Thanksgiving 54
Grateful 1
Gratitude - topical guide
Psalm 100
3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath a made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the b sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with a thanksgiving, and into his b courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
15 Behold, I am Jesus Christ the Son of God. I acreated the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are. I was with the Father from the beginning. bI am in the Father, and the Father in me; and in me hath the Father glorified his name.
1 Corinthians 2
9 But as it is written,
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17 Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye are a little children, and ye have not as yet understood how great blessings the Father hath in his own hands and prepared for you;
18 And ye cannot a bear all things now; nevertheless, be of good b cheer, for I will c lead you along. The kingdom is yours and the blessings thereof are yours, and the d riches of e eternity are yours.
19 And he who receiveth all things with a thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an b hundred fold, yea, more.
John 14
15 ¶If ye
John 15
10 If ye a keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my b love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your a joy might be full.
Mosiah 2 16-26
16 Behold,
I say unto you that because I said unto you that I had spent my days in
your service, I do not desire to boast, for I have only been in the
service of God.
17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn awisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the bservice of your cfellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.
18 Behold, ye have called me your king; and if I, whom ye call your king, do labor to aserve you, then ought not ye to labor to serve one another?
19 And
behold also, if I, whom ye call your king, who has spent his days in
your service, and yet has been in the service of God, do merit any
thanks from you, O how you ought to athank your heavenly bKing!
20 I say unto you, my brethren, that if you should render all the athanks and bpraise which your whole soul has power to possess, to that God who has created you, and has kept and cpreserved you, and has caused that ye should drejoice, and has granted that ye should live in peace one with another—
21 I say unto you that if ye should aserve him who has created you from the beginning, and is bpreserving you from day to day, by lending you cbreath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own dwill, and even supporting you from one moment to another—I say, if ye should serve him with all your ewhole souls yet ye would be funprofitable servants.
22 And behold, all that he arequires of you is to bkeep his commandments; and he has cpromised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth dvary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do ekeep his fcommandments he doth bless you and prosper you.
23 And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him.
24 And secondly, he doth arequire that ye should do as he hath commanded you; for which if ye do, he doth immediately bbless
you; and therefore he hath paid you. And ye are still indebted unto
him, and are, and will be, forever and ever; therefore, of what have ye
to boast?
25 And
now I ask, can ye say aught of yourselves? I answer you, Nay. Ye cannot
say that ye are even as much as the dust of the earth; yet ye were acreated of the bdust of the earth; but behold, it cbelongeth to him who created you.
26 And I, even I, whom ye call your king, am ano better than ye yourselves are; for I am also of the dust.
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Speaks of sacrament service, and fasting.
15 And inasmuch as ye do these things with a thanksgiving, with b cheerful c hearts and countenances, not with d much e laughter, for this is sin, but with a glad heart and a cheerful countenance—
20 And
it pleaseth God that he hath given all these things unto man; for unto
this end were they made to be used, with judgment, not to a excess, neither by extortion.
21 And in nothing doth man a offend God, or against none is his b wrath c kindled, save those who d confess not his hand in all things, and e obey not his commandments.
Alma 37
35 O, remember, my son, and alearn bwisdom in thy cyouth; yea, learn in thy youth to keep the commandments of God.
36 Yea, and acry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy bdoings be unto the Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord; yea, let all thy cthoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be placed upon the Lord forever.
37 aCounsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for bgood;
yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may
watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the cmorning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day.
Alma 34
38 That ye acontend no more against the Holy Ghost, but that ye receive it, and take upon you the bname of Christ; that ye humble yourselves even to the dust, and cworship God, in whatsoever place ye may be in, in spirit and in truth; and that ye live in dthanksgiving daily, for the many emercies and blessings which he doth bestow upon you.
