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if you want to be strong in the Lord you
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have to have an encounter with God
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otherwise after a period of time
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whatever you think about God will become
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religion but when you have encounters it
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reality we started with the scripture 1
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Thessalonians CH 5:18 which is our
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foundational scripture it says in
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everything give thanks for this is the
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will of God concerning you in Christ
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God that we give thanks in everything in
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everything we give thanks
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now we talked about the life of Joseph
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we talked about the life of David and
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how no matter what you go through that
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it is important for us to remain in the
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plan and purposes of God to always
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maintain an attitude of
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Thanksgiving and be thankful to God
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because we may not be able to see the
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entire plan of God but God knows you
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from the be from the God knows the end
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from the beginning so as I Surrender
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myself I may go through some situation
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that I may not like that I may not
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desire that I may not enjoy but that is
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process and as I heal myself in those
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situations and I begin to give praise to
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God knowing that my God is in charge of
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my life my God is busy molding me and
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making me to be the person that he
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intended for me to be that I can be more
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fruitful and bring glory to God than I
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can rest in peace and know that one day
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what God had promised in my life shall
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come to pass somebody say amen
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hallelujah besides this we talked about
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praise or Thanksgiving being a weapon
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remember I spoke to you from Acts
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chapter 16 where Paul and Silas were
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locked in the prison what did they do
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they began to sing Praises unto God let
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me tell you my friend when you're going
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through a very tough time when it seems
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inexplainable as to why it should have
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happened to you and what wrong have I
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done what do I what did I do to deserve
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this and you don't feel like giving
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thanks is when you must give thanks when
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you can't see a way way out of your
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situation it seem like you're locked
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into it it seems like there is nobody
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out there to help you that is the time
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we need to practice giving thanks to God
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with me go with me to Hebrews chapter 13
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please and verse 15 Hebrews 13 and
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15 Hallelujah by him therefore let us
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offer what come on everybody the
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sacrifice of praise to God how
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key keep thanking the lord continually
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it's it doesn't say for some time it
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doesn't say thousand times it doesn't
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say 10,000 times it says continually be
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giv give thanks to God when and offer it
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sacrifice do you know sacrifice means it
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something that means when I don't feel
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like giving thanks I begin to give
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thanks it's costing me because
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everything in me is yelling at me and
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saying are you crazy how can you give
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thanks in this situation ation it
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doesn't make sense to say thank you to
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the Lord when things have not gone the
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way you desired and it didn't go the way
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you prayed it did not go the way you
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planned how can you give thanks I don't
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care I know my God is in charge of my
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life I know my God owns me and I know
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he's busy working on my life it may not
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make sense to me and I may not
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understand what I'm going through but
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I'm going to offer the sacrifice of
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am Hallelujah I'm going to do what offer
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the sacrifice of Thanksgiving and what
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happened when Paul and Silas began to
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give thanks to God God intervened
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supernaturally see what am I doing I'm
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activating a spiritual law a spiritual
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principle my attitude of Thanksgiving my
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expression of a sacrifice of
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Thanksgiving is causing something to
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happen in the heavens where God cannot
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sit still he begins to move to come to
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help to my Aid Hallelujah that's not
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only do we see this in the book of Acts
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but if you go even to the book of
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Chronicles one Chronicles we read about
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chapter 20 we read read about
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Jehosaphat when he was facing an
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impossible situation of so many armies
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that have that have been arrayed against
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him to come and to annihilate and to
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capture and to take over the nation the
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Jehoshaphat did was he began to praise
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he put the musicians in front he said
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listen this is what I want you to do the
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good do you know that not a nice saying
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weapon you when you're going through a
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hard time just keep saying that the Lord
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is good and his mercy endureth forever
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the Lord is good not that I deserve his
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help not that I've earned his help not
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that have earned his favor it's his
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Mercy Hallelujah the Lord is good and
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his mercy endureth forever glory to
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God lord I know I don't deserve this
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help I don't deserve any good thing from
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you because Lord you you know who I am
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and you know how I am but Lord I know
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also that who you are you're a God of
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Mercy you're a God of Grace and so
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father I call upon you in this dire
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situation in this in this difficult
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situation that I'm in and I can't find a
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way out I don't know what to do all that
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I'm going to do now is I'm going to
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God I give thanks to God the Lord is
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good say it again the Lord is
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good amen yes that's what we got to keep
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saying the Lord is good I don't know
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Lord I am I find myself in this
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fix nothing is working Lord Hab 3:1 17
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please Hab 3:1 17 although the Fig Tree
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shall not blossom Lord hallelujah
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neither shall fruit be in the vines the
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labor of the oliv shall fail and the
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field shall yield no meat the flock
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shall be cut off from the fold and there
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shall be no herd in the Stalls keep
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going and yet yet will I Rejoice yet
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will I rejoice in the Lord I will joy in
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the god of my salvation Hallelujah the
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god of my salvation the Lord is my
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savior the Lord is my salvation the Lord
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is my healer the Lord is my provider the
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Lord is the one that delivers me he is
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my deliverer he is the great deliverer
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so Lord I know you will open that womb
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that has been sealed for a long time I
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know you will make the best Baron to
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shout with joy for that the barren shall
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have more children than the other one
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Hallelujah to God come on somebody say
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Amen Lord but how am I going to win the
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favor of God by making by rejoicing in
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him and giving thanks to God remember
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weapon Thanksgiving is a spiritual
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weapon please don't ever forget this
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it's easy to give than when things go
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the way you want them to go but you know
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when you feel despressed depressed when
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you're feeling discouraged when you feel
