November 20, 2016 – CW
The Power of Thank You! Luke 17:11-19
1 Thessalonians 5:16 Rejoice Always! 17 Pray without ceasing; 18 In Everything give thanks for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
• To Give Thanks in and for Everything!
• To Confess Jesus as Lord in Every circumstance!
• To Love Well in Every Circumstance!
• To Be Led By God’s Spirit Everyday In Every Way!
Supernatural Things Happen when You Say Thank You! Miracles Follow Thank You! Good Things Follow the Grateful Heart!
The Supernatural and Miraculous Follow the Grateful Heart
• John 6: Jesus Gives Thanks for 5 Loaves and 2 Fish and feeds 5,000 men and their families!
• Jonah 2:9: After three days in the belly of a Fish, Jonah finally gives Thanks and the Fish Vomits Him to the Shore!
• John 11: At the Tomb of Lazarus, who’s been dead for Four days, Jesus gives Thanks and Lazarus Comes Forth!
• Luke 22: Jesus Gives Thanks for a Broken Body and Spilt Blood and Salvation Is Offered to the Whole World!
In Everything Give Thanks! 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Always Give Thanks! What Does It Literally Mean?
• To Give Thanks: Eucharisteo – To Be Grateful
• In: (pointing to time, place and state)
Everything: All Things, whatever is happening, Always,
In every place, every time, no matter what! For everything!
When it’s Good, When It’s Hard, even bad, When It’s Uncertain!
Ephesians 5:20 Always Giving Thanks for All Things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father!
• For This is God’s Will For You! – This is What God Wants You to Do in whatever you are facing! He wants you to give thanks! And whatever you are facing He is accomplishing His will in your life!!
God is Great Therefore I Will Thank Him In and For Everything.
God is Working Everything Out For Your Good! Everything!
The Supernatural and Miraculous Follows Grateful Hearts!
Acts 16: Paul and Silas
The Power of Thank You! What Does It Do? It Changes Your Perspective!
Thanking God for Everything Has nurtured me to Fullness of Life
It turns what we have into enough and even more!
It turns denial into Acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity
It turns a meal into a feast
A house into a home, a stranger or enemy into a friend
It makes sense of our past brings peace for today!
• You Have a Grasp For What God’s Will is For Your Life!
Romans 8:28-30 and 1 Thessalonians 3:1-8
• You Have a Growing Faith in the Providence of God!
• You Are Willing to Look Foolish!
• It Means You are Willing to Place Every Circumstance in the hands of God, which in reality they already are!
• It Means You See and Confess Jesus As Lord!
• You Choose to See the Good God is Accomplishing!
• You Choose to Be Happy, and if Not Deliriously Happy, you at the least find contentment!
• You put off grumbling, complaint and discontentment, thanking God for all that He has given and all that He is doing!
• You Believe Your Circumstances furthers the will of God and the Expansion of the Gospel!
• You Choose to be Led by the Spirit According to His Word!
• You Are Willing to be a Greater Vessel for His Glory!
• You Find Out the Great and Lasting Joy Comes not because of Good circumstances but from the Hand of God!
• You Suffer in A Manner Worthy of the Lord!
• Your Ache seems to be relieved as you know that for the believer, weeping may last through the night, but a shout of joy comes in the morning!
This is the Power of Thank You! Supernatural and the Miraculous Follow Grateful Hearts!
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