1 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: Paula, Charisa and I from our hearts want to say 2 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 1: how much we love and honor you. For forty years 3 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: in ministry, you have touched this nation and this world 4 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: in profound ways. 5 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 2: Next on, Paula and God said, there is a principle 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: that I position you with if you'll keep an attitude 7 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 2: of gratitude. And sometimes I find myself slipping away. Sometimes 8 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 2: I can get a bad attitude. 9 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 3: Sometimes I see life not so great. 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 2: But God will always remind me, go back to grateful, 11 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 2: Go back to grateful. 12 00:00:46,440 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 3: Ja. Welcome to Paula. 13 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 2: Today. I believe that God has a word for you, 14 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 2: and I am ready to preach this on living grateful. 15 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 2: It makes a huge difference for your wellbeing, for your promotion, 16 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 2: for the favor of God. 17 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 3: I want you to. 18 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 2: Get ready to receive all that God has for you. 19 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 2: Is I take you into this teaching that I recently 20 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 2: have done on how to be grateful? 21 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 3: Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? All right? 22 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 2: Well, we've got a word today. I want to talk 23 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 2: to you about living grateful. It's really in my heart. 24 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 2: I want to shift some things I want to prepare 25 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 2: for this month, and I'm going to give you some 26 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 2: little tools that. 27 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 3: I think are going to really help you. 28 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 2: So today's a foundation, and there's a few things I'm 29 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 2: going to build on the next few weeks that I 30 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 2: believe is going to reposition you your mind, your heart, 31 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: things that are going. 32 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 3: To put you in in the flow. 33 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 2: Because as we go into January being a brand new year, 34 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 2: I'll start talking about visions, start talking about the gift 35 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 2: of God some things, because I believe it's going to 36 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 2: be a great building year and I think that God's 37 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 2: going to accelerate some things and we're gonna see massive 38 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 2: souls come into the kingdom. 39 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 3: It's just going to be a great, great year. 40 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 2: So let's start start on this message on living grateful, 41 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 2: living grateful. Look at somebody, say smile, Say smile, Say 42 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 2: you've got a lot of things to smile about. 43 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 3: We tend to think about all the negative things. 44 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: You know, a negative word goes to eighteen people, where 45 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 2: a positive one will only go to one other person. 46 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 2: And so we tend to look on what's wrong instead 47 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 2: of looking on what's right. But can you make just 48 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 2: one decision for me today? Just one you can do one. 49 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 2: I don't have anyone that can make one decision you're like, 50 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 2: it's a setup. Of course, it's a setup. You know 51 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 2: me well enough, just to change your mind, change the 52 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 2: way you're thinking about things, which will change the way 53 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 2: you're feeling about things. And I want us to start 54 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 2: really look as we go into November December and position ourselves, 55 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 2: because I'm very strategic about where we're going. As we 56 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 2: position ourself for transition. As we position ourselves, I want 57 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 2: us to live with a heart of gratitude. 58 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 3: You go well past. 59 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 2: Probably you just don't know what I'm going through. I 60 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 2: might not, I really don't, but God does you know. 61 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 2: It's exactly where you are, exactly what you're facing. And 62 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:13,679 Speaker 2: I can tell you a few things about my own 63 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 2: personal story. You know, I've had ups and downs, highs 64 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 2: and lows. Anybody with me, anybody had those. I've had 65 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 2: some of the best seasons. I'm like, my Gosh, Like 66 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 2: I just thought God had kissed me heaven and come down, 67 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 2: and it really felt like I really believe I'm God's favorite. 68 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 3: I know I'm God's favorite, all right. 69 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 2: So I really believe that. And there have been other 70 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 2: times I felt like, God, where are you? Anybody with me? 71 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 2: You're just like when the world is going on. Why 72 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 2: am I like. 73 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 3: Number one on Satan's target list. 74 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 2: I mean it's kind of been both sometimes a tale 75 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 2: of two cities that it's like the best of worlds 76 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 2: and the worst of times and the best of times 77 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 2: at the same time. And many of you hear me 78 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 2: reference a time period in my life that started on 79 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 2: January thirteen, two thousand three, and lasted for years, not 80 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,119 Speaker 2: for days. It's one thing to go through a rough 81 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 