The Model Life: Adoration, Part 6

Today is going to be a day in which when you leave today you

will say, I am so glad that I came to church today.

I would hope you say that every Sunday.

I know you don't probably. But on this Sunday I can almost

guarantee that you will be saying, I am so glad that I went

to church today. We are looking at a verse in

First Thessalonians 5 verse #18 that says in everything give

thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning

you. It is a one of of a trilogy of

commands that says that we are to rejoice always, we are to

pray without ceasing, and we are to give thanks in everything

because those 3 commands are God's will in Christ Jesus

concerning you. It is the model life.

It's the model life of of adoration, the life that adores

God, a life that lives according to Christ design.

And as we think about what God has said, that we are to be

joyful, prayerful, and thankful, those 3 commands sum up the

essence of true adoration of the believer.

When it comes to being thankful, we usually fall into one of

three categories. Let me explain them to you.

One category is that we are thankful after the adversity or

after the the affliction or after the adverse circumstance.

We'll call this post thankfulness after everything is

said and done. I'm thankful for instance, in

the book of Exodus after the party of the Red Sea and Israel

murmured and complained that that Moses had dragged them out

of Egypt to to die in the wilderness.

And Moses said, just stand still and watch the salvation of the

Lord. And the waters parted.

They went through on dry land and Pharaoh and all of U.S.

Army were drowned in the sea. Everybody was thankful.

They were so thankful before the party of the Red Sea, but after

it was over, everybody's saying praises to God.

Read about in Exodus chapter 15, the great song of Miriam, the

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song of praise of song of Moses, right?

And Miriam was the one who led them with dancing in

tambourines, praising God for what he had done.

One of the 10 lepers, after he was healed of leprosy, came back

and gave thanks to God. This is the easiest category of

thankfulness, isn't it? We go through a situation of the

adverse circumstance and we come out the other side and we say,

Lord, we are so thankful and rightly so, we should be.

But then there's another category of thankfulness.

Not just those who are thankful after the adversary.

This was a little bit harder. These are the ones who give

thanks to God before the battle. We're going to call this.

We're going to call this pre thankfulness.

In other words, they give thanks before the battle begins.

These are the people of faith like Daniel.

You remember Daniel, it was said that Darius signed a decree that

nobody can bow down or pray to any other God but him.

And so it says that Daniel 6 verse #10 Now when Daniel knew

that the document was signed, he entered his house.

Now in his roof chamber he had windows open towards Jerusalem

and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying

and giving thanks before his God as he had been doing previously.

This is before the battle. You give thanks to God.

This was Daniel, a man of great faith and of course you know the

story. He was thrown into the lion's

den and and God spared his life and he became just another great

individual in that land. There's also King Jehoshaphat.

We talked about him a couple of weeks ago.

He would say, Lord, we don't know what to do, but our eyes

are upon you as the kings of Ammon and the Moabites and the

Edomites came against Israel to fight them.

Listen to what Jehoshaphat did in Second Chronicles chapter 20

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when it says verse 20. They arose early in the morning

and went out to the wilderness of Tacoa, and when they went

out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Listen to me, O Judah and

inhabitants of Jerusalem, put your trust in the Lord your God,

and you will be established. Put your trust in his prophets

and succeed. When he had consulted the

people, he appointed those who saying to the Lord and those who

praised him and holy attire as he went out before the army and

said Give thanks to the Lord for his loving kindness is

everlasting. So Jehoshaphat gathers the

people of Judah around, tells them to trust in the Lord, and

then gets the choir and puts them in front of the army and

sends them out first to sing praises to God and give thanks

to God for his loving kindness. And of course Israel won the

battle without ever having to lift a finger, because the

armies of Edom and Moab and Emin destroyed themselves.

But they gave thanks before the battle.

Jesus did the same on the eve of the crucifixion, when he broke

the bread and gave thanks. He blessed the cup in the same

manner, by giving thanks Before the battle, before the garden,

before Calvary, he gave thanks. I wonder if that's you.

You know the battles coming. You know it's on the horizon.

