Ingredients For A Thankful Life

If you're free in the house, would you let the Lord know you're thankful today?

Hallelujah good to see you this morning in the house of the Lord. My lord. Look at that balcony

Wave at me folk

Hallelujah good to see y'all this morning

Do do this with me

Appreciate you shaking hands with the preacher today

Because I can't get up there and y'all won't come down here. Is that sister Anne?

What are you doing up there?

I thought they'd laid out the day and lo and behold behind the white light there she stands

Huh

Y'all try to keep me on my toes where I have to keep looking for you to make sure you're here now

I'm here

You have your Bibles turned with me to the book of first Thessalonians chapter 5. I

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Don't know if you can tell or not, but I feel good today

Rested hadn't had been getting up so early to let Travis into work. So I'm rested

I'm finally about to stick a fork in that job. Hallelujah. Oh

I

Feel good this morning. So get ready

Ain't no telling what's coming our way today

Y'all don't be putting on airs. We got company from Dallas today

Don't pay no attention to them they'll be alright

First Thessalonians chapter 5 beginning at verse 1

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But of the times and the seasons brethren you have no need

That I write unto you

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night

For when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction come upon them

as travail upon a woman with child and they shall

not escape but you brethren are not in darkness that

That day should overtake you as a thief

You are all the children of light and the children of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness

Therefore let us not sleep as do others

Let us watch and be sober

For that for they that sleep sleep in the night and they that be drunketh are drunk

But let us who are of the day be sober putting on the breastplate of faith and love

And for in hellman the hope of salvation

For God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ

Who died for us

That whether we wake or sleep

We should live together with him

Wherefore comfort

Yourselves together and edify one another even as also you do now skip over to verse 16

rejoice evermore

Pray without ceasing

In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus

Concerning you with the help of the Lord Jesus Christ

Jesus concerning you with the help of the Lord for just a little while this morning on speak on this topic

ingredients for a thankful life

Ingredients for a thankful life now this morning is probably gonna be a little more pastoral than normal

So you pray for me because that's a gear that I

Have a trouble getting in sometimes to slow down a bit

So you pray for me and I'll pray for you and we'll leave here lifted in his grace father

We love you. We thank you for your goodness and your mercy

Lord for your faithfulness, which is unwavering. I'm so grateful this morning beautiful household of faith today

Thank you Lord for each one

It's here in this house that we may together hear and receive what the spirit would say to the church

That we leave enriched by your grace and empowered through your word

Lord go with us all be with us all we that have ears to hear may we hear in Jesus name the church said

Amen ingredients for a thankful life

The instruction to rejoice and to pray and to give thanks

Come in regard to to the time of that glorious event when believers

Whether dead or living will be gathered together to meet Christ

Consequently the Thessalonians had just prior to our text

They had been instructed about that glorious occasion to come

Paul wrote to him in that fourth chapter beautiful fourth chapter

Amen about the shout the angel and our coming together the dead rising and the living to be changed

He gives them that instruction and that hope before he follows up with what we now have labeled as the fifth chapter

And they had just heard and received that glorious instruction to come

They knew well that the Lord would come suddenly

That he would come unexpectedly and he would be surprising an ungodly world

But it would be no surprise to them if they are watchful and they are waiting

But for their understanding they were not in darkness so as to be taken by surprise

Amen

But still however, they must exercise

Constant watchfulness. That's the instruction for you and I today

We must constantly be watching that is the instruction of the church for we know not the day nor the hour

When the Son of Man cometh, but as we are watchers of the times and the events of our day

I'm telling you the alarms about to sound what alarm are you referring pastor?

I'm referring to that last trump that's going to echo through the eternal waves of glory and it's going to shake this old earth

It's going to quiver graves and and people are going to begin to shake

And the bodies are going to arise and there's this glorification going to take place

Amen, and I'm ready for that and it's not going to be a surprise for those of us who love the Lord's appearing

He instructs them to be watchful and to be sober and to be armed with the Christian

Graces of faith hope and love and we are to be comforted with the assurance

That God had not appointed them nor has he appointed us to his wrath

But to the attainment of salvation through his son Jesus Christ

I don't know how much tribulation we're going to have to go through

I do know Jesus said we're going to have to deal with some things

I do know we're going to have to deal with a lot of Matthew 24

I know that wars and rumors of wars and these pestilence and all these things are going to be taking place in different portions of the world

