Happy Thanksgiving from the Pruitts!
"I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds" (Psalm 9:1, ESV).
Happy Thanksgiving from the Pruitts!
We are praying you have a blessed and peaceful Thanksgiving with family and friends.
The Psalmists wrote of giving thanks, saying, "Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!" (Psalm 107:1 and Psalm 136:1)
Giving thanks was so important to the early church that the Apostle Paul wrote the churches in Ephesus, Thessalonica, and Colossae, encouraging them to be thankful with these words:
"Always giving thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Ephesians 5:20).
"Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" (1 Thessalonians 5:18).
"And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him" (Colossians 3:17).
We hope and pray you have time to enter into thanks this Thanksgiving week as you share all that you have to be thankful for with family and friends and as you turn those thanks back to God in worship and praise as you "give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!" (Psalm 107:1)
We are thankful to God for each of you!
Thanksgiving blessings and peace,
The Pruitts
A Collect for Thanksgiving Day, Canada and United States of America: “Most merciful Father, we humbly thank you for all your gifts so freely bestowed upon us: for life and health and safety, for strength to work and leisure to rest, for all that is beautiful in creation and in human life; but above all we thank you for our spiritual mercies in Christ Jesus our Lord; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
