Glorious Way Church
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Genuine Gratitude
Promise: Discover the transformative power of genuine gratitude and learn how it can reshape your life and faith. Join us for a spiritually enriching conversation centered around the essence of thankfulness. We explore how embracing gratitude not only enriches our worship but permeates every aspect of our lives, transcending physical boundaries and manifesting God's presence wherever we are.
And we're preaching on genuine gratitude tonight a little bit of a Thanksgiving message, and Selena talked about having a thankful heart, having a thankful mind, your thoughts being thankful, and then it produces thankful speech right In everything that you say, it comes out with gratitude, amen. So we're going to cover some of those points tonight as well. So let's just come before the Lord in prayer and start this broadcast off right by praying. And so, heavenly Father, thank you, ms Renee is here and Sheree Holmes is watching as well. Love you guys. Heavenly Father, we just thank you for tonight's broadcast. We're grateful for an opportunity to preach your word over a live stream. And, father, we just thank you that there's no distance in the Spirit and, lord, that filling Selena and I up with supernatural utterance, that we're able to speak your oracles, lord, and we just believe in supernatural hearing so that when we speak, lord, that they'll hear exactly what they need to encourage their hearts, to lift them in this Thanksgiving season. Father, lord, I, just all of those that are around, unbelievers, maybe some extended family members, maybe some friends, maybe going out to a gathering Lord that there's mercy on our lips. There's your love in everything that we do. We're people of love. We're people of gratitude and we're not trying to be thankful, but graciousness and thanksgiving pours out of everything that we say and everything that we do. And, lord, we're not victims, but we're victors. Lord, in everything, in our attitude, the way we see things, we're people of faith In Jesus' name, amen, amen. Well, I guess, with no further ado, we'll jump right in and talking about genuine gratitude tonight. It begins with true and genuine worship, and I just wanted to read a scripture that Selina shared on this past Sunday night when she taught, and it was in John 4.
Speaker 1:Jesus is with the Samaritan woman, the woman at the well, and towards the end of that exchange. We won't read the whole exchange, but in verse 21, it says. I'm going to read it out of the New King James Version, but I also have the Amplified here if Selena wants to jump in with anything that stands out to her in the Amplified, but I'm going to read it in the New King James. It says, verse 21, john 4, 21,. Jesus said to her Woman believe me, the hour is coming when you will, neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Speaker 1:You know so here, this woman, like I said, is a Samaritan, so she was not a Jew and she's trying to tell Jesus what she knows about the ways Jews worship. And he's saying, hey, you got it all wrong. And not only that, but the time is coming. And then he says it's even now. Oh, I'm sorry, we haven't gotten to that yet. Have we Wait? You worship what you do not know.
Speaker 1:We know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews, but the hour verse 23, there we go. But the hour is coming, and now is when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship Him, for God is a spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth Again. So Jesus is saying, hey, but the hour is coming and now is. It doesn't matter. You know, jesus came and he died and he rose from the dead, not just for the Jews, but so that everyone would receive freedom, so that everyone is free to worship the Lord in spirit and in truth and the Holy Spirit joins and there's no longer Jew, nor Greek, nor male nor female right, we're all one in the body of Christ. And that moment was right. Then he's saying, hey, it's coming. And then, hey, it's now, and for sure it really is now, and God is seeking whom is a true worshiper, a worshiper of Him in spirit and in truth. So yeah, it requires our flesh, it does require us, you know. It might require us to lift our hands, but it definitely requires us to lift our voice. But we're doing it spirit to spirit. We're invigorated. God says that he inhabits the praises of his people, and so that happens every time that we come before the Lord in our worship. And that doesn't have to be right here in church. You can worship the Lord wherever you are. Amen. And so you know it happens. Wherever you are, we can be true worshipers and worship Him with genuineness. And for God is a spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth. And then my Kingdom Dynamics, right here in my Spirit-Filled Life Bible. I'm going to hold that up for the camera, but this is the older version of this Bible and this is the Bible that Selene and I have and we love it.
