THANKSGIVING

BREAD OF LIFE

 BIBLE STUDY WRITTEN BY

PASTOR JANICE L. WILLIAMS

  

  ,2010 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

 & 2021 

BIBLE STUDY FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25th-DECEMBER 2nd, 2009

REVIEW FOR WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 24th-DECEMBER 1st, 2010, ALSO FOR WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 23rd-30th, 2011 also review FOR THANKSGIVING 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, & 2021



THE FOLLOWING BIBLE TRANSLATIONS WERE USED FOR THIS BIBLE STUDY: 

KJV = KING JAMES VERSION

NKJV = NEW KING JAMES VERSION 

SCRIPTURES PRINTED IN RED ARE WORDS SPOKEN BY JESUS

 

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 MAY YOUR 2009/2010/2011/  2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021

 YEAR OF OUR LORD, HOLIDAY SEASON, BE BLESSED & JOYFUL WITH MUCH LOVE, PEACE, & PROSPERITY. IN JESUS NAME WE PRAY. AMEN 



1ST THESSALONIANS 5:18 KJV 

IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS; FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS CONCERNING YOU.



PARTS OF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION (THANKSGIVING USA) IS FROM THE ONLINE WIKIPEDIA FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA

THANKSGIVING USA



Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on.the fourth Thursday in November, at the end of the harvest season, is an annual American Federal Holiday to express thanks for one's SPIRITUAL and MATERIAL possessions/blessings.

The period from Thanksgiving Day to New Year's Day often is called the holiday season. Most people celebrate by gathering at home with family or friends for a holiday feast.

The Thanksgiving holiday's origins can be traced to harvest festivals [EXODUS 23:16 thru 33, & DEUTERONOMY 26:1 thru 19] that have been celebrated in many cultures since ancient times,

the American holiday has religious undertones related to the deliverance of the English settlers by Native Americans after the brutal winter at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

LET'S LOOK AT HOW THE USA THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY WAS ORIGINALLY FOUNDED ON CHRISTIAN BIBLICAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THANK GOD FOR ALL OF THE

BLESSINGS WE

RECEIVE THROUGH OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.

[II CHRONICLES 7:14 KJV * IF MY PEOPLE, WHICH ARE CALLED BY MY NAME, SHALL HUMBLE THEMSELVES, AND PRAY, AND SEEK MY FACE, AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS; THEN WILL I HEAR FROM HEAVEN, AND WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN, AND

WILL HEAL THEIR LAND.]

1619 Thanksgiving, the Virginia Colony

On December 4, 1619, 38 English settlers arrived at Berkeley Hundred, which comprised about 8,000 acres (32 km) on the north bank of the James River, near Herring Creek, in an area then known as Charles Cittie (sic), about 20 miles (32 km) upstream from Jamestown, where the first permanent settlement of the Colony of Virginia had been established on May 14, 1607.

The group's charter required that the day of arrival be observed yearly as a "day of thanksgiving to God". On that first day, Captain John Woodleaf held the service of thanksgiving. As quoted from the section of the Charter of Berkeley Hundred specifying the thanksgiving service: "We ordaine that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantacon {plantation * today's spelling} in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually keept {today's spelling kept} holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."

• Above Description: English: Berkeley Plantation, Shrine marking spot of 1st Thanksgiving in America, in 1619
• Date: 9 August 2016, 12:08:15
• Source: Own work
• Author: Joe Orbin

1621 Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims at Plymouth

 Squanto, a Patuxet Native American who resided with the Wampanoag tribe,

 taught the Pilgrims how to catch eel and grow corn.

• Above Description: English: Squanto or Tisquantum teaching the Plymouth colonists to plant corn with fish.
• Date: 1911
• Source: Bricker, Garland Armor. The Teaching of Agriculture in the High School. New York: Macmillan, 1911. Page 112.
• Author: The German Kali Works, New York  
• Public domain in USA.

• Above description: English: How Well The Corn prospered Squanto or Tisquantum demonstrating corn he had fertilized by planting with fish.
• Date: 1911 
• Source: Bricker, Garland Armor. The Teaching of Agriculture in the High School. New York: Macmillan, 1911. Page 112th 
• Author: The German Kali Works, New York 
• Approval: Public domain in USA

Squanto also served as an interpreter for the Pilgrims. He had learned English in Europe {Spain} as a captured slave who was set free by local friars; then through employment & residence for a time in England.