All simultaneously and if you'll start looking I think if you'll do a little research

That's the day in time in which we are living

But the words he said after that gives me hope for the time in which we are living

He said because when you begin to see all these things come to pass the end is not yet, but it's on its way

My my that causes an excitement within me

I know there are a lot of believers in the world who are frightened by the time in which we are living

I'm not frightened by the time in which we are living I am excited because I am anticipating the fourth chapter of the instruction to the church of Thessalonica

I am expecting that I am anxious and I am awaiting the return of the Lord Jesus

The only ones who should be in fear are those who are not ready if you're not ready to meet him if you're harboring sin in your life

If you're not serving God loving God and living for God then you have a lot to be afraid of

But I'm here to tell you this morning I don't have anything to be in fear of because I've not been given that spirit of fear

But I've been given power I've been given love and I've been given a soundness of my mind

And the soundness of my mind is wrapped around the hope and the instruction that Paul was given to this church of Thessalonica

That you are to hold on the trumpet will sound amen and you are going to leave this old world when he calls you to himself

And that's the same encouragement that we are living in today that the day is coming the time is nigh

Oh you say I've heard it all of my life so have I but in the span of eternity what is my life

It's not even a drop in the bucket amen and neither is yours in the span of eternity

Because on the timetable of God when the fullness of time comes then Jesus will come again as he did on the first occasion

When the fullness of time came Mary gave birth and the hope of the world had been released upon creation

And my God we're living in the extension of that hope today he ascended but one day he will descend again

Isn't that the hope that was given to those Galilean believers on the day of his ascension

You men of Galilee why stand you gazing this same Jesus this same Jesus this same Jesus

This same Jesus in like manner shall come again oh I'm here to encourage somebody today

The ingredients of a faithful life is the hope in his return and the hope of his coming again

I don't know about you but I'm ready for it oh don't get me wrong I love life as much as the next person

I love living I enjoy what life has to offer I'm not talking about the hardship I'm not talking about

crises and sickness but I'm talking about just every day life I love living but my mind cannot

wrap around the concept of living in an eternal glorified uncorruptible body hallelujah my mind

can't wrap around not walking on gravel and asphalt but yet to walk on the transparency of the heavenly

streets of gold my mind can't get around the walls of Jasper and the gate of pearl I can't get a hold

of that but honey it's a longing in my soul it's a longing in my heart and I'm longing for that experience

hallelujah when we think about this attainment of our salvation through Jesus Christ

this alone should steady our hearts this one I've just went over for the last five minutes

should settle our hearts it should cause you to be established in life and in your faith and cause

a thankfulness to begin to arise out of your soul first Thessalonians 5 and 18 gives us that great

instruction on how to live the ingredients for a thankful life he says it clearly in everything give

thanks this is the will of God people are struggling for the will of God in their life let me point you

the point number one give thanks be thankful for whatever is coming into your life that doesn't

make sense there's some hardships coming there's some trouble coming there's sickness and disease

and my kids aren't safe how am I supposed to be thankful because it's the will of God for your life

because we know according to Romans 828 all things work together for good to those who love him and

those who are the called according to his purpose and it's going to work out for your good you

you fail to realize at a certain point in life people are accountable for themselves with God

and their relationship with God oh I've turned mine over a long time ago I had to it was beginning

to torment my mind it was beginning to torment my soul loved ones not serving God loved ones not

wanting to go to heaven and it was tormenting me why I couldn't understand I couldn't get a grab

a wrap and get a good grip on why they have experienced what I've experienced they've known

what I know currently but yet they refuse to serve him and it began to make my heart heavy

and I had to just turn them over to the Lord I had to turn them over to God said God I can't save

them only you can I can't convict them Holy Ghost only you can so I'm turning them over to you

and I'm giving thanks for what you do it becomes your responsibility their responsibility and not

our responsibility I've got a responsibility for myself you've got a responsibility for yourself

and in everything give thanks hallelujah because you serve a good holy righteous just God and when

we give him thanks and everything it turns the table oh I still pray but I don't pray with the

heaviness that I did be because of the feeling of the guilt and the responsibility but I pray with

the anticipation of God's grace and God's delivery and the expectation I have of the Holy Ghost

gripping their soul because I want them to experience everything that I experience and

the hope and the love and the faith that I have in Jesus Christ that's the hope and if you need

the ingredient number one ingredient to having a blessed life is that you have a thankful life

hallelujah whoo I'm preaching some stuff off of me today

and everything give thanks you think about everything there's a lot of stuff goes on in

everything amen you know some of those aches and pains you got am I supposed to be thankful for

that well while I can still feel them yes thank you Lord I can still get up and everything it

takes to get to up hello I'm thankful and everything it takes think about who he's speaking

into our text today think about that church at Thessalonica a persecuted church a misunderstood

church a church that was filled with people who were one newly and freshly to the kingdom of God

and are just experiencing the goodness of God and getting to know who God is if you will their

families lost undone and not hearing and ostracizing them because of their faith a church that is

involved in many who were in poverty and those who were less fortunate amen isn't that where the

message needs to go that all are blessed at the foot of the cross amen the equality of man is at

the foot of the cross of calvary because bank accounts don't matter or the lack thereof has no

consequence because we all are in need of the free gift of salvation that's the whole point

is ascertaining the eternal life that we get through Jesus Christ through the hope that we

have in him and that's the whole message Paul is trying to get across to these Greeks and those

Jews who accepted in Thessalonica that the hope that you have now is in Jesus Christ who is the

fulfillment of the prophecy of old he is the lamb amen he is the scapegoat he was the all in all

he was a true sacrifice and he's getting them the point so that they would understand that yes it's

hard here below yes you're being persecuted but hold on in verse 24 further down in our text it

is as faithful as God he is faithful he is he who hath called you he is faithful and he will always

remain faithful so he begins to give them the ingredients to have that thankful life he said

rejoice evermore he said pray without ceasing and he said giving thanks because this is the will of

God for your life by Christ Jesus let's invert that today so we begin by giving thanks I give God

thanks for what he does I give God thanks for what he doesn't do that I've told him to do

I know how you pray you pray like I do I tell God what I want him to do

yeah tell him how I want people saved how he can deliver them if he if he'd take my advice

just like if he'd take your advice your life would be better and so would theirs

but he's God and he don't need my advice amen and I don't know about you but he's informed me of

that in my lifespan I don't need your two cents I've got this okay God you want to pull that God

card he'll pull it amen don't you think you know better for other people than they know for

themselves come on what's the point of that I'm not going to give you that advice I'm going to give

you that amen don't you think you know better for other people than they know for themselves come on

where you at hypocrites thank you brother Mike I got one that on up to it my Lord you know if

they live the way you wanted them to live they'd be a whole lot better off

that's just plain and simple that's what I used to tell me if you'll just do what I tell you to do

it things would go much better for you well I'm preaching to the wrong crowd this was for down

the road somewhere Lord we missed it this morning you didn't have any idea

he tells them and whatever they are facing to be continuanced in their prayer life

to continue in their rejoicing and to continue in their thanksgiving in spite of what we are coming

up against in the circumstances of life somebody needs to look at yourself in a pocket mirror or

in the rear view going home and turn it towards yourself and say self you got to be thankful no

matter what we got to keep praising no matter what we got to keep praying no matter what

it's got to be a continuance in our life we have to continue praying why because prayer changes

thing can I tell you the number one thing that prayer changes it's not God it's not God's mind

it's you it's me prayer changes me it changes my perception because the longer I pray and God's not

doing what I've told him to do and then I begin to see what he's doing without what I've told him oh

it lets me be more thankful God I'm so glad how many of you have ever prayed and got something

that you asked for exactly and about a weekend you're thinking God why did you answer that one

huh I prayed like that and it come to pass I thought oops should not ask for that I learned

about 30 years ago never pray for patience and if you're praying that now stop

why because all hell breaks loose trouble and trials and persecutions these things tribulations

they bring forth patience I got enough anybody with me I got enough

but when patience has her perfect work there's a reason the feminine interjection is there

when patience has her perfect work don't turn your head sideways

and all the men said amen and all the ladies say move on so I'm gonna move on

because I almost said it's because I heard that my patience is what it is today

yeah it's better than it was I hadn't cracked a steering wheel and I don't know how many years

oh lord help us Jesus ingredients to a thankful life moving right along oh hallelujah he tells

them whatever you're facing to be continued in and to remain faithful and to remain thankful

because of the hope and the love and the joy that you have in him it's the same thing that

you have in him it's the same thing that you have in him it's the same thing that you have in him

it's the same thing that you have in him even though persecution comes your way we ought to know

and to realize we are persecuted because they persecuted him amen he said they hated me and

they're going to hate you if you'll stop and invite and do a little evaluation about what's

coming against you if people are persecuting you you ought to thank God there's enough Jesus

in your life that they recognize him above you and they're persecuting you amen because the devil

will tell you oh who do you think you are what do you think you're trying to prove doesn't he do

that oh you're not you're not a good Christian at all but if the world is persecuting you because

of your faith you're doing a pretty good job brother and sister so you ought to be thankful

thank you lord that there's enough witness in my life there's enough testimony in my life that

others see you somehow they hear you somehow my life is emulating your hope and it rubs the world

only and it rubs them raw and I'm thankful today that your witness in my life brings about this

persecution we don't like to think about it that way maybe we should to be thankful why because

it's the will of God in Christ Jesus for life as we're approaching these holiday seasons and

thanksgiving is upon us a season these seasons that are coming up they are they are filled with

warmth they're filled with family they're filled with closeness and they're filled with good food

we've already mentioned that somewhere around the room this morning thanksgiving's coming

and we're all thinking about the food on Thursday amen I mean that's the highlight of the day

it's the meal that hits the table it's those favorite recipes that you only get once a year

I never understood that why do we always just get the really really good stuff once a year

I don't get that I called my mama I said mama sis told me to call you because sis thought that I

had more favor with mother than she did she I want tater salad and coleslaw huh I said well

what's that mean huh well I ain't making it I said well you're gonna make something well I

might make the coleslaw then she throws a tater salad off on one of my nieces well she's got

pretty good at it I said my mother it's not your tater salad well you'll just have to do without

so that's one recipe I won't get mama's tater salad I'll go with the coleslaw but I was wanting

both yeah so we get those good recipes the good desserts that a lot of times you'll only get these

thanksgiving and christmas desserts at this time of year they I don't know why patients won't go

ahead and do it I don't know why patients won't go ahead and do it some other time throughout the

year oh lord I'm gonna shut this thing down we go home I told you all I felt good this morning

uh patients need to cook more of those things throughout the year

those favorite recipes think about this have you ever asked someone the ingredients in a recipe

and then they begin to tell you what's in it and the more you think about what they said is in

there you think well that ain't right well that can't be good that's not in here case in point

who does not like mustard whatsoever you can't taste it on smoked barbecue

people slipped in while I'm doing that saying is that mustard yeah that's mustard well I don't like

mustard I don't like mustard on my barbecue I said have you eaten my barbecue before well yeah was it

good yeah it's good until now you didn't know there was mustard in it but old french is there

that's the way it is sometimes with life you think some of the ingredients that are coming

your way it don't make any sense at all the things that are coming into our lives have

absolutely nothing to do with one another mustard and barbecue doesn't make a lot of sense but it

works paul gives a list of ingredients that to many doesn't seem right and for many it is offensive

that in the middle of tribulation and in the middle of trial in the middle of these persecutions

he said I want you to rejoice evermore you got to put your praise on in spite of everything

in the middle of it all that's when god wants your praise everybody knows and understanders

should know and understand that your praise is a purest form of your faith because you praise god

for who he is not what he's doing nor what he has done or not what you hope he will do it's just

because of who he is and because he is good and his mercy endures forever in that mercy do you

realize that term is repeated 44 times throughout scripture lord you are good and your mercy endures

forever oh give thanks unto the lord for he is good and his mercy endures forever oh give that

over and over and over that repetitive phrase oh give thanks unto the lord for he is good and his

mercy endures forever in the middle of a crisis in the middle of a situation when the world's turned

topsy-turvy and upside down the church ought to be in attention every opportunity that we have not

just sunday morning not just times we corporately gather but every morning we get up and after you

watch the news you ought to give the lord to praise well there's nothing to praise him for there

oh yes there is because his mercy is good and it's new every morning and give god thanks for his

mercy because he is good amen he is good and that goodness is expressed toward humanity because that

mercy has given humanity one more day to receive the glorious good news of the gospel and the

salvation of jesus one more day and we ought to give him thanks for every day we have to think

about how can you give thanks in difficult time when you think about job's comforters in the midst

of his crisis when you think about how trouble trials and tribulations make their way into our

hearts and lives how can we rejoice it's simple look at what she began to say as she began to talk

to job about everything that's going on in his life she began to tell him you have got to give

up we have got to give in we've got to turn around you've got to just curse god and let's die we got

to give up all of our hope we got to give up everything in our life because it's not going

the way that it should go and when you begin to hear the response that she kills oh lord you have

to know her life was in agony but joe would say what is it how can we say that we give god praise

for the good things and what can we not expect some evil to enter into our life as well and not be

thankful to god are we just going to be thankful whenever things going good can we not thank god

when the enemy comes against us can we thank god not when the devil comes against us he said woman

you sound like you've been talking to the foolish women around town we can't do that and the bible

says that joe he did not lose his integrity and he did not speak evil against god with his lip

oh even when the comforters come around to watch him when they came against him it would be a

response though the skin worms devour this whole body yet i know that my redeemer lives and with my

eyes i shall see him it begins to echo the praise that he gave to her blessed be the name of the

lord what do you say when god is good we can give him glory what do you say when god is good

we can praise him and be thankful but what happens when the enemy invades our life can we not say

the lord giveth and the lord taketh away but blessed be the name of the lord can we not understand

that the life that we have is the most valued commodity that we have the breath that he gives

you every day things come things go money will leave you faltered and floundering with or without

but god will never leave you faltering god will never leave you floundering he'll be with you always

and forever can we not be grateful and thankful

oh

paul's trying to do is instruct them in sound doctrine for understanding that a thankful life

is because of a blessed life amen ecclesiastes three and one says to everything there is a

season a time for every purpose under the heaven yet in every season we are to give thanks in every

circumstance to give thanks in joy and in sorrow we give thanks for everything we give thanks to god

prosperity and adversity in every place whether it's in the house of god or on our sick bed

we are to give god thanks as believers we should not only be engaged in constant prayer

constant thanksgiving but indeed we understand that those prayers should partake

largely of the nature of thanksgiving rejoice pray be thankful always evermore the emphasis keep on

keeping on rejoicing amen i know that we're coming upon a season that for many it ushers in a dark

cloud of depression if we're not careful we'll be with the he-hall gang and own despair and agony

because of the holidays and the lack of what we can do for the expectations of others

let pastor help you and instruct you this morning forget about others and concentrate on him

and you won't be depressed in the seasons that are upcoming you won't get down you won't get cast out

i know the enemy's going to try to come in and when our emotions are at their best he's going

to try to play on the harp strings of your soul and your sympathies and he's going to bring up

every fond member of who it is that's absent in your christmas season this year but i'm here to

tell you today don't let him play on your emotion you give god the thanks for the time that you had

with them and refuse the enemy to attempt to drain you down into a place of depression and cast it

off and you rejoice ever more especially if those loved ones are in heaven today my god it should be

a joyful season oh joy to the world amen we should be giving glory and honor oh you say that so

flippantly no i do not say that with all the empathy that i can in my heart today because i've

seen it i've seen what happens i've seen how the enemy works it what should be the most joy-filled

season of the year how he can drag depression and this oppressive case over people and pull them down

that they can express themselves in giving thanks for the greatest gift to humanity

because situationally we may not be where we want to be so that we could give everything we would

like to give let me instruct you this morning if you'll give him the very best praise that you can

offer if you rejoice and give thanks and you pray you will have the greatest christmas season and

holiday season that you've experienced and encountered for many a year because our focal is on him

amen amen all the devil wants to do is get you concentrated on the negative

amen it's got commercialized way too much anyway i'm about to preach myself into not

letting sister kathy go christmas shopping and rejoice

i felt that spirit from there that ain't happening i tried you can't i mean you can't even preach it

to everybody they won't have it a dedicated prayer life is an empowered and reinforcement with a

thankful and joyous spirit a committed prayer life reinforces our rejoicing

and it reinforces and really emphasizes our thankfulness a committed prayer life a dedicated

devoted prayer life it brings about rejoicing always with this praying without ceasing and

giving thanks and everything as we are learned these are learned spiritual disciplines

you have to practice them you have to learn them and when you do the walk that you have with god

the walk that you have with god will go to a completely different level because it'll get

you to the place where you understand truly that things of and in life are not as important

as many make them out to be but the most important thing is your relationship with god

through his son jesus christ through the enabling power of the holy ghost amen listen he said that

our motivation is the desire to please our father in all our ways of service and obedience there are

many times when we find it difficult to form listen to this we find it difficult to form our worries

into prayer much less rejoice or offer thanks for them we find it difficult to form our worries into

prayer let alone reform them into rejoicing and thankfulness

it gets very complex it may be that the most important time to rejoice and give thanks

is when we feel discouraged and hopeless the most

time doesn't afford us to go to first samuel 30 at a place called sick lag

as the families of david's army have all been carried off i reread that again this morning and

there was a there was a sentence half a sentence there that i never noticed before

it said and they slew none of them but carried them all away i don't know how many times i've

seen that i don't have any times i've read it i don't know how many different times i've preached

it but this morning was the first time that i saw that emphasis on that phrase in that scripture

i always had in my mind when they come back the whole place is burned

i know some were carried away some were taken captive and i thought many were left there dead

but no they were all carried away you stop and think just for a moment as david is in this deep

depression in his own army's turned on him threatening to stone him the scripture says he

encouraged himself in the lord and the only way you can encourage yourself in the lord is to be

mindful of god's faithfulness and if you're mindful of god's faithfulness it will turn to a state of

thanksgiving because you can't help think but how good god has been and when his mind turned to that

he turned to prayer he said have this faith in you and you will be able to do it and you will be

able to do it he said have them bring me the ephod and he inquired of the lord shall i rise and go

get them he said get up go and i'll give you a bonus you shall recover all

huh then he came out praising and they went to war

at times our hearts are burdened with circumstances beyond our control and we can't think

What to pray or how to pray but it's then that the Holy Ghost comes to our rescue

And he gives us the courage to obey the one who loves us unconditionally and he helps us

to pray

He helps us to rejoice

And he helps us to remain thankful

Stand with me. I'm closing this morning

Ephesians 5 20 reads giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ

We do so because of the continued blessings that flow from God

A thankful life is a blessed life

We understand how good God is Psalm 106 and 1

Praise the Lord. Oh give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his mercy endures forever

Every day that we live involves the mercy of God in and around our lives

It's because God is good

Even when we haven't gotten the answer even when you haven't seen the situation change

Even when life doesn't make sense

God is good

One man said we are never thankful for what we think we deserve

We are always deeply thankful for great kindness we know we don't deserve

Charles Finney said a state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace

And a thankful heart

Paul wrote to Colossus 3rd chapter 17 verse and he said in whatever you do in word or deed

Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus

Giving thanks to God the Father

Through him

Father I love you this morning

So grateful so thankful today

Father I love you this morning so grateful so thankful today

For your goodness abounds and your mercies are new every morning

Such a beautiful congregation today

Brand new infants in the room

We are so thankful

So thankful for your kindness and your mercy

Over the household of faith today Lord I pray

I pray for each one Lord

As we are coming up on these holiday seasons

That we continue to pray

We continue to rejoice

And we abound in thankfulness

For you are good

Over the household of faith I pray your blessing

Strengthen hearts today

Strengthen lives this morning

Lord if they be in this congregation this gathering today

One that does not know you and free part of sin I pray God

They hear this invitation and receive

If you're here today and you do not know Jesus no one's looking around heads bowed all over the house

I'm going to pray the sinners prayer

And if you feel the spirit of God knocking at your heart's door

I want you to pray it with me in sincerity

Father I repent today of my sins

As I feel the drawing of your spirit

Cleanse me

Purify me

Forgive me

Forgive me

For I believe

That Jesus is the son of God

Died and rose again

That I might be saved

Thank you for hearing that prayer

And answering

Now be Lord of my life

Be Lord of my life

Be Lord of my life

Lead me

Guide me

To all good things

In Jesus name

So pastor I need a little encouragement coming on this season

I've heard the word of the Lord this morning but I need a touch from him would you just slip your hand up

Amen all over this house all over this house my my my

I'm going to pray for you this morning father

You have witnessed every hand that has been raised in this room

People needing encouragement people needing your strength

For the next six to eight weeks that are ahead

So father I pray a rebuking authority through your word

And through the name of your son over the voice of the enemy

From their life and from their hearing

And I pray that through your word by faith hope and joy

That this is the best holiday season

That they have experienced

Ever

Help them focus help them see you

In every situation in every circumstance

Empower us all through that enabling of the Holy Spirit

To rejoice to pray

And to give thanks

In Jesus holy

In Jesus holy in mighty name