349. Thanksgiving

349.


Thanksgiving

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Today's Passage: Philippians 1:1-11

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New Living Testament (NLT).

2.

Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you for insight.

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Greetings from Paul

1. This letter is from Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus.
I am writing to all of God's holy people in Philippi who belong to Christ Jesus, including the elders and deacons.

2. May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

Paul's Thanksgiving and Prayer

3. Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God.
4. Whatever I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy,
5. for you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ from the time you first heard it until now.
6. And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

7. So it is right that I should feel as I do about all of you, for you have a special place in my heart. You share with me the special favor of God, both in my imprisonment and in defending and confirming the truth of the Good News.
8. God knows how much I love you and long for you with the tender compassion of Christ Jesus.

9. I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding.
10. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ's return.
11. May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation⏤the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ⏤for this will bring much glory and praise to God.
Philippians 1:1-11 NLT

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18th strategy.
Praising and Thanking God.

• Stop and enter into God's presence by praying.
• Ask God to open your heart to hear His words to you.
• Read through the passage.
• Re-read the passage looking for acts of praise and/or thankfulness.
• Is your heart drawn to a particular verse.
• Re-read that verse at least 4 times.
• Ask God to allow you to reveal to you how to be filled with that kind of experience of praise and/or that gratitude.
• As you leave the page ask God to remind you of this moment throughout your day.
• Remember to thank God for His revelation to your heart.
  

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And remember,
I pray for you every day.
And I will be back here tomorrow,
I hope I will see you here too.
~Robyn

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