Message Notes
The Power of Appreciation
4 Aspects of Appreciation
Keep a Reverence in Your Requests
Luke 17:12-13 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”
Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility Consider others above yourselves.
Salutation
Identification
John 3:2 He (Nicodemus) came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
Luke 18:18 A certain ruler asked him (Jesus), “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Question
Clarification
Mark 10:46-51
James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous availeth much.
Open to Suggestion
Luke 17:14 When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.
2 Kings 5:9-14
Power Lines
Chris Ducker
Willingness to do the Work
Luke 17:14 When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.
John 14:15 “If you love me, keep my commands.”
Luke 5:4-7
Expressing Authentic Gratitude
Luke 17:15-16 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 "Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."
Celebrate: Be Extravagant in your Appreciation
What Get’s Rewarded Get’s Repeated
What this story reveals about God
God Loves the Foreigner
Luke 17:18 Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?” 19 Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”
Luke 4:25-26 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.
Luke 19:10 (Jesus said speaking of Himself) “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
God Expects and Desires Appreciation
Luke 17:18 Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?”
2 Corinthians 5:15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
God answers when we call to Him
Luke 17:12-13 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”
Romans 10:13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
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