Thank you Lord for all you've done for me....

1 Thessalonians 5:18 (ESV) Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Today I stop  to show my gratitude to God and take the time to say:

"Thank you Lord for all you've done for me!"   

"If I had ten thousand tongues, I could not thank you  enough for all you are doing in my life"...

Everyday is not Sunday, but life still just keeps on getting better and better as I yield my life to you dear Jesus and begin to focus on God all by himself and pray for other's rather than focusing on my problems and what I don't I have...  I realized a few months back when I really sick and in tremendous chest pain that it's not about me, but it's about "Jesus!"

God has always been my all and all, and that right there makes is to easy to pause and say

"Thank you"

on this Saturday in the month of April 28, 2012....

Being Thankful

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 548 helpful votesGive thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Psalm 107:1 ESV / 345 helpful votesOh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Ephesians 5:20 ESV / 317 helpful votesGiving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Colossians 3:15-17 ESV / 254 helpful votesAnd let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

James 1:17 ESV / 202 helpful votesEvery good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

2 Corinthians 9:15 ESV / 155 helpful votesThanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 132 helpful votesDo not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Psalm 105:1 ESV / 122 helpful votesOh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!

Psalm 106:1 ESV / 121 helpful votesPraise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Psalm 118:1-18 ESV / 84 helpful votesOh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. ...

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 83 helpful votesAnd let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Psalm 20:4 ESV / 79 helpful votesMay he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans!

Colossians 4:2 ESV / 75 helpful votesContinue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.

Psalm 30:12 ESV / 72 helpful votesThat my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Romans 1:21 ESV / 60 helpful votesFor although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 47 helpful votesAnd whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 47 helpful votesA Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Romans 10:9 ESV / 34 helpful votesBecause, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

John 3:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 28 helpful votesFor with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 27 helpful votesThe Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 27 helpful votesFor by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Micah 6:8 ESV / 26 helpful votesHe has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Psalm 9:1-2 ESV / 26 helpful votesTo the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Psalm 46:1-11 ESV / 25 helpful votesTo the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. ...

John 14:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 21 helpful votesAnd Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Isaiah 12:4-5 ESV / 21 helpful votesAnd you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted. “Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth.

Psalm 100:4 ESV / 21 helpful votesEnter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!

1 John 1:9 ESV / 20 helpful votesIf we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Romans 10:4 ESV / 20 helpful votesFor Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Psalm 95:2 ESV / 20 helpful votesLet us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 20 helpful votesTo the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. ...

Philemon 1:4 ESV / 18 helpful votesI thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 18 helpful votesBut test everything; hold fast what is good.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 18 helpful votesFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 17 helpful votesI am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...

John 3:3 ESV / 16 helpful votesJesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 1:12 ESV / 14 helpful votesBut to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Romans 10:13 ESV / 13 helpful votesFor “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 13 helpful votesAnd do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 12 helpful votes“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Psalm 100:1-5 ESV / 12 helpful votesA Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 11 helpful votesNow these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 10 helpful votesJames, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...

Romans 5:1 ESV / 10 helpful votesTherefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 10 helpful votesJesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Psalm 7:17 ESV / 10 helpful votesI will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

1 Chronicles 29:13 ESV / 10 helpful votesAnd now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

Malachi 3:11 ESV / 9 helpful votesI will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.

Psalm 118:28 ESV / 9 helpful votesYou are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you.

2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 8 helpful votesThe point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Ecclesiastes 7:14 ESV / 8 helpful votesIn the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 8 helpful votesHe who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...

1 John 2:27 ESV / 7 helpful votesBut the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 7 helpful votesBaptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 7 helpful votesIn him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 7 helpful votesOr do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. ...

James 4:6-12 ESV / 6 helpful votesBut he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. ...

Colossians 2:7 ESV / 5 helpful votesRooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Psalm 35:18 ESV / 5 helpful votesI will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you.

John 10:10 ESV / 4 helpful votesThe thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Malachi 3:15-18 ESV / 4 helpful votesAnd now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.’” Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name. “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 ESV / 4 helpful votesRemember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— ...

Psalm 40:1-17 ESV / 4 helpful votesTo the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. ...

2 Samuel 1:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votesAfter the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.” And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.” Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ...

Psalm 102:2 ESV / 3 helpful votesDo not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!

Psalm 145:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votesA Song of Praise. Of David. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. ...

Psalm 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votesMy eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.

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