Speaker 1:We've talked about it many times, but anyways, the word truth it says it's the opposite of fictitious or false. It's the opposite of fictitious or false. It denotes reality, sincerity, accuracy, integrity, truthfulness, dependability. All of these words, amen. And I love what the kingdom dynamics says. So that's the kind of truth in spirit and in truth, you're grabbing a hold of sincerity, of accuracy, of integrity and dependability. You're dependable. You're grabbing a hold of His dependability, right.
Speaker 1:We worship Him for who he is and we praise Him for all the things that he's done, and thanksgiving and gratitude are a process of both praise and worship, amen. And so sometimes I know a major preacher that used to be on TV. Everybody would know his name if I said it. He was the first that I heard. That kind of divided out your Thanksgiving songs from your praise and your worship. But really there's lots of thanksgiving and gratitude in praising and worshiping, right. So we're worshiping Him for who he is and we're worshiping Him with our spirit, spirit to spirit. And so the Holy Spirit is part of that, and so that talks about this here in the Kingdom Dynamics.
Speaker 1:It says it is the believer's responsibility to discover how the Lord wants to be worshiped and to explore and cultivate a relationship with him out of which sincere, holy Spirit-enabled worship will flow. Jesus instructs it. Worship in spirit that is alive through the new birth and aglow meaning burning right With Holy Spirit enablement. It's not mechanical or merely human activity, but it's a spiritual action, in truth, emphasizes biblical integrity joined to personal honesty, amen. And it means one more thing being what we say as well as being spiritually engaged in our worship. That opens the way to that worship that the Father seeks. So that's what the Spirit of the Lord is looking for. Will he find it when he finds you and we say Amen, he shall and he will and he does Amen, genuine, real worship.
Speaker 1:And it comes, you know. And so, like you can't fake it. God sees everything, you know. There's so many people they put on a front, even in church. They think you know, the more, the higher they raise their hands and the more borschtious they act, that they can just come in here, and that's what it takes to look like you're one of us.
Speaker 1:No, the Lord sees everything, and so you don't have to fake it till you make it. You can just come in exactly how you are, and he accepts you how you are. And then, when you turn your heart to Him, you're responding to His love, you're responding to His mercy, you're responding to His presence, you're responding to His glory, and something invigorating happens that takes over your whole being and that is true reality. And so you know, I think about you, know, I just wanted to encourage you that you're not trying to stir, necessarily stir something up and make it happen that when you become born again, you are, you become thankful. You become grateful because that's the character of God that he places on the inside of you. We're created in his image. You want to say anything?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, no, that's so good when, yeah, when we get born again.
Speaker 2:I mean, we are Christ-like. But you know, we do have to remind ourselves. You know, sometimes we can become unthankful and ungrateful, and even though we are citizens of heaven, we are Christians, we are Christlike. But things can get fuzzy, things can get muddy, and you know, the Bible says do everything without complaining and grumbling. And so the opposite of being thankful, being grateful, is to complain and to murmur. And so and we've all done that We've all found ourselves complaining about something or there's a situation, and and murmuring.
Speaker 2:But no, god, the word says to be grateful, to be thankful. In 1 Thessalonians 5.18,. In the New King James, it says In everything, give thanks. In everything, everything means everything, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. And then the Passion Translation says In the midst of everything, be always giving thanks, for this is God's perfect plan for you in Christ Jesus. So his perfect plan for your life is for you to give thanks. We were not made to be, you know, negative Nellies. We were not made to be grumpy. Nobody wants to be around anybody who's grumpy and complaining. We have to make sure. Yeah, you know, life happens and maybe you're going through a situation and you were done wrong and all the things. But you know what the word says hey, in everything that that's a plan, a perfect plan of God for your life is to be grateful, is to be thankful and to be genuine about it. You know, jay's message genuine gratitude, the title of that. Genuine what does it mean to be genuine, to be sincere, to be real? I know what the opposite, like you know the opposite, is fake. The opposite is not sincere.
