Thanksgiving. Bible reading Plan. Journal

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1 Thanksgiving Bible reading Plan & Journal

2 How to use this journal Hello! I m so glad you ve decided to join me in going deeper in God s Word this month. My hope is that as we study these scriptures together, we will cultivate hearts of thanksgiving in us and in our families. Many years ago, when I was mourning the loss of my father, my mother-in-love, Bonnie, introduced me to a Thanksgiving Journal. She shared with me how journaling had become a lifestyle for her, and that writing down what she was grateful for brought her through some of her toughest moments. I began my first Thanksgiving Journal after that conversation. That was nearly 15 years ago. When moving into our new home 4 years ago I found that first journal I started. As I looked back through it, I was reminded of how far God has brought me over the years. What a powerful testimony that was for me! Reading those entries not only built my faith, but reminded me of God s faithfulness and provision.

3 Maybe you need some encouragement today. (Don t we all?) When we begin to thank God we enter into His gates. We gain access to His joy, His peace, His provision. Our circumstances may not change right away. Yet the more we spend time thanking Him and praising His name, our perspectives begin to change opening our hearts for God to do amazing things. To get you started, I ve shared how my family will be using this journal. My family and I are going through this journal and writing down the many reasons we have to be thankful. We are using it every day for the month of November. Each Thursday night we have family time and will be discussing what we ve been writing about. I ve laid out my schedule for you, in case you (like me) need a guide to follow! Each day we will be focusing on a different area that we will choose to be thankful for. Being thankful is a choice. If you are struggling to find something to be thankful in for one of these areas, start small. In one of my entries I had one simple sentence: Thank God that I have breath in my lungs today. That was it. But each week after that I progressively had more things to write. I think the same will happen for you. You ll be surprised in a few months by how much God has done when you look back over your list!

4 Week 1 Gratitude Focus Relationship with God Family Friends Week 2 Gratitude Focus Finances Physical Health Emotional Heath Week 3 Gratitude Focus Wisdom Sovereignty Security Week 4 Gratitude Focus Peace Provision Protection Here s a few pointers for starting each day: * Pick a time that has limited distractions. * Pray before reading, asking God to show you how you can apply each scripture to your life and to expose anything that He wants to work on. * Be honest in your answers. No one will see this but you and God. Pour out your heart before Him and let Him heal the areas that need mending. * Come with expectation! Expect God to show up and move mountains! He longs to spend time with you and speak to you. Again, I m so glad you re joining me! Please feel free to me at alisanicaud@ flourishingtoday.com and share the awesome things God is doing in and through you! Alisa

5 Thanksgiving bible reading plan & Journal Nov 1:Psalm 95:2-3 Nov 2: 1 Chronicles 16:34 Nov 3: Psalm 7:17 Nov 4: Colossians 3:17 Nov 5: 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Nov 6: Daniel 2:23 Nov 7: Philippians 4:6 Nov 8: Psalm 50:14 Nov 9: Colossians 4:2 Nov 10: Psalm 107:1 Nov 11: Psalm 69:30 Nov 12: Hebrews 12:28 Nov 13: Colossians 3:16 Nov 14: Psalm 116:17 Nov 15: Psalm 9:1 Nov 16: Psalm 107:8-9 Nov 17: 1 Timothy 4:4-5 Nov 18: Psalm 100:4 Nov 19: Psalm 107:22 Nov 20: Psalm 147:7 Nov 21: Jeremiah 33:11 Nov 22: Revelation 11:17 Nov 23: Revelation 7:12 Nov 24: Psalm 103:2-5 Nov 25: Psalm 136:1-3 Nov 26: 1 Chronicles 16:8 Nov 27: 2 Corinthians 4:15 Nov 28: Isaiah 12:4 Nov 29: Colossians 1:3 Nov 30:Isaiah Flourishing Today 2017

6 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. Psalm 95:2-3 NIV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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8 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. 1 Chronicles 16:34 NKJV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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10 I m thanking God, who makes things right. I m singing the fame of heaven-high God. Psalm 7:17 MSG I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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12 And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. Colossians 3:17 NLT I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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14 ...in every situation [no matter what the circumstances] be thankful and continually give thanks to God; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 AMP I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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16 I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors, for you have given me wisdom and strength. Daniel 2:23 NLT I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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18 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; Philippians 4:6 NKJV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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20 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, Psalm 50:14 ESV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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22 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. Colossians 4:2 NIV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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24 Oh, thank God he s so good! His love never runs out. All of you set free by God, tell the world! Psalm 107:1 MSG I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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26 I will praise the name of God with song And magnify Him with thanksgiving. Pslam 69:30 AMP I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, Hebrews 12:28 NIV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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30 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Colossians 3:16 ESV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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32 I will offer you a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord. Psalm 116:17 NLT I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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34 I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. Psalm 9:1 NKJV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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36 Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness, And for His wonderful acts to the children of men! For He satisfies the parched throat, And fills the hungry appetite with what is good. Psalm 107:8-9 AMP I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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38 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer. 1 Timothy 4:4-5 NIV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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40 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! Psalm 100:4 ESV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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42 Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and sing joyfully about his glorious acts. Psalm 107:22 NLT I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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44 Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; Sing praises on the harp to our God, Psalm 147:7 NKJV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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46 But the time is coming when you re going to hear laughter and celebration, marriage festivities, people exclaiming, Thank God-of-the-Angel- Armies. He s so good! His love never quits, as they bring thank offerings into God s Temple. I ll restore everything that was lost in this land. I ll make everything as good as new. I, God, say so. Jeremiah 33:11 MSG I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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48 And they said, We give thanks to you, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who always was, for now you have assumed your great power and have begun to reign. Revelation 11:17 NLT I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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50 Amen! Blessing and glory and majesty and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might belong to our God forever and ever. Amen. Revelation 7:12 AMP I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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52 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle s. Psalm 103:2-5 ESV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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54 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods. His faithful love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords. His faithful love endures forever. Psalm 136:1-3 NLT I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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56 Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done. 1 Chronicles 16:8 NIV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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58 For all [these] things are for your sake, so that as [God s remarkable, undeserved] grace reaches to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of [our great] God. 2 Corinthians 4:15 AMP I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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60 Joyfully you ll pull up buckets of water from the wells of salvation. And as you do it, you ll say, Give thanks to God. Call out his name. Ask him anything! Shout to the nations, tell them what he s done, spread the news of his great reputation! Isaiah 12:4 MSG I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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62 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, Colossians 1:3 NIV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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64 For the Lord comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song. Isaiah 51:3 ESV I am grateful Flourishing Today 2017

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66 Enter His gates with Thanksgiving go into his courts with Praise. psalm 100:4