Thanksgiving 4.39 | ESVFor gracious answers to our prayers.I have reason to love you, O LORD, because you have heard the voice of my pleas for mercy, Psalm 130:2(ESV) and because you have inclined your ear to me; I will therefore call upon you as long as I live. Psalm 116:1-2(ESV)Out of the depths I
Thanksgiving 4.38 | ESVFor sweet communion with God in holy ordinances, and the communications of his favor.I have feasted on the abundance of your house, and you have given me drink from the river of your delights: for with you is the fountain of life; in your light do I see light. Psalm 36:8-9(ESV
Thanksgiving 4.37 | ESVFor the powerful influences of divine grace to sanctify and preserve us, to prevent our falling into sin, and to strengthen us in doing our duty.You have not quenched the smoldering wick, nor broken the bruised reed, Matthew 12:20(ESV) nor despised the day of small things; Zec
Thanksgiving 4.36 | ESVWe must give thanks for the remission of our sins and the peace of our consciences.I bless you for the redemption I have through Christ’s blood, the forgiveness of my trespasses, according to the riches of your grace, which you have lavished upon me. Ephesians 1:7-8(ESV)That y
Thanksgiving 4.35 | ESVWe must bless God if there is a saving change wrought in us by his blessed Spirit.And has God by his grace transferred me out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his dear Son? Colossians 1:13(ESV) Has he called me into the fellowship of Jesus Christ, 1 Corinthians 1
Thanksgiving 4.34 | ESVFor the prospect and hope of eternal life, when time shall be no more.I thank you for the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him; James 1:12(ESV) the inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for me. 1 Peter 1:4(ESV)That having here
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
