🍁A Thanksgiving prayer🍁⁣⁣

We’re all aware of the heartache happening worldwide and no one of us is immune to pain in this life. ⁣⁣⁣

John Eldredge puts it this way, “We live in a love story set in a world at war.”⁣⁣⁣

Across the seas, in our own country, in our own neighborhood we are tempted with hopelessness.⁣⁣⁣

I resonate with King David when he said that his thanksgiving would be a sacrificial offering to the Lord as it isn’t always easy to be thankful.⁣⁣⁣

But, I am at once, challenged and championed when I remember to surrender my voice in praise, when I remember that it is also my weapon against the voices of discouragement and defeat, when I remember that it is my exclusive honor as His child to do so.⁣⁣⁣

I become grateful and am comforted when I focus on the fact that nothing can, ever has or ever will dethrone our King.⁣⁣⁣

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Tragedies may come,⁣⁣⁣

Wars may rise, ⁣⁣⁣

Tears may flow, ⁣⁣⁣

But He is still God,⁣⁣⁣

And ever worthy of our praise.⁣⁣⁣

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It is my prayer that these words be true for us all as we gather for Thanksgiving.⁣⁣⁣

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“Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty heavens. Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to [the abundance of] His greatness. Praise Him with trumpet sound; Praise Him with harp and lyre. Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; Praise Him with stringed instruments and flute. Praise Him with resounding cymbals; Praise Him with loud cymbals. Let everything that has breath and every breath of life praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)”⁣⁣⁣

Ps150‬‬:‭1‬-‭6‬ ‭AMP‬‬⁣⁣⁣

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(Ps 116:17; 149:6)