The Grateful Heart

Let's pray. Dear Father God. We live in a hard

hearted world where people are stuck on themselves.

And we could be too if we are not really

focused on Jesus.

Lord. We don't want a fake interaction with You. We

want a grateful heart that is fueled by humility and

is born in service and obedience to You. Help us

today to experience the grateful heart in Jesus' name, Amen.

The first Thanksgiving in Massachusetts Bay Colony was a call

to prayer to thank God for the gift of the

good land and the good country that is ours with

hope and purpose in Jesus. Are we living in a

good country? Does it have some words? Yes? But is

it a good country? You raise your hand high. I'm

proud of this country. God preserved those early pilgrim fathers,

and in that preservation and God granted them a place

to be planted in a good land full of prophetic

significance and promise. The United States of America is a

prophetic kingdom. In the book Revelation, Christ proclaiming the Sermon

of the Mount that the meek shall inherit the earth,

not the arrogant, not the proud, The meek, the Earth

is the good place where the righteous are found, in

contrast to the troubled sea in Isaiah says the wickeder

like to see that has no rest. It stirs up much.

The good land, the good Earth, is the opposite of that.

When God gave the children of Visual the good Land,

the Bible says, he gave his people rest. I don't

know about you. I've had a rough week this week,

and I enjoyed sleep, getting to bed early and resting.

I got a full eight hours of sleep last night.

Maybe like eight hours of sleep kind of thing. Yeah,

maybe nine. Occasionally, when God gave the children of Visual

the good Land, he gave him a place where they

could rest. In Revelation twelve to six, John sees the

true Church at the time of the end in covenant

relationship with the heavenly Jerusalem. We see he pictures a

woman clothed with the sun, twelve stars on her head,

the moon under her feet. And what of these represent?

The sun represents the Bible, the Word of God, the

Law of God, which is like the light of the sun.

The moon is the testimony of Jesus, the spirit of prophecy.

In the scriptures, Christ can bear testimony himself. He did

so before he came to this earth. And the twelve

stars represents God's heavenly Jerusalem is people, and so the

woman represents the heavenly Jerusalem. In fact, in Galatians four

twenty six, Paul says, Jerusalem above is our mother, and

she is free. So that's who we see here. It's

not Mary that's pregnant with Christ. It's not the ancient

Israel that's pregnant with Christ. It's the heavenly Jerusalem that

gave us Jesus Christ from a heaven direction down to earth.

You see, Christ didn't just come through the line of

Mary and the line of Eve and so on. He

came from heaven to earth and merged in the incarnation.

So the heavenly Jerusalem gave us their finest son, God's

eternal son. And in Revelation twelve six, John sees the

True Church at the time of the End in covenant

relationship with the heavenly Jerusalem. In fact, the dragon was

there to gobble Christ up when he was born, but

he was caught up to God's throne, it says in

Revelation twelve, and then he went after the woman. The

true Church is symbolized by a woman bright and pure

that has been grafted into the heavenly Jerusalem by virtue

of the victory of the Cross. As the earthly manifestation

of the heavenly Jerusalem. The woman in white and Revelation

twelve flees into the wilderness, where she has a place

prepared by God to be preserved for twelve hundred and

sixty years during the Middle Ages. At the end of

this time, Prophecy the dragon, who is Satan in the context,

pursues the woman to the New World, to America, to

this continent that gave a harbor for those who were

being persecuted in the Middle Ages and the Bible Cords

that Satan was not successful, it says, because the Earth

came to the help of the woman. Now, all these

evil beasts in the Book of Daniel Revelation come out

of the sea, but the lamb like beasts, the one

that arises at the end of the Middle Ages, arises

from the good Earth around the year seventeen ninety eight.

Revelation twelve fifteen to seventeen. I'm going to put on

the screen the serpent that is Satan poured water like

a river out of his mouth after the woman, that

is the Church, to sweep her away with the flood

that is persecution. Look at verse sixteen. But the earth

that is the New world came to the help of

the woman, and the earth of the New World understood,

opened its mouth and swallowed the river, and of the

river represents persecuting armies and the like. It swallowed the

river which the dragon had poured from his mouth. Then

the dragon was angry with the woman and went off

to make war on the rest the remnant of her offspring,

those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony

to ge Jesus. And he stood on the sand of

the sea. The dragon leaves the old world to come

to the New World. Because the mark of the Beast Trial,

the mark of the Beast task, will not start in Europe.

