Thanksgiving Church Service Using Psalms And Why?

CTX campus in fall

In 1926, Concordia University Texas was established as a Christ-centered Lutheran university. The Word of God has an incredible bear on on the homo heart. As Hebrews 4:12 explains, the discussion of God is alive and active.

This year, as we gather to celebrate Thanksgiving, let'southward call up to celebrate the greatest souvenir of all — salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Here are 17 Bible verses to help you reflect on the abundant blessings of God.

Please note that all Bible verses are from the NIV unless otherwise noted.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Rejoice always, pray continually, requite thanks in all circumstances; for this is God'south volition for y'all in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 103:1-4

Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost existence, praise His holy proper name. Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all His benefits — who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you lot with love and pity.

Colossians 2:6-7 (NKJV)

Equally you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and congenital upwardly in Him and established in the religion, as yous have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

Isaiah 12:4-5 (NASB)

And on that day yous will say, "Give cheers to the LORD, call on His proper name. Make known His deeds among the peoples; brand them remember that His name is exalted." Praise the LORD in vocal, for He has washed glorious things; let this exist known throughout the earth.

James 1:17

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming downwardly from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change similar shifting shadows.

1 Chronicles xvi:34 (ESV)

Oh give cheers to the LORD, for He is good; for His steadfast dear endures forever!

Hebrews 12:28

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us exist thankful, and then worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our "God is a consuming fire."

Psalm 95:1-v (NKJV)

Oh come up, let the states sing to the LORD! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come earlier His presence with thanksgiving; allow us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the LORD is the bang-up God, and the great Male monarch above all gods. In His manus are the deep places of the earth' the heights of the hills are His also. The body of water is His, for He made information technology; and His hands formed the dry land.

Philippians 4:four-7

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be axiomatic to all. The Lord is near. Exercise not be anxious about anything, but in every state of affairs, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 118:24 (ESV)

This is the twenty-four hour period that the LORD has fabricated; let usa rejoice and be glad in it.

Colossians iii:15-17

Permit the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since every bit members of 1 torso you were called to peace. And exist thankful. Permit the message of Christ dwell among yous richly as you teach and admonish ane another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And any you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

i Chronicles 29:13 (NKJV)

"Now therefore, our God, nosotros thank You lot and praise Your glorious name."

Ephesians v:18-xx (NASB)

… merely exist filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord; e'er giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to our God and Father.

Psalm 107:1-3 (ESV)

Oh give cheers to the LORD, for He is adept, for His steadfast love endures forever! Let the redeemed of the LORD say and then, whom He has redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the e and from the west, from the north and from the south.

Hebrews 13:xv

Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offering to God a sacrifice of praise — the fruit of lips that openly profess His name.

Psalm 119:1-8

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD.

Blessed are those who keep His statutes and seek Him with all their center — they practice no wrong but follow His ways.

Yous have laid downwardly precepts that are to be fully obeyed. Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees! And then I would non be put to shame when I consider all your commands.

I will praise y'all with an upright middle as I acquire your righteous laws. I will obey your decrees; practice not utterly forsake me.

2 Corinthians 9:xv

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!