A Time for Giving Thanks! (2)
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Thanksgiving is:
Invitation to Praise (8-10)
Invitation to Praise (8-10)
Give Thanks to the Lord.
Acknowledge, confess, cast - it is casting praise upon God.
Like showering someone with gifts!
Call on His name
Giving Thanks brings glory to God and it brings blessing to us. “Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord!”
Celebration of God (11-22)
Celebration of God (11-22)
His Presence (11)
His Person (12-14)
All the works of His hands in both creation and in deliverance of his people.
His judgments are true.
His personal involvement in our lives.
His Promises (15-19)
God made a covenant with Abraham and his descendants when they were a small tribe.
He was faithful to His covenant. Just as he has made a covenant with you and I through Christ and will be faithful to it!
His Protection (20-22)
Declaration of God’s Glory (23-34)
Declaration of God’s Glory (23-34)
Tell of His salvation
Declare his glory (kabod - weight, honor, majesty) over all other gods.
His workmanship reveals his glory.
When you and I sing and praise the Lord, when we give thanks to God, we are declaring His Glory to those around us!
Supplication for God’s Blessing (35-36)
Supplication for God’s Blessing (35-36)
34 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
On the basis of God’s faithful love we make our request for future deliverance.
The first Thanksgiving was based on God’s providential provision for the Pilgrims.
William Bradford - “Let none argue that this is due to human failing, rather than to this communistic plan of life in itself. I answer, seeing that all men have this failing in them, that God in His wisdom saw that another plan of life was fitter for them. After this had been settled, and their corn was planted in this way, all their food supplies were consumed, and they had to rely upon God’s providence, often at night not knowing where to get a bit of anything next day; and so, as one well observed, they had need above all people in the world to pray to God that He would give them their daily bread. .... Harvest time had now come, and then instead of famine, God gave them plenty, and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many for which they blessed God.”
This week, let us take time to Thank the Lord by Celebrating Him, Declaring what He has done for us, and Asking Him to bless our coming year!
