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Orphan Sunday
Thankful for…(week 2)
This morning, I want to continue to share thanks publicly for a few folks who help keep things running behind the scenes for us.
There are a numerous folks who step up each week to serve our church and our community.
HUGE thanks to each one of you.
This morning, in the spirit of thanksgiving, I want to acknowledge someone who tirelessly keep us organized, the bills paid, literally the lights on, and makes everything we do here at Emmanuel so much better.
She and her husband are founding members of this church being that it was started by her dad.
I want you to help me show some appreciation to Mary & David Faulkner!
Thank you!
PRAY
This morning I will be PREACHING a message I believe the Lord has for us today.
Some weeks, I teach, others I share, but today I will be PREACHING.
TRANSITION
This morning, I want to talk to us about an attribute that I believe above most has the potential to dramatically change our lives.
You recognize when it is lacking in those you are around, in fact when someone doesn’t have this quality you tend to not want to be around them.
They can tend to pull you down.
They have a heaviness about them that is contagious.
You could be having a good day and then all of a sudden it starts to take a turn for the worse.
But when you get around someone who displays this character we are going to talk about these next couple of weeks, it can actually cause you to want to be a better person.
It has the ability to shift your perspective and outlook on what is going on in your own life.
It has the affect of melting away negativity and the ‘why me’ attitudes and replaces them with appreciation.
What we are going to be talking this month of November is THANKFULNESS, specially GRATITUDE.
I have titled this series, GROWING IN GRATITUDE.
How many of you realize that gratitude is something our culture and society could use an extra serving of in 2019?
We are surrounded by a perspective to see what we don’t have rather than appreciate what we do.
We have a value of want and consumerism (and this will eat us alive).
And as we head towards this Thanksgiving season, I want us to gain a fresh outlook on thanksgiving and gratitude.
Thanksgiving has to be more than turkey and football games.
It has to be more than cooking and the Macy’s Day Parade.
It has to be more than pumpkin pie and a day of the year we see estranged family members.
It has to be more than crazy shopping where we buy things we don’t need to impress folks we don’t know.
Thanksgiving should be a hallmark of what we are, what we express through our lives, and gratitude should distinguish us as those who have received from God.
Because when we have encountered the Living God and experience His grace and goodness in our lives, we can’t help but overflow with appreciation, with thanksgiving, with gratitude for what He has done and for who He is.
30 Seconds: I want us to take 30 seconds to express our thanksgiving to God this morning.
Let’s thank Him for not only what He has done but for Him being who He is in our lives.
GIVE THANKS
Your attitude of gratitude will determine your altitude.
When preparing this week, I think the spirit of Pastor James came upon me, and thus we ended up with this point here.
;) But the element of truth in this statement is what I don’t want us to miss.
The attitude of gratitude will determine our altitude.
The degree to which we are grateful will directly correlate to the degree that we grow, mature, develop and rise in our relationship with the Lord.
This morning, we will look at 3 principles to grow in gratitude:
Revelation
Rarity
Return & Response
Renewal & Release
It is possible to offer sacrifices to God that are not pleasing to Him.
Even in praise, we can bring things to God that do not please Him.
The Scripture would tell us that the folks were coming before God with the right words but the wrong heart, their hearts were far from Him.
But when we come to God with genuine thanksgiving in our hearts bringing a sacrifice/offering of gratefulness we HONOR THE LORD.
This verse tells us, that thanksgiving is what He desires but also opens up the doors for His work in our lives.
Do you need God to work in your life today?
Are you believing for Him to get you through some situations?
Bring to Him thanksgiving and watch Him reveal Himself on your behalf.
In this passage, the Lord is speaking through Moses to the people of Israel, reminding them to not forget the Lord as they move forward.
Talk through the verses.
vs. 10-11 This is where we find ourselves this morning, that after we have eaten and are satisfied that we would not forget the Lord who has provided all this, who has done all this for us.
15 He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions.
He brought you water out of hard rock.
16 He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you.
17 You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”
18 But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
19 If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.
20 Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.
15 He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions.
He brought you water out of hard rock.
16 He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you.
17 You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”
18 But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
19 If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.
20 Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.
The very systems that God has designed us with, from hunger-satisfaction, sleep-rest, point to our inability to self-sustain and provide for ourselves outside of God’s enabling.
He is teaching us and causing us to lean in to Him, fully dependent.
Humble yourselves, depend upon the one who cares and can carry you through.
Our pride says, “We can do it on our own.”
It is in these very moments that we cannot receive grace.
We dam up it’s flow in our lives, and expose ourselves to an enemy seeking to devour us.
Being alert and of sober mind is walking in an attitude of dependance and thankfulness.
Resisting the enemy is remaining steadfast in gratitude, recognizing that God is both the Giver and Sustainer of all things.
The outcome (the payoff) will be be RESTORATION, STRENGTH, FIRM FOUNDATIONS.
But there is no shortcut!
It is no different with my own kids.
STORY: With my kids.
Why is it so important that I take so much time to teach my kids to not only say Thank You but to constantly think grateful thoughts, to live a life of gratitude.
In there early years, we spend so much time teaching and training them how to respond with gratitude.
This seems to be a lost art.
But it doesn’t just come natural.
It takes revealing the need, the provision, and the proper response.
Take time to reveal the NEED, the PROVISION, and the PROPER RESPONSE.
Ungratefulness robs us of our joy, our faith, our praise.
But when we express thanks, we tap into deep satisfaction, rest, faith, and adoration.
One of the last things Jesus does with His with disciples on earth that has layers of implication was eat the Passover meal with them.
And Matthew records here that while they were eating, Jesus took the bread and gave thanks.
εὐφροσύνη
Now the word used here for thanks is, εὐχαριστέω, the root from which we get our word eucharist used almost exclusively in the NT as a term of thanksgiving directed toward God.
εὐχαριστέω, the root from which we get our word eucharist used almost exclusively in the NT as a term of thanksgiving directed toward God.
Jesus is getting ready for the ultimate sacrifice of His life, and He reminds them to do this in remembrance of me.
He reminds them to give thanks, to live a life of gratefulness.
Literally, give grace or abound in gratitude, overflow in response to what is before you.
This became a part of the lifeblood of the church.
It became a regular practice that whenever they would gather, not just during the Jewish festival of Passover.
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