Welcome

Welcome, friend, to a look at doing something few of us do, yet alone all year long, and it’s always giving thanks.

Thanks might be a new concept for some of us, if we are honest without ourselves.

 I am one of those people, by the way. The idea of giving thanks is rather foreign, but always giving thanks to God is far more foreign and is something I don’t even know or recognize. I’ve tried to give thanks, but not all the time. I’ve always tried to keep a gratitude journal—and that flopped. I know giving God thanks is important, but I think my hang-up has been: How do you give God thanks? That’s what this book is about. It’s about learning to give thanks always, and all year long, for the rest of our lives.

This is a devotional. It’s true. But, it’s so much more than that. It’s also a Bible study, a workbook, and is a prayer journal—all rolled into one.

This book is a book meant for devotions. It’s a book of thoughts on thanksgiving and what the Bible has to say about thanksgiving. It’s also about the things we are thankful for and is how we will create a list of what we thank God for in our lives. It will be our way to count our blessings and look all around for glory sightings.

I hope you read it as a devotional, where it brings you to devotion to God and for God—as you always give Him thanks. Read a sentence or two, a page or two, or a chapter,—and think on it all day and night. Pray about what you read or what makes you think. Let it inspire you to offer God thanks for the things in your life.

You might even think about keeping a prayer journal to write in and write everything you are thankful for and any thoughts that come to mind as you go through this book.

Read this book slowly. Absorb it. Do not just read through it as fast as you can. Chew on each word. Think about them and get the most you can out of them. The words I use are intentional and are meant to get us to think and inspire us to always give overflowing thanks.

There will be an accompanying Bible study and journal in time. However, if you look up each and every verse in your favorite Bible translation (version) and journal about them, then you will get a great deal out of it and it will be a wonderful Bible study. Do it all by yourself, with a friend, or with a group.

Set your own pace. Take a year to get all the way through it, as you look at it each and every day and allow it to bring you to the Lord and thank Him for everything in your life and all that is around you. Or, take a month or several years Just don’t rush through it and make sure to think deeply on these things (see Philippians 4:8 and Psalm 1:2).

Although, I think this can be one of those resources that the moment you finish reading it all the way through, you will want to do it all over again and see how and how things have changed in your life just since the first read-through and participation.

Make sure to give this your all. Do not give a half-hearted attempt, if you want to get the most out of this ALWAYS OF ALWAYS GIVING THANKS.

Enjoy!

~ Stacy Duplease