Sunday Re-Cap (2nd August,2009)

Living a Life of Gratitude
By: Ps. Abel Phillips

Thanksgiving is memorizing what God has done and being thankful for that. (Ps.100).
List all the good things and count your blessings and name them one by one.

1) Reviewing our Past
Ps. 103:2&5 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: 5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
1 Sam 12:24 24 Only fear the LORD, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.
Ps. 30.4 4 Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name

2) Refocusing Our Present
Ps. 30:12 - 12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever.
Ps.69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
Ps. 75:1 We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near
Ps. 92:1-2 1 It is good to give thanks to the LORD, And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;2 To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, And Your faithfulness every night,
Ps. 105:1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples!
1 Thess 5:18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Heb 13:15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

3) We restore our perspective - Expressing of Gratitude
Col 2:6-7 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it[a] with thanksgiving.
James 1:17 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

4) Rehearing Our Praise
Ps 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
Eph 5:19-20 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Ps 107:8, 15&21 (same phrase repeated)
8 Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

5) Renewing Our Passion
We should always strife by the grace of God with passion to express gratitude first of all to Him, and to all those whom God has blessed us with in our lives.

We give thanks to God, we give thanks to all the people but there is something that goes beyond just the words. It requires us to sacrifice. That’s why it says in Hebrew-“Sacrifice of praise, the sacrifice of our lips.”
So, let’s live a life of Gratitude!