Thankful for the beautiful life in CHRIST JESUS, I’m thankful GOD has given me beauty for my ashes.
Brothers and sisters, today I’m thankful just to be alive, I’m thankful GOD had mercy upon my life, and gave me new life in CHRIST JESUS.
I’m thankful I’m not the man I use to be in the world, but I’m a new creation in CHRIST JESUS, the old things are passed away in my old life, and everyday I’m beholding the new things GOD is doing in my life.
Today I’m thankful for the old Reese Kemp, because if it had not been for the old Reese Kemp, there would be no NEW Reese Kemp.
If it had not been for the drug dealer, the whore monger, gangster disciple, 4 time felon, the man who had been to the penitentiary 3 different times in my life, the career criminal, and me almost losing this life to gun violence, then I would have never sought after the grace and mercy of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, and I would have nothing to be thankful for.
I’m thankful for my enemies, I’m thankful for the people who made themselves my enemies, I’m thankful for all my trials, my tribulations, and all the sufferings I suffer in life, for I need you like a strong man needs weight resistance to gain strength, and to get stronger.
I’m thankful GOD is supplying all my needs according to HIS riches in glory in CHRIST JESUS, and I might not be a rich man according to world’s standards, but I’m a very wealthy man according to GOD’S standards, for GOD is supplying all my needs.
I’m thankful for the naysayers, and all the haters, who tell me, you can’t do it, and it can’t be done, for they don’t know what I know, and I always have to show them, “ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE IN MY JESUS/GOD.”
I’m thankful for the wisdom of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, the revelation knowledge of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, and the understanding of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, for GOD has given me spiritual understanding to know, that all things happen for reason and purpose in life, and my purpose is to know the reason WHY, and to understand the reason WHY.
For we cannot go beyond what we fail to understand in life, and we certainly cannot understand what we fail to KNOW!~
So today I’m thankful on this holiday we call Thanksgiving, but everyday I’m thankful to GOD, for every day I give thanks to my JESUS/GOD, even if there was no such thing as a holiday called Thanksgiving,
(Isaiah 61:1-9) The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, “TO GIVE UNTO THEM BEAUTY FOR ASHES”, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. But you shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves. For your shame you shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD has blessed.