Do you kneel and and give thanks to God for all that he's about

to do? Comprehending the fact that God

is sovereign. He's in charge, He's in control.

You're not, but God's going to do something.

So you have you have the people who give thanks after the

affliction. Those are post thankful people.

Yeah, those who who give thanks before the battle, those are pre

thankful people. But the rub is this.

Those who give thanks during the difficulty, during the hardship,

we call this mid thankfulness. Those who give thanks right in

the middle of the turmoil. These people are unique.

They're like Jonah we saw last week in the belly of the fish.

In the middle of his of his trial, he offered a sacrifice of

Thanksgiving. It's like the apostles when they

were beaten in Acts chapter 5 and they gave thanks to God

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because they were able to suffer for his name's sake.

It's like Job, well, he lost everything he said, blessed be

the name of the Lord, for it's the Lord who gives and the Lord

who takes away. It's like the Apostle Paul in

Silas in Acts 16 when they were in prison and they begin to

sing, sing praises to God and give thanks to him while in

prison. Paul had probably the best

prison ministry anybody ever had, but he was always giving

praise and thanks to God. Just read the the book of

Philippians where he tells those in in Philippi to rejoice in the

Lord always. And again.

I say rejoice because he would give Thanksgiving to his God in

the midst of his prison cell. I wonder if that's you.

That's what Paul says. And 1st Thessalonians 5 verse

#18 in everything, not before everything, not after everything

in everything, give thanks for this is the will of God in

Christ Jesus concerning you. How on earth can anybody ever

really truly do that? Even though we have examples in

Scripture of those who did, How do we do that?

We told you last week that that Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving

reveals my conversion to Christ. It reveals my commitment to the

will of God. It also reveals my my condition

spiritually. Nothing reveals your spiritual

condition more than when you give thanks.

Remember, Thanksgiving is not a matter of feeling thankful.

Thanksgiving is a matter of obedience to God.

It's like forgiveness. You don't forgive because you

feel like forgiving. If that's the case, you probably

never forgive anybody. You forgive because you obey the

command of God to forgive. The same is true with a thankful

heart. You give thanks to God because

it's a command and you adore Him and you worship Him and you want

to obey the commands of God. Turn with me if you would to the

book of Colossians, the book of Colossians in the 3rd chapter.

This how you know Thanksgiving reveals your condition

spiritually when Paul says in verse 12, chapter 3.

So as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on

a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and

patience, bearing with one another and forgiving each

other, whoever has to complain against anyone, just as the Lord

forgave you, so also should you beyond all these things, love,

which is the perfect bond of unity.

And then he says this, Let the peace of Christ rule in your

hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body, and be

thankful. Let the peace of of Christ rule

in your hearts. Let the fact that you are now no

longer the enemy of God, but that you're the friend of God.

You're at peace with God. Having been justified by faith,

we have peace with God. Let the fact that you're at

peace with God be the governing factor in every decision you

make. In other words, the word rule

means to umpire to make the final call.

In other words, let Christ make the final call in every decision

you make and then be thankful. Let the peace of Christ rule in

your hearts, and then he says, let the word of Christ reside in

your heart. He says, let the word of Christ,

which He dwell within you with all wisdom, teaching and

admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual

songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

How do you sing with thankfulness in your heart to

God? Because the word of Christ is at

home. It richly dwells in your heart.

The word of God is not a stranger to you.

When the word of God is a stranger to you, you have no

song of Thanksgiving. But when the word of Christ is

no longer a stranger, it's at home in your heart.

It resides as supreme in your heart.

You sing with Thanksgiving. So Paul says let the peace of

Christ rule in your hearts and be thankful.

Let the word of Christ reside in your heart so you can sing with

thankfulness. And then he says, let the name

of Christ reign in your hearts. He says verse 17, whatever you

do in Word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,

giving thanks through him to God the Father.

In other words, whatever you do in Word or in deed, no matter

what you're doing, no matter where you're going, Christ

reigns supreme. The name of Christ, the nature

of Christ, the character of Christ who He is, reigns

supreme. And when He does, you give

thanks. That's why we say that

Thanksgiving reveals our condition spiritually.

When the peace of Christ rules, when the word of Christ resides,

and when the name of Christ reigns, thankfulness just spews

out. Now having said that, how is it

possible for anyone at any time, no matter how adverse the

circumstance, no matter how bad the battle, no matter how severe

the suffering, can one be thankful?

Well, This is why you will be so glad you came today.

I'm going to give you 7 principles that will help you

understand how I can obey the command of God to be thankful in

everything so that my life of adoration becomes a model that

exemplifies Jesus Christ my Lord.

Follow through with me very carefully.

Number one, I am thankful always, at all times in

everything for a throne that is graceful.

A throne that is graceful. You know the verse Hebrews

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chapter 4, verse #16 Therefore, let us draw near with confidence

to the throne of grace so that we may receive mercy and find

grace to help in time of need. There is a throne, it's heaven's

throne, and it's where the King himself sits.

It's called the throne of grace. And I'm able to go there

confidently when I am in need of God's grace to be poured out in

my life. We are saved by grace, for, you

know, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor.

Why set you through his poverty might become rich?

2nd Corinthians 8 verse #9 For by grace are you safe to faith?

We're saved by grace. We're strengthened by grace.

Second Timothy 2 verse #1 Be strong in the grace that is in

Christ Jesus. You can read Titus chapter 2

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verses 11 the following We we are sanctified by grace.

Everything about our lives comes because of free sovereign favor

that God gives to the ill deserving.

That's that's Benjamin Warfield's definition of grace,

God's free favor, free sovereign favor that he gives to the ill

deserving. The Bible is so replete with

God's wonderful grace. Listen to what the Lord says to

the pen of Isaiah and Isaiah 30 verse #18 Therefore the Lord

longs to be gracious to you. Imagine that the Lord longs to

be gracious to you, and therefore He waits on high to

have compassion on you. For the Lord is a God of

justice. How blessed are all those who

long for Him. The Lord waits on high to have

compassion upon you. He wants you to come to the

throne of grace because He longs to show you His loving kindness.

He wants to be gracious to you. And so the right of Hebrews

tells us we can go to that throne with confidence, knowing

that God will bestow grace upon us.

There's a throne that is graceful.

That's why I can be thankful in everything, because I need God's

grace to sustain me. I need God's grace that's

sufficient for me from day-to-day.

I need God's grace to strengthen me from day-to-day.

I can't make it without God's grace.

And there's a throne that is graceful, where the God of grace

sits and waits because he so desperately longs.

To be gracious to you, let's know what Peter says.

Peter said that this way in first Peter 5 verse #10 he says

after you have suffered for a little while.

How long is that? I have no idea because heaven

has no clock, has no calendar, so I don't know how long a

little while is. The peace is after you've

suffered a little while. The God of grace, the God of

grace who sits on the throne of grace, who longs to be gracious

to you, the God of grace who calls you to his eternal glory

in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen, and

establish you. That's what God wants to do.

He wants first of all, to perfect you.

He wants to to restore that which is missing.

He wants to take that which is broken and put it together.

He wants to establish you. He wants to make you solid as

granted. He wants to strengthen you.

He wants to fill you with strength.

He wants to settle you so you have a firm foundation.

What God wants to do, someone comes along as well.

I know the God of grace. I've I've gone to the throne of

grace. I, I've begged for grace and,

and and and I haven't received grace.

Well, Peter answers that when he says this.

God is opposed to the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.

If you're not experiencing God's grace, it's because of your own

pride for the humble person God just longs to be gracious to.

So there's a throne that is graceful so I can give thanks in

everything because that throne is always available for me to

approach confidently #2 Not only is there a throne that is

graceful, there is a hope that is delightful, a hope that is

delightful. Hope is not guesswork.

Hope is not speculation. Hope is assurance.

In the Bible, it's it's a conviction that God will fulfill

every promise. It's the anticipation of every

promise that God gives will be accomplished in the life of His

own. Listen to what Paul says in

Romans chapter 8. He says in Romans 8 verse #24

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For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen as not

hope for who hopes for what is already sees.

But if we hope for what we do not see with perseverance, we

wait eagerly for it. Then he goes on to say verse

#828 for we know that all things work together for good to those

who love God in a called according to his purpose.

Why he tells you he says for those who he foreknew verse 29.

He predestined to become conformed to the image of his

son. See, there's a hope that's

delightful. What's the hope?

The hope is not going to be conformed to the image of his

Son, and God will use any measure to make sure that my

life represents him to the best way possible.

And God will stop at nothing to to make you, to mold you, to

form you, to be this best representative on earth.

So God does that. There's a hope that is

delightful because it's a throne that is graceful #3 There is an

advocate that is needful, an advocate that is needful.

What is John saying in first John chapter 2?

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He says in verse #1 My little children, I am writing these

things to you so that you may not sin.

And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus

Christ the righteous. You know, so many times in the

midst of our trial, in the midst of our tomorrow, there is sin

that occurs, but we have an advocate that's absolutely

needful. Now, here's here's the key

point. We have a advocate in heaven and

we have an advocate in our heart because the word for advocate is

paracletos. Same word used of how Christ

describes the Spirit of God. When he says that I'm going to

send to you another comforter, another paracletos, another

advocate. So you have an advocate in your

heart, right? An advocate in your heart who

soothes you in your difficulties, and an advocate in

heaven who speaks in our defense.

We have an advocate that's needful.

That's why I can give thanks and everything because there's a

throne that that's graceful that I can approach at any time.

And there's a hope that's delightful because God's doing

something unique and special in my life that I have no idea what

He's going to do, but I hope in the hope of His promises.

And I have an advocate that will soothe me from the inside my

heart and speak for me on the outside in heaven, because Satan

is the accuser of the brethren, and Christ is my great defense.

That's how I know I can give thanks in everything.

But it gets better. Not only is there a throne that

is graceful, hope that is delightful, and advocate is

needful, there is a new life that is meaningful.

If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation.

All things have passed away. Behold, all things have become

new. There's a new life that's

meaningful. How can I give thanks and

everything? Because Christ gave me his life.

Christ, who is my life? Colossians 3 verse #3 He's my

life. And listen, it is a meaningful

life. So it's so important to realize

that there's a new life that's meaningful.

I've been saved by His grace. I'm a child of the living God.

Therefore, listen. Listen.

As Christians, we don't find meaning in our education.

We don't find meaning in our job.

We don't find meaning in our marriage.

We don't find meaning in our children.

We don't find meaning in my bank account.

Those are all temporary things that come and go.

You find meaning only in Jesus Christ our Lord.

He gives you meaning. He gives you significance.

He gives you everything you long for because He's the God of the

universe and He's your God. And therefore you don't find

meaning in your work, in your money, in your marriage.

You bring meaning to your work. You bring meaning to your

marriage. You bring meaning to your

workplace, to your school. You bring meaning to everybody

you come in contact with because you have a new life.

So now you have a new life that's meaningful.

So in the midst of whatever it is you're going through, realize

that you're a child of the living God whose life is

completely and totally meaningful, not because of you,

but because of Christ. And I'm going to bring meaning

to that environment, that difficulty, that hardship, to

whoever it may be and whoever it affects.

That's how I can give thanks. Thank you, Lord, for a new life

in Christ. Thank you for a throne that I

can approach, Thank you that I have an advocate in my heart and

in heaven. And thank you, Lord, that my

hope is fixed on you. This is the will of God, that

you give thanks in everything. How there's a throne that is

graceful, a hope that is delightful, an advocate is

needful, a new life that is meaningful #5-A king who is

powerful. A king who is powerful.

Psalm 6211. Power belongs to God.

He is the king of all kings. He is the Lord of all Lords.

And Isaiah 96, he's called the AL Gabor, the Almighty God in

the Book of Revelation 9 times. He's called the Pantocrator the

Almighty. He's my king and my king is all

powerful. Jeremiah 3217 says, Behold, thou

has made the heavens and the earth by thy great power,

therefore nothing is too difficult for thee, nothing he

is able to do. Ephesians 320 exceeding

abundantly above all that we ever ask or think, according to

the power that works in US. There's a power that works in us

because we serve a king who is powerful.

