God’s Family Hymnal 1:44

【Thanks to God】

Thanks O God for boundless mercy, 

Thanks O God for my Redeemer! 

Thanks for times now but a memory, 

Thanks O God, rejoice for me, 

Thanks O God, for being my life! 

Thanks O God for Fatherly love,

Thanks for the glory to come, 

I can see Your face for’ver

Thanks for roses by the wayside,

Thanks for thorns their stems contain!

Thanks for storms that I have weathered,

Thanks for all Thou dost supply!

Thanks for pleasant, balmy springtime,

Thanks for dark and stormy fall!

Thanks for grace that none can measure, 

Your love is beyond compare! 

Thanks for embracing all my life, 

Thanks for comfort in despair! 

Thanks for the victory in the past , 

Thanks for hope, that sweet refrain! 

Thanks for joy and thanks for sorrow, 

Thanks for heavenly peace with Thee! 

Thanks for hope in the tomorrow, 

Thanks through all eternity!  

【Luke 6:6-13】

6 On another Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.

7 And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse him.

8 But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, "Come and stand here." And he rose and stood there.

9 And Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?"

10 And after looking around at them all he said to him, "Stretch out your hand." And he did so, and his hand was restored.

11 But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.

13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: