"Being Thankful" RESCUE RADIO with MarjorieCole

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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God, we thank you that the war has been won by you,

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and the enemy has been defeated.

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And we thank you, Lord God, that even from the foundation of the world,

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all of these things have been discussed and debated and settled because you

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settled it all when you died on the cross and rose from the dead,

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and Satan had nothing more he could say about it.

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So we thank you, Lord God, for your faithfulness to complete the work you've begun in us.

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We thank you for the opportunity to be thankful, to recognize,

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to return the gratitude to you and the kindness that you did in creating us in your own image.

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So God, give us grateful hearts and give us eyes that see and ears that hear

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and appreciate the blessings that you have given us throughout our lives.

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And may that bring joy and glory and praise to your name as well.

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And we bind every spirit that would try to hinder or block the revelation,

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the understanding of this truth, Father, to our hearts and minds.

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Give us eyes to see and ears to hear.

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Father, we ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen and amen and amen. So what do you suppose we're talking about today?

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Let me think about it for a minute. How about Thanksgiving? Yes, indeed.

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You know, Thanksgiving is kind of that day, you know, sandwiched between Halloween

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and Christmas. Yeah, that nobody remembers anyway. That people just kind of pass right over.

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We're just jumping for the...

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Black Friday sales. Black Friday starts probably in— It's probably more important

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than Thanksgiving. It starts in October almost.

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But again, this is the way it goes.

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The whole idea of Thanksgiving and being grateful and counting your blessings

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and having a sweet attitude and believing God for things is kind of being pushed

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out of the limelight by the gory,

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gross, creepy things we think about and prepare for Halloween.

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And then, of course, the delightful things we think about with Christmas.

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So, Halloween, I mean, Thanksgiving has just kind of lost its place.

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Yeah, and the thing is, there's so much that we could be grumbling about and complaining about.

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Yeah. But, you know, in a lot of conversations, what do we hear?

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We hear complaining, this is wrong, you know, economy's bad,

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this is bad, this is going on.

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We recognize that we're living in very evil days.

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But at the same time that there's an old kid's song called Home on the Range,

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where the deer on the antelope play, where seldom is heard a discouraging word

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and the skies are not cloudy all day.

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But there's so many discouraging words around and complaint.

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But listen, Thanksgiving is so important.

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Let's get the scripture setting for this. 1 Thessalonians 5.18,

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In everything, give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for

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you. In everything, give thanks.

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Philippians is a lot like that. Philippians says, well, starting with chapter

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4, verse 1, verse 4, Rejoice in the Lord always.

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And again, I say, rejoice.

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Let your gentleness be known to all men.

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The Lord is at hand. So, as we're preparing for the return of Jesus Christ,

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it's coming again. What does he say to do?

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He says, rejoice. He says, look up.

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He says, in everything, give thanks.

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He says, the Lord is at hand. He says, be anxious for nothing,

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but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving,

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that you request to be known to God.

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So, thanksgiving is an antidote for anxiety.

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Another thing is that— People get anxious because they don't,

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they're worried, they take on the concerns, the worries, the fears,

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and they meditate on those things. But he says, be anxious for nothing.

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So when you have cast your cares upon the Lord, part of that prayer and casting

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our worries upon the Lord is operating out of rejoicing and thanksgiving.

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And so when you do that, and you cast your cares upon the Lord,

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then it says the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,

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will guard your heart and mind through Christ Jesus.

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And then he goes on to say, well, don't you want the peace of God?

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Isn't that what everybody's after, is peace?

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Well, the peace comes from thanksgiving, from an attitude of gratitude and from

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allowing the Lord to carry your worries.

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And then he says in verse 8, Therefore, brethren, think on whatsoever things

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are noble, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,

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whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things have good report.

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If there is any virtue, if there's anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things.

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And he says, And the things which you have learned and received and heard and

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saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

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I think a lot of times we don't think that being grateful or thanking.

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Being thankful or rejoicing, I don't think we think of those as very spiritual things.

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I think we think of those as kind of like frills on top or something,

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that they're not the basic bedrock of what our relationship with God or others should be.

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But really, bottom line, that's what it is.

