“The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you, in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17 Do you realize God is with you? That He is a mighty warrior who saves you? protects you? Who in His love will no longer rebuke you, but rejoices over you? I love this verse! It one of my top favorites. I came across this verse when I was going through a very rough time in my life. God gave this verse to me, I didn’t quiet get it, but it was…
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Return To Me
But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there. Nehemiah 1:9 Are you thankful that God lets us return to him when we repent? I am so thankful that when I mess up and don’t keep God’s commandments, he still allows me to return to him. Yes, I do have to change and learn from my mistakes. I am thankful that God is a forgiving God. One that forgives over and over. I need to…
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For Such A Time As This
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from the another place, But you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to you and your Royal position for such a time as this? Esther 4:14 For the next twelve days I want to share with you, verses that I am thankful for and why!! Do you ever wish you could be in a different era? I sure have. For whatever reason, I just thought I was in the wrong time frame of life. Until I studied the book of Esther. In verse 14, it shows…
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He Thanked Jesus
Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Luke 17:15-16 Have you thanked God for your salvation, love, grace, and all of his spiritual benefits. We must never forget to thank him. What God has done for us, should make us to want to thank God continually. We should want to approach Him with a grateful heart. Only one out of the 10 lepers came back to thank Jesus for healing him. The leper glorified God with a loud voice. We should…
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Magnify With Thanksgiving
I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving. Psalm 69:30 Do you ever complain to God? Then realize you need to praise him and give thanks. The psalmist is an example of Christians, concludes a psalm with holy joy and praise, which he began with complaints and remonstrances of his griefs. He restores to praise God himself. He not only praises God with his heart but with his song and magnifies God with thanksgiving. This will please the Lord. Christ is the mediator of our praises as well as of our prayers. It is a great comfort to us that humble and…
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Voice Of Thanksgiving
But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!” Jonah 2:9 Do you give thanks to God as a sacrifice? Jonah gave a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God, while he was in the belly of the fish. Here God intervened in his desperate situation. In verse 10, “And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.” In Hebrews 13:15 says, “Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Sacrifice is used symbolically to…
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Community of Gratitude and Hospitality
And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. Acts 2: 46-47 Do you have a church that you attend? Are you breaking bread with your brothers and sisters in Christ? This has a twofold meaning. The first expression in Acts and the early church seems to refer to sharing meals in one another’s home. How often do you cultivate relationships with others in your church? Do you ask them to your…
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Not Giving God Gratitude For What He Gives
And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal. Hosea 2:8 Have you ever done something for someone, yet another got the credit for it? Has God ever blessed you with a harvest of food, and you never gave him credit for it? Israel is not giving gratitude where gratitude is due. Year after year, God gives Israel plenty of harvest. Year after year, though, the Israelites offer what God gives them to Baal. A false god that doesn’t even exist. They honor Baal and not God.…
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Giving Thanks To Our Lord
OH give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble and gathered in form the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Psalm 107: 1-3 Giving thanks to God!!! How wonderful is it that we can thank God for all he has done and for all that he will do. Do you really take the time to thank God? Even when things are hard, hurtful, etc, Do you really realize that He is still worthy to be thanked? This psalm is challenging…
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Bless The Lord, O My Soul
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life form the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. Psalm 103: 1-5 Do you ever talk to yourself about where your soul is with God? Do you bless the Lord and his Holy name? Do you remember the benefits he gives you? This Psalm is an expression of thanksgiving and praise to…