Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, November 27th.

When the world is full of chaos and turmoil, the last thing you might think to do is say thank you.

But that all depends on what you are grateful for.

Here's more on Thanksgiving in the midst of adversity.

It's one thing to be grateful when everything is going your way, but when everything is not

going your way, what is your response?

And sometimes we justify our wrong attitude, our ugly attitude, our ungrateful spirit,

by saying, well, God shouldn't allow these things to happen to me,

or if God is who he says he is, he wouldn't allow this to happen. And they may look in the

Bible and tell you, well, there's some parts of the Bible I don't understand. And so instead of

rejoicing and praising God and thanking him for who he is and what he has done for you,

sometimes we let doubts sort of scatter our thoughts of Thanksgiving.

But today I want you to listen very carefully, because I want to talk to you about why you should be a very grateful person, what God is doing

in your life and the consequences of what he's doing in your life. And I want you to turn,

if you will, to First Thessalonians. And Paul in First Thessalonians, in the fifth chapter,

he's ending up this epistle, and he comes to these latter verses, and he says a great deal in verse after verse.

But when you come to the 16th verse, the son of a triad here, and it says three things.

He says, number one, rejoice always. Is that easy? No, it's not. Then he says, pray without ceasing. Is that easy? Not really. Then he says, in everything, give thanks for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

Is that easy?

No, it's not.

Now, listen carefully.

He says, in everything, give thanks.

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