11-24-24 “Always Thankful For His Giving” Scriptures

Psalm 95:1 ~ 2; Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms

Americans generally believe that their Thanksgiving is modeled after a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists of Plymouth and the (WAMP-A-NO-AG) Wampanoag people. Sarah Josepha Hale, campaigned for a national Thanksgiving Day to promote unity. She finally won the support of President Abraham Lincoln,who proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. President Franklin Roosevelt issued a proclamation in 1942 designating the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.

The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating “thanksgivings” plural! Days…also plural, of prayer, thanking God for blessings such as rain and a good crop harvest

2^nd Timothy 1:3; I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day

Genesis 8:15 ~ 16; Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 8:20; Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Hoda'ah (hoda): Hebrew for gratitude and confession.

John 1:1 ~ 4; In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.

Colossians 1:16; For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.

Acts 17:24 ~ 25; The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

Acts 17:27; that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist

1^st Timothy 2:4 ~ 6; This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.

Isaiah 53:10; But the Lord was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief; if He would render Himself as a guilt offering

Luke 15:7; I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Genesis 1:27; God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Psalm 30:4, Hebrews 13:15 & 1^st Thessalonians 5:16 ~ 18; 4. Sing praise to the Lord, you His godly ones, And give thanks to His holy name. 15. Through Hi then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name. 16 Rejoice always; 17 pray without ceasing; 18 in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus