Thoughts About Thanksgiving Yesterday and Today

Thank God for Family

Thank God for Food

Memory Verse Helps

Print Two

At the beginning of your lesson:

Use one to read out loud having 

the kids repeat after you.

Cut one into words

for the memory verse chart.

(picture above)

Read the verse together once.

Then have a child remove a word.

Read the verse again, then remove another word.

Keep on doing the same thing until all the words are gone.

By the end, they should be able to recite the verse

without reading them.

You can find a memory verse chart from 

"Regular Baptist Press"

Shrink the verse by 70 -75%

If you do not have a memory verse chart.

Tape the pieces in order ahead of time onto this lined paper below.

Treat it just like a memory verse chart.

This is a way to do it without buying a chart.

Laminate your chart.

Print the chart as a full page.

Have a child remove one word.

Say the verse together.

Proceed until all the words are gone.

They should be able to say the verse by the end of this game

without any words. Say it all together as a group.

Then choose children who want to say it alone.

If they are on time:

Jumping into the ball pit is going to be their reward this week.

Class participation - $1.00 prize

Thoughts About Thanksgiving Yesterday and Today

 God wants us to be thankful, not just thankful but thankful to him.  Thank him for every moment you have to be with your family.  Love them and cherish them because you never know if it will be the last day to express your love to them. Thanksgiving is nearing and set aside as a day to thank God.  We thank God for family. 

When the pilgrims settled into this country, they seriously lost family members to the flu and other illnesses.  They went through great hardship but yet they gathered together after losing people that they loved to give thanks to God.   God had provided a beautiful amount of food and new friends.  Friends who were different than they were yet they gathered together to worship God.  Some of them lost a mother, some a husband, some a sister, some a brother, some another.  They grieved but did not forget to give thanks for each other and all God's mercy and supplements.  God basically gave them enough food for a feast.  More so than they could possibly eat.   They began a new life, in a new place.  It was like being in another world to them.  

I wonder how many of us feel the same way.  Covid has changed everything, it seems as though the devil has gotten some foothold through it all.   You know the devil lives off of fear, off of anger and bitterness.

We need to remember to thank God for our family and all God’s blessings.  We need to be thankful for our country, which has been able to freely worship God for centuries.  We need to pray that the devil won’t get a stronghold on our country.  God does amazing things when we praise him, he has answered many a prayer that has included praise but God wants us to get our hearts right in order to accept that praise.  We can’t have hatred in our hearts for our brothers and sisters in the Lord or in our families.   The bible says he will not hear our prayers if we regard iniquity in our hearts. 

As we gather together as families to honor our Lord.  It’s not just about the feast, but all about our God who watches over us, who says, that the rocks will cry out in praise to him if there is a refusal to praise him.

Follow Here:------Give Thanks unto The Lord Poem/Song

 We thank thee our Father, for all these things.  Our family, to love and to hold. Our home, in which we find rest. Our friends in whom you have given. The food, clothing, and physical needs that you have supplied from year to year, now and in the future.  Thank you, Lord God, for your loving-kindness to us.  Thank you for dying for our sins and forgiving all those who trust in you.  Mostly Thank-you for you!  Lord God, thank you for being here for us, to comfort us when our hearts are broken, or to joy with us when we rejoice. Thank you for always being here with us even through our tears. 

Thanksgiving Day is a day to celebrate your blessings to us and you are our greatest blessing forever and always.   Amen  

Susan Y Nikitenko

Thanksgiving

November 19^th 2021 ©

Psalms 100:4 

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

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