It starts in America. According to Revelation thirteen. It starts

in the place that gave reprieve for the persecuted peoples

of the Middle Ages, who came to establish colonies that

were religious freedom and lloyd to God could be protected.

The Bible could be embraced. The earth, the Bible says,

came to the help of a woman, and the dragon

pursued the faithful Church of God's People to America at

the end of the Middle Ages. Now, I want to

tell you right now, the devil's working in this country.

The devil hates the United States of America. He would

like our country to be the most evil country in

the world, to be governed by Hollywood garbage, for our

children to be corrupted with gender confusion, for the people

of this world to have no place to go, and

when they go to the philosopher kings of a Maria America,

to have no God, no religion, no hope in the world. Friends,

our country was raised up by God to be a

city on a hill. It didn't arise in some crazy

environment where religion was not real and felt good. People

gave rise to this country. It's past Revelation thirteen eleven,

John the Revelator rights concerning the events at the end

of the twelve hundred and sixty year Prophecy, vigorously studied

by the Reformers. In fact, that prophecy came to an

end in the year seventeen ninety eight. In the spring,

and all over the world, he unzipped the Book of Daniel.

People everywhere began to realize that when the Book of

Dan was opened, as prophecy came to an end, God

could take the Gospel to the world. Bible societies sprang up,

and the great Advent movement that we belonged to was

born out of that transition.

From the Old world to the New world.

So in Revelation thirteen eleven, John the Revelator rights concerning

the events at the end of the twelve and sixteen years.

This time period started in the spring of five thirty

eight AD, it ends in the spring of seventeen ninety eight,

and it brings the religious persecutions of Europe to an end.

Europe moves from being religious to being secular. Also is

the outcome of that. But as Europe is moving secular,

God is moving on a continent to infuse faith, family,

and freedom so that America can arise as a bastion

for religion, for Christianity. And he writes this in Revelation thirteen.

Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth.

It had two horns like a lamb. Now, when we

read our Bibles, like in John one twenty nine, what

did John say when Jesus was walking toward him? He

said behold the Lamb of God who takes away the

sins of the world. So a lamb like beast is

a Christian kingdom that arrives is around the year seventeen

ninety eight, and that Christian kingdom is the United States

of America in seventy six. Is not that far removed

from seventeen ninety eight. Our country was birthed at the

end of a prophetic time prophecy. As the lamb like

beast of the book Revelation, John sees here a lamb

like kingdom rising out of the new world that came

to the help of the woman, where the persecuted church

fled to for freedom and hope. He sees a lamb

like beast and is a Christian nation. In its constitution

its rise to global power and significance, John sees two

horns without crowns because it is not a monarchy. There's

no crowns on this beast, like there is the Big

Beast of the Middle Ages. It is a representative republic

with a division of powers and a House and Senate.

Its Christian Protestant roots are manifested, and its organization as

a representative republic are the two signs of its greatness

as a noble country without a king. We have been

informed that is the case. In Volume five of the Testimonies,

John writes that eventually, and just before them of the

Beast test this lamb like beast power that is the

United States of America, will one day speak like a dragon.

It starts out like a lamb, it ends up as

a dragon. Now I want to stop here and pause.

I am grateful today for the Christian roots of our country.

I'm thankful to God that this country came into existence

because God Almighty brought it into existence for the time

of the end. The Great Advent movement arose at the

end of the twenty three hundred years in the United

States of America because it is a democratic power, and

those principles were modeled in our churches organization as well.

A beast kingdom power speaks by making laws, the Bible says, Eventually,

this lamblight beast speaks like a dragon. That means it

makes laws that are dragon like. Now we have seen

some of that in America. We saw the Supreme Court

of the United States in recent years define the law

of the land, that the commandment that protects a man's

relationship to his wife has now been violated by the

law of our land, and gender confusion has been brought

into this country by Supreme Court precedent. The mark of

the Beast will one day occur, according to Revelation thirteen,

in this country. It will start here and move out.

John foresees the United States of American Bible prophecy as

a good and noble nation, its Christian constitution, its power,

as a tolerant and good nation. At first, the Puritan

lawyer John Winthrop was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay

Colony in sixteen twenty nine. In sixteen thirty, he delivered

his famous Sermon of a City on a Hill. He

called the people of his colony to remember their Bible

roots as the people of God, and to take to

heart the Council of Moses, to obey the Lord with

all your heart, and all your soul and all your mind.

