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The following lessons are part of the series currently being aired on Into His Likeness radio broadcast. To view the lessons on-line, click on the lesson titles.
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| Series: IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS Week of |
| #965-A IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS
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| Many of us simply do not live a life of constant praise. We are affected by our emotions, and we are affected by our circumstances. There are those of us who can only be thankful when we feel thankful. If we don't feel thankful or don't have something tangible that appears worth being thankful for, then what do we do? God has given us a clear answer in Scripture in I Thessalonians 5 where he exhorts us to in everything give thanks. |
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| #965-B JUST BECAUSE HE IS
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| Do you want to develop a life of praise? It is not enough just to thank Him for what His love has done for you. That still allows you to share the spotlight with Him. What we are to praise God for is that, in essence, He is love. Learn to praise God. . ..just because He is! This lesson will take a look at five characteristics of God's love that demonstrate His nature so that as we come face to face with situations in the days to come that cause us to resist or refuse that love, we can instead, armed with the Word of God, learn to give thanks. |
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| #966-A WHEN LAST DID YOU VISIT THE HILL?
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| The purpose of this lesson is to paint once and for all indelibly upon our consciences the need to regularly visit the Hill. Our goal is to take our ungrateful spirits back to that garden and then to that Cross, where ingratitude melts into grief, and self centeredness dissolves in an ocean of praise. The reason for this study is to remind us that regular visits to Calvary are the Master Physicians's prescription to help us develop a thankful heart. |
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| #966-B PRAISE FOR THE PLANNER; FOR THE PLAN
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| We are who we are because of what God has allowed us to go through. Others are looking at God through what we have become as a result of what we have been through; and our very ministries will in most cases be the result of passing on to others the same grace that God gives us. The issue then, isn't simply learning to accept those things as something we could not help, but rather the secret is learning to turn the past into praise. |
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| #967-A PRAISE FROM A PRISON
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| Long-term prison experiences for most of us are those experiences that appear to have no immediate relief such as incurable illnesses, a bad marriage, financial bondage, or terminal loneliness. What are we to do when faced with these experiences in our life? Yes, we are to praise. We are to let the Word of God flow from our hearts and begin to praise Him for who He is. We may see the doors of our circumstances swing open ,open, or instead, God in His still small voice may give us comfort and strength. Either way we will know true freedom. |
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| #967-B THANKSGIVING OF THE HEART
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| Why is it we are not more thankful? What is it we must do to become that way? Why do we take life so for granted, and God for granted, that we assume that before we can be thankful, God owes us some form of mystical standard of living, or some kind of preconceived physical blessings. These are questions we will attempt to answer in this lesson. |
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| #968-A SOME GOLDEN DAYBREAK, THANKSGIVING WILL COME!
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| If we actually learn to live in this world with our eyes on the next, our praise will be multiplied as we envision what awaits us in the endless eternity just beyond that momentous experience of death; an experience the world calls 'tragic'; that God calls 'victory'. The purpose of this lesson is to take a quick journey through the Scriptures to grab hold of some of those promises, and to let those promises form the basis for a whole new life of praise. |
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| #968-B PRAISE HIM!
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| We know that in everything we are to give thanks. We are to praise God for who He is and not focus on the circumstances around us. Our vantage point needs to be eternal, so that we can see things as God sees them. The question then becomes, Now what are we going to do to see that we never stop praising Him? How do we make sure that knowledge gets turned into wisdom? This lesson will give us a few practical suggestions. |
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