1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:16,960 Hallelujah, you've been faithful Lord, from the ages past. 2 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:31,960 That is why our name is forevermore. 3 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:46,640 You've been faithful, Lord, from the ages past. 4 00:00:52,120 --> 00:01:57,600 That is why on it. The. 5 00:02:24,160 --> 00:03:16,160 The. Yes. 6 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:50,120 Are you clapping or you are? Praise the Lord, May God richly 7 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,440 bless you. On this note, we want to invite 8 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:57,040 our resident minister in the person of Pastor Emmanuel Osaya 9 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,880 Cosa to deliver the weather. Shall we welcome him with a clap 10 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:10,960 of him? Praise the Lord, Hallelujah, 11 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,240 Amen. We thank God that we are 12 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:21,200 starting this local week and God has begun with us. 13 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:28,480 Oh, I didn't hear you say Amen. And today being the day one, we 14 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,160 are offering Thanksgiving on to the Lord and we are saying thank 15 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,320 him. Thank God that for all that He 16 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:41,280 has done for us, we are in our sixth year as an assembly and 17 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:45,880 God has been good unto us, so we need to be thankful unto Him. 18 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:51,760 Amen. Our theme for this week is 19 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:59,160 celebrating God's goodness, offering sacrifices or sacrifice 20 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:05,200 that honors God. So we are just opposing 2 things 21 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:11,040 out of our Thanksgiving, thanking God. 22 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:17,200 We are also expressing our thankfulness through sacrifice. 23 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:25,320 So the driving force behind what we do as we thank God is to 24 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:30,320 offer unto Him. During thanking God, we offer 25 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:35,440 many things. We offer praise as a sacrifice 26 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:40,680 unto God. We also offer our material 27 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:45,040 possessions as also sacrifice unto God. 28 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:51,120 And we also give ourselves, we offer ourselves our body as 29 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:58,200 living sacrifices unto God. And we also offer to those in 30 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,920 need as way of thanking God and giving back unto God. 31 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:11,080 So our sacrifice should be motivated by appreciating God 32 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,840 and thanking Him for what He has done for us. 33 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:20,880 Because through sacrifice we acknowledge that everything that 34 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,640 we have comes from God. If you are giving to God and you 35 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,800 don't give with that understanding that everything I 36 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:33,040 have is God who gave to me, so giving back to Him, I'm even 37 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:39,520 thankful to Him that He has counted me worthy to receive a 38 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:45,040 gift or a sacrifice from me. Because the earth is the loss 39 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:47,800 and the fullness, including you and I. 40 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,280 So you and I, now we belong to God. 41 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:57,680 So anything we are giving to God is like yay nary because they 42 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:03,040 are rightful. He is the owner of our lives, of 43 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,880 our breath, of our everything. So if at any point in time we 44 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,960 are given to Him, we need to even come before Him with 45 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:17,400 singing, dancing that God has counted as worthy to even give 46 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,760 unto Him. And if you check the texts that 47 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:28,160 we have attached this theme, you will see that when you read the 48 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:35,120 Psalm, Psalm 50, you appreciate that God called them together. 49 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,600 And it was telling them that it is not your, your bank offerings 50 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,480 and your booze and other things that I need, but just offer 51 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:49,360 sacrifice of Thanksgiving. So Thanksgiving, appreciating 52 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:54,320 God, celebrating God is also a sacrifice. 53 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,680 And it should come from a very thankful and a cheerful heart. 54 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:06,080 So this week begin to thank God, let us appreciate God, let us 55 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,360 offer from the fruit of our lives unto Him Thanksgiving that 56 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:14,000 is due him. And by that we'll be doing 57 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,720 things that God, it will honor God. 58 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,840 Hallelujah. Oh, I said Hallelujah. 59 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:28,320 So I will tackle them because we don't have so much time when you 60 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,320 come for and you sorry and you preach long, you will sleep on 61 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:38,840 you true of us true. So I guess we're giving you 62 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,480 points, point points and then we will end. 63 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:46,280 So the first thing I want us to know is that when it comes to 64 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,320 sacrificial giving of Thanksgiving, praise, honor, 65 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:56,360 material things, giving ourselves, be mindful that our 66 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:02,600 giving, our sacrifice is a representation before God. 67 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,920 I think I have said it here before. 