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Thanksgiving, spreading the gospel, the good news, keeping people from losing heart,

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giving up, is when you're really meditating on the goodness of God and the faithfulness

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of God and being thankful for it, then discouragement, anxiety,

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fear kind of melt away, and we don't become, we don't fall into that one trap,

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that category that 2 Timothy is talking about, chapter 3, where he says,

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but know this, that in the last days, are we in the last days? Yes, absolutely.

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The last of the last of the last of the last days. Well, when we're in these

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last days, perilous times will come.

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Well, what's going to be, what's dangerous? What is he defining as dangerous?

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Our men will be, number one, lovers of themselves. That's true.

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Egocentric, ego-statistical, opinionated, selfish, lovers of money,

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boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful.

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That's next to unholy. And I think it's placed rightly because when you're not

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thankful, you're not going to be holy.

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You're not going to appreciate that which is pure, lovely, just,

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and holy before the Lord.

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You're going to be looking for ways to strive, and there's going to be the bitterness,

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the unforgiveness, the slandering, all of these things that are contrary to thankful.

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So, when our hearts are not thankful, then the enemy can get in to bring bitterness.

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Grumbling, complaining, negativity.

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All those things will take the place or fill up the place that thankful and

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rejoicing should be holding in positions in our heart.

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Yeah, and just in normal relationships with people, you know,

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isn't it pleasant to be around people that are appreciative?

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Sometimes you can, you know, we do good things for other people to help them,

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to encourage them and stuff like that.

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Sometimes they don't, we don't do it to get their accolades of appreciation.

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We do it because it's the right thing. But how much more pleasant,

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and you think in your own life, isn't it more enjoyable to be around people

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that are appreciative, they're thankful?

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You know, they're thankful for you. They're thankful for just every good thing.

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I mean, thankful that your body's working as good as it is. Maybe it's not working

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perfect in every way, but be thankful for the air that we breathe,

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the food that we eat, the friends that we have.

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And Paul was talking to the church at Ephesus.

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And he says to them in Ephesians 1.16, he says, oh, he starts with verse, let's look at verse 15.

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Therefore, I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and

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your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you,

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making mention of you in my prayers.

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So he's constantly living with an attitude of thanksgiving for these believers.

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Now, are we thankful for our brothers and sisters in Christ?

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Are we thankful for them, even the ones that are kind of weird like we are?

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But anyway— Well, actually— And thankful for members of your family.

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I mean, maybe you don't have the most ideal family, but just think about now,

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where is your heart on all this?

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Because every good gift, James says, every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.

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Now, the Lord is the source of everything good.

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And why not express appreciation to Him for this? Because it's all really come

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from Him and through Him to us, to benefit us.

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Yeah, I think thankfulness or thanksgiving is a thing that we need to really focus on.

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I believe once you're—the Bible says, in everything, give thanks.

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In everything, give thanks. And it says rejoice.

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And again, I say rejoice. So two of the things that we can do,

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even in the midst of difficult trials, and it's probably the most powerful thing

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we can do is actually stop and give thanks to God.

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And in your giving that thanks, you're saying, Lord, I trust you, I believe you.

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You can work all things together for good. I'm not gonna go with what this looks

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like right now. I'm not gonna go with what this feels like right now.

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I'm gonna go, I'm gonna look at you and say that you are faithful and that you're

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able to work all things together for good and bring beauty out of these ashes.

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And so that's what we want the Lord to know, to see from us that rejoicing, that is an act of faith.

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You're not going by your feelings at that point. You're going by an act of faith and obedience.

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You're not going by sight or feelings, but by faith when you're just saying,

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no matter what this looks like, I'm going to trust God.

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In the whole, all of the Psalms, not much of the prayers are,

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oh, give thanks to the Lord for he's good.

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Offer the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving.

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Make your requests made known to God. Oh, give thanks to the Lord for he's good.

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His steadfast love endures forever.

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Give thanks to the Lord for, again, these are repeated many times, for why?

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Because his steadfast love endures beyond the fear, the pain,

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the loss, even the place where you get desolate and you give up, the.

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Abiding love and power of God's faithfulness endures to carry you through this difficult time.

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But the most important thing is for you to continue to demonstrate your faith

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in the faithfulness of God.

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And by being thankful, you're going to basically stamp on the devil's head and

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say, I don't care what it looks like.

