Give Thank

s!Faith CommunityNovember 18, 2012

Thanksgiving Surfaces best when

we feel Submerged"In my distress I called to the LORD…

from the depths of the grave I called for help..”

Whale Shark

Isla Mujeres, MexicoEncounter with a Whale Shark

Nov 2011

Thanksgiving Surfaces best when

we feel Submerged"In my distress I called to the LORD…

from the depths of the grave I called for help..”

“Joy is always a function of gratitude — and gratitude is

always a function of perspective.”Ann Voskamp

Psalmist 31:22-24In my alarm I said, "I am cut off from your sight!" Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help. Love the LORD, all his saints! The

LORD preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full. Be strong

and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.

Thanksgiving Surfaces best when

we see God at work

around Us“You hurled me into the deep, into the

very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and

breakers swept over me”

3 John 1:2-4 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good

health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. It

gave me great joy to have some brothers come and tell about your faithfulness to the truth and how you continue to walk in the

truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Deuteronomy 29:18-19 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns

away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make

sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison. When such a

person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself and therefore thinks, "I will be safe, even though I persist

in going my own way." This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the

dry.

Thanksgiving Surfaces best when we serve God and offer his gift of

Grace to Others

"Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.”

Chuck SwindollLove that reaches up is

adoration. Love that reaches out is compassion. But love

that stoops is grace.

Ephesians 1:7-9“In him (Jesus) we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s Grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good

pleasure, which he purposed in Christ,

Ephesians 2:8-10 (NIV) For it is by grace you have been

saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by

works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship,

created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in

advance for us to do.

Psalm 100 (The Message)On your feet now — applaud God!Bring a gift of

laughter,sing yourselves into his presence.Know this: God is God, and God, God.He made us;

we didn’t make him.We’re His people, His well-tended sheep.

Enter with the password: “Thank you!”Make yourselves at home, talking praise.Thank him.

Worship him. For God is sheer beauty,all-generous in love,loyal

always and ever.

 

Have a Great

Thanksgiving!