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From Pastor Sheli's Weekly 'Prayer & Praise' email

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12/21...Christmas Communion Service

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Good Afternoon Church Family! God is able and faithful! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!! Our prayer for you and your family today is that your day is filled with new and old memories that give you reasons to be thankful! As you spend time with family and friends eating your thanksgiving meal, make sure you take a moment to stop and share something that you are thankful for. As we share our reasons for being thankful, what we are really doing is praising God again for something He has done. As we praise, we change that atmosphere where we are. Hearing of the goodness of God in each other's lives inspires and excites us for the possibilities to come! We serve a great, awesome and amazing God and with Him nothing is impossible! As we listen to what others are thankful for we are reminded of how great a God He is and what He can do in our lives.

This is why we shouldn't just give thanks on Thanksgiving. Like 1 Thessalonians 5:18 ( "in everything give thanks") and Psalm 34:1 ( "I will bless the Lord at ALL times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth") we are to give thanks in everything and praise Him for what He has done continually! Why is it so important to give thanks? Because it changes how you see life. If you see life through 'complain', your world will go down the drain. But if you see life through praise, your world will raise! In Psalm 100:4 it tells us that "I will enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name." If we want to come into the presence of the Lord, we daily need to be giving thanks and praising Him! If we do these things we WILL enter into His presence! Once in His presence, we need to remember to thank Him for the things He has done and give Him the praise He is due for what He has done. After you have spent time praising, you will find your time with Him won't be focused on the mountain of a problem in your life. You will find yourself speaking to that mountain in the authority that God has given you through Jesus! You will find your time with Him being a time of refreshing and imparting because you chose to come to Him in thanksgiving and praise.

We serve a God who is faithful, Church Family. He has already finished the work on the cross and He has already made known to us that we end on a win! Isn't it time that we give thanks in all things? Not for all things, but in... while you are going through something, you can find reasons to be thankful! And isn't it time we praise the Lord continually so that we can be in His presence throughout our day? I am so drawn to the idea of living a life of praise as we enter this holiday season this year. Will you join me, Church Family? Let's start our day, from the moment we wake up giving thanks to God! Let our very first words be "Thank you Lord for..."! Then let's praise Him and thank Him throughout our day, actually saying it outloud to Him. Then let's finish our day with the last words being again, one of Thanksgiving and praise! Can we do that from today till the end of the year? Just think of what our lives will be like if we live like this! We will constantly be in His presence through our thanks and praise! We will train ourselves that no matter what is happening or what we are going through we will find a reason to be thankful. I know that God is faithful to His word so as we live lives of praise, in His presence, we will experience joy like we have never known and I believe we will leave 2025 on the biggest wave of praise that will literally carry us into 2026! Are you ready to give thanks and praise everyday? I know I am!!

Have a blessed Thanksgiving Day, Church Family and know that we are so thankful to God for each of you! Let this day be the beginning of our season of thanksgiving and praise!

Blessings, Pastors Sheli and Steve

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