{"id":22759,"date":"2014-11-10T00:20:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T05:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=22759"},"modified":"2014-11-09T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T03:23:06","slug":"thankful-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/10\/thankful-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful For Life Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Praise the Lord!
\nI will thank the Lord with all my heart as I meet with His godly people.
\nHow amazing are the deeds of the Lord!
\nAll who delight in Him should ponder them.
\nEverything He does reveals His glory and majesty.
\nHis righteousness never fails.
\nHe causes us to remember His wonderful works.
\nHow gracious and merciful is our Lord!
\nPsalms 111:1-4<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let me ask you a question: \u00a0How often do you thank God for your life<\/em><\/strong>?<\/span><\/p>\n

I myself thank God for the lives of those He has graciously placed in my life. \u00a0I thank God for my three best friends. \u00a0I thank the Lord for my awesome boyfriend. \u00a0I thank the Lord for my wonderful mother. \u00a0I imagine that you have people in your life that you are so thankful God placed in your life, but what about your own<\/em> <\/strong>life?<\/p>\n

I seldom thank God for my life<\/em>. \u00a0I thank Him for my health, job, food, money, peace of mind, guidance (and the list goes on), but I don’t think to thank God for my actual<\/strong> lif<\/em>e.<\/p>\n

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex<\/em>!<\/span> <\/strong>
\nYour workmanship is marvelous\u2014how well I know it.
\nPsalm 139:14<\/p>\n

Think—how often do we combine the words wonderfully<\/em> and complex<\/em>? \u00a0Complex typically has a negative connotation. \u00a0This verse blows that connotation out of the water, saying that we as human beings are \u201cwonderfully complex<\/em>.\u201d We know to thank God for all good things. \u00a0Therefore, should we not stop to thank God for making us<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

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Thank You, Lord for taking the time out to make me. \u00a0Among all the unfathomable amount of people that You have masterfully crafted, thank You for including me. \u00a0May I honor You with this amazing opportunity to live among Your creation and point people back to their Mighty Creator. \u00a0I am so thankful to be here on this Earth as Your ambassador.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Praise the Lord! I will thank the Lord with all my heart as I meet with His godly people. How amazing are the deeds of the Lord! All who delight in Him should ponder them. Everything He does reveals His glory and majesty. His righteousness never fails. He causes us to remember His wonderful works. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":22736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[3146,3367,833,7733,3174,7739,7738,7740],"class_list":["post-22759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-ahmee-bronaugh","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-psalm-13914","tag-psalms-1111-4","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-thank-god-for-ourselves","tag-thank-god-for-you","tag-thankful-for-life-itself","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/seekingHimthanksgivinggraphic.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-5V5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22761,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22759\/revisions\/22761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}