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Thank God in All Things - Elder William Amuzu

The Church of Pentecost, S.K. Baidoo English Assembly

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  1. The. Amen.

  2. Oh, let's clap for them. If you are clapping, then let's

  3. do it better for the Lord. Oh let's clap for them, let's

  4. clap for them. Hallelujah.

  5. At this moment I want to listen to the word of God and with a

  6. clap of let's invite our elder William Amuzu to give us the

  7. word of God. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, today is

  8. the day that the Lord has made and we are going to rejoice and

  9. be glad in it. Hallelujah.

  10. Tell your brother or your sister, it's not a mistake that

  11. you are here this morning. We are here to thank God and

  12. give him praise. Hallelujah, because the Lord has

  13. been so good unto us. I want to take this opportunity

  14. and thank our District pastor for this opportunity, our

  15. presiding Elder, the Presbytery, and you for coming.

  16. Hallelujah upon. All.

  17. What went on yesterday? You've tried to come, and may

  18. the Lord bless you for that Hallelujah this morning.

  19. I'm not going to delay. I'm speaking on the topic.

  20. Thank God in all things. Thank God in all things.

  21. Hallelujah. Thank God.

  22. In all things, there's a song that I want to sing and I want

  23. Ada Kinsley to help me. Or Mama Winnie Eradini.

  24. Wu yesu Chriso O Sahin. Yeah, that was yeah.

  25. Yes. Thank God in all things and I'm

  26. taking my Bible reading from First Thessalonians chapter 5,

    1 Thessalonians 5:18

  27. verse 18, the NIV and he says give thanks in all

  28. circumstances, for this is the royal for you in Christ Jesus.

  29. Hallelujah. Give thanks in all

  30. circumstances, whether good or bad.

  31. We are supposed to give God the praise whether things work for

  32. us, whether things are not working for us, what the Bible

  33. is saying that give times to the Lord in all circumstances,

  34. Hallelujah. And these are the moment where

  35. Christian, we find it difficult to give God the tanks.

  36. We only want things to work for us so that we give God the

  37. tanks. But this is what the Scripture

  38. is saying, that in all circumstances, in everything,

  39. you must give God the praise, you must thank God for

  40. everything that he does. Hallelujah.

  41. So we must give God the tanks in whatever that He does for us,

  42. whether good or bad, whether we like it or not.

  43. Whether you have a car or you don't have a car, you must give

  44. God a chance. Whether you are married or you

  45. are not married, you must give God a chance.

  46. Whether you are educated or you are not educated, you must give

  47. God a chance. Hallelujah.

  48. And through that the Lord is pleased with that.

  49. Hallelujah, Thanksgiving give us a legal rights of ownership.

  50. When we give thanks to God, it give us a legal right of

  51. ownership in spiritual realm and in physical realm.

  52. As you mean, I've given you a gift and you've thanked me for

  53. that. Because of that, when something

  54. happened, maybe you are not my friend, something happened.

  55. And because of that, I want to take my gifts back because

  56. you've thanked me, that has given you a legal ownership of

  57. what you have, so I cannot take it back.

  58. Hallelujah. So that's why sometimes people

  59. will say, oh, this man of God, God has gifted him this kind of

  60. spiritual gift and he was using it although he's misbehaving.

  61. But God is not taking the gift back because God has given the

  62. person that gift and He's not taking it bad.

  63. That has given him the opportunity or the privilege to

  64. use the gate freely. Hallelujah.

  65. So whenever we thank God, it give us a legal right of

  66. ownership in spiritual realm and in physical, Hallelujah.

  67. So we are supposed to appreciate whatever that God has done for

  68. us. We are supposed to appreciate

  69. whatever that the Lord has done for us, whether good or bad.

  70. And believers, when we do not take care and appreciate what

  71. God has done for us, even when it's little, God will take our

  72. blessings and give it to someone.

  73. Someone is seeking that blessing.

  74. Someone is seeking for what you have and you, by the grace of

  75. God, you have that thing and you are not thanking God.

  76. You are believing yourself that oh this thing is too small for

  77. me. I want God to do something great

  78. in my life. Whatever that God has given unto

  79. us, whether little, whether big, we must give him the thanks.

