Thanksgiving Thoughts

David Copeland November 26, 2008 4:43 pm

As we settle down with our families to enjoy our wonderful Thanksgiving celebrations I want to give thanks to Jesus for a few things;

I am thankful first of all for my wonderful wife who is truly the best friend I have in this world! And the fact that she really loves traveling doing ministry with me brings me an even fuller heart of gratitude!

I am thankful for my girls Megan and Missy, for their husbands and their children; they have given me and Pam the most beautiful grandchildren in the world! I'm also very thankful they are all serving God with all their hearts and doing a wonderful work for Jesus!

I am thankful for all our partners who stand with us so faithfully in prayers and financial support; they are the second reason we are able to do what we do in fulfilling our part of the Great Commission! (Jesus of course is first) Thank you is all I can give you now, but when we all get to heaven, you will see your giving was worth all the sacrifice!

I am thankful for all the pastors who have opened the doors and pulpits of their churches to us over the last seven years of traveling ministry! In the ministry atmosphere that pervades today, you just don't know who you can trust your pulpit to; I'm very thankful that the Holy Spirit opened the doors for us not only to preach, but to build long term relationships with many of these pastors and their congregations; and we are seeing a fruitful Harvest come in!

I am thankful for all the new friends God has given me through Revival Journal these last few years; it has helped us to organize the Revival International Network, a group of men and women who are passionately contending for the fullness of the Gospel to be manifested on the earth as the waters cover the sea!

But most of all, I am thankful that Jesus took an insignificant southern boy, saved him, filled him with the Holy Spirit, called him to preach and has literally taken him around the world declaring the message of repentance, restoration and revival! I never would have chosen me to do what I am doing! But as Paul the Apostle said, I'm glad He counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry!

Thank you Revival Journal readers! You have given me an opportunity to share my heart cry for revival with you! And my prayer for you is that we would all capture the Father's heart for the earth in 2009! That we would all know HIM and that we would be one, even as He and Jesus is one!

Happy Thanksgiving!