Thanksgiving is not just a holiday.

It is a way of life.

As we study the scriptures with Scott Pauley today,

we pray that God will help us learn how to develop grateful hearts and hopes.

Have you praised God to anybody else today? How about this week? Have you recently said to someone

else, let me tell you how wonderful my Savior is.

Let me tell you what Jesus has done for my heart.

Dr. Robertson used to say that most Christians do more witnessing in the first six months

after they get saved, then they do the rest of their Christian life combined.

Why is that?

Because when we first come to know the Lord, we're so excited

about it, we want to share it with other people. And somewhere, if you're not careful, that enthusiasm,

that holy enthusiasm begins to die down. We've been studying this week, Psalm 107. Verse two says,

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. And then we learned in the following verses that

there are three things you ought to say. The Bible says, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the

enemy, and gathered them out of the lands from the east and from the west, from the north,

and from the south. They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way. They found no city to dwell in,

hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. So the first thing we're to say is we're to say we were

lost. And then the Bible says in verse six, then they cried into the Lord in their trouble. And he

delivered them out of their distresses. So not only should we say we're lost, we should say we met the Lord.

And then in verse 7, the Bible says, and he led them forth by the right way, that they might

go to a city of habitation.

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