American Thanksgiving Celebration

[Administrator]

Prepare Your Heart

The event on which our modern American Thanksgiving celebration is based began as a three-day harvest celebration in 1621. It was later modified into an actual Thanksgiving Day, but I think the original three-day event suggests a worthy template: not relegating the practice of thanksgiving to a single day of the year.

The psalmist wrote, “Sing to the Lord, bless His name; proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day” (Psalm 96:2). Gratitude and thanksgiving are appropriate “from day to day.” Why? Because that is the pattern of God’s blessings. As long as God’s blessings continue to f low, so should our thanks flow accordingly.

As we enter this Thanksgiving season, give thanks to God for His great blessings to you. No matter the circumstances in your life right now, God is still blessing you. Blessings small and large bring great joy to our heart as we look at our life and count His gifts.


Psalm 100
“Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations.”

 

[Jay]

23 Verses About the Goodness of God​

God is good. But what does that mean—that God is good?

The more I studied this word in the Bible, the more one central concept seemed to jump out: God’s goodness conveys His generosity. His goodness means far more than His generosity, but it certainly includes His infinitely generous attitude toward us. By nature, He longs to bring joy and blessing to all His creatures.

The Bible repeatedly presents goodness as a core quality of our Lord, and I wanted to share just 23 of those occasions. These 23 verses point you to the goodness of our God and what it means for our lives.

1. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth. Exodus 34:6
2. Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. 1 Chronicles 16:34
3. And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord: “For He is good, for His mercy endures forever toward Israel.” Ezra 3:11
4. Good and upright is the Lord. Psalm 25:8
5. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23:6
6. The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works. Psalm 145:9
7. No one is good but One, that is, God. Mark 10:18
8. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. James 1:17
9. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Matthew 7:11
10. I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Psalm 27:13
11. I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on Your wondrous works. Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, and I will declare Your greatness. They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, and shall sing of Your righteousness. Psalm 145:5-7
12. He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. Psalm 33:5
13. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! Psalm 34:8
14. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting. Psalm 100:4-5
15. Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness. Psalm 107:8-9
16. As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. Psalm 103:13-14
17. Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness. Psalm 143:10
18. The Lord is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him. Psalm 92:15
19. You are good, and do good; teach me Your statutes. Psalm 119:68
20. You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst. Nehemiah 9:20
21. Hear me, O Lord, for Your loving-kindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies. Psalm 69:16
22. The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows those who trust in Him. Nahum 1:7

 

[Overjoyed]

The Apostle Paul wrote this: “Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!” 2 Corinthians 9:15

We have a lot to be thankful for this year, and it is good and right for us to thank God for spouses, kids, jobs, and health. But when Paul says, “We thank God for his indescribable gift!” he’s talking about something specific. Actually, Someone specific. He isn’t thanking God for things, he is thanking God for Jesus. Or to say it another way, Paul is thanking God for God.

The greatest gift that God ever gave the world was His Son, Jesus Christ – who was and is God in the flesh. This is really what Christmas is about: the idea that God became a man “the incarnation”.

As C.S. Lewis put it in Mere Christianity, “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.” And although Paul knew nothing of our American holiday on the fourth Thursday of November, I think it’s right for us to talk about Christmas at Thanksgiving. Not because I’m trying to rush past this holiday and get on to the next one; but because our gratitude on this holiday is informed by the next one.

This Thanksgiving, I encourage you to thank God for all of the people and things you can think of. Be specific in your gratitude; articulate and enumerate all of the blessings in your life, because, “Every good and perfect gift is from above.”

But I also encourage you this Thanksgiving to thank God for God. Don’t just thank Him for what he’s given you; thank Him for who He is. The purpose of all of these earthly blessings is not that we become infatuated with the gift as an end to itself, but rather, to draw our eyes up to the Giver. He was the one who gave His Son so that you and I could be rescued from sin and restored to a reconciled relationship with Him. God did all of this to reach us.

We have so much to be thankful for.

Happy Thanksgiving

 

[Achilles]

I'm thankful for all of my off-spring that are saved. And all my family and loved ones. I'm be with them all in Heaven. Thank you Jesus

Have a happy day. we all have a lot to be thankful for..

 

[Christina]

With Thanksgiving in mind.

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and a thank offering and into His courts with praise! Be thankful and say so to Him, bless and affectionately praise His name!
PSALM 100:4

God’s Word teaches us not to worry, but to come to Him, in every circumstance, with thanksgiving.

Psalm 100:4 says we cannot even come into the presence of God unless we come with thanksgiving.

If we want assurance of answered prayer, we should pray with thanksgiving, not with complaining. People who complain are showing, by their attitude and words, that they do not trust God and are not thankful or appreciative.

You may be a person who genuinely loves God, but you may also have a habit of complaining and have not, until now, realized how disrespectful it is to God. If you are convicted of sin in this area, there is no condemnation, but you should ask God to forgive you and begin to fill your prayers with praise and thanksgiving.

My prayers are filled with gratitude and thanksgiving.

 

[Grace ambassador]

"In every thing give thanks: for This Is The Will Of God In Christ Jesus Concerning you"
(1 Thessalonians 5:18 AV)

Amen.