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Today Rick will share a special Thanksgiving message called

how God blesses grateful hearts.

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Pastor Rick with part 1 of a message called

How God Blesses Grateful Hearts.

Hi everybody.

Have I told you lately that I love you

because I do?

Happy Thanksgiving. You know, since this next week is Thanksgiving I'm

pausing my series so we can prepare ourselves for Thanksgiving day. So you know

what I did this last week? I read through again every reference to gratitude

and Thanksgiving in the Bible. And there are actually over 400 passages that mention Thanksgiving

or gratitude.

Now what I saw in my Bible study were two big ideas.

First, God wants gratitude to be the primary motivation behind everything we do or say or think. Let me say that again.

God wants gratitude to be the primary motive, the primary motivation behind everything that we do or say or think.

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