GENEROUS WITH GRATITUDE (3 OF 4)
by Steve Jones
Scripture: Luke 17:1-37
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Title: Generous with Gratitude (3 of 4)
Series: Happily Generous
Author: Steve Jones
Text: Luke 17
Central Idea: We can be happily generous with gratitude
1) Gratitude is the blessing precursor.
2) Gratitude is the blessing optimizer.
3) Gratitude is the blessing multiplier.
INTRODUCTION: During her courtship with Robert Browning in 1846, Elizabeth Barrett penned Sonnet 43. Elizabeth's iconic poem begins with a line I'll bet many of you can complete. "How do I love thee? Let me what?" Let me count the ways. That line opens a thousand doors.
Likewise with generosity. There must be a thousand ways to be generous. We can be generous with our money. We can be generous with our time, our talents, abilities, gifts and possessions. But today, let's think about one of the ways we can be generous that maybe we don't often think about. It's one of the simplest ways to be happily generous, and yet, one of the most impactful. We can be happily generous WITH our gratitude. Today, we'll let ten men with leprosy teach us the secrets of being generous with our gratitude.
As he entered a village there, ten men with leprosy stood at a distance, crying out, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" He looked at them and said, "Go show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy. One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, "Praise God!" He fell to the ground at Jesus' feet, thanking him for what he had done. This man was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, "Didn't I heal ten men? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?" And Jesus said to the man, "Stand up and go. Your faith has healed you"
(Luke 17:11-17).
I. GRATITUDE IS THE BLESSING PRECURSOR
The lepers in this account illustrate how an attitude of gratitude is the blessing before the blessing. Gratitude is its own blessing. The attitude of gratitude is not merely the afterglow of th ...
Series: Happily Generous
Author: Steve Jones
Text: Luke 17
Central Idea: We can be happily generous with gratitude
1) Gratitude is the blessing precursor.
2) Gratitude is the blessing optimizer.
3) Gratitude is the blessing multiplier.
INTRODUCTION: During her courtship with Robert Browning in 1846, Elizabeth Barrett penned Sonnet 43. Elizabeth's iconic poem begins with a line I'll bet many of you can complete. "How do I love thee? Let me what?" Let me count the ways. That line opens a thousand doors.
Likewise with generosity. There must be a thousand ways to be generous. We can be generous with our money. We can be generous with our time, our talents, abilities, gifts and possessions. But today, let's think about one of the ways we can be generous that maybe we don't often think about. It's one of the simplest ways to be happily generous, and yet, one of the most impactful. We can be happily generous WITH our gratitude. Today, we'll let ten men with leprosy teach us the secrets of being generous with our gratitude.
As he entered a village there, ten men with leprosy stood at a distance, crying out, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" He looked at them and said, "Go show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy. One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, "Praise God!" He fell to the ground at Jesus' feet, thanking him for what he had done. This man was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, "Didn't I heal ten men? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?" And Jesus said to the man, "Stand up and go. Your faith has healed you"
(Luke 17:11-17).
I. GRATITUDE IS THE BLESSING PRECURSOR
The lepers in this account illustrate how an attitude of gratitude is the blessing before the blessing. Gratitude is its own blessing. The attitude of gratitude is not merely the afterglow of th ...
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