Luke 17: 11-19
Wanna talk about an attitude to master life
An attitude is how you see and how you think
Desperate men who approach Jesus for healing
LEPROSY:
Fatigue, inflammations, spots on skin turn into sores
To the point they’re unrecognizable- disfigured
Drain, leaving a foul stench
Lose their eyebrows, vocal chords ulcerate
Worst thing of all,----Loss of sensations
Couldn’t feel anything---NO sense of touch
Fell asleep on streets---rats come chew toes and fingers off, and never know it
End in a coma, then DEATH
So LEPROSY WAS A DEATH SENTENCE---
Couldn’t go to town—be stoned,
went in a house—tear it down
So you could never be touched again,--wife, friends, hug, kids
Also a moral stigma---you weren’t healed-----YOU WERE CLEANSED
Which disease, Highly contagious, great fear, fatal, moral stigma---AIDS
IMAGINE YOU:RE one of these 10 men---
NO hope, pain, left to die
Then one day – go to the doctor: xray, cat, mri, blood test---Cant find it
That’s where these guys are---proclaims healing
They head to the priest---
priest had to proclaim you’re clean
Walking—begin to be healed
You can hug, love, kiss, jump
1 guy goes back---
1st person he’s touched in years IS JESUS
We can want things so bad---When we get it, we take it for granted
He praised God with a loud voice, and keeps praising---over and over
He’s a leper and A Samaritan---
The ones who know it’s a gift are grateful
The Jews I guess assumed they deserved it---It’s about time----That’s what we think
Parents have a question they ask they’re kids---gift, something nice
WHAT DO YOU SAY?—THANK YOU
they don’t always mean it—
But we want to teach the ability to express GRATITUDE
So the attitude of Gratitude is lost in the CHURCH---
Another day with legs, arms, hands, health, eyes, ---another day being alive----Let me wake up tomorrow and do it again---SOME WON”T GET TO
5 keys to finding a grateful heart—Attitude of Gratitude
1. Be grateful for imperfect gifts----
Ever receive and imperfect gift
Every Christmas---
Every Spouse in here is an imperfect gift
Wife may not be a cook, may be an arsonist---
But she’s a great mom, takes care of you----
Get up from table say THANK YOU—get some maloxx and SHUT UP
Husband may not be Brad Pitt,
Pot belly W/ thinning hair—But he loves you,
works hard, loves kids, not spending his check at the bar, not sleeping around—
Love Him and sayThank you
"If I just had their job, wife, house, friends, money, car…"
If you wait for perfect gifts you’ll always be ungrateful
Kids bring a drawing home from school
It’s not Picasso, but they gave their all
2.Learn to be thankful in times of anxiety and frustration
Drying off—lump in breast….It’s OK---Totally relieved and grateful
Anxiety teaches that what you used to take for granted---Is a GIFT
Hug your wife, kiss dog, love kids, praise the weeds in your lawn
Anxiety and Frustration will GIVE YOU THE PROPER PERSPECTIVE
Letter from Girl in College:
Perspective—Don’t appreciate life, people, job, career---till you almost lose it
Too many Christians are trying to escape anxiety---That when we know ---what we have
We’ll take a drink, pop a pill---to keep from being anxious and frustrated
God this is not fun---but you will get me through it!! It’s there to make You better
WHAT DO YOU SAY? Thank You for making me better
3.Say thank you often and open. “THANK YOU”
Colosions 2:6-8
Just saying that to someone---Spouse, kid, coach, teacher
What do you say?
4.When you devote yourself to worhsipping God ---Psalm 100
When we gather—
We need to devote ourselves to saying thank you
It’s what worship is all about----Jimmy, Gimme
Worship is a time to say THANK YOU----
I can’t believe you did this for me
Churches split right and left---
Cuz the focus is on us…happy, babied
If we’ll get our mind off of us and on him we can say
Thank you, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You
Gave his son, gave me life, curse of law,
SING: THANK YOU
It aint about you---
It’s about an almighty Savior and Lord
WHAT DO YOU SAY?
5.Learn how to notice---
Being unthankful means your missing what’s being done for you
God has set the whole world to revolve around you
Bad times will come, frustration, trouble, difficulty, struggles
“ I feed sparrows, feed you, clothe lilies, clothe you, give you a new life, new creation, new hope, freedom and I am with you till the ends of the world, I will never leave you or forsake. He gives you gift after gift after gift
FOR GOD SAKES ______ WHAT DO YOU SAY?