2: time for days. It's another thing when you don't see 82 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 2: any light, you don't even know where the tunnel starts 83 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 2: or ends. And I went through nineteen life crisis or 84 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 2: nineteen excuse me, nineteen life events that created I numbered 85 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: them thirty nine different life crisis. I mean things that 86 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 2: I thought I'd never walk through, went through and at 87 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 2: the time and unwanted divorce. I'd found out Brad was 88 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: an addict. There were just things that you go, man, 89 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 2: and I could understand. Sometimes you go, wait a minute, 90 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 2: I'm the one that was tithing and the one that 91 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 2: was standing in your presence. God, I was the one 92 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 2: that was just before you and fasting. And I know 93 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 2: we aren't supposed to think like this, but you go, well, 94 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 2: I get it if the heathen's going through this, if 95 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 2: you ever felt like this, olemiss that says, why are 96 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 2: the wicked prospering? Am I the only one? You guys 97 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 2: are all saved in angels. I forget all the time. 98 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 2: And I kind of got an attitude. Anybody else get 99 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 2: an attitude sometimes all right, thank you? 100 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 3: So I kind of got an attitude. 101 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 2: I was a little upset and confused and didn't understand 102 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 2: it all. 103 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 3: And I was very depressed. 104 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 2: I was going through a lot of depression at the time, 105 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 2: and I remember being in my office in my study, 106 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 2: and I'm like, I just wanted to pull myself out, 107 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 2: but could not pull myself out. I wanted to be happy. 108 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:27,239 Speaker 2: I wanted to feel good. 109 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 3: I wanted to praise God with my usual joy. But 110 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 3: I was really struggling. It wasn't something mental. 111 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 2: It was a true oppression, just being hit one thing 112 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 2: after another, one thing after another, and not really seeing 113 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 2: the way out, mister Greg But I kept serving God faithfully. 114 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 3: I kept showing up. That's an important part. 115 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 2: And I'd go and maybe I wasn't reading ten chapters 116 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 2: a day, but I would at least try to read 117 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 2: through ten verses. 118 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 3: I would do the best I could every single morning. 119 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 2: And I remember one morning I was just there laying 120 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: before God and I heard the Holy Spirit say, tell 121 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 2: me three things you're grateful for. It's like, I don't 122 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 2: have anything to be grateful for right now now. Intellectually 123 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 2: kind of, I know that's not the right thing to say. 124 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 2: Somebody could quote back and I could quote right back 125 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 2: to them, or tell me ten scriptures. I could quote 126 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 2: back one hundred to them, and I could say, I 127 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 2: already know Proverbs eighteen twenty one. 128 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 3: There's power of life and death in the tongue. 129 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 2: But if you ever hit a season where you know 130 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 2: something but you're not doing this something you know but you. 131 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 3: Still love God. And I was hitting that place and it. 132 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 2: Was like I wanted to get through it, but I 133 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 2: didn't know how to cross over it. I'm telling you 134 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 2: something very important. I was praying still. I wasn't outsinning them. 135 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,159 Speaker 2: There wasn't anything in my life. I'm staying in the 136 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 2: presence of God. But it just kept getting heavy on me, 137 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 2: and he said tell me, and it was like the 138 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit got forceful with me. Is the Holy Spirit 139 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 2: ever gotten a little bit forceful with you? He said, 140 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,239 Speaker 2: tell me three things you're grateful for so I said, 141 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 2: I don't know. And we lived across from the water 142 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 2: and the sun was coming up, and I said, I'm grateful. 143 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 3: That I can see. 144 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 2: And I started to say the sun coming up, and 145 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 2: before I could say that, the Holy Spirit that said, 146 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 2: that's right, you can see, and it just hit my spirit. 147 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 2: I said, I'm grateful I can see, and it's like 148 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 2: he emphasized that and he went, that's right, you have 149 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 2: eyes to see. As long as you have eyes to see, 150 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 2: I can reveal to you, for that's where revelation comes from, 151 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 2: and I can show you. And he began to speak 152 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 2: to me, and I was like, okay, God, I thank 153 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 2: you for my eyes to see. And I just sat 154 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 2: there for a moment and I heard the kids laughing. 155 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 2: At first, I was irritated. The kids were laughing and 156 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 2: I'm not anybody with me. So we're going to talk 157 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,239 Speaker 2: about living grateful, because when you're not in that place 158 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 2: so grateful, you get irritated of other people's happiness and gratitude. 