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Thank you GOD for being the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (who is Israel). You are a personal GOD making yourself known to those you reach out to and to those who seek you. You are my GOD and I will serve you for you have declared me your friend who knows and does your will for my life…

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Thank you, ABBA FATHER, for being our PROTECTOR and PROVIDER. Thank you for being our SHIELD and our STRONG TOWER of REFUGE and STRENGTH. Thank you for being omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), and omnipresent (seeing all of creation and what is done in heaven, on earth, and under the earth. Thank you for being the invisible eternally existent ONE who is mindful of humanity and chooses to love them…

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Thank you, JESUS, for being our Savior and our Lord. Thank you for being our Good Shepherd and our King.

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Thank you, Holy Spirit, for being our Helper and Comforter. Thank you for being our Teacher and our Counselor.

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Thank you GOD for being the Creator of heaven and earth and all that is within them. Everything was created by you and for you.

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Thank you GOD for forgiving sin; therefore you are feared. When we confess our sins and iniquities to you, you are just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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Thank you GOD for being merciful, gracious, compassionate, and slow to anger. Thank you for being who you are and proving your character with your faithfulness and your truth to us to be as you say you are for you magnify your Word above your name.

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Thank you for showing me mercy and not taking me as a broken off branch and throwing me into the fire. Instead, you gave me to JESUS your Son who stood up for me in the gap giving me more time to be revived, restored, renewed, refreshed, and redeemed. JESUS, thank you for interceding for me and for your willingness to take me under your wing to nurture and nourish me as you grafted me more strongly and securely into you the True Vine. Your long-suffering to care for me with loving-kindness and patience helped me to start bearing good fruit and then transformed me as a friend who is now serving to do GOD the FATHER’s will for my life…

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Thank you, GOD, for setting the plan of salvation into motion. Thank you, ABBA FATHER, for giving your greatest Gift you could ever give and that being the First Love of your only begotten Son JESUS. Thank you, JESUS, for giving your greater love by obeying GOD the FATHER’s will and commands completely, for fulfilling the law and the prophets perfectly, and for laying down your life for your friends and for all of humanity.

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Thank you, JESUS, for coming to earth from Heaven as the Word made flesh. Thank you for being the Son of GOD and the Son of Man. Thank you for being Emmanuel (GOD with us). Thank you for being the Light of the World and the bright morning star bringing your Light into our darkness. Thank you for being tempted in all ways as we are, yet without sin for you are the pure and spotless Lamb. Thank you for being the Lamb of GOD who takes away the sins of the world. Thank you for being the sacrificial Lamb chosen of GOD to have preached and taught about the KINGdom of heaven, to have forgiven people of their sins, to have healed people of their sicknesses and their diseases, to have restored sight to the blind, to have restored hearing to the deaf, and to have restored walking to the lame, to have delivered people from demon possession to restore sound minds, and to have raised the dead to life. Thank you for being the suffering servant praying in the Garden of Gethsemane with droplets of blood falling from your brow. Thank you for surrendering to being arrested and taken to the Jewish leaders and chief priests where you were spit at and mocked. Thank you for taking the lashes to your back for our healing. Thank you for being beaten unrecognizable as part of our punishment. Thank you for taking the crown of thorns thrust upon your head for our shame. Thank you for carrying your cross until you weren’t able to do so. Thank you for willingly going up Golgotha’s Hill (Calvary) and laying down your life upon the cross to be nailed to it. Thank you for being lifted up to draw all men, women, and children to yourself. Thank you for shedding your blood for the remission of our sins as the Lamb Who Was Slain. Thank you for being the atoning sacrifice paying the ransom for many. Thank you for being the Resurrection and the Life for overcoming sin, death, the grave, satan, and satisfying GOD’s wrath for us. Thank you for being the Way, the Truth, and the Life who leads, guides, and directs our steps onto paths of righteousness for your namesake. Thank you for being the Good Shepherd who leaves the 99 to find the lost sheep who has strayed, wandered off, gotten lost, or fallen stuck in a pit to bring him or her out to carry upon your shoulder home back through the Gate for you’re the Gate for the sheep and back into the land of the living in your green pastures to restore the soul in rest, to anoint the head with oil, and to refill the cup to overflowing as you provide for all needs. Thank you for sitting at GOD the FATHER’s right hand living to intercede for us as our High Priest and standing as our Defense against the accuser of the brethren who is satan. Thank you for being the Lion of Judah who defeats all your enemies. Thank you for being the King of kings and Lord of lords for you are sovereign and in control. Thank you for being the Righteous One who has been given the office of Righteous Judge who will judge fairly between the righteous and the wicked for you are the Way to heaven and hold the keys to death and hades and have heaven’s wisdom with understanding and earth’s perspective. Thank you for being the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, and the First and the Last. Thank you for being the Author and Perfecter of our faith for HE who began a good work in us will continue to perform it until the day of Christ JESUS.

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Thank you, Holy Spirit, for convicting the world of sin. Thank you for convicting me so that I would see my need for JESUS as my Savior and Lord. Thank you for convicting Believers of sin so that we may confess our sins to GOD our FATHER for HE is just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Thank you for teaching us and leading us into all Truth. Thank you for giving us words to speak when we need them. Thank you for praying for us with groans that words cannot express in accordance with GOD’s will when we don’t have the words to pray. Thank you for being the Seal of Deposit to guarantee our inheritance into heaven. Thank you for being the Gift from GOD our FATHER to us so we don’t have to live our life on our own.