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🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | The giving of thanks to God for his goodness and blessing should be a normal part of the life |
0:12.9 | of every child of God. As a matter of fact, Thanksgiving is not simply an event, a day on the |
0:19.2 | calendar, but should be a way of living and thinking. |
0:23.6 | In this series entitled, Thank the Lord, Scott Pauley will teach us through First Chronicle |
0:29.0 | 16 on the importance of giving thanks on purpose. Our prayer is that your heart will be filled |
0:36.1 | with gratitude to the Lord for all he has done. |
0:39.7 | And now, here's Scott Pauli. |
0:47.6 | Thanksgiving is not a day. |
0:49.6 | It is really a way of living that should characterize God's people every day. |
0:55.3 | But that being said, it is good for us to set aside a day, to set aside a season, where we give particular attention to it. |
1:04.4 | You see, days of emphasis are days where you hit the spiritual reset button, and you remind yourself of certain things, |
1:11.9 | and you bring things back in line with God's original intent. |
1:16.8 | When George Washington, the first president of our United States, |
1:21.3 | gave his Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789, |
1:24.3 | it began this way, |
1:25.9 | whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of |
1:30.4 | Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his |
1:38.4 | protection and favor. |
1:41.4 | He goes on to say, now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of |
1:47.2 | November next to be devoted by the people of these states to the service of that great and glorious |
1:52.9 | being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was that is or that will be, that we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks. |
2:08.1 | Mr. Washington understood that if a day was set aside to give thanks, |
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