How to have a meaningful Thanksgiving

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How to have a meaningful Thanksgiving!

• Exodus 2316

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Exodus 2316

• Also you shall observe the feast of the Harvest
  of first fruits of your labors from what you have
  sown in the field also the feast of the
  ingathering at the end of the year when you
  gather the fruit of your labors from the field.

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Leviticus 2310

• Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them,
  When you enter the land which I am going to give
  you and reap its harvest then you shall bring the
  sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the
  priest.

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I. We are commanded to give thanks.

• We are commanded to give thanks daily.
• Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
  prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let
  your request be known to God. Phil. 46

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I. We are commanded to give thanks.

• We are commanded to give thanks regularly in
  worship.
• Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and
  enter his courts with praise.
• Give thanks to Him and bless His name. For the
  Lord is good. Psalm 1004

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I. We are commanded to give thanks.

• We are commanded to give thanks
  annually.
• -In the fall. With the celebration of the first
  fruits. That is what our text is about and it is
  the first thanksgiving.

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II. We are changed when we give thanks.

• We are humbled by the experience.
• God commanded the gift of the first fruits so
  that we could be reminded that everything we have
  is a gift of God.

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II. We are changed when we give thanks.

• We are made content when we give thanks.
• Not that I speak from want for I have learned
  to be content in whatever circumstances I am.
  Phil. 411

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III. We are consecrated when we give thanks.

• We become like Jesus.
• And when He had taken the cup and given thanks,
  He said, Take this and share it among
  yourselves.
• -Luke 2217

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III. We are consecrated when we give thanks.

• We become spiritually empowered when we give
  thanks.
• That I may declare with the voice of
  thanksgiving, and declare all thy wonders. O
  Lord, I love the habitation of Thy house, and the
  place where Thy glory dwells.
• -Psalm 267-8

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Did you know.

• Thanksgiving is to Satan what kryptonite is to
  superman!