Thanksgiving Miracles! Luke 17:11-19

A Simple Resolve

• 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!

A Simple Meaning of Giving Thanks In Everything: 1 Thess 5:16-18

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: Eucharisteo – To be Grateful, Feel Thankful, Give Thanks
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! – Your Circumstances, Your Thanksgiving!

The Power of thanking God In/For Everything!

• Giving Thanks Reminds You of Who You Are!

• A Grateful, Child of God, Who Has Everything We Need!
• A Victor in Spiritual Warfare!
• A Witness of Great and Mighty Things!

• Giving Thanks in Everything Points to Jesus!
• Thanksgiving Reaps Miracles and Blessings!

• Luke 17:11-19: Ten Lepers Are Healed By Jesus, One returns Thanks and Receives Salvation!

Supernatural Things Happen when You Say Thank You! Miracles Follow Thank You! Good Things 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 Spits 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!

• Always Giving Thanks For Everything Positions You One Step Closer To Where God is Bringing You!

• In This Life! Acts 16: Paul and Silas!
• In the Life to Come!

• Giving Thanks Changes Your Perspective!

• Thanksgiving Unlocks the 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!