportunity to thank others for the ways they have benefited our lives.
We prepare our hearts for Thanksgiving as we reflect upon the reasons we can give thanks to God.  Take a few moments to meditate upon the following verses in Psalm 95. These verses will encourage us to give thanks to God for all that He is and all that He has done.

​ We give thanks to God for His Greatness. “For the Lord is a great God.” (Psalm 95:3a)  God demonstrates His Greatness in all that He is and all that He does.  We find it easy to lose the wonder of God as we grow older.  Our faith becomes routine and ritualistic.  It is time that we meditate upon God’s greatness again, and thank Him for His attributes and all that He has done.