Brother Rick Sunday Night 11/24/13

Brother Rick Sunday Night 11/24/13

We are so blessed.  We are blessed to be in this country where we are so rich and have so much compared to so many around the world.  We have much to be thankful for.

Thanksgiving – the act of giving thanks, prayer expressing gratitude, celebration of the divine goodness.  We have all been partakers of the divine goodness of God. 

Psa 100:4  Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

It is very important to have an attitude of gratefulness.  This is not just talking about prayer but our whole life.  It is awesome to be able to have the presence of God in our life. 

Be thankful, obedient to God, and do His will and we will have the presence of God. 

When I go to my shop, I start my day of work with kneeling and praying and giving God thanks.  It is so good to be thankful for all God has blessed us with.  We have homes of our own, automobiles and many blessings in life. 

It is important to cultivate that thankfulness.  All around us there are people complaining and we need to be thankful in everything.  Even the negative things that come across our path will work to good and help us to develop more character in our life.

1Pe 2:9  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

I thank God that I can be saved.  It is a miracle that God led us to salvation.

Quotes:

No one who achieves success does so without the help of others.  The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

I need you saints in my life and more so as the day approaches.    We need to be thankful for each other.  It is important just to know that we are a part of the family of God. 

You cannot do a kindness too soon.  You never know when it will be too late. Ralf Waldo Emerson. 

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies.  Let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet discovers the iron so he will find things to be thankful for.

Some people are always murmuring that roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Wouldn’t it be terrible if it were our last day and we went out grumbling? 

If you haven’t all the things that you want then be thankful for the things that you don’t have that you wouldn’t want.

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven.  Johannes A Gardner.

 He who is a wise man does not grieve for the things he has not but rejoices of the things he has.

Blessed is he that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.

No one is as capable of gratitude as he that has escaped the kingdom of night. 

I sure appreciate being delivered from the kingdom of night and of darkness.  I cannot imagine where I would be if I had not gotten saved when I did.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others. Cicero.

It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.  If you start to feel depression working then work on being thankful.

You won’t be happy with more until you are happy with what you have got. 

In America how spoiled we are.

As we express our gratitude, appreciation is not only in uttered words but to live by them.

What sunshine is to flowers a smile is to humanity.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. 

Gratitude, unspoken, is of no use.

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a life full of joy.

People who live a life full of rejoicing are those that have a full life.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion; we don’t have time for ourselves much less for ourselves and our children.  James Dobson

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.

Never throw out anyone.  Everyone deserves to be loved.

2Ch 20:22  And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

Thankfulness and praise is an antidote to have the victory in our lives.

Col 1:12  Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

We cannot be too thankful for that can we?

Luk 17:15  And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,

Luk 17:16  And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.

We want to be one that turns back to God and thanks and praises Him.

His praise shall be continually in my mouth.