To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
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Rejoice evermore. In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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2 Thessalonians 2:13:
But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
(NIV)
But we, brethren beloved by the Lord, ought and are obligated [as those who are in debt] to give thanks always to God for you, because God chose you from the beginning as His firstfruits (first converts) for salvation through the sanctifying work of the [Holy] Spirit and [your] belief in (adherence to, trust in, and reliance on) the Truth.
(AMP)
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
(KJV)
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1 Corinthians 10:16:
Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
(NIV)
The cup of blessing [of wine at the Lord's Supper] upon which we ask [God's] blessing, does it not mean [that in drinking it] we participate in and share a fellowship (a communion) in the blood of Christ (the Messiah)? The bread which we break, does it not mean [that in eating it] we participate in and share a fellowship (a communion) in the body of Christ?
(AMP)
The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
(KJV)
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The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.
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Luke 17:18:
'Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?'
(NIV)
Was there no one found to return and to recognize and give thanks and praise to God except this alien?
(AMP)
There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 5:18:
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
(NIV)
Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus [the Revealer and Mediator of that will].
(AMP)
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
(KJV)
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Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever.
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I will give thanks to thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well. Psalms 139:14
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We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way
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