Jonathan Winthrop could not envision a good nation in a

good land without a clear and undivided moral loyalty to

the God of Heaven and the Ten Commandments. He wrote, now,

the only way to avoid this shipwreck that he ascribed

in this previous part of his sermon and to provide

for our posterity is the fall of the Council of Micah,

to do justicy, to love mercy, to walk humbly with

our God. For this end, we must be knit together

in this work as one man. We must entertain each

other in brotherly affection. And to shut the discourse that exhortation,

and to shut this discourse with that exhortation of Moses,

that faithful servant of the Lord his last farewell to

Israel and Deuteronomy thirty Beloved, there is now set before

us life and death, good and evil, And that we

are committed this day to love the Lord our God,

to love one another, to walk in his ways, and

to keep his commandments and his ordinances and his laws

and the articles of our covenant with him, that we

may live and be multiplied. And that the Lord our

God may bless us in this land whither we go

to possess it, but if our hearts shall turn away,

so that we will not obey, but shall be seduced

and worship other gods our pleasure and prophets. He's describing,

I think what has happened today in our pleasure entertainment

culture and serve them. It is propounded unto us this

day that we shall surely perish out of the good land,

whether we pass over the vast seed to possess it. Therefore,

let us choose life that we and our seed may

live by obeying His voice and cleaving to Him, for

He is our life and our prosperity.

He got it right.

With this genuine and obedient faith in God, the pilgrim

fathers committed their hearts and their future and this good

country to the powerful keeping of God, Almighty the God,

on their knees at that first Thanksgiving. They thank the

Lord for saving their lives. They thank the Lord for

the good land, and they commit themselves to obey God.

God will not bless a rebellian and disobedient country or

a rebellious and disobedient church. So if we think that

we can model church life or national life outside of

God's moral will, outside of the spiritual principles of humility

and fidelity to the Bible, we are wrong. Turn with

me to Deuteronomy thirty sixteen to nineteen. Here's Moses. He says,

if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,

which I command you this day by loving the Lord

your God, by walking his ways and keeping his commandments

in his statues and his ordinances. And here's what he

says next. Then you shall live and multiply, and the

Lord your God will bless you in the land which

you are entering to take possession of it. But if

your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but

are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,

I declare to you this day that you shall perish.

You shall not live long in the land which you

are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. I

call heaven and Earth to witness against you this day

that I have set before you life and death, blessing

and curse. Therefore, choose life that you and your descendants

may live. I mean, you can't get clearer than this.

The days of compromise are over, friends, Jesus is coming,

perhaps and most likely in our lifetime. This whole country

was transformed in this recent election. I'm not going to

get into how you interpret your individual politics, but one

of the net results is our country is moving religious

and that is the picture we see in Revelation thirteen,

when church and state will unite to implement the mark

of the beast of the time of the end. So

if you're just coasting as a Christian, if you think

prophetic truth doesn't matter in your life, friends, it does.

We have an opportunity to rise and shine for the

glory of God at the time of the end, to

be fully committed Christians, not half baked, half converted, half

committed Christians. Moses tells us that a good people will

turn their hearts to God and obey him with a

good heart and a good attitude. The thankful heart is

intrinsically the obedient heart. You can write that down. The

thankful heart is intrinsically the obedient heart. You cannot thank

God for his blessings if you do not obey his commandments.

Is the vital condition for receiving his blessings. A humble

people will inherit eternity, and arrogant people will be destroyed.

In Malachi four, it takes true humility to obey, to serve,

and a true and humble heart to thank God for

his blessings in your life.

And so we need humility. Deuteronomy eight one to three.

All the commandments I command you this day, I like this,

you shall be careful to do. We should really pay

attention to the Bible, that you may live and multiply,

and go in and possess the land which the Lord

swore to give to your fathers. And you shall remember

all the way which the Lord your God has led

you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might

humble you, testing you to know what is in your heart,

whether you would keep his commandments or not notice the

connection of humility with obedience verse three. And he humbled

you and let you hunger and fed you with manna.

Does everybody know what mana means in the Bible? Ma nah,

it's the Hebrew for what is it? Now? Imagine coming

to your Thanksgiving meal and they put the food out

there for some of you would be a tofu turkey,

some of you will be the real thing, okay, And

it'll all be out there on your table right and

you're looking at it. And as the lady of the

house brings the food for the table, imagine if you

should say what is it? That wouldn't go too well

at this Thanksgiving. But you know, when God dropped manna

from heaven, they looked on the ground they said, man nah,

what is it? Ma what nah it? And they ate

what is it? For forty years they didn't have a

clue what it was. It tasted like coriandercy it was white.