  80. Hallelujah. And this is what he saw, didn't

  81. see, didn't appreciate the birthright that God has given

  82. unto him instead of him to appreciate what God has done for

  83. him. Because of circumstances,

  84. because of anger, he was hungry. Because he was hungry, he saw

  85. his birthright to his brother. When we do not appreciate

  86. whatever that the Lord has given unto us, the Lord would take it

  87. to another person. So any small thing that the Lord

  88. has given unto us, whether we see it or we don't see it, we

  89. must give God the tanks even in advance.

  90. So he saw saw that the birthright that he had was

  91. nothing. So because of the challenges

  92. that he was finding himself in, he was hungry.

  93. Or Pediani Eddie. And because of that I say, oh,

  94. what is birthright to me? He just gave it to his brother.

  95. He didn't appreciate the birthright that God has given

  96. unto him. You ask yourself why?

  97. Why did God allow him to be the first child that came?

  98. He didn't get it like that. He thought that oh, the

  99. birthright was just a meeting, but he was exchanging the

  100. blessing that God has given unto him through his birthright.

  101. He just gave it to his brother just like that.

  102. He didn't appreciate it this morning.

  103. I want us to appreciate whatever that the Lord does for us,

  104. whether little or big. Appreciated.

  105. Hallelujah. And we shouldn't compare

  106. ourselves to anyone. No, we are different.

  107. I'm different and you are different.

  108. Your blessings are different from mine.

  109. Hallelujah, your blessings are different from mine.

  110. I cannot be President Muhammad and President Muhammad cannot be

  111. like me. So whatever that the Lord has

  112. given on to us, we must appreciate it and we shouldn't

  113. compare and give Him thanks in all things.

  114. Hallelujah, when we say Thanksgiving, what does it mean?

  115. Thanksgiving is when you thank God for who He is and what He

  116. has done. Thanksgiving is giving thanks to

  117. the Lord for who He is and what He has done.

  118. So when you read Psalm 107 verse 1, he says thanks to the Lord

    Psalms 107:1

  119. for His good, for His safest love endures forever.

  120. Hallelujah. Indeed, our Lord is good when we

  121. are counting our blessings and what the Lord has done for us.

  122. My brothers, my sisters, I don't think we can leave this

  123. auditorium. The Lord has been so good unto

  124. us since that our eyes cannot see the Lord has done it for us.

  125. So we must thank God in all circumstances, in all things.

  126. We must give Him the praise, Hallelujah, because He has shown

  127. us love and which we must show Him gratitude.

  128. Hallelujah. Thanksgiving is speaking good

  129. thing about God, speaking good things about God.

  130. When we say Thanksgiving, it also means that speaking good

  131. things about God, that oh, our Lord is good, our Lord is kind,

  132. our Lord is faithful, and it is true.

  133. Our Lord is good. Our Lord is kind.

  134. Our Lord is faithful. I always say that if God was a

  135. human being by now we should have dead and gone by this time

  136. you because the the plots and the mind of human beings are

  137. wicked. Even sometime when you are

  138. laughing with your brother and when he dream pass obey you

  139. wicked but he will laugh with you, he will pretend with you.

  140. But God is not like that. He love us so much, no matter

  141. the sense that you've committed, he would accept you and he will

  142. change your life. What a loving God.

  143. I want you to be outstanding and thank God for whatever that he

  144. has done in your life. He has been so good on to us and

  145. this morning he deserve all the praise.

  146. Thank God, thank God, thank God for what he has in your life.

  147. Father, we thank you. We give you all the praise, for

  148. you have been good unto us. You have been faithful unto us.

  149. And this morning we've come to thank you.

  150. This morning we've come to appreciate you, Lord, for what

  151. you have done for us. We thank you, Lord, We thank

  152. you, Lord, We thank you, Lord, we thank you, Lord.

  153. Liba surya daba shanda dabadi. I will enter his gate wait times

  154. giving in my heart I. Will anti score?

