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    This document is a summary of a sermon about thankfulness given on November 28, 2010 at Kingsway Community Church. It defines thankfulness as expressing gratitude to God for divine benefits. Studies show thankful people exercise more, report fewer illnesses, feel better about life, are more optimistic and likely to achieve goals. Thankful people are also more helpful, emotionally supportive, and experience higher well-being. The sermon encourages cultivating thankfulness for everything good and challenging in life, as commanded in the Bible.

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    This document is a summary of a sermon about thankfulness given on November 28, 2010 at Kingsway Community Church. It defines thankfulness as expressing gratitude to God for divine benefits. Studies show thankful people exercise more, report fewer illnesses, feel better about life, are more optimistic and likely to achieve goals. Thankful people are also more helpful, emotionally supportive, and experience higher well-being. The sermon encourages cultivating thankfulness for everything good and challenging in life, as commanded in the Bible.

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    Thanksgiving

    Pastor John Isaacs


    Presented at Kingsway Community Church on November 28, 2010

    The Bible commands us to give thanks: Psalm 18:49, Psalm


    30:4, Psalm 92:1, Psalm 97:12, Psalm 105:1, Psalm 106:1
    My Notes:
    ______________________________________
    Cultivate Thankfulness: Colossians 3:15 ______________________________________

    Definitions: ______________________________________
    1. Giving Thanks: an act of expressing ______________ ______________________________________
    to God. A celebration in acknowledgement of a divine
    benefit. ______________________________________
    2. Being Thankful: to be expressive of the ______________________________________
    ______________ of gratitude. It is to be aware of a
    benefit. ______________________________________
    3. Being Thankless: to not feel or show gratitude. It is to ______________________________________
    be __________________ for a circumstance or event in
    your life. ______________________________________
    ______________________________________
    Thankfulness enhances a person’s overall enjoyment of
    life: (studies by Robert A. Emmons, University of California, ______________________________________
    Davis and Michael E. McCullough, University of Miami). ______________________________________
    ______________________________________
    1. exercise more regularly
    2. report fewer illnesses ______________________________________
    3. felt better about their life as a whole ______________________________________
    4. were more optimistic about the upcoming week
    5. were more likely to have made progress toward ______________________________________
    important personal goals (academic, interpersonal, and ______________________________________
    health-based)
    6. were more likely to report having helped someone with a ______________________________________
    personal problem or having offered emotional support to ______________________________________
    another
    7. report higher levels of positive emotions, life satisfaction, ______________________________________
    vitality, and optimism, and lower levels of depression ______________________________________
    and stress.
    ______________________________________
    Thankful People (study by Kashdan, Uswatte, and Julian, ______________________________________
    2006)
    ______________________________________
    1. Are ____________________. ______________________________________
    2. Are ____________________. ______________________________________
    3. Are ____________________. ______________________________________
    4. Are ____________________. ______________________________________
    ______________________________________
    There are 2 occasions in life when we should be thankful:
    ______________________________________
    • For everything that is _____________ and __________. ______________________________________
    (James 1:17) ______________________________________
    • For everything that is _____________, _____________
    and/or ________________. ______________________________________
    (James 1:2-3) ______________________________________
    Start cultivating thankfulness, today:
    1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Download the audio file of this sermon at www.kingsway.us

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