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THANKS
BREAD
1 Shout for joy to the Lord,
all the earth. 2 Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. 3 Know that the Lord
is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of
his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and
his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. 5 For the Lord
is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all
generations. Psalms 100:1-5 (NIV)
57 But
thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians
15:57 (NIV)
6 So
then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, 7 rooted and built up in him,
strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with
thankfulness. Colossians 2:6-7 (NIV)
16 Be
joyful always; 17 pray
continually; 18 give
thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NIV)
8 Give
thanks to the Lord, call on his
name; make known among the nations what he has done. 9 Sing to him, sing praise to
him; tell of all his wonderful acts. 1
Chronicles 16:8-9 (NIV)
17 I will
give thanks to the Lord because of
his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High. Psalms 7:17 (NIV)
11 You
turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with
joy, 12 that
my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O Lord
my God, I will give you thanks forever. Psalms 30:11-12 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Christian thanksgiving is the life of
Christ in the heart — transforming
the disposition and the whole
character.
Thanksgiving must be wrought into the life as a habit—before it can
become a fixed and permanent quality. An
occasional burst of praise, in the midst of years of complaining, is not what
is required. Songs on rare, sunshiny days; and no songs when skies are
cloudy—will not make a life of gratitude. The heart
must learn to sing always. This lesson is
learned only when it
becomes a habit which nothing can weaken. We must
persist in being thankful. When we can see no reason for praise—we must believe
in the divine love and goodness, and sing in the darkness. Thanksgiving
has attained its rightful place in us, only when it is part of all our days and
dominates all our experiences.” J. R. Miller
“Unyielding gratitude to God — is how God makes us unstoppable.” Ann Voskamp
“Gratitude is heaven itself.” William Blake
“Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has –and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.” John Chrysostom
“Prayer, praise and thanksgiving all go
together. A close relationship exists among them. The Scriptures join these
three things together. Psalms is filled with many songs of praise and hymns of
thanksgiving, all pointing back to the results of prayer. Thanksgiving includes
gratitude. In fact, thanksgiving is the expression of an inward, conscious
gratitude to God for mercies received. Gratitude is an inward emotion of the
soul, involuntarily arising therein, while thanksgiving is the voluntary
expression of gratitude.” E.M. Bounds
HEART
SAVOR
- · I am to be thankful for all God allows in my life knowing He loves me and has my best interest at heart. All things allowed are for purposes of good for the child of the King. My heart must learn to sing always.
- · I am joyful when I am grateful as well as unstoppable.
- · Gratitude is an inward emotion of the heart which gives rise to thankfulness on the lips – a voluntary expression of our words welling up from an overflowing thankful heart.
