THANKSGIVING

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LifeLink Devotions

Thursday, November 23, 2023

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Here’s one of my favorite Bible passages on being thankful and a few points to stimulate your thinking today. Enjoy your family and your turkey. (Don’t confuse the two.)

Colossians 3:12-17

“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.  And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.  And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.  And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

Be Thankful for who we are

  • We are Chosen
  • We are Holy
  • We are Loved
  • We are Forgiven

Be Thankful for what we have

  • We have the character of Christ
    • …compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.  And above all these put on love…
  • We have the peace of Christ
    • And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts…
  • We have connection with others
    • …which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
    • …to which indeed you were called in one body.

Be Thankful in whatever we do

…do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

  • In ministry to one another
    • Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs…
  • In communication with one another
    • And whatever you do, in word…
  • In every task of life
    • …or deed…

GIVE THANKS TO GOD THE FATHER THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD!

Pastor John

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