68 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:10,960 Let me take some time and then look through them and we will 69 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,360 appreciate it. Our prayers and our giving, 70 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,800 their representation before God as memorials. 71 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:28,280 Any prayer, any act of sacrifice, whether by giving 72 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:34,760 physical cash, sacrificing your time, energy in the Kingdom of 73 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:41,160 God, they go up and they are before God as memorial. 74 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:47,040 Let's read some texts to buttress this. 75 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:59,800 When you read Psalm 50 verse 8, the Psalm 50 verse 8, let us try 76 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:07,200 and then read Psalm 50, verse 8 from the ESV. 77 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:12,320 Not for your sacrifice. Oh, it's OK, it's OK. 78 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:19,760 He says that OK. Not for your sacrifices do I 79 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,840 rebuke you. Your bent offerings are 80 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:29,520 continually before me. They are way continually before 81 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:33,840 me. The offerings are continually 82 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:38,520 before me. Continually before me. 83 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,600 Let me try and then read down a little bit for you. 84 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:51,440 I will not accept Abu from your house or goats from your food, 85 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:54,680 for every beast of the forest is mine. 86 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:03,920 The cattle on 1000 hills I know all the birds of the hills, and 87 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,120 all that moves in the field is mine. 88 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:15,240 If I were hungry, I will not tell you, for the world and its 89 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:20,040 fullness are mine. Do I eat the flesh of goose or 90 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:24,560 drink the blood of goats offered to God? 91 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,000 A sacrifice of what? Thanksgiving. 92 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:36,000 And perform your vows to to the Most High and call upon me in 93 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:42,280 the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you 94 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:47,720 shall glorify me. Hallelujah, Oh Hallelujah. 95 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:51,480 Then let me take you to the last verse. 96 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:59,160 Let's move on to the verse 23, the verse 23, the one who offers 97 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:05,160 Thanksgiving as his sacrifice, that's what glorifies me. 98 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:11,400 To one who orders his way rightly, I will show the 99 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:15,920 salvation of God. So here what we are seeing is 100 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:21,520 that our sacrifices are continually before God and even 101 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:27,640 God, He doesn't eat them. He doesn't drink blood, He 102 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:33,560 doesn't eat M punchy no, no, as we do. 103 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:40,880 But he was recounting that a cattle on 1000 hill, they are 104 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:46,440 always everything, the fullness, everything belongs to him. 105 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:53,480 So what He needs from us is to offer Thanksgiving as sacrifice, 106 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,440 and that glorifies Him. So if you are thinking of 107 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:04,200 sacrifices other than thanking God today, I beg you to reorient 108 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,280 yourself and add Thanksgiving to it. 109 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,280 Celebrate God. We should be intentional about 110 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:15,040 recounting. Let us intentionally sit down 111 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:19,720 and list the things that God He has been doing for us and thank 112 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:24,240 Him for them. Thank Him, let us be intentional 113 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:31,040 and thank Him and praise Him because of what He has done for 114 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:35,240 us. So thanking God for who He is is 115 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:37,960 very key. We need to thank God for who He 116 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,600 is. We need to thank God for what He 117 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,720 has done for us. We do to thank God for what He 118 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,960 is doing and by faith for what He will do for us. 119 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:52,000 Those things, God really appreciate them. 120 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:58,640 Let us move on to Numbers 31, verse 54. 121 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:11,080 Numbers 31, verse 54, still from the ESV, Numbers 3154 and Moses 122 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,120 and Eliza. The priests received the gold 123 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:20,840 from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it 124 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:25,280 into the tent of meeting as a memorial. 