Remembering the Gift of GOOD Friday on BLACK Friday 

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Yes it’s Black FRIDAY again! The biggest shopping day of the year with everyone in search of the best bargain.

I’m reminded of a Good FRIDAY which provided the greatest bargain of your life

A free gift that will provide the need of everyone on your list

A free gift that will provide for every need in your life

Exchange filthy rags for royal robes of righteousness

Exchange stress and anxiety for a peace that passes understanding

Exchange hopelessness for a joy unspeakable

Not 50% off or even 70% off BUT something that is FREE!

The most expensive gift that this world could never afford!

1 Peter 1:19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot

Humility

Swallowing the Word

If we only admire the food on our Thanksgiving Table it will never bring strength or life to the cells in our body unless we eat it and swallow it.

Likewise we do not study the Word to only feed our minds, but we must swallow it that the Seed of the Word might germinate in our inner beings becoming alive as we live it.

As the word exhorts us in Ezekiel 2:8-10:

“But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee. And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein.”

According to Matthew Henry’s Commentary “to eat” in the verse above means “admit this revelation into thy understanding, take it, take the meaning of it, understand it aright, admit it into thy heart, apply and be affected with it.”

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Excerpt from DEVELOPING A SECRET HISTORY WITH GOD page 12

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Offering the Lord a Table of Thanksgiving 

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As we prepare our tables this week for a thanksgiving meal let us prepare a table of thanks to offer the Lord.

As we prepare a table of fresh delicious food let us prepare a feast of fresh grateful thanks to the Lord for what He has accomplished in our lives during this past year.

As we place a freshly ironed tablecloth with no wrinkles over our banquet table let us place a garment of forgiveness over the creases of conflicts and hurts over our hearts thanking Him for the grace to forgive.

As we place items of tradition connecting generations and past years or use recipes handed down from past generations to keep precious memories alive, let us keep the sacrifice of Calvary precious and alive in our hearts as we set that table of thanksgiving.

As we bow our hearts in unity to pray at our tables let us give thanks not only for the food provided for our bodies but families and friends provided for our emotional beings and the heavenly manna provided for our spirits.

Since we are only made happy by what we appreciate a feast of grateful thanks will make this thanksgiving a feast of joy unspeakable!

Wrapped in the warmth of family and friends, the security of His unconditional love and enjoying His abundant provision, may you all have a wonderful THANKSGIVING.

I often prepare my table of thanksgiving by using photos of thanksgiving as my center piece.

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Psalm 103;1-5 Bless the Lord, O my soul:and all that is within me, bless his holy name Bless the Lord, O my soul,and forget not all his benefits: 

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;

Who healeth all thy diseases;

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction

Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

CHALLENGE: If you don’t have any Thanksgiving Traditions start one this week to hand down through the years. It is these precious traditions that rekindle warm memories and bind families and even generations together. 

The Path to Maturity

There is no painless path to maturity, the flesh must be crucified by daily taking up the cross. We will never learn obedience without daily taking up our cross. We will never mature without obedience. We will never be conformed to His image without maturity. Page 188 “Developing A Secret History with God”

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Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

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