That's why 2nd Corinthians 69 says the eyes of the Lord search

to and fro throughout all the earth, so that he might

strengthen, give power to those whose hearts are completely His.

That's what God wants to do. That's how God does that, so I

can give thanks in everything because there's a throne that is

graceful, there's a hope that is delightful.

There's an advocate that was needful, a new life that is

meaningful, a king who is powerful.

Number six, there's a father who is merciful, a father who is

merciful, the Bible says over in Second Corinthians chapter 1,

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blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the

Father of mercies. God doesn't have mercy.

God is mercy. That's there's a big difference

there. God doesn't have love.

He is love doesn't have grace. He is grace.

That's who He is the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be

able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort

with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

He, he's called the Father of mercies, and so how can I give

thanks and everything is because I have a Father in heaven who's

absolutely, truly merciful to me.

God's grace is for those who are guilty.

God's mercy is for those who are miserable.

And that's why God's mercy is so great.

Ephesians 2. Four.

He is rich in mercy. Hebrews 27 Christ is called our

merciful and faithful high priest in Psalm 136.

Every verse ends with his mercies endure forever because

there's a Father who is merciful.

Listen to what the psalmist did. Psalm 69, verse #13 But As for

me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, at an acceptable time.

O God, in the greatness of Your mercy, answer me with Your

saving truth. Deliver me from the mire, and do

not let me sink. May I be delivered from my foes

and from the deep waters. May the flood of water not

overflow me, nor the deep swallow me up, nor the pit shut

its mouth on me. Answer me, O Lord, for Your

mercy is good according to the greatness of your compassion.

Turn to me, the psalmist did He approached the God of mercies so

that the waters would not overflow him, the grave would

not swallow him. Who else do you go to but the

Father of mercies? And then over in, in Psalm 86,

first number one, incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for

I am afflicted and needy. Preserve my soul, for I am a

godly man. O you my God, save your servant

who trusts in you. Be gracious to me, O Lord, for

to you I cry all day long. Make me glad or make glad the

soul of your servant. For to you, O Lord, I lift up my

soul. For you, Lord, are good and

ready to forgive and abundant in mercy to all who call upon you.

He's abundant in mercy to those who call upon him.

Verse 11 Teach me your ways, O Lord, I will walk in your truth,

unite my heart to fear your name.

I will give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with all my heart,

and will glorify your name forever.

For your loving kindness or your mercy toward me is great, and

You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

This is so good. It's the mercy of God, the

Father of mercies. That's why I can be thankful in

everything. I have a Father who is

absolutely merciful. The Bible says He's abundant in

mercy. Psalm 90.

Psalm 90, verse #14 O, satisfy us in the morning with Your

mercy, that we may sing for joy, and be glad all our days.

And then he says something very, very interesting.

Let's know what He says. Make us glad according to the

days you have afflicted us and the years we have seen evil.

The psalmist says. In the morning you show mercy,

in the morning you give mercy, and we shout for joy, and our

hearts are glad. But Lord, make us glad according

to the days in which we were afflicted.

You see, there's something about affliction that draws you so

close to the Lord that without affliction you would never

experience it. There's something about

suffering, hardship, difficulty, pain that does something that

nothing else on earth can do. It drives the believer to the

Father of mercies. Why?

Because there the throne of grace, mercy is dispensed.

So there's a throne that is grateful, There is a hope that

is delightful. There is an advocate that was

needful, a new light that's meaningful.

A king was powerful, a father was merciful.

And the number seven, I'm sorry, did I say 7 earlier?

There's really eight. Sorry.

You go pastor, there's really 10.

No, that's not true. There's an unspeakable gift that

is wonderful thanks being to God for his unspeakable gift, the

gift of eternal life. It's not eternal life is not

longevity of life, although it does last forever.

Eternal life is, is knowing Christ, John 17 verse #3 this is

eternal life that they may know the one true God and Jesus

Christ who now has sent eternal life is quality of life.