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I don't care what it feels like. I am thankful. God is with me.

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God is good. God is faithful.

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And I rejoice because a joyful heart, for one thing, is good medicine.

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But so, you know, I'll give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name,

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make known his deeds among the people, proclaim.

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This is our whole mandate is that the peace of God rule in your heart and to

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the which you are also called in one body and be thankful.

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All of these things are simple admonitions and they're not that hard to do.

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They don't cost you any money.

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You don't have to go out and you have a bag full of money to buy some gratitude and thankfulness.

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It's just a put you just decide in your heart you're going

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to replace that that grumbling that murmuring that negativity that

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criticism with an attitude of blessing god and thanking god and you will see

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how your whole body soul and spirit will feel better yeah i i just think of

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the days when i was in bible college and our president our president was not

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always in chapel every morning but he would,

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Whenever he was there, he'd have a stand-up, and we recited Psalm 100.

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And in Psalm 100, and a lot of us are familiar with that, it says,

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Make a joyful shout unto the Lord, all you land.

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Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

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Know that the Lord, he is God. It is he who has made us, and not we ourselves.

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We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

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Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise.

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Be thankful to him and bless his name.

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For the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endures to all generations.

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So, I mean, that was something that just got in our spirit.

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Our spirits every time we share that because he knew.

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The word. He knew this because he knew the power of the Word to get that in

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us so we would just, every day, we'd be reminded to be thankful to the Lord. It is so much easier.

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It's really easy to grumble and complain. But really grumbling and complaining,

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the fruit of that is not anything pleasant or anything you really want to have in your life.

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So the opposite of grumbling and complaining is gratitude and thanksgiving.

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He says in Isaiah 12, 4, he says, I say to you this day, give thanks to the

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Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people, proclaim this.

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Among the people, they mention that his name is exalted.

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Sing to the Lord, give praise. So when we're praising God, we're not complaining.

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When we're thanking God, we're giving place to that gratitude.

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We're lifting up our faith. Actually, I think, like I said earlier,

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faith is demonstrated by our thanksgiving and by our rejoicing.

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He says, let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts to the which also you were called.

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We're called to be in that place of peace in one body and be thankful.

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Again, that knits our hearts together with gratitude.

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And this very healthy, Thanksgiving is a super healthy way to live.

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So ingratitude, really, Marjorie, is a doorway to idolatry.

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Right, because you're dissatisfied, you're not happy. It's a doorway to idolatry

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and depravity. And doing it yourself.

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Because in Romans chapter one, And it says, let's see here, verse 21,

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because although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God.

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Okay, there was a recognition of God, but what did they do? They refused.

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They took him for granted, you know, at least minimally they took him for granted.

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And pretty soon they're turning away from him totally, nor were thankful. Yeah.

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But what was the result of that? They became futile in their thoughts,

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and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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Professing to be wise, they became fools.

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But it all started out when they were refused to glorify God and be thankful.

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They were, you know— Ingratitude is, like I said, is the open door to idolatry

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and all kinds of— Because in idolatry, what you're saying is,

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I'm not satisfied with what God is providing for me.

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I'm going to go another way to get what I want. I'm going to go to his enemy. me.

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I'm going to go to the other side and see what the devil's got for me.

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So you're really seeking to the favor of the demonic spirits or the idol,

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the gods, if you will, that will give you what you want.

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And they will give you what you want for a minute, and then they're going to bind you.

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So it says, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God,

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nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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This is exactly what Ingratitude, you know, entitlement, all of these things

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push the envelope for us to become ungrateful to God and therefore deceived

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and, like you even said, idolatry.

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Yeah, and it gets—then when there's idolatry, there's immorality,

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there's sexual perversion, there's all kinds of perversion, vile passions—.

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You know, homosexuality, people burning in their lust for one another.

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Well, all of this, that comes out of ungratefulness.

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A debased mind is the result of ingratitude.

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Because thanksgiving focuses on God, thanking Him for making you,

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for being, abiding, providing, all those things.

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And when you don't want to give God that thanks, then what are you doing? You're rebelling.

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You're rejecting Him. And, you know, he says in Colossians, And that the peace

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of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called, and be thankful.

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Then he says, Do everything that you do in word or deed. Do everything in the

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name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father through him.

