b'Give Thanks to the LordOctober 2, 2011Please turn in your Bibles to Luke 17:11-19Vs 11-12: Sin, like leprosy, isolates people (ref. 1John 1:7-10, James 5:16a)App: Vulnerability is the doorway to deeper fellowship\\u2026confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. James 5:16aVs 12-14: God and healing (ref. Luke 5:12-14)App 1: God isn\\u2019t into formulas. Trust Him, not some program or methodApp 2: God has given a story only you can tell App 3: Obedience often precedes healing! (ref. 2Kings 5:10-15)Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. James 5:15-15App 4: Receive prayers for healingVs 15-16: When fellowship transcends differencesApp: Learn to fellowship in our brokennessVs 17-18: Praise and thanksApp 1: Do we really want God, or just His stuff? App 2: Thanksgiving is a natural response to God being at work in one\\u2019slife1Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;His love endures forever\\u20268Let them give thanks to the LORD for His unfailing loveand His wonderful deeds for men,9for He satisfies the thirstyand fills the hungry with good things. Psalm 107:1, 8-9 4Delight yourself in the LORDand He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4App 3: Pause together at meals and give thanksFor although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Romans 1:21App 4: Have you glorified Him as God, or given Him thanks? What is His Spirit saying to you this morning?'