Pastor Sam Crabtree thinks we all need to express thankfulness to God, even for simple things,

like that yummy hamburger you ate recently.

You nourished with the sun, the grass.

Your invention of photosynthesis combined the sunlight with the water and the carbon dioxide in the air.

And you formed this grass, which was eaten by a cow, that has four stomachs.

And they digested this stuff and turned it into hamburger for me.

Thank you.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of choosing gratitude.

For November 2nd, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

Thank you. 2nd, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

Well, we've turned the page to November.

And the big holiday coming up this month, here in the United States at least, is Thanksgiving Day.

Our friends in Canada are ahead of us. They celebrated it last month.

But as believers, every day should be a day of Thanksgiving, shouldn't it? In fact, recently, I've been soaking in the book of

Colossians, and it's amazing how many times the Apostle Paul talks to these believers about thankfulness, about gratitude. He says in chapter 1,

verse 3, we always thank God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you. And then he talks

about having great endurance and patience, joyfully giving thanks to the Father who is enabled

you to share in the Saints' inheritance in the light.

And then in Chapter 2, he says that we should be overflowing or abounding with gratitude.

And in Chapter 3, he says, be thankful, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

And whatever you do, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, do everything in the name of the Lord

Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Christ. And then in chapter four, he says, devote yourselves to

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