125 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:29,400 As what? A memorial for the people of 126 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:35,040 Israel before the Lord. Even on earth they were placing 127 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:40,480 gold before God as what? A memorial offering them as 128 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:45,240 times and things they received from from war, things that they 129 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,320 gathered. They give some to God that oh 130 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,080 God want these things to be before God as memorial of the 131 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:56,600 people of Israel so that whenever God the cloud of glory 132 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:03,400 settles on the ACT, when it settles on the tent and God 133 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:08,320 looks down from heaven, He will see that this gold is a 134 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:13,640 representation. So anything sacrificing, doing 135 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:19,360 it in the Kingdom of God, giving it apart from thanking God, any 136 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,480 material things that you do, your strength, because these 137 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,320 things were acquired by their strength. 138 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,560 They fought before they got the gold and presented them before 139 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:34,320 God. So anything you have earned by 140 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:40,640 sweat, by hard work and you present them before God, God an 141 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:46,680 honest God. So do things that will bring 142 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:51,520 honor to God and part of it as we thank God from a very good 143 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,920 art. Let also let our material 144 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:00,280 possessions also follow because God, he's interested in them. 145 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:05,720 The third verse that I want us to look at is the story of the 146 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,680 Roman soldier Cornelius. Accident. 147 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:17,359 Accident from verse one Cornelius At Kaisera there was a 148 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:26,079 man named Cornelius, a centurion, a centurion of what 149 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:32,840 was known as the Italian cohort, A devout man who feared God with 150 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:43,280 all his household, gave alms generously to the people and 151 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:48,240 prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day 152 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:54,680 he saw clearly in a vision an Angel of God come in and say to 153 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:59,560 him, Cornelius. And he stared at him in terror 154 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:04,960 and said, What is it Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers 155 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:12,480 and your arms have what ascended as memorial before God. 156 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:18,000 They want the ascent. So if you want things that can 157 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:23,240 transcend or be transported from the earthly realm into spiritual 158 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:27,600 realm, prayer is 1. And then you're giving your 159 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,800 sacrifice. So don't joke with these two 160 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,760 prayer, it goes to God that it could not mean something. 161 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,800 Prayer that is unhindered, prayer that that is devoid of 162 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:48,880 bitterness, prayer devoid of holding offenses, devoid of 163 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,440 holding grudges against each other. 164 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:57,320 Aquaderet and Iraq, no cave, no bend directly to God. 165 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,680 And it's a memorial because God, he's tossed the prayer of the 166 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:06,000 Saints. He has a bank where your prayers 167 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,320 are stored. So I don't know what is the 168 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:17,560 volume of your prayer in heaven? Is it 1 bottle or barrel or a 169 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:22,440 big tank? Some of our prayers in heaven is 170 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:31,160 a drop, just a drop. Cool, NASA, maybe pray more so 171 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,200 that we can accumulate much more prayer in heaven. 172 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,000 And the next point that the Angel told the money is that 173 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:41,640 you're giving of arms. You're giving. 174 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:49,200 Anything you do in the name of God, anything that God's name is 175 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:54,400 attached go to, he comes in. So anything you are given. 176 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:00,920 I am doing this because of the love I have for Jesus under the 177 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:07,520 dispensation of grace. Our giving is higher because we 178 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,560 have the excellent example for God so loved the world. 179 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:15,160 That he gave so God he gave his best. 180 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:20,680 So the stand up for the New Testament believer forgiving is 181 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,440 bigger than the old for our time. 182 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,080 We don't give because we are compelled. 183 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:35,360 We give because we love God. That is the the the spirit 184 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:39,840 behind our time of giving. I'm giving to God because He 185 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:44,280 first give to me. He first loved me. 186 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:49,400 So if everything I have comes from Him and He needs it, I can 187 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,800 give all to Him without looking back. 188 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,280 That is the understanding with which we must give. 189 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,920 Hallelujah. So anything short of this will 190 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:07,000 face a difficulty before God. What motivates you should be 191 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,440 loved to do everything she believed. 192 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:15,480 Because when you look at the cross and look at God giving his 193 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:21,480 Son, you cannot withhold yours. You must give, Oh truly. 