  155. With pray or sing it and I will say this.

  156. Is the day that the. Lord has me, Oh I will.

  157. Rejoice, for he has. Made me climb.

  158. I will thank the. Lord, as you sing the song, the

  159. Lord. The.

  160. The Lord has been so good unto us, and He has made us glad.

  161. Even for you to wake up this morning.

  162. The Lord has made you glad even for you to cross this road and

  163. come to church. The Lord has made you glad.

  164. Hallelujah. So sometimes it's not all about

  165. the big things that the Lord does for us, but the little,

  166. little things which we despise. There are something valuable,

  167. something precious that the Lord has done for us.

  168. Hallelujah. Thanksgiving also means

  169. remembering what God has done for you.

  170. Thanksgiving means remembering what God has done for you.

  171. And I like you so much when David always will thank God for

  172. what the Lord has done for him through all his challenges, the

  173. things that David went through always you give God a thanks.

  174. You'll be talking to God who will be acknowledging him for

  175. what he has done for him. Hallelujah.

  176. And when you read Psalm 103, the verse 1-2, let's say 10, the

  177. easy English make it very simple and understanding.

  178. He says Psalm 103 verse one. Praise the Lord my soul all my

  179. Inamos being, praise his holy name.

  180. This is David saying praise the Lord the verse 2.

  181. Praise the Lord my soul and forget not all his benefits.

  182. Praise the Lord my soul and forget not all his benefit.

  183. And when you come to the verse three, he listed some of the

  184. benefits, what the Lord has done for him and the verse for say

  185. who forgives our sins and heals all your diseases?

  186. Hallelujah. No one can tell me that he was

  187. born perfect. We were all born as sinners.

  188. And I remember when I was young, I used to steal my mother's soup

  189. and I in a woman, I used to steal it a lot.

  190. Hallelujah. Upon all the things that we've

  191. committed, God didn't look down upon us, upon the lot of things

  192. that we've done. You know personally that

  193. sometimes if you are to tell human beings that I've done

  194. this, the person is going to look at you as a Sinner.

  195. But upon all that, God Forgives our sins, Hallelujah.

  196. No matter what you've done in the past, the Lord has forgiven

  197. you a sins. And because of that He deserved

  198. the Thanksgiving. Because of that, He deserved the

  199. praises for the big thing that He has done for us, Hallelujah.

  200. And he moves on and says that and heals your diseases.

  201. God heals our diseases, the sicknesses that we have been

  202. through. It is only God.

  203. It is only by His grace that we are healed.

  204. Sometime you go to the hospital and the doctor will tell you

  205. that this, your sickness, it is only God that will intervene

  206. because you will die soon. And through prayers, through

  207. believing in God, you are alive and we are no more.

  208. Yamaha Hallelujah, the Lord has been so good unto us, so He

  209. deserved the Thanksgiving. I want you to add Thanksgiving

  210. to your life. Every morning when you wake up,

  211. add Thanksgiving to your life for you to go to work.

  212. Just dedicate some 2 minutes, 3 minutes.

  213. Just thank God for what He has done in your life.

  214. Because brethren, the Lord has been so good unto us, but when

  215. we don't see it like that and we let our challenges over shadow

  216. what the Lord has done for us, then we are not being faithful.

  217. Hallelujah. So David was saying these things

  218. that may my soul not forget all the benefit that the Lord has

  219. done for me, who forgave my sins and heals all my diseases, the

  220. sicknesses and everything that I went through.

  221. The Lord has forgiven me. So David was saying that my soul

  222. praise the Lord, Hallelujah. I want this to be our prayer

  223. this morning, that may our soul praise the Lord in all

  224. circumstances. May our soul give thanks to the

  225. Lord. Whether things are good or

  226. things are we are no good. We are going to thank the Lord.

  227. We are going to lift him high because he deserve it.

  228. Hallelujah He move on and say it at the best four, that who

  229. redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with the love and

  230. compassion God has saved us. Through a lot of troubles, some

  231. of the troubles, if it is not God, then who can help you?

  232. You can tell a human beings that Oh my brother, I've been in this

  233. situation, I want you to help me.

