Thankfulness

I'm actually about to share the first word of the year at Lee and they probably got at the service is about being thankful. I'm not sure why that we are thankful as a people. I'm not setting monks as how as people fixing the world. We live in. Where is a lot people? Very young thankful for you ungrateful and we have a sense of entitlement or status or start this. This is my land. This Is My Land. We realize that all the things that we have come from the Lord and that's how I just want to. I'm just going to sheriff youth. Really and why it's important to be thankful and search. Fastly. It is fitting and proper to thank God. He says in Psalm 147 that to that effect that he's fifteen and thankful to be pitching and profits of the phrase, golden to thank him for all that. He has done this in life. That if you do anything for anybody. You expect me to say, thank you. Don't you? It's not nice when you go to a lot of effort and somebody just goes or to go to school. Anyway, we wouldn't tolerate that what we think about able to do something for my children. It's nice. When they say, thank you. For doing that. If anybody does something for you, as a courtesy, you say, thank you to people don't, you is very rude and discourteous. Not to thank someone for doing something for us. How much more should we? Thank God. Because it says in Colossians 1, I'll give you a reason. That's the first reason you want to thank God, is that he is the creator of all things. It says listen here talkin about Jesus because we believe that Jesus is golf courses. He is image of the invisible. God, the firstborn of all creation is full by him. All things were created things in heaven and on Earth, visible and invisible, or the Thrones willpower is Aroldis, or thirties. All things were created by Him and for him. He is before all things. I mean him do things hold together and he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning and the first poem from the dead so that in everything he might have the supremacy. I noticed that you and I are alive and we decided he would create a planet on TV, put human beings on it. So that is number one reason why we want to find gold. And moving them, another reason he's not ready to be realize that God has created the Earth. But as Christians, we realize that very much realize that God has given us a way for us to enter into a relationship with him that relationship was broken by sin. But God for his son has made a way to come back to him. We have access to come to the father. We can come right up to him without any fear and trepidation. And calling Abba, Father.

I love the story in the Book of Luke where Jesus invites with Pharisees house and the Midway through this latest bust in and starts washing Jesus feet with her tears, and she pulls out a whole jar of alabasta oil over Jesus's feet. The people in the Bible who is an invoice Chiefs allowing this woman to touch him into his favorite is Jesus's too. Far as he says, Simon says, let me say something to you. Sis. Come in here. He's not ready to read to me. You know me, you know, welcome you with a kiss. But this lady from the minute she has come in, she is not stop kissing. My speech is not stop. Washing my feet with her tears and she poured this oil over Jesus's feet. Jesus says, This woman is acting like this because she knows just how much she is being forgiven, when you know, how much you forgive him. You will love much. If you have no idea how much you've been forgiven. You want to love her very much. I think sometimes we do think that will be comparisons to other people don't see a problem with that. Is that person or persons a bit more than that. Person is a Level Playing Field. For all of us. In the eyes of God of sinful. We are all in need of a savior will come from a place of absolute hopelessness. I've no way of getting into heaven. Buckle, send you some liver might believe me but have eternal life. There's not one of us that deserves eternal life is not one of us. Born deserving eternal life. It says by Nature under the roof of God.

This lady, she was forgiven and she realized, she was probably a lady at the street to be honest. She may want to bring a prostitute. You also have to be careful of my words. Are children in here. This was a lady live to certain lifestyle that site and she knew how bad life was and she knew that she needed forgiveness.

I got freaking, she knew that Jesus was the one in whom she would find that forgiveness. So, hot was overflowing towards God in the way. She treated him. Now. Let us find out like that. And it says another thing, to think that spiritual people, we need to realize that God is involved in all. There is by Lloyd's Working everything for I could that we would like to quote that buy something from Romans 8:28 or Cisco's works for. I could for the good of those who love him. I'll tell you what, sometimes, when we read that with it. Well, I think it's going to be right, and he's going to be working for my good. Lord. I'm looking for everything to be good and wonderful, but we realize the most important things on always be the one before we go for love difficult situation. But Jesus said, you will have trouble while you're on the setup. And that verse from Romans, doesn't promise. Everything will go. Well, it's just that he's working for I could. But sometimes we have to go through tough, things to get to the good. We realize that every aspect of the other for working according that life may not be pleasant.

