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I don't know about you, but I can't thank Him enough for all that He's done for me.

Because when I think of the goodness of Jesus in all that He's done for me, well, I can't thank Him enough. I can't thank Him enough! Thank you! Thank you! For your mercy, for your grace, for your loving kindness, for being my provider, for being my healer, for being my deliverer, for being my way.

I can't thank you enough. I can't thank you enough for all you've done for little old me.

It should have been me outdoors, no food, no clothes, but you didn't see fit to let any of those things be. But every day, by your power, you can't thank me nearly enough. You just keep on blessing me. I can't thank you enough that I'm still clothed in my right mind, reasonable portion of my life, my health, and my strength. I can't thank you.

Now come, Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. For all you did for me. Thank you, Lord. For all you're doing for me. Thank you, Lord. For all you're going to do for me. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. For all.

I just can't thank you enough. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Lord.

2 Corinthians, chapter 4, I want to share with you this morning in the English Standard Version.

Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, "I believed and so I spoke." We also believe and so we also speak, knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into His presence.

For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people, it may increase thanksgiving to give glory. Glory to God.

So we don't lose heart, though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

As we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen, for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Consecrate me now to Thy service, Lord, by the power of grace divine. Let my soul look up with steadfast hope. And in this preaching moment, let my will now be lost in Thine.

God, anoint me afresh to preach Your word. Preach me, Jesus. Preach me. None of me and all of You. Just preach me. Speak to me. Pour Your spirit through me to Your people that somebody today might be saved, healed, delivered, and set free.

God, let this be an on-time word for somebody this morning that they would realize that God has not forgotten them and God has not forsaken them.

So, God, use me. I yield myself to You. I give myself away in this preaching moment right now. So, Lord, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, my God, my strength, my rock, and my redeemer.

For the grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of the Lord, it shall stand forever. In Jesus' name and for His sake. Amen. Amen. And amen.

And this light momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

I want to use for a subject this morning: This is light stuff.

This, this, this, this is light stuff. Maybe not for you, but believe me, this is light stuff.

In just a few days, we will prepare to share Thanksgiving meals with family and friends. Many of us have already discussed the menu that will be prepared. Everyone will be in charge of making their special dish for the day.

For some, it's their macaroni and cheese. Others, it's the greens, the collard greens, turkey, the ham, sweet potatoes, or some dessert or other dish that you're going to make because it is your specialty.

For others, they've gotten very clear instructions: Don't make anything. Just bring the drinks, the plates, and the cups.

Yes. We'll gather around the table and we'll go around the table and ask each other what we're thankful for. We'll say the Thanksgiving prayer. And as we begin to fix our plate, we'll begin to ask that age-old question: Who made the potato salad? Who made the greens? Who made the macaroni and cheese?

Because if the right person didn't make it, we won't eat it. Now, you can act sanctified all you want, but we don't eat it by cooking. And if we don't know what's in that dish, by looking at it, we ain't going to eat it.

I didn't tell this at 7 o'clock, but I'll tell it to you. Thanksgiving is not the time to experiment with your new recipe. Thank you. You keep that salad at home for another day.

Thanksgiving is a time of reflection and fellowship with our families and also a time to be thankful for everything that God has done in our lives and all that God has done for us and for our families.

And although Thanksgiving is not the only time of the year that we give thanks to God, it should be the one day of the year that we should be extra thankful for the abundance of blessings that God has poured into our lives.

While we are gathering with family and friends, there are increasingly an amount of families that will not have the opportunity to gather for a meal because they found it difficult this year to make ends meet.

Food prices are increasing and skyrocketing to a place where having a meal on any day is a blessing. And we should never forget how blessed we are to have what we have.

As we gather on Thursday, let us not forget those who are homeless and hopeless and hospitalized and sick and shut in or simply don't have family to share the day with. Let us whisper a prayer for those who are less fortunate than ourselves.

And although we are gathering for a time of Thanksgiving and fellowship, it does not mean that we are not blessed. Let us not negate the fact that we're all going through some turbulent times in our lives.

While we're smelling the aroma of the meal that is being prepared in the kitchen, we still will have some hills that we're going to have to climb after dinner. We're still going to have some valleys we're going to have to go through after dessert.

We'll still have some who will not be able to fully enjoy the festivities of the day because they're mourning the loss of a loved one who would be at the table but are no longer there.

For some, they're depressed and really can't find themselves fully immersed in the day because of the cloud of depression that is hanging on their lives.

Thanksgiving does not eliminate the things that we're going through, but we can be thankful because what we're going through is not going to take us out, but it's going to make us stronger in the end.