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hopeless when you find that there seems
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thanks it may not work out the way you
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planned but it'll work out the way God
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planned and it will always be for your
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things work toward your good all things
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work together for good to them that love
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God and to those who are called
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according to his purpose so don't
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misunderstand me when I say you begin to
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give thanks and things will happen yes
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when you begin to give thanks to God
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things will happen the way God planned
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for your life it may not be the way you
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wanted it to be yet at the end you will
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say Lord I Thank You Hallelujah I thank
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you my God lord I desired this route
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but Lord I Thank you for prohibiting me
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from walking in that way because you had
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a better plan for my life at that point
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of time I might have been crying at that
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point of time I might have lost all hope
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of living and living for the future I
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might have lost all hope about the
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future I didn't even feel like living I
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wanted to commit suicide I wanted to die
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but Lord I Thank you for keeping me
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awake Lord I Thank you for keeping me
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from committing that you know committing
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suicide and thank you for delivering me
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from that thought pattern and Lord
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putting me on the path of your will and
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purpose for my life you may not realize
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it at that point of time but there will
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come a time when you will Hallelujah and
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in hindsight you will say thank you Lord
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thank you for whatever you've done now
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let's go to another aspect of
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Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is not only a
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spiritual Weapon It's a spiritual key
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Hallelujah let's go to uh Psalm 100
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one yeah Psalm 100 verse 1 2 and
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4 Thanksgiving is spiritual weapon sorry
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spiritual key make a
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hallelujah it's not wrong to be joyful
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church see we've been raised many of us
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may not be this present generation but
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the generation we came from when you
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were laugh when you went to church you
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could be laughing outside the doors but
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the moment you stepped in you had to
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have a sour face that's called solemnity
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that's how they described it and so we
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were raised with the idea that you
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cannot be loud you cannot shout you
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cannot be you know you cannot be
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expressive you have to have a very sad
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countenance but the Bible says hey you
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know just now as we were worshiping God
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and you were doing you know as we
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started praise there was a comment on
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the comment section in
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our uh you chat in the chat and the chat
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one of the ladies said stop this drama
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instruments drama have you read the book
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Psalms have you read the book of
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Psalms how can you say you cannot have
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instruments in praising God
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the Bible is replete with all these
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examples go you know David was the one
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Hallelujah he wanted all kind he said
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let's praise the Lord on a t stringed
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harp he gave he gave us instructions to
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use instruments to praise the Lord make
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Noise I like that word word noise that
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means it doesn't have to be in
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tune everybody can make their own noise
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come on make a Noise unto the Lord yes
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Hallelujah come on yes make a
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God you know the Bible talks about uh
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this uh little girl who was only 12
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years old who was who died as Jesus was
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coming to the house and he raised her
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from the dead but when he came close to
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the house the Bible says they were
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mourners and they were not mourning
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under their breath they were loudly
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mourning you can make a noise through
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complaining but God is attracted to the
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Hallelujah his presence is attracted to
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his people that know how to make a
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Joyful Noise come on make some
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noise W Hallelujah to
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Glory Glory Hallelujah yes thank you
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Lord thank you Lord Make a Joyful Noise
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praise be to God hallelujah
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Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord all e
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Israelites not just the Jews all the
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lands serve the Lord with gladness come
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before his presence with sing stop stop
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the drama of singing and Sound and
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Music the Bible says come with singing I
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don't know what Bible you're reading
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says Make a Joyful Noise and my Bible
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says come into the presence of the Lord
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with what singing glory be to God go to
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verse four please enter his gates with
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what so never enter God's presence with
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complaining questioning blaming and
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murmuring if you want
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audience with the King of Kings
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you always are permitted to enter in
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only when you come with
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Thanksgiving enter his gates with
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Thanksgiving into his courts with what
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praise and be thankful unto the unto him
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and bless his name glory be to God enter
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his gates with Thanksgiving and his
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courts with praise be thankful to him
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and bless his name Thanksgiving my
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friends is the key that open opens the
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gate into the courts of Our
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Lord courts are shut gates are shut but
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the gates are opened to enter into his
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presence when we come with
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Thanksgiving courts represent his
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presence Thanksgiving and praise are the
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keys that Usher a person into the
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presence of God in his presence the
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Bible says there is what fullness of
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Hallelujah he is the one the only one
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that can turn your mourning into dancing
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he's the only one that can lift the
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grief in your heart and replace it with
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joy that passeth understanding
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Hallelujah but to get to that place you
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need to enter into his courts that means
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coming into his presence but how do I
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come into His presence I give
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thanks based on my circumstances based
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on my experience based on the Hard
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Knocks I've gone through or the pain I
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am I'm going through no based on his
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character that whatever God does is
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good he loves me and he said I will
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never leave you and I will never forsake
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you he said my plans for you you are for
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good and not for evil glory be to God
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whatever he said so it's based on what
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the Bible says how do I know my
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God by reading his word and allowing the
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Holy Spirit to make it real in my heart
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coming into an experience with him it's
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not just knowing in the head it's
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tasting and seeing that the Lord is good
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that's why my friend if you want to be
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strong in the Lord you have to have an
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encounter with God otherwise after a
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period of time whatever you think about
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religion but when you have encounters it
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becomes reality and you need a real
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experience in the Living God every one
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of us needs to have an encounter with