  234. He will tell you I will help you, but the help will not come.

  235. But upon all the problems and the challenges, when God

  236. promises us, He is faithful and He does it.

  237. He is faithful and He does it. So upon all the challenges, our

  238. trouble, the things that we have been in, the Lord has still be

  239. there for us. Hallelujah.

  240. No man can stand like God for you.

  241. No, no one can stand like God for you.

  242. Even your wife will tell you, I will stand with you.

  243. And when they are about to bury you, see whether your wife will

  244. go with you. He cannot go with you, but God

  245. will be with you to the last day.

  246. Oh, give turns to the Lord for his good and his mercies and

  247. yours forever. Open your mouth and thank the

  248. Lord. Thank the Lord, thank the for,

  249. for what he has done in your life.

  250. Through all the life, Genesis, troubles, temptation, the Lord

  251. has been good unto us. Open your mouth and thank the

  252. Lord. Thank the Lord for that.

  253. Father, we thank you that you have redeemed us from the pit

  254. and you have showed us love. We thank you.

  255. Lord, we bless you. Liba surya daba as Shah dabadi

  256. mas surya daba Shah daba liba surya daba.

  257. He move on to the verse 5 because of our time.

  258. Who satisfies your desire with good things so that your youth

  259. is renewed like egos? God has satisfied our desire.

  260. There are a lot of things that we want in life and the Lord has

  261. provided it for us. Some of us, we need a job and

  262. the Lord has done it. Some of us, we needed marriage

  263. and the Lord has done it. Some of us, we need a car and

  264. the Lord has done it. So upon all this we must give

  265. terms to the Lord, because it is Him alone that can do it.

  266. Hallelujah. And he move on again and says

  267. that your youth is renewed like the eagles.

  268. We all bear in mind that strength and power belongs to

  269. this man. Sometimes even to wake up and go

  270. to work. You, you tell yourself that, oh,

  271. I wish this job, I was doing my own job so that I can sleep.

  272. Because you are tired, God will look at you and give you some

  273. strength. The next morning you get some

  274. refreshed spirit and you are here.

  275. Yesterday we were all tired, but ask yourself who gave you that

  276. ability and strength to come here?

  277. It is God, Hallelujah. So one man said it is Baba, God,

  278. oh Baba God, it is God. It is the man that has given you

  279. the strength, the energy. He has renewed US once again to

  280. come and fellowship with him. So you see the reason why we

  281. have to give chance to God because He's good.

  282. Hallelujah. He moves on again to the verse.

  283. Let's go to verse 8. And he says the Lord works

  284. righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

  285. The Lord defends the weak and fight for the oppressed and some

  286. on the side of the justice. Hallelujah, the Lord defend us a

  287. lot. You see that sometimes you'll be

  288. find yourself in some circumstances and the Lord will

  289. defend you, The Lord will fight for you.

  290. So sometimes we don't have to worry about certain things.

  291. If someone is fighting you, if someone is spawning your name,

  292. you just give it to the Elohim, you just give it to the King of

  293. Kings and he will fight for you. Hallelujah, because we cannot

  294. fight with ourselves. No, in the night you don't know

  295. what goes on. Hallelujah, in the spiritual

  296. realm we cannot fight, no, but the Lord fights for us.

  297. He defends us that we cannot do it by our strength.

  298. But you see that the Lord fights for us.

  299. So David was saying that he fights for us.

  300. Hallelujah, He is our defend. So do not be afraid.

  301. All that you have to do is just just give Him tongues and leave

  302. the rest for him. He will fight your battles for

  303. you. So you see that in the Bible,

  304. David went through a lot of wars and what he did was that always

  305. he would talk to God. And through all that God granted

  306. him victory because he consulted the Creator, the source of

  307. everything. And because of that, God was

  308. with him. So this morning I'm here to tell

  309. someone that if someone is fighting you, if someone is

  310. tormenting your life, forget about the person, just give the

  311. praise to God. And as you give the praise to

  312. God, the Lord will fight your battles for him.

  313. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  314. The verse 7 he says that he may know his ways to Moses is this

  315. to the people of Israel. So we must give terms to the

  316. Lord for this benefit that even the things that is ahead of us

  317. the Lord reveals to us. I once remember I had a dream

  318. and the dream came to pass. So I asked myself, hey, God was

  319. saving me, He was giving me a notice that my son be careful

  320. this and that and the dream truly came to pass.

