“Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Therefore David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: “Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule overall. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand, it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.”
“Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!.”
Today marks 21 days and final day of our prayer and fasting. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving and a song of Joy/praise to express our gratitude for the strength and grace He poured upon us during these 21 days. Psalm 95:2 “Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!” Psalm 28:7 “The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.” Giving thanks to God is a form of sacrifice to God as noted in Psalm 50:23 “The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!” and Jonah 2:9 “But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!”. As believers in Christ, we must give thanks for our salvation and our journey in knowing Him. Colossians 2:6-7 “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.” We come to give God thanks because it is always a good thing to do according to Psalm 92:1 “It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High.”
We thank Him for the spirit of joy therefore from this day forward, we will rejoice always and pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
Thank the Lord for a season of celebration and multiplication as we move forward in life. Jeremiah 30:19 “Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, and the voices of those who celebrate. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.”
Thank the Lord for blessing us with children. Psalm 127:3-5 “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.”
We thank the Lord because we do not only have victory through Him but daily, He ensures we our walking in that path by leading us and giving us the strength to get up and go daily. 2 Corinthians 2:14 “But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.” 1 Corinthians 15:57 “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Thank the Lord for breaking down walls, gates, and barricades the enemy placed in our path. Palms 107: 15-16 “Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men. For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.”
Thank the Lord that every mountain before you have been brought down every valley lifted up and all rough paths made smooth. Isaiah 40:4 “Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.”
We thank the Lord for His love and faithfulness throughout this time and giving us the ability to lay a foundation of the kind of spiritual life we want to live on moving forward. Ezra 3:11 “And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.” And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.”
We give thanks for His goodness throughout this year. I am not sure what it was like for you, but I know that as for me and my household, we only made it here because of Him. Psalm 9:1-2 “I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.”
Thank the Lord for making us righteousness in Christ in order to followship with Him. Without righteousness we will not have anything to do with God, but we have a relationship with Him because in Christ we have been made righteousness. Psalm 7:17 “I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.”
Give Him thanks because of the grace upon us and for the fact that we have each other to lean on. 1 Corinthians 1:4 “I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 1:2 “We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers.”
Thank the Lord for all the petitions we have tabled before Him. Daniel 6:10 “When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.”
Thank the Lord for wisdom, knowledge and revelation of the mystery of His word. Daniel 2:23 “To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter.”
Give thanks that we have not received another kind of a kingdom, but we have the kingdom of the creator of the universe, a kingdom that is settled and cannot be moved or shaken, the kingdom of power and glory, of signs and wonder, of greatness. Hebrews 12:28 “Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe.”
Thank the Lord for the grace to serve Him whole heartedly in humility. Colossians 3:23-24 “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.”
Thank the Lord for His restorative power. He is restoring broken homes, marriages, children back to their parents, courage, truth, love, yes, the hopeless can hope again, restoring finances, jobs, health etc. Joel 2:25-26 “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you. “You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.”
Give thanks to God for hearing the cry of our hearts. 1 John 5:14-15 “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.”
Finally, give thanks for how God formed us, so special to Him. Psalm 139:13-14 “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”
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