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Introduction
We have come a long way since Governor Ballard decreed the first Thanksgiving in 1621, or since George Washington proclaimed a National Day Thanksgiving on November 26, 1789.
The Holiday was not repeated on a national basis until Abraham Lincoln named a National Harvest Festival on November 26, 1861.
It was proclaimed annually by the President and governors of each state until congress passed a bill in 1941 naming the 4th Thursday of each November as what we now know as Thanksgiving Day.
On Thanksgiving Day this week, ABC News tells us that the average American will consume 4500 calories.
45 million turkeys will be consumed.
81 million pounds of cranberries will be eaten.
Butterball says they are anticipating over 100,000 calls into their turkey-talk line.
3.5 million people will line the streets of New York to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade and 53 million of us will watch it on TV that morning.
164 million will start Christmas shopping either in stores on online Friday morning and go throughout the weekend.
Many recipes will be used to make this day a great celebration.
What if we put as much effort in our actual giving thanks as we did in the preparation of the meals in which we over eat?
What if we had a recipe for giving thanks?
Would we have a cup of gratitude with a pinch of sincere appreciation?
Would we set a timer on it to determine how long it should cook or let it simmer all day?
Would we be able to write it on a note card and pass it along to our family members from one generation to another?
Jesus said in :
The Bible, being the word of God, gives us many things to consider, including a recipe for thanksgiving!
1 chronicles 16:
As we think about the food we will consume this week, let’s make time to look at this passage for a recipe of thanksgiving.
Words to Consider
In the context of this passage, David is celebrating the Ark of the Covenant being brought into the Tent that he pitched.
They offer sacrifices to God and blessed the people in the name of God.
David sees to it that each Israelite man and woman receive a loaf of bread, a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins.
He asks the priests to give thanks and praise the name of the Lord.
They celebrate with music and regularly blow the trumpets before the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
David then presents this Psalm of Thanksgiving where he says,
1 Chronicles 16:8
What words would you consider to give thanks to the Lord and to make known to the nations what He has done?
Have you thought about what God has done in your life this past year?
He has blessed us in many ways!
One writer penned “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count your blessings.”
The paraphrase of the Bible called The Message says, “Thank God!
Call out His Name! Tell the whole world Who He is and What He has done!”
What has He done and Who is He in your life?
What are you telling the world?
Perhaps you can say that God has blessed you with your health good enough right now and that you are able to attend this worship service this morning.
Perhaps you can say that God has blessed you financially and all your needs are being met.
Perhaps you can say that God has blessed you in the fact that you have a warm and dry place to lay your head down at night.
Perhaps you can say God has blessed you with a family that loves you and cares for you.
Perhaps you can say God has blessed you by giving you life through Christ and you are free from the penalty of sin.
Perhaps you can say God has blessed you by giving you life and giving it to you abundantly.
What words would you use to describe the blessings of God?
How would you make it known to the nations what God has done for you?
I see a correlation from this verse 8 to another well known verse 8 in the Bible:
Jesus is commissioning the disciples to start where they were and tell the good news.
We are to start in our neighborhoods, our county, our state, our country and our world.
What have you done this year to share the good news of God’s love and redemption to those in your Jerusalem?
What about your Judea?
What about your Samaria?
What about your world?
I am convinced more than ever you and I have to be about sharing the good news.
What words will you use?
Do you have a recipe of thanksgiving?
Do you have words that talk about the richness of God’s mercy?
Are you able to share of God’s goodness?
Or are you stuck on the bitter things of life?
We have lots to be thankful for this day and I am choosing to focus on the good things that God has done in my life.
I am choosing to celebrate with you God’s love and how He has poured out the riches of His mercy on us!
We are not done.
We cannot stop.
We must go on making sure that everyone in our community knows the love of God.
When I think of the words I want to use to celebrate the things that God has done, it leads me to our next point we see in this beautiful passage:
Worship to Confer
When you and I give thanks to the Lord and call on His name; and make known among the nations what He has done, how can we not worship?
1 Chronicles 16:
Why do we sing hymns and choruses in our worship?
Psalm 47:
Psalm 59:6
Ephesians
Sing to the Lord!
In 1929, J. C. Penney’s business was highly unstable.
And so he began to worry and became sleepless.
He worried to the extreme and contracted the shingles, which is the severest pain known to man.
Into the hospital, Penney was given medicine to tranquilize him, but it was no help.
He still worried about his business.
One night, he felt that he would die before morning, and so he started writing farewells to his wife, son, and friends.
But by the next morning, as he was lying on bed, he heard singing from the hospital chapel next door: “No matter what may be the test, God will take care of you …”
Suddenly he leaned up, thinking: “It is real!
God loves and cares for me.”
In no time, he had jumped out of his bed and entered the chapel.
And then a miracle took place in his soul, as if he were a little bird suddenly freed to fly out of the dungeon into the sunlight, from hell to paradise.
In my own life, I was sitting home alone many years ago after having my second knee surgery.
I was down because I realized that I would not be able to play the sport of basketball again.
I loved the game and my knee injury was making me realize that it would be no longer part of my life.
I had the TV on and was sort of watching the show ER when one of the characters picked up a baby and started singing to the baby...
Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come,
Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heav’n and home,
When Jesus is my portion?
My constant Friend is He:
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
Refrain:
I sing because I’m happy, I sing because I’m free,
For His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
By the way did you know that singing was really good for you?
I am reminded as we are studying the passage that when you and I develop a recipe for thanksgiving, we are going to include a cup of songs!
And, when we do, we will do what verse 10 and 11 speak of,
Singing helps you have better heart and lungs.
Singing makes you happier.
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