Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving Living

• 11-21-04

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Always

• Be cheerful no matter what pray all the time
  thank God no matter what happens. This is the way
  God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.
  1 Thessalonians 516-18 The Message

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PMA Positive mental attitude

• Sing hymns instead of drinking songs! Sing songs
  from your heart to Christ. Sing praises over
  everything, any excuse for a song to God the
  Father in the name of our Master, Jesus Christ.
  Ephesians 519,20 The Message
• Always give thanks to God the Father for
  everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  vs. 20 New Century Version

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Alive

• Well, I wonder what today will see. Will I find
  my dreams OR stare in the face of tragedy?
• Whatever may come, whatever may be, of this I am
  SURE, Im forgiven and free and I will live like
  I believe - Its good to be alive.
• Its good to be alive, to feel the wind in my
  face, see the blue in the sky. Its days like
  this, I realize what a gift it is - Its good to
  be alive. Geoff Moore

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Always?

• Be cheerful no matter what pray all the time
  thank God no matter what happens. This is the way
  God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.
  1 Thessalonians 516-18 The Message

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Praise

• Around midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and
  singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners
  were listening. Acts 1625 NLT

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A short time

• Gods power protects you through your faith
  until salvation is shown to you at the end of
  time. 6This makes you very happy, even though now
  for a short time different kinds of troubles may
  make you sad. 1 Peter 15,6 New Century Version

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Praise ahead!

• These troubles come to prove that your faith is
  pure. This purity of faith is worth more than
  gold, which can be proved to be pure by fire but
  will ruin. But the purity of your faith will
  bring you praise and glory and honor when Jesus
  Christ is shown to you. 1 Peter 17 NCV

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Greater glory

• We have small troubles for a while now, but they
  are helping us gain an eternal glory that is much
  greater than the troubles. 18We set our eyes not
  on what we see but on what we cannot see. What we
  see will last only a short time, but what we
  cannot see will last forever. 2 Cor. 417,18 NCV

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Remember

• Remember your reward
• If we die, then we live with him.If we endure
  through hard times and never give up, then we
  reign with him.If we disown him because of
  cowardice, then we lose our reward.If we are
  faithless because of doubts or fears or love of
  the world, he will still be faithful to us
  because he cannot break his promises.
• (Paraphrase by Pastor Ray Pritchard, Calvary
  Memorial Church in Oak Park, IL.)

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Epitaph

• He loved Jesus with all his heart.
• His chief aim in life was to make disciples who
  would make more disciples.
• He was the respected spiritual leader of his
  nuclear family and his extended family.
• He served the Lord faithfully his entire life.
• He couldnt wait to see Jesus!