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Thanksgiving Bible Studies

The Christian life requires discipline and commitment, and thanksgiving is a key discipline. Although a new year offers the chance to look ahead, it is also the perfect time to look back and give thanks.

God is doing great things in Madagascar. Melias, a Malagasy missionary is now based in the village of Befotaka. The village is full of spirit-possessed people, and they know it is a power that controls them. They did not know that there is a more powerful name that can deliver them from this oppression. The gospel was made known to a very small circle of people and they were delivered from the oppression. They are now studying the Bible, two or three times a week. God has accompanied this ministry with miracles. People knock on Meliasโ€™ door at night, asking him to come and to pray for their sick, and they are seeing healing happen!

Bible study – Give thanks
Many of us are reading this at the start of a new year. Traditionally a time of looking forward and making resolutions for the year ahead, why not also take the opportunity to look back at 2022?

  • How good are you at giving thanks? Would you describe yourself more as a grumbler or grateful? Why?
  • What does thanksgiving look like in your life? Is it a regular or rare practice?

Read Psalm 103.

  • How do you feel reading v1-5? Does it describe your life, or is it hard to relate to?
  • It can be easy to overlook Godโ€™s goodness if we are not in the habit of giving thanks. Consider Godโ€™s forgiveness and grace in your life, read v6-12. In many churches the significance of sin and Godโ€™s holiness is hardly mentioned, how might this take away from what God has done in forgiving us?
  • Take a moment to give thanks to God for his forgiveness โ€œFor as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.โ€ Psalm 103:11-12
  • How do stories like these help you to remember who God is and what he is doing?
  • As we read verses 13-22, we see a stark contrast between our seemingly momentary lives and the Lord who is everlasting. How does this contrast highlight Godโ€™s goodness to us even further?

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