Speaker 2:And talking about worship, you know a lot of times that we may have a certain idea of what we think worship is. Worship is this. Worship is lifting your hands, coming to church at Sunday at 10 am and being part of a service. That's good and, yes, that can be worship, but worship happens all throughout the week, all through every day. Worship. But worship happens all throughout the week, all through every day. Monday morning, worship, working in the nursery, being a mom, taking care of your babies, is worship. Taking care of God's creation is worship, and so it's a heart posture it's not so much.
Speaker 2:Yes, when your heart's right, when your heart's in a right place and the posture is right, that's where true worship comes out of, because here in John 4, he's talking about true, hey, you know the true worshiper.
Speaker 2:So if there's true worship there must be it must mean that there's false worship. And so we have to make sure that we, that our heart is cleansed, that we keep our heart, that we guard our heart and make sure that there's anything in there that you know shoulda, woulda, couldas or anything muddy in there, that we keep it just tender towards God and thank him for all he's done. Write down 10 things. Maybe you're watching and you can comment something you're thankful for. Maybe you're watching and you can comment something you're thankful for. You know, that's a good habit to have. Whenever we feel down or the enemy tries to, you know, come around with a certain thought to write down what you're thankful for, list 10 things that you're thankful for, and that'll get you out of that muddy pit, you know. And so, yeah, genuine gratitude, sincere, real, being it, it's a heart posture Amen, right, amen.
Speaker 1:You know Selena said on Sunday night there's a no more gloomy days, there's just glory days, and it made me think of, uh, bruce Springsteen. But this way, better than anything Bruce Springsteen could ever sing, I'm telling you it's God's glory days, amen. Ever seen. I'm telling you it's God's glory days, amen. All right, anyways, we have Pastor John Robertson watching from Okmulgee, oklahoma. We watch him all the time on his live stream. He has a really good YouTube channel, restore Church. Him and his wife Layla are really special to us. Thank you, john, for watching. Miss Brenda said I'm sitting at the feet of Jesus when I praise him. That's so true, miss Brenda. You know we've been standing with Dawn and Brenda. They've been members here for so long and God is working on your behalf, Amen. We're just glad that y'all are watching tonight and so we do.
Speaker 1:It's out of a genuine heart that we do worship and you know, like your kids, you know when you have babies and when you have, you know you have to teach them how to share right. But you also you teach them gratitude. Hey say thank you. You know you have to teach, you have to pour that into them. But when we're saved, we have his gratitude on the inside. We just need to lean on it. We have his gratitude on the inside, we just need to lean on it. And that's where an iron sharpens iron and we're able to be arm in arm and pull each other up out of man.
Speaker 1:Maybe you do have some doom and gloom on your face, on your countenance, but you can lean on you should be able to lean on people at church and have a good support system around you to pull you up out of that. But really, you know, like Pastor Mark's always saying and that's in the book of Psalm, like that's what Dave is always, you know my soul, my soul, he's talking to himself. You better get in that mirror and you better talk to yourself and wipe that sadness off your face. Amen, because I'm telling you we are living in the glory days and so you know I woke up this morning not trying to get a message, not. You know, I just started reading my Bible and there were so many things about gratitude and praise in today's psalm. You know we read Psalm 27, 57, 87, so on and so forth. You know you skip 30, right, you read about five Psalms and that will bring you through the book of Psalms. In a month, I have a confession.
Speaker 2:Today's proverb you didn't read, I did not read my Psalms. I did wake up before you. I was, you did that's what's surprising.
Speaker 1:Other things cleaning up the house.
Speaker 2:My parents are coming over, my uncle nant, and so your wife is like she got up at 4, 30 and no, it was like 5, 30 or 6. It was way early anyways um I just.
