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Title: Harvest Festival of Thanksgiving
Theme: Biblical Expressions of Thanksgiving to God
Psalm 100:1-5 says, “Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
Worship the LORD with gladness; come before Him with joyful songs.
Know that the LORD is God.
It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name.
For the LORD is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.”
(Psalm 100:1-5)
The Lord God is worthy of a harvest festival of thanksgiving
Psalm 100 is the grand finale of that cluster of psalms that begin in Psalm 94.
The psalmist calls on all the earth to come to God and shout for joy.
Nations are to recognize who the Lord is and ascribe to Him the glory due His Name.
(Psalm 96:7) At different times in this cluster of hymns all those who know the Lord are given an invitation to submit expressions of thanksgiving out of a heart response of joy and gratitude for His covenant promises.
(The Expositors Bible Commentary, Thru the Bible)
Psalm 100:1-5 says, “Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
Worship the LORD with gladness; come before Him with joyful songs.
Know that the LORD is God.
It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name.
For the LORD is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.”
(Psalm 100:1-5) Pray!
I would propose to you that the Lord God is worthy of a harvest festival of thanksgiving.
It has been pointed out by many that “Thanksgiving” is the offering of thanks and it is not complete until there is giving.
If you are a Christian, God has called you to Christ.
Jesus paid the ultimate price for your salvation and reconciliation to God, and the Holy Spirit is the one person who is working in your sanctification process.
Just what are four Biblical expressions of thanksgiving that can be offered to the Triune God?
Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving
Our first outward expression is singing.
Psalm 147:7 says, “Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; make music to our God on the harp.”
(Psalm 147:7) Ephesians 5:19 says, “Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.
Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord…” (Ephesians 5:19)
“Sing” (anah) here is an answer of response to the goodness of God.
(The Complete Word Study Dictionary of the Old Testament; The Treasury of David) It can be done to music because it helps prepare the spiritual heart to grow and mature in its relationship with the Lord.
Singing is a sure way of becoming aware of God’s presence.
This singing must begin in the heart by listening to and learning the songs of praise that the Holy Spirit has and is inspiring music ministers to write.
Therefore, it is necessary that you make time to listen to Christian music on a regular basis.
Some say that I can’t sing.
That may be true.
However, all Christians can appreciate music to the Lord and they must allow the Holy Spirit to place that melody and the words sung deep within their heart.
People who are joyful in the Lord are Christians who enjoy Christian music and participate in Christian singing.
There is a melody within their heart and it is lived out for all to see.
Christianity is a singing faith and according to Rick Warren, throughout history there are more songs written about Jesus than anything else.
Thus Christians have a wide selection of music to select from.
Because of all the problems and wrong attitudes surrounding the song service, many church attendees are not participating as they should.
Singing unto the Lord is a very good way of getting Christians minds off of themselves, and laying all their present life situations and problems aside so they can focus on Jesus.
Singing unto the God and about His great works renews their strength, recharges their spiritual hearts and restores those moments of intimacy with the Lord.
When Christ becomes the heart focus, then faith arises and the peace of God is allowed to replace non-belief, bitterness and self-reliance.
Pastor Ron Cox knew the power of singing unto the Lord.
His wife suffered for seventeen years with a crippling illness.
He had seen God bring healing upon healing in the church he oversees for the Lord Jesus.
Yet, his wife suffered.
He would go to the rest home early every morning to spend time with her.
He would drive to his office drained.
June Creel, his long term secretary of 20 plus years told me how Pastor Cox would spend hours listening to Christian music and prayerfully reading the Word of God.
It was during these times the Holy Spirit of God would come and reassure him of God’s love, provision and protection.
Pastor Ron would come out of those times of listening to and singing along with those music tapes restored, strengthened and recharged for the day’s labor.
Pastor Rick Warren tells of a Christian psychologist who would councel people who battled depression.
The first question the psychologist would ask his patients was, “Have you listened to and sung along with Christian music today?”
Then he would ask, “Have you been to church this week and in a right heart, participated in singing praises to God?”
Matthew Henry wrote it well, “When God in His providence gives us a mixture of mercy and judgment it is our duty to sing, and sing unto Him both of the one and of the other; we must be suitably affected with both, and make suitable acknowledgments to the Lord for both.”
Over fifty different passages of Scripture command Christians to sing because it is the vocabulary of praise to God.
This is clearly seen in the Old and New Testaments.
The beloved John envisions the redeemed singing in the presence of God.
Therefore, the children of God today should want to sing praises to the Lord Jesus Christ.
In everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving
Singing is the best way to enter into the presence of God and the whole Body of Christ should make a common practice of it.
The second way of expressing thankfulness is to pray.
Philippians 4:6-7 says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
(Philippians 4:6-7) This is a command.
Christians can give the Lord their worries.
“Anxious” (merimnao) means not to be drawn into different directions.
Christians are not to worry over anything whatsoever.
“Anything” (meden) literally means not one thing.
It is sin to do so.
(Word Meanings in the New Testament; The Preacher’s Outline and Sermon Bible) It means not even to take thought or rather be troubled in thought.
(The Complete Word Study Dictionary of the New Testament)
The great news is that Christians do not need to be troubled about anything that comes their way.
The Lord is fully able to oversee their health, provision and give direction in their lives.
Christians can be thankful, for the Lord cares about every single thing in their lives.
He hears and will answer according to His good purposes.
The statement “Unanswered Prayers” is an unbiblical term in my opinion.
The Lord answers all prayers.
If the answer is “wait until His timing” then Christians are to pray until they get a clear answer and direction.
If the answer is “no” then they are to thank Him for not giving them what is contrary to His will.
If the answer is “yes” they are to thank Him for His continued provision and intercession in their lives.
The Lord cares and knows about every part of the child of God’s life.
He knows their need even before they ask it of Him.
(Matthew 6:8) It is a blessing to Him when His children express true faith by being thankful that they have a loving Father who is able and willing to intervene in every single part of their lives.
One of our great Christian mystics of the middle ages had Holy Spirit revelation and illumination of what it means to live a life that expresses thanksgiving in prayer to the Lord.
He wrote, “Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart, its pleasures and its pains to a dear trusted friend.
Tell the Lord your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may [rejoice over] them; tell Him your longings, that He may [purify your heart aright]; tell Him your dislikes, that He will help you conquer them; talk to Him of your temptations, that He may shield you from them; show Him the wounds of your heart, that He may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved taste for evil, your instability.
Tell Him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself as to others.
If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, and troubles, there will be no lack of what to say to the Lord.
You will never exhaust the subject.
It is continually being renewed.
People who have no secrets from each other never need to find subjects for conversations… they talk out of the abundance of the heart without consideration, just what they think.
Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with [the Lord].”
(Fenelon; The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart)
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