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Thanks Living

THANKS LIVING

Pastor Phil Derstine  11-27-24

Happy Thanksgiving

  • II Timothy 3:1-2 “In the last days, perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.”
  • Abraham Lincoln - Established the first National Thanksgiving Day in 1863

Thanks Living

  • Is a Way of Life
  • Is Continual... NOT Contingent
  • Is an Exercise of Faith
  • I Thessalonians 5:18 “In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
  • Ephesians 5:20 “Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
  • Philippians 4:6 (NIV) “Don’t be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”
  1. When You Think You're Dying - Jonah
  • Jonah 2:9 “But I, with a song of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you.  What I have vowed I will make good.   Salvation comes from the LORD. (10) And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.”
  1. When you're all Bound up - Paul & Silas
  • Acts 16:25 (NIV) “About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. (26) Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken.  At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody’s chains came loose.”
  1. When Fighting Temptation - Cain & Abel
  • Genesis 4:7 “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?  But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door:  it desires to have you, but you must master it.”
  1. When you've lost it All - David
  • I Samuel 30:4 “Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. (6) …but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.”
  1. When you need to hear God - Canaanite Woman
  • Matthew 15:23 “But He answered her not a word… (25) Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. (28) Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt.”

Turn Your Cup Up!

    • Romans 5:2 “By whom we have access by faith into His grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”
    • Faith is the ability to speak and act like something has changed before it changes!
    • Habakkuk 2:4 “The just will live by faith” 
  • Habakkuk 3:17 “Though the fig tree does not bud… no grapes on the vines… olive crop fails… fields produce no food… no sheep in the pen… no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.”