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2. THANKSGIVING Leftovers Many great aspects of Thanksgiving Leftovers are one of the best!

3. THANKSGIVING Leftovers What if the spirit of thanksgiving, of gratitude could thrive in us all year long?

4. THANKSGIVING Leftovers 2 Corinthians 4:13-18 13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak, 14 knowing that He who raised…

5. THANKSGIVING Leftovers …up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. 15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. 16 Therefore we…

6. THANKSGIVING Leftovers …do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory…

7. THANKSGIVING Leftovers 18 …while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

8. THANKSGIVING Leftovers “In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” Deitrich Bonhoeffer

9. THANKSGIVING Leftovers Paul’s Observation of Life It Can Be Tough!

10. THANKSGIVING Leftovers 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair…

11. THANKSGIVING Leftovers 9 …persecuted but not forsaken struck down, but not destroyed 10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always…

12. THANKSGIVING Leftovers …delivered to death for Jesus’ sake that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.” 2 Corinthians 4:7-11

13. THANKSGIVING Leftovers Paul’s Observation of Gratitude It Only Exists Where There is Grace!

14. THANKSGIVING Leftovers Paul’s Observation of Gratitude A ‘play on words’ occurs in this passage of Paul’s writing…

15. THANKSGIVING Leftovers Paul says, “It is all for your sake, so that as charis (grace) extends to more and more people it may increase eucharistian (thanksgiving) to the glory of God.”

16. THANKSGIVING Leftovers This could have been preserved in English by the use of ‘grace’ and ‘gratitude’ which show the same original root.

17. THANKSGIVING Leftovers So the verse should be translated: “It is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase gratitude to the glory of God.”

18. THANKSGIVING Leftovers Gratitude will only Exist where there is Grace!

19. THANKSGIVING Leftovers Opportunities for Thanksgiving Leftovers! Gratitude to God

20. THANKSGIVING Leftovers “...giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 5:20

21. THANKSGIVING Leftovers Opportunities for Thanksgiving Leftovers! Gratitude for People

22. THANKSGIVING Leftovers “We have so much joy before our God because of you.” 1 Thessalonians 3:9a NCV

23. THANKSGIVING Leftovers Opportunities for Thanksgiving Leftovers! Gratitude in Your Circumstances

24. THANKSGIVING Leftovers “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.” Philippians 4:6

25. THANKSGIVING Leftovers Like the Manna in the wilderness, Grace doesn’t keep very well! It has to be dispersed, extended in the same moment, day or time!

26. THANKSGIVING Leftovers The more we extend grace, the greater will be our sense of thanksgiving or gratitude! So be quick to be a grace giver!

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