And so there's an unspeakable gift that's wonderful.

How wonderful is it? It's the gift of God's eternal

life. And so I can give thanks to God

in everything, because what I'm experiencing right now is only a

a blip on the screen of eternity.

I will one day spend all my glory days with my God because

He's given me the gift of eternal life that comes only

through His Son, Jesus Christ. So how can I give thanks and

everything? How does someone like Erica

Kirk, after the assassination of her husband this past week, how

does she give thanks and everything?

What would you tell her? How would you encourage her to

give thanks? How would you encourage a loved

one who is going through great bouts of suffering?

You show them there's a throne that's absolutely graceful,

There's a hope that's delightful.

There's an advocate who is needful.

There is a new life that is meaningful.

There's a king who is powerful, a father who is merciful, an

unspeakable gift that is wonderful.

Lastly, there's a Lord who is faithful.

A Lord who is faithful, Paul says in First Thessalonians 524,

Faithful is he who calls you, and he also will bring it to

pass. Psalm 33, four says, For the

word of the Lord is righteous in all his works.

All of them are done in faithfulness.

Isaiah 11 verse #5 says faithfulness is the belt around

His waist. In other words, faithfulness

ties all of His attributes together.

And then Psalm 37 three says feed securely on His

faithfulness. In other words, your food.

Spiritually speaking, this is faithfulness.

Hebrews 10/23 says he who promised is faithful, and then

Second Thessalonians chapter 3 verse #3 says the Lord is

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faithful and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil. 1

the Lord who is faithful. The psalmist Psalm 119 said

this. I know, O Lord, that your

judgments are righteous. So I ask you, do you know that?

Do you know that God's judgments are righteous?

He's a righteous God. All of his judgments are done in

righteousness. And God is a faithful God, so

his righteous judgments are faithful judgments.

So the psalmist says in Psalm 1/19/75.

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteous and in

faithfulness You have afflicted me.

The psalmist knew his affliction was because of God's

faithfulness. Well, why would God and His

faithfulness afflict you? The psalmist answers that

question too. Verse 67.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep Your

word. Lord, You are so faithful to

afflict me. Why?

Because before I was afflicted, I just did whatever I wanted to

do. I went my own way.

But now because of affliction, I keep your word.

And then he says in verse 71, It is good for me that I was

afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.

Without affliction, you'll never learn the statutes of God.

So God is doing everything He can to bring you closer to Him.

And so unfaithfulness, because His judgments are always

righteous. He afflicts you so that you'll

no longer go your own way, but that you'll keep His word and

that you'll learn all you can about him, because without that

affliction you would not learn. So if you are astute, you know

that that was an acrostic for the word thankful, so that in

everything you can give thanks, you can obey that command.

Isn't it interesting that Paul never tells him what I told you

today? But he didn't have to.

He didn't tell them how to rejoice always.

He just told them to rejoice always.

Didn't tell them how to pray without ceasing and didn't tell

them how to give thanks in everything, even though this is

God's will for you. Because the First Thessalonians

213 and that is when they heard the Word of God, they knew it

was God's holy word and they just put out the welcome mat and

received it as God's word and they welcomed it with joy.

I want all of us to be able to give thanks and everything

because this is the will of God for you and for me.

And May God give us the grace to accomplish that.

Let's pray together. Lord God, we thank you for this

day, Lord, so much, so much to address and talk about.

So little time seems to do it, to do it all.

And yet, Lord you, you've given us your precious word.

I pray and word for everyone in the room today.

I don't know what but hardship or pain or difficulty things are

going, people are going through in this, in this, in this room.

But Lord, you know, and you long to be gracious to them.

You wait on high to show compassion upon them.

That's you. That's what you do.

And our prayer, Father, is that we would be a thankful people no

matter what the situation, no matter what the circumstance, no

matter how bad the turmoil, no matter how deep the water, how

gross the grave maybe truly give thanks to you and everything,

for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning each and

every one of us. So we thank you for today as we

leave, maybe leave differently than when we arrived.

Maybe say I'm so glad to have come today to worship the King

in Jesus name, Amen.