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Thank God for the Appointing of the Redeemer and His Gracious Condescension

Thanksgiving 4.12 | NASB

For the appointing of the Redeemer and God’s gracious condescension to deal with men upon new terms, receding from the demands of the broken covenant of innocency.

I bless You that when sacrifice and offering You did not desire, and in them took no pleasure, that then the eternal Son of God said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God, and a body You have prepared for me.” Hebrews 10:5-7(NASB) And that, as in the scroll of the book it was written of Him, He did delight to do Your will, O God; yes, Your law was within His heart. Psalm 40:7-8(NASB)

You have given help to One who is mighty, One chosen from the people: You have found David Your servant, with Your holy oil You have anointed Him, Psalm 89:19-20(NASB) even with the oil of joy above His fellows, Psalm 45:7(NASB) and did promise that with Him Your hand should be established and Your arm should strengthen Him, Psalm 89:21(NASB) and that You would make Him Your firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. Psalm 89:27(NASB)

I bless You that now not even the Father judges anyone, but has given all judgment to the Son; John 5:22(NASB) that just as He has life in Himself, even so He has given to the Son also to have life in Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man; John 5:26-27(NASB) that the Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand; John 3:35(NASB) and that the counsel of peace is between them both. Zechariah 6:13(NASB)

That He is Your servant, whom You uphold; Your chosen One in whom Your soul delights; Isaiah 42:1(NASB) Your beloved Son, with whom You are well-pleased; Matthew 17:5(NASB) that You have given Him for a covenant of the people; Isaiah 49:8(NASB) and that through Him I am not under law but under grace. Romans 6:14(NASB)

That God so loved the world, as to give His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16(NASB)

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Thank God for His Eternal Purposes and Counsels Concerning Man’s Redemption

Thanksgiving 4.11 | NASB

For the eternal purposes and counsels of God concerning man’s redemption.

I should always give thanks to You, O God, because You have chosen some from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit: 2 Thessalonians 2:13(NASB) That there is a remnant according to God’s gracious choice, Romans 11:5(NASB) whom God has chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world, that they would be holy and blameless before You in love, having predestined them to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Yourself, according to the kind intention of Your will, to the praise of the glory of Your grace. Ephesians 1:4-6(NASB)

Yours they were, and You gave them to Christ; John 17:6(NASB) and this is Your will: that You should lose nothing of all that You have given Him, but raise it up on the last day. John 6:39(NASB)

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Thank God for His Grace to your Soul and for Design

Thanksgiving 4.10 | NASB

The goodness of His grace relating to my soul and the life that is to come.

But especially blessed be the God and Father of my Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed me with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Ephesians 1:3(NASB)

1st, I must give God thanks for His kindnesses to the children of men, relating to their better part and their future state and His favors to the church in general.

I must give thanks for His gracious design and contrivance of man’s redemption and salvation, when he was lost and undone by sin.

O how wonderfully did the kindness of God my Savior and His love for mankind appear! He saved me, not on the basis of deeds which I had done in righteousness, but according to His mercy: Titus 3:4-5(NASB) I had destroyed myself, but You, You only, were my help. Hosea 13:9(NASB)

When I was thrown out into the open field, and no eye looked with pity on me, You saw me squirming in my blood, and You said to me, “Live!” Yes, You said to me, “Live!” Ezekiel 16:5-6(NASB) And the time was a time for love. Ezekiel 16:8(NASB)

When the redemption of the soul was so costly that men should cease trying forever, and no man could by any means redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for him, Psalm 49:7-8(NASB) then You were pleased to find a ransom, that I might be delivered from going down to the pit. Job 33:24(NASB)

When I would surely die and was like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, then did You plan ways so that the banished one might not be forever cast out from You. 2 Samuel 14:14(NASB)

When You did not spare the angels that sinned, but cast them into hell, 2 Peter 2:4(NASB) You said concerning the rage of mankind, “Do not destroy it, for there is benefit in it.” Isaiah 65:8(NASB) appears the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to His people’s glory. 1 Corinthians 2:7(NASB)

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Thank God for the Measure of Peace you Experience

Thanksgiving 4.9 | NASB

For my own share in the public plenty, peace, and tranquility.

When I have eaten and am satisfied, I have reason to bless You for the good land which You have given me, Deuteronomy 8:10(NASB) a land which the eyes of the LORD my God are always on, from the beginning even to the end of the year. Deuteronomy 11:12(NASB)

You make peace in my borders and satisfy me with the finest of the wheat: Psalm 147:14(NASB) I am delivered from the sound of the archers at the watering places; there, therefore, will I recount the righteous deeds of the LORD, His righteous deeds for His peasantry in Israel. Judges 5:11(KJV)

I thank You that the powers that are set over me are ministers of God to me for good; Romans 13:4(NASB) that they seek the good of Your people and speak for the welfare of my whole nation. Esther 10:3(NASB)

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Thank God for your Successes and Good Relationships

Thanksgiving 4.8 | NASB

For success in my calling and affairs, comfort in relations, and comfortable places of abode.

It is God who girds me with strength and makes my way blameless, Psalm 18:32(NASB) who has blessed the work of my hands; Job 1:10(NASB) and it may be that though my beginning was insignificant, yet my end will increase greatly. Job 8:7(NASB)

My house has been safe from fear, and there has been no rod of God upon me; Job 21:9(NASB) so that the sound of joyful shouting and salvation has been in my tent from day to day. Psalm 118:15(NASB)

With my staff it may be I have crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies; Genesis 32:10(NASB) and it is God who makes a home for the lonely. Psalm 68:6(NASB)

If I have enjoyed life with my relations, Ecclesiastes 9:9(NASB) and they have been to me as a loving hind and a graceful doe, Proverbs 5:19(NASB) I must give You thanks for it; for every creature is that to me, and no more, that You make it to be.