  321. So God reveals to us as he revealed to Moses.

  322. So because of the revelation that God has been revelation He

  323. has been showing on to us. We must give him the tanks

  324. Hallelujah. He reveals things to us, the

  325. deeper things things about you. Sometimes someone will see you

  326. and say this is what the law says and truly, truly it will

  327. come to pass upon all that we must give turns to him.

  328. Hallelujah. He move on to the verse 10 and

  329. he says He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay

  330. according to our iniquities. So God does not treat us as our

  331. sense. I said it that human beings will

  332. treat you as you deserve your sense.

  333. When human beings find a little fault about you, He will talk.

  334. But God did not treat us, our sense us in the Bible, like our

  335. iniquities, but He forgive us all our sins, and He has shown

  336. us kindness and mercies, Hallelujah.

  337. So because of this, we must give Him tongues.

  338. Because of this, we must give Him praise that He deserve.

  339. Hallelujah. We move on to the verse 13.

  340. And that will be my last. As a father has compassion on

  341. his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear

  342. him. Hallelujah.

  343. God has a certain kind of compassion for us.

  344. God love us so much. He has us in his heart.

  345. He has some compassion for us when something happens to us.

  346. I am Shishibi because he love us.

  347. So, because of the compassion that God has for us, we must

  348. give him thanks for that, Hallelujah.

  349. Because of this, we might give him the thanks.

  350. Because of this, we must show Him gratitude.

  351. Because of this, we must appreciate whatever that He does

  352. for us. Hallelujah.

  353. Thanksgiving is a daily living, not just a special moment, but

  354. in everything that we do, we must give God the thanks.

  355. Hallelujah, it's not just a moment or something that we just

  356. do it just like that, but we must have it in our activities,

  357. daily activities, that we must give God the thanks not only

  358. when we come to church, but wherever that we find ourselves.

  359. We must thank God for what He has done and even for the things

  360. that He's about to do in our lives.

  361. Hallelujah. When we give God the thanks, it

  362. changes God to do more. When you give God thanks, it

  363. didn't just seem to do more. As you mean, you've given me a

  364. pair of shoe. I've given you, I've given you a

  365. pair of shoe and you come to thank me that only I thank you.

  366. Next time when I have that pair of shoe, I'll say, ah, this guy,

  367. he showed me gratitude, so I'll give it to him.

  368. Maybe I give someone a pair of shoe and he didn't mind me, but

  369. because you gave me the thanks always when I get more, I'll

  370. give it to you. So this is what the Lord does.

  371. When we give Him thanks always, He releases blessings always.

  372. Whatever good thing that the Lord has, He gives to those that

  373. give him thanks. Hallelujah.

  374. So this is the power of Thanksgiving.

  375. When we give God a thanks, whatever that He has in

  376. installment, He releases upon His children.

  377. Hallelujah, Thanksgiving brings miracles when we give God a

  378. tanks, it brings miracles in our lives and we can see it at as

  379. chapter 16, verse 25, when Paul and Silas, they've been in

  380. prison instead of these people to think about their challenges,

  381. the thing that they were in in the prison, they didn't do that.

  382. Instead of that, they prayed and sang hymns of Thanksgiving to

  383. God who can do this upon your challenges.

  384. As you mean, I'm arrested. I'm here because of gods where

  385. maybe I went out for evangelism and because of that you hear

  386. that elderly they arrested him to prisons instead of me to

  387. think, oh how will I get out from this prison.

  388. I will pray thank the Lord. Oh father in all things I thank

  389. you. I thank you for giving me the

  390. privilege to even go out and do your preach your gospel whereby

  391. people have arrested me and they were singing songs of praise.

  392. We thank you Lord. What a powerful thing.

  393. These people didn't look at their circumstances, but they

  394. look at the source. They look at the one that

  395. created him. Why?

