Encountering God through Thanksgiving
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 9 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.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 100:4, and today's worship is Thank You (feat. Steffany Gretzinger & Chandler Moore) by Maverick City.
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| 0:00.0 | Expressing gratitude and thanks to God has a miraculous way of opening and changing our hearts. |
| 0:11.0 | Today we'll explore the discipline of Thanksgiving and encounter God in response. |
| 0:17.0 | May you take away from our time today timeless principles that quickly get your heart in the right place despite your season or circumstances. |
| 0:26.6 | Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 0:33.9 | Thanksgiving is a gift given to us by the good and loving nature of our Heavenly Father. |
| 0:40.3 | In and out of every season of life, we have a reason to give thanks because we serve a holy, faithful, good, and loving God. |
| 0:49.3 | We serve the only king who would lay down his life for his unworthy, rebellious servants. |
| 0:56.5 | We serve a God perfectly worthy of all the thanksgiving and praise we could possibly give. |
| 1:03.3 | In using the incredible gift of thanksgiving, we remind ourselves of how truly good our Father is. |
| 1:10.6 | In Thanksgiving, we experience the joy of a proper |
| 1:13.6 | perspective and have our hearts stirred by the renewing of our minds. Psalm 104 says, |
| 1:21.3 | enter his gates with Thanksgiving, and courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His Name. |
| 1:27.6 | When we come before God with Thanksgiving, we seek the face of our Father, while |
| 1:33.3 | grounding ourselves firmly in the truth of its perfect nature. |
| 1:37.3 | When we begin our days, prayers, worship, reading, and fellowship with a heart of Thanksgiving, we live out of a place of faith |
| 1:46.4 | and reality found in the kingdom of God come to earth. Our God is bigger and better than our |
| 1:53.7 | circumstances, fears, wounds, misconceptions, and past failures. There is security and joy in declaring the goodness, kindness, |
| 2:03.6 | loving, and eternal nature of her father. We dictate the emotions we feel by what we choose to dwell |
| 2:10.3 | on and believe. Our minds are the battleground for our emotions, actions, and desires to dwell and communion with our good God. |
| 2:21.1 | Ephesians 520 says, |
| 2:23.1 | We are to be giving thanks always and for everything to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 2:32.2 | In Psalm 92 1 through 5 says, it is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your |
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