Speaker 1:But I ended up in the Ephesians 3 prayer and I know that we've read it 100,000 times. And you're like Jay, I don't really remember anything about gratitude in the Ephesians 3 prayer. But hang with me here we're just talking about that. Jesus died for the Gentiles as well, he died for everyone, and that's what kind of Paul. When he first starts Ephesians 3, that's kind of what he's talking about. And then it gets in verse 10, and he says To the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places. First of all, that word manifold means varied. It means many-colored, a variety of different areas, many-sided, multicolored, multi-colored, and so that's what we're doing. We are the church, and God has invigorated us and shown us His power and we are showing off His wisdom. And so how do we get His wisdom? We get His wisdom by faith. When we read the Word of God, we receive His mindset. It's on the inside of us. His mindset, we receive his. You know, it's on the inside of us. The power of God is on the inside of us, is dwelling on the inside.
Speaker 1:We skip down to verse 14. For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord, jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man. So let's just stop right there. According to the riches of his glory, he is rich in his goodness. The glory of God is the goodness of God. It's also the manifested presence of God and he is rich in his goodness towards you. You know if I'm just going to flip the page real quick while we're talking Ephesians 2, 4, but God, who is rich in mercy? He's rich in goodness. He is rich in mercy towards you, towards me, towards us, because of his great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in trespasses, even when we were dead in sin, even when we were lost, even when we were thinking wrong and doing wrong and living for the devil, even when darkness was all around us. We were dead to trespasses. He made us alive together with Christ. By grace you have been saved. By grace we have been saved. It's it's God's ability to do anything. That's what the word grace means. It's God's ability to do anything and we have that ability right now.
Speaker 1:Amen. And he raised us up together. He made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah, that in the ages to come he might show us the exceeding riches of his grace. So he's rich in his goodness or in his glory. He's rich in his mercy towards us and he's rich in his grace or his ability in us.
Speaker 1:Amen, his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. He is so kind. We have so much to be grateful for and thankful for this season of thanksgiving. Amen. He is rich towards us and he's made us rich, right. Jesus became poor that we might be rich, and so we are so blessed on every side and through every circumstance we're blessed, amen. And so that he may grant you, according to the riches of his glory I'm back in the Ephesians 3 prayer to be strengthened with might through his spirit.
Speaker 1:So his spirit goes to your inner man, to your spirit, and it's spirit to spirit and it's mouth to mouth. Resuscitation, right, as Pastor Mark says, and he brings strength to your inner man Right now. As I'm reading this, I don't even know if Brother Jim Whitwick is watching or not, but his wife of many, many decades, of many, many years. I'm not sure how long they've been married, but she was in her 80s and she just slipped off to heaven this last weekend, right? I'm not sure I don't think so, is she? Ok, you're forgetting to use your mic. So I'm glad so, because I because I was 90.
Speaker 2:That's all right, 90. Miss Marie, miss Marie, anyways now.
Speaker 1:You're making me hope he's not watching, but he is. If he's watching, brother Jim, I'm just seeing him being strengthened in his inner man right now. And so you know, if you need a fresh infilling of strength in your inner man, just stretch out your hands toward the screen right now. Father, we just thank you right now for your spirit, lord. It's through the richness of your glory, your manifested presence and your goodness, lord, right now, that you're indwelling in us, Lord, spirit to spirit, you're strengthening us in our inner man, that we can do anything. That we can do anything. That we set our hands to anything that we can do, anything that we set our hands to Lord, that we have so much strength that in this season and the upcoming seasons of life as we enter 2025, we refuse to be weaklings. We refuse to walk around not knowing what we're doing, not knowing what your spirit wants to do, not worshiping you like we should, not worshiping in spirit and in truth, just having to fake it. But, lord, we just thank you that we're strengthened right now in our inner man, that we know exactly who we are, in you, in Christ, lord, that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith, because we're rooted and grounded in love.
Speaker 1:Verse 17 says we're rooted and grounded in love, father, we just thank you. We see ourselves as Psalm 1, men and women, lord, that we are like trees planted by the rivers of water, bearing forth much fruit. Our leaves are not withering, lord, and everything that we do, everything that we set our hand to, is blessed and prospers. We prosper in all that we do, lord, because we're rooted and grounded in your love, and it's not just man's way of love, it's agape love. And so, lord, we walk in your agape love in everything that we say and everything we do, especially around our families. Lord, this Thanksgiving, lord, we refuse to be short, we refuse to be frustrated, we refuse to walk in the flesh, we refuse to get mad, but, lord, we just thank you that we're patient in you, lord, that you're guiding, you're leading and guiding and directing us by your Holy Spirit. And, lord, that when we open our mouth, it's like it's your oracles, lord, that you you infill. We're so full of you, Lord, that it's obvious to those around us. In the name of Jesus, so that we're able to comprehend. So that we're able to comprehend. I could keep praying, because it is a prayer that we may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width, the length, the depth and the height.
Speaker 1:Amen to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge. How can you know something? If it passes knowledge? Because you're knowing it from the spirit realm, amen, because you're knowing it in your spirit, not with your brain. It passes everybody else's knowledge, but it doesn't pass the knowledge of the saints, right? Because it says with all other saints up here in verse 18, that we're able to comprehend it, like with all the other saints. So if we're the saints of God, if we're chosen by Him, if we're consecrated, we're set apart, as 1 Peter tells us, that we're a peculiar people to show forth the praises of Him that called us out of darkness into marvelous light. If that's who we are, then we can fully know and understand the length, the depth, the height of His great love and just how great His love is for us, for you, for me, for the unsaved, for the ones we're witnessing to tomorrow or Friday or Saturday, whatever gatherings that you're going to be going to around your family.
Speaker 1:Amen. That you may be filled. I almost forgot the most important part here that you may be filled. I almost forgot the most important part here that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. You know it's obvious, when you're full of God other people know it right it's impossible to hide a full person who's full of God, of everything that he has, full of his inheritance. And it's in your speech. When you're full of faith, have the God kind of faith Mark 11, 22, right and when you have the God kind of faith and you're full of the God kind of faith, faith comes out of your speech, amen. Faith comes out in your attitude. And so then you're not going to be down in the dumps and in the mully grubs and whatever else you called it earlier. You know like you're going to speak. Faith, amen. And then verse 20,.
Speaker 1:Now to him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, but above all, that we dare ask or think according to the power that works in us. You know the word ask. There God longs to distribute to you. You know he's just waiting for you to ask. What have you been asking Him? You know, when we're filled with the knowledge of His love for us, we're not afraid to ask for big things. You know, when we're full of the fullness of God, when we're overflowing with the fullness of God and with the God kind of faith, then we're not going to be asking for small things right, and even as big as the things that we ask for. He's able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all any of it. But I just encourage you to be asking this season, amen, and when we're full of him, he longs to distribute to us Amen To him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever, amen. So it's all about his glory.
Speaker 2:It is all about his glory. Amen, amen. You know, mark Hankins says that there's no such thing as unexpressed thanks.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:And so I just want to encourage you. Maybe you're going through something and you haven't said much about it, you know. Well, I, you know I'm not going to get involved, I'm just going to keep my mouth shut. Well, no, if you keep your mouth shut, you lose by default. So we have to make sure that the words coming out of our mouth are words of encouragement, words that are life filled words, words full of faith, and so I just want to encourage you with that. And Psalm 100, verse four, says enter his gates with thanksgiving and enter his courts with praise. And so we have to make sure to be thankful to bless his holy name. You know, if you're ever feeling down or low, start with praise, start with putting on some praise and worship music. That'll, you know, in the morning instead of just, you know, lately I've been well, I always do it, but, you know, not every day, but a lot of times, if it's just quite usually I'm the first one up at the house and I'll read my Bible and depends on what day it is.