194 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,880 Because if you look at God giving his one and only Son. 195 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:32,840 For God so loved the world that he gave us his one and only Son. 196 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:39,960 So God, if Jesus had not succeeded, he would have lost 197 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:44,560 big time. He would have lost his one and 198 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,120 only Son. That is why when Jesus was on 199 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,880 earth, He tried to do everything to please his Father. 200 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:58,680 Otherwise it will be as a So the standard for you and I to give 201 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:03,320 under the new dispense or under the new covenant is much more 202 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,920 stricter. To whom much is given, much is 203 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,720 what expected. In the end, because of the 204 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,760 grace, much more is expected of us. 205 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:18,880 May we not feel God and may we give from the depths of our 206 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,760 hearts. So if these two are reps before 207 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:29,040 God, then we need to be serious in giving, we need to be serious 208 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:31,880 in praying. We need to be seen. 209 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:39,800 Because they go to God. They are reps before God and God 210 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:45,200 will look on it. So anyone who also gives you 211 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:54,200 move God and when you look at the Hall of Fame Hebrews 11 the 212 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:59,760 first name is there because of sacrifice by faith. 213 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:06,760 Abel what was following his sacrifice so sacrificing to God, 214 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,080 God is interested. Abraham did the same thing and 215 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:20,080 God was moved, he was moved, he was moved and he says that may 216 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:26,400 come on time we'll measure out. So God had to not disturb by 217 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,640 India. There was no any other one 218 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:33,240 greater than him. Look at Abel and all of them 219 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,080 sacrifice. So when we are celebrating God 220 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,520 and we are offering Thanksgiving, we need to also 221 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:46,960 give anything that has God's name attached to it. 222 00:23:47,600 --> 00:24:00,160 So the poor widow, the poor widow who also give Jesus, he 223 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:06,520 went to church, he didn't get anywhere to focus that on the 224 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:11,160 bull. So when we come to church and we 225 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:16,640 look inside, Elmo, Sunni and Konta crying, Jesus not crying, 226 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:21,680 he looked inside, he looked inside. 227 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:30,520 So Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts in the 228 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:36,160 offering box. And he also saw a poor widow put 229 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:43,320 in two small copper coins. Hey, look, look there because 230 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:48,840 he's a doctor, he give very vivid the description. 231 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:57,720 Look, look when you look at how they they put in. 232 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:04,560 Mark also recalls it. So they all record that 2, the 233 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:11,240 woman law is 4. We do just say and she came to 234 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:18,760 church with copper coins, not just that, but 2, not just two, 235 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,680 but out of all the coins, the copper coins she brought, the 236 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:29,960 two which were the small. So Jesus is explaining to us 237 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:36,240 that's it was very small. It was very small. 238 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:43,640 And they say that a copper coin worth about 1 / 128 of a 239 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,920 Denarios, which was a day's wage for a Libra. 240 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:56,560 So if you pick minimum wage per day divided by 128, that was the 241 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:04,280 worth of a copper coin, very small, but that was what the 242 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,960 woman gave. And Jesus gives a perspective 243 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,760 that everybody who reads and reads again will be like hey, 244 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:20,560 what's your home would have would have said same Jesus would 245 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,040 be able Hey Jesus, let's go for they are giving big offerings 246 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:34,400 saying this woman took one 1 / 128 But Jesus comes with a 247 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:40,840 heavily perspective and he said truly I tell you this poor widow 248 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,840 has put in more than all of them. 249 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:49,240 Hey Jesus, the mocking scheme of heaven is different from what we 250 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,840 use on earth. Let us begin to look at how how 251 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,520 Jesus heaven assesses our offering. 252 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:02,320 So we have looked at thanks giving us a sacrifice that truly 253 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,440 honors God, and now we are looking at physical things as 254 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,280 when you're using the woman as example, the poor we do. 255 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,640 So why would Jesus now turn the whole thing upside down? 256 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:19,920 Then he says for they all contributed out of their 257 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:29,400 abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything 258 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:37,600 she had all she had to live on. Wow. 259 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,480 So God, when you are giving, he looks inside pound. 