It may not feel good right now, but when you really look at your situation, you may be able to testify that it's too heavy for me, but I'm not carrying the weight by myself. God is walking with me, and while it's too heavy for me, it's light stuff for God.

I came to tell somebody what you're carrying is light stuff for God.

The text today teaches us that everything we face is going to make us stronger and better than what we were before.

I've come to talk to some people today that may not be in the Thanksgiving celebratory mood because you're facing something. I've come to talk to some people who have some hills and some mountains they're going to have to climb.

I've come to talk to some people that have been carrying not your own weight, but you've been carrying everybody else's weight as well. I've come to tell you this is light stuff.

I come to tell you that Paul reminds us in his letter to the church at Corinth that yes, you're going to have some trials, yes, you're going to have some tribulations, but we who are believers must remember that we never go through what we go through all by ourselves.

That through it all, God is with us every step of the way. Listen to what Paul says to them in verse number 13 of 2 Corinthians chapter number 4. He says, "Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what was written, 'I believed, so I spoke.' We also believe and so we also speak."

What Paul is saying is that sometimes you got to operate in faith and speak some things that are not as if they already are. You got to have enough faith to begin to speak some things into existence and know that when I speak it, God hears it and God begins to move on my behalf.

I came to talk to some people that can speak some things that are not as if they are. I spoke it because I believed it. I believe that God is the one that'll make a way when there is no way at all.

I believe that God is still the one that keeps me when I'm sleeping and slumbering. I still believe that God is the one that is with me when everybody else walks away from me.

I still believe that when my family and my friends are gone, I believe. So I said, I believe. Because He raised Jesus, He'll raise us and bring you into His presence.

Oh God, I came to tell somebody that it's good to be in the presence of Almighty God. I hear you say, "Pastor, why is it so good to be in the presence of Almighty God?"

I feel right preachy right here. Because can I tell you that in His presence is the fullness of joy. That no matter what I'm going through, when I'm in His presence, I can still have joy.

Once you got in His presence, you got a feeling that everything was going to be all right. Is there anybody here that has been in the presence of God? And no matter how bad you feel, you can still say, "I believe."

So I said, I believe. Because He raised Jesus, He'll raise us and bring you into His presence.

For it is all for your sake so that grace extends to more and more people, it may increase in thanksgiving to God.

Don't miss this: for it is all for your sake so that grace may extend to more and more people that will produce or increase thanksgiving to Almighty God.

I ain't talking about you. I'm going to talk about me. I understand that the only reason I am here today is because of the grace of Almighty God.

It is because of the unmerited favor that God has placed on me. In my life, I didn't deserve it. I didn't earn it. But God gave me favor anyhow.

And maybe there's somebody in here today that can say everything that I have, I didn't deserve it. I didn't do anything to earn it.

Grace is God's grace. God giving you something you don't deserve. And because I understand that I, like Job, oh wretched man, am I, I understand that every day that God gives me, it is a blessing and it is an outpouring of His grace.

I can let y'all go. We said that we extend to more and more people that it may increase thanksgiving to the glory of God.

He said, so we don't lose hope. Thank you for reading in a new living translation. That's why we never give up.

When I tell you this is light stuff, you can't allow the weight you're carrying to make you give up. You are too close to your breakthrough. You are too close to your destiny. You are too close to what you prayed for.

You've been praying all of these years asking God to do X, Y, and Z, and X, Y, and Z is about to happen in your life.

So we don't lose hope. We don't give up. We don't lose heart. We keep going, trusting and believing that God will turn this thing around.

Is there anybody in here today that can say, "I can't give up. I got to keep trusting God. I got to keep believing God that even though our outward bodies are dying, what's happening on the inside isn't being renewed each and every day."

Tell somebody there's a revival happening in my spirit. God is renewing me day by day.

That although the outward man has some bruises, yeah, say it. That's why some foolishness don't bother me no more.

I see people stressed out over the most foolish stuff. I said, that don't even bother me.

Pastor, you ain't upset? Nope. Matter of fact, I don't even care. On to the next.

Because I can't accept the grace and accept the blessings and be stressed by foolishness.

Because what's happening inside of me is making me more and more immune to foolishness. It's like a booster shot.

The more that happens on the outside, what's happening on the inside, it don't even worry me.

Because I know that God makes ways and He gonna turn it around. And sometimes you gotta let people just be foolish.

Sometimes you gotta let them lose their mind. I'm praying for you. That's all I can do is pray for you.

Because I don't even know why you're upset. I'm saying, so don't lose hope.

We're getting ready to go home. Though our outward body is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.

Here's where I want us to be. For this light momentary affliction is preparing.

I really can stop right there. Listen. Come here, come here, come here.

