Thanksgiving Sunday
1) Name a time in your life when you were thankful to someone for giving you a helping hand. How did you show them your thankfulness?
2) How would you define thankfulness?
3) READ Luke 17:11-19 – With God’s healing touch upon these ten leprous men what could have been some reasons given for 9 out of the 10 not to return to Jesus in order to glorify God?
4) READ Psalm 69:29-33 – What is the emotional state of David as he is writing this Psalm? Why is praising God with thanksgiving better to the Lord than presenting an ox or young bull especially when in despair?
5) Why does it seem so difficult for us to be thankful when in distress and so easy to grumble and complain?
6) READ Psalm 100 – Name reasons in this Psalm that we are able to be thankful to the Lord regardless of our circumstances.
7) READ Philippians 4:6,7 – When we are worried or anxious why is it important to pray specifically with hearts that are thankful? What happens to our emotions and our mental state when we begin to pray with thanksgiving in our heart?
8) Are there any worries or pressing prayer needs which you would like lifted up to the Father?
9) Spend time applying Philippians 4:6,7 to those things which you will be praying for.
10) Close the time in prayer thanking the Lord for who He is and what He has done.
