Thanksgiving 4.33 | ESVFor the communion of saints, that spiritual communion which we have in faith and hope and holy love, and in prayers and praises with all good Christians.I bless you that if your people walk in the light, they have fellowship with one another, 1 John 1:7(ESV) even with all thos
Thanksgiving 4.32 | ESVFor the martyrs and confessors, the lights of the church, and the good examples of those who have gone before us to heaven.I bless you for all those who have been enabled to commend themselves to God by great endurance, in afflictions and calamities; 2 Corinthians 6:4(ESV) who
Thanksgiving 4.31 | ESVFor the preservation of Christianity in the world unto this day.I bless you that though the enemies of Israel have afflicted them from their youth up, have greatly afflicted them, yet they have not prevailed against them; though the plowers have plowed on their back, yet the L
Thanksgiving 4.30 | ESVFor the planting of the Christian religion in the world and the setting up of the gospel-church, in spite of all the opposition of the powers of darkness.I thank you that the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the command of the eternal God, and the gospel which has been
Thanksgiving 4.29 | ESVFor the institution of ordinances, and particularly that of the ministry.I thank you that you have not only declared your word to Jacob, but your statutes and rules to Israel, to your people: You have not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know your rules. Psalm 147
Thanksgiving 4.28 | ESVFor the writing of the Scriptures and the preserving of them pure and entire to this day.I thank you that I have the Scriptures to search, and that in them I have eternal life, for it is they that bear witness about Christ; John 5:39(ESV) and that all Scripture is breathed out
Thanksgiving 4.27 | ESVFor the covenant of grace made with us in Jesus Christ and all the exceedingly great and precious privileges of that covenant, and for the seals of it.I thank you that in Jesus Christ you have made an everlasting covenant with me, your steadfast, sure love for David; Isaiah 55
Thanksgiving 4.26 | ESVFor the sending of the Holy Spirit to supply the want of Christ’s bodily presence, to carry on his undertaking, and to prepare things for his second coming.I bless you that when the Lord Jesus went away, he sent his people another Helper to be with them forever, even the Spiri
Thanksgiving 4.25 | ESVFor the assurance we have of his second coming to judge the world.I bless you that you have fixed a day on which you will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom you have appointed; and of this you have given assurance to all by raising him from the dead. Acts 17:31(ESV
Thanksgiving 4.24 | ESVFor the dominion and sovereignty to which the Redeemer has been exalted.I thank you that because the Lord Jesus humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross, therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above ev
