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Speaker 6: Today tonight, I want to talk about the passwords.
Speaker 4: We live in a digital age where everything has one.
Speaker 4: Your phone, your computer, Instagram, Facebook, Netflix, they all require
Speaker 4: a password, and without the Wi Fi password, you can't
Speaker 4: even use some of them. You need a password for
Speaker 4: your password. Some have to have a certain amount of
Speaker 4: characters or numbers or capital letters. It can be a
Speaker 4: lot to remember. My parents are always forgetting their password.
Speaker 4: My mom has sticky notes all around her desk with
Speaker 4: different passwords on them, and somehow it's even harder to
Speaker 4: remember than if they weren't there. One Sunday night, my
Speaker 4: dad texted me during our service and asked me to
Speaker 4: order something for him because he didn't have his password.
Speaker 4: Pastor Nick may or may not have been speaking when
Speaker 4: I did that, but the point is my dad was
Speaker 4: locked out. He didn't have his passwords, so he couldn't
Speaker 4: make that order. It's not that he forgot, he's just
Speaker 4: never known his password. You could have the most powerful
Speaker 4: computer sitting right in front of you, but without the password,
Speaker 4: it doesn't do anything. Spotify has all the music in
Speaker 4: the world, but without the password, you can't listen to it.
Speaker 4: You could even have millions of dollars in a bank account,
Speaker 4: but unless you have the password, it's just gonna sit there.
Speaker 4: A password gives you access. In this age of information,
Speaker 4: I started thinking, what if God had a password? What
Speaker 4: if there was something we could say that would give
Speaker 4: us access to His presence. What if there is a
Speaker 4: key that would unlock his blessing and favor in our lives?
Speaker 4: What would be possible? How valuable would that be? Would
Speaker 4: you want to know it? Thousands of years ago God
Speaker 4: shared his password with a man named David, and it's
Speaker 4: found here in some one hundred. He said, enter his
Speaker 4: gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. The message
Speaker 4: translation puts it this way. Enter with the password thank you.
Speaker 4: This simple phrase gives us access to the creator of
Speaker 4: the universe. These two words can unlock his blessing and
Speaker 4: favor in our lives. God has given us his password,
Speaker 4: and it's called gratitude and his love and kindness. God
Speaker 4: has invited us into his house and given us a key.
Speaker 4: When someone gives you a key, they're saying, come on in,
Speaker 4: make yourself at home, have something to eat, And that's
Speaker 4: what God is saying to us. Come on in, stay awhile,
Speaker 4: have some of my peace joy protection. Enter with the
Speaker 4: password thank you. We have a key, but it's our
Speaker 4: job to use it. Could it be that we're not
Speaker 4: seeing some prayers answered or dreams come to pass because
Speaker 4: we're not using the password. Maybe we've told God everything
Speaker 4: we want, but have we stopped to thank him for
Speaker 4: what he's already done, for the times he showed us, mercy,
Speaker 4: for the family we have, for the breath and our lungs.
Speaker 4: When we express gratitude, we're using the password. We are
Speaker 4: accessing his power. We're logging into his Amazon account, and
Speaker 4: he's got prime instant delivery on whatever we could need.
Speaker 4: Just like we can be locked out of a computer,
Speaker 4: we can be locked out of God's favor. When we
Speaker 4: are complaining, obsessing over our problems, focus on what's wrong.
Speaker 4: That's an incorrect password. It won't get us anywhere. Instead
Speaker 4: of looking at what we don't have, Let's thank God
Speaker 4: for what we do have. Instead of complaining about what's wrong,
Speaker 4: let's thank God for what's right. It's a simple thought,
Speaker 4: but it won't just happen to us. Gratitude is a
Speaker 4: choice we have to make. God sees when we choose
Speaker 4: to thank him, even when we're frustrated by our job
Speaker 4: or struggling in our finances. He's waiting to open the
Speaker 4: windows of heaven and give us access to everything we need.
Speaker 4: But we have to use the password. David knew that
Speaker 4: he said, give thanks to the Lord, for he is
Speaker 4: good and his love endures forever. What if we lived
Speaker 4: our lives with the password on our lips, constantly access
Speaker 4: in God's goodness. We'd wake up thanking Him for another
Speaker 4: day of life, for his mercy that's new every morning,
Speaker 4: for the strength to get out of bed. We'd thank
Speaker 4: him for our family, for our friends, for watching over
Speaker 4: us the day before. We might even thank him for
Speaker 4: that car that's a little old but still gets us
Speaker 4: to where we need to be, or the apartment that's
Speaker 4: small but has a heater for the winter. What kind
Speaker 4: of life would that be? We'd find ourselves in the
Speaker 4: presence of God all throughout the day, with constant access
Speaker 4: to his favor, creativity, wisdom, protection. With the simple thank you,
Speaker 4: we're unlocking the greatest force in the universe. When we're thankful,
Speaker 4: dreams come to pass. When we're thankful, doors begin to open.
