Thankfulness Readings: Psalm 7

1 Lord my God, I seek refuge in you;

save me from all my pursuers and rescue me,

2 or they will tear me like a lion,

ripping me apart with no one to rescue me.

3 Lord my God, if I have done this,

if there is injustice on my hands,

4 if I have done harm to one at peace with me

or have plundered my adversary without cause,

5 may an enemy pursue and overtake me;

may he trample me to the ground

and leave my honor in the dust. Selah

6 Rise up, Lord, in your anger;

lift yourself up against the fury of my adversaries;

awake for me;

you have ordained a judgment.

7 Let the assembly of peoples gather around you;

take your seat on high over it.

8 The Lord judges the peoples;

vindicate me, Lord,

according to my righteousness and my integrity.

9 Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,

but establish the righteous.

The one who examines the thoughts and emotions

is a righteous God.

10 My shield is with God,

who saves the upright in heart.

11 God is a righteous judge

and a God who shows his wrath every day.

12 If anyone does not repent,

he will sharpen his sword;

he has strung his bow and made it ready.

13 He has prepared his deadly weapons;

he tips his arrows with fire.

14 See, the wicked one is pregnant with evil,

conceives trouble, and gives birth to deceit.

15 He dug a pit and hollowed it out

but fell into the hole he had made.

16 His trouble comes back on his own head;

his own violence comes down on top of his head.

17 I will thank the Lord for his righteousness;

I will sing about the name of the Lord Most High.

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Thankfulness Readings: John 14:1-27

14:1 [Jesus speaking] “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3 If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also. 4 You know the way to where I am going.”

5 “Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where you’re going. How can we know the way?”

6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you know me, you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

Jesus Reveals the Father

8 “Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”

9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time and you do not know me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who lives in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.

Praying in Jesus’s Name

12 “Truly I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

Another Counselor Promised

15 “If you love me, you will keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever. 17 He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will be in you.

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. 19 In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live too. 20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you. 21 The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it you’re going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

23 Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 The one who doesn’t love me will not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.

25 “I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you. 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.

Jesus’s Gift of Peace

27 “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Don’t let your heart be troubled or fearful."

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