Thankful - Pastor Tina Self

[00:00:00] Welcome to the World Changers Church Gold Coast Podcast. Join us as we listen to today's message. [00:00:05] All right, who's excited for the word? You ready? All right. Would you do me the privilege of standing to your feet and honoring the ministry gift of Pastor Tina self? Amen. Amen. Let's give glory to God. Let's give glory to our Father. All glory and honor to him. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. We glorify him. Hallelujah, Worship team. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm going to call you guys up at the end. Michelle. I'm going to call you guys up at the end. So. Wow. I am convinced that there was a host of angels singing this morning because what I heard up here in this small number could not have, like, justified like what I was hearing. So. Glory to God. That was powerful. We've been to church already, guys. Amen. And a heaven and back. We are in the heavenly realms. Amen. Well, welcome to World Changers. Our wonderful Pastor Kyle has made it to Jordan. He's in Jordan currently. I believe he's been to Petra. I said it really wrong. He. He's going on an Exodus adventure journey with 19 other pastors, and he gets the pleasure of going into Egypt and Israel. They're going to go to Mount Sinai. They're going to. They're going to see some places that Jesus walked and Moses and. And I'm so excited for him. This was an end suddenly that God did in his life. I don't know who it was. At the beginning of the year, we were sitting at it at our dinner table, and he was. We're talking about travel and he was saying, my dream is to always to go to Israel, but I know that I'll never come back if I go. And it was just kind of a little joke, you know, and finances, you know, just hasn't been there for us to go. And suddenly happened, he got a phone call from one of his best mates in the States, Jamie Brown. He's going to come here. You'll meet him. He's a pastor. And he said that they did a fundraiser and that they were able to sponsor three people and they chose him. So. I know. Glory to God. You know, God knows. God knows what we need. And, you know, I'm like, this is so not the best timing for you to go, honey. But, you know, he's going to be there for his birthday and everything, but God knows what we all need. And thank you all so much for sharing him. Last week we were At Victory Church in Brisbane, Some of these ladies came to. You know, they heard the message last week, and so they thought that they would join us here. And I think some of you are here on the coast. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Amen. And. But thank you for sharing us at. At times. We will not make a habit of that because this is where we are called. Amen. Amen. Well, Father, I thank you, Lord. I thank you, Father, for your goodness. I thank you for your grace. I thank you, Father, that you make a way where there seems to be no way. And, Father, as you spoke to my heart this morning, if Jesus is in us, and if Jesus is the way, we also are the way makers. So, Father, I thank you that we also have the wisdom and the knowledge to know how to make ways, Father, not only for ourselves, but for other people, Father. So I thank you, Jesus, that you are the way. You are the truth, and you are life. And I thank you that this morning your spirit is here. Your spirit is in us. Your spirit is around us, and your spirit is in the midst, Father. So I thank you that your spirit will speak through my voice, Father, and that your spirit will give people revelation, fresh revelation. That's even beyond my words. Father, I thank you, Lord, for truth. I thank you for your scriptures. It's in Jesus's name I pray. Amen and amen and amen. Well, a few years ago, I ministered a message called Thankfulness. And it was actually during COVID and it was by. By video. And so when Pastor Kyle was planning to go away, you know, it's like, oh, honey, you know, are you good to preach? And. And I at first was like, yeah, I don't really know what. Maybe we'll do a Bible study. Maybe we'll go to the Book of Romans or Galatians. And then the more I prayed, God. God had me pull out my Thankfulness series, or message. It was one. A singular message at that, you know, at that time. And I said, well, Lord, I've got three Sundays I don't even know with thankfulness, I can preach three Sundays on thankfulness. Whoa. Let me tell you, this has been phenomenal. How I have went even deeper in this study. So are you ready? Okay. This is the beginning. Okay. We are firing the engine today. Next week, we are buckling in. All right? And then the week after, it's takeoff. So if you're not in the house for these three sermons, you have to listen to the podcast. Amen. I mean, you can doubt it, but ask Jesus, and he'll tell you what to do. Amen. Amen. All right, well, let me ask you a question. When is the last time you actually thanked God? Not because of a breakthrough that happened. Not because of a provision that you received. Not because of something magnificent that he did in your life. But when was the last time you truly, in all circumstances, thanked God? God. That's not for you to answer publicly position that in your heart and in your mind this week, to be honest, I. I've. We. I mean, Simon and I work in the office. Some weird things happen this week. Like Easter got going down. Like, I'm like, what in the world is happening? I don't know how many times he probably heard me. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Because so many things that I was tasked with this week, I was like, I don't know how to do that, but. Amen. He makes a way. Amen. But gratitude, gratitude. Listen to this. Thankfulness. And gratitude is an access point, that complaint that keeps the complaining out. Okay? The Bible talks about not to complain, not to murmur, not to do that. Right? But in all things, give thanks, for this is the will of God for our lives. Amen. Gratitude. Thankfulness is like an access point that keeps the complaining out. It shifts our perspective from circumstances lack issue into who he is. Into who he is. Let's break this down. Psalms 104. I love scripture. So when I minister, I go through Scripture. Psalms 104 says, Enter his gates with thanksgiving. Go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name. So the Hebrew word for thankful or give thanks is todah. T o d a h means thanksgiving, a confession, a sacrifice of praise. The root word is yada y a d a h. It means to acknowledge, to confess, extend the hands and worship. So gratitude in Hebrew is not just spoken, it is embodied. It is embodied right to acknowledge Him. Trust in the Lord with all of your heart. Lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct your path. Thank him in all your ways. Thank him in all your ways. Thank him and he will direct your path. Now, the Scripture also says, enter his gates. What's the gates? This is old covenant. This was before Jesus. We're going to interconnect the old and the new. When David wrote Psalms 104, he is writing from the perspective of an external temple. The presence of God was not within like we have now. Thank you, Jesus. But it was an external thing. Amen. With a lot of rules and regulations, and only the. The high priest could Go in and make the sacrifices on behalf. It was, it was, it's just a lot, a lot, lot, lot. But this here, David writes of the picture was the temple in Jerusalem. Worshipers would ascend, enter the gates, and they would have to bring offerings of thanksgiving to the temple. And it's interconnected with a peace offering. But that's, that's not my, my message. But this was protocol, you business minded people. This was the protocol to go into the temple, enter his gates, enter the temple with thanksgiving. Okay. And they would bring offerings of thanksgiving. It was the protocol of honor. You didn't, you could not. They did not. And they could not just casually go into the presence of the high priest or go into the presence of the high priest king. Just casually go into the presence of the father. Amen. You didn't walk casually into the courts of God. There was a protocol in Old Covenant. There was a sacrifice. In the Old Covenant, the gate symbolized the threshold or the access point from the ordinary into the sacred. Amen. Are you following with me? Okay. Thanksgiving was the access point to cross into his presence. Okay, so in Leviticus, let me just give you a little snippet. This is a little snippet of what that sacrifice looked like. These are the instructions regarding the different kinds of peace offering that may be presented to the Lord. If you present your peace offering as an expression of thanksgiving, the usual animal sacrifice must be accompanied by various kinds of bread made without yeast, thin cakes mixed with olive oil, wafers spread with oil, and cakes made of choice flour mixed with olive oil. This peace offering of thanksgiving must also be accompanied by loaves of bread made with yeast. One of each kind of bread must be presented as a gift to the Lord. It will then belong to the priest. Priest who splatters the blood of the peace offering against the altar. The meat of the peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the same day that it's offered. None of it may be saved for the next morning. No leftovers. Amen. No leftovers with this offering. Amen. Eat it that day. Don't get takeaway. Amen. This was the Old Covenant. Like what? Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Exactly, exactly, exactly, exactly. This was for the priest to be able to go into the altar, you know, and too, and you know, what if he wasn't right? They had a rope around his leg and then they would pull him out, you know, like if there was an extended time that he was in there, you know, if, if everything wasn't like sin offerings. And all of these offerings that he would have to do sacrifices before he even went in. He had a rope on his leg. And you know what? He's not out yet. Well, let's pull him and let's see. And then he could be dead because he did not do all the sacrifices and offerings and everything perfectly Old covenant. There's so much more to that, but I hope you understand, okay. How difficult this was in the Old Testament. As we read. It describes the thank offering, which in Hebrew term is the zabak tadah, given with bread eaten the same day. It symbolized fellowship and covenant, gratitude. It was external. Now let's read Psalms 107, 21, and 22. It says, Let them praise or give thanks. I've got another translation. It says, give thanks to the Lord for his great love, for his unfailing love, and for the wonderful things that he has done. Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and sing joyfully about his glorious acts. So David wrote here. David was. Was explaining that thanksgiving was not just a feeling. It was an offering. It cost something. But what they were doing is. Is they. They were giving an outward expression of singing joyfully and telling others about his glorious acts. Amen. Now we are in a new covenant. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. We are in a new covenant. A covenant that Jesus gave his life. A covenant that Jesus was the final sacrifice. No more, you know, doing all of that that they talked about. No more. Jesus was the final sacrifice. He tore the veil and he fulfilled the law. Amen. I'm going to interconnect the two here. Okay? Now, some of you that may be new are like, whoa, what? My head is spinning. There is an alpha course coming up that is in absolute detail that will walk you through so many foundations of understanding your new life in Christ Jesus. Amen. So don't be overwhelmed. We all have the Spirit. Amen. So now the new covenant. Okay, well, what about entering his gates with thanksgiving and praise under the new covenant, those gate points, the gate is Christ Jesus himself. So excited. John 10 and 9. Let's dig into this. Yes. This is Jesus talking. I am the gate. Jesus says, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and will find good pastures. Jesus is the gate in the new covenant. We being in Christ Jesus, him being in us. In him, we live, we move. We have our very being. Jesus tore the veil. Jesus made it possible for us to boldly go into the throne room of grace and seek out mercy in the times that we need it. No longer does a High priest have to risk his life of dying. No longer do we have to do it perfectly and mix it perfectly and eat at the same day and not take leftovers home like come on, you know, Jesus is the gate. Let's go to Hebrews 10, 19 and 20. How do we enter that holy place? And so dear brothers and sisters, that's me and you, brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven's most holy place because of the blood of Jesus. No longer was it, is it the blood of animals and goats or whatever, a ram in a bush. No longer is it that Jesus blood, blood was enough is enough. Still today his blood is an eternal blood. Amen. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life giving way through the curtain into the most holy place. Old covenant. Only a priest and all these sacrifices by people you know had to be done perfectly. Old Covenant only, only the perfect priest could enter into the most holy place. But because of Jesus, that's no longer you and I have access. Jesus has opened it up that you and I, we have a new and a life giving way through the curtain into the most holy place, place that is Jesus's body. In the old covenant, thanksgiving was a temple protocol. Imagine that do a sacrifice this way perfectly because this is the protocol. And in order for the high priest to go into the most holy place, it was law based. But you know what? Jesus deconstructed all of that. Just as here at World Changers, we are deconstructing religion and we are ministering to you truth. We have moved away from the milk of it and we are giving you some meat here. Amen. And you know what? You can handle it. You can handle it. Amen. The old covenant was temple protocol, Thanksgiving was. But the new covenant thanksgiving is a posture internally of the heart. It's our grace response. It's our heart posture to Jesus who tore the veil and gave us full access to the Father. Hebrews 13 and 15 says this through Jesus, therefore my version is different. Therefore let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name. Another version says, through Jesus, therefore let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, a sacrifice of thanksgiving, the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. How, how do we do this? How do we continually do this? You know how does all of this work? Let's go to Romans 12 and 1. And so dear brothers and sisters, that you and I, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all that he has done. Let them be that's you and I. A living and holy sacrifice, the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Another version says, therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice. We currently now are the living sacrifices. We are the living sacrifices. Amen. In the new covenant, thanksgiving is not only what we say, it is who we are. We are the living sacrifices. Our lives are an ongoing thanksgiving offering to God. Our lives are an ongoing thanksgiving offering unto God. I'm going to read you this. Something that was spoken this morning. I think it was in worship or sometimes now. We are the living sacrifices. Amen. Jesus, his spirit on the inside of us. Amen. Because of Jesus, we now are a living sacrifice. In our heart is where everything, everything. Our heart posture. Honor has to be a heart posture. Gratitude. A heart posture. Thankfulness. A heart posture. So if we are