  396. Because he has the power to liberate them from the prison.

  397. So instead of them looking at the circumstances, their

  398. challenges, they give chance to go this morning.

  399. I don't know your challenges. I don't know your problems.

  400. But all that I want to tell you is that upon all your

  401. challenges, upon all your problems, get a day and thank

  402. the Lord. Get a day and worship the Lord.

  403. And I should do that. Anything in your life that's

  404. you've been struggling with, the Lord will take it away.

  405. Hallelujah, give terms to the Lord.

  406. One thing that this man did that was baffles me so much and the

  407. man is Job. We all heard about his story in

  408. the Bible. This man lost his children, his

  409. wealth, health, possessions. Upon all that Job kept trusting

  410. God. Upon all that Job kept praising

  411. the Lord. Hallelujah, who can do such a

  412. thing that even his wife was telling him to curse God.

  413. But he didn't do that because he knew the God that he was

  414. serving. So he gave praise to town.

  415. That is issue that gave me all things.

  416. So it is naked that I came and naked that I go.

  417. So I give you thanks for what you have done for me.

  418. This should be our attitude as Christian that no matter how

  419. hard life is, we must give God a thanks.

  420. The other day I was telling myself that I've passed through

  421. a lot of things. One of the things that was

  422. weighing me down was my brain. I think it was the devil that

  423. was fighting me. He was looking at me that oh,

  424. you, you've been you didn't get a good education background.

  425. Your English is no good, this and that and this thing was

  426. buffering me. Sometimes I've been thinking

  427. about it, but upon all that one word that came into my life that

  428. upon everything give terms to the Lord because it is His will

  429. for you don't make me happy, but God knows the reason why I pass

  430. through all these things and see where God is taking me through.

  431. Now you see, so upon everything that we pass through, we must

  432. keep God a chance. One of the weapons that the

  433. devil uses is he will talk to your brain that oh look at you,

  434. look at this and that your friends are progressing and you

  435. are this and that. But tell him the hey devil, I am

  436. coming. It is the Lord that created me

  437. and even though this I'm not working for me, I will give God

  438. the praise. I know I will not be here

  439. forever. The Lord will change my destiny,

  440. Hallelujah. So we must keep God all the

  441. praise and we shouldn't let negative thoughts enter US.

  442. Hallelujah. Maybe my time is almost up.

  443. It's almost up. So I will conclude right now,

  444. but I don't know. There's something in me that's

  445. God wants me to tell the church that I don't know what you are

  446. going through. But.

  447. Just give God a chance. Don't let your negative

  448. thoughts, what people are telling you or what is going

  449. through your mind, downgrade you upon everything that you've

  450. passed through, whether you know how to speak English, whether

  451. you know how to play keyboard, whether you know how to sing,

  452. you have a good voice. God did it for a reason,

  453. Hallelujah. As you mean, all of us, we

  454. become elders of the church who will be down here.

  455. No one can be here. So in God's own wisdom, he know

  456. what is good and He does it. Hallelujah.

  457. So upon everything, just give him the thanks for whatever that

  458. he does. It is good and we don't have any

  459. question to question the Lord whether someone dies in your

  460. family, whether things are good, whether you have money or you

  461. don't have money. He is the creator.

  462. He can change everything by he say pass through this process to

  463. then a Walker or see for seer for HOSA Hallelujah.

  464. As I bring my message to an end church, I want to tell us that

  465. we must give God the tanks always, not in some ways.

  466. Give God all the tanks in always, whether we have it or we

  467. don't have it. Give God the tanks and don't

  468. compare yourself to anyone. No, we are different.

  469. Our blessings are different and in God's own wisdom, He knows

  470. the reason why we are passing through these challenges.

  471. The last time I was listening to Apostle Eric Nyamiche.

  472. Now when you look at his car, you see the car here guy.

  473. And those days this man was a man of God, not a fruit Rotro.

  474. But see how the Lord has brought him right now that days call

  475. back as oh mayor so far then I'm a fruit Rotro this and that that

  476. days there were no car on the other days car and you walk

  477. through yourself over fat rotor and other things.

