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Give Thanks to the Lord
Give Thanks to the Lord
9 Bible Verses Giving Thanks to God this Thanksgiving
Last week I listed six verses about Praise. This week we have nine verses giving thanks to God in honor of this Thanksgiving. Hopefully, many of these are familiar to you. So challenge yourself to memorize them in the last few days of November. Or, if you are not up to memorizing, read them through, post them to your Pinterest boards, or share them on Thursday before eating your meal.
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Thanksgiving is an annual, national holiday on the 4th Thursday in November. It is celebrated in both the United States and Canada, however, Canada celebrates it on the second Monday in October. President Abraham Lincoln made it a national holiday in 1863, in an attempt to unite the war-torn country after the Civil War.
Tradition has it that the first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1621, between the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims. They did not actually call it Thanksgiving. The celebration lasted three days sometime between mid-September and early November. They held the feast to celebrate the harvest of multicolored flint corn and other blessings they had received since their arrival in America.
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