the living sacrifices. You know, Patty read the scripture this morning about if we are cold or lukewarm, the Lord spits us out. He wants us to be on fire. Well, I believe the significance for us to be on fire is how can this praise and thankfulness offering be a sacrifice without us being on fire for the Lord? We have to be on fire. For the Lord, internally on fire for him. We have to in all circumstances. The will of God for our lives is to thank him in all circumstances, to be thankful. It's a posture of heart. It's a renewal. It's a renewal continually. It's being transformed. It's being transformed. It's being transformed into the likeness and godliness. Amen. It's who we are. We are the living sacrifices. Our lives is an ongoing thanksgiving offering to God. In Hebrew culture, it was important for the thanksgiving offerings to be made because it was their way of showing people, other people, just how great God is, just how great he is. It was all external, but now we being the living sacrament that is so important that we are the salt and the light of the earth, that we go into all the world and we confess of Jesus. We make disciples, teaching and preaching and giving opportunity for salvation. Amen. It's through our lives. Amen. Roman in the New Covenant, thanksgiving is not only what we say, but it is who we are. We are the living sacrifices. Our lives. An ongoing thanksgiving offering to God. First Corinthians 3:16 says this. Don't you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the spirit of God lives in you? Gratitude is the offering that flows continually from our lives as his Temple. There's not just the one temple to go in for his presence or an ark that has to be carried that has his presence. The temple is now us. And we carry this thankfulness offering everywhere, sacrifice everywhere that we go, because we are the living sacrifice. Amen. Now let's bring the two together. The old covenant, Thanksgiving was the way into God's place. Presence expressed in offerings. In the new covenant, Thanksgiving is still the way in. But now our words, our lives and our hearts are the offering. Our words, our lives and our hearts are the offering to Him. Amen. You know, and I get it. I get that there's trials that come, and it's like, so hard to be thankful. It's so hard to be thankful. Next week we're going to talk about Jesus and what Jesus did when there was lack. When there was dead things. We're going to talk about what Jesus did did in circumstance. But what about thankfulness and trials? I want to read Jonah 2 and 9 because I get it. It can be so hard. Our first response when we go through something or when stupid trouble comes is typically not, thank you, Jesus. It may take us a little bit to get there, but eventually we get there, right? So Jonah, we all know that Jonah, he got swallowed by a big fish. And because he was supposed to go one way and he went the other way, and this big fish swallowed him up. So here Jonah was in a big fish. That's a big circumstance, right? And this was old covenant. Jonah said, I will offer sacrifices to you with songs of praise or thankfulness, and I will fulfill my vows for my salvation comes from the Lord. So here Jonah thanked God while he was still in the belly of the fish. His gratitude was sacrificial, not just circumstantial. So Jonah, past their circumstance, was like, oh, I'm going to be grateful. I'm going to sing and I'm going to praise, and I'm going to be thankful. Psalm 50 and 14 says, Offer to God. Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving. And that's what Jonah did when he was in the fish's belly. Habakkuk. I ran across the scripture not too long ago, and I love it. Habakkuk 3, 17, 18 says, even though the fig leaves have no blossoms and there are no grapes on the vines, even though the olive crop fails and the fields lie empty and barren, even though the flocks die in the fields and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord. Yet I will give thanks unto the Lord. I will be Joyful in the God of my salvation. Sometimes it's simply even though it looks empty, even though it's not blossoming, even though there's nothing I can see, even though it seems like things are cut off, even though I'm still going to give thanks, thanks in God because of who he is in my life. Amen. Habakkuk Old covenant. He he paints a beautiful picture if loss can be beautiful, but a picture of total loss. Total loss. Everything that was currency back then was not there yet. Habakkuk his response is covenant, gratitude. Yet I will rejoice. Amen. Yet I will rejoice. Yet I will rejoice. Paul echoes Habakkuk's heart even when there is lack of response is gratitude. Philippians 4, 6, 8. I've got the mirror translation. We'll read this one first and then I'm going to go into the mirror translation. It says, don't worry about anything. Instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank him for all that he has done done. Then you will experience God's peace. Remember I said peace offering or thankfulness offering is part of the peace offering. Then you will experience God's peace which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. And now, dear brothers and sisters, me and you, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right and pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and praiseworthy. This is New Testament instructions. This is New Testament instructions. The mirror translation says, let no anxiety about anything distract you. Anxiety is a distraction. It is a distraction. Rather, translate. Translate every moment into prayerful worship and soak your request in gratitude before God so we recognize the anxiety. I know there's different things in life that we encounter. You know, I going through grief with my mom, I've had to have natural things help me with the grief, anxiety and stuff that I've went through. But you know, there's times that we need someone wise counsel to go to, to help us through. But this is that lingering anxiety. Don't let it distract you. We translate those moments. You know, if you think about translating from English to another language, you run it through something. Right now it's, you know, Google Translate. You know, Google Translate, you put it in one way, it comes out the other. So this scripture here says, every moment, all those anxieties, run it through a kingdom translation. Run it through a kingdom translation of truth and life and the way, and turn that moment into a prayerful Worship. And then on top of that, soak it. Soak it. You know, if you ever have a stain and you put the swords to it and then you soak it in that water and then you lift it out and that stain is just gone, you know, so sometimes you gotta scrub, sometimes you don't. But soak it. Soak those anxiety moments, soak those moments into. In gratitude. Soak it. And in this place of Thanksgiving, it goes on to say, in this place of Thanksgiving, in this sacrifice of thanksgiving, God's peace that transcends every frame of reference will guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus. Now let this be your meditation. Whatever is true, noble. And it goes on. Scientifically speaking, this is really cool. I encountered this recently and I, I want to bring this to highlight. So, okay. You know, okay. You may be saying, okay, Pastor Tina, I understand all that. I do believe the way that God has made our body scientifically, Thanksgiving is important because we have chemicals in our bodies and Thanksgiving triggers a release of dopamine and serotonin. These are the brain's feel good chemicals. Dopamine is responsible for motivation and reward, while serotonin stabilizes a mood and promotes happiness and enhances Overall well being. First Thessalonians 5, 16, 17. To interconnect that scientifically with truth of the scripture. Rejoice, always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances. The Bible, it's not just a. Oh, that was a great scripture. I'm going to post it on my storyboard or I'm going to post it on my Instagram for everybody to see that, you know, I encountered this scripture. No, this is a way of life. This is for your body. This is for your body. This is for your body. Let's go on. How good is this? It reduces stress and anxiety, just like the scripture said here. Gratitude is a proven tool for lowering cortisone levels, the hormone associated with stress. Your brain cannot feel anxious and grateful at the same time. Can. Can't. Not at the same time. Due to the distinct neural pathways and processes that. Who designed in you? The Creator, the Father, the one that sent a son and perfected it all. The Bible is intentional. The scripture is intentional. When it says to do. It's just not like, oh, this is the way I live my Christian life. This is the way you live. This is the way you live and not die. This is the way you live and not die. Choose life or choose what? Death. Death is not an external gone dead. No things that lead to destruction. Choose life. This is life number three. It Strengthens neural pathways for healthy holy thinking. The more we practice gratitude, the more the brain's neural pathways are rewired for healthy thoughts and mindsets that aligns with with God's goodness. Romans 12:2 Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Dr. Caroline Leaf, she's proven this. Number four. It improves physical health. A grateful mindset always strengthen. Also strengthens the immune system by lowering stress related inflammation, increasing the body's ability to fight illness. Additionally, gratitude helps regulate blood pressure by reducing the physical effects of chronic stress on the Cardiovascular system. Proverbs 17:22. A cheerful heart is good medicine. A cheerful heart is good medicine. A thankful heart is good medicine. So why do we enter his gates, Jesus? We are in it. We're not entering in. We're in it. New covenant. We are in it. We're in it. We're in it. Jesus was the access point when we said, jesus, I receive you as my Lord and Savior. We're in. We're in. We are in. He's in us. There's nothing left to do. Jesus said, it is finished. We're trying to do things that Jesus has already done. Gratitude and trials is not denial of reality. It's a declaration of God's supremacy over reality. Ta da. Thanks God. Even though the fig tree doesn't blossom and it soaks every request in gratitude, releasing supernatural peace. Peace. Releasing chemicals in our body that God has has created for our bodies to function. Amen. We're