Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper in

their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it. I am

so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because every

woman is a theologian. Hello friends, and welcome back to Verity Podcast for our

end of summer mini-series on prayer. We have talked about adoration, we've talked

about confession, and now we're talking about thanksgiving. What does it mean to

pray in thanksgiving to God? How do we thank God on a regular basis and what does

it do for us? So of course, there's crossover between these types of prayer. We're

going through the acts model of prayer in this little mini-series, adoration, confession,

thanksgiving, and supplication. As a way to kind of show how prayer can look different ways,

I want to encourage you to pray more than just requests, although we're going to talk about

requests next week. I want to really encourage you to pray more creatively and to pray what

scripture says. And this is something that we like to do with our kids, but it's also a really

great practice just for as you're going about your day and cultivating that habit of praying

continually as 1 Thessalonians 5 tells us to do. If you've ever wondered how to pray continually,

it's simply talking to God as you're going about your life, and I think thanksgiving is one of

the easiest ways to do this. Adoration is similar in that we're turning our eyes to God in his

character, but thanksgiving is specifically focusing on one aspect of God's character, and that's

God as our giver, our provider, our sustainer, we're thanking him for the ways that he is revealing

himself in our lives already, in anticipation that he will continue to do so. Now whenever I talk

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