1. Jesus' example Matt. 11:25, 26:27, John11:41. 2. Angels' example Rev. 4:9, 7:11,12, 11:16,17. 3. Commanded Ps.50:14 to be offered to God.    4. through Christ Rom.1:8, Col. 3:17, Hebr 15:15. 5. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Eph 5:20, 5:18b-20 6. in behalf of ministers 2 Cor.1:11   7. in private worship Daniel 6:10 8. In public worship Ps. 35:18   9. In everything 1Thess. 5:18 10. upon completion of great undertakings Neh. 12:31,40 11.before taking food John 6:11 12. Always Eph. 1:16, 5:20 (part of the concert of lovegates that help us continually abide in God's love.) 13. for the conversion of others Rom.6:17 14. For faith or love 15. exhibited by others Rom. 1:8, 2Thess 1:8 16. Praise is thanksksgiving Eph 1:6, 12, 14 17.Blessing God is Thanksgiving Ps. 16:7 18. Holidays recounting God's Grace is Thanksgiving. Passover was a thanksgiving for deliverance from Egypt! Exodus 12:14, 17, 42 19. Custom to recouny God's Grace in Thanksgiving 13:3:8,9,14,15,16 20. Symbol to recount God's Grace Manna 40 year provision. 16:32 21. Ps. 118:1 for God for what we understand about him, 22. Matt. 6:24-34, Praise and thanksgiving overcome worry Phil. 4: 6and7 23. Thanksgiving is related to singing, rejoicing, lovegates 3 and 4. Philippians 4:10, Psalm 100 24. Enter His Gates with Thanksgiving Enter His courts with praise. A grateful heart explodes with praise. Through the love's gate with thankfulness which once entering and abiding in love's court is praise. Psalm 100. 25. lovegate 5 Thankfulness builds lovegate 6 humility and humility builds thankfulness Ps 100:3 Romans 1:21 26. Thanksgiving and praise activate the triune God's presence in us and the Spirit's filling of our soul. God inhabits, even is enthroned on our praise Christ's Word inhbits us as we praise we are encapsulated in God's Holines and God can bless us and no evil Spirit or bondage may continue to bind us as we are inhabiting each other through the gate of thanksgiving and its court of praise Colossians 3:16!! and Ps. 22:3 27. Following on that, God is enthroned on our praise and from there (where He always was and we have now elevated him in our souls by our thanksgiving and praise) we can call expectantly for His remedy to our insignificant(compared to His elevated ability to help) problems and sorrows. 28. Mercy is God's grace in action.   29. When we thankfully account to God's Grace the provision of our daily food we say grace. 30. The Psalmist encourages us if not commands us "O! Give thanks to the Lord for good for His mercy endures forever Ps. 106:1, 107:1, 118:1. 31. Thanksgiving impedes carnality Eph 5:4 extends time redeemed abiding in god's lovecourts. 32. Colossians is the New Testament thanksgiving epistle. Psalms for Old Testament Thanksgivings and praises