{"id":28557,"date":"2015-11-10T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T05:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=28557"},"modified":"2015-11-09T23:16:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T04:16:28","slug":"thank-you-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/10\/thank-you-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I come before You today<br \/>\nAnd there&#8217;s just one thing that I want to say<br \/>\nThank You, Lord<br \/>\nThank You, Lord<\/p>\n<p>For all You&#8217;ve given to me<br \/>\nFor all the blessings I cannot see<br \/>\nThank You, Lord<br \/>\nThank You, Lord<\/p>\n<p>With a grateful heart<br \/>\nWith a song of praise<br \/>\nWith an outstretched arm<br \/>\nI will bless Your name<br \/>\nThank You, Lord<br \/>\nI just wanna thank You, Lord<br \/>\nThank You, Lord<br \/>\nI just wanna thank You, Lord<br \/>\nThank You, Lord<\/p>\n<p>For all You&#8217;ve done in my life<br \/>\nYou took my darkness and gave me Your light<br \/>\nThank You, Lord<br \/>\nThank You, Lord<\/p>\n<p>You took my sin and my shame<br \/>\nYou took my sickness and healed all my pain<br \/>\nThank You, Lord<br \/>\nThank You, Lord<\/p>\n<p>Yes we thank You, Lord; thank You, Lord; thank You, Lord<br \/>\nYes we thank You, oh we thank You<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F29YDFPBXSI?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don Moen<br \/>\nSongwriters Patrick Henderson and Louis E Brown III<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u00a0\u271e \u00a0 \u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Bible tells us to \u201c<strong>give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good.<\/strong>\u201d In the Kings James Version, this specific command is given at least six times: 1 Chronicles 16:34, Psalm 106:1, Psalm 107:1, Psalm 118:1 and 29, and Psalm 136:1. \u00a0Of course, there are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">many<\/span> other references to giving thanks to the Lord throughout His Word. \u00a0Many of them give thanks to Him for something or someone. \u00a0I like the focus of this verse because it is all about our Lord. \u00a0In fact, these six verses speak solely of His goodness and His mercy.<\/p>\n<p>As this song mentions, we have so much to thank God for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>blessings we can\u2019t see<\/li>\n<li>taking us out of darkness and giving us His light<\/li>\n<li>taking our sin, shame, sickness, and pain<\/li>\n<li>for all He\u2019s done in our lives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And for all those things we give God our thanksgiving. But today, mostly I just want to come to Him and give Him thanks and praise. He is worthy. He is our God, who is good and full of mercy and grace. Over and over, \u201c<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I just wanna thank You, Lord<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thus will I bless Thee while I live:<br \/>\nI will lift up my hands in Thy name.<br \/>\nPsalm 63:4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.<br \/>\nPsalm 134:2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let my prayer be set forth before Thee as incense;<br \/>\nand the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.<br \/>\nPsalm 141:2<\/p>\n<p>In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy. 1 Timothy 2:8 NLT<\/p>\n<p>During this season of Thanksgiving, when we are reminded to take time to be thankful for all that God has blessed us with, I don\u2019t want to forget to simply be thankful for God, Himself. \u00a0(What about you?) \u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>With a grateful heart, with a song of praise<\/em><\/span>, I want to \u201cBless the Lord, O, my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name!\u201d (Psalm 103:1). \u00a0Please join me with outstretched arms, with hands and hearts lifted to our Lord, and give Him thanks. <strong>He is worthy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All glory to Him who alone is God,<br \/>\nour Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord.<br \/>\nAll glory, majesty, power, and authority are His before all time,<br \/>\nand in the present, and beyond all time! Amen.<br \/>\nJude 1:25<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And then I heard every creature in heaven<br \/>\nand on earth and under the earth and in the sea.<br \/>\nThey sang: &#8220;Blessing and honor and glory and power<br \/>\nbelong to the One sitting on the throne<br \/>\nand to the Lamb forever and ever.&#8221;<br \/>\nRevelation 5:13<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u00a0\u271e \u00a0 \u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dear Lord, we can easily come to You with a long list of things and people that we are thankful for; You have blessed us with so much. \u00a0But first and foremost, Lord, we come to give You thanks for being You. \u00a0You are God above all gods, Lord above all lords. \u00a0You deserve all praise and worship. There is no one like You. \u00a0You are love, You are mercy, You are grace, and so much more. \u00a0Thank You, Lord! \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 Precious and Holy Name we give our praise and thanksgiving. \u00a0Amen, It Is So!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come before You today And there&#8217;s just one thing that I want to say Thank You, Lord Thank You, Lord For all You&#8217;ve given to me For all the blessings I cannot see Thank You, Lord Thank You, Lord With a grateful heart With a song of praise With an outstretched arm I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[6282,9622,3660,6598,425,9653,9648,9647,789,7813,5651,9649,9650,9651,7798,9652,3963,4932,4265,5605,4628,1059],"class_list":["post-28557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-1-chronicles-1634","tag-1-timothy-28","tag-clella-gilbert-fox","tag-don-moen","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-jude-125","tag-louis-e-brown-iii","tag-patrick-henderson","tag-praise","tag-psalm-1031","tag-psalm-1061","tag-psalm-1071","tag-psalm-1181-and-29","tag-psalm-1342","tag-psalm-1361","tag-psalm-1412","tag-psalm-634","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-revelation-513","tag-thank-you-lord","tag-thanks","tag-thanksgiving","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-7qB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28559,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28557\/revisions\/28559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}