This light momentary affliction is preparing. Here it is. First of all, what you're going through is light stuff.

I hear you, I hear you. Pastor, you don't know what I'm talking about. You don't know what I'm going through.

You don't know my situation. You don't know my circumstance. You don't know what the doctor said, the lawyer said. You don't know what my landlord said. You don't know what my boss said.

You don't know anything what anybody said to me. You don't know how I'm feeling. You don't know what my outlook is. You don't know my bank account status. You don't know nothing about me. You don't even know my name.

You're right. But this is light stuff. You don't know my name. This is light, not for you. Hear me.

I'm not saying it ain't a lot. I'm just telling you it ain't too heavy for God.

Job would say it like this: This is light work. I can handle this like it ain't nothing.

Because God says, if you give that to me, you can see that it's so light, I don't need nobody to help me carry it.

See, you're trying to get people to help you move stuff and carry stuff and move it from one place to another place. And God said, if you just give it to me, look, it's light.

You've been struggling with it, trying to fumble. God said, give it to me. It's light.

And here it is. If that don't bless you, it's momentary. It ain't going to last forever.

Matter of fact, it ain't going to last as long as you think it's going to last. That's why we can't give up and say, "I guess I'm always going to be in this situation."

And I'm never going to make it. And I'm never getting out of here. You need to change your language and say, "This is only going to be for a little while. This is not my permanent situation. I'm in a temporary circumstance. And I'm just going to be here for a little while.

And after a while, God going to turn this thing around for me. And this is light work for God.

So I'm not tripping over something I'm not carrying. I said, I'm not tripping over something I'm not carrying.

And because I'm not carrying it, this is light stuff for God. And it's only going to be for a little while.

I'm only going to have to go through this for the season that God has prepared it for. Because this light momentary affliction is preparing me for something greater.

Don't you miss this? That's the whole sermon. We're about to go to the house.

This light momentary affliction is preparing me for something greater. And God said, what is light to me is nothing for me. But I'm preparing something greater.

Listen, listen, listen. He said, this light momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory.

That sounds oxymoronic. Oxymoronic, two things that just don't make sense. Icy hot, right? Just don't make sense.

Here it is. God says, it's light, but it's also heavy.

This light momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory.

That God said, if you give me what's too heavy for you and too light for me, I'm going to give you something so blessed in your life that its eternal weight is going to be for glory.

And then He says, and it's beyond all comparison. Here it is. That God said, what you've been through is not going to be compared to what I'm taking you to.

That if you make it through this season, I've got something great for you. I've got blessings with your name on it.

Happy is my blessed season. This light stuff, not for you.

And because it's not light for you, stop trying to carry it.

Bible 1 Peter 5:6: Cast all your cares upon Him because He cares for you.

Stop carrying stuff that's too heavy for you. It's like me trying to move that piano. I couldn't move that piano with the wheels on it.

I can get over there and push it. I can get over there and pull it, but I ain't gonna make it no further than right there. Why? Because it's too heavy for me.

But if God wanted to take that piano and move it way over there, He'd just whoop because it's light for Him.

And some of us are carrying piano weight stuff, trying to push it, trying to pull it, trying to yank it. And just like this piano, you got it covered up because you want to keep your stuff pretty.

You don't want everybody to know what your business is, and you want to cover it up and act like it ain't heavy. But on the inside, that rascal is heavy.

But God said it's light stuff for me. He's preparing you. All of what you're going through is preparation for greater.

Would you stand low across the sanctuary? Yes, God.

I want to pray this morning. I'm going to open the doors of the church in a minute, but God's pushing me to pray.

And I want to be specific about who I want to come to the altar because I'm clear this ain't for everybody.

I want to pray for those who have just been carrying too much weight. You've been carrying your weight, Pookie's weight, Ray Ray's weight, your mama's weight, your daddy's weight, that everybody brings it to you.

And that ain't even to start talking about your own weight. And you've been carrying it, and now you're just tired. You're fed up. You said, "No more. I'm done."

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You've been trying to fix it by yourself. You've tried everything that you know to try. You even went back to hustling because you thought that was going to help you, but you didn't know you changed.

So you said the game wasn't the same. Oh, excuse my vernacular, but you know what I'm talking about.

And God is trying to say, "You going back to the old you still ain't going to help you."

I don't want to call Him, but He's the only one I know can help me. So you compromise your character because you haven't trusted God.

I hear God say sometimes I have to have your back against the wall because that's when you see me better.

Sometimes I have to expose people to you as who they are so you can see that I am what you need.

This morning, God says, "I want to take them burdens." But I'm not going to snatch them from you. You're going to have to give them to me.

