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Author, Father M. Devadas

7. PRAISING GOD FOR HIS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES

Praises mentioned in Prayers of surrender and thanksgiving


1. THANKSGIVING :
1. My God and Father, who has created all the things I need, and who is providing all things needed, my beloved Father, my Lord, my God, my Caretaker, my Saviour and my All, my Salutations to You.

I adore Your since You have adopted me as Your child, not only through Your creative act but also through Your Son Jesus Christ.

2. I extol Your goodness as I remember Your loving kindness through Your gifts, Your long sufferings towards my weaknesses, Your continuous guidance in my life, and Your works to remove difficulties in my life.

I confess that I cannot sufficiently extol Your goodness for the abundant love You have for me; even my hearty gratitude is insufficient to compare with Your infinite love; even if I extol Your goodness all my life without doing any other work, it is insufficient to match Your loving kindness, I worship You for Your magnanimity in lovingly accepting even these my few words of salutations.

Remembering Your mighty works of the past to protect me and for my growth, and confidently looking forward to Your continued works for my welfare in future, I offer my hearty thanks to You.

Also being confident that You will surely keep me safe to take me into heaven in worthy condition at the end of my life, I offer my hearty thanks to You.

3. Father, for Your undescribable and unsearchable Majesty, Your mighty works, Your blessed qualities, Your loving attitude to wards me and Your glory - all to be useful for my welfare - please accept my thanks offering.

4. Our Father who is the greatest Benefactor and Source of all blessings, we thank You for all the gifts You have given us in abundance.

The air we breathe is freely given to us, since we cannot fully repay for its value.

You have been giving these blessings freely to men whether believers or unbelievers, to animals to trees and to all creatures from the beginning of creation to the end of the creation.

The gifts You have given us are so many and valuable that we will never be able to repay for them. The fruits, vegetables and pure water that You are giving to us are more than we need and so we offer our grateful thanks to You.

You have kept in the earth's interior parts many metals, minerals and materials for our beneficial use.

Men have been using them from a long time and yet they are available in plenty.

The food You are providing to us is plenty and You are giving new things day by day. Only by our foolishness we are not using Your gifts properly.

If only all men are wise to receive and use these Your gifts, everyone will be a prosperous one and there will be no one that is poor.

There is nothing in Your creation that will be useless. I will never be able to pay the cost of these Your gifts to me.

For these Your timely blessings, I offer my hearty thanks.

5. Our Father, the gift of Your beloved Son for your sake is the greatest gift beyond our explanations and it is of infinite worth.

Even thanking You in every moment of our life will not be enough to show gratitude we need to for this gift.

Your hearty desires that - I must detest sin - that I be baptized in Your Name - that I be saved from sin - that I partake in Your body and blood through the sacrament on Your table - that I work with You for the salvation of others - that I keep Your word (Bible) actively imprinted in my heart - and that I reach Your holy presence at the end of my life - are beyond my abilities to describe Your good purposes for me.

All my life time will not suffice to count the innumerable blessings You bestowed on us.

It surprises us how You benevolently accept the praise with our feeble faith and our insufficient understanding of Yor greatness.

Our words fail and our strength proves insufficient to thank You for Your gifts and blessings to us. However well we thank You for Your gifts to us, we will never thank You fully and sufficiently.Yet You are rejoicing over us. So we offer our grateful thanks.

There are no blessings of benefit benefit beyond the gift of Your Son to us.

There is no grace beyond the Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

There is no salvation outside Your Church; and for these blessings we offer our innumerable thanks to You.

6. I recognize that all my long life from my birth, however holy it has been spent, is of no avail if I am not ready to the heavenly life at the time of my death.

But if I prepare myself ready for the heavenly life even at the time of my death, I will surely be a blessed person.

Yet, there is a better blessing for me if I am ready for Your glorious coming for me at the Rapture.

By not believing in the imminent rapture of the Church if I am not prepared for the Rapture, however well and godly my life has been, I will be left behind to miserable suffer on the earth in the tribulation period.

You have placed before us the blessings to have a godly life, a death with righteousness and the ascension with the living saints at the Rapture. We thank You for this blessed hope.

If we don't have nay of these, our lives are in vain. We We thank You because You will keep us from losing any of these blessings.

Accept our heart thanks we offer now in the name of the Benefactor Jesus Christ. AMEN.

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