This is the week of Thanksgiving, a holiday in our nation but an act of worship for people of faith.
 
Monday – 1 Corinthians 15:50-58
This whole chapter is a powerhouse treatise on the importance of the Resurrection – both Jesus’ and ours. The apostle finishes with a statement about heaven and then the rousing ‘But thanks be to God who gives us the victory.’ How can an awareness of eternal life transform or heighten your celebration of thanksgiving this year?
Tell Jesus thank you for saving you, and spend some time just thinking about the glories of eternal life.  
 
Tuesday – Colossians 2:6-7
These verses slip up on you as they come between the great teaching about eternity in v. 5 and the amazing teaching of atonement in v. 8-15, culminating in v. 14. What they do though is center thanksgiving as a choice we make that puts it alongside faith. How could we see faith and gratefulness as two sides of the same coin?
Be specific in your prayer of thankfulness today, highlighting the sins you have committed which are ‘nailed to the cross.’ 
 
Wednesday – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
The three-fold commandment to rejoice, pray, and give thanks sounds like an order of worship for a congregation. But what is intriguing is the thankskgiving in ‘all’ circumstances, even hard ones. What is the hardest thing for you to give thanks for?
Number a sheet of paper from one to ten and list ten thanksgivings; pray through that list. 
 
Thursday – Psalm 100:1-5
Today is Thanksgiving, and we celebrate it with a very well-known scripture. There is a very common refrain in the Psalms to ‘give thanks to the Lord, for he is good’. Psalm 100, the Jubilate, doesn’t use that refrain, instead, it speaks to attitude – to enter with thanksgiving into the house of worship. We are also told to bless his name because of our gratitude. How does one bless the name of the Lord?
Ask the Lord how you should bless his name in gratitude; then listen for the answer. 
 
Friday – Psalm 95:1-11
The opening of this famous Psalm is about praise and gratitude. Again, we see the linkage of praise and thanksgiving, yet there is also a connection to faith in that the Psalm ends with a warning to obey God. How is disobeying God a kind of entitled ingratitude?
Open the prayer email from the church office and pray through that list, concluding with the Lord’s Prayer.