With Bountiful Thanks

East Presbyterian Wishes You All a Wonderful Thanksgiving Day.

As we all know, the Thanksgiving holiday, initiates from early American history. It begins with the acts of kindness and generosity of the Native Americans to the settlers from Europe. This is a day that we carry on that tradition as we gather in our homes to share smiles, food story, prayer. Hold this day in your heart as inspiration, igniting a chain reaction of altruism and boundless giving.

Let us Pray:

Dear Father God,

We thank you for your love, grace, and for all of your immense blessings, known and unknown. Thank you for your forgiveness, mercy, direction, and protection. We are grateful for our safety, the blessings on our families, and the hope found in your word. Thank you for always standing with us, providing support and assurance in our lives. In the name of Jesus: We are thankful and we shall embody your spirit of generosity, selflessness and kindness creating infinite repetitions of positive actions and goodwill.

Amen

Psalm 95

1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.

3 For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. 4 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. 5 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; 7 for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.

Today, if only you would hear his voice, 8 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,[a] as you did that day at Massah[b] in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did. 10 For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.’ 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”