Today, I had the amazing opportunity to minister at Haven of Hope! I never take that lightly. When we come to church on Sunday, we call it “Encounter” vs. “service”. We do this because everytime we come to church we expect an encounter with God and want to walk in there every week with that that expectation.
§ Had a great worship service. Enjoyed songs like “Again I say rejoice”, “Only One for Me”, “Healer”, “Desert Song”, and “All for love”
§ The bridge to “Healer” rocks! “Nothing is impossible with you…you hold my world in Your hands!
§ The bridge to “Desert Song” ALSO rocks! “All of my life..in every season..you are still God…I have a reason to sing…I have a reason to worship!!”
§ Had a visitor there who really felt the presence of God
§ I preached about how thanksgiving 1) deepens your intimacy with God, 2) opens up a pathway for you to experience the supernatural power of God, and 3) disarms hell!
§ I need to read that last one again: Your thanksgiving disarms hell!! Whoohoo!!
§ Thanksgiving is not about goosebumps and it’s not about only being thankful when we feel like it. It’s an act of our will through obedience to God’s will.
§ This action puts us in agreement with God and His will for us. That agreement is what attracts the strength and reality of Heaven into our lives and circumstances.
§ Thus heaven’s reality becomes earth’s reality. Thanksgiving agrees with heaven by acknowledging the truth that our lives are a gift from God, and that He is sovereign over all.
§ Thanksgiving is an activity that draws our focus to Heaven so that we can agree with what is true, no matter what we feel or perceive with our physical senses and emotions.
§ Thankful means “full of thanks”. If we are full of thanks, then we are not empty. If we are not empty, then the enemy can’t make us feel as through we have nothing. “Nothing” shall be impossible to them that believe. This is more than activities or requests – the state of having nothing is impossible.
§ Can we thank God for the “partial”? We all know that if the totality of His promises were completed in our life or our church, we’d go crazy! How about when it is partially answered? Can we pass this common test and be proven worthy by thanking God in everything – even partial victories?
§ Rejoice and be thankful for those that are in various stages of thanksgiving.
§ We owe it to our generation and the generations to come where being thankful is a lifestyle, where it’s our 1st response, where we model a life of thankfulness before God, where we remember the goodness of God (Psalms 145:4)
§ It’s the will of God that we be thankful – what more reason do we need
