---"THANKS BE TO GOD!"
---By Robert Morgan

~~“Thanks be to God!”—Wouldn’t it be great to engrave that phrase on the lintels of our minds? How wonderful to recognize every blessing God sends, and, as it comes our way, to say, “Thanks be to God!”

Gratitude is the attitude that reclaims our spirits in times of disappointment or distress. However bleak our circumstances, we can always find reasons to say: “Thanks be to God.” That little phrase can bear us through difficulty and lift us from defeat. Last year, for example, the remains of Christians slain in Libya were returned to their families in Egypt. The father of one of the victims said of his son, “Thanks be to God, he died a hero. … He and his brothers, the martyrs, did not abandon their faith.”

The phrase is especially powerful because it is Biblical. It appears five times in the consecutive books of Romans, 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians, expressing thanks to God for setting us free; for victory over sin and death; for spreading His message through us; and for Jesus, His indescribable gift!

Let’s go through life with this phrase engraved in our minds. A grateful heart lifts our spirits, honors our Savior, frustrates our enemy and magnifies our influence. Whatever you’re going through today, take a deep breath, look to Jesus, count your blessings, and say often: “Thanks be to God!”
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["For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our FAITH.
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"Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
"This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are One.
"If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself, he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
"And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life and this life is in his Son.
"He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God, hath not life."-[1 John 5:4-12/ KJV]

"And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know Him that is true and we are in Him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the the true God, and eternal life." (vs.20 /KJV)
--HALLELUJAH! The battle is over! JESUS CONQUERED THE GRAVE! IT IS FINISHED! JESUS IS ALIVE!