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Give thanks in all circumstances, 1 Thessalonians.

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But this is the will of God in Christ Jesus.

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So God's will is tied up with our ability to walk in—His will is for us as peace,

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but the ability to walk in that peace comes through being thankful in everything and trusting God.

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Really, when you're saying, thank you, God, you're actually acknowledging Him

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as your source, as your protector, as your supplier.

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You're really giving God the glory that's due His name.

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And the devil, of course, doesn't like any of that. So he wants you to do the

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opposite of that, which is grumble and complain and count your,

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not count your blessings, but count your miseries and line them all up and then

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blame God for whatever he's not doing right in your life.

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However, an attitude of gratitude, thankfulness, trusting in the faith of God

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to finish the work he's beginning, these are the ways to stay healthy.

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And these are the ways to bring us to wisdom and peace and gratefulness.

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And there's that old song, Count Your Blessings. Yeah. Name them one by one.

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Count your many blessings. See what God has done. So sometimes we just,

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we worry about the things that we don't have.

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Or we desire, we worry about the things that we don't have, and then we set

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our sights on getting some more stuff or whatever it is. Thinking that the stuff

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will make us happy. Yeah.

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And so. So then you have to get another storage shed. Count your, yeah, blessing. Oh.

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And then I've got more stuff that controls me. Oh, yeah. But counting your blessings.

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Never enough. The thing is, we're blessed in so many ways.

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You know, sometimes we refer to, you know, very super wealthy people as being blessed.

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Well, they are. I mean, if they've honored God, they're blessed.

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But what about if you're just, you know, almost dirt poor right now?

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You're still blessed. There's still something to be thankful for.

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Yeah, but what about if we're not counting our blessings, and we're then open

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up to all this misery and stuff that the enemy wants to pound into us?

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But God says, you know, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,

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because that brings the perfection of your faith, and part of that is thankfulness.

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And, you know, another thing is, we don't seem to be thankful for something

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until we don't have it. You know, we take for granted our eyesight,

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our ears, our hearing, our walking, our mobility, our ability to bend down and

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pick a piece of paper up off the floor, put on our socks.

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We take those things for granted because, well, they just should be there because

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they've always been there.

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But we don't really miss something until we don't have it anymore.

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And then we cry out for the thing that we had and we're not even thankful for

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when we had it. Yeah, there's an old saying that you don't miss the water until the well runs dry.

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You know, so that's, you know, so...

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Yeah, and how many times do we take people in our lives for granted? For granted, that too.

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You know, it's like, well, we just assume they're going to be there,

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and then maybe a death comes, maybe suddenly or something of some loved one,

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and we realize, oh, my goodness.

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I've taken them for granted. I should have, I could have, if only I would have

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known. If only, you know, if only we would have been more attentive to them,

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showed appreciation to them, respected to them, being kind and forgiving toward them.

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This is so important. Taking stuff for granted.

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Taking people for granted, yeah. Taking people for granted, stuff for granted,

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taking the sky for granted, taking the trees for granted, taking the flowers

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for granted, taking your children, your family,

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your spouse for granted. Well, yeah.

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Don't do it. Be thankful for them. Well, and don't let it be that you haven't—don't

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be thankful until they're taken away.

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Another thing in 2 Corinthians, he talks about in chapter 4,

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therefore, since we have this ministry, let us receive mercy so that we do not lose heart.

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I believe being thankful is a way to stay in the game, stay confident,

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powerful, anointed, declaring the truth,

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not allowing discouragement or shame or defeat to take over your life,

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because you keep declaring the goodness of God.

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He says, And then he talks about if your gospel is hid, veiled from people.

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It's veiled to those who are perishing with the minds, the God of this world has blinded.

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For we do not preach ourselves. We do not become arrogant.

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We preach Christ, ourselves, as servants. And God says, he commands the light

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to shine in the darkness.

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He commands the light to be given to our heart. That light comes as an attitude

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of a spirit of thanksgiving.

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And he says, even though we're hard-pressed on every side, yet we're not crushed.

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Why? Because, and we're perplexed, but not in despair. Why?

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Persecuted, but not forsaken. Struck down, but not destroyed. Why?

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Always caring about in our bodies the death of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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that we might also be manifested in his life.