  478. But see how the Lord has brought him.

  479. So it is a process and we should keep giving terms to the Lord

  480. and when his time is up, he will glorify himself.

  481. May the Lord bless his church and may we give God the praise

  482. in all circumstances. Amen.

  483. Kindly be on your feet and hold someone's hand and tell him or

  484. her whenever you fail to appreciate God.

  485. You may end up selling your birthright, so be careful.

  486. Amen. Please resume your seat.

  487. The message is very simple and clear, and when he was speaking,

  488. I realized that many of us have sold our birthright unknowingly

  489. because of lack. Of.

  490. Gratitude. When he was speaking, a lot of

  491. things were going through my mind.

  492. In fact, I was asking myself, how grateful are we to God?

  493. If you are grateful to God, it is seen in your attitude.

  494. At times when I come to church, I am tempted to suck some people

  495. to go home. Do you know why?

  496. Because I in my mind you are not serious.

  497. The same person will go to work on time, am I right?

  498. That same person, when it is time for you to come before your

  499. Maker, just once in a week, you are not going to work.

  500. You come late and then we'll stand here and tell you we are.

  501. You know the reason why at times you do that is because you don't

  502. see the church as the House of God.

  503. Some of you come to the church like an association or a club,

  504. and we need to change our way of thinking.

  505. If you see the church as the House of God and on Sunday,

  506. which is the lost day dedicated for the Lord, you know the time.

  507. You must come before your Maker. You must ensure you come before

  508. Him on time because your work provides you money and you want

  509. to please your boss, you want to please men.

  510. You do your very possible best to go to work on time so that

  511. you get good recommendation. But with this attitude, the way

  512. we come before the presence of God, what will be the

  513. recommendation God will give to us?

  514. We do that because we are ungrateful.

  515. Praise the Lord, but I thank God for this message.

  516. And He said that he saw because he was ungrateful.

  517. He said what is birthright? And that is what we are doing

  518. through our actions. God has given us eternal life

  519. through the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ.

  520. How well do you appreciate it? If you appreciate it, whatever

  521. it is time for you to come before Him, you will run.

  522. And that is what shows that. You appreciate it, but if you

  523. don't appreciate it when it is Sunday, it is time for you to

  524. come to church. Oh be on your machine.

  525. Oh, be on your machine now mobile.

  526. Mr. Emmy said mean power. Then God will say that is not

  527. your work. Your work is to preach and that

  528. is what we have just done. We have read the gospel and went

  529. to the wise. Why should I inform so?

  530. And then? At

  531. times you could see that you go through.

  532. A challenge of life whereby you exhaust every means that can

  533. bring you. How do we say that can bring you

  534. solution? And what is left for you to face

  535. is life and death. And from nowhere before you

  536. close your eyes and open, you have overcome the challenge.

  537. How does it happen? Who is behind it?

  538. I just want you to open. Your mouth and thank God.

  539. Just thank you the Lord. Has been good unto us.

  540. We are grateful unto you, oh Lord.

  541. We thank you for every. We don't deserve your grace.

  542. We don't deserve your message. Should you consider our deeds?

  543. We. Are totally disqualified but

  544. this? Morning.

  545. If you have made us come. To your presence.

  546. Lord, we thank you for. Everything we thank.

  547. You for everything? None.

  548. Thank you. We bless your name.

  549. Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus.

  550. Someone went to sleep and when he got up in the morning, he

  551. realized that he wasn't feeling well.

  552. Jesus. And it was a waking day, but

  553. because of fear of losing his job, he decided to go to work.

  554. And he went to work because of the fear of getting or receiving

  555. a query letter. He decided to go to work in that

  556. condition. And then Sunday came when the

  557. last day came, and it was time for him to go before his maker.

  558. It was on that day that he realized that he was sick, and

  559. so he decided that he will stay in the house and have some rest.

