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Gospel Baptist Tabernacle

781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741

Where the Love of God

abounds, everyone is

welcome.

Children’s Church taught

by Paul and Marsha Davis

during preaching.

www.rossvillechurch.com

November 23, 2014

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Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United

States on the fourth Thursday in November. It became an

official Federal holiday in 1863, when, during the Civil

War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day

of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who

dwelleth in the Heavens", to be celebrated on the last

Thursday in November. ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_%28United_States%29

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The event that Americans commonly call the "First

Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after

their first harvest in the New World in 1621. This

feast lasted three days, and it was attended by 90

Native Americans (as accounted by attendee

Edward Winslow) and 53 Pilgrims. The New

England colonists were accustomed to regularly

celebrating "thanksgivings“ – days of prayer --

thanking God for blessings such as military victory

or the end of a drought.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_%28United_States%29#cite_note-NetINS_Showcase-AB-1

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Psalm 50 14 Offer unto God

thanksgiving; and pay thy vows

unto the most High: 15 And call

upon Me in the day of trouble: I

will deliver thee, and thou shalt

glorify Me.

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1 Timothy 1 12 And I thank

Christ Jesus our Lord, Who

hath enabled me, for that He

counted me faithful, putting

me into the ministry; 13 Who

was before a blasphemer, and

a persecutor, and injurious:

but I obtained mercy,

because I did it ignorantly in

unbelief.

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Colossians 3 17 And

whatsoever ye do in word or

deed, do all in the Name of

the Lord Jesus, giving thanks

to God and the Father by

Him.

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Hebrews 13 15 By Him

therefore let us offer the

sacrifice of praise to God

continually, that is, the fruit

of our lips giving thanks to

His Name.

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Psalm 35 18 I will give thee

thanks in the great

congregation: I will praise

thee among much people.

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1 Thessalonians 5 18 In

every thing give thanks:

for this is the Will of God

in Christ Jesus concerning

you.

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John 6 11 And Jesus took the

loaves; and when He had

given thanks, He distributed

to the disciples, and the

disciples to them that were

set down; and likewise of the

fishes as much as they would.

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Ephesians 5 20 Giving thanks

always for all things unto

God and the Father in the

Name of our Lord Jesus

Christ;

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