159 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 2: I know that nobody wants to ever admit that, because 160 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 2: we're all wonderful Christians, but I was a little irritated 161 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 2: that they were all happy and laughing and everything. And 162 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 2: I'm sitting here, just broke it in my office and 163 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 2: came pull myself up and I. 164 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 3: Said, I can hear the kids laughing. 165 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 2: And he said, that's right, you can hear, and he 166 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 2: emphasized here and he said, you have ears to hear, 167 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 2: and faith cometh by hearing, and I will speak to you. 168 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 2: And I begin to say, okay, I can see, I 169 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 2: can hear, and then I went back to I thank 170 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 2: you for this day. 171 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 3: You know, I see the sun rising. 172 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 2: He's like, that's right, the sun is rising and it's 173 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 2: a brand new day. 174 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 3: And every day that sun. 175 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 2: Rises, I'm giving you another chance to fight forward. And 176 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 2: as simple as it sounds, I wrote those three things down. 177 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 2: He said, Mark, this is your gratitude journal, and I 178 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 2: just put on the top because I journal almost every day. 179 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 2: I wrote gratitude Journal, and I just wrote it down. 180 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 2: I can see, I can hear, and thank you for 181 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 2: the sun coming up. 182 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 3: I've got a new day. 183 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 2: And I'm telling you those three things. But it really 184 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 2: wasn't the three things. It was the fact that I 185 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 2: started shifting my attitude from complaining to gratefulness. And when 186 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 2: I started getting grateful, it was almost silly things when 187 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 2: I look back. But when I became grateful, my whole 188 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 2: world started changing. Everything started changing, and soon, I mean 189 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 2: really soon, I started lifting up, I started getting up, 190 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 2: I started getting my strength back. I physically started getting 191 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 2: strong again. I started putting my weight back on, and 192 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 2: I'd lost almost thirty pounds. I mean, think about that. 193 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 2: I'm not a big girl. I'd lost a lot of weight, 194 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 2: and here I was. I started pulling up myself up, 195 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 2: and God said, there is a principle that I position 196 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 2: you with if you'll keep an attitude of gratitude. And 197 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 2: sometimes I find myself slipping away. Sometimes I can get 198 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 2: a bad attitude. Sometimes I see life not so great. 199 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:50,959 Speaker 2: But God will always remind me. 200 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 3: Go back to grateful, Go back to grateful. 201 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 2: So I want to teach you today, if you want 202 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 2: to get out of any oppression, depression, if you just 203 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 2: want to you really want to be position for God's best? 204 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 3: Are you ready for that? Seriously? 205 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 2: Then you've got to live in the grateful and I 206 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 2: want to help you walk through that. Little did I 207 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 2: know at the time that gratefulness was more than just 208 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 2: an attitude or feeling that it's actually a very powerful 209 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 2: tool it's one of the principles, and you'll understand why 210 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 2: when you really understand what grateful is. 211 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 4: God is the same, yesterday, today, and forever more Hebrews 212 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 4: thirteen eight. Give and it will be given to you. 213 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 4: Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over will be 214 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,319 Speaker 4: put into your lap Luke six thirty eight. 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Thank you and God 232 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 4: bless you. 233 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 2: I pray you're enjoying the program today. I would love 234 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 2: for you to be a partner with PAULA White Ministry. 235 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 2: Make a commitment to be a monthly giver and to 236 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 2: stand in the gap as we make up the hedge 237 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 2: around the world. Literally, for forty years of ministry, we 238 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 2: have carried the gospel, transforming lives, healing hearts, and most importantly, 239 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 2: saving souls, potentially preaching the gospel to six billion people 240 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 2: in one hundred and ninety five countries. But I can't 241 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 2: do it without you. Our great humanitarian works, whether it's 242 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 2: thirty million pounds of food over the last four years, 243 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 2: are going into the prison, being discipling people, and making 244 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 2: a difference on a daily basis. Stand in that gap, 245 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 2: pray about what you should give every month. Is it 246 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 2: fifty one hundred dollars? There are many benefits of being 247 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 2: a partner, and you can find those at Polowhite dot org. 248 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:35,839 Speaker 2: But I want to thank you right now for your giving. 249 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 2: Now let's get back to the program. Gratefulness was more 250 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 2: than just an attitude or feeling that it's actually a 251 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 2: very powerful tool. 252 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 3: It's one of the principles. 