Speaker 2:But usually I am, usually I'm the first. I'm not lying, I am usually the first. It's OK though, uh, but you get up pretty soon right after me. Um, but I do, I like to have some, it's not, it's not, we're one, remember. So if I'm up early, that means you're up early because we're one.
Speaker 2:Um, but I used to have some get some praise music on. You know, even before, like, I don't even watch TV anymore, I just read my Bible, or you know YouTube channels or any, before any kind of jingle. You know, sometimes, if you, if you just hear something you're out and about and a jingle gets in your brain, I'm like no, I don't want that jingle in my brain, I want the word of God. Like, no, I don't want that jingle in my brain, I want the word of God, I want the praise. You know, because what's going to, what comes in, is eventually going to come out, and we have to make sure that we get filled up with the word of God, that we're continually praising him. You know, because genuine gratitude, like when we're in the heat of the moment where something happens. And, and what is your reaction immediately? What is your reaction when you hear some bad news. What is your? Anybody can be grateful when everything's hunky dory and you have money in the bank and and everything's going fine. But when something happens, what are you going to do? What? How are you going to react? Are you, are the words coming out of your mouth, are they going to be filthy words or are they going to be edifying words? Or are you going to shut down, not say anything, or are you going to blame somebody? So there's lots of options that we can have, right, even Christians. Christians, not.
Speaker 2:This is not just for the sinner. This is the word of God. Hey, listen, we have to apply the word of God. Just like you apply the word of God, I need to apply the word of God. Just like you apply the word of God, I need to apply the word of God.
Speaker 2:And so, talking about gratitude, we have to make sure that our heart is pure, that we have to make sure that we get filled up with the word of God. The more we get filled up with the word of God, the more we're thinking about the word of God, the more we're meditating on the word of God. And so, the more you know thankful that because we're meditating on the promises of God. We're meditating on the benefits of God. You know how much God loves you. You don't care if anybody else loves you or not, you don't care what the home life is like. You don't, it does.
Speaker 2:All of that doesn't matter. You can be in a situation where nobody else you know everybody else is complaining, but you bring the joy into the house, you bring laughter, you bring gratitude, you bring an attitude of gratitude, right, and so that turns the situation around, and so I just want to encourage you with that. No matter what you're going through, just praise and be happy and be joyful and love life, no matter the situation. Love life, because that's the way it got.
Speaker 2:You know John 10, 10, the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy, but Jesus came that you may have a rich and abundant life, a life that's over a Zoe life, a life that's yeah, a life that's overflowing, a life. No matter the situation, no matter what was done to you, no matter, you know, the situation that people may have brought you into, you can still have joy, you can still be grateful, because God loves you and God has a plan for you. No matter what man has done to you, god has a plan for you. And so, and just like I read in First Thessalonians, in everything we give thanks, that's his perfect plan for our lives is to give thanks. Give him thanks and everything, amen, amen.
Speaker 1:So you are a true worshiper. Amen. You are thankful. It's not just something that you do, but it's something that you are.
Speaker 2:Amen, yeah, we are we is, we is thankful, we are thankful, and it's not something that I mean we. There are benefits when we become, when we said yes to Jesus. You know our spirit, spirit, but we have a soul, right, how many of us? Spirit, soul and body. We have a soul and we have a mind and we have a will and we have an intellect, and so that has to be renewed. Through what? Through the word of God. And so we have to make sure that we're renewing our mind in the word of God, that we're not allowing the circumstances to change our attitude of gratitude and get down in the, in the in, you know, just sorrowful, sorrowful and and and sad. No, we have to make sure that we remain in an attitude of gratitude and renew our mind in the word daily, amen, amen that was good, thank you.