260 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:48,800 God cares so much about what we give and he's interested because 261 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:55,960 look at it, the poor widow, you see that the rich people, the 262 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,440 surplus at home is bigger than what they give. 263 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:06,480 So we have given the about and to the urban mind because this 264 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:11,760 woman has given all. So where do you give from? 265 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,080 Is it from your abundance or from your scarcity? 266 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:22,360 I come in my last affordable humble be that you will not 267 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:25,720 understand. I can't be lost. 268 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,600 What are you going there already? 269 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:37,480 I can't be lost if I drop it now, no hope my God is saying 270 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,200 yes, drop it. Have faith in me. 271 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:45,440 Drop it and the heavens are waiting for you to drop and 272 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,800 you're like hey, ready when I go go back. 273 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,720 I mean Ave. so the distance from your seat to the bow is like 274 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:58,640 from you to come and say because so long that you are battling 275 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,120 within you that is giving that honest God. 276 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,200 There should be a battle. You should feel uncomfortable. 277 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,520 It should do you. David says that I will not give 278 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:16,440 to God what will not cost me. That is it when you're going to 279 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:21,440 give to pay you some of us you give and the moment you sit 280 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:35,000 down, you're like but the moment he leaves your 281 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,800 hand, heaven acknowledge that your hand is empty. 282 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:43,560 So he would dispatch, hey, go and give it to him times 10, 283 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,320 give it back to him. Hallelujah. 284 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:52,160 So until something leaves your hands, nothing moves from heaven 285 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:58,560 in your account on your account. So the let's go share. 286 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:07,480 I had a mechanized Eva as a Dicken in Kumasi. 287 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,400 We had gone for inter officers retreat at Asafa. 288 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:19,960 If you know the in and out of Kumasi and yes Yeti book home 289 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:29,160 estates of that day. The word enter me and I decided 290 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:38,000 to give one of my Laura first out because I had to pick two 291 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:43,360 cars before I get home from Asafo to book home estate. 292 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:48,880 It's far and Sophia crackling. It's like from here to there 293 00:30:48,880 --> 00:31:01,640 were then I gave it that day when we closed no lifts, so I 294 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,200 had to track and walk and I'm saying ask for this one. 295 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,440 I'll walk because I've given it that time. 296 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:14,480 I work from Asafo. I am checking some things at 297 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,480 town. Meanwhile was nights we close so 298 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:29,160 I linked up from Asafo, I went up to Liba, I climbed up to 299 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:35,000 Rumor Hill. I descended through Alaba, got 300 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,840 down to the doctor Mensa to try and see if I can get another car 301 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:45,120 to airport and link up home. It was lit. 302 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,240 He made in your car. But one last car came. 303 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,160 It came. That's one idiot. 304 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:59,600 And I gave God one. I said I got this one here. 305 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,440 I put it in my pocket. Maybe if I had had faith to give 306 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,480 all God would have taken me home directly. 307 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:13,800 I gave God 1 and I walked one time to we're doing farming, 308 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:19,680 raising, then we give an amount to say about you. 309 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:27,920 I don't say that day when you are going home, nobody there 310 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,560 brings you a question that will make you angry. 311 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:36,840 Especially there's small voice, see that you are very quiet and 312 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:41,640 thinking about yourself. But through them I've seen how 313 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:46,120 God has moved mightily. So don't be afraid to give to 314 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,560 God. Don't be afraid, don't be 315 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,800 afraid. I remember that my first year 316 00:32:53,160 --> 00:33:01,720 snit loon at Tech Zealous. Hey, I'll give it out. 317 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:11,440 I give first you snit loon, I give thanks me to God. 318 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:18,480 When I finished university, 2 of them paid me guarantees, 2 they 319 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:25,040 paid it off Okra yechiacho. So the three of them two paid 320 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,560 and it was Levy. Another one, he had moved out of 321 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,800 Ghana then I think he was in Spain. 