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Introduction

Good morning!!!

Are we blessed!!

Are there guests this morning!!

We welcome you all with the love of the Lord.

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(smile)

It takes 37 muscles to frown.

And 22 muscles to smile.

So Smile.

Some will dispute this, but regardless, it’s really nice to see some one who smile rather than someone who frowns at you.

(show picture of some one smiling and frowning and then sammy’s smile)

For those who feels good inside, who sees nice things happening in their lives that there is something to celebrate about, you would see them smile and be so happy about it.

But for those who acknowledges Jesus in their lives as Lord and Savior, well, there’s more behind that smile.

Why do we smile?

Coz something good happened in our life?

Coz somebody just smiled at us?

So basically when we smile it is the immediate reaction to something that made us feel better.

Likewise, when we experience God’s goodness, our reaction should be we should be grateful, thankful.

Our theme for the month is COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

PRAYER

GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS

Thomas Obediah Chisholm was born in a log cabin in Franklin, Kentucky in 1866.

He received his education in a little country schoolhouse, and at age 16 began teaching there.

He was saved at age 27, and with no college or seminary training was ordained to the Methodist ministry at age 36.

He served as a Methodist minister for a year, but ill health made it impossible for him to continue.

He moved to Vineland, New Jersey, where he opened an insurance office.

Always interested in poetry, Chisholm wrote hundreds of poems during his lifetime.

inspired him to write the text for “Great Is Thy Faithfulness.”

Those verses read, “It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”

Chisholm experienced that faithfulness.

He suffered ill health most of his adult life, and never made much money, but he said, “God has given me many wonderful displays of His providing care which have filled me with astonishing gratefulness.”

We have never met Chisholm, but now we know him from the testimony of his life through that great Hymn “Great is Thy Faithfulness”

Because of his illness he never enjoyed his adult life, never made much money, but even though it’s a tragedy, he still recognizes God’s hand of care - he counted every blessings he has in spite of.

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and sometimes people just remember this day because of tradition.

My prayer today is that we will also be reminded to count our blessings not only during Thanksgiving day, but all through out the year.

You know somehow, generally speaking, we all have the tendency to have a short memory when it comes to remembering God’s blessing.

In 1897 Johnson Oatman wrote his most beloved hymn of all, “Count Your Blessings.”

Listen closely to the beautiful lines of this song:

When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed, When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.

Refrain:

Count your blessings, name them one by one,

Count your blessings, see what God has done!

Count your blessings, name them one by one, *Count your many blessings, see what God has done.

[*And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.]

While on a short-term missions trip, Pastor Jack Hinton was leading worship at a leper colony on the island of Tobago.

A woman who had been facing away from the pulpit turned around.

"It was the most hideous face I had ever seen," Hinton said.

"The woman's nose and ears were entirely gone.

She lifted a fingerless hand in the air and asked, 'Can we sing Count Your Many Blessings?' "

Overcome with emotion, Hinton left the service.

He was followed by a team member who said, "I guess you'll never be able to sing that song again."

"Yes I will," he replied, "but I'll never sing it the same way."

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and our scripture for today will give us a perspective on how we can

This woman, though seen by Pastor Hinton as being in an awful condition, still have the heart of singing the song Count your Blessing.

Minister Reggie A. Braziel, Christian Hope Church of Christ, Plymouth, North Carolina said:

In our scripture today, which can be found in: Says:

Do you spend more time counting your problems than counting your blessings?

If so, that would probably explain why you are discouraged and miserably unhappy all the time.

discouraged and miserably unhappy all the time.

In our scripture for today I’d like us to focus on the five wonderful blessings we should be thankful for.

Let me pray first.

We smile when we see a

says: A psalm of David.

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

How do we count our blessings?

We thank the Lord!!!

says: A psalm of David.

Today in our text David reminds of some of the wonderful blessings that we tend to overlook in our lives.

I’m reading from the NLT version

says: A psalm of David.

1. Be thankful, for God accepts who we are

He says in verse 1:

II.

Remember what He has done for you

Let all that I am praise the Lord:

III.

Relentlessly

All that I am - Like whoever he is, he’s not really a good person, he orchestrated the death of Uriah, so he can sleep with his wife Bathsheba…he’s really not a good role model when it comes to this kind of thing, but he said

“Let all that I am praise the Lord -doesn’t matter who you are or whatever you have done, or wherever you are at right now in your life, God only looks at the heart.

That’s why he then said :

“with my whole heart, I praise his holy name”

So as we come to the Lord, let nothing stop us, He is looking at the sincerity of our hearts.

(Look for the most bad person who turned his life to Jesus)

2. Be thankful for all the good things He does for you.

Psalm

Every time during the Life Group I ask how is everybody, how was the past days to them since we last see each other.

I’m kinda like drawing from everybody what were the things they have experienced during the week and just blurt it out with excitement and share it to everybody!

But when that happens everyone began to be quiet!

- re enact time : everyone is talking and all of a sudden when asked to share - you can hear a pin drop

- same when in a circle, then appoints some to pray.

Kidding aside,

Be thankful

How does this truth relate to the suffering we experience?

Does it mean we are to be thankful when a young mother dies of cancer?

Does it mean you should give thanks when you lose your job?

Does it mean we should rejoice when a couple suffers the anguish of multiple miscarriages?

Thanking God in all things does not mean that we thank God for evil.

Rather, we are to thank God in the midst of all things.

In a single day, Job lost 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 donkeys.