  560. And the Lord sits up and he looks at this person, and the

  561. Lord spends in his life. The Lord gives him the grace to

  562. go and come, but when it is time for the person to reciprocate

  563. His love unto him by coming to His presence, it is at that

  564. particular moment that the person remembers that he is not

  565. well yet. The Lord is quiet and he's

  566. looking and he is watching. The Lord is quiet and He's

  567. looking and He's watching, and the surprising thing is that He

  568. keeps on sustaining that of faithful person, and that

  569. unfaithful person is you and I. So as we have come before Him

  570. and we have heard His way, what else can we do?

  571. What else can we see? We just want to thank.

  572. You hello, we just. Want to?

  573. Hallelujah. We just want to thank you,

  574. Jesus. We just want to thank you,

  575. Jesus. We just want to thank you,

  576. Jesus. We don't deserve it.

  577. We have been all faithful, but you have sustained.

  578. US. We want to bless you this.

  579. Morning. We want to thank you in our

  580. faithfulness. Lord, You have sustained us.

  581. In our. Faithfulness you have kept.

  582. US. We.

  583. Bless you Jesus. We just want to thank.

  584. Thank you. Shall we humbly resume our

  585. seats? I want three people who are

  586. attached. To.

  587. Come forward and guys, pray. Thank the Lord three people who

  588. are attached. Lord, we just want to.

  589. Persons can come forward. We just want to thank you.

  590. Hello. We just want to thank you.

  591. Hallelujah. We just want to thank you.

  592. Hello. Some officers have come up,

  593. asked them to sit down. Throughout the whole year the

  594. Lord has used the officers to work in His church.

  595. And you have heard about Thanksgiving, you have heard

  596. about the word of God. So when we say 3 persons should

  597. come and pray and you are still seated there, it tells you how.

  598. We just want to say. Hello, we just want to thank

  599. you, our Lord. And Master Savior, we thank you

  600. this morning. We thank you for your wait.

  601. We thank you for your mercy. We thank you for your glory in

  602. our lives. That the Lord we know.

  603. We've been ungrateful in so many ways, but Lord, you are, Lord

  604. you are. Lord, you are the one who

  605. forgives. You are the one who sees our bad

  606. ways and still forgives us. That the Lord, we pray and ask

  607. you at this moment that may you have mercy upon us, have mercy

  608. upon us, that the Lord, without your mercy, we cannot do it.

  609. Without your mercy, we cannot move.

  610. We know all you've been doing for us.

  611. But like the preacher said, we pray and ask you to forgive us.

  612. Every Father, because of your forgiveness, we say thank you

  613. because it is said between you and us, it is ask and give.

  614. We ask you as our Father, you give us as your children.

  615. So we believe that whatever we have asked you, you would do it

  616. for us. So we now say thank you.

  617. We bless your name in Jesus name of great Amen and.

  618. Then we thank you, Father, for your goodness, thank you for

  619. your message. We thank you for your

  620. faithfulness. Thank you for your church.

  621. Thank you for escaping the worship center.

  622. We thank you even for your healing.

  623. We thank you for the grace you've shown towards us.

  624. Thank you for our jobs. Thank you for our families.

  625. Thank you for all that you've done for us.

  626. In the good times, we say thank you.

  627. Even in the bad times, we say thank you.

  628. We have the cause to say thank you.

  629. Thank you Jesus. Only for that, we thank you this

  630. morning. We thank you for the gift of

  631. life. We thank you for being in this

  632. church. We thank you for our families,

  633. We thank you for our jobs, We thank you for everything you've

  634. done for us. Looking at what you've done in

  635. our lives, what did we we didn't even deserve?

  636. You've given it to us. We say we are grateful until

  637. this morning, as we've heard your word, we've repented.

  638. From today onwards, we start counting our blessings and we

  639. start naming them for your glorious God.

  640. We give you all their glory. We give you all their honor.

  641. In Jesus name pray Thanksgiving, Amen.

  642. Well, let's give a collaboration unto Jesus.

  643. Indeed, Thanksgiving is good, because after Jesus has healed

  644. the leopards, it is only one person who came back to render

  645. his Thanksgiving unto him. And he asked him, what about the

  646. others? So what God is doing in our

  647. lives, we too have to come and appreciate what He has done.

  648. Hallelujah.