Speaker 4: When we're thankful, the right people show up. That's what
Speaker 4: allows God to move in our lives. That's the power
Speaker 4: of the password. Keep it on your lips, store it
Speaker 4: in your heart. May it be the theme of your life.
Speaker 4: Sometimes we think we have to feel grateful to be grateful.
Speaker 4: But the truth is gratitude isn't a feeling, it's an expression.
Speaker 4: If someone gives you a gift, there's no gratitude until
Speaker 4: you say thank you. It could be a new car
Speaker 4: or an ugly pair of socks. The gratitude is in
Speaker 4: the expression. Why is this important Because when I wake
Speaker 4: up on a Monday morning, I don't always feel grateful.
Speaker 4: I don't have this warm, fuzzy sense of God's goodness
Speaker 4: when I hear my alarm clock. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 4: I can't be grateful on a Monday. That doesn't mean
Speaker 4: I can't thank God for a great weekend at church.
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean I can't thank and forgiving me things
Speaker 4: to do that day. Our feelings don't have to determine
Speaker 4: our expression. We can be frustrated by traffic on the
Speaker 4: way to work, or we can thank God that we
Speaker 4: have a job. We can complain about the mess we
Speaker 4: have to clean up, or we can be grateful for
Speaker 4: the friends that made it. We can be stressed by
Speaker 4: the class that's difficult, or we can be thanking God
Speaker 4: that we got an education. It's a powerful expression to
Speaker 4: thank God even when we don't feel it. One of
Speaker 4: the best ways to cultivate this kind of life is
Speaker 4: to write down what we have to be grateful for.
Speaker 4: Make a daily list of God's blessings in your life
Speaker 4: and keep it on your phone or your bathroom mirror
Speaker 4: to read over as often as you can. When we
Speaker 4: do this, it creates an awareness of God's goodness in
Speaker 4: our lives. We can write down the time He showed
Speaker 4: up and made away when it seemed like there was
Speaker 4: no way, the time he protected us from an accident
Speaker 4: or gave us a promotion, the time he healed someone
Speaker 4: we love or set us free. We can write down
Speaker 4: the fact that we have a roof over our head
Speaker 4: and go to a church where we can worship freely.
Speaker 4: When we do this daily, we develop a habit of thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: Maybe at first it's just one thing a day, God,
Speaker 4: thank you for keeping me safe. But when we know
Speaker 4: we need to write something for today, We'll start looking
Speaker 4: for things to be grateful for. We'll start noticing what
Speaker 4: God's doing in our lives. Before we know it, it
Speaker 4: may be two, three, ten things a day. When you
Speaker 4: go to the grocery store, you can write thank you
Speaker 4: for a good parking spot when you pass an exam.
Speaker 4: Thank you for helping me. When you get a paycheck.
Speaker 4: Thank you for my job. When the Texans win, Thank
Speaker 4: you that we're still going to the playoffs. Write it
Speaker 4: all down. Make thanksgiving a priority in your day. I
Speaker 4: think our lives are so routine. We get up, go
Speaker 4: to school, go to work, come home, and do the
Speaker 4: same thing again the next day. It's ordinary, it's routine.
Speaker 4: The truth is, there's nothing ordinary about waking up and
Speaker 4: being able to walk and breathe and see. There's nothing
Speaker 4: routine about being healthy, going to work, having a meal.
Speaker 4: These are gifts from God. Let's not take them for granted.
Speaker 4: Thank Him for the ordinary because it's so much more.
Speaker 4: How many ordinary blessings can you give thanks for today?
Speaker 4: You're alive, you're healthy, you can hear, you can see,
Speaker 4: you can walk, you can breathe. You have a family,
Speaker 4: you have friends, you have a place to live. What
Speaker 4: about this? God's mercy is new every morning. He loves you,
Speaker 4: he has a plan for your life. He'll never leave
Speaker 4: you or forsake you. Thank God for the ordinary when
Speaker 4: we have the right perspective, even thank God for what
Speaker 4: didn't happen. A friend of mine says, thanks for nothing, God.