253 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 2: And you'll understand why when you really understand what grateful is. 254 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 2: It's one of the powerful tools that God uses to 255 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 2: position you, that God uses to promote you, that God 256 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 2: uses to deliver you, that God uses to bring you out, 257 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 2: that God uses to break through with you. So when 258 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 2: you start getting grateful, you're gonna see amazing breakthrough in 259 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 2: your life, actually breakthrough after breakthrough. And God says, I'm 260 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 2: a good God. I have a good life for you. 261 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 2: It's not always everything's gonna go right, because it's not 262 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 2: what happens to you, it's how you respond to what's happening. 263 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 2: And he said, my life and my portion for you 264 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,079 Speaker 2: is one of peace, one of joy. I want you 265 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 2: to hear this, one of wholeness, one of holiness, one 266 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 2: of abundant life, one that is superior. 267 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 3: And one that in quality and in quantity. 268 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 2: That's important for you because God has a good life 269 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 2: for you. Bad things can happen. But God has a 270 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 2: good life for you. That is an important thing that 271 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 2: you're going to understand because you're going to see how 272 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 2: all throughout the word the circumstances did not define the person. 273 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 3: That the person defined the circumstances. 274 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 2: So let's go to first Thessalonians, chapter five, verse sixteen 275 00:13:58,640 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 2: through eighteen. 276 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 3: Go there with me. 277 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 2: The Bible says this, be joyful, always say it out loud. 278 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 2: Be joyful, always pray, continually, give thanks in all circumstances, 279 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 2: for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 280 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 2: Let's look at the message version and read it out 281 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 2: loud together. Be cheerful, no matter what. How many of 282 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 2: you have had a hard time with that sometimes, be cheerful. 283 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 2: This is a command of God. Be cheerful in your marriage, 284 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 2: no matter what. Be cheerful on your job, no matter what. 285 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 2: Be cheerful when you wake up, no matter what. Be 286 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 2: cheerful when you leave the doctor's office, no matter what. 287 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 2: Be cheerful when you go on your Bank of America 288 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 2: app no matter what. 289 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 3: Be cheerful. That's what it says. He doesn't say exemption claws. 290 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 2: Be cheerful if you have a million dollars in the bank. 291 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 2: Be cheerful if he's loving you and bringing you flowers. 292 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 2: Be cheerful if your health is perfect, he says, be cheerful. 293 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 2: Then he says, pray all the time. Thank God, no 294 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 2: matter what happens. This is the way God wants you, 295 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 2: who belonged to Christ Jesus, to live. So, no matter what, 296 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 2: this is how I want you to live. That you 297 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 2: thank God no matter what happens. You know, we will 298 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 2: get to a place that we recognize everything in our 299 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 2: life really as a Romans eight twenty eight, that what 300 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 2: the enemy meant for bad, God will turn for the good. 301 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 2: He will turn it for the good for those who 302 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 2: love God and are the called according in harmony with 303 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 2: his intention the purpose of God in our life, because 304 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 2: you'll find out everything was either a blessing or a lesson, 305 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 2: And a lesson is a blessing because God's causing us 306 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 2: to expand. God's causing us to mature, God's causing us 307 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 2: to grow. Let's go on down to verse twenty three, 308 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 2: in that it says, may God himself, the God who 309 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 2: makes everything holy in hole, make you holy in hole, 310 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 2: Put you together spirit, soul and body, and keep you 311 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 2: fit for the coming of our master, Jesus Christ, the 312 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 2: one who called you, is completely dependable. If he said it, 313 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 2: he'll do it. If he said it, he'll do it. 314 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 2: Come on, if he said it, he's going to do it. 315 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 3: Now. 316 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 2: Do you think he wants us to leave Egypt? Get 317 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 2: out in the wilderness and say, what is this? It 318 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 2: was better back in Egypt. I'd rather be eating leaks 319 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 2: and onions and garlics instead of the manna that you're 320 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 2: raining down every day. 321 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 3: So he wants us to be grateful. 322 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 2: I think of gratefulness and spelling it g r a 323 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 2: t e f u L think of it as great 324 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 2: g r e a t fullness, great fullness. My life 325 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 2: is full of greatness. My life is full of greatness. 