Stories of God’s Goodness: Stones of Thankfulness
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Thankfulness—for what?
Thankfulness—for what?
Recapping our year?
looking back (personally) & scripturally
1) Hearing our cries (not forgotten)
1) Hearing our cries (not forgotten)
a) God has been at work (read )
b)
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2) Remembers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
2) Remembers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
(sent Moses to deliver)
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“He found him in a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he encircled him, he cared for him,
he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
bearing them on its pinions,
Deuteronomy 32:10-
a) how has God delivered you? Past & present?
a) how has God delivered you? Past & present?
b) where do you need God to remember you?
3) God reveals his power (He saves)
3) God reveals his power (He saves)
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a) How has God saved you?
the Lord alone guided him,
no foreign god was with him.
He made him ride on the high places of the land,
and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with honey out of the rock,
and oil out of the flinty rock.
Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
with the very finest of the wheat—
and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape.
a) How has God saved you?
b) How do you need God to save you now?
4) God Provides
4) God Provides
Basic needs
water, manna, and quail
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5) God Proclaims His desire for His People
5) God Proclaims His desire for His People
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Invites to enter into covenant
6) God is patient
6) God is patient
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even in our wilderness wandering and rebellion
Golden calf
rebellion at
7) God goes with us
7) God goes with us
5-9.
8)God is in the midst of our pain
8)God is in the midst of our pain
God knows our propensity to rebel and wander and reject. He allows us to enter Into the pain of our choices. Remember, we are not innocent.
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Yet our pain and suffering are not the end (they can be if we continue in our sin, evil, and wickedness).
the pain and suffering of the wilderness (necessary and purposeful, but temporary)
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9) God fulfills promises
9) God fulfills promises
Joshua 1:1-9.
10) God desires to bring us into the dwelling place of intended purposes
10) God desires to bring us into the dwelling place of intended purposes
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11) God delivers us from enemies & protect us from the snares of evil
11) God delivers us from enemies & protect us from the snares of evil
a) deliver us from enemies (Joshua 6:1-5)
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(Joshu6:17-19
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b) protect us from the snares of evil ()
Joshua 6:17-19
11) God
12)
. 6:1-2.
, Joshua 6:1-2.
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12) God invites us into paths of obedience
12) God invites us into paths of obedience
Destruction of Jericho, followed By defeat at hands of Ai.
What happened? Some didn’t obey.
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As we enter into the week of Thanksgiving, I hope these 12 stones of thankfulness, will inspire you and invite you to embrace and embody thankfulness. Perhaps you can come up with your own stones of thankfulness, or a litany of scriptural passages to closer into the heart of God.
Let’s Pray