Thankgsgiving 2023

Psalm 65:9–13 (NKJV)

9 You visit the earth and water it, You greatly enrich it; The river of God is full of water; You provide their grain, For so You have prepared it.

10 You water its ridges abundantly, You settle its furrows; You make it soft with showers, You bless its growth.

11 You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance.

12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness, And the little hills rejoice on every side.

13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing.

The Hebrew Word used for Crown “atar” literally mean to encircle, encompass, surround.

To God’s people, The year is encircles with God’s goodness. From the begining to the end of the year we have been encircled by God’s Goodness.

If we have eyes to see, and hearts to percieve, we will testify of the goodness of God in our lives this past year.

I want us today to acknowedge God’s goodness in the past year, so we can start the year with gratefullness and thanksgiving expecting God to crown this year as well with his goodness.

Be Thankful for Being Alive

Psalm 30:1–5 (NKJV)

1 I will extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up, And have not let my foes rejoice over me.

2 O Lord my God, I cried out to You, And You healed me.

3 O Lord, You brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

4 Sing praise to the Lord, you saints of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.

5 For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.

The enemy through his many Schemes had plotted to kill us spiritually, to kill our faith.

However God has not allowed the enemy to rejoice over us, he have kept us from the pit of darkness and kept us alive in his presence.

Let us tell the devil today I am still here, standing alive and well in the presence of the Lord.

Psalm 124 (NKJV)

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

1 “If it had not been the Lord who was on our side,” Let Israel now say—

2 “If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, When men rose up against us,

3 Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;

4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our soul;

5 Then the swollen waters Would have gone over our soul.”

6 Blessed be the Lord, Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

7 Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.

Some of us have gone through some waters, through some storms yet it has not overwhelmed us, because the Lord is on our side.

Isaiah 43:2 “2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.”

God has not given us as prey to our enemy, to the storm, to the sea.

Stand up and praise him for getting you through the storm, the fire and the difficulty this year without it overwhelming you.

Be thankful For his Mercy

Psalm 103 (NKJV)

A Psalm of David.

1 Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name!

2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits:

3 Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases,

4 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,

5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

6 The Lord executes righteousness And justice for all who are oppressed.

7 He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.

8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.

9 He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever.

10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us according to our iniquities.

11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him;

12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

13 As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him.

14 For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.

15 As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more.

17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting On those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children,

18 To such as keep His covenant, And to those who remember His commandments to do them.

19 The Lord has established His throne in heaven, And His kingdom rules over all.

20 Bless the Lord, you His angels, Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word.

21 Bless the Lord, all you His hosts, You ministers of His, who do His pleasure.

22 Bless the Lord, all His works, In all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!

God has not dealt with us according to our sins nor according to our iniquities,

The way he has dealt with us is according to his Mercy.

Psalm 118 (NKJV)

1 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.

2 Let Israel now say, “His mercy endures forever.”

3 Let the house of Aaron now say, “His mercy endures forever.”

4 Let those who fear the Lord now say, “His mercy endures forever.”

5 I called on the Lord in distress; The Lord answered me and set me in a broad place.

6 The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?

7 The Lord is for me among those who help me; Therefore I shall see my desire on those who hate me.

8 It is better to trust in the Lord Than to put confidence in man.

9 It is better to trust in the Lord Than to put confidence in princes.

10 All nations surrounded me, But in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

11 They surrounded me, Yes, they surrounded me; But in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

12 They surrounded me like bees; They were quenched like a fire of thorns; For in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

13 You pushed me violently, that I might fall, But the Lord helped me.

14 The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.

15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation Is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.

16 The right hand of the Lord is exalted; The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.

17 I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the Lord.

18 The Lord has chastened me severely, But He has not given me over to death.

19 Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, And I will praise the Lord.

Have you enetered this gates to praise the Lord

20 This is the gate of the Lord, Through which the righteous shall enter.

21 I will praise You, For You have answered me, And have become my salvation.

If you believe that the Lord has answered you when you call praise him!

22 The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.

23 This was the Lord’s doing; It is marvelous in our eyes.

24 This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.

This is the Year that the Lord has made we will be glad and rejoice in it.

Let it be a year of gladness and rejoiceing in Jesus Name!

25 Save now, I pray, O Lord; O Lord, I pray, send now prosperity.

26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We have blessed you from the house of the Lord.

God has blessed you from his house.

We need to be thankful that we have been planted in the house of the Lord.

Psalms 92:12-14 “12 The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord Shall flourish in the courts of our God. 14 They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing,”

You spirit is flourishing because you are planted in the true church of the Living God.

You are spiritually growing and maturing because you are planted not in a false church and the true church of the Living God, where his spirit flows and his word is given.

Get up and praise him for being planted in his house.

27 God is the Lord, And He has given us light; Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.

28 You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You.

29 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.

Concluding by asking Two thing for this year

Psalm 92:1–10 (NKJV)

1 It is good to give thanks to the Lord, And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;

2 To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, And Your faithfulness every night,

3 On an instrument of ten strings, On the lute, And on the harp, With harmonious sound.

4 For You, Lord, have made me glad through Your work; I will triumph in the works of Your hands.

5 O Lord, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.

6 A senseless man does not know, Nor does a fool understand this.

7 When the wicked spring up like grass, And when all the workers of iniquity flourish, It is that they may be destroyed forever.

8 But You, Lord, are on high forevermore.

9 For behold, Your enemies, O Lord, For behold, Your enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

10 But my horn You have exalted like a wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil.

God to make us glad through his work this year

God to anoint us with fresh oil this year