Encountering God through Thanksgiving
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Expressing gratitude and thanks to God has a miraculous way of opening and changing our hearts. Today we’ll explore the discipline of thanksgiving, and encounter God in response. May you take away from our time today, timeless principles that quickly get your heart in the right place despite your season or circumstances.
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| 0:00.0 | expressing gratitude and thanks to God has a miraculous way of opening and changing our hearts |
| 0:11.4 | today we'll explore the discipline of thanksgiving and encounter God in response may you |
| 0:19.3 | take away from our time today timeless principles that quickly get your heart in the right place |
| 0:25.7 | despite your season or circumstances. |
| 0:29.8 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Psalm 100 verse 4. |
| 1:02.1 | Scripture says, |
| 1:03.6 | Enter his gates with Thanksgiving and his courts with praise. |
| 1:10.3 | Give thanks to him. Bless his name. Thanksgiving is a gift given to us by the good |
| 1:20.0 | and loving nature of our Heavenly Father. In and out of every season of life, we have a reason to give thanks because we serve a holy, |
| 1:32.6 | faithful, good, and loving God. We serve the only king who would lay down his life for his |
| 1:41.2 | unworthy, rebellious servants. We serve a God perfectly worthy of all the thanksgiving and praise we could possibly give. |
| 1:52.0 | In using the incredible gift of Thanksgiving, we remind ourselves of how truly good our Father is. |
| 2:01.6 | In Thanksgiving, we experience the joy of a proper perspective |
| 2:07.6 | and have our hearts stirred by the renewing of our minds. |
| 2:12.6 | Psalm 100 verse 4 says, |
| 2:15.6 | Enter his gates with Thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, |
| 2:23.1 | bless his name. When we come before God with Thanksgiving, we seek the face of our father |
| 2:31.1 | while grounding ourselves firmly in the truth of his perfect nature. |
| 2:37.1 | When we begin our days, prayers, worship, reading, and fellowship with the heart of Thanksgiving, |
| 2:45.6 | we live out of a place of faith and reality found in the kingdom of God come to earth. |
| 2:54.0 | Our God is bigger and better than our circumstances, fears, wounds, misconceptions, and past |
| 3:03.5 | failures. There is security and joy in declaring the goodness, kindness, loving, and eternal nature |
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