B a walk or he's working it for a good things, all working in that favor. Whatever. It may seem like go to, he's producing enough, the things that he needs to produce in our lives. We don't understand all the things that God is producing those. We don't always understand the workings of God. We tell you what, we here to live for his glory and no ass. I got can see right into a house and he sees those things which need to come out, but he's such a gentle fall Vernie's Soul Majestic in the way. He did was with us. He's throwing out those things that take away from his glory. We all know with what we know. I look at my life. I think the Lord with me. I do the same thing over and over and over again and we can be our room was Chris excitedly. And that's another reason why it's good to be in church. Was you coming to church? And we can be encouraged and poop and safe. Look at you inside. I see you changed your life to doing this in your life. You used to be like this by Seether more, like this map you during isolation. You can't do that. The enemy Camry. Pick one. You bring you down, make you feel grateful. Make you feel hopeless? Like you're not changing for the truth is we all been changed the spirit lives inside of you. You are being changed from one degree of Glory to another. It's impossible. That is not happening. It's impossible that I is not happening to this change in you from one degree of Glory to another circuit Works in our lives, even though we can feel it. And know it's concerning about feeling a certain about what we sometimes we feel great. Sometimes we feel bad, we come measure while I was like, but what we feel great, when we feel bad this week human Wisdom is released by The Truth by what the word of God says, that is how we measure where I live. It's a lawyer question whether you are doing on sister to miss you, Your Lies by that and then you will see where that where you spawned in relation to how God wants you to be.

I think one of the amazing things that Gotas, he's working over things. When there's a whole Marietta freeway with decisions made in the world. Think about how many people on this planet is billion people. I'm talked yet somehow for all the decisions that people make Works things of yogurt for my hood. How do you do? I think that's one of the most miraculous things? How does he do that? We going to get into work. Can you walk out, possibly have a good to go to do that? And I'll struggle working out my own life. While I need to do with all the decisions. I have to make yet God weaves through the situations are happening around the world.

Don't think it's very important that when we are struggling mommy all the time for a difficult time. But we can give thanks to God and I think it's a real sign actually of maturity to have to give to find. Thanks to God when things aren't so good when things aren't going. So well, when it doesn't look so bright eyes, a real sign of maturity. Another for what I had done.

Psalm 39, this reminds me of the song G. You may remember some early Matt Redman songs and give you things is one of these very early. So he said it was Thanksgiving. I'll read through that. I'm right at the end of Psalm 30. It's just something very interesting.

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David says, you turned my wailing into town seeing you remove my sack cloth and clothed me with joy that my heart makes sing to you. A note befallen. Hello my God, I will give you thanks forever. I like that. When there is a, smut my heart may seem to you and not be silent. I think it's very important that when we go for difficult times or when God allows us to go for the futons and he brings them through us. We give him praise and I swore I want to say really slow when God allows us to go through difficult times. It's to show his glory that he can bring us through that situation. That is often the power purpose of a difficult time. Because people will watch as people, who is watching the stereo says, Christians, people was watching you, how you deal with things, and when you go for a difficult time and don't brings you through it, and we keeping price and we give thanks to my Lord. My savior has brought me through that and this is why I think they've it was saying hit. He says that we must not be silent and go to the situation and she prays. Thank you Lord for bringing me through that light. One of the pups, a difficult times, but God gets the glory. Please gets the glory in all things.

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the more we know the Lord the more we will find him. You can't find God. If you don't know what he has done for you. Think God if you don't know what he's like, I'm the word reviews, what he is like the revert, the word Revere was what he has done and what he hit he is doing is he think fulness, exist in a vacuum they call an existing without any knowledge. You have to have knowledge of God, if you have knowledge of God, if you understand what he's like, you have to give. Thanks. You can haul the first in with praise. So let's make it one of our range. This year to read is worth more and understand the word because by it we will increase our love for him will increase our thankfulness for him. And I like a quote that I heard that spoke and said he says, we will think we will think. If I think we will think, if you read the word, you can ponder on it. You can think about what God has done and it will cause you to thank the natural. Outflowing should be thankful miss. When you think about what God has done. Too bad. We already I think I've done very well. I'm about 10 minutes, then. It's just, she comes out. It's going to close you.

I think it's just perfect just to stop for my man.

And I'll pray, Heavenly Father weekdays.