verses of thanksgiving

A Thankful Heart

Thanksgiving is such a sweet time for family, friends, food and thankfulness.

 

Here’s some verses this morning to help encourage your heart in thankfulness. 

 

I encourage you to sit with these verses and really meditate on them. 

 

 

Old Testament

 

  • 1 Chronicles 16:34 – “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!”

 

  • 1 Chronicles 29:13 – “And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.”

  • Isaiah 12:4-5 – “And you will say in that day: ‘Give thanks to theLord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted. Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be made knownPsalm 34:1 – “I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.”
  • Psalm 106:1 – “Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!”
  • Psalm 100:4 – “Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!”
  • Psalm 107:1 – “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!”

 

  • Psalm 95:2-3 – “Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.”

 

 

New Testament 

 

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:18 – “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” 
  • Colossians 3:17 – “And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”
  • Colossians 4:2 – “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.”
  • Philippians 4:6 – “do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” 
  • Hebrews 12:28-29 – “Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.”

 

  • Ephesians 5:20 – “giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ”

  • Philemon 1:4 – “I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers”

 

 

 

XO, 

 

Meg