Thanks to the late Dr. Frederick K. C. Price I learned to be "nit picky" when reading prepositions in the Bible. For example, there is a difference in prepositions to explain what it means for a person to "thank God for everything" or to "give thanks in everything".
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. (1 Thessalonians 5:18)
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. (Philippians 4:6)
This is an important distinction since so many people believe that all things happen according to God's will and that we are to thank Him for everything that happens to us as if He brought it in our lives for some mysterious reason.
Since God is not the source of negative things that happen to us then He should not be thanked FOR them. But we should always give worship and thanksgiving to God IN THE MIDST of everything that happens because we know that He will deliver us. When we thank Him IN everything then Satan is defeated and we come out victorious.
I guess if we were all a little more "nitpicky" when it comes to grammar, especially Bible grammar, we would not be so often misled into believing wrong things about God and defeated in life.
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