With Thanksgiving • Daily Devo #483
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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. - Philippians 4:6 KJV
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. - Psalm 100:4 KJV
18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. - 1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV
The Message For Today (March 14, 2026):
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This little word, thanksgiving, is the one thing that the world is lacking. There is such a spirit of entitlement in the world, such a spirit of feeling like they are owed something just for simply existing or deciding to go forth in the world. And the spirit of entitlement permeates everything. It permeates government systems.
It permeates our day-to-day lives. It permeates the minds of young people, and it permeates relationships when either a man or woman feels entitled to the labor or the heart or the love or the finances or the resources of another. So friendships, mother, father, husband, son, like there are so many things that are going on in the world.
And the spirit of entitlement is rooted in the fact that they are there, they are present, and if you’re a nice person, you should care. If you’re a nice person, you should operate the way they think you should operate. And therein lies this confusion that there’s an entitlement to the way we operate. There’s an entitlement to control the way that we think. There’s an entitlement for everything.
But gratitude and thanksgiving never make it to the table. Gratitude and thanksgiving for the little things: for health, for life, for strength, for a sound mind, for the ability to wake up in the morning and have your sight. For the ability to get up in the morning and have feet, legs, and toes that work. These are the little things that are overlooked.
So when you say that someone should be grateful, there’s an affront. There’s an offense to those who don’t understand that gratefulness is not just for the gifts you receive. It’s not just a simple thank you for someone giving you a card, a birthday gift, or a present. Gratitude and thanksgiving are a response and a decision to everyday life.
It is a response to things that happen, and it’s a decision that we can all adopt, if we so choose, to release the things of this world, to release the cares of this world, and to at minimum thank God for being present. At minimum, be thankful for existing, for breathing, for having the use of your limbs and your hands, and these things that so many people take for granted.
Thanksgiving and gratitude, even for the negative things, even for the hurt that someone causes, even for the doors that close. Thanksgiving and gratitude are sorely lacking. In this place, there’s a sense of entitlement, a sense of what we deserve and don’t deserve, and all of this goes before the will of the Father.