Speaker 2:Gratitude attitude of gratitude, genuine, sincere, yep, real, being grateful and voicing it. Maybe you're grateful, but you don't voice it. Well then you're not grateful. That's not thanksgiving, that's not being thankful, it's, it's our voice. We have to make sure again, there's no such thing as unexpressed thanks that's right right, you might thank you. Oh, I'm thankful for my wife. I'm thankful for my husband, but I don't say anything. I'm thankful for you, jay. I'm thankful for you.
Speaker 1:I was just checking to make sure we didn't have any prayer requests okay, so we have to express our um thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:You know, and I mentioned paul always if you read his letters in philippi, I wrote down Philippians 1, 3, I thank God, I thank my God, upon every remembrance of you. You know, he always starts his letter by thanking. He thanks of them and he thanks God for them, and so we have to make sure that we're thankful that we're. You know, our voice has to be used and choose our words wisely, and so we have to make sure they're gracious words and they're full of thanksgiving and the fact that our God takes care of us in grand style.
Speaker 2:He does Each and every day.
Speaker 1:Yep, that my expectation is aimed at him and in him alone. Amen.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:When you put your expectation on people. They're going to let you down, but God never lets us down, he never leaves us hanging, he's never late, he's always on time and he's a very present help in time of need. So I just encourage you tonight, we encourage you. Yeah, I want to read to him first Go ahead.
Speaker 2:I want to read a couple of other thankful scriptures Psalm 9, and you can jot these down. I'll go through them quickly. Psalm 9, 1 and 2,. It says I will praise you, o Lord, with my whole heart.
Speaker 2:You know that's good to say that every day I praise you, lord, with my whole heart. I praise you. I will tell of all of your marvelous works. God is so good, you know. Instead of talking with the weather and talking about this food and talking about this and talking about okay, all those things are great and they're natural, but let's talk about his marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, oh most high. Psalm 28, 7 says the Lord is my strength and my shield. My heart trusted in him, I am helped and I am helped. My heart trusted in him and I am helped. Therefore, my heart greatly rejoices and with my song I will praise him.
Speaker 1:That's tomorrow's first song. That would be a good one to read around the Thanksgiving table, just giving you an idea. Psalm that would be a good one to read around the thanksgiving table, just giving you an idea yeah, that would be psalm 86, 12.
Speaker 2:I will praise you, oh, lord my god, with all my heart, and I will glorify your name forevermore. You see the theme in that, where I'll, um, we praise him with all of our heart. You know, uh, dav, david, you know, a lot of these Psalms were written by David, and so he wasn't, you know, sitting high and mighty in his mansion, and he was usually, you know, running or in a cave, or running for his life, and so he prayed. The Lord was his strength, the Lord was his shield. He trusted God with his whole heart, and so that's an encouragement to you Trust God with all your heart. Don't, you know, convey, not convey, but like when I say trust. You know, god's not going to let you down. Sometimes we don't want to trust because maybe man's let us down and we think God not going to let you down. Sometimes we don't want to trust because maybe man's let us down and and we think god's going to let us down. No, god's not going to let you down. He's your help, he's a very present help in times of trouble, and so he'll, he's your best friend, and so trust him, believe him, um, for the thing you know the things that his word says, believe that they'll come to pass and declare them.
Speaker 2:And then the last Psalm is Psalm 136,. Two says give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His faithful love endures forever. And so we live a lifestyle of thanks, thankfulness. You know, it's not just a holiday that you know thanksgiving and we are thankful on that day and that is it. No, we have to make sure that we refill, our hearts are filled with gratitude, our hearts are filled with thanksgiving and um love for each other and being grateful for one another and just always having a a godly positive attitude towards one another, even our enemies, even the ones, maybe, that you don't agree with, even because God loves everybody. God loves he, he loves people and he wants to see them come into the kingdom of God. And so we have to make sure our heart is open and our heart is tender towards the things of God and in our heart is tender towards the things of God. And so we live a lifestyle of thanksgiving and of thankfulness and and just being gracious and and um uh being having genuine gratitude, being real, real gratitude for, for our family and for uh for you guys. I'm thankful for you watching live stream. Um, you know, I pray that.
