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Author, Father M. Devadas

8. PRAISING GOD FOR HIS DIVINE QUALITIES

PRAISES FOR THANKS GIVING MEETINGS

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• 1. THANKSGIVING :
  1. Oh Glorious God, before we were born, and even before we were formed in the womb of the mother, all about our days and our lives are written down in Your Book.
  
  This demonstrates Your love, wisdom and care for us. So we thank You for these Your good qualities that are active for our benefit.


• 2. After our birth, while we are still very young, You knowing that we cannot protect ourselves have entrusted us to our parents to take care of us. For this Your concern for our safety that is an essential element of Your grace toward us, we offer our thanks to You.


• 3. O God even when we never prayed to You for our food needed, You have nourished us well with milk and strong healthy food.
  
  This Your provision makes us remember Your Fatherly love toward us. For this Your love, we offer our grateful thanks to You.


• 4. O God our Benefactor, even without our prayers for the food we desire, You have granted us many tasty food in addition to the nutritious meals. So we offer our hearty thanks to You.


• 5. O God the provider of everything and who feeds every living creature, we rejoice to understand Your loving kindness and beneficent nature through the abundant supplyYou give us of those that are beneficial to us. May Your goodness be praised by all the creation.


• 6. O God, even without our asking for them, You have provided us with good clothes, for which kindness we offer grateful thanks to You.
  
  In addition, You are blessing the work of our hands and rewarding us with prosperity. So we honour You with our hearty gratitude.


• 7. O God the Source of all wisdom and knowledge, we acknowledge Your gift of knowledge to us through our study in the educational institutions and books. We thank You for Your goodness toward us.


• 8. O God we thank You for the good teachers You gave us to teach, the good friends and classmates who play with us and help us in many ways.


• 9. O God, we are grateful to You for blessing us with ability to make a living, earning money by using the working skills You blessed us with and we thank You.


• 10. We are grateful to You for the good leaders You gave to lead us and wise men to govern our country and godly people to help us live honestly and righteously. Knowing that all this authority and wisdom is Your gift to them, we are infinitely thankful to You our Lord and King.


• 11. We salute You for Your goodness in providing good leaders, elders, parents, brothers and sisters to meet all our needs.
  
  Further to enable us to comprehend Your love, You have given an affectionate home for which gift of Yours, we offer our affectionate thanks to You.


• 12. O Father to make our joy full, You have provided friends and relatives to us.
  
  Above all You have provided friends and relatives to us.
  
  Above all You are our Best friends and Beloved Relative. So we worship You and thank You for the varieties of help You provide through many people around us.


• 13. Oh Our God Shepherd for the spiritual welfare, we thank You whole hearted for the evangelists, pastors and missionaries You have provided us in Your body, the Church.

So along with all the congregation of Your saints, we give glory, honour and thanks to Our God who is seated on the throne and who lives forever and ever. AMEN.(Neh 9:5,6)

II. PRAISE :

• 1. O God who is Love, we praise You because You love us in spite of our imperfections.


• 2. Our Almighty God, We are confident that You will help us by Your strength in every situation however difficult it may be for us. So we honour You with all our strength.


• 3. Most Holy God, You have created everything and everyone in a pure and perfect state.
  
  When man became defiled through sin, You sacrificed Your life for the entire world on the cross to make us holy again. So we adore You and extol Your holiness and righteousness.


• 4. Our God of Life, everliving God, we honour You for the gift of life through Your Spirit Given into the vessels of dust we are made up of.


• 5. Our Omnipresent God, we magnify Your Name because You are always with us wherever we happen to be placed in our need.


• 6. Our Eternal God, Your good qualities have no limit for our benefit. So we adore Your excellent Name. O Lord, You are worthy to receive power, wealth, wisdom, might, honour, glory and blessing from everyone at all places and throughout all ages forever and ever.
  
  Accept our hearty praise of Your greatness. AMEN.