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Celebrate, Give, Rejoice, Remember: Finding Blessings in Life's Burdens

This reflection encourages us to celebrate God's blessings and the importance of gratitude. Through a humorous story of a hunter, we learn the significance of prayer and celebration in our lives. The passage emphasizes God's faithfulness and the blessings of abundant living while reminding us of the need to give cheerfully. It also recounts Sadhu Sundar Singh's harrowing experience of carrying a burden, illustrating that life’s challenges can transform into blessings. Remember to celebrate, give generously, rejoice, and cherish the grace of God in our lives.

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Celebrate, Give, Rejoice, Remember: Finding Blessings in Life's Burdens

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  1. Deut. 16:9-17

  2. Story • A man went hunting. • Heard a noise behind him. • Turned around – a ferocious mountain bear. • Tried to shoot but gun jammed.

  3. Started to run. • Bear started to chase. • Came to the edge of a cliff. • Hunter knelt down and prayed. • “Lord, I pray this bear is a Christian.”

  4. Opened his eyes. • Saw the bear praying too. • “Lord, bless this food I am about to partake.”

  5. There is a mention of 3 feasts in Scripture. • The feast of the Passover, the feast of Weeks and the feast of Tabernacle. (Exo.23:14-16) • Deut.16:16 – “They must appear.”

  6. Today’s passage talks about celebrating the Festival of harvest. • God had fulfilled His promises and gave them land – Deut.1:8 • No longer were they living in tents but in homes.

  7. God has kept His word, has moved powerfully and wonderfully – Deut. 7:7-9 • We are going to look at four words that will help us in giving thanks.

  8. Why should we remember to give thanks? • Because God loves a celebration • The Psalms are full of celebration. • Psalm 100; 136

  9. The kingdom of God celebrates. • Jesus loves a real good praise and worship time – Luke 17:11-19

  10. We need to recognize that God has blessed us. • How? • By giving a freewill offering. • God by His loving and merciful hand has given us so much.

  11. We live in a country of abundance. • We need to look at our own heart and count the blessings. • Are you withholding or complaining to give?

  12. 2 Cor.9:7 – Give cheerfully. • Acts 2:45 – Give sacrificially. • From day One – Gen. 1:27 -28 we were created in God’s image and blessed by Him. • Remember, our God is a God blessing. • Gen.12:1-3- Bless the whole world.

  13. Are you asking –”What is there to rejoice about”? • If you read the newspaper or hear the news, you experience stress.

  14. Story. • Sadhu Sundar Singh –explains how God uses our burdens and heavy pressures. • Traveling by foot through the Himalayas with a Buddhist monk. • Very cold. Night was approaching.

  15. Needed to reach the monastery before dark. • Heard a cry for help. • Saw a man – fallen and badly hurt. • Monk told Sadhu – “Do not stop.” • Goes down to help.

  16. Man’s leg was broken. • Makes a sling with his blanket. • Ties the man to his back. • Began a body torturing climb to the monastery.

  17. Sees the light of the monastery. • But stumbles and nearly falls. • There was an object in the snow. • It was the body of the monk – frozen to death.

  18. Years later, a disciple asked Sadhu, “What is life’s most difficult task?” • Sadhu replied, “To have no burden to carry.” • Rejoice that there is a burden to carry.

  19. You will never know why He has given you burdens. • They may turn out to be a “blessing in disguise.”

  20. Today’s passage was a reminder that God had rescued the Israelites. • He had brought them out of slavery into freedom. (Deut.2:7) • God had brought them out with a mighty hand and He can do it again.

  21. Remember the words of Jesus: • “Do this in remembrance of me.” • See how God has been with you. • Re-experience God’s salvation today.

  22. As you hear these four words: • “Celebrate, Give, Rejoice, Remember.” > Remember the grace, the love and the joy.

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