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Thursday November 27, 2008
When
was the first Thanksgiving for the harvest ?
At "Ingathering" (Succoth, Tabernacles, Booths)
Leviticus 23:39: Deuteronomy 16:13-15
Family and Thanksgiving
http://www.just4kidsmagazine.com/nov.html
Song..."Bringing in the Sheaves":
www.cgmusic.com/cghymnal/others/b/bringinginthesheaves.htm
http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Bringing_in_the_Sheaves/midi/
http://junior.apk.net/~bmames/ht0066_.htm
An
attitude of Gratitude:
Deuteronomy 8:10;
Psalms: 68:19 .... 100:4 .... 103 ... 105 .... 106 ... 107:22 ...
1 Thess. 5:18 ... Col.1:12 and 3:15 .... James. 1:17.
Giving
Thanks always ( The Ten Booms )
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2007/kay69-3.htm
Come
Lord Jesus be our Guest;
Let this food for us be blessed.
How to carve your turkey
http://www.ehow.com/how_2710_carve-turkey.html
http://www.cooks.com/rec/story/69/
http://www.norbest.com/d_carving_a_turkey.cfm
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/school/cstech/carveturkey.html
Smoked Turkey http://www.fabulousfoods.com/school/cstech/smoketurkey.html
Song:
"Whole-hearted Thanksgiving to Thee I Bring" (Psalm
9:1)
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/h/wht2tiwb.htm
We remember the third line in the chorus as going like this:
"Give praise to the Father, through Jesus God's Son,
and Give Him the Glory, great things He has done!"
Song: To God Be the
Glory"
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/t/o/togodbe.htm
Song: "Give
Thanks with a Grateful Heart"
http://www.ylw.mmtr.or.jp/~johnkoji/hymn/Give_Thanks.html
NO
- vember
Got an invitation to where you don't want to go ? Just say no.
Then read Psalm One.
We
are praying here that God will grant you the courage to say no,
and the fortitude to stay away.
"From such turn away " 2 Timothy 3 : 1--5
John Chapter 7 speaks of the
feast of Tabernacles ( Ingathering ) ... a time when everyone
thanked God for the harvest.
Ingathering is the Biblical - Thanksgiving. And at that time, all
the families would gather together ( in Jerusalem ) to celebrate.
Jesus chose not to celebrate ( eat with ) with His family at that
time.
Our Lord knew well the stranglehold family members can put upon
one another. That is why he stated:
" A man's worst enemies are those of his own
household". -- Micah 7:6 ; Matthew 10:36;
Now our Lord didn't just make that up. He knew this from personal
experience ; and He allows us to see into
the
sibling-jealousies and ill-will within His own family circle in John Chapter 7:
2--10
His brothers and sisters mocked ( scorned, derided ) His person
and His purpose, and they let Jesus know that they, for sure,
would not respect Him at the gathering." For neither did
His brethren believe in Him "
Jesus simply did not go to the family gathering, but went to
honor God instead.
Thanksgiving is a day to honor God and thank Him for all of His
blessings.
It is not a National
family-relatives day where arguments and mockings abound.
(
arrogance and condescension )
Notice
well : Our Lord didn't merely say NO to the family gathering, He
put His words into action and abided by that NO.
Psalm 41: 9 .... Psalm 55: 12--14 .... Jeremiah 12: 6 .... Jeremiah 20: 10... Obadiah 1:7 ...
Matthew 10:35, 36 ....Mattthew 26:23 .. Matthew 26: 49, 50 .... Luke 12: 53 .... Luke 21: 16 .... John 13:18
Matthew 10:21 ... Matthew 12: 46--49 .... Mark 3: 32--34 .... Luke 8: 20, 21
"Dear God, let me not take to
myself nor suffer over the actions and reactions of other people.
Other adult human beings
[Ed: who are manipulative, domineering, flattering, disrespectful
]
are not my responsibility no matter how closely their lives may
be intertwined with mine. I will not allow myself to be troubled
by anyone else.
My one problem is to improve my own way of living" ( Ed: and
to keep my peace of mind and serenity )
-- 12 steps literature
See LINKS at end of article
All "Blessing and Glory and Wisdom and THANKSGIVING,
and Honor, and Power and Might
be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen."
Revelation 7:12
The
REAL Meaning of Thanksgiving...Joseph Farah
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25419
Pilgrim Separists..fled persecution in England and went to
Holland
before coming to America --Wm. Federer
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25421
Song: "Count Your
Blessings One by One"
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/c/o/countyou.htm
"Bless
This House O Lord We Pray"
http://www.geocities.com/christiangwen/midi/Blesshouse.htm
also
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/bless.html
"May
the Good Lord Bless and Keep You"
MUSIC http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman7/Twinkies.htm
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/May-The-Good-Lord-Bless-And-Keep-You-lyrics-Jerry-Reed/262EA2714E2BE36F48256E63000F4729
Lyrics: http://www.volcano.net/~jackmearl/songs/msongs/may_the_good_lord_bless_and_keep_you.html
SOUP - KITCHENS
Thanksgiving: a good time to Volunteer in soup-kitchens etc.
to serve, or to prepare pies and foods.
( if led by the Holy Ghost to do so )
Also a good time to donate canned goods to shelves for the hungry
(local charities)
" I was hungry and you gave Me meat."
