10,000 Reasons

I was trying to do a blog post a day for what I am thankful for and not always can I get Online to do that. I missed 3 days, Friday to Sunday.

I realized doing this I did find myself thanking God a lot throughout the day. Even the days I posted or didn’t post it on this blog. We should be thankful daily. Seeing that from not posting them too was wow!

It wasn’t until Sunday, November 10, 2013, that I got a better idea. An idea that would have you take time to truly reflect the blessings that God had done. Can you count your blessings and name them one by one? How about this, can you name 10,000 reasons why you are thankful?

In this blog post, I am gonna start, November 11, 2013 and go until I reach the 10,000th reason or until the day of Thanksgiving. Doing it as a prayer journal and name them as I think of them.

Often when we don’t stop and reflect; we tend to not notice it until something happens. We often remember the storms more than our blessings.

Doing this is challenging to stop and reflect. Working in this list a little at a time helped. I know it would be hard to sit down and try to do all 10,000 reasons at one time. We all get in twinned with family, work and much more we don’t take the time to reflect.

I may have not come up with 10,000 reasons, but I am sure God can see 10,000 or more reasons in my heart, cause he knows our heart. As Matt Redman’s song says:

Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find

I am thankful or blessed for:

1. God that He sent His Son died for my sins.
2. Roof over my head
3. My beautiful daughter
4. My pastor, Pastor Bob Neal
5. Loving Biblical based Church
6. Bless that my daughter also serves in the church
7. My godly girlfriend, Suzanne.
8. Blessed to see her serving her church
9. Food to eat
10. Drink to drink
11. Clothes to wear
12. Having a job
13. Live in a country where we can freely worship God
14. Live in a country where we can freely vote for the godly person we believe God wants to run in that office
15. Transportation, (having a car)
16. My mother
17. My sister
18. My niece Mikayla
19. My niece Megan
20. My earthy father, despite he was never there, I do know my Heaven Father is always there.
21. Rest of my family
22. My associates degree in Graphic Design
23. Andersonville Theological Seminary where I am working on my Bachelors in Theology.
24. My great friend who is also a pastor, Justin Breeden
25. Being blessed with this blog to share God’s word
26. Gospel tracts to freely give to people to share God’s Word
27. Gospel of Johns to freely give to people to share God’s Word
28. Being able to work with the youth, my calling I feel, at my church
29. God provides for me
30. God delivers me
31. That the Bible is not banded in my country
32. My friends
33. Being able to serve on the van ministry at church
34. Great theologian: Charles Spurgeon
35. Great theologian: Sidlow Baxter
36. Internet: so I can do my more research on my Bible studies and lessons that I give
37. Free bin at McKay’s used books where I can pick up free Christian books
38. For the ability to see, I may be near sighted, but I still can see.
39. For the ability to hear, I may be able to hear back ground noises better than foreground, but I can still hear.
40. Ability to walk
41. Ability to use my hands
42. For a fairly healthy health
43. Live in America, land of the free
44. I have not got to see all 50 states, but bless I have got to see the stats I have.
45. That I am an Eagle Scout
46. Technology and how fast you can now get a message across to someone
47. Christian music artist, who put out their music and give us inspiration and encouragement
48. Christian Music stations that play nothing but Christian music
49. For my gift of love
50. For my gift of encouragement
51. Assurance of knowing where I am going when I die
52. Being able to out and witness with other believers
53. God never leaves us, we may leave Him, but He is there waiting for us to come back.
54. Godly people that are in my life
55. I can freely pray for my friends, family, etc who are lost so they can be found
56. I can freely say grace, blessing, etc before I eat at a restaurant
57. Men and Woman who have fought to keep our freedoms in America. (both past, present and future)
58. Team Kids and Team Youth at church, how you can learn from them and watching them grow toward Christ.
59. My mistakes in my life, cause they are what shaped me and brings me closer to God and shows me the dependency on God we must have
60. Holy Spirit guides us, shows us when we are doing wrong or corrects us to do right.
61. Be able to go to Xtreme Winter with the Youth
62. Got to go to summer camp with the youth
63. Social media and ability to use it for good
64. Godly folks who write our Sunday School lessons
65. Godly folks who write our Discipleship Training lessons
66. Godly folks who share their commentary
67. Bible having various translations so we can get a better understanding, just use caution looking at various translations
68. God’s creation and the beauty of what He created
69. Things you give us we take for granted
70. Blessings of others giving to us
71. Blessings of others serving us
72. Fellowship of other believers
73. Prayer Warriors
74. Men and Women who protect and service our communities
75. Encouragement from other people
76. Unknown blessing
77. Future blessings
78. Past blessings, that this list may not have covered
79. People who stopped on the interstate to look at my car when it broke down
80. Adam, my Sunday School Teacher
81. Charlotte, my Discipleship Training teacher
82. Groups of people that provide snacks on Wed for Team Kid, and Team Youth
83. My sister who helps me with my daughter, although my sister says my daughter is more of a help to her.
84. God’s promises
85. God is a just judge
86. God saved me from hell, which is what we all deserve as sinners
87. Christian based Movies
88. Christian concerts
89. Open Doors that God blesses us with
90. Closed Doors that God saves us from
91. Awesome God that I serve
92. Any day that I wake up
93. Never failing love of God
94. Heat my home when its cold
95. Air my home when it is hot
96. Electricity
97. Education
98. Forgiveness
99. Sports
100. Southern hospitality
101. Churches that can get together in unity
102. My knowledge
103. Answered Prayers
104. Unanswered Prayers
105. Everything

It is only when we show gratification to God daily that we can transform Thanksgiving into Thanks living. So let’s remember to show God how much we are thankful for what he does in our lives; the good or bad, on  a daily bases and if not that, several times or more throughout the day.

About the Author

Steve Patterson

A Christian Blogger that enjoys blogging about the Bible, Theology, God, Jesus Christ, Christian Music, Family, Cats, Odd Holidays, sewing and much more. I have been blogging since 2004, however, I have been blogging on Courageous Christian Father since 2012. I enjoy listening to Christian Music. I am married with 1 daughter, 2 step-sons and a step daughter.

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