And they have they have, they have a type of

cultural manna. They sell at the at the at the

Arabic store on Main Street near a highway one in Laurel,

and it's little candies and it's called they call it

mana and it has pistachios. I go in think this.

I went in this week and I got ten of those.

I have to confess because I like the idea of manna.

And I had a sweet tooth. Also not a good

idea as a principle, but mana had a sweetness of

honey in it. Now, honey is golden, the sun is golden.

The golden honey the golden sun both represent God's word,

that's which is sweeter than honey and bright as the sun.

And the lion is a symbol of God's word as well.

So these imageries imagery matters. It says that he might

humble you, testing you to know what is in your heart,

whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he

humbled and let you hunger and fed you with man

out what is it which you did not know, nor

did your fathers know? That he might make you know? Said,

we don't get knowledge because we're smart. We don't get

insights because we're good. We get insights because God leads

us in life. He says that he might make you

know that man does not live by bread alone, but

that man lives by everything that precedes. Out of the

mouth of the Lord, this morning, I am thankful, actually,

I should say this afternoon, as of twenty minutes ago,

I am thankful for God Almighty, his eternal son, Jesus Christ,

and the person of the eternal Spirit of God, the

most humble, kind and loving being in the universe, because

the three or one the God had the heavenly trio,

who have given us all of God to save us.

I am grateful for what sister White calls the hearted

love of Eternity in our God of Love and the

nature of God. I am thankful that Jesus Christ came

into our world to show us who God is at

the deepest level, and to save us from the deep

pit of sin and rebellion that would have destroyed us all.

I am thankful that God gave us Jesus. Now you

have permission to say amen to statement like that. I

am thankful that God gave us Jesus has only begotten

son to die from my sins and for my family sins,

and for my church's sins, so we can be forgiven

and forgive and be saved and live forever with Him.

I'm grateful for that. I am thankful for prophetic truth

in our time and a church family here that proclaims

the word of God without compromise of the world. I

am thankful for my church family reaching hearts international, but

in the larger sense, our global church family that keeps

the commandments of God and has the testimony of Jesus.

And for the many others and sisters of its fellowship

who are working with heart and hand to hasten the

coming of Jesus Christ by the proclamation of the Three

Angels messages. I am thankful for a free country. Just

imagine would be like if it weren't, where we can

come here and worship without the state telling us how

to worship, when to worship, and what to worship and

what to believe. I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful for

men and women of conscience who have had the courage

to stand up to unjust walls, to stand up to

evil in our time, and even lay down their lives

for a righteous cause and freedom. Dear Heart, God used

the military of this world to save the world during

World War Two. I have a son who's in the military.

I've come to see how precious it is when our

loved ones serve our country to protect it. I am

thankful for the missionaries and our global movement who take

the Gospel of peace to the ends of the earth.

Missionaries and missionaries here, raise your hand if you do, okay,

I'm thankfu Yes, I know you're one.

I'm thankful for you.

I'm thankful for a generation of avidist young adults and

youth who claim the Bible is their creed and the

Gospel Proclamation is their cause and life and mission, who

don't have to dance around a golden calf and a

Christian rock concert, but they can open their Bibles and

preach and teach and take the Gospel tower areas of

the world and can win their neighbors and their friends

to Christ and to end time truth. I am proud

of young people like that, and I'm thankful for a

good land of milk and honey, with a Christian declaration

of independence, that is a declaration of our dependence on

God for a good future. We're brethren, dwelt together in unity,

like in Psalms one thirty three, where love fills the

words of the document. We hold these truths to be

self evident, that all men are created equal, that they

are endowed by their Creator with certain inailable rights, that

among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men,

deriving their just powers from the consent of the government.

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends,

it is the right of the people to alter or

to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its

foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such

form as to them shall seem most likely to affect

their safety and happiness. I am thankful for a Christian constitution.

