Can you thank God “even though” it’s not going according to plan and this is not what you expected? This is the first step toward expressing gratitude in every situation.
when you graduate from just an attitude
of gratitude to a way of life that is
grateful you say thank you Lord yet to
really graduate from the kiddie table I
don’t know about you but I don’t want to
sit in this heat the rest of my life I
don’t want to be the kind of Christian
who only thanks God when he’s serving me
I don’t want to be a grown man talk
about bang bang this is the table called
thanks where I thank Him for His
provision but to graduate touch somebody
say it’s time to graduate it’s time to
graduate it’s time to graduate to
graduate we need David because Moses was
teaching the people to relate to God on
the provision level David was a little
bit different because of his experience
he was raised up as a shepherd in
Jesse’s house to be king and anointed by
Samuel he had a remarkable ability to
remember where he came from and it
always made him thankful and made him
grateful even though his life was very
dysfunctional he was driven by a sense
of returning to God who had given all
the blessings to him and and David comes
in to give us a deeper understanding of
mature gratitude it’s not mature
gratitude to thank God for what He’s
given you that’s just manners
that’s just that’s just good manners
that’s just politeness so David comes
along he says I want to move you from
the kiddy table to the banquet table
bring out the banquet table David who
was not only a subject of the king but a
king of the people had spent some time
as a shepherd and so while Moses is
teaching the people to relate to God on
the most basic level when He blesses you
remember Him when He blesses you obey
Him when He keeps His covenant with you keep His commands that it may go well
with you this is basic David’s steps in
and takes it a little bit deeper let’s
go deeper David says the Lord is my
shepherd I shall not want He makes me
lie down in green pastures he leads me
beside still waters have you heard this
before maybe you heard it at a funeral
maybe you heard it in a time of
mourning David wrote it in a valley yet
he says something interesting in Psalm
23 and this takes us to the next level
of praise some 23 verse 4 he says even
though I walk through the darkest Valley
I will fear no evil for You are with me
Your rod and Your staff they comfort me
Moses teaches us how to thank God for
the but David comes along and teaches us how to thank God even though even though
even though this is a graduated form of
gratitude this is the remedial level
thank you for the but this is the place
where you learn to praise God even
though even though this is where you can
have all hell breaking loose in one area
of your life but say it is well with my
soul when peace like a river attendeth
my way when sorrows like sea billows roll whatever my lot you have taught me to say it is well
even though my heart is broken it is well even though I lost some people it is well even though I’m going through it is well
even though even though this is the
table where you learn to thank God for
what you can see this is the table where
you learn to trust God with what you
cannot even though I walk through the
darkest valley now Church it’s one thing
for professor Moses to tell us thank God
for the good land but now we got to
decide what kind of Christians we want
to be are we only gonna thank Him for
the food are we only gonna thank Him for
the finances are we only going to thank
Him for the fiance or are we gonna thank
Him even though I’m single
where you want to sit
am I only gonna thank Him when I can see the evidence of His presence even though
recognizes His presence in the presence
of enemies this is the stage of praise
where you’re no longer thanking God for
His provision only oh you carry that
over you’re still grateful for the
provision that’s a starting place but
now I’m thanking Him for His presence
you’re gonna need this if you want to be
a big boy and you don’t want to be a
baby you’re gonna have to sit in this
seat and learn to eat with enemies all
around you can you keep your eyes fixed
on the presence of God in the presence
of your enemies because at this table
David said God isn’t the only one seated
I got enemies all around me you prepare
verse 5 a table for me in the presence
of my insecurities in the presence of my
deficits in the presence of my
addictions in the presence of my
confusion in the presence of what I’ve
lost in the presence of the threat that
I won’t make it in the in the presence
of my enemies I’m looking straight ahead
would you do me a favor would you touch
the person next to you and tell them set
the table because when you learn to have
a heart of praise in the presence of
enemies you set the table that’s what
they’ve had said right you prepare a
table for me in the presence of my
enemies and if you can walk with God in
darkness enough depending on the light
that He showed you in the last season
you’ll learn to read your enemies as a
sign that it’s time to eat David said
God made my enemy serve me my entree God made the things that conspire to take me
out feed me for the place He was
bringing me into I got a seat at the table
I’m a big boy I can handle trouble I can handle tests I can handle it
so I’m sitting down in the middle of all kinds of nonsense but I got my eyes fixed on
the presence of the One who is within me and greater is He that is in me
wouldn’t it be great if you could turn
the tables on your fear today and make
the thing that was coming after you
serve the purpose of God in your life
David said you can do it you can do it
if you can eat in the presence of
enemies if you can be blessed under the
weight of burdens if you don’t always
need me to bring it up to the table and
set it before you but if you can sit
see when I praise God through pain
everybody shout even though no no shout
it like you want the devil to hear even
though you came at me I’m still standing
even though you set an ambush against me even though you tried to make me born kinda wild I’m still sitting at the table
when you praise Him in pain it is
preparation for provision and you can
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