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Anatomy of Gratitude | Lisa Harper [Luke 11:5]

Opening Prayer: Would you pray for each other right now? Pray that any distractions they came in here with—even exhaustion that GOD would dissipate that & then in the next few minutes we have together in this family meeting, that we'd actually have the grace to lean more fully into the embrace of JESUS. [1:43]

That HE would actually give us a clear picture of WHO HE is—so pray for Saints on either side.

Gentlemen I know it's really awkward to touch another man, & so you can go ahead and cough while you do that—or spit if you need to.

I know that's rough, but just real quickly pray for those Saints around you. I don't think anything is by chance. We have a providential GOD, pray for those Saints on either side.

JESUS JESUS JESUS, KING JESUS LORD JESUS the CHRIST, the Anointed ONE, the Alpha & Omega, the Rose of Sharon, the lily of the valley—the ONE WHO sticks closer than a brother. The LAMB of GOD.

The second Adam, the SON of GOD.

Our Living Hope, our righteousness. Prince of Peace, Emmanuel, GOD With us

JESUS we confess as YOUR [beloved friend] sons & daughters that we can't understand this love letter, called the Bible apart from the HOLY SPIRIT—so we pray YOU would HOLY SPIRIT just be palpable in this place.

We pray by the power & authority of JESUS Name, that YOU would dissipate distraction that have kind of captured our attention.

That YOU would help us focus our attention & our affection on YOU, WHO YOU are, WHO YOU've called us to be. Thank YOU that we can still gather freely, that we don't have to worry about being cruelly taxed or arrested.

We don't take that for granted anymore.

JESUS, thank YOU we can come together to this sanctuary & lean into YOU safely, freely, so JESUS have YOUR way. Re-Gospel us, & restore unto us the joy of our Salvation.

I pray that gratitude would be the result of this gathering, we ask these things by the power & authority of YOUR Name, JESUS, Amen

1.] Single Senior Citizen

Speaking of not fitting I am almost 60.

I'll be 60 this summer, so I keep saying it to remind myself it's a good thing because I'm real fired up about the discounts at McDonald's.

But I am a 60 year old, Bible teacher, & I'm Southern, & so that usually sets a paradigm in most people's minds.

But then it's all downhill from there.

And part of it is, when I turned 40, 20 years ago —I decided if I didn't have a husband I was going to get a Harley.

And so I bought my first street bike at 40 because nobody I liked asked me to marry him & so I love to ride.

1.1] Family Background

And I love to wear leather pants because my mother is is Baptist to the Bone, my dad he's with JESUS now—but he was Pentecostal.

He actually started out Nazarene, but he had a problem with monogamy, so he just kind of kept moving from Church to Church—until a Church like this

an arkish type Church & Central Florida enveloped him. So I'm kind of baptized hostile, and so the babita part of me just loves having an excuse to wear leather..

And so I do that. One time I was near where I live called the Natchez Trace Parkway, it's not quite as pretty as the road y'all have going up to Blaine —but it's close to it.

1.2] Enjoying Beauty of Sunset

We've got no ocean, but it's still really really pretty & I was on the Natchez Trace, the sun was setting, I'm on my bike by myself—& I'm just writing I had no destination in mind.

I just wanted to relax & be out in nature & so as I'm riding on my bike I look up & the Sun is sitting behind the hills.

We do not have Rainier or Baker up North, but we have really pretty Hills in Tennessee —sometimes we call them mountains when we're being hyperbolic.

But mostly they're just Hills.

But the Sun was setting behind one of these hills —& y'all have the water, & y'all got some amazing stuff. But we beat you at fall.

Fall in Nashville is spectacular!

It's orange, & yellow, and red—it's just the Sun setting through these fall leaves, and it's casting this peachy hue on everything and then there's this huge herd of deer on the hill & I thought this is just amazing!

I decided to pull my bike over the side of the road and I'm just going to sit in this & soak in what GOD does for us & the portraits HE paints..

How anybody can assume that our CREATOR Redeemer brought forth that kind of stuff from an amoeba—I'm like y'all are stupid,

1.3] Concerned Neighbour

I thought I'm just gonna sit in that glorious picture with all those deer, I am just sitting there just soaking in the Majesty of GOD..

I was I was just completely in a place of odd worship for about 45 seconds, then I heard this unmistakable roar from behind me and I could tell it was another Harley.

I thought oh it's another Harley.

I didn't pay too much attention until the roar got louder & then I realized the roar is coming right at me; so I tried to glance just casually over my shoulder & there is a stereotypical biker dude.

He is just head to toe black leather, where there wasn't leather there were tats; he looks mad, he has got a Duck Dynasty beard & he has his bike aimed toward me.

And I just had this little sense of: "Oh I'm I'm going to be on Unsolved Mysteries"

1.4] GOD Restores Love For One Another

And he zooms his bike right up next to mine, we are on this rural highway—I hadn't seen anybody in 15 minutes, it's just he & I...

And I thought, I could be in trouble here & when I get nervous: I'm like a Junior High on Mountain Dew. I just can't think clearly—and he puts both boots on either side of his bike. Then he peels off his helmet & I thought here we go..

He's pulling out a knife next

And he said, "Are you okay?" I said, "Yes sir, I'm fine." He said, "Is your bike okay?" I said, "Yes sir, my bike is fine I just turned it off, so it wouldn't scare the deer.." And he said, "All right now, I can give you my number if you're having engine trouble.. I just wanted to make sure you were okay." I said, "No sir, I'm okay, all right."

Pulled his visor down, and Shazam took off. It wasn't really Shazam, it was louder.

2.] Surprised By GOD

And I thought that was so not how I thought that was going to go down. I love surprises! Especially when they relate to our creative Redeemer.

And I think we've gotten way too wrought when it comes to WHO our GOD is. I'm so grateful that you've been in this series on GOD; that you have been talking about the Majesty:

• the omnipotence the efficacy • the power of our GOD;

• HE is perfectly transcendent • HE is bigger than we can possibly understand

I love being surprised by GOD

Craig S. Keener is a North American academic, Charismatic Baptist pastor, theologian, Biblical scholar and professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary.

One of my favorite living Scholars, I love all the dead guys—but this guy's still alive, his name is Dr. Craig Keener.

He wrote a great book called: SPIRIT Hermeneutics [2016]

And in that book he said:

if you get out of the Bible what you expect to get out of the Bible, you need to change your expectations; our GOD is always bigger.

There's always redemptive surprises for us!

GOD can, HE's a powerful GOD. HE's an effective GOD, perfectly Holy, transcendent & yet HE chooses to be an imminent GOD, HE chooses to be close to us.

If you brought your Bibles turn to Luke CH 11, we usually turn to Luke CH 11 for the LORD's Prayer.

But we're going to talk about the P.S after the prayer; now JESUS surprised them with the LORD's Prayer when HE said pray like this:

FATHER, do you know prior to JESUS rabbinical tradition had all kinds of titles for YHWH but they never called The CREATOR of the Universe "dad."

So JESUS is already shocked the Disciples by saying you don't have to approach GOD with formality you actually approach HIM as family!

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