DECEMBER THEME — FROM CHRISTMAS TO CALVARY -The Story Love Wrote

SUNDAY’S SERMON SUMMARY

God has been faithful behind you, He is fighting for you today, and He goes before you into every battle. That is why worship isn’t optional—it’s the only reasonable response. In 2 Chronicles 20, God placed the worshipers in front because praise shifts the atmosphere before it ever shifts the outcome. Thanksgiving isn’t politeness; it’s warfare. It brings Heaven into places where human strength fails. This week, many will walk into rooms weighted with tension, history, or hurt. But God is sending you not merely to share a meal—but to carry His presence. Gratitude is the atmosphere-changer. When thanksgiving rises, heaviness cracks. When praise lifts, the enemy loses his grip. You may not repair every relationship in a day, but you can shift the room the moment you walk in with a thankful heart. Thanksgiving is most powerful in imperfect places—whispered when emotions rise, breathed when conversations turn sharp, spoken when healing is still in process. That is when you become a thanksgiver… an atmosphere shifter. You’re not entering as a fixer; you’re entering as a carrier of God’s peace. Pray together. Speak blessings. Tell what the Lord has done. Let quiet worship fill the background. These are seeds Heaven will water long after the day is over. Anyone can attend a holiday. God is raising worship warriors who turn rooms simply by being in them. You carry peace. You carry gratitude. You carry the atmosphere of Heaven. Where others bring stress, you bring Jesus. And wherever a thanksgiver stands, the battle begins to turn.

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Carry the Atmosphere of Heaven Into Every Room

“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” — 1 Thes 5:18

You don’t control the environment you walk into this Thanksgiving—but you absolutely control the atmosphere you carry in with you. Every home, every gathering, every table is shaped by the spirit of the strongest heart in the room. And God has called you to be the one who lifts, calms, blesses, and softens—not the one who matches tension with tension. The enemy wants you dreading the gathering. God wants you entering as a carrier of peace. Your presence can shift an entire day.

Someone Needs the Peace You Carry

You may not know who… but someone at that table is quietly breaking. A grieving widow.
A discouraged parent. A distant teenager. A sibling carrying shame. A relative fighting battles they’ve never mentioned. Thanksgiving can feel heavy for the hurting. You may be the only person who speaks grace instead of gossip… peace instead of pressure… kindness instead of criticism. Sometimes the greatest miracle of the day is not a prayer prayed out loud, but the atmosphere you bring when you walk in the door.

Joseph carried peace into a family that betrayed him. Instead of revenge, he spoke life—“Fear not… God meant it unto good.” Families heal when one person refuses to carry yesterday’s wounds into today’s table.

Gratitude Is a Spiritual Weapon, Not a Holiday Mood

Thanksgiving is not a day on the calendar—it is a battleground where gratitude pushes darkness back.Your thankful words break atmospheres. Your grateful spirit disarms tension. Your intentional kindness is warfare the enemy cannot counter. This world reacts. Kingdom people redirect. You have the authority to shift conversations, to lift discouraged hearts, to change the emotional weather of an entire room. A simple “I thank God for you” can melt walls some family members have held for years.

Think of a time someone’s tone changed a room. One person walks in smiling—and the mood lifts.
Another walks in frustrated—and the house tightens. You decide which one you will be tomorrow.

Satan Fights Thanksgiving Because Healing Happens There

The enemy knows the power of a grateful believer. He knows thanksgiving brings unity. He knows gratitude exposes bitterness. He knows praise invites God’s presence. So he stirs old arguments… unspoken offenses… family tension… worry… exhaustion… misunderstandings. Why? Because if he can distract your spirit, he can silence your gratitude. But the Holy Ghost reminds you: “In every thing give thanks.” Not for everything, but in everything. Your gratitude is how you resist the enemy without even mentioning his name. Your thanksgiving opens the door of the room and invites God to sit at the table.

Prayer: Lord, make me an atmosphere-shifter. Let my presence bring peace, my words bring grace, and my spirit carry the fragrance of Heaven. Guard my heart from old wounds, old patterns, and old frustrations. Let gratitude be my weapon, kindness be my posture, and Jesus be visible in everything I say and do. Fill me so fully with Your presence that every room I enter feels lighter because I am there. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Challenge: Before you enter tomorrow’s gathering, pause for 15 seconds and whisper: “Lord, make me a thanksGIVER and an atmosphere-shifter.” Then choose one person—the quietest, the most withdrawn, the most wounded—and intentionally speak life into them.

WEDNESDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS

Betty Hammock

Brando Echarte

Cheryl Knight’s Brother

Debbie Foskey    

Don Franklin’s Daughter, Darlene, Son, David

Ed Adkins – Friend of Brian Edwards

George Alexander’s Family

Gloria Young

Jake Jenkins

Lousie Jackson – Richard’s sister – Open Heart Surgery

Richard Blount – Home and doing well

Jean Partee’s Sister

Deon Lotter

Doris Loyd

Amy Garner’s Dad

Annette Ford

Andrea Nix– Friend of the Shelnutt’s

Angela Bryan’s Sister

Ann Stanley  

Carol Lawhead – Riverside in Conyers

Danny Jarrard   

Darlene Wiggins

Doris Loyd

Dr. and Mrs. Davis

Eric Magnusson’s Mother

Eric Ward

Friend of Linda Hodge

Gayle Sparks

Linda Alexander 

James Burnette

Jessica Headrick  

John McClain’s Mother

June Cronan’s Sister

June Davis

Kailey Bateman

Kim’s Sisters – Ann & Brenda 

Lillianna Magnusson’s Mom

Lonzo Christian 

Lori Blount’s Mother

Mary Williams

Mary Williamson – Dana Jackson’s Mom

Mrs. Franklin 

Nora Allison

Ron And Johnnie Barry – Friends Of Ashton & Glenda Bateman

Rose Fuller – Pruitt-Monroe Nursing Home, Forsyth GA

Scott Lanier 

Scotty Nix

Stephanie Seivers – Friend of the Shellnutts

Steve Michaels

Tom Witcher