326 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 2: So my attitude is going to determine a lot for 327 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 2: how I live. Grateful, whatever you appreciate, I want you 328 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 2: to hear this because it's the law that is at 329 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 2: work right now, and their laws are going to take 330 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 2: you through the word. Whatever you appreciate appreciates. So whatever 331 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 2: you appreciate appreciates goes up. And when you learn to 332 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 2: appreciate more of what you already have, you'll find yourself 333 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 2: having more of what you appreciate. So if you want 334 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 2: more love, what do you have to do? Appreciate the 335 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:13,880 Speaker 2: love you have. If you want more love, you've got 336 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 2: to appreciate the love you have. Oh if I just 337 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,360 Speaker 2: had more love, Oh if somebody just really loved somebody 338 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 2: does love you. If you can't find one human being, 339 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 2: you've got a high priest, Jesus Christ, you've got God, 340 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 2: the Father, You've got the Holy Spirit. 341 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 3: You've got a cute dog. 342 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 2: Come on, I mean, you've got something someone, something. 343 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 3: That loves you. You've got a pastor that loves you. 344 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 3: You've got a pastor. 345 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 2: That loves you. You've got so whatever you appreciate appreciates. 346 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:43,439 Speaker 2: If you want more friends, you've got to appreciate the 347 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 2: friends you have. Whatever you appreciate appreciates. If you want 348 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 2: more money, you've got to appreciate the money you have. 349 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 2: So whatever you appreciate appreciates. So there was a lot 350 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 2: of recent study I want to give you before I 351 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,239 Speaker 2: get into the bulk of this message today, Okay, I 352 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 2: want to just give you some things that I think 353 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,919 Speaker 2: will help, because you guys know, I'm always going to 354 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 2: throw in some little either cultural thing or psychological thing 355 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,919 Speaker 2: into helping us through the word. Here, there's a recent 356 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 2: study and work that suggests that people who are grateful 357 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 2: have much more higher levels of subjective well being. So 358 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 2: people who live grateful are better off in life. So 359 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 2: how many of you want to be better off in life? 360 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:25,239 Speaker 3: All right? So let's look at this. 361 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 2: Let's look at this body of work that was done, 362 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,439 Speaker 2: and you can find it. It's all over the place. 363 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 2: But grateful people tend to be and are much happier. 364 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 2: They're happier people. Now, joy is the fruit of the spirit, 365 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 2: but all of us like to be happy, and happy 366 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,199 Speaker 2: happiness comes from what's happening in you and how you 367 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 2: interpret that. So they're less depressed, they're less stressed, they're 368 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 2: more satisfied with their life, both socially and relationally. How 369 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 2: many of you want more satisfaction? 370 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,880 Speaker 3: Come on, Those sound like good things to us. 371 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 2: Grateful people, they say, have higher levels of control over 372 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 2: their environments. That's an important part because we think we're 373 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 2: in control where we're really not. But we like to 374 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 2: fill at peace with things, you know, we like to 375 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 2: know that. In other words, they are better at interpreting events, 376 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:19,640 Speaker 2: they're better at walking out things when they're grateful, they 377 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 2: happen to handle personal difficulties better than those who are 378 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 2: not grateful when they experience it, and they're very much 379 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 2: more likely to seek support from others instead of isolate themselves. 380 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 2: And this is an important one because they reinterpret life's 381 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 2: events as something that is going to be more of 382 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 2: a blessing than. 383 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 3: A cursing in their life. 384 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 2: So even when something might devastatingly seem to happen, or 385 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 2: somebody walks out in their life, or things don't go 386 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 2: their way, they interpret those events as all things working 387 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 2: for the good, all things working for the good. 388 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 3: Come on, And your interpretation. 389 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 2: Is huge because if you see this as oh man, 390 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 2: I'm going on, it's done, chicken, little, the sky has fallen, 391 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 2: I don't think the sky's falling. I know the Church 392 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 2: is the most powerful entity in the earth. I know 393 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 2: that it is the only legally authorized entity in the 394 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 2: earth that has the ability to bring for a transformation. 