The Pilgrims set apart a day to celebrate at Plymouth immediately after their first harvest, in 1621. At that time, this was not regarded as a Thanksgiving observance; harvest festivals were existing parts of English and Wampanoag tradition alike. Several colonists have personal accounts of the 1621 feast in Plymouth, Massachusetts:

Pilgrims are not to be confused with Puritans who established their own Massachusetts Bay Colony nearby (current day Boston) in 1628 and had very different religious beliefs.



During the 18th century individual colonies commonly observed days of thanksgiving throughout each year. We might not recognize a traditional Thanksgiving Day from that period, as it was not a day marked by plentiful food and drink as is today's custom, but rather a day set aside for prayer and fasting.

Romans 14:17 KJV * 17/ For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.



In the 1700s individual colonies would periodically designate a day of thanksgiving in honor of a military victory, an adoption of a state constitution or an exceptionally bountiful crop. Such a Thanksgiving Day celebration was held in December 1777 by the colonies nationwide, commemorating the surrender of British General Burgoyne at Saratoga.  

George Washington, leader of the revolutionary forces in the American Revolutionary War, proclaimed a Thanksgiving in December 1777 as a victory celebration honoring the defeat of the British at Saratoga.

The Revolutionary War to Nationhood

During the American Revolutionary War the Continental Congress appointed one or more thanksgiving days each year, each time recommending to the executives of the various states the observance of these days in their states.

The First National Proclamation of Thanksgiving was given by the Continental Congress 

Saturday, November 1, 1777

For as much as it is the indispensable duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to him for benefits received, and to implore such farther blessings as they stand in need of; and it having pleased him in his abundant mercy not only to continue to us the innumerable bounties of his common providence, but also smile upon us in the prosecution of a just and necessary war, for the defense and establishment of our unalienable rights and liberties; particularly in that he hath been pleased in so great a measure to prosper the means used for the support of our troops and to crown our arms with most signal success: 
It is therefore recommended to the legislative or executive powers of these United States, to set apart Thursday, the 18th day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise; that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts, and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor; and that together with their sincere acknowledgments and offerings, they may join the penitent confession of their manifold sins, whereby they had forfeited every favor, and their humble and earnest supplication that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance; that it may please him graciously to afford his blessings on the governments of these states respectively, and prosper the public council of the whole; to inspire our commanders both by land and sea, and all under them, with that wisdom and fortitude which may render them fit instruments, under the providence of Almighty God, to secure for these United States the greatest of all blessings, independence and peace; that it may please him to prosper the trade and manufactures of the people and the labor of the husbandman, that our land may yield its increase; to take schools and seminaries of education, so necessary for cultivating the principles of true liberty, virtue and piety, under his nurturing hand, and to prosper the means of religion for the promotion and enlargement of that kingdom which consisteth in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
And it is further recommended, that servile labor, and such recreation as, though at other times innocent, may be unbecoming the purpose of this appointment, be omitted on so solemn an occasion.



 Romans 14:17 KJV * 17/ For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

[MATTHEW 6:33 *BUT SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF  GOD, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU. INSTRUCTIONS FROM JESUS]

 

WE AS CHRISTIANS, GIVE GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, THANKS FOR ALL THINGS, EVERYDAY. [1st THESSALONIANS 5:18 KJV * IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS CONCERNING YOU.]

WE SAY THANK YOU IN JESUS NAME [COLOSSIANS 3:17 NKJV *AND WHATEVER YOU DO IN WORD OR DEED, DO ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, GIVING THANKS TO GOD THE FATHER THROUGH HIM].

 DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE SAY THANK YOU FATHER GOD, IN JESUS NAME FOR: FORGIVENESS, GRACE, MERCY, PATIENCE WITH US, KINDNESS, SALVATION, HEALING, ETERNAL LIFE, PROVISION, BLESSINGS, MIRACLES, JOY, PEACE AND PROSPERITY, AND EVEN FOR THE TIMES YOU REBUKE US, WE SAY, "THANK YOU"!

HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT AND MIGHTY EVERLASTING LOVE THAT YOU SHED UPON US. WE PRAISE YOU AND THANK YOU WITH GRATEFUL HEARTS IN JESUS NAME. 

& 

WE PRAY THAT THE MANY GREAT AND MIGHTY BLESSINGS OF THE LORD, ABOUND IN YOUR LIFE, IN JESUS NAME!