WALKING WITH A THANKFUL HEART.

[Pastor Luciano Cecilia]

PS.100:1-5 // LUKE 17:11-19

Psalm 100
1Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
2Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
5For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

WALKING WITH A THANKFUL HEART. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

What does the word Thankful Mean?

Webster says it this way…………#1 An expressing of gratitude
#2 A grateful acknowledgment of something received by or done for one.

The Hebrew word is “Yadah” it means To confess and give Praise and offer Thanks.

It over laps with another word “Halal” means to Public Worship and to affirm and renew their relationship with God.

QUESTION.
If your house was on fire and you were asleep and your next door neighbor came and woke you up fron your sleep and saved your life. WOULD YOU BE GREATFUL?, WOULD YOU BE THANKFUL? WOULD YOU ALWAYS REMMBER HIM? EVERY TIME YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THAT FIRE, WOULD YOU THINK ABOUT THE MAN THAT WOKE YOU UP?

#1 A THANKFUL PERSONS WILL NOT COMPLAIN

Proverbs 3:5 :: King James Version (KJV)
5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

#2 A THANKFUL PERSON IS NOT GREEDY.

You can know that a thankful person will always be willing to give to God, because he know where his source is from and all that he has came from the Lord.

Luke 6:38 :: King James Version (KJV)
38Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

#3 A THANKFUL PERSON WILL ALWAYS BE READY TO TELL OTHERS WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE FOR HIM.

Luke 8:38-39 :: King James Version (KJV)
38Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,
39Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.

QUESTION.
How thankful are we?
When is the last time you said to the Lord, Thank you for saving me?
Oh give thanks unto the Lord all you people.

.LUKE 17:11-19 (10 men that were lepers)

……WERE THERE NOT 10 CLEANSE?

OH WHERE ARE THE OTHER NINE? WHERE ARE THE ONES THAT CAME AND GAVE THERE HEARTS TO THE LORD? Where are the ones that once serve him in all they done.

THE TENTH ONE HAS RETURNED TO THANK HIS LORD
A. In worship
B. In praise & thanksgiving

WE ALL HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH THE TEN….

#1 WE ALL WERE INFLICTED WITH A DISEASE CALLED SIN.
#2 WE ALL ARE GOING TO DIE.
#3 WE ALL HAVE NO HOPE APART FROM CHRIST AND HIS BLOOD.

Romans 5:8 :: King James Version (KJV)
8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 9:16 :: King James Version (KJV)
16So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy

Psalm 100:4 :: King James Version (KJV)
4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

Colossians 3:15 :: King James Version (KJV)
15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.


Rev. Pastor Lucho Cecilia

[Dr. Henry, President of the AOCI]

Amen. Tks Pastor Cecilian for reminding us that we should be grateful and thankful unto the Lord. Lord, thank you for so many things, but above all.....for saving me and my family.