#721: The Power of Gratitude & Thanksgiving

Allen Jackson Ministries

Ben Hayes

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Life can be demanding, especially during the holidays. Instead of focusing on things to complain or be anxious about, God asks us to shift our perspectives and choose a different outlook instead. In this sermon, Pastor Allen Jackson discusses the importance of fostering an attitude of thankfulness. He shares activities for the three days leading up to Thanksgiving to help us refocus our minds and hearts on the Lord and His many blessings in our lives. Our daily stressors and difficulties are real—but God is more powerful than any of them.

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0:00.0	How did they convince us to be quiet about our faith? What exactly caused us to say okay when they said,
0:12.0	you shouldn't do that? We have to manage our attitudes towards the Lord. They told us not to talk
0:18.0	about him, and we said, okay. You can talk about him and we said okay.
0:24.2	You can talk about every sort of perversion,
0:25.7	every sort of ungodliness,
0:27.1	every sort of immorality.
0:32.2	No, I think I'm going to take Jesus with me. You're listening to Alan Jackson Ministries.
0:42.3	You can get the outlines for this episode at Alanjaxon.com slash podcast.
0:48.0	If these messages help build you up, or encourage you to be a more fully devoted Christ follower,
0:53.7	leave us a five-star rating and review.
0:56.5	Hopefully, that will help others find out about them as well.
0:59.7	Now it's on to Pastor Allen.
1:02.1	Be blessed.
1:09.0	This session and the next, the one for tomorrow morning, are really two pieces.
1:13.6	It's a two-part discussion, so it's your leisure you can hear the one that you may not be present for.
1:20.6	We're going to start with discussion of the power of gratitude and Thanksgiving.
1:23.6	It's Thanksgiving week. I hope that's not a surprise.
1:26.6	But I didn't want to miss that. It's Thanksgiving week. I hope that's not a surprise. But I didn't want to miss that.
1:29.9	It's such an important holiday. It's been a part of our nation since before we were formally a nation.
1:36.2	The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in the 1600s. If you're not a history person, the nation
1:42.4	didn't get really formal until the 1700s.
1:45.0	But George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide Thanksgiving celebration in America,
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