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Why? Why is it that he says, don't lose heart? Therefore, we do not lose heart.

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Even though our outward man is getting old and perishing, yet the inward man

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is being renewed day by day. So the inward man is being renewed by the spirit of thanksgiving.

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Our light affliction is but for a moment. It's only momentary.

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It's working in us a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory.

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For he says, we do not look at the things which are seen, but the things which

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are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporary, and the things which

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are not seen are eternal.

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Well, thanksgiving is a thing that bridges the gap between now and eternity.

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It is the thing that declares our dignity, our confidence, our faith.

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It validates our authenticity as a true follower of Jesus Christ,

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because many of those followers had many things crushed, as Paul is talking

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about here, persecuted, forsaken, not destroyed.

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Always working through and walking through these difficulties,

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but not defeated because the enemy has not been able to steal or take away our

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confidence in the goodness of God. And that's what Thanksgiving is.

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It's being able to stand and having done all, to stand knowing that God is good,

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God is for us, and God will never leave us or forsake us.

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So we're trusting that this Thanksgiving, two days from today,

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will be an awesome day for you to practice on perfecting that attitude of gratitude to glorify God,

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to put Him back in His right place in your life, in your mind,

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and be thankful, do the will of God, and bless His holy name.

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So may that be our prayer, and that may be our challenge and our endeavor in

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these next—right now, take up the challenge.

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Yeah, take up the challenge. And Psalm 136, O give thanks to the Lord,

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for he is good, for his mercy endures forever.

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O give thanks to the God of gods, for his mercy endures forever.

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O give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his mercy endures forever. This is a command.

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And I want to just read this. The setting of this is David wrote a psalm when

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he placed the Ark of the Covenant in the Old Testament tabernacle.

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He wrote a psalm for the occasion in 1 Chronicles 16.

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Verse 8, and I'm just going to read some of the aspects of this song.

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He says, Oh, give thanks to the Lord. Call upon his name.

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Make known his deeds among the people. Sing to him. Sing psalms to him.

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Talk of all his wondrous works.

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Glory in his holy name. Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord.

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Seek the Lord in his strength. Seek his face forevermore.

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Remember his marvelous works, which he has done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth.

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And there's joy with thanksgiving, you know.

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He says, let the heavens rejoice, verse 31.

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Let the earth be glad and let them say among the nations, the Lord reigns.

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The Lord is God. He reigns. And so let that be the theme of your heart from

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here to the end of the year. Let us just thank God and rejoice in everything.

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This will give you victory.

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Believe it or not, when you start to, in everything, give thanks and rejoice,

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and again I say rejoice, when you do those two things, you will see changes in your circumstances.

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You will see things turn around. You will see the devil defeated because you

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will see your faith rise and that God is faithful to complete his work in us.

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And thanksgiving is coupled with joy in your life. the joy and gratitude go together.

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And the more thankful you are, the more joy you have, and you'll be a lot more

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pleasant to be around. Amen.

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People will love to be around you. So, Father, we thank you.

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Thank you, Jesus, for Thanksgiving.

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We thank you for this opportunity to remember and recall to my many,

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many things that you are grateful.

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You have granted us and we are grateful for. Lord God, be blessed.

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We bless you now in your kindness to us, causing us to be showered with blessings

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and food and good things and being able to even to bless others.

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So, Father God, may you lift up our hearts and teach us how to walk in the courage

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of being grateful and thankful. In Jesus' name.

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Amen. You've got a book called Doing Relationships God's Way, Marjorie.

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There's a lot in there about, you know, because pretty much everything of life is relationships.

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Right. But being, I think there's parts in there about.

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You know, being grateful for the people that are in our lives.

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Tell us a little bit about that. Well, you know what?

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Again, just what we've already said, being grateful, thankful for the people

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in your world, in your life, treating them like sons and daughters of the Most

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High God, treating them like brothers and sisters, forgiving them when they mess up.

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And so doing relationships God's way is doing relationships like Jesus does them.

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And so we encourage you. That's on liferecovery.com. I think you can also get it on Amazon.

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So be encouraged, be thankful, and we bless God.

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For being able to speak with you, to encourage and enjoy our relationship together

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in conversations with God.

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Make every day a Thanksgiving day.