Speaker 4: Thank you that I didn't have a problem with my
Speaker 4: car today. Thank you that I didn't get laid off.
Speaker 4: Thank you that I didn't give in to that temptation.
Speaker 4: Thanks for nothing. When we begin to thank God for
Speaker 4: the nothings in our lives, we'll never run out of
Speaker 4: things to be grateful for. I heard about a man
Speaker 4: who was diagnosed with cancer of the eye and had
Speaker 4: a good chance of losing his vision. He was devastated.
Speaker 4: During the surgery. To the doctor's surprise, they discovered it
Speaker 4: wasn't cancer, but a minor issue they were able to
Speaker 4: remove without affecting his sight. When the man woke up
Speaker 4: and heard the news, he said it was the best
Speaker 4: day of his entire life. He didn't get a big promotion,
Speaker 4: he didn't win the lottery. He just got the news
Speaker 4: that he would continue to see. Now he looks at
Speaker 4: everything with completely new eyes. He sees the beauty in
Speaker 4: the flowers, the wonder in the trees, the delight on
Speaker 4: his wife and kid's face when they smile. He doesn't
Speaker 4: take anything for granted. It's said, we don't know what
Speaker 4: we have until it's gone. But a grateful person can
Speaker 4: be the exception to that rule. When we're always thanking
Speaker 4: God for the ordinary, for the routine, for what didn't happen,
Speaker 4: we're taking the time to recognize His goodness in our
Speaker 4: life throughout the day. Thank Him that you're alive, Thank
Speaker 4: Him that you can see. Thank Him for the little
Speaker 4: things like a cup of coffee in the morning or
Speaker 4: a new pair of shoes. If we're always grateful, meditating
Speaker 4: on God's goodness, we'll find that discouragement and misfortune just
Speaker 4: can't seem to get a grip on us. That's because
Speaker 4: we're accessing God's presence. He's giving us peace that goes
Speaker 4: beyond understanding, joy that overshadows lack, blessings that we can't contain.
Speaker 4: Our lives aren't complete without thanksgiving. Luke seventeen tells the
Speaker 4: story of ten men with leprosy that came to Jesus
Speaker 4: for healing. He said to them, go show yourselves to
Speaker 4: the priests. While they were on their way, they became
Speaker 4: completely clean. The leprosy was gone. One of the men
Speaker 4: came running back and fell at Jesus's feet, so grateful
Speaker 4: he couldn't thank him enough. Jesus looked at him and
Speaker 4: asked weren't there ten healed? Where are the others? Then
Speaker 4: he looked at the man and said, your faith has
Speaker 4: made you whole. Ten men were healed that day. One
Speaker 4: was made whole. That's what thankfulness does. God can answer
Speaker 4: our prayer, he can fix our problem. But when we
Speaker 4: say thank you, that's when the miracle happens. That's when
Speaker 4: he makes us whole. You can be healed and miserable.
Speaker 4: You can be healed and have a bad attitude. You
Speaker 4: can even be healed and still hurting. Healing takes care
Speaker 4: of an issue, men's things. We didn't even know we're broken.
Speaker 4: It's a fullness on the inside that says I have
Speaker 4: everything I need. I know the password. Nine of those
Speaker 4: men were healed on the surface. The one who came
Speaker 4: back realized Jesus didn't just heal skin, he could heal
Speaker 4: his soul. He could give him peace fulfillment purpose. It's
Speaker 4: no wonder he couldn't thank him enough. The others were
Speaker 4: glad to have been healed. This man was grateful to
Speaker 4: have met his savior, and with that expression of gratitude
Speaker 4: he unlocked something so much greater. He was made whole.
Speaker 4: It's one thing to get the job you want, it's
Speaker 4: another to be fulfilled there. It's one thing to meet
Speaker 4: someone great, it's another to have a great relationship. It's
Speaker 4: one thing to get through a struggle, and it's another
Speaker 4: to have peace. We're incomplete when we only receive the
Speaker 4: external blessing. When we're thankful, the Bible says, God does
Speaker 4: something on the inside that's so much more valuable. Will
Speaker 4: experience a sense of His wholeness, and everything will come
Speaker 4: together for good. When I was applying for college, there
Speaker 4: was one particular school I really wanted to attend. To
Speaker 4: be honest, I wasn't even interested in the others. When
Speaker 4: I finally got that acceptance letter, I was so excited
Speaker 4: God had answered my prayer. That could have been it.
