Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival and it is celebrated in the United States and Canada every year. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated each year on the fourth Thursday of the month of November. Since 1863, Thanksgiving Day has been an annual tradition in the United States. It became a federal holiday after 1941.
Thanksgiving Day is celebrated as a religious observation and the main purpose behind it is to thank God. Now, it has been identified as a secular holiday.
According to Wikipedia, the First Thanksgiving was celebrated by Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, as God helped them to survive brutal winter. They thanked God for his help and blessings on them.
A few Thanksgiving Bible verses to give thanks to God are given below:
Psalm 31:19 (NIV)
How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.
Psalm 95:1-6 (KJV)
“O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.”
Psalm 100 (KJV)
“Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.”
Psalm 107:1 (NIV)
“Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.”
Psalm 145:7 (NIV)
They will celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness.
