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Pastor Geoff Wiklund

Be a Disciple Make Disciples. Worship – Works – Winning the Lost Giving Thanks Qualified. Pastor Geoff Wiklund.

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Pastor Geoff Wiklund

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  1. Be a Disciple Make Disciples Worship – Works – Winning the Lost Giving Thanks Qualified Pastor Geoff Wiklund

  2. Col 1:7as you also learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, 8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit. 9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. NKJV

  3. Learning from Our Leader • Knowledge of His will • Wisdom and all spiritual understanding • Walk worthy of the Lord • Fully Pleasing Him • Being Fruitful in every good work

  4. Learning from Our Leader • Increasing in the knowledge of God • Strengthened with all might, according to the glorious power • Patience and longsuffering with joy • Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light

  5. Where are we going • Advantages of being thankful • What to be thankful for • How God has qualified you!

  6. Giving Thanks g2168. εὐχαριστέω eucharisteō; from 2170; to be grateful, i. e. (actively) to express gratitude (towards); specially, to say grace at a meal:— (give) thank (- ful,- s). AV (39)- give thanks 26, thank 12, be thankful 1; to be grateful, feel thankful give thanks

  7. Benefits of Gratitude Gratitude is an emotion expressing appreciation for what one has—as opposed to, say, a consumer-oriented emphasis  on what one wants or needs—and is currently receiving a great deal of attention  as a facet of positive psychology. Gratitude is what gets poured into the glass to make it half full. Studies show that gratitude not only can be deliberately cultivated but can increase levels of well-being and happiness among those who do cultivate it.  In addition, grateful thinking—and especially expression of it to others—is associated with increased levels of energy, optimism, and empathy.

  8. Giving Thanks • Gratitude: Great Attitude. • Ingratitude: Self Focussed Attitude Rom 1:22-23

  9. Gates • Psalms 95:2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. • We enter His gates with thanksgiving. I wonder if this is not true in the natural as well? It focusses our thouhgts on the goodness of God.

  10. Glorify • Psalms 69:30 I will praise God's name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving.

  11. People • Ephesians 1:16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. • Today we give special thanks to our dads.

  12. I Thessalonians 5:16 Be joyful always; 17 Pray continually; 18 Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. • Matthew Henry in his commentary says: "If we pray without ceasing we will not want for matter for thanksgiving. We should be thankful in every in every condition, even in adversity as well as prosperity. It is never so bad with us but it might be worse. We can never have any reason to complain of God, and have always much reason to praise and give thanks."

  13. Grace • I Timothy 4:3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

  14. A Ministry • Nehemiah 11:17 Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, the director who led in thanksgiving and prayer • 12:8 was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving • 12:24 who stood opposite them to give praise and thanksgiving, one section responding to the other, as prescribed by David the man of God.

  15. Overflow • II Corinthians 4:15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. • II Corinthians 9:11 You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.

  16. Replacement • Ephesians 5:4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.

  17. Qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance • He that set the test passed it for you! • There is an inheritance for us. • It takes faith to get your portion. • Repent and believe.

  18. Application • Salvation: Today you may choose to know Him as Saviour • Enter His gates with thanksgiving. • Thank Him for some people. • Thank Him for your circumstances. • Change my talk to thanks!

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