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1. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.2. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.3. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.4. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.5. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. Psalm 100:1-5 ?? Thanksgiving is coming up, so let me share a little history of it. In 1621 the colonists, and Wampanoag Native Americans, gave thanks to God, for the Autumn harvest, and the blessings encountered throughout the year. It was celebrated for over two hundred years, in the states. In 1863 in the middle of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be held each November. Each day to a Christian, is a Thanksgiving Day, the breath of life, received each day, provisions, family, occupation, all given by God. Yet the one gift so valuable, salvation, cost God, His, Son. We need to be thankful, and praise God, for all His benefits. A Christian, is active, coming into the Lord's presence, with a joyful heart, full of living water, not as a pond, that has no source, and grows stagnant, and eventually dries up. We are renewed daily in His Spirit, guided each day, for we have not traveled this road before, each day is new. It is of the Lord's mercy, that we are here, His goodness, and truth, extends, to our children, Lord, I thank for ever blessing, every breath, who but Jesus, could save me. Amen.