THE PRAYER OF INTERCESSION

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The Prayer of
Thanksgiving
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Philippians 4.6-7

• Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
  prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let
  your requests be made known to God and the peace
  of God, which surpasses all understanding, will
  guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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Thanksgiving

• Attitudes Essential to Thanksgiving
• Daily Blessings for Which We Should Continually
  Thank God
• Four Purposes of Thanksgiving
• Causes of Thanksgiving
• Basics of Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving

• Attitudes Essential to Thanksgiving
• Gratitude
• There can be no gratitude expressed without
  gratitude felt.

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Thanksgiving

• Attitudes Essential to Thanksgiving
• Gratitude
• Uppermost in our hearts and minds should be
  gratitude for His greatest gift, His only
  begotten Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ.

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Thanksgiving

• Attitudes Essential to Thanksgiving
• Gratitude
• Thanksgiving will never go out of style because
  our generous God will never stop supplying our
  needs.

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Thanksgiving

• Attitudes Essential to Thanksgiving
• Gratitude
• Humility

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Luke 18.9-10

• Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in
  themselves that they were righteous, and despised
  others
• "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a
  Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

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Luke 18.11-12

• "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself,
  'God, I thank You that I am not like other
  men--extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as
  this tax collector. I fast twice a week I give
  tithes of all that I possess.'

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Luke 18.13

• "And the tax collector, standing afar off, would
  not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat
  his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a
  sinner!'

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Luke 18.14

• "I tell you, this man went down to his house
  justified rather than the other for everyone who
  exalts himself will be humbled, and he who
  humbles himself will be exalted."

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Thanksgiving

• Daily Blessings for Which We Should Continually
  Thank God
• Physical sustenance
• Food
• Clothing
• Shelter
• The air we breathe

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Thanksgiving

• Daily Blessings for Which We Should Continually
  Thank God
• Physical sustenance
• Providential care and protection

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Romans 8.28

• And we know that all things work together for
  good to those who love God, to those who are the
  called according to His purpose.

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Hebrews 13.5-6

• Let your conduct be without covetousness be
  content with such things as you have. For He
  Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor
  forsake you."
• So we may boldly say "The Lord is my helper I
  will not fear. What can man do to me?"

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Thanksgiving

• Daily Blessings for Which We Should Continually
  Thank God
• Physical sustenance
• Providential care and protection
• Fellow Christians

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Romans 1.8

• First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for
  you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout
  the whole world.

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1 Corinthians 1.4

• I thank my God always concerning you for the
  grace of God which was given to you by Christ
  Jesus,

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Ephesians 1.15-16

• Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in
  the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
  do not cease to give thanks for you, making
  mention of you in my prayers

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Philippians 1.3-5

• I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
  always in every prayer of mine making request for
  you all with joy, for your fellowship in the
  gospel from the first day until now,

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Thanksgiving

• Daily Blessings for Which We Should Continually
  Thank God
• Physical sustenance
• Providential care and protection
• Fellow Christians
• Spiritual blessings

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Ephesians 1.3-4

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
  blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just
  as He chose us in Him before the foundation of
  the world, that we should be holy and without
  blame before Him in love,

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Ephesians 1.5-6

• having predestined us to adoption as sons by
  Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good
  pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory
  of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in
  the Beloved.

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Matthew 6.12-13

• And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our
  debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, But
  deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the
  kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
  Amen.

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Thanksgiving

• Four Purposes of Thanksgiving
• It is the will of God.

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1 Thessalonians 5.18

• in everything give thanks for this is the will
  of God in Christ Jesus for you.

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Thanksgiving

• Four Purposes of Thanksgiving
• It is the will of God.
• It alters our perceptions.

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Psalm 103.1

• Bless the Lord, O my soul And all that is within
  me, bless His holy name!

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Psalm 103.2-5

• Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His
  benefits Who forgives all your iniquities, Who
  heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life
  from destruction, Who crowns you with
  lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies
  your mouth with good things, So that your youth
  is renewed like the eagle's.

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Thanksgiving

• Four Purposes of Thanksgiving
• It is the will of God.
• It alters our perceptions.
• It justifies the other elements of prayer.
• Confession
• Petition
• Intercession

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Philemon 4-6

• I thank my God, making mention of you always in
  my prayers, hearing of your love and faith which
  you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the
  saints, that the sharing of your faith may become
  effective by the acknowledgment of every good
  thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

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Thanksgiving

• Four Purposes of Thanksgiving
• It is the will of God.
• It alters our perceptions.
• It justifies the other elements of prayer.
• It expresses our love for God.

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Psalm 116.1

• I love the Lord, because He has heard My voice
  and my supplications.

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Psalm 116.12

• What shall I render to the Lord For all His
  benefits toward me?

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Psalm 116.17

• I will offer to You the sacrifice of
  thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of the
  Lord.

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Thanksgiving

• Causes of Thanksgiving
• All He is and all He has done

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Psalms 77.11-13

• I will remember the works of the Lord Surely I
  will remember Your wonders of old. I will also
  meditate on all Your work, And talk of Your
  deeds. Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary Who
  is so great a God as our God?

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Psalms 107.1-3

• Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For
  His mercy endures forever. Let the redeemed of
  the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the
  hand of the enemy, And gathered out of the lands,
  From the east and from the west, From the north
  and from the south.