322 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:44,600 So they started deducting me. As soon as take your money, I 323 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,400 don't want it. And another thing that God did 324 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:55,640 by then on campus it was in out, out, out, out. 325 00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:01,560 So it's only the first day you get home room to stay in. 326 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:06,880 So the first year I was assigned, I remember, I remember 327 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:12,320 all my room, room 17, Zuzongo Lane in this hall. 328 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:17,560 That was my first room. After that I never went out. 329 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,159 I I told God I want to sleep on campus. 330 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:24,719 I don't want off campus. I stayed in Unity Hall three 331 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:32,520 whole years. Not as someone petrol full bed. 332 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,040 I was even staying at a point in some of the flats. 333 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,080 Some of the flats flats has a bigger room. 334 00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:42,480 That was where I was still enjoying. 335 00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:48,400 Look at what God can do. I need a laptop at the 336 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,239 university. I got it free. 337 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,800 I didn't buy it. So when you give to God, it is 338 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,800 never in vain. You can tell the countless 339 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,560 number of examples and on and on and on and on. 340 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:06,160 So give to God. I know that you, you have them, 341 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:12,400 you have lots of examples. If I remember them, I'll try and 342 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,080 then be sharing them with you. So these are some of them. 343 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:23,840 So the woman gave out of her poverty and Jesus acknowledged 344 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,840 that she has given more than all. 345 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:32,720 May we give and may our given bring glory to heaven. 346 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:38,440 God rich to bless you as we appreciate God for the six years 347 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,160 is a very good state to thank God Six years in the life of a 348 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,080 looker. It's not a joke. 349 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:50,120 Look at the things we have here. Look at our home. 350 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,920 Some lookers have been in existence for 50 years. 351 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:02,040 They don't even have a space as nice as ours. 352 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,400 When you look here, you may think that you don't have 353 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:10,240 anything to thank God. Some lookers they don't have 354 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:16,600 microphones and even speakers, but some a general to me. 355 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:27,920 Did you know that one the club I don't know to me. 356 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:33,440 So if God has blessed us with all these things and look at the 357 00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:38,560 the entire congregation the way God has blessed us with 358 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,880 beautiful ladies and handsome young people, we need to thank 359 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,840 God for the leadership. You need to thank God for 360 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,160 presiding order. You thank for God for elders, 361 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:56,920 the kings sicknesses. Brandon, look at your chair. 362 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:07,400 Look at it, look at it, escape it neatly woven there. 363 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:14,800 If you have been to the villages before bench, no crown, they 364 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:21,720 have a sugar. Before you sit down, we use You 365 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:24,080 need to be experiencing it, otherwise you fall down. 366 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,400 But they are thanking God when you go there and you see the 367 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:32,080 joy. So as far as we need to let 368 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,000 Thanksgiving overflow. So thank God. 369 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:42,320 Yeah, you have this nice face now, Gordo, let's thank God that 370 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:49,400 for God even to take care of us for six years. 371 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:55,320 Let us be thankful unto God shall be on our feet today. 372 00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:03,600 One, thank God we don't ask anything, just thanking God when 373 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:09,000 God says that, yes, I came to thank you for all that you have 374 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:14,760 done. So begin to gather some reasons 375 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,520 in your mind where you need to be thankful to God. 376 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,640 I've just given you some few points as a local, but as an 377 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:27,680 individual you can recount the number of times sometimes we 378 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:32,880 were just one inch away from death, been told that we need to 379 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,080 a weapon. Yummy. 380 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:44,040 And you see that your heart, your soul left your body and 381 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,640 came back. You're like wow, this is God. 382 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:50,840 We have gone through all of them. 383 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,880 Sometimes we haven't sick and he thought that he would die, but 384 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,200 God brought you back. All these things. 385 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,880 Have we thank God enough? Do we even thank God for our 386 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:07,200 spouses? Don't thank God for your spouse. 