Speaker 4: I could have stopped there. But for the next four
Speaker 4: years I continued to thank God for allowing me to
Speaker 4: go to that university. I've graduated, and I still thank
Speaker 4: Him almost every day. In response. He gave me so
Speaker 4: much more than just an acceptance letter. He gave me peace, protection,
Speaker 4: good friends, the right classes. It wasn't always easy, but
Speaker 4: I had everything I needed on the inside. Some people
Speaker 4: are successful but not whole. Others are blessed, but still
Speaker 4: missing something. When we take time each day to thank
Speaker 4: God for his goodness, when we take time to say
Speaker 4: thank you for what he's done, we're like the one
Speaker 4: man who came back and fell at Jesus's feet. We're
Speaker 4: recognizing he hasn't just answered our prayer. He's saved our soul.
Speaker 4: He's given us everything we need and him we have
Speaker 4: a hope and a future. We won't just be healed,
Speaker 4: we'll be made whole. Life isn't complete without thanksgiving. Even
Speaker 4: our prayers aren't finished without it. Philippians four says, in
Speaker 4: everything by prayer with thanksgiving, present your request to God.
Speaker 4: Maybe some prayers haven't been answered because we didn't finish them.
Speaker 4: We forgot to say thank you, We didn't use the password.
Speaker 4: That's how the Bible tells us to pray with thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: It's not about begging God or trying to convince him
Speaker 4: to give us what we want. He already knows what
Speaker 4: we need once we ask. From then on we can
Speaker 4: thank him for it. There was a woman who came
Speaker 4: to Jesus begging for him to heal her daughter. She
Speaker 4: pleaded with him over and over, Please, she's sick. Help us.
Speaker 4: We read so many times in scripture where Jesus went
Speaker 4: out of his way to heal people, he was kind, compassionate,
Speaker 4: but in this particular instance, he seemed to be ignoring her. Finally,
Speaker 4: the woman realized, my begging's not doing any good, and
Speaker 4: she fell at his feet and began thanking him, worshiping,
Speaker 4: giving him praise. All of a sudden, Jesus stopped, looked
Speaker 4: at her and said, your daughter has been made whole.
Speaker 4: What begging couldn't do, thanksgiving did. And like the man
Speaker 4: with leprosy, she wasn't only healed, she was made whole.
Speaker 4: Sometimes we wait until after we see the promise to
Speaker 4: thank God. We think him after a situation turns around.
Speaker 4: But if we'll be willing to thank Him in advance,
Speaker 4: we're taking gratitude to the next level. God, I'm struggling
Speaker 4: in my finances. I want to thank you that abundance
Speaker 4: is coming. The medical report may not be good, but
Speaker 4: I thank you the healing is on the way. Or
Speaker 4: I'm battling discouragement, but God, I thank you that you're
Speaker 4: giving me victory. Prayer and thanksgiving go hand in hand
Speaker 4: when we ask God and thank him for it. There's
Speaker 4: no limit to what he will do. It was late
Speaker 4: in the evening and a large crowd was gathered when
Speaker 4: the disciples came to Jesus and said, everyone's getting hungry.
Speaker 4: There's nothing to eat. We need to send these people home.
Speaker 4: Jesus looked at them and said, you give them something
Speaker 4: to eat. The disciples probably looked at each other and thought,
Speaker 4: we have five loaves of bread and two fish that
Speaker 4: a little boy gave us. That's not even enough to
Speaker 4: feed Peter. Jesus said, bring them to me, and in
Speaker 4: verse nineteen, he took the five loaves two fish, held
Speaker 4: them up to the heavens and gave thanks. Then the
Speaker 4: disciples gave them to the people and everyone around fifteen
Speaker 4: two thousand and eight, and we're satisfied. There were even leftovers.
Speaker 4: Jesus gave thanks for what he had, for what was
Speaker 4: not enough. He blessed what seemed to be too little,
Speaker 4: and it multiplied. Maybe we think I can't thank God
Speaker 4: for this apartment, it's too small. I can't thank him
Speaker 4: for my finances. I'm barely getting by when what we
Speaker 4: have is not enough. We're right where Jesus was. We've
Speaker 4: got five loaves, two fish, and everybody's hungry. We could
Speaker 4: get discouraged or think it's unfair, but that's not part
Speaker 4: of the multiplication process. If we can learn to be
Speaker 4: grateful for what's not enough, then one day God will
Speaker 4: multiply it and give us more than enough. You might
Speaker 4: not think you have enough talent, enough friends, enough resources,
Speaker 4: but why don't you do what Jesus did and thank
Speaker 4: God for what you do have. It may not be
Speaker 4: enough now, but not enough with thanksgiving, can feed thousands
Speaker 4: not enough. With a grateful attitude can become a miracle
Speaker 4: like the Disciples. You'll even come out with some left over.
