Thank You! (Minute Message)

Sherwood Oaks Christian Church Podcast

I love our Sunday morning worship gatherings, but I’ll tell you what I enjoy even more. It’s those spontaneous times of praise that break out over a meal,, or in a meeting when people start recounting what the Lord has done in their life and gratitude just flows out of them. Those are some powerful moments of worship!

In Matthew 15, Jesus is on a mountainside, overlooking the Sea of Galilee, and people from all over start bringing him their friends and family who were sick or had a disability, and Jesus heals them. Then Matthew sums up this incredible event by saying the people were amazed and they praised the God of Israel.

Right there on the side of this mountain, a worship gathering formed! And Matthew doesn’t give us any details about what their worship looked like, but I’m pretty sure I know what it DIDN’T look like.

It wasn’t on a Sunday morning at 8, 9:30, or 11 o’clock. It wasn’t organized or run by a praise team. The leader probably wasn’t wearing skinny jeans…sorry Quentin. I doubt very much that people argued over traditional or contemporary Psalms. They just worshipped.

And, if I had to guess, I imagine their worship sounded a lot like this…”Thank you.”

Max Lucado says that “Worship is an act of gratitude offered by the saved to the Savior. The healed to the Healer. The delivered to the Deliverer.”

So, what are you thankful for today? Have your own little worship gathering right here, right now, maybe just you and the Lord and say, “Thank you.” It might be the best worship you experience this week.