Thanksful Hearts (Background scriptures re: Thanksgiving)

Scriptural references for thanksgiving:www.folmadison.org

1. Nehemiah 12:46
   For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
2. Psalm 26:7
   That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
3. Psalm 50:14
   Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
4. Psalm 69:30
   I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
5. Psalm 95:2
   Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
6. Psalm 100:4
   Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
7. Psalm 107:22*
   And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
8. Psalm 116:17*
   I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.
9. Psalm 147:7
   Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
10. Isaiah 51:3
    For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
11. Jeremiah 30:19
    And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
12. Amos 4:5
    And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
13. Jonah 2:9
    But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
14. Philippians 4:6
    Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
15. Colossians 2:7
    Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
16. Colossians 4:2
    Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
17. 1 Timothy 4:3
    Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.