387 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,680 You don't thank God for the children that God has given to 388 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,240 you. You don't thank God for the job. 389 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,720 For the job. You need to thank God some. 390 00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:19,600 We need to even thank God that we can walk. 391 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,760 We need to thank God that we can even eat and have tastes. 392 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:32,520 I remember Once Upon a time I got sick and when I put food in 393 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:38,880 my mouth it was like gravels. Test vanished, no smell. 394 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,440 I couldn't smell food. Test graduate was far away. 395 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:51,000 It's like I'm more but I'm chewing, struggling to chew. 396 00:39:54,120 --> 00:40:00,440 So tasting social cry, we need to thank God for this smell 397 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:07,160 everything church, count your blessings and name them one by 398 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:13,640 one and it will surprise you what the Lord has done this 399 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,480 evening. Quits by looking at what God is 400 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,880 here to do for you. Quit by saying the Lord. 401 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,200 We are fond of looking at what we are expecting God to do. 402 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,280 And we don't look at what God has done for you tonight. 403 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,000 Just be intentional and talk to God. 404 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,920 God, you have done so much for me. 405 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,160 I thank you. I thank you. 406 00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:41,840 Mention them to God, talk to God, Thank God for everything. 407 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:48,480 Thank God, even if you are not employed, thank God because God 408 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,240 is up to something good. Let U.S. 409 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:55,320 Open our mouth and you know, thank God, Thank you, Lord, 410 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:58,360 thank the Lord. Today we are offering 411 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:02,360 Thanksgiving as a sacrifice that honors the Lord. 412 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:06,280 Thank you, Lord, thank the Lord. Oh Lord. 413 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,960 Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you. 414 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,000 We thank you for escaping the English assembly. 415 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,080 We thank you, O Lord, for the presiding order. 416 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:24,080 We thank you, O Lord, for his life and his family, Lord, We 417 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:28,080 thank you, O Lord, for the elders of escaping English. 418 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,360 Thank you for the Dickens and dicknesses. 419 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:36,000 Thank you for this solid team you have blessed your chat with. 420 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:40,720 Lord, thank you. Thank you so much. 421 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,520 Thank you for the members of this church. 422 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,080 Thank you for the young and the old. 423 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:48,960 Thank you for the children of this church. 424 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,360 Thank you for the old people. Thank you for the infrastructure 425 00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:56,920 it is. You have blessed us with them. 426 00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:00,840 Lord, thank you. Lord, we thank you for our 427 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:04,480 spouses, for the children you have given unto us. 428 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,040 Even if you have not given yet our children, we thank you. 429 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,800 We thank you for the children and our influence. 430 00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,640 We thank you for the job that we do. 431 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,840 We thank you, O Lord, for the families we have. 432 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:26,680 Thank you, O Lord, for the gifts of life, to breathe and to walk 433 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,440 and to even eat. Lord, we thank you. 434 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,120 Lord, we thank you. Thank you. 435 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:47,920 Lord, Lord, we thank you. Lord, Lord, we thank you. 436 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:53,560 Oh Lord, we thank you. Thank you. 437 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,560 Thank you, Lord. Lord, thank you. 438 00:43:47,600 --> 00:44:23,240 The. Oh. 439 00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,240 I don't know what you are grateful to God for, but today 440 00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:57,120 we want to just thank the Lord. We have come to thank him, not 441 00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:02,440 to ask him of anything, but to thank him, to thank him. 442 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,200 Count your blessings and name them one by one. 443 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:08,960 Talk to the Lord, talk to thank him. 444 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,760 Lord, I thank you. Lord, we thank you. 445 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:48,200 We thank you. Father, we are great, what shall 446 00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:50,680 we wait unto thee, Lord, that to say? 447 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,840 Thank you Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, thank. 448 00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,920 You. Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. 449 00:45:56,720 --> 00:45:58,440 Thank. You, Jesus, thank you. 450 00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:00,760 Jesus. From the death of our hearts. 451 00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,280 Lord, that's unto you. Lord, Father, we say thank you, 452 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,800 glory be unto your. Holy grace be unto. 453 00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:12,160 Your holy day, or shall we be? Unto you, Lord, to. 454 00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:14,840 Give our hearts of grace that we give our hearts of. 455 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:36,160 Thank you Jesus. Jesus, thank you, thank you, 456 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,040 thank you, thank you. Jesus, thank you. 457 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,640 Jesus, thank. You thank. 