Thanksgivins and Praise
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What do I believe God wants them to know? Praise and Thanksgiving brings us JOY, RENEWAL, ERRIDACTION of WORRY and ANXIEY
Why? I want them to have JOY, RENEWAL, NOT WORRY
What do I believe God wants them to do? Praise and Thanksgiving
Why? I want them to have JOY, RENEWAL, NOT WORRY
ME/WE/INTRO
One of the things I was delightfully reminded of and surprised by when I recently went to Target with my sons is that book still in existence and promoted that I loved as a child....A book I would spend countless amounts of times on....and that book is “Where’s Waldo”
Anybody in this room owned this book or looked through this book?
What’s the premise of this book, that is not really a book as we know it per say?
It is to find Waldo
But Waldo is not easy to find because the page is full of all other things and many things that share the same colors as Waldo.
And when you find it there is moment of celebration or ecstatic JOY, especially if he has been hard to find
I found Waldo!
TENSION
The reason I bring this up is because I believe sometimes this is what it is like or can be like when we are looking for the goodness of God.
At times the goodness of God is like trying to find Waldo
WHY? Is this the case
We read in scripture
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.
Part of this is because we have three enemies that are blinding us from seeing the goodness of God, trying to get us to not find the goodness of God
WHY they blinding us? Hiding the goodness of God from us?
they know if you find and discover and know the goodness of God
You will be full of JOY, LIFE, HOPE, RENEWAL, AND WORRY WILL BE ERADICATED
They don’t want you to see the GOODNESS OF GOD so there are going to do whatever it takes for you not to see the GOODNESS of GOD
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
What are the three enemies?
We have the WORLD…what does the world show us continually? GOOD NEWS? showing everyday how bad the world is....Interesting fact are children safer in now America from kidnapping and harm or were they safer in our parents and grandparents generation?
Kids today are far safer today than in our parents and grandparents generation but that is not what we hear from the media and from our friends
2. Enemy…
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
an enemy that speaks lies
Saw this in the Garden of Eden
When the enemy question the goodness of God…Did God really say don’t eat of the fruit off that tree???
Come on really what’s going on is God is robbing from you.
You need to eat the fruit off the tree
3. Flesh
OUR FLESH DOES NOT VIEW LIFE IN A GOOD WAY
We see all the wrong
Sometimes the majority of the page of our life is good except maybe the one spot we see.
sometimes our flesh is like eeyore
Everything in life is bad
The world is cloasping
I am not a good person
ANYBODY BEEN HERE
HOW DO WE CHANGE THIS??? How do we see the GOODNESS OF GOD?
Because what is at stake is our JOY, LIFE, RENEWAL, ERRDICATON OF ANXIETY
WHAT DO WE DO?
PRAISE THE LORD....THANK THE LORD....BLESS THE LORD
HOW DOES THAT WORK?
It gets our eyes on the TRUTH, it gets our eyes fixed on Heaven and on Jesus.
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
THE REASON WE CANNOT SEE GOODNESS BECAUSE OUR EYES ARE SET ON THE WORLDLY THINGS
We see all the problems all the dificulties, all the pain
BUT WHEN WE PRAISE....OUR EYES GET LIFTED UP....OUR HOPE IS RESTORED
When we do we will have joy, peace, life, renewal, and errdication of worry.
Worry and worship are like oil and water
What is there to praise God for? Sometimes we get so blinded and deceived by the WORLD, FLESH, ENEMY tha too blind to see
What is there to praise God for? Sometimes we get so blinded and deceived by the WORLD, FLESH, ENEMY tha too blind to see
David is going to praise God for over ten things and we will cover several things we can be thankful and praise God for
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,
How often do we forget the goodness of God?
Frequently
we can leave church spend and are reminded of the goodness of God
Then we receive bad news or get in a fight with our family members
This why God instructed them to
Offer sacrifices of Thanksgiving…it is for your JOY and HIS GLORY
2. Why God instructed the nation of Israel, when they were delivered from the slavery of Egypt to to set up remembering stones…that every time they looked at the stones they can remember the goodness of God
When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,
“Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,
and command them, saying, ‘Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests’ feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.’ ”
Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe.
And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel,
that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’
then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever.”
3. Phil 4:4
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.
He knows what is at stake…it is our JOY and HIS GLORY
4. Martin Luther said preach the Gospel, the goodness of the Gospel everyday because he forgot
It is LIFE and JOY critical to be in constantly PRAISING OF GOD
What can we praise God for?
1. FORGIVENESS
who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
GUILT that is bought on by SIN
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
How much does He do this?
A little?
Is it conditional?
NO
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.
He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
East from West....what is so great about this? Why would NORTH and SOUTH not be as powerful?
God is saying the sin you are beating yourself up about has been forgiven
REJOICE…BLESS THE LORD
2. HEALS
who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
Heal us PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY, RELATIONALLY, SPIRITUALLY
This happens in the present, thought not completely, what I mean is one day we all pass from this life, but we do not truly die, it is at that moment that we become alive than we have every been.
The beauty of Jesus is that we are in the land of the dying on the way to the land of the living....and all those we lost this side who believe in Jesus we will see again....you will see your dad, grandpa, best friend....
There is also healing hear....I have experienced it. I have experience a physical healing, spiritual healing, and emotional healing
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
I have experience a physical healing, spiritual healing, and emotional healing
Carla
Me
David Praises God that He
Forgives
Heals
Then David says
3. REDEEM
who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
You are the God who REDEEMS me from the PIT....even when I create the pit, GOD you redeem me!
God does not just forgive you....He redeems you back into the family of God.
this is sometimes what get’s lost in the Christmas story the Gospel....forgiveness brings us to ZERO
You are a child of God
As a child of God
Promise HE WORKS ALL THINGS FOR GOOD
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
David is the one who had an affair and the husband of the person woman he had affair with murdered.
He knows the GOODNESS of GOD
4. CROWNED WITH LOVE
How much does he Love you?
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Good Song
Saved
Sound Mind Sound
In the chaos, You are the peace
In my suffering, You're here with me
In the darkness, You never leave
God of mercy, You're walking with me
I surrender anxiety
All the striving has to cease
In this moment, You're still the King
This is the gift You are giving to me
[Chorus]
A sound mind for the spirit of fear
A sound mind so that I can see clearly
A sound mind, Your Spirit is here
A sound mind, a sound mind
There's a table where we meet
In the presence of my enemies
I will listen, I will feast
On every word You are speaking to me
I remember who You are
You're my fortress and my God
I will stand in authority
In Jesus' name all this darkness will flee
You saved, healed, delivered me
Jesus' blood wash over me
Command my soul awake, arise
This is my inheritance
What the blood of Jesus paid for
5. SATISFIES YOU WITH GOOD
who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
God is my provider! He is going to take care of me!
He is my soul provider!
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.
6. RENEWS US
who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
How many of us have praised Jesus and it just RENEWED US....we came in depleted and depressed and we left soaring on eagles wings.
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
God is praise my name.
Praise that He
FORGIVES
HEALS
REDEEMS
CROWNS YOU WITH LOVE AND MERCY
PROVIDES FOR YOU
RENEWS YOU
Praise His name for when you do you will see the Goodness of God and be full of
and when you do JOY, LIFE, LOVE, RENEWAL, and WORRY WILL DISAPPATE
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