395 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 2: I know that God is more powerful than any entity, 396 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 2: any being. I know that Jesus Christ is the way 397 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 2: the truth to life. I know I am a child 398 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 2: of God, created in the image of an almighty God. 399 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 2: I know I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I know 400 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 2: that I'm the apple of his eye. I know that 401 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 2: every day, if nobody else is praying over me, the 402 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 2: High Priest Jesus Christ, my Savior, my Messiah come on, 403 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 2: is praying over me. And according to Ephesians chapter three and 404 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 2: chapter one, God is speaking blessing over me. 405 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 3: Right now. 406 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 2: I know that God calls me by my name, he 407 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 2: doesn't call me by my shame. I know that my 408 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 2: past has no relevance on my future except for a 409 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,399 Speaker 2: point of looking what God did, how he brought me 410 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 2: from A to B to C. I know that behold, 411 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 2: all things can become new in Christ Jesus. No matter 412 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 2: what somebody tries to hold you to, you are a 413 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 2: new creation in Christ Jesus. I know I'm the head 414 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 2: and not the tell I know I am blessed coming 415 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 2: in and blessed going out. I know I'm blessed if 416 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 2: you put me in the city. I know I'm blessed 417 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 2: if you put me in the field. I know that 418 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 2: I don't have to go to a blessed place. I 419 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 2: can be in a barren place and bring blessing to 420 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 2: it because I know what I carry, I know who 421 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 2: I am in Christ Jesus. 422 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 3: I know I can do all. 423 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 2: Things through by my relationship of resting in Him. 424 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 3: Come on, I know that God has me. 425 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 2: I know when I meditate on the Word and speak 426 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 2: the word and do the Word, that I make. 427 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 3: My way successful. 428 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 2: Success is not determined if somebody likes me, somebody gives 429 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 2: me a break, somebody is with me. Success is determined 430 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 2: by the Word of God, which is higher and as 431 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 2: high as the name of God, and what I do 432 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 2: with that. 433 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 3: And then if I be willing and obedient, I will 434 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:57,879 Speaker 3: eat the good of the land. 435 00:21:58,200 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 2: That I will always see the good of the lad 436 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 2: and that which God has given me, that which God 437 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 2: has shown me, he will complete. 438 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 3: He will perfect that which He started in my life. 439 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 3: That God doesn't quittle me. 440 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 2: That God is Alpha, God is a mega. 441 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 3: That God is beyond time, and a day is. 442 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 2: As a thousand, and all I've got to do is 443 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 2: walk it out with patience, and the promises will come 444 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 2: to fact pass because He's. 445 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 3: Given me a gift of faith. 446 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 2: Come on, if you get in the Word, you got 447 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 2: the same gift of faith. Because the Word comes our faith, 448 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 2: coming by hearing, and the hearing by the word of God, 449 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 2: and as the word gets in your spirit, so does 450 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 2: faith come on in the promises of God come to 451 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 2: pass by faith and by your patience. 452 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 3: All you have to do is walk it out. 453 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,400 Speaker 2: I know that I have all power and all authority, 454 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 2: both in heaven and in earth. 455 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 3: I know there's no devil, there's. 456 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 2: No war life, there's no witch, there's no incantation, there's 457 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 2: no spell, there's no hater, there's no jealousy that can 458 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 2: take me down or take me out. Because if God 459 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,679 Speaker 2: before me, who can be against me? And when the 460 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,120 Speaker 2: enemy does come in, God will like a flood, God 461 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 2: will raise up a standard against him. I know that 462 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,640 Speaker 2: today a thousand will fall at my side, and ten 463 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 2: thousand in my right hand, but it will not come 464 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 2: nigh me. I already know that God has hedged me 465 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 2: in and protected me and covered me. 466 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 3: He's given me. 467 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 2: A shield of protection and a glory that covers me. 468 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 2: I already know that my footsteps have been ordered by God. 469 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 2: I already know I'm walking in his goodness. I know 470 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 2: that His grace covers me every day, and His mercies 471 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 2: are new every single morning. 472 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 3: I know that I have the mind of Christ, and 473 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,120 Speaker 3: I hold the thoughts of the Messiah. 474 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 2: I know that I've guarded my heart because out of 475 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 2: them flow the issues of life, and God has given me. 476 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 3: A heart. 