Increasing Thanksgiving Week 1

And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the Lord. If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil. —Leviticus 7:11-12ESV

Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High,
—Psalm 50:14 ESV

And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!
—Psalm 107:22 ESV

Thanksgiving Definition:

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appreciation to the acts of God in ones life.”

Gratitude is the practice of

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the grace (benefits we do not deserve) and goodness bestowed in our lives.

A). We have an innate desire to show gratitude for the

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we receive.

Then God said to Noah, “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. —Genesis 8:15-20 ESV

B). How does God respond to this act of gratitude?

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
—Genesis 8:21-9:1 ESV

Because his heart was

, and Noah’s emotion overflowed into an act of gratitude – an offering.

Eucharista

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. —Psalm 51:15-17 ESV

Grace

Gratitude: The Practice of

God’s Grace

You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever.
And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service.

And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped. —Exodus 12:24-27 ESV