1) Thanksgiving is CONFESSION

Nehemiah 9:34-35 (ESV)

1 John 1:9 (ESV)

Nehemiah 9:34-35 (ESV)

34 Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them. 35 Even in their own kingdom, and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land that you set before them, they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works.

1 John 1:9 (ESV)

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

2) Thanksgiving is PRAISE.

Psalm 28:7 (ESV)

2 Corinthians 5:15 (ESV)

Psalm 28:7 (ESV)

7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.

2 Corinthians 5:15 (ESV)

15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

3) Thanksgiving is OBEDIENCE.

Luke 6: 46-49 (ESV)

Luke 11:28 (ESV)

Luke 6: 46-49 (ESV)

46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: 48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. 49 But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Luke 11:28 (ESV)

28 He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”