Worship: For Heaven’s Sake This was a day of testimony. But first Pastor Flemons shared a reading about how Thanksgiving could be observed. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, kept the lines open for testimonies, as listeners on FaceBook and on the call felt impressed to share what God has done for them. Listen to the recording to hear how Annette was broadsided by a car, while riding a motorcycle. She was knocked fifteen feet in the air and was expected to die. But God saved her life. Hear testimonies from other listeners and FaceBook followers: Christine Bee, Sis. Rudder, Karriem Dixon, Bro. Chester, Sis. Emma, Sis. Victorine, Sis. Kim, Sis. Stella David, and Pastor’s sister Paula. Pastor ended with Psalm 100:4, “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.”
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Special Prayer of Thanksgiving was offered for all listeners.
Remember to continue praying also for 3976 (to glorify God in trials and be in His perfect will) and Sis. Rudder (to be that person described in James 1:19-20), 3039, friend (emergency eye surgery), and Audrey’s family (cousin William passed), 1716, 9036, and for all others who have requested our prayers. Thank you.
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – November 19 – 25
Worship Sunday – The Time of Trouble, Pt 4; Monday – The Time of Trouble, Pt 5; Tuesday – God’s People Delivered, Pt 1; Wednesday – God’s People Delivered, Pt 2; Thursday – Thanksgiving, Tell Your Testimony; Friday – Desolation of the Earth, Pt 1; Saturday, the Sabbath – Desolation of the Earth, Pt 2
These final chapters will be read aloud in full and will take multiple segments to complete: “The Time of Trouble,” “God’s People Delivered,” “Desolation of the Earth,” and “The Controversy Ended.” [All topics per The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – US Government Approves a Trackable Pill; Monday – Why More Black Women Die During Childbirth; Tuesday – Why Obese Women Have Larger Breast Tumors; Wednesday – The Day Before Thanksgiving; Thursday – Thanksgiving, Tell Your Testimony
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Words of Encouragement
Philippians 4:5-7 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
For Heaven’s Sake…
“Our Thanksgivings may be made seasons of great profit to our own souls as well as to others if we improve this opportunity to remember the poor among us…. {AH 474.2}
“There are a hundred ways that can be devised to help the poor in so delicate a manner as to make them feel that they are doing us a favor by receiving our gifts and sympathy. We are to remember that it is more blessed to give than to receive. The attentions of our brethren are most liberal to those whom they wish to honor, and whose respect they desire, but who do not need their help at all. Custom and fashion say, Give to those who will give to you; but this is not the Bible rule of giving. The word of God declares against this way of gratifying self in thus bestowing our gifts, and says, ‘He that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.’ {AH 474.3}
“Now a season is coming when we shall have our principles tested. Let us begin to think what we can do for God’s needy ones. We can make them through ourselves the recipients of God’s blessings. Think what widow, what orphan, what poor family you can relieve, not in a way to make a great parade about the matter, but be as a channel through which the Lord’s substance shall flow as a blessing to His poor…. {AH 474.4}
“But this does not embrace all your duty. Make an offering to your best Friend; acknowledge His bounties; show your gratitude for His favors; bring a thank offering to God…. Brethren and sisters, eat a plain dinner on Thanksgiving Day, and with the money you would spend in extras with which to indulge the appetite, make a thank offering to God.8 {AH 475.1}
“Let not any more Thanksgiving days be observed to please and gratify the appetite and glorify self. We have reason for coming into the courts of the Lord with offerings of gratitude that He has preserved our lives another year…. If a feast is to be made, let it be for those who are in need.9″ {AH 475.2}
(This study is based on chapter 76, “Holidays and Anniversaries” in the book The Adventist Home by Ellen G. White.)
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Be willing to embrace the REFRESHING Way lifestyle as a way to show your thankfulness to God for life.