I was thirsty and you gave Me drink"
I was a stranger and you took Me in" *
Matthew 25:35
A favorite Thanksgiving Hymn from Holland
"We Gather
Together"
"let
Thy congregation escape tribulation"
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/e/wegattog.htm
http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh131.sht
Annie"s
Thanksgiving www.annieshomepage.com/thanksgiving.html
History:
The Pilgrims before Plymouth
http://www.worldandi.com/newhome/public/2003/november/lf1pub.asp
Thanksgiving Songs
http://www.hymnsite.com/thanksgiving/main.shtml
http://www.hymnsite.com/
Mayflower http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/
Not
Just for Kids Thanksgiving
http://hometown.aol.com/Panda34911/Thanks/HolidayFunPg12Thanks.html
2007 http://www.homeschooled-kids.com/allaboutthanksgiving.html
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/thanksgiving/printables.htm
Online
Coloring pages -- no crayons needed
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/coloring-pages/thanksgiving/index.html
Song: "Now
Thank We All Our God, With Heart and Hands and Voices"
http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/n/n139.html
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/n/o/nowthank.htm
Poem "thank YOU for
the priceless gift of FREEDOM"
www.constitutional.net/133.html
Thanksgiving www.worldpath.net/~hiker/Thanksgiving.htm
http://www.breadsite.org/thankyou.htm
THANK
YOU LORD
Parable of the 1 out of 10 who turned around to give thanks...
Luke 17:11-19
Poem:
Thank You Lord
http://extremechristianity.com/features/poetry/
Poem
and Song (Sykes)
Thank You Lord for
Saving My Soul
http://www.saytunes.com/saytunes/saytunes.nsf/fm_song_read?openform&PARENTUNID=BB5D3359A24044C58825729500591DFA
Hymn: Thanks
to God, My Redeemer
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/t/h/thankstg.htm
Lord,
I Thank You
http://www.kinetixsportsclothing.com.au/music/thankyou/thankyou.htm
Come Ye Thankful
People, Come
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/c/o/comeytpc.htm
http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh694.sht
Thank You Lord for Today
http://www.yobel.com/yfoot7.htm#12.
Thank You, Lord, for Today
Thanksgiving
Sermons and Outlines
www.preacherscorner.org/tom-thanksgiving.htm
Thanks-LIVING...
1 Chronicles 16:8; Psalms: 50:14; 92:1;119:62;
Daniel 2:23; Acts 28:15; Ephesians 5:20; Philippians 4:6;
Colossians
3:17: 1 Timothy 4:4
Thank
Thee, Lord
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/5430/thankthee.htm
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~peterrjones/song.html?god_yk.html
http://sunniebunniezz.com/poetry/thankspoem.htm
Thank
You for my CHILDREN
www.ghaone.org/prayers/children.htm
Thanks,
Lord...and many more
www.geocities.com/~seatac
How
to make tasty Pumpkin Bread ( for gifts too)
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/pumpkin.html
Song: "Over
the River and Through the Woods"
http://wilstar.com/holidays/overriv.htm
Clip
Art
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/3354/thanksgiving.html
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FAMOUS SPEECH
"We
have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven.
We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and
prosperity.
We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation
has ever grown.
But we have forgotten God.
We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace,
and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us;
and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts,
that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom
and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too
self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving
grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/fast.htm
Many
beautiful poems and notes
http://members.aol.com/quietwtrs/contrib.htm ( 4 Pages, XLNT !)
Spiritual
Blessings.....R.E. Guilfoyle
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/1772/Poem44.htm
Homemakers
Thanksgiving
www.luquette.org/inspire/thank_you_lord.htm
Psalms
and things
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Oaks/2145/Psalms.html
O Food to Pilgrims
Given
http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh631.sht
Giving
Thanks for the Birth of a Child
www.geocities.com/Athens/2905/dh09000.htm
"O the Lord is good to me
And so I thank the Lord
For giving me the things I need.....
The sun and the rain and the apple seed
The Lord is good to me."
---from
the movie: Johnny Appleseed
The
sacrifice of praise
"Thank
you Lord for what you've given me.
Thank you for what you've taken away.
And thank you for what is left."
Romans
8:28
God
works all things to the good---even the "seemingly
bad".
COUNTING
OUR BLESSINGS
www.rosemaryclooney.net/lyricpages/CountYourBlessings.html
http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/lewis/crosby/CountYourBlessings.html
* WORKS OF MERCY
as
led of the HOLY GHOST
Matthew 25:31-46
When the Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy
angels with Him,
then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory:
And before Him shall be gathered all nations:
and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd
divideth His sheep from the goats:
And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on
the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand:
"Come, ye Blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I was hungry, and ye gave Me meat. I was thirsty and ye gave
Me drink.
I was a stranger and you took Me in.
"Naked, and ye clothed Me. I was sick and ye visited Me.
I was in prison and you came unto Me."
Then shall the righteous answer Him saying,
"Lord, when saw we Thee hungry, and fed Thee ? or thirsty,
and gave Thee drink?
When saw we Thee a stranger, and took Thee in ? or naked, and
clothed Thee ?
Or when saw we Thee sick, or in prison, and came unto Thee ?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, "Verily I say
unto you:
In
as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My
brethren,
ye have done it unto Me".
Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand,
"Depart from Me , ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared
for the devil and his angels:
"For I was hungry, and ye gave Me no meat. I was thirsty and
ye gave Me no drink.
I was a stranger and ye took Me not in. Naked and ye clothed Me
not."
Then shall they also answer Him, saying,
"Lord, when saw we Thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger,
or naked, or sick, or in prison and did not minister unto Thee ?
Then shall He answer them, saying,
"Verily I say unto you, in as much as ye did it not to one
of the least of these, ye did it not to Me".
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment;
but the righteous into Life Eternal."
Matthew
25:31- 46
Links
to saying "NO"
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/tillman6.html
http://www.onlineorganizing.com/ExpertAdviceToolboxTips.asp?tipsheet=16
http://www.impactfactory.com/gate/assertiveness_skills_training_saying_no_too_nice/fungate_1741-4102-18850.html
Salvation:
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm