Morning by Morning, November 26, 2025 – “Enter His Gates with Thanksgiving” Good morning, Lord Jesus. Let my spirit arise, as I seek You and wait upon Your leading to start my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit. ... “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name” (Psalm 110:4). Like many Americans across our nation, I’m on my way home for Thanksgiving—home to my mother’s house. Home for a few days enjoy family and friends, to laugh and eat a lot, to reconnect but also to pick up right where we left off. At the same time, I know not everybody gets to go home. Not everybody wants to go home. For many connecting home with Thanksgiving is hard to imagine. But that’s all the more reason to remember that Thanksgiving is not primarily about us. It’s about You. From the first one until today, it has always been about You. You and Your provision, You and Your Presence, through hardships and heartaches. It’s about turning to You when our hearts of full of joy and also turning to You when it feels like we’ve got nothing left inside. Thanksgiving is an attitude of the heart, a perspective of our thoughts. And it’s an attitude and a perspective we can choose. This day, I choose to thank You, to praise You, to acknowledge You and all Your provision, always with me in Your Presence, whether full or empty. And by the grace of God, not just this day, but every day. Every day let this be my attitude to You.
Remind me that thanksgiving and praise honors You, but it also changes me. Thanksgiving lifts my up in my spirit to come into communion with Your Spirit. It’s a means of Your grace to enter into Your gates, to come into Your courts, where no matter what’s going on in my world or my world inside, nothing can take my joy or steal my peace unless I let it. And why would I let it? When I have the power to choose—to choose to be thankful. To choose to remember all I have to be thankful for, starting with Your great love for me, no matter what. “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever!” (Psalm 131:1 NIV) In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you be filled with the joy and peace of God that cannot be taken away as you choose thank Him and allow Him to give you an attitude and perspective of thanksgiving and praise, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!
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