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Thanksgiving

• Causes of Thanksgiving
• All He is and all He has done
• His actions through and for others

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1 Corinthians 1.4-6

• I thank my God always concerning you for the
  grace of God which was given to you by Christ
  Jesus, that you were enriched in everything by
  Him in all utterance and all knowledge, even as
  the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,

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1 Corinthians 1.7-8

• so that you come short in no gift, eagerly
  waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who will also confirm you to the end,
  that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord
  Jesus Christ.

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Thanksgiving

• Causes of Thanksgiving
• All He is and all He has done
• His actions through and for others
• His control in every situation

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1 Thessalonians 5.16-18

• Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in
  everything give thanks for this is the will of
  God in Christ Jesus for you.

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1 Corinthians 10.13

• No temptation has overtaken you except such as is
  common to man but God is faithful, who will not
  allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able,
  but with the temptation will also make the way of
  escape, that you may be able to bear it.

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Thanksgiving

• Causes of Thanksgiving
• All He is and all He has done
• His actions through and for others
• His control in every situation
• Thank God, for you are not alone.

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Thanksgiving

• Causes of Thanksgiving
• All He is and all He has done
• His actions through and for others
• His control in every situation
• Thank God, for no matter how unfaithful others
  might have been God is faithful.

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Thanksgiving

• Causes of Thanksgiving
• All He is and all He has done
• His actions through and for others
• His control in every situation
• Thank God, for He has limited your temptation to
  stay within your ability to handle it.

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Thanksgiving

• Causes of Thanksgiving
• All He is and all He has done
• His actions through and for others
• His control in every situation
• Thank God, for He has planned an escape route for
  every trial.

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Thanksgiving

• Causes of Thanksgiving
• All He is and all He has done
• His actions through and for others
• His control in every situation
• Thank God, for He has promised that you will be
  able to endure your temptations.

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Thanksgiving

• Causes of Thanksgiving
• All He is and all He has done
• His actions through and for others
• His control in every situation
• And even in the face of death, thank the Lord.

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Thanksgiving

• Basics of Thanksgiving
• Specific or General

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Thanksgiving

• Basics of Thanksgiving
• Specific or General (depending on
  situation--public or private, etc)
• Forgiving Thanksgiving

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Matthew 18.23-25

• "Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a
  certain king who wanted to settle accounts with
  his servants. And when he had begun to settle
  accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten
  thousand talents. But as he was not able to pay,
  his master commanded that he be sold, with his
  wife and children and all that he had, and that
  payment be made.

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Matthew 18.27-28

• "The servant therefore fell down before him,
  saying, 'Master, have patience with me, and I
  will pay you all.' Then the master of that
  servant was moved with compassion, released him,
  and forgave him the debt. But that servant went
  out and found one of his fellow servants who owed
  him a hundred denarii and he laid hands on him
  and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what
  you owe!'

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Matthew 18.29-31

• "So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and
  begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I
  will pay you all.'
• And he would not, but went and threw him into
  prison till he should pay the debt.
• So when his fellow servants saw what had been
  done, they were very grieved, and came and told
  their master all that had been done.

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Matthew 18.32-33

• "Then his master, after he had called him, said
  to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all
  that debt because you begged me. Should you not
  also have had compassion on your fellow servant,
  just as I had pity on you?'"

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Matthew 18.34-35

• "And his master was angry, and delivered him to
  the torturers until he should pay all that was
  due to him. So My heavenly Father also will do to
  you if each of you, from his heart, does not
  forgive his brother his trespasses."

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Thanksgiving

• Basics of Thanksgiving
• Specific or General (depending on
  situation--public or private, etc)
• Forgiving Thanksgiving
• Giving Thanks at Mealtime

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Mark 8.6-7

• So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the
  ground. And He took the seven loaves and gave
  thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples
  to set before them and they set them before the
  multitude. They also had a few small fish and
  having blessed them, He said to set them also
  before them.

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Luke 22.19-20

• And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and
  gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which
  is given for you do this in remembrance of Me."
• Likewise He also took the cup after supper,
  saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My
  blood, which is shed for you.

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Luke 24.30

• Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with
  them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it,
  and gave it to them.

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I Timothy 4.1-3

• Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter
  times some will depart from the faith, giving
  heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of
  demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their
  own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding
  to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods
  which God created to be received with
  thanksgiving by those who believe and know the
  truth.

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I Timothy 4.4-5

• For every creature of God is good, and nothing is
  to be refused if it is received with
  thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the word of
  God and prayer.

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Thanksgiving

• Basics of Thanksgiving
• Specific or General (depending on
  situation--public or private, etc)
• Forgiving Thanksgiving
• Giving Thanks at Mealtime
• Giving Thanks Glorifying God

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Luke 17.11-13

• Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He
  passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
• Then as He entered a certain village, there met
  Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off.
  And they lifted up their voices and said, "Jesus,
  Master, have mercy on us!"

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Luke 17.14-16

• So when He saw them, He said to them, "Go, show
  yourselves to the priests."
• And so it was that as they went, they were
  cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he
  was healed, returned, and with a loud voice
  glorified God, and fell down on his face at His
  feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan.

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Luke 17.17-19

• So Jesus answered and said, "Were there not ten
  cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there not
  any found who returned to give glory to God
  except this foreigner?"
• And He said to him, "Arise, go your way. Your
  faith has made you well."

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Thanksgiving

• Is there room for improvement in your life where
  thanksgiving is concerned?