Grateful for the Beautiful Mess | The Beautiful Mess | Week 2 | Week of Sunday, November 20th

Grateful for the Beautiful Mess | The Beautiful Mess | Week 2
Pastor Dave Pretlove, Lead Pastor
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1. Embracing gratitude in the beautiful mess will change your life.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:18 

2. The gratitude risk with the beautiful is that we fail to see and savor it.

• Romans 1:20-21
• 2 Timothy 3:1-2

3. The gratitude risk in the mess is we see no possible use for it.  

• 2 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭7‬-‭12‬, ‭16‬-‭18‬ 

4. In the beauty and the mess we can always be grateful for the goodness and love of God.

• Psalm 136:1
• Hebrews 12:28

"Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus."
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NLT)

"Give thanks to the Lord , for he is good! His faithful love endures forever."
Psalms 136:1 (NLT)

A Prayer of General Thanksgiving
From The Book of Common Prayer (1979 ed.)

Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we your unworthy servants give you humble thanks for all your goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all whom you have made. We bless you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for your immeasurable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we pray, give us such an awareness of your mercies, that with truly thankful hearts we may show forth your praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up ourselves to your service, and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory throughout all ages. Amen.