That's what the Spirit of Prophecy calls it. A Christian

constitution that embodies lamb like ideals. Even now, on the

eve of the mark of the Beast, struggles soon to

engulf our country in the world. I'm grateful for the

constitution we the people of the United States, in order

to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensured damastic

domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare,

and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

To ordain and establish this constitution for the United States

of America, I am thankful for a country that learned

the lesson of its Civil War. I'm going to tell

you I have a relative who fought in the Civil

War every single battle from the first one to Gettysburg,

and was wounded in it. And if he had died,

I wouldn't be here. I've gone to the very spot

where he was wounded, and I've bowed my head before God,

and I thanked the Lord that God raised up Abraham Lincoln,

and that God was able to resolve the tension. See

our constitution and vision a place where slavery would not

be acceptable, and yet it was, and through a great

civil war, as Sister White said, every drop of blood

that was taken from the slaves would be atoned for

in that Civil war. And my father survived the atone

my great great grandfather Leander Southern. I'm thankful for a

country that learned the lesson of its Civil War to

grant freedom to every American and declares slavery and evil

at odds with its Christian constitution. I'm grateful for the

Woman of Revelation twelve, that is the true Christian Church

at the time of the End, that went through the

great Disappointment of eighteen forty four, that arose in the

context of the end of the second Grade Awakening, that

would have prophetic truth at the end of Daniel's longest

time prophecy. We belong to that movement. I am thankful

for the woman, the other woman in my life besides

the Woman of Relation twelve, who is my wife? Gentlemen,

how many of you thankful for your wives? You'd better

be raising your hands. Okay, Deacon's get the rod out

here like the early Puritans did to Whacky on the nose. Okay,

raise your hands high, both hands. Thankful for my wife,

and I'm sure you are too. Who loves this church?

I mean I piqued in my wife's prayer journal. You

wouldn't believe how many of you are pray for every

day by Diana. I don't pray nearly like my wife praise.

I'm thankful for that she loves this church that God

has established for the last days, that is obedient to

all its commandments and has the faith of Jesus, and

she wants to see everyone saved, and that her mother

just had a heart procedure yesterday and came through. Okay,

she's coming back to day. She's listening a line. She

loves her mother, she honors her parents. I'm thankful for

two sons who honor us, and one serves in the military.

And for a granddaughter who raised her hands to pray

two days ago, a little one year and a half

granddaughter named Clara, my granddaughter in my home, without my

urging from mom or dad or me.

She did this.

Let's pray. They're doing something right. I'm thankful for her

mother and father who teaches her to honor God in

prayer and obedience. And we live in a time where

the kids are told they can do whatever they want

to do. You realize you can't be anything unless you

learn to submit to authority. God is the ultimate authority

in the universe. There is authority in the Church, there's

authority intrinsic within nature, and God wants to obedient children

who can become leaders because they respect authority. I am

thankful Little Clara called our CPA Joe Weaver, the CPA

that helped start reaching hearts inter national. I called him Papa.

He sent me a video just last week. Look at

what little Clara did in our Saba school class. Down

there in the Cleveland Seventh Day Avvenist Church. He said,

Papa Papa to my best friend and CPA Joe Weaver.

When she got here. You know what she called me,

Not Papa but ba Pa bah Pa, Not Papa but Bapa. Well,

Bapa works. I'm okay with it. And I'm thankful for

a friend like Joe and his wife Laura, who made

the decision to not abort one of their children when

the doctor said you should. And they raised all of

these children. And Laurie gave her testimony at Fletcher Academy

of how we should trust God, that every child is

a gift from God. And my little granddaughter and her

parents are being mentored by my best friend down there.

I'm grateful for mentors God's God raises up in the church.

But I can't drive to be in that area. But

every now and then I'm thankful to God for every

member of this church who humbly serves God and who

is obedient to his righteous calling to live for Jesus

and to share Jesus Christ in the marketplace of their

workplace and their home life. And I'm grateful for the

children and the children's leaders that we saw up here today.

How many want to say with me, praise God. May

they come and grab that microphone all the time. I mean,

little Henry, I've seen Henry with the microphone. Henry, it's

back there, seeing the little Henry with the microphone. I mean, look,

I'll get the mic He grabs it like he's an

opera singer to God. We got to get him saying yeah, Harvey,

I think so. I'm grateful for all of these children.

I am thankful for our conference, the Chesapeake Conference that

opened its arms to take us during the COVID crises,

and it's leadership with other loots and the other executive

officers who have taken upon themselves next year to reach

out to the city of Baltimore with the Alleghenyese Conference

to bridge together to work for the salvation of people

and to work directly with both conferences, the Regional Conference,

which is really a multi ethnic conference, and the Chesapeake Conference,

because you know, there are no racial barriers in our hearts.

