PTG Thanking God
Author: Discovery Ministry
Date: 2026-04-22 17:29:52+00:00
Keywords: Spiritual Growth
Description: Thanking God excerpt from A Daily Guide for Your Personal Time with God. The Personal Time with God comes from spiritual truths discussed in the Essentials for Spiritual Growth.

Thanking God

(From Personal Time With God™)

It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to the Most High. It is good to proclaim your unfailing love in the morning, your faithfulness in the evening, … You thrill me, LORD, with all you have done for me!
I sing for joy because of what you have done. Psalm 92:1-2, 4

“Lord, by faith, I thank you that

• you have forgiven all my sins—past, present, and future. I am now free from the penalty, power, and guilt of sin so that I can know you and live a new life (Col. 2:13-14, Rom. 8:1-2, Psalm 32:5, Rom. 6:1-19);

• you have made me your child and you will never reject me. I am accepted and I belong to the family of God (1 John 3:1, John 6:37, Eph. 2:19, James 1:18);

• you live in me right now and you will never leave or abandon me—I will never be alone (Rom. 8:10-11, John 14:16, Heb. 13:5);

• you have given me a new life in Christ and a purpose for living. I now have a reason to live and meaningful work to do every day (2 Cor. 5:14-20, 1 Cor. 15:58, 1 Cor. 10:31);

• you have given me eternal life with you now and forever. My relationship with you is safe and secure forever (John 10:28-29, 1 John 5:11-13); and

• you meet all my needs. You meet my physical needs and my need for peace, purpose, and power” (Acts 17:25, Mt. 6:25-33, John 14:27, Isa. 26:3, Rom. 8:28-29, Eph. 3:19).

Thank God for anything else that comes to mind (Psalm 136:1).

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Verse References

Colossians 2:13-14

(13) And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive with him and forgave us all our trespasses. (14) He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

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Romans 8:1-2

(1) Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus, (2) because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

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Psalm 32:5

(5) Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and did not conceal my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,”
and you forgave the guilt of my sin.

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Romans 6:1-19

(1) What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply? (2) Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? (3) Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (4) Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. (5) For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of his resurrection. (6) For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, (7) since a person who has died is freed from sin. (8) Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, (9) because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over him. (10) For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God. (11) So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

(12) Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires. (13) And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness. (14) For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.

(15) What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not! (16) Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey — either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?

(17) But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over, (18) and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. (19) I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

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1 John 3:1

(1) See what great love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children — and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.

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John 6:37

(37) Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out.

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Ephesians 2:19

(19) So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,

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James 1:18

(18) By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

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Romans 8:10-11

(10) Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. (11) And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then he who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through his Spirit who lives in you.

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John 14:16

(16) And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever.

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Hebrews 13:5

(5) Keep your life free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for he himself has said, I will never leave you or abandon you.

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2 Corinthians 5:14-20

(14) For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died. (15) And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

(16) From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way. (17) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! (18) Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. (19) That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

(20) Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.”

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1 Corinthians 15:58

(58) Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

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1 Corinthians 10:31

(31) So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

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John 10:28-29

(28) I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. (29) My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

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1 John 5:11-13

(11) And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (12) The one who has the Son has life. The one who does not have the Son of God does not have life. (13) I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

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Acts 17:25

(25) Neither is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.

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Matthew 6:25-33

(25) “Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? (26) Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? (27) Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying? (28) And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. (29) Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these. (30) If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you — you of little faith? (31) So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ (32) For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. (33) But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.

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John 14:27

(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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Isaiah 26:3

(3) You will keep the mind that is dependent on you
in perfect peace,
for it is trusting in you.

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Romans 8:28-29

(28) We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. (29) For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

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Ephesians 3:19

(19) and to know Christ’s love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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Psalm 136:1

(1) Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.
His faithful love endures forever.

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PTG–Thanking God r260401

©2026 by Discovery Ministry®
www.discoveryministry.org

All Scriptures are from the CSB

(260415)

Table of Contents

- Thanking God

- Verse References