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Giving honor to God, Jesus Christ my Lord and Savoir, Pastor Graham, Pastor Todd, my adorable wife for 30 years, Mount Pleasant church family, and visitors, etc….

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*PRAY*

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*Read Deuteronomy 8:10-20*

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The title of the sermon, “*Don’t forget where your blessings come from”**.*

David said, */I will bless the Lord at all times and his praises shall continually be in my mouth./*

There may be someone who’s experiencing trouble, problems, and even pain.

You may not feel like making a joyful noise because it seems like your prayers are unanswered.

Well, I have good news for you, your next in line for a miracle but you need to take it by faith, for anybody can praise the Lord while things are going well.

*But you need to praise God anyhow.*

What if we had to indoor trails and troubles like the three Hebrew boys, Paul and Silas.

For the Israelites in Judah were brought into captivity for worshipping idols and disobeying God.

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, made a image of Gold and declared everyone to fall down and worship the image when they hear the music.

But the three Hebrew boys refused to blow down and worship the image and where thrown into a blazing furnace.

*/Oh, but in the miss of the flames was Jesus./*

Paul and Silas where beaten and cased into the deep part of the Phillipian jail.

They were held captive?

*Jesus* came to set the captive free.

*/John 8:36 (KJV)If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

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I would like to ask the question, what’s holding you captive?

But when *midnight *came, they sung hymns and prayed.

Some people join the church and give the pastor the hand and Jesus your heart but at the same time saying, “*/this is my body and I can do what I want/*.”

*/Romans 12:1 (KJV)  /*

*/    I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

/*Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and you shall not defile the temple of God.

*Oh, you don’t hear me.

*You may be saved, but you need deliverance from lying, stealing, drunkenness, getting high, fornication, abusing your family.

At midnight, Paul and Silas where having church, they were worshipping God in spirit and in truth.

They prayed prayers of faith and sang songs of praise.

If you want Jesus to come down, I dare you to pray the fervent prayer.

I dare you to sing a love song until the Lord.

*/For if you pray right, something got to sake./*

Well, the ground shook; the chains fill off, the doors flow open.

And the jailer came crying, */“What must I do to be saved?”/

We need to praise God anyhow.*

King Nebuchadnezza asked the question,(Dan.3:24)

“weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?”..”Look I see four men walking around in the fire..and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

*Oh, when Jesus is in the middle, you walk on the Devil, you can put him under your feet.

Can you dance before the Lord?* *DON’T FORGET WHERE YOUE BLESSINGS COME FROM.*

God brought the Hebrews out of Egypt.

He told the death angel to pass over them and opened the Red Sea to escape Pharaoh’s army.

*/Jesus Christ is our pass over lamb and his blood cause death to pass over all who believe./*

Some where along the journey, the Hebrews disobeyed God and worshipped an idol.

God was angered and prepared to destroy his people but Moses sought the favor of the Lord.

God spared them but put three thousand people to death.

God allowed them to wonder in the wilderness for 40 years.

They where at the end of their punishment and the generation who sinned against God, he destroyed.

The Israelites are encamped along the Jordon River and this new generation stood poised on the riverbank, ready to conquer Canaan.

Moses’ words came from his heart as he reminded the people to *(Deut.27:9-10)

“..be silent, O Israel, and listen!

You have now become the people of the Lord your God**.

**Obey the Lord your god and follow his commands and decrees that I give you today.**”*

*/Jesus the same today, yesterday, and tomorrow./*

There are five points I would like for you to hold on too:

 

* *Remember what God has done for you.*

* *Remember the love relationship God has formed with you*

* *Confess the sins that have broken that relationship with God*

* *Hear God’s invitation to you and the life adjustments He calls for.*

* *Obey God and experience Him as He accomplishes His work through you.*

\\ It is a fact that we as a people and believers in Christ, are more blessed today than the past.

When I say blessings, I speak of being blessed not only with material things but more importantly, spiritually.

I don’t want you to feel condemned of being blessed with material things.

God blessed Abraham and Solomon with material things.

But God do not want us to boost on where you are compared to someone else, and pat your self on the back and look down on others.

That is not God’s purpose for blessing you.

God told Abraham, not only will I bless you but you shall also be a blessing to someone else.

God blessed you and me, that we might be a blessing.

This same true that James wrote about in *(James 4:2-3)* * **2** Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.**

* You may be asking to waddle in lust, but do you think you are going to receive anything?

You ask with the wrong motive, for God knows your heart.

Deuteronomy is the book that Moses wrote when he was about to die.

They came to borders of the Promised Land but Moses could only look over.

He had to pass the leadership to Joshua.

God wanted Joshua to */remind the young generation about worshipping false gods.

Because worshipping the gods of the land will bring a curse upon yourself rather than a blessing./*

(*Deut 28) If you hold to my commands, the blessings will over take you.

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Moses told the people to go in and posses the land.

God do not want you to just look at it, He said to posses it.

You have to settle for a low paying job, you need to do all you can to receive a higher education.

As people of God, we need to get the idea out of your mind that you have to always be down and out.

*(DEUT.8:2)

**2 **Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.*

The situation will determine what’s in your heart.

If the word of God is in your heart and you believe thou shall not *steal*, it doesn’t matter what kind of opportunities you have.

You can be in a situation where someone has left money on a desk and you see it, but you will not steal it.

You might be in a conversation where somebody starts to gossip about someone else.

*/If it’s not in your heart./**/

/**/Psalm(51:10)/**10 **Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.*

*Deut 8:3) He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

*The Lord did not want them suffer for 40 years but he allowed it to humble them.

While they were in the dessert, they did not the convenience of a restaurant or a shopping mall to provide food and clothing, but they had to depend on God to feed them with manner and allow their clothes to last fort years.

Sometime the Lord allow you to go through

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***(Deut 8:4-5) Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.*

* 5 Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

*God had to whip his people but he did like a father chasten a son that he loves.

We need to remember, when things are not going well, it may be because God is whipping you.

When we go against his laws and violate his principals, this could be his way of disciplining us.

Sometime the Lord allow you to experience troubles and you don’t know where or why its happening to you, */but in the miss, when you need something to eat, its there.

When you cannot afford medical insurance, God said,”I WILL KEEP YOU HEALTHY.”/*

*Don’t forget where your blessings come from.

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Whatever’s going on in your life, God still loves you.