I'm not taking the weight off of you, but you got to give it to me. And as much weight as you want to give me, I'll carry.

God said in this season, I'll take as much weight as you give me. But I want you to know I can handle it all.

Even though you may not be able to, ready to release, I'm ready to release it all. I'm ready to carry it all.

And so whatever you're willing to give me today, God said I'll carry it. But when you give it to me, don't try to come back and get it.

Let me carry it because I can handle it.

Father, in the name of Jesus, move by Your power. Move by Your anointing upon this altar right now.

God, there's some people at this altar today that are for real, for real about giving You some of their stuff. They're tired. They're fed up. They've tried everything and everybody.

And so now, God, they're giving it. They're giving it to You. God, they're giving it to You without compulsion. They are freely giving You the weight.

And so God, You said this light and You can handle it. So Father, in the name of Jesus, I need You to move around this altar.

God, I need You even right now that somebody's outward man, outward nature is being beat up and beat down. Amen. Amen.

God, remind them that their spiritual nature is being renewed day by day. They pray now more than they've ever prayed.

They fast now more than they ever fasted. They read their word now more than they've ever read their word. And they're finding strength in You rather than things.

So Father, in the name of Jesus, I just need You to take the broken pieces of somebody's situation and put them back together again.

Father, I'm asking You right now in the name of Jesus, I'm praying for the one that God says that is saying today that God certainly You can't hear me because I've messed up.

You can't hear me because I've fallen. You can't hear me, God, because of all the things that I've done.

And God is trying to tell you that I hear you. I hear you, my child. Your past is not anything that I'm concerned with.

I'm more concerned about your future than I am about what you did in your past. That God said, I hear you and I've been hearing you and my hand has been on you and I've been walking with you and talking with you your entire life.

You just didn't realize it was me. You thought it was your degree. You thought it was your street sense, but God said it was me.

And so Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray that what every person needs at this altar that You would grant it.

God, deliver somebody from what other people think about them. And then God, anoint us afresh so we can stand and do what You've called us to do.

Amen. Amen. And rise, my father's children. Go in peace. The peace of God go with you, keep you, and you, you, you, you, you.

Maybe this morning there's someone looking for a church home. You don't have a church to call your own. You don't have a pastor praying with you and for you.

We'd love for you to join us here at Greater Centennial. Those of you who are worshiping with us virtually, there's a minister online.

All you have to do is say, "Hey, I want to join this church. I want to be an e-member." And we would love to have you, no matter where you are in the world.

We'd love to have you join us here. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you, my sister.

Amen. God bless you. Is there another looking for a church home? We'd love to have you.

Your name may be on a roll somewhere, but you're not going there. You're not growing there. You're saying, "This is where I need my church home to be." You can come.

We'd love to have you. Even right now, you can come. You can come. You can come.

Father, thank you for my sister. Thank you for her coming today, dear God. Not just to unite with us, but more importantly, to unite with You.

And so, God, I pray that You cover her and keep her, God, as we now take this journey as family together.

God, we give You all the glory, the honor, and the praise. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.

This is light stuff. God can handle it. Amen. Amen.

Many things that God is giving to us. Like we get sick. That's real. You're my kid. You're my kid. You're my kid.

I somehow got on the wake-up list. I don't know about you, but God, thank You.

We do solicit your prayers for those whose hearts are heavy because of the loss of a loved one. We ask that you would keep in your prayers brother John Hanton, who lost his mother.

We ask that you would pray for him and sister Reverend Tracy Peterson Hanton. We pray for that family.

We also ask you to pray for the Reverend Janine Hawkins, who lost her father. Those funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Shaw Temple AME Zion Church in Amityville, New York.

We ask that you would pray for those on our sick list, our shut-in list, our prayer list. What we do know and without a doubt is that prayer changes things. Amen. Amen.

Calling all of our Greater Centennial college students. If you're a college student and you're away at college, we want to be a blessing to you.

Amen. We want to send you some care packages, some love. Amen. When you get back from Thanksgiving break or soon after, we're going to send you something, but we need to know where to send it to.

And so if you call extension 118, speak to Sister Kim Umstead. Make sure we have your right address. Amen. Amen.

And so some care packages at college hit at the right time. Amen. You'll be thanking God. Hallelujah.

Amen. This Thursday we celebrate Thanksgiving, and here at Greater Centennial, we share and celebrate Thanksgiving by being a blessing and giving back to those who are less fortunate than ourselves.

And so we gather here about eight o'clock on Thursday morning. We're going to pack up about three to four hundred meals, and then we're going to deliver them to people who wouldn't have anything to eat.