If we're converted people, we work together for the salvation

of men and women. I'm thankful for health, happiness, purpose

in God's plan for my life. This year, I had

doctors tell me I had an eighty percent chance of

cancer in two different areas, and I went through a

series of tests and I didn't. Those tests bang me up.

I had two surgical procedures. I bled a lot, only

to hear them say you don't have cancer. And I said,

why couldn't you have told me at the beginning of journey?

You know, but I'm grateful. I'm grateful took a lot

of wind out of me in the process. But you know,

even if I had it, I'm still grateful. Where would

I go but to a God who can heal me

in the resurrection at the end of the age. I'm

thankful for a meaningful life today and a future resurrection

on the last day. I'm thankful that God in Christ

forgave me of my sins on Calvary's cross, and that

there's nothing left to condemn if I'm in Jesus and

you too. I'm thankful this morning for the good land

of our church. Have you ever walked in doors and say,

how do we get this thing? Do you ever know that

we're not a megachurch, but we have two hundred and

fifty people in our books? That's it. Why would God

change the laws of the United States of America by

defining RELOOPA, the Religious Land US and the Institutionalized Persons Act,

which was a buttress of the Equal Protection clausiness the

United States Constitution so we could build our church. You

know why? God loves us, and this church has been

committed to obedience in faith, in Jesus proclamation of His word.

God knew that we were committed to radio evangelism, and

we didn't quit it to win this litigation. God honors

those kind of things. God be praised. I am thankful

for the hundreds of churches that were built because of

that struggle. Because our legal struggle defined religious liberty throughout

this country. It's the most important Religious LANDUS victory in

the history Unit States. I am thankful for those new people.

How many of you are kind of new here? Raise

your hand, Raise your hand, Come on, got baptized or

your new look at that. We're just grateful for every

one of you, for those new people here that God

has brought to our church family to bring grifts and

talents to learn from us, but we learn from them

and for our church to grow along relational lines. Dear heart,

we are links in a chain for a future we

may never see. There were three times in this struggle

for this building, I almost died.

Most of you don't know that I went septic.

I was twenty four hours away from death, and I

was in the hospital for a whole week, and I

lost thirty five pounds, and I was in church the

next weekend, and I just took three weeks off and

you thought it was a vacation septic shock. I had

two blood clots in this journey. My immune system collapsed.

You know where's Joe Williams at Joe run where where

he's out back there greeting. Joe commented today as we're

coming through the door, that I got gray hair through

the litigation. I did my hair grade prematurely early. So

you know what the cure for gray hair is. You

cut it off. It's called a short military hair cut.

And Clinton, you got the real cure. Okay, I'm getting

there by degree. I didn't mean to pick on you.

I think it's beautiful. Are you all right with me?

That was kind of spontaneous, not in the manuscript, but

loving it. That's all I can say. We are links

in a chain. If we're not faithful in our time,

there'll be no future here. If we compromise the Bible,

we sell out the avidist prophetic mission, we're gone. If

we're true, there'll be a future we never see. But

we're a link in a chain, and on the sea

of glass we'll see it. I could go on and on,

because I cannot exhaust the goodness that God has given

to us today, his grace, his power, his providence, and

his gifts that have beautifully and providentially been manifested in

our lives, and the relationship and the opportunities we enjoy

reaching hearts international. We are a blessed church. We are

a blessed church. Thank you God for all of them.

Thank you God, Thank you.

Lord Jesus, Thank you Holy Spirit.

Thank you in that hearted love of eternity that is

the Triune God that is won that you loved us

to bring us in to the love. As John says

in First John one, I will end the message for

the morning with the humble prayer of George Webb, a

pilgrim father who prayed it in sixteen twenty five. Is

a simple prayer of thanksgiving from a humble and converted

and obedient heart, from a man who understood where the

blessings come from. George Webb's prayer is for all of

us this Thanksgiving the year twenty twenty four, he writes,

as he prayed, O, Lord, our God and Heavenly Father,

which of thy unspeakable mercy toward us has provided meat

and drink for the nourishment of our weak bodies, Grant

us peace to use them reverently as from Thy hands,

with thankful hearts. Let thy blessing rest upon these Thy

good creatures to our comfort and sustination. And grant we

humbly beseech thee Lord God, that as we do hunger

and thirst for this food of our bodies, so our

souls may earnestly long after the food of eternal life.

Through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen.