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A General Thanksgiving (offered for Thanksgiving Day). "ABOVE ALL FOR THINE INESTIMABLE LOVE IN THE REDEMPTION OF THE WORLD BY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST..." I was feeling rather blue this morning, I was trying to feel thankful, and list in my mind the things I wanted to be thankful for. There are friends to be thankful for, relatively good health, that I have food and shelter, but most of all, because of God's love for me, and his action in the Lord Jesus Christ to come and die for me and bring me into his fellowship. I have been reminded recently by teachers such as Joseph Prince and Gregory Boyd that all my blessings flow from Jesus, that I am complete in him. My status in Christ is more important than status of wealth, career, relationship, or anything else. Amen!
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ALMIGHTY God, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all men; [*particularly to those who desire now to offer up their praises and thanksgivings for thy late mercies vouchsafed unto them.] We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may he unfeignedly thankful; and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.
- from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer
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