1 Thess 1:2-3 says, "We always thank God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers. We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ."
The Lord had me do a simple exercise once that caused great love and appreciation to well up from deep within my spirit. The exercise was this; He had me take our church communications list and go through the list(every man, woman and child) and write out what I remember each person for. For example, their faithful and steadfast service. Then when that was done, I took person by person and offered up a pray to God in remembrance of what they have done and asked the Lord to continue to bless their acts of service.
Not only did this exercise cause appreciation for each person to enter into my spirit, but it caused thankfulness to flow. God has blessed us so richly hasn't he? The other thing this exercise prompted was to give me ways to encourage those in our church body. We all need encouragement. We all need to be appreciated and know that our service to God is touching others in the way God wants them touched.
Mother Teresa spoke this and I quote, "We cannot do any great things for God, just small things done with great love." Work produced by faith, labor prompted by love, and endurance inspired by hope in Jesus.
I encourage you to do this same writing exercise. The fruit of it will be appreciation that overflows with thanksgiving and encouragement!
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