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Some of my daily followers may have noted my absence the past couple of weeks. I have been battling some minor medical issues that are not life-threatening, are annoying, and require outpatient procedures and bed rest. Through it all, I have had much to be thankful for, a great group of medical staff, friends, and family that pitched in to ensure I actually followed the doctor’s orders. A church that continues to pray for me through all of this. I was blessed to have a small group (10) over on Thursday for the annual I ate to much day. Seriously it was a real blessing to have family and friends breaking bread together.

Above and beyond all this, I can be grateful for a Triune God who continues to bless me beyond anything I deserve. Why, I can only rely upon HIS word, Psalm 103:8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

I hope and pray everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving and finds the joy of the Lord every day.

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Please reflect upon the quote below, it gives a deeper understanding of what our fourfathers thought of whre our thanks should be directed to as a nation.

“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits”

— George Washington, First National Thanksgiving Proclamation (1789)

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COMMENTARY/STUDY

1 THESSALONIANS 5:18

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5:18 In everything give thanks. One does not wish for suffering and difficulties, but the command is to give thanks in every situation that they encounter.

Joel R. Beeke, Michael P. V. Barrett, and Gerald M. Bilkes, eds., The Reformation Heritage KJV Study Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2014), 1742.

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v.18. In every thing—even what seems adverse; for nothing is really so (cf. Rom. 8:28; Eph. 5:20.) So Christ (Matt. 15:36; 26:27; Luke 10:21; John 11:41). this—that ye should “in every thing give thanks,” “is the will of God in Christ Jesus (the Mediator in whom that will is revealed: cf. Phil. 3:14) concerning [towards: eis] you.” God’s will is the believer’s law. Put commas after each of the three precepts (vv. 16, 17, 18), making “this” refer to all three.

David Brown, A. R. Fausset, and Robert Jamieson, A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments: Acts–Revelation, vol. VI (London; Glasgow: William Collins, Sons, & Company, Limited, n.d.), 468.

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DEVOTIONALS

Leading Thanksgiving Devotions with Your Family

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Transcript of President George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation from October 3, 1789.   By the President of the United States of America—   A Proclamation   Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their Joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”   Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be—That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks—for his kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation—for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war—for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed—for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.   And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions—to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually—to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed–to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord—To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and Us—and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.   Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.   Go. Washington

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