Lev 7: 12-13 (peace offerings for sacrifice of thanksgiving) 12 If he offers it by way of thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers [a]spread with oil, and cakes of well stirred fine flour mixed with oil. 13 With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving, he shall present his offering with cakes of leavened bread.
15 ‘Now as for the flesh of the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offerings, it shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it over until morning.
Lev 22:29 When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
Neh 11:17 The leader in beginning the thanksgiving at prayer
Neh 12:8 in charge of the songs of thanksgiving
Neh 12:27 (and 46) hymns of thanksgiving and with songs to the accompaniment of cymbals, harps and lyres . . . there were [a]leaders of the singers, songs of praise and hymns of thanksgiving to God.
Dan 2: 23 “To You, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise" (wisdom)
Ps 26:7 "That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving and declare all Your [a]wonders."
Ps 50: 14 “Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving and pay your vows to the Most High"
Ps 69: 30 "I will praise the name of God with song and magnify Him with thanksgiving."
Ps 95: 2 "Let us come into His presence with thanksgiving, let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise!"
Ps 100:4 "Enter his gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise! Give thanks to Him, bless His name"
Ps 107:22 "Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of His works with joyful singing"
Ps 116: 17 "To You I shall offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and call upon the name of the Lord."
Ps 140: 13 "Surely the righteous will give thanks to Your name; the upright will dwell in Your presence."
Ps 147:7 "Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving (zamar) Sing praises to our God on the lyre"
Is 51:3 "Thanksgiving and a sound of melody"
Jer 30: 19 "from them shall proceed thanksgiving"
Amos 4:5 "offer a thank offering"
Jonah 2: 9 But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving."
Luke 17: 16 "and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a (healed) Samaritan.
John 6: 11"Jesus then took the loaves, and having given thanks", 23 "There came other small boats from Tiberias near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks."
John 11: 41 “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me." (prayer answered)
1 Cor 11: 24 "and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
1 Cor 15: 57 "but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (victory)
2 Cor 4: 15 "For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which is [a]spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God."
2 Cor 9: 11, 12, 15 producing thanksgiving . . . many thanksgivings, (salvation)
Eph 1: 16 "do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers"
Eph 5: 20 "always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to [a]God, even the Father"
Phil 1: 3 "I thank my God in all my remembrance of you" (spontaneous)
Phil 4: 6 "Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God"
Col 2: 7 "having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established [a]in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing [b]with gratitude."
Col 4: 2 "Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving"
1 Thess 1:2 "We give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers" (converts)
1 Thess 2: 13 "For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe." (change)
1 Thess 5: 18 "in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus"
2 Thessalonians 2: 13 "But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you [a]from the beginning for salvation [b]through sanctification [c]by the Spirit and faith in the truth."
1 Tim 4: 3, 4 "foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude."
Rev 7: 12 - “Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen.” (heaven's theme)
http://reconciled1.com/?s=native The Native Americans, for example, the host people of North America, have been severely wounded by government, the church, and society.
www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/co001.htm Sand Creek Massacre
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/01/presidential-proclamation-national-native-american-heritage-month-2012
Identificational Repentance and Reconciliation
"The term was originally coined by John Dawson and the technique is claimed to give Christians the power to heal the past. It involves the recognition that nations and/or cities can and do sin corporately and if such sin is not remitted the iniquity can become worse in each succeeding generation. This cycle can be stopped by corporate or identificational repentance which effectively removes the foothold Satan has used to hold populations in spiritual darkness and social misery. It is claimed that this will open the way for the revival churches and an unprecedented harvest of souls." - Reid
Demons are believed to take control of both the villains and the victims of corporate sin. The purpose of many of the "reconciliation" events that have been held by this movement is to remove barriers to proselytizing various ethnic and religious groups. It is believed that if there is corporate repentance, for instance, repentance for the treatment of Native American Indians, then the demons are removed, opening the way to mass evangelism of these groups, which are considered to be blocked from salvation by territorial demons.
This is the ideology behind the ceremony in which Sen. Sam Brownback (in his capacity as U.S. Senator, he states), repented to Native American apostles Niegel Bigpond and Jay Swallow at "The Call." Nashville, on 7/07/07, followed by apologies to African Americans and Hispanic communities. (Dutch Sheets introduces Sam Brownback in this video. ) The event was one of Lou Engle's regional "The Call" events leading to the Washington D.C. event on 8/08/08.
Divorce Decree from Baal (as part of Identificational Repentence) The apostle over one of the largest of the New Apostolic prayer warrior networks in the nation, describes one "sign of transformation." as the Native American Apology Resolution presented by Sam Brownback and passed in 2008 as part of the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act (S. 1200). They claim this success followed "after we divorced Baal and Mammon," a ceremony of corporate repentance. Link here to an account of one of the divorcing Baal ceremonies in Texas in which participants, including Apostle Niegel Bigpond, claim to have smashed Indian artifacts which are believed to harbor demons.
The apologies appear quite sincere and result in multiethnic and multicultural partnerships. However, the process of reconciliation is for the purpose of taking "Christian dominion" over other religions, ethnic groups, and belief systems. It requires renouncing of former cultural practices and artifacts that can not be absorbed in evangelical practice, as demonic. The Transformations videos reenact a number of examples of the destruction of native artifacts, and leaders have claimed that their prayers resulted in the spontaneous destruction of buildings and icons of other religious practices.
"A standardized, spiritual mapping product designed to sustain fervent corporate intercession until community transformation becomes a reality. The most common report features a specific town or neighborhood, although the definition is flexible enough to encompass school campuses, large companies, military bases, housing estates, and Native American reservations." - Otis
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/8/6/135752/1937/
www.indianlife.org is what is given out to Natives at the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
