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Begins right after Scripture reading.
Before the recording starts we will pass around the handheld mic.
Then I will introduce a video.
We will need someone to lower the lights, before the video.
Follow along with the notes below.
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What Are you Thankful For?
What are you thankful for?
Today, let’s take a few minutes and share things that we are thankful for.
I have this handheld microphone and I will pass it around, and if you want you can share a few things you are thankful for.
We will pass around the handheld mic for approximately 5 minutes.
As the mic is passed, press the button marked SELECT over the column labeled HANDHELD.
Then use the fader to adjust the volume if people are not speaking loud enough.
When I finish and I am walking back up toward the pulpit, have someone head down to adjust the lights.
After the video Intro
Video Intro
We do have many things to be thankful for.
As church we are blessed with each other.
Christians in the Church are to love one another like no other organization on earth.
We have a beautiful sanctuary to worship in, and we have financial resources to spread the gospel.
We have many things to be thankful for.
Worldwide, we are doing so much better than most of the world.
We can worship in freedom, and safety.
A lot of people are being persecuted for their faith.
We have a stable government.
We have clean water, access to education and health care.
There are jobs available, transportation and communication.
We ought to be a very thankful people.
However, even with all those opportunities and blessings at any given time we may be faced with a difficulty.
It could be something serious that we need.
Like a job, or broken relationship or a health problem.
Even though we have many things to be thankful for we may have that nagging problem or ,something that we really need, and we may even find it hard to be thankful for what we do have.
Today we are going to be looking at what happens when something keeps us from being thankful.
We will begin with a special Thanksgiving video to get us thinking about that.
Play Video
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For the last few weeks we have been reading through the introductions of some of Paul’s prison letters.
God has really been showing me, how Paul in the middle of extreme difficulty, persecution, and trouble is still able to have great joy and thankfulness.
The truth is my life is less like Paul, and more like the lady in the video.
I do not have the police at my door for preaching the gospel, and we don’t have to meet in secret.
Paul had greater difficulties in some of the churches than we could even imagine.
Our problems in the grand scheme of things are pretty small.
But even though I still struggle and I am sure some of you do too.
For example, being sick is really challenging, you just want the pain to stop, it totally consumes you, how do you be thankful in pain.
Loneliness or broken relationships, or loss of loved ones, physically hurts deep in your chest and at times the blackness is overwhelming, how are supposed to be thankful then?
There is mental illness, and financial struggles, and all kinds of other burdens we carry, how do you be thankful then?
Are quick solution is often ineffective.
We look at others people’s problems like Paul for instance and say ok I am not as bad as that guy so I can be thankful I am not him right?
That guy really has it bad, Im not that bad.
But what if there is a better way?
What if instead of comparing to Paul, we learned from Paul and learned how to be thankful rather than the old comparison.
Today, we will look at the book of Colossians Chapter 1 found on page 1165 of the worship Bibles.
But before I read the Word let me pray.
Prayer
Today, I want to start with verse 9.
Verse 9, starts with for this reason that reason is the Gospel.
Paul is saying because of your partnership in the Gospel, because we all believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, we have not stopped praying for you.
Do you have someone in your life who you know has faith in the Gospel, and love for all God’s people?
Then don’t stop praying for them.
Who are you praying for?
Don’t stop praying for
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Don’t stop praying for them, take this sheet right their names down, and don’t stop praying for them.
This is a little different than praying for unbelievers, however you can certainly use the same prayer.
But here this time Paul is talking about praying for the believers, those who have faith and live for all God’s people.
verse back on screen-not read out loud.
What does Paul pray? Paul prays that God will fill them with the the knowledge of His will.
Paul Prays
That God will fill you with the knowledge of His will.
Whenever we find ourselves in a difficult spot, whenever we are suffering when we find it difficult to give thanks, what is our biggest question?
Why God? right?
Why are you doing this--what is happening to me?--What is going to happen.--If
I just knew what God’s will was in all of this.....I would be able to get through this.
If we knew for sure what God’s plan was it would be so much easier right?
I am going through this now, If we knew for sure.
It is the not knowing, the questioning the doubting that cause the biggest struggles.
This is not the only place that we see this type of prayer.
Prayer to know about God’s will for instance.
EP 1.17
Here Paul wants God to give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation-so that you may KNOW Him better or
To test and approve God’s will- It is important to Paul that we know the mysterious will that God has, what is doing, how things are unfolding.
You may be thinking, yes.
I need to know what God is doing, I need to know his will for my life, but I just can’t figure it out, I am slow on the uptake I’m missing the “signals” God is sending me.
Or maybe not enough people are praying for me?
Or maybe my prayers aren’t being answered.
Let’s look at the verse closer.
Look at this closely.
Paul just does not stop at fill you with the knowledge of His will, but he continues- Through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives.
That is the God the Holy Spirit.
God does not give us knowledge of all of God the Father’s will for our life.
That would be too much.
We would be crushed, No eye has seen, and no hear has heard.
Remember job, job was questioning God, and God came to job and said
God does not tell us everything but he tells us enough-God the Holy Spirit gives us limited knowledge.
He gives it as he sees fit.
According to His perfect wisdom God reveals to us what we need to know.
Our desires to know more is understandable but we have to remember it is a leftover of our rebellious nature.
We want to be like God, knowing the answer and the outcome.
Children do not always have to know all the parents business, right?
The kids just need to know that the parents are taking care of the children according to their love and kindness.
That their parents are good.
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