458 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,800 You thank you for thank you for your. 459 00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:51,000 Thank you for your thank you for your thank you Lord for your 460 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:57,120 love. Thank you Lord, for your 461 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:01,280 sacrifice. Glory be unto your holy name. 462 00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:19,400 Lord, we thank you. Jesus to say. 463 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,640 What shall I say? What shall we say? 464 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:55,280 All we have to say. Is thank you. 465 00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,560 Sing that song with meaning. What shall? 466 00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:10,640 We say, oh, sing that song. With understanding. 467 00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:14,520 Left the house and sing Thank you, thank. 468 00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,160 You. Lord and the Lord. 469 00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:30,280 Thank you, Lord. All we have to say, oh, is thank 470 00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:33,040 you. Thank you Jesus. 471 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,320 Thank. You thank you, Jesus. 472 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:44,400 Thank you all. We have to say please. 473 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,880 Thank you. Thank you, Lord Jesus. 474 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:50,160 Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. 475 00:48:51,560 --> 00:49:04,840 Thank you Lord. All we have to say thank. 476 00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:09,840 You thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. 477 00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:30,040 Thank you. Thank you. 478 00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:35,080 Lord, thank you, Lord. Thank you. 479 00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:57,240 Lord, thank you, Lord. In the atmosphere of praise and 480 00:49:57,240 --> 00:50:06,080 Thanksgiving, it opens door for possibilities and miracles. 481 00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,960 So as you have thanked the Lord, we are thanking God. 482 00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:15,520 May doors begin to open. May the Lord perform the 483 00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:21,200 impossible in your life. Every prophetic word concerning 484 00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:26,680 your life, as we thank God and we praise him, may it be 485 00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:32,040 fulfilled, may be fulfilled in the name of Jesus. 486 00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,360 In the name of. Jesus, Name of Jesus. 487 00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:39,240 Name of. Jesus, name of Jesus as we 488 00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,280 celebrate God. Goodness, Jesus name. 489 00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:55,080 Thank you, Jesus, Thank you. Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. 490 00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:59,560 Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. 491 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,560 Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. 492 00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:11,760 All we have to say this even is thank you, Lord, thank you for 493 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,960 your compassion, Thank you for your love. 494 00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:16,360 Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. 495 00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:19,680 Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. 496 00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:28,960 Thank you, Lord. Thank you. 497 00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:48,400 Lord. Please let us sit down. 498 00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:51,400 Let us visit us. Thank you, Lord. 499 00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:59,680 Thank you, Lord. Thank you Lord all. 500 00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:03,840 We have to say. Is. 501 00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:11,240 Thank you, Lord. Lord, from a grateful heart we 502 00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:16,000 pour our hearts of Thanksgiving unto you, our sacrifice of 503 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,920 Thanksgiving. Lord, thank you. 504 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,240 Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you. 505 00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:27,040 We thank you for your Son. Jesus, we thank you for the 506 00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,640 salvation that you have. Pictures you have given to us 507 00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:34,760 free by grace. Thank you for your mighty hand 508 00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:38,560 that has kept us. Lord, we will not forget what 509 00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:40,440 you have done for us. We thank you. 510 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:45,400 Lord, we thank you for all that you have done and all that you 511 00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:48,160 are doing and all they are going to do. 512 00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:51,120 We say, Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you. 513 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:56,600 Lord Jesus, thank you for for your love, for your mess and 514 00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:01,880 your grace, the Holy Spirit thank you for the fellowship and 515 00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:05,200 your abiding presence. Jesus, thank you for your 516 00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:08,360 intercession, interceding on our behalf. 517 00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:13,920 Thank you, our advocates. King Jesus, we love you, Lord, 518 00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:18,680 and we bless your name. We praise your name for all that 519 00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:23,280 you have done for us. Not unto us, O Lord, but unto 520 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:29,040 your name be all the honor, Thanksgiving, adoration, wisdom, 521 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:33,040 forever and ever. Amen.