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Thanksgiving is how Scripture tells us to approach God, not what we feel once everything is fine. These Words teach gratitude as a practice: a gate to enter, a sacrifice to offer, a posture that continues through every circumstance.
This Path is part of the house. One year opens it, with every other Path.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name. For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
Psalm 100:4–5BSB
The Words, in order
- Psalm 100:4–5Enter His gates with thanksgiving. This is the door.
- Psalm 107:1The most repeated line of thanks in Scripture, and its reason.
- Psalm 9:1–2Give thanks with your whole heart and recount His wonders.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18In every circumstance, not for every circumstance.
- 1 Corinthians 1:4Give thanks for the grace God has given others.
- Colossians 3:15Let Christ’s peace rule, and be thankful.
- Colossians 3:17Whatever you do, with thanks.
- Hebrews 13:15End with praise as a sacrifice, offered when it costs.