Here’s a straightforward, Scripture-saturated study to stimulate your gratitude for the greatest gift anyone could ever receive and enjoy, today and forever: God.
This Bible study is suitable for both individuals and small groups, as well as more informal gatherings during the holidays – after a meal at the dinner table or in your living room (after you’ve turned off the TV).
You can do this study in one session, or you could turn it into a 3-session study:
Session 1 – God the Father
Session 2 – God the Son
Session 3 – God the Holy Spirit.
The goal of this study is a life of joyful, loving obedience to these two passages:
“Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving”
Psalm 50:14
“Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise – the fruit of lips that confess his name.”
Hebrews 13:15
A Thanksgiving Bible Study:
Thanking God for Who He Is and What He Does
This study focuses on the reasons we can thank and praise God for:
His Attributes – characteristics of His nature that reveal what He is like.
His Actions – what God does for His people that displays those attributes.
God the Father
Read Psalm 103
Make a list of the Father’s attributes and actions.
Choose one attribute and one action that have been meaningful to you lately.
Why did you happen to choose that attribute and action?
Offer (or write out) a prayer of praise and thanksgiving for any of these attributes and actions.
For a deeper dive:
What is the meaning and significance of each attribute and action?
Find a parallel passage for each attribute and action. How does that parallel passage shed light on the meaning of the attribute or action?
God the Son
Read Romans 5:1-11 and Colossians 1:15-23
Make a list of the Son’s attributes and actions.
Choose one attribute and one action that have been meaningful to you lately.
Why did you happen to choose that attribute and action?
Offer (or write out) a prayer of praise and thanksgiving for any of these attributes and actions.
For a deeper dive:
What is the meaning and significance of each attribute and action?
Find a parallel passage for each attribute and action. How does that parallel passage shed light on the meaning of the attribute or action?
God the Holy Spirit
Read John 14:16-18, 14:25-26, 16:7-15; Romans 8:26-27
Make a list of the Spirit’s attributes and actions.
Choose one attribute and one action that have been most meaningful to you lately.
Why did you happen to choose that attribute and action?
Offer (or write out) a prayer of praise and thanksgiving for any of these attributes and actions.
For a deeper dive:
What is the meaning and significance of each attribute and action?
Find a parallel passage for each attribute and action. How does that parallel passage shed light on the meaning of the attribute or action?
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