Ten Lepers: One Grateful, nine forgetful... Which one are you??

When my boys were young, we were spending some dad/son time and I asked them, what QUALITY did they think, I most appreciated in them. One guessed it right".

He said, "Gratefulness!" 

This is the thesis...

CAUTION: Never give someone a pass who simply, mouths the word, "THANK YOU", w/o apparent truthfulness or w/o resoluteness. 

Just saying,... We are trained to say thank you w/o thinking. Someone lets us over, we speak it. A waiter brings water, we utter it. A cashier, gives us change, even though it's ours, we mouth it. A friends loans us a dollar or two, we smile it. 

NEWS FLASH: That's not gratefulness, that's basic manners or courtesy. Here's a BKW'ism.

GRATEFULNESS: "An amped thank you." It's thank you with the volume turned on high."

Therefore, I present a few, Gratefulness IDEAS. 

A) ...a card you took time to find and give. 

B) ...a letter you write

C) ....a call you make

D)....a hug you give

E) ....an act of offering

something you have etc

God is pained at displays of ungratefulness by a child or church member or MYSELF. I am better than that. 

God is enlivened, when a person shows gratefulness, through remembering to pause long enough to remember your special days, like birthdays, etc... 

Gratefulness is what Psalm 100 calls "His Gates". 

Ungratefulness locks the gate to future benevolence and beneficence. The Psalmist exhorts us not to forget, He, who, daily "loadeth us with benefits!"

DO THIS:

Do yourself a favor,THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE DOES YOU A FAVOR , LOANS YOU MONEY, BUYS YOU A MEAL OR TWO, or, IS THERE FOR YOU. Be Grateful!!!!

KNOW THIS:

Experience has taught me that "ungratefulness" is a spirit. Not a demon. You can't cast it out of others, BECAUSE, it's a heart condition. You can't cast it out of yourself, because, you can't cast YOU OUT OF YOU! 

"Give thanks with a grateful heart....", the songwriter wrote. 

Thank you to the composer. 

In Conclusion: "Here's the flip-side..." Those who give and sense innate ungratefulness in THE ONE YOU GAVE TO, by their mouthed word, THANK YOU: LET IT GO. Release them from all indebtedness. 

Because, it will eat at you, til, even though you love them, you won't like them and could grow to RESENT them. And...that will mean, "YOU HAVE A SPIRIT OF BITTERNESS! You will be defiled and don't know how. 

The ACCUMULATIVE results of tolerating this, in others, WILL CAUSE YOUR FEELINGS TO BE HURT and then, YOU WILL CHANGE INTO WHAT THEY ARE...ungrateful! Selah. 

Romans 1 says... "Neither were they thankful... " he's talking about unnatural affection individuals aka "same gender

Lovers." When a person is grateful to God, they don't get off into DEPARTURE LANES . 

PRAY THIS: "Lord, please keep me from becoming like the ones who unintentionally, make me shake my head at their SEVERE CASE OF UNGRATEFULNESS-ITIS.

Keep touching my heart to be giver and grateful to you. 

Now, I sing to you, "I'm Forever Grateful to you..." And Lord , when I get in your presence, please allow me to spend the first MILLION YEARS SHOWING MY ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE! 

Amen and amen. 

HEAR THIS:

I Loveee you and in case, you missed the MEMO, I'm grateful to those that take time to like, comment, or share my postings. 

I'm grateful, WHEN SOMEONE PRAYS FOR ME. Tell them tangibly. If they continue to be ungrateful: TEACH THEM, through Spirit led actions l.

Check this out...YOU PROBABLY NEED TO PULL BACK AND MAYBE THEY WILL LEARN, "You aint been stupid!!!"

I am grateful for Apostle and Mrs Zimmerman for buying my dinner.