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Thank God for the Supports and Comforts of this Life

Thanksgiving 4.7 | NASB

For the supports and comforts of this life, which have thus far made the land of my pilgrimage easy and pleasant to me.

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears my burden, the God who is my salvation. Psalm 68:19(NASB)

You make me lie down in green pastures; You feed me beside quiet waters. Psalm 23:2(NASB) You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head, and my cup overflows. Psalm 23:5(NASB)

It may be I was sent out without money belt and bag, but did I lack anything? No, nothing, Lord. Luke 22:35(NASB)

The lamp of God has shone over my head, and by His light I have walked through darkness, and the friendship of God has been over my tent. Job 29:3-4(NASB)

You have richly supplied me with all things to enjoy, 1 Timothy 6:17(NASB) and have brought plentifully into my hands. Job 12:6(KJV)

Many a time I have eaten and been filled, and have reveled in Your great goodness. Nehemiah 9:25(NASB)

When I remember all the ways which the LORD my God has led me for so many years in this wilderness, Deuteronomy 8:2(NASB) I must here set up a stone and call it Ebenezer, for thus far the LORD has helped me. 1 Samuel 7:12(NASB)

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Thank God for Granting you Recovery from Danger

Thanksgiving 4.6 | NASB

For signal recoveries from danger by sickness or otherwise.

When perhaps there has been hardly a step between me and death, 1 Samuel 20:3(NASB) and when I have received a sentence of death within myself, 2 Corinthians 1:9(NASB) and have been ready to say, “In the middle of my life I am to enter the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years”; Isaiah 38:10(NASB) yet You have in love to my soul kept it from the pit of nothingness and cast all my sins behind Your back. Isaiah 38:17(NASB)

When the cords of death have encompassed me and the terrors of Sheol have come upon me, I have called upon the name of the LORD and have found that gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yes, my God is compassionate. I have been brought low, and He has saved me; Psalm 116:3-6(NASB) He has rescued my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling. I will therefore walk before the LORD in the land of the living. Psalm 116:8-9(NASB)

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Thank God for Preserving you

Thanksgiving 4.5 | NASB

I must give thanks for my preservation; that my life is prolonged, and the use of my reason and understanding, my limbs and senses, are continued to me.

It was owing to Your good providence that I did not die at birth, and did not come forth from the womb and expire; that the knees received me, and the breasts, that I should suck. Job 3:11-12(NASB)

Though I have been called a rebel from birth, Isaiah 48:8(NASB) yet by Your power I have been borne by You from birth and carried from the womb; Isaiah 46:3(NASB) and You keep me in life and do not allow my feet to slip. Psalm 66:9(NASB)

All my bones will say, “LORD, who is like You!” Psalm 35:10(NASB) For You keep the bones, and not one of them is broken. Psalm 34:20(NASB)

I lay down and sleep, for You, LORD, make me to dwell in safety. Psalm 4:8(NASB)

You have given Your angels a charge concerning me, to guard me in all my ways; to bear me up in their hands, that I do not strike my foot against a stone. Psalm 91:11-12(NASB) And they are all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the good of those who will inherit salvation. Hebrews 1:14(NASB)

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Thank God for Making you in His Image

2dly, With reference to myself in particular.

I must give thanks that He has made me a reasonable creature, capable of knowing, loving, serving, and enjoying Him, and that He has not made me like the beasts that perish.

I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, and that my soul, my nobler part, knows very well; Psalm 139:14(NASB) for no man knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him. 1 Corinthians 2:11(NASB)

You have made me of that rank of beings which is a little lower than God and is crowned with glory and majesty; Psalm 8:5(NASB) for there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding; Job 32:8(NASB) and the spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD. Proverbs 20:27(NASB)

My body is capable of being the temple of the Holy Spirit, 1 Corinthians 6:19(NASB) and my soul of having the Spirit of God dwell in it; 1 Corinthians 3:16(NASB) I therefore glorify You with my body and with my spirit, which are both Yours. 1 Corinthians 6:20(KJV)

You, Lord, have formed me for Yourself, that I might declare Your praise. Isaiah 43:21(NASB)

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Thank God for the Many Instances of His Goodness and Kind Providence (continued)

Thanksgiving 4.3 | NASB

The heavens are Your heavens, O LORD, but the earth You have given to the sons of men; Psalm 115:16(NASB) and You have put all things under their feet, and made them to rule over the works of Your hands; Psalm 8:6(NASB) so that the fear of man and the terror of man is on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky, and into his hand they are given; Genesis 9:2(NASB) because You had a favor to him and had Your delight in the sons of men. Proverbs 8:31(NASB)

You cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and vegetation for the labor of man, so that You may bring forth food from the earth, and wine which makes man’s heart glad, so that he may make his face to glisten with oil, and food which sustains his heart. Psalm 104:14-15(NASB)

You give to all life and breath and all things; Acts 17:25(NASB) and the earth is full of Your lovingkindess, O LORD. Psalm 119:64(NASB)

All the creatures wait for You to give them their food in due season. You give to them, they gather it up; You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good. Psalm 104:27-28(NASB) You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the ground. This Your glory shall endure forever, and You rejoice in these works. Psalm 104:30-31(NASB)

It is through Your goodness, O Lord, that as one generation of mankind goes, another generation comes; Ecclesiastes 1:4(NASB) and that You have not blotted out the name of that corrupt and guilty race from under heaven. Deuteronomy 29:20(NASB)