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Greetings In Christ Jesus!
As we begin, let me give some connecting background for our message today that I pray will bless us as we prepare for the upcoming season we are seemingly fast approaching, that is often rushed through or even neglected nearly completely!
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Psalms 116:1 -19 (KJV)
Psa 116:1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
Psa 116:2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Psa 116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psa 116:4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Psa 116:5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
Psa 116:6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
Psa 116:7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Psa 116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Psa 116:9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Psa 116:10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
Psa 116:11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Psa 116:12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
Psa 116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.
Psa 116:14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
Psa 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
Psa 116:16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
Psa 116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.
Psa 116:18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,
Psa 116:19 In the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
New Testament Scripture Reading: Philippians 4:4 – 9 (KJV)
Php 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
Php 4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Php 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Php 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Php 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Php 4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Transforming Power Statements:
1) We live in an ever increasingly less grateful world, who in general are not thankful, especially not to God Almighty, Who has given His Perfect Faultless Son Jesus to provide all who believe with a way to attain His Righteousness and to restore the possibility to possess eternal life, in addition to all provisions of all the resources of the world and even the heavens, for which we should therefore, be thankful.
2) The Psalmist teaches us that God has provided even the simple with enough reasons that even with a limited amount of knowledge the necessity to be thankful and overwhelmingly grateful to God is enormous and even down to the problem of death, we should learn to be thankful to God, because He has provided everything for us to enjoy!
3) The Apostle Paul admonished the Church at Philippi to be thankful every time as we pray for anything just for the privilege to even be heard by the Almighty and that thanksgiving must be a routine dimension of the everyday life of the saved!
Spotify 
Apple