Praise & Thanksgiving to the Lord

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1 Praise & Thanksgiving to the Lord His Love Endures Forever based on Psalm 136 distributed by MUMC Prayer Ministry

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3 PTL Praise the Lord!! Praise and thanksgiving to the Lord!! With Thanksgiving just around the corner, the prayer ministry team would like for you to take time during the next twenty fi ve days to praise the Lord. It s a very simple process. 1. In this booklet, you will fi nd a psalm for the day and a place to write praises and thanksgivings from November 1st to the 25th. 2. Find some time during the day to read the psalm of the day. 3. Quietly refl ect about what the words are saying to you 4. What do you praise God for that day? What do you give thanks for? Write those thoughts down. 5. Spend some time in prayer. 6. Remember aloud or silently,! Psalm 136 The prayer ministry team will be praying daily that our congregation will be uplifted in God s love through this month with praise and thanksgiving!!! Your Prayer Ministry Team

4 November 1, 2017 Read Psalm 95 aloud individually or with someone else. November 2, 2017 Read Psalm 96 aloud individually or with someone else.

5 November 3, 2017 Read Psalm 100 aloud individually or with someone else. November 4, 2017 Read Psalm 103 aloud individually or with someone else.

6 November 5, 2017 Read Psalm 107 aloud individually or with someone else. November 6, 2017 Read Psalm 108 aloud individually or with someone else.

7 The Cure for Anxiety O give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever -Psalm 136 God never quits on us. That s what The Psalmist says. However, I struggle with the attitude of gratitude that this no quit love deserves. Is this true for you? It s not my nature to stick with gratitude. If I m not careful, the words, thank God! are just an emotional outburst. When we allow this attitude to take over, we re constantly shackled by anxiety: anxiety over past errors in judgment, anxiety over our missteps, anxiety from today s shortcomings and unmet expectations, and anxiety about how the future will work out. But the cure for anxiety that never quits is no quit gratitude: gratitude for past forgiveness, gratitude that sees God s hand in life s rear view mirror, gratitude for God s minute by minute undeserved kindness, gratitude for the ways God provides for everyday needs, gratitude for God in the flesh, gratitude for quality, never quit friendships, and gratitude to God because if God hasn t quit on us so far, He won t quit on us tomorrow. This never quit attitude of gratitude must be what the Apostle Paul meant when he said, Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Gratitude leads to contentment, and this is the cure for anxiety. -Pastor David

8 November 7, 2017 Read Psalm 111 aloud individually or with someone else. November 8, 2017 Read Psalm 113 aloud individually or with someone else.

9 November 9, 2017 Read Psalm 117 aloud individually or with someone else. November 10, 2017 Read Psalm 118 aloud individually or with someone else.

10 November 11, 2017 Read Psalm 121 aloud individually or with someone else. November 12, 2017 Read Psalm 122 aloud individually or with someone else.

11 November 13, 2017 Read Psalm 123 aloud individually or with someone else. November 14, 2017 Read Psalm 128 aloud individually or with someone else.

12 November 15, 2017 Read Psalm 134 aloud individually or with someone else. November 16, 2017 Read Psalm 135 aloud individually or with someone else.

13 November 17, 2017 Read Psalm 138 aloud individually or with someone else. November 18, 2017 Read Psalm 144 aloud individually or with someone else.

14 November 19, 2017 Read Psalm 145 aloud individually or with someone else. November 20, 2017 Read Psalm 146 aloud individually or with someone else.

15 November 21, 2017 Read Psalm 147 aloud individually or with someone else. November 22, 2017 Read Psalm 148 aloud individually or with someone else.

16 What do you do? What do you do? we sometimes find ourselves asking perfect strangers. Immediately upon meeting someone new, this question is quite often the second one after the also-standard inquiry about one s name to leap unthinkingly from our lips: What do you do? Maybe there is a very good reason why we ask this question. What we do says something real about who we are. Sometimes it even speaks to what we value most, but it always at least says something about what we spend a lot of time doing. And when you spend that much time doing anything, it can t help but shape your heart in certain ways. With good reason, we assume nurses care about and have some unspeakable acquaintance with health, accountants with numbers, farmers with the soil. What do you do? That leads me to think there s something else that lies beneath the surface here: we can leave the individual and her occupation behind for a moment and look to something deeper, something that all of us as human beings share. What are we supposed to do? What are we here for? As Christians, I think our answer to the question of what we are supposed to do, is that we are supposed to worship. Our vocation as humans is praise. That is not just something that we are supposed to do, it is the main thing that we are supposed to do because it is who we are, or at least it is who we were created to be. Augustine, the fourth century church father, once prayed, You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in You. To be a human being is first and foremost to be called to the activity of worship. Whether we answer that calling, whether we fulfill this our most fundamental vocation is up to us and our perennially restless hearts. And just like any vocation, what really matters here is what you wake up and work at every day, how you organize your time and energy on any given Monday, how prayer and the Scriptures (especially the Psalms) work their way into your routines so that they can, over time, work their way more deeply into your heart. In this way, by God s grace, in the name of Jesus, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, we are being restored into the kind of creatures we were designed to be namely, those who worship and praise, those who find their rest in God. So, my friends: What do you do? - Pastor Cabe Matthews

17 November 23, 2017 Read Psalm 149 aloud individually or with someone else. November 24, 2017 Read Psalm 150 aloud individually or with someone else.

18 November 25, 2017 Read Psalm 136 aloud individually or with someone else.

19 Psalm Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.. 2 Give thanks to the God of gods.. 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords:. 4 to him who alone does great wonders,. 5 who by his understanding made the heavens,. 6 who spread out the earth upon the waters,. 7 who made the great lights -. 8 the sun to govern the day,. 9 the moon and stars to govern the night;. 10 to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt. 11 and brought Israel out from among them. 12 with a mighty hand and outstretched arm;. 13 to him who divided the Red Sea[a] asunder. 14 and brought Israel through the midst of it,. 15 but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea;. 16 to him who led his people through the wilderness;. 17 to him who struck down great kings,. 18 and killed mighty kings Sihon king of the Amorites. 20 and Og king of Bashan and gave their land as an inheritance,. 22 an inheritance to his servant Israel.. 23 He remembered us in our low estate. 24 and freed us from our enemies.. 25 He gives food to every creature.. 26 Give thanks to the God of heaven..

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