Speaker 4: In nineteen fifty nine, God gave my grandfather a dream
Speaker 4: to reach the world, but when they started liquid there
Speaker 4: were only ninety people in an old feed store. He
Speaker 4: could have gotten discouraged, thought, how is this going to
Speaker 4: reach the world. The building's too small, there's not enough people.
Speaker 4: It didn't seem like much. But my grandfather knew the password.
Speaker 4: He had a dream for thousands, yet he thanked God
Speaker 4: for the ninety. He thanked God for the feed store.
Speaker 4: He was grateful for what he had. I'd like to
Speaker 4: tell you the next week they had five hundred, then
Speaker 4: five thousand people. But for the first thirteen years, the
Speaker 4: church hardly grew. My grandfather had this dream to reach
Speaker 4: the world, but there were no sign of things increasing yet.
Speaker 4: My grandfather just kept thinking. It didn't happen overnight. But
Speaker 4: eventually that thankfulness did lead to more than enough. Because
Speaker 4: he was grateful for the ninety God multiplied it, and
Speaker 4: he still multiplied it almost sixty years later. Sometimes we
Speaker 4: don't think we have anything to be grateful for because
Speaker 4: we're going through a difficulty, but it's in those times
Speaker 4: that gratitude can bring us through the challenge. You probably
Speaker 4: know the story of Jonah. God called him to go
Speaker 4: one way, and he ran the other. During a storm,
Speaker 4: he was thrown into the sea and swallowed by a whale.
Speaker 4: It was dark, it smelled he was being digested alive.
Speaker 4: Sitting there in darkness. Anyone could have complained there you
Speaker 4: actually had a good reason. The problem was Jonah got
Speaker 4: himself in this mess. It was his own fault. There
Speaker 4: was no one else to blame. Sitting there in darkness,
Speaker 4: in the belly of a whale, when it seemed there
Speaker 4: was no reason to be grateful, Jonah said, I will
Speaker 4: offer you the sacrifice of praise with the voice of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: In his darkest moment, Jonah used the password and God
Speaker 4: caused the whale to spit him out on dry land.
Speaker 4: He went on to fulfill his destiny. A sacrifice of
Speaker 4: praise means it costs you something. It's not easy. You
Speaker 4: don't always feel like it. We all have moments where
Speaker 4: it feels like we're in the belly of a whale.
Speaker 4: A situation seems impossible, it's our fault. Everything in us
Speaker 4: says we should be discouraged, depressed, maybe just give up.
Speaker 4: Like Jonah, that's the time when we have to offer
Speaker 4: a sacrifice of praise. That's when we can say, God,
Speaker 4: the situation doesn't look good, but I want to thank
Speaker 4: you that you are good and you can turn it around.
Speaker 4: It seems like everything's coming against me, but I thank
Speaker 4: you that you are for me and you can fight
Speaker 4: my battles. Or it's my fault. I messed up, But God,
Speaker 4: I thank you that your mercy is so much greater
Speaker 4: than my mistakes. When you're grateful in the midst of darkness,
Speaker 4: God will bring you out. It might not be easy,
Speaker 4: but that's the sacrifice. This is what Paul and Silas did.
Speaker 4: They were beaten and imprisoned for spreading the good news.
Speaker 4: They hadn't done anything wrong. It was unfair. They found
Speaker 4: themselves bloodied, bruised, and chained in a prison cell. They
Speaker 4: could have gotten angry, bitter, thought God, why did this
Speaker 4: happen to us? We were doing what you told us
Speaker 4: to do. In their darkest moment, in the midnight hour,
Speaker 4: when all hope seemed lost, they weren't defeated. They were singing.
Speaker 4: They thanked God. They offered a sacrifice of praise. The
Speaker 4: Bible says, at once all the prison doors flew open,
Speaker 4: and everyone's chains came loose. When we used the password.
Speaker 4: It opens prison doors, it breaks chain, It sets us free.