And so we want to be a blessing. Amen. We're not going to make them come to it; we're going to take it to them. Amen.

And so we are grateful and thankful for all of our volunteers. If you want to drive, deliver some meals, whatever you want to do, meet us here at eight o'clock.

That's right in the morning. Put the turkey in the oven. By the time it's ready to get basted the first time, you'll be back home. Amen. Amen.

We don't keep you long. Amen. And then on December the 6th, December the 6th, our children's ministry is having their Christmas pajama party from 6:30 to 8:30.

Children that are coming, you need to bring a blanket. Amen. Children up to 12 years old. Amen. And the time is 6:30 to 8:29.

Amen. Come back for your child that you dropped off. Amen. Amen.

We're still collecting coats for our coat drive. You can drop them off at any of our buildings. We'll pick them up and we'll bring them back to you in a minute.

Amen. We'll pick them up. Silent workers at Lay Council coming together to make sure that people have a warm coat for the winter.

Amen. I was hoping winter didn't come. I was praying we was having 60, 65, 70 days. I was praying, but I got up this morning and winter showed up.

So we want to make sure people have a warm winter coat or two. So you can drop off your clean, gently used, or new coats to any of our buildings.

Amen. And then on December the 21st, December the 21st, we're having our community Christmas toy giveaway.

We are in such difficult times that there are some families that will not have a Christmas if we don't be a blessing to them.

And so we're asking you to bring your new unwrapped toy for a boy or a girl or a boy and a girl, whatever you want to do, and we want to be a blessing to the community.

Every year this is a big event in the community. People come from all around. The kids are just so excited to get a toy, to be able to pick a toy, and it may be the only thing they have to unwrap at Christmas.

And so we want to be a blessing to them. So you can bring us your new toy unwrapped. Amen.

And you can drop it off at any one of our buildings on our campus. Amen.

Let me thank you, Greater Centennial. You are a blessing to this community in so many different ways.

On this past Friday, we were able to distribute over 300 turkeys to this community and the sides to go with it.

And to hear the testimonies of those who stood in line in the cold and the rain. Now you know you need something if you're going to stand in the cold and the rain.

And they were just so blessed to be able to receive those turkeys and those sides. We've blessed so many people, and they will tell you that I wouldn't have been able to have no Thanksgiving if it wasn't for this.

And so thank you, Greater Centennial. You don't know what it means to this community. Amen.

And I just get joy being a blessing to somebody else. And so I hopefully extend that joy to you, to them. Amen.

That we are a blessing. So thank you so very much. Amen.

Don't forget we are in the midst of our campaign to refresh our sanctuary. Amen.

We're doing our very best to raise fifty thousand dollars by the end of next month. Amen. To refresh this whole sanctuary.

We need to refresh, y'all. Amen. We need to come into 2020 something.

But we are grateful and thankful. We're going to do this. When you're giving for the sanctuary refresh, just make sure you put that on your envelope so that our accounting team would be able to account for it properly.

We're going to refresh our sanctuary. Amen. Amen.

All right, let's get ready to give. God loves a cheerful giver. He loves a hilarious giver.

And we give and we give to God in a very way in which we are cheerful about how we give.

Those of you who are worshiping with us online and in person, you see on your screen now the ways to give here at Greater Centennial.

We ask that you pick one of those ways to be able to be a blessing with us today.

Once you have whatever it is you're going to give, you put it in your right hand as a hand of covenant, hand of commitment.

Father, we thank, praise, magnify, glorify You. We thank You for the gift and the giver.

We ask You now, God, in the name of Jesus, that You consecrate the gift and consecrate the seed.

That, God, that You would produce a harvest in the life of the sower. Because, God, You said those who sow sparingly will reap sparingly.

But those who sow generously will reap generously. So, God, I thank You for the harvest that's going to happen in our lives.

Let no household go lacking because of the gift they give today. Matter of fact, make sure every need is met because they gave today.

In Jesus' name, amen. Amen and amen.

There is no Bible study this week or no Bible study on Tuesday.

We will pick up Bible study again on Tuesday, December the 3rd. That is a great day.

Tuesday, December the 3rd, we're going to pick up Bible study right here. So, we're going to miss this week, but we're going to pick it up on December the 3rd. Amen. Amen.

What a shameless plug.

Now, may the Lord bless you. Now, may the Lord keep you. Now, may the Lord cause His face to shine and smile on each and every one of you.

May the Lord, my God, lift up His countenance upon you. May He be gracious unto you.

May He give you His peace, His power, His prosperity, and His protection and His blessings, both now and forever.

Let the church say, "Amen." Please remain seated for the directions of our ushers.