not stuck in it. We're not stuck in it. Jesus has flipped the switch. Gratitude right now is flipping the light switch. In a dark room. It may not change the storm outside, but it changes what you see inside. It changes your perspective. It changes your stance. Amen. The most powerful people on this earth is you and I. Brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. In a kingdom that cannot be shaken. In a kingdom that cannot be shaken. We have received a kingdom that cannot be shaken. So. So let us be thankful and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe. This kingdom cannot be shaken. Cannot be shaken. We are powerful. We are powerful people. Sometimes we just don't realize how powerful we we are. We can say stop. We can say peace, be still. We can say, get thee behind me, Satan. We can command our bodies to sleep. We can command our days in this day. Thank you Father for another day that you have made. I will rejoice and be glad in this day day. Because in this day you have given me my daily bread. We can command our days. We don't have to be like Oh, I wonder what this day is going to bring today. No. We can rise every morning, put our feet on the ground, and say, thank you, Lord, for this day. You have made it. I need this in my day, Lord. I will see this in my day, Lord. I will see your goodness in this day, Lord. I will encounter your peace in this day, Lord. I know circumstances and trials are hard, but here's the thing, Church. Thanksgiving is not just the sound gratitude. It is the sound of victory. Thanksgiving is the sound of victory. It's the sound of victory when it's barren, when it looks dead, when there's lack. Thanksgiving is the sound of victory. Amen. Amen. When you've had your greatest breakthrough in life, thanksgiving is the sound of victory. Amen. And we are victorious. You are victorious. Let's stand to our feet. Amen. Let's stand to our feet. When you say, thank you, Lord, in the middle of the storm, you are declaring that the outcome is settled in Christ Jesus. Habakkuk said, even though yet I will praise you. Paul said, soak your request in gratitude. And Jesus said, it is finished. Thanksgiving is heaven's language of faith. It shifts battles, it silences fears, and it ushers you boldly into his presence. Gratitude is not after a victory. Gratitude is the victory. So this is what I want to do this morning. Let's. Let's lay our hands on our hearts. Let's lay our hands on our hearts. I always want to give a moment. If no one knows Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Maybe you've never received Jesus as your Lord and Savior. With every head bowed, every eye closed. If you've never received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, today is the most beautiful day. You're here. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. So now let's do this. Maybe there's been an anxiety. Maybe there's been a struggle. Maybe you're seeing something barren. Or maybe you're seeing the end of something. Yeah. The Father says it's a beginning. Every ending leads to a new beginning. Every ending leads to a new beginning. So what we're going to do is set our hearts in this realm of thanksgiving. Father, we thank you. We thank you, Father, we thank you, Father, that we rejoice in you. We cast down everything that exalts itself above you, Lord. Every imagination that may have exalted itself above you, Lord. And the truth of your word, we cast it down. We cast it down. And I declare truth. I declare life. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father, that you are realigning some things Right now. You are realigning some things right now. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father, that in the realm of loss. I thank you, Father, that there's hope. That there's hope even though there's loss. I thank you for hope. I thank you for hope, Lord. I thank you for hope, Lord. Thank you, Lord, for restoring hearts into the realm of hope. We are not hearts that our hope is deferred. No, Lord, we're not. Hope is not deferred, Father, but hope is present. So I thank you for hope, Lord, in the middle of those circumstances, Father. I thank you for that, Lord. Lord, I thank you, Father, for that. We soak our request in gratitude today. We say, thank you, Father. Can you declare that out of your mouth this morning? I thank you, Father. I thank you, Father, for my portion. I thank you, Father, for my provision. I thank you, Father, that I will not disturb despair, but I will see your goodness in the land of the living. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Come on. Maybe you have a request. Let's make it known. Maybe you have a request. Let's make it known. What does the Bible said? Make your request known before him. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. We declare that our thanksgiving is not just a response. Our thanksgiving is a victory. And it's a victory that we have in you, Jesus. So I thank you, Father, that you, you are who you say you are. You are a good God. You are a loving God. And everybody in the house says amen. And amen and amen and amen. And amen. [00:49:51] Thank you for tuning in to today's message. 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