Speaker 4: No matter how dark it gets, whether you're in the
Speaker 4: belly of a whale or a prison cell, there is
Speaker 4: power in thanksgiving. Nothing gets God's attention quite like a
Speaker 4: song in the midnight hour, when you could be defeated, Instead,
Speaker 4: you're thanking God that he's in control, that he's greater
Speaker 4: than whatever you're facing. When most people would have given up. Instead,
Speaker 4: you're giving thanks. If we're going to live this life
Speaker 4: of gratitude, we have to learn to be grateful through
Speaker 4: the pain, through the disappointment, through the difficulty. It's easy
Speaker 4: to thank God on the mountaintop, but there's breakthrough when
Speaker 4: we're thankful in the valley. Our attitude should be I'm
Speaker 4: gonna thank Him through the highs and the lows. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna thank him at noon and in the midnight hour.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna thank Him when I feel like it and
Speaker 4: when I don't. That's the sacrifice of praise. With the
Speaker 4: voice of thanksgiving. Even when you don't see anything happening,
Speaker 4: can be assured that God is working in your life.
Speaker 4: He'll bring you out of trouble, onto dry land, out
Speaker 4: of the prison, and into freedom. But our thankfulness doesn't
Speaker 4: have to end with amen. We should thank God first.
Speaker 4: But the password has one more purpose. It doesn't stop there.
Speaker 4: It's about sharing it with others. When we're grateful to people,
Speaker 4: we're grateful to God, we honor him. That kind of
Speaker 4: thankfulness doesn't just have the power to change us, it
Speaker 4: can change others. I read about an author who wrote
Speaker 4: a letter to an English teacher that had taught him
Speaker 4: years before. He thanked her for inspiring him to write.
Speaker 4: One day, he received a reply that said, I can't
Speaker 4: express how much your note meant to me. I taught
Speaker 4: school for over fifty years, and yours is the first
Speaker 4: note of appreciation I ever received. It came on a
Speaker 4: cold winter's morning and cheered me up like nothing has
Speaker 4: done in years. We all have people that have helped
Speaker 4: us become who we are. None of us got here
Speaker 4: on our own. Someone taught us, someone encouraged us, someone
Speaker 4: cared for us, or gave us their time. It may
Speaker 4: have been a teacher, or a grandparent, or a coworker.
Speaker 4: When's the last time you told them you were grateful.
Speaker 4: We may think it, but it's not gratitude until it's expressed.
Speaker 4: We should take every opportunity to let those around us
Speaker 4: know how much we appreciate them. It's a great habit
Speaker 4: to be overflowing with thanksgiving. Whether it's the person that
Speaker 4: raised you or someone you just met, Thanking them is
Speaker 4: a way to say God, I recognize your goodness in
Speaker 4: my life. It was my grandmother's eighty fifth birthday a
Speaker 4: little over a month ago, and she knows that I
Speaker 4: love her, But I realized I've never taken the time
Speaker 4: to tell her just how grateful I am for all
Speaker 4: that she's done, for encouraging me, for giving me a
Speaker 4: great dad for being faithful in building this church. So
Speaker 4: I wrote a note thanking her. It didn't take me
Speaker 4: very long, but it's one of the best investments I've made.
Speaker 4: Now she's always talking about it. She keeps thanking me
Speaker 4: for thanking her. When you're grateful to people, you're grateful
Speaker 4: to God. It's about a lifestyle of thanksgiving, being thankful
Speaker 4: in all things, whether the sun shining or the rains falling.
Speaker 4: We have a reason to be grateful. We'll find the
Speaker 4: more we thank God, the more we have to be
Speaker 4: thankful for. He's given us access to his presence, to
Speaker 4: his resources. Enter with the password thank you. It opens
Speaker 4: the door, it breaks chains, It makes us whole, It
Speaker 4: can feed thousands. That's the power of the password. God.
Speaker 4: How could we ever thank you enough. You've been so
Speaker 4: good to us. Tonight we come back like that one
Speaker 4: man that was healed, to say thank you. Thank you
Speaker 4: for life, thank you for family and friends, thank you
Speaker 4: for the ordinary, thank you for the routine. Thank you
Speaker 4: for what's not enough. God. We believe you can multiply
Speaker 4: it and turn it into more than enough. We believe
Speaker 4: you can set us free. We believe you can bring
Speaker 4: us out of trouble onto dry land and God, We're
Speaker 4: not just grateful to have been healed, We're grateful to
Speaker 4: know our savior. Thank you Jesus God. I pray gratitude
Speaker 4: wouldn't be a message we heard, but a life that
Speaker 4: we live in Jesus name.
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