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Happy Thanksgiving.
I know that it was this past Thursday, but I also know that as the children of a God who meets every one of our needs.
I know that as children of the God who blesses and takes care of us
I know that as children, joint heirs with Jesus, in everything that the Father holds, Every day should be Thanksgiving.
So, there might not be any more Turkey left over.
We all might be still feeling the affects of Tryptophan or the extra pound that we put on this past weekend.
No matter what, Today is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice in it and be glad
Today is Thanksgiving.
As I told you last week, in our tithing series, the people of Israel were mostly farmers.
Here they were given fields full of healthy crops, buildings that they did not labor to build and other things that the people we were before them had left behind.
And they were told to bring those things, to dedicate those things to the Lord
They were told as I said last week, to bring in the first fruits of the harvest.
Every year, as the weather starts to change, the farmers need to harvest or collect what has grown in the field and bring it into a storehouse where it is safe from the cold and the storms of winter.
This gathering of the harvest was celebrated at the feast of booths.
= a reminder of God’s blessing and provision to his people.
I want to say today that this is our thanksgiving.
The pilgrims and the first Americans gathered together to celebrate the blessings of the Lord upon their lives.
Today, in this house, we gather together to sing, pray and give our God the attention that he deserves, because he has been so good.
What has God gathered in, harvested in your life and kept it safe from the winds and rains of the storms of life around you?
What relationships has God worked in this year to restore and to reunite you with?
Where has God moved in the financial situations of your life? and as we spoke about last week, rebuked the devourer
Where has God touched you physically?
Emotionally?
Spiritually?
Can you all acknowledge with me that we have many things to be thankful for?
That today should be a very powerful time of thanksgiving
If you are one person who for some reason cannot relate to the goodness of God because of something that you are going through or a situation that has darkened his blessings to you then look at this verse with me.
Maybe the tears are still flowing.
Maybe the pain is still very much still there.
Maybe the situation has not changed in any way but for the worse.
Sow some seed.
For even those who sow seed in tears will come back with a surplus of the blessings of God upon their lives.
The verse before that one says
I could related all of those verse to our tithing that we’ve been talking about in the last week, but this is not that message.
I would rather relate it in this way.
Our thanks giving is our sowing.
If God has done these things, he deserves our thanks giving
If it seems that God hasn’t done these things, he still deserves our thanksgiving.
Give thanks in all things, in all emotions and in every situation and you are going to experience the faithfulness of God in every area of your life.
And then give thanks because you have experienced the faithfulness of God in every area of your life.
Why should I give thanks?
Give Thanks because God is the Source of all Good Things.
First in that is that we are right where we are because God has gotten us here.
Look at verse 3 in
I declare today that I am in the country, the place, in spite of the situation, that God promised he would lead me to.
Now I am not saying that God leads us to negative situations.
What I am saying is that even in the midst of a negative situation, God uses where we are to lead us to the place that he has created us for.
Now if you are not in the place that God promised you, than I can tell you to look only at one thing.
- Your relationship with your God.
It took the Israelites 40 years to get here.
Why?
They did not trust Him and believe Him.
But He still got them there.
You see, the enemy is out there.
He is roaring around like a lion seeking those whom he may devour.
But God is still the source of all things.
God can negate his attacks.
God can restructure, resurrect, and even recreate what the enemy has tried to rob, kill and destroy from you.
Secondly, That we have what we have in that situation, because God has blessed us.
That’s really what Thankgiving is all about.
When we see God as the source of all things, thanksgiving and joy will automatically flow from our hearts.
The problem is that so many times we take those things for granted, or we take the responsibility for those things upon ourselves.
Oh look what just happened.
I must be so lucky
The stars must be smiling down on me
No - God loves you, God wants you to know how much he loves you, So God has poured blessings into your life.
It’s amazing to me how quick we are to blame God for something when it goes wrong.
Why doesn’t he get the blame when things go right?
Because I hear an awful lot of people, many of them Christians, one even myself every so often that like to take the credit for the bad.
When you look at the rest of these verses, here, you see that this person bringing their tithe in thanksgiving had to recount where they had come from.
It brought back to remembrance who they were without God.
It brought back to remembrance how they got where they were
And with those thoughts came a heart of true thanksgiving.
Giving thanks reminds us who our provider is
Giving thanks reminds us who the faithful one is
Giving thanks helps us remember who is in charge.
Can anyone say AMEN???
Giving Thanks will cause you to be generous.
It is true that we cannot out give God, but I would like to add that when we see how much God has given, we will be moved to give ourselves.
Look down at verse 11
So you will rejoice with those who are among you.
How did the Levite receive their blessings?
They were the priests.
They weren’t allowed to own land.
They were given a plot of land for the Levites as a group, but their system of pay and advance was different than every other tribe.
They got their food and their supply by the other 11 tribes bringing in their tithes and offerings.
The same with the aliens or foreigners among them.
They were blessed simply by being with and following the same principals that the Israelites were told to follow.
Here is what happens in this situation.
When you understand how much God loves you
when you begin to get a hold of how much God has done for you
Something begins to change in your heart.
I watched It’s a Wonderful Life last night (First Time)
I saw this principal played out.
When everything in the world seemed wrong, George Bailey is screaming and nasty and wanting to take his own life.
He can see no way out.
But when he is shown (from Heaven’s perspective) that the world is not wrong, but that more has gone right than wrong and that he is a blessed man and because of that he has blessed others
That the world is a very different place because of George Bailey and how he has given and taken care of people around him, there is a very happy ending.
For the people here, the farmers of Israel, it was a reminder that what they had never belonged to them any ways.
These were fields that were planted by other people
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