All in Thanking God

Thanksgiving Day and the Lessons we have learned

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Thanking God

Today we give thanks to our Lord for every manner of blessing from forgiveness and salvation to His comfort, peace, and provision. We are diverse in our relationship with Abba our Father; some walk closely with Him and find it easy to pray and thank him without ceasing. Others know Him, but not well enough to know how to thank Him properly. While there are those who believe that He is angry with them and that they are unworthy, and will not utter a word. Finally, there are the lost who don’t yet know God, and Jesus at all. Wherever we find ourselves in the gambit of belief and faith today this is the best day to speak with God and ask His Son Jesus to become our Savior and Redeemer. In this way we will be forgiven so that we can offer our thanks. We need to use this day that has been set aside to thank God as our motivation to repair, establish, or renew our relationship with Him.

Peace, and Praying With God in the Name of Jesus

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Thanking God

Today is Thanksgiving Day Eve, and Isaiah gives us another verse to encourage us in regard to giving thanks to the Lord our God as we prepare to join with friends and family in thanking Him together for all that we have received over the past year. The point we should dwell on as we enter into thanksgiving is that we are not writing a letter and placing it in the mailbox for the postman to deliver, or typing an email and hitting the send button hoping it makes it across the internet to Him… No, God is in our midst, and when we thank him in prayer He is right there hearing our every word, every song, and joining in our revelry. Our Heavenly Father is the guest of honor at our festivities, and is receiving the gift of our thanks in person…

Singing Thanks for all the World to Hear

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Thanking God

It’s Tuesday, and we are drawing closer to the day when we will celebrate a national day of Thanksgiving in the United States of America, but thanking God is not something that should be particular to any certain country or people, but to all the earth. Believers should be letting not only their families and neighbors know what God has done for them, but sharing this with all people everywhere. Today let’s sing praises to the Lord, and do so loudly enough for the whole world to hear, so that our voices will invite every man woman and child to join us in faith.

Remembering So That We can Give Thanks

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Thanking God

Today is Monday, and on Thursday of this week we here in the United States will give thanks to God. It is a national holiday during which we thank Him again for another year of His provision, and mercy, but many who are new to faith, have become routine in their practices, or don’t know Him at all, are at a loss as to how to really do this. So, beginning today, and each day through Thursday I will write more about giving thanks to God. Today let’s talk about the first step… remembering, and witnessing to others.

Don’t let your Thanksgiving be swallowed by the storms of Life

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional , Thanking God

Today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, and it is a day when we join together across the nation to thank God for all of His many blessings during the past year. For some of us this has been a particularly hard year. We have lost loved ones to COVID-19, and had our families divided by contentious politics, but neither of these hardships, nor our other challenges, have been too great for God to overcome. So put away your mourning, broken hearts, and bitterness, as we thank God for the blessings we have received this year instead... even if you live elsewhere around the world, use this opportunity to thank God, and praise Jesus today for the many blessings in your life.

Giving God thanks in all things and for every blessing.

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Thanking God

Do we thank God for all the comforts He provides us? We seek out the Lord in times of affliction, or trouble, and thank Him when He gives us relief, but how easy it becomes to accept the blessings that he gives us without any hardship, and forget to thank Him. When things come easily, and comfortably, we should thank the Lord all the more diligently for His blessings, because these are the comforts of Christ.