477 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 2: Wad. Remember that gratitude comes from the root word of grace, 478 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 2: which is also favor, which comes in to praise. And 479 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 2: praise is thanking someone in this instance Itus thanking God, 480 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 2: thanking someone for who they are and for what they've done. 481 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 2: I would like you to consider giving a gratitude offering 482 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 2: into Paulo White Ministry, Thanking this ministry, thanking God for 483 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 2: his blessing for forty years, Thanking God how this ministry 484 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 2: has touched you. Now, why should you do that? Number one? 485 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 2: Gratitude is an action, not only an attitude, and worship 486 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 2: is denoting the worth and the value of who someone 487 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 2: is in your life. God is so good to us all. 488 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 2: And also we connect it to this ministry because Paulo 489 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 2: White Ministry for forty years has preached the gospel, has 490 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 2: fed the hungry, has visited the prisoner, has made such 491 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 2: a huge difference in this world. And I want you 492 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,959 Speaker 2: to stand with us so we can continue to advance 493 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 2: the Kingdom of God. When you give a gratitude offering, 494 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 2: we will make sure that men stryt continues to go 495 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 2: forth in a profound way. Thank you for your giving 496 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 2: and expect God to do something supernatural. 497 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 4: Your life is meant to be lived by design. God, 498 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,880 Speaker 4: the Master Creator, has written your days in a way 499 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 4: that carries purpose, legacy, and influence. A life by Design. 500 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 4: Paula White Ministries exists to make a difference in the 501 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 4: lives of millions of people, and it is your Life 502 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 4: by Design partnership that makes this happen. 503 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that talk about it, but 504 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: this ministry truly does it, lives, it breathes it, and 505 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,160 Speaker 1: the heartest for the Lord and for loves. 506 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 4: Together in covenant, Paula and our partners spread the love 507 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,360 Speaker 4: of God to over one hundred and ninety countries, feeding 508 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 4: and clothing those in need, transforming lives, healing hearts, and 509 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 4: winning souls. And we invite you to join Paula as 510 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,160 Speaker 4: a Life by Design Ministry partner in twenty twenty five, 511 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 4: Call told, write, text to give, or click on Paula 512 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 4: White dot org to become a twenty twenty five Paula 513 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 4: White Ministry's partner. Today, every time I. 514 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 2: Saw into this good good girl, I see the benefit 515 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 2: the harvest of it, and it's one of my principles 516 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 2: of giving. 517 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 4: There is a partner level for everyone in twenty twenty 518 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 4: five with special partner exclusive gifts and benefits. Become one 519 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 4: of Paula's Life by Design Covenant Partners with your monthly 520 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 4: supportive twenty five dollars or more, a Life Transformer partner 521 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 4: with your monthly supportive forty dollars or more, a Sustainer 522 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 4: partner with your monthly supportive one hundred dollars or more, 523 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 4: or an Armor Bearer partner with your monthly supportive five 524 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 4: hundred dollars or more, or at one time gift of 525 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 4: five thousand dollars or more. As the Holy Spirit leads you, 526 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 4: we have incredible gifts ready to shift that Paula has 527 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:35,640 Speaker 4: picked out for you. 528 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 2: When you do, we have the opportunity to partner together. 529 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,199 Speaker 2: I'm being a Covenant Connection partner and to change the 530 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 2: world for Jesus Christ. 531 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,399 Speaker 4: Thank you in advance for becoming a Life by Design 532 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 4: partner in twenty twenty five own for the glory of God. 533 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 2: If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, 534 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 2: you don't have to live alone. 535 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 3: He died a really. 536 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 2: Cruel dead, but he was in that board tomb, descended 537 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 2: to hell and rose again on the third day to 538 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 2: give you and I a life that we could never 539 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 2: earn and don't even quite frankly deserve. 540 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 3: But God loved us, and I want to. 541 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 2: Extend that to you, that Jesus Christ, through his death 542 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 2: will give you life. But the Bible says that if 543 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 2: you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart 544 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 2: that He's the son of God, you'll be saved. 545 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 3: Let's pray this prayer together. 546 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 2: Say, Father God, I come to you in the name 547 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 2: of Jesus, forgive me for all my sin. I receive 548 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 2: Jesus Christ as my Lord and my savior. Say devil, 549 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 2: let go of my life. Now I fully surrender in Jesus' name. 550 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 2: With that prayer, Welcome to the Family of God. It's 551 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 2: not the last step, but it is the first step. 552 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 2: Go to Paulawhite dot org. There's a free digital download 553 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,360 Speaker 2: on what it is to be born again. Our beliefs 554 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 2: are all there. I do a teaching on salvation, how 555 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,640 Speaker 2: do you grow in your faith? And so much more. 556 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 2: I would love to disciple you. I would love to 557 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 2: walk this life with you. Send me your prayer requests 558 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 2: and your praise reports, and let's do this together, God 559 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:19,199 Speaker 2: bless you. 560 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,440 Speaker 4: The preceding program has been made possible through the faithful 561 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,639 Speaker 4: prayers and generous support of our partners and friends in 562 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 4: this viewing area.