Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss, reminding us that everything we have comes from God's hand.

When we give thanks to the Lord, we're paying our debt.

We owe God thanksgiving. We owe him everything.

But when we give him thanks, we're paying our debts to God.

When we thank Him, we're recognizing that God is the source of every good and perfect gift.

Happy Thanksgiving. This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

When the electric company sends energy to your home, they also send a bill.

If you don't pay what you owe them, eventually you won't have any more electricity.

God gives us so much more than any utility company.

What do we owe him in return? Here's Nancy to address that.

Well, I just want to say from my own heart and from all of us here at Revive Our Hearts,

a blessed Thanksgiving day to you. Whatever you're doing, I trust that it will be a day when

you encounter a sweet relationship with the Lord and are able to offer Thanksgiving to the Lord for his blessings in your life.

I want to read to you an email that I received from a beloved uncle of mine.

My dad's brother, my uncle Bob, sent an email to his grown children recently, and he was kind to copy me on the email.

He said, Dear children, every so was kind to copy me on the email. He said, Dear children,

every so often mom and I reflect on the lost art of saying thank you, not just as children,

but also as adults. It makes us want to examine our own lives to see if we express gratitude ourselves. What's scary is not so much that we may not utter the words,

thank you, but the fact that not doing so reveals a heart that takes things for granted.

Kind of an entitlement mentality. I'm owed this. He goes on to say, with that as a context,

I was startled to read in my morning devotions yesterday that when Jesus fed the 5,000, it says, quote, he took the bread, broke it, gave thanks, and distributed

it. And then he says, and this is the part I never remember seeing before, likewise, he took the

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