Speaker 2:If you are well, you want to pray over live stream. Now, yeah, let's pray. If you're going through something, I'm going to pray over you. Maybe you've never accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior. That is the best prayer heart you know. Come to God, all those you know.
Speaker 2:In Romans, it says if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart, you shall be saved. And so maybe you it's not complicated All you say, god, I need you, come into my heart, save me. I can't do this on my own. Forgive me of my sins. I need a savior, and his name is Jesus. And so that's just a simple prayer. And so I want to pray with you guys.
Speaker 2:If you're, if you're going through anything, maybe there's a you know, financially spirit, soul, body. God wants us to be a 100 percent, a whole wholeness. When lacking nothing, total, he wants us complete. And so, father, we just thank you for everybody watching on live stream. Father, through YouTube. We thank you, lord, that they are healed. Father, I thank you. We just apply the blood of Jesus over whatever situation that they're facing.
Speaker 2:Lord, you know what's going on, lord, and we thank you, father, that you sent your son. You gave us your very best so they wouldn't have to go through anxiety, so they don't have to go through depression or sickness, father, or feeling sad or if they have a troubled mind. Father, I thank you that that was nailed to the cross. That was nailed to the cross and it stays there. And so we thank you, lord, that they have a heart of gratitude.
Speaker 2:Father, maybe they've been looking at the circumstance in the wrong way, lord, but we thank you that you shift that around. Even in whatever circumstance they're in, father, they will be grateful, whether it's a bad thing that they're going through, whether it's the good times, the bad times. Father, I thank you that we remain faithful, we remain steady, father, and I thank you that they remain steady, they remain faithful, they remain thankful, father, through the tough times, father. And so we just thank you, lord, that you touch their heart right now, that their heart is moldable.
Speaker 2:Father, if there's been any kind of broken heart, father, I thank you that you are the mender of a broken heart. You mend broken hearts, lord. We just thank you, father, for what you've done in their lives, lord. We thank you, lord, that that their brightest days are ahead of them, father. They're not going to think about the past. Brightest days are ahead of them, father. They're not going to think about the past, they're not going to focus on the negative, father, but they're going to put their faith and hope in you, lord, because it's you that produces true peace in their life and true a heart of gratitude, father, and so we just thank you. We give you all of the praise and all of the glory in Jesus' name Fresh spirit of wisdom and revelation that's invigorating their heart and flooding their heart with light, the light of your word.
Speaker 1:When you turn on the lights, the roaches run. So, when the roaches run, the fear runs, doubt runs, self-doubt runs, lord, and you're bringing stability, you're bringing encouragement, father, you're bringing confidence that only you can bring via the Holy Spirit. Lord, they're confident in you and, lord, they're not confident in themselves, in anybody else, but you, lord, and it's you that's making them confident. Rather, and, father, we just thank you right now for that spirit of wisdom and revelation. Lord, the things that they've heard tonight, lord, they're immediately, they're quick to respond and make changes. Lord, the Holy Spirit is illuminating change and things for them to do, action that's required on their behalf.
Speaker 1:Father, we just thank you right now that they're acting on your word, and we just thank you that we're the believer and you're the performer, and so we trust you in all that we do, lord, we lean our whole, entire human personality back into you, like the Amplified Bible tells us to do. And, lord, we're just so grateful and thankful for all the things that you're doing in our lives and all the blessings that you're bestowing onto us. Lord, we're just so grateful and thankful for all the things that you're doing in our lives and all the blessings that you're bestowing onto us, lord, that you daily load us with benefits. You're daily loading us and so, lord, we just thank you, we're grateful and we're genuine, we have genuine gratitude towards you in Jesus' name, amen.