1 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,520 All right, then. Are you ready? 2 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:16,720 Am I? I don't know. God is 3 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,360 so faithful and he is so good, and I am excited about the word that 4 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:24,040 he has today. You guys doing good this morning? Does it seem like 5 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,800 I'm really close here for a minute? Yeah. Would you rather that I 6 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,920 go up here? Oh, good. Because I was just going to be right over here 7 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:31,910 and talk to you a little. 8 00:00:35,580 --> 00:00:38,700 I am excited about the Word. We are still in the arise 9 00:00:38,860 --> 00:00:42,700 portion of the series that we've been in, and it is all 10 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:46,220 about those moments or those 11 00:00:46,220 --> 00:00:49,900 seasons in our life where God begins to draw us 12 00:00:50,060 --> 00:00:53,780 to step up in some areas. You know, has God ever done that 13 00:00:53,780 --> 00:00:57,380 to you? Gone. You know, this is good. This is good. But you know what? 14 00:00:57,380 --> 00:01:01,140 I've got more for you, and I would like you to step up just a 15 00:01:01,140 --> 00:01:04,520 little bit in this because I have more for. For you 16 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,400 and in God. That is always the case. I was sharing 17 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,160 earlier. You know, it doesn't matter how many times you read the. Well, 18 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,800 it does matter how many times you read the Bible. But I will say, 19 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:20,200 regardless of how many times you read the Bible, read the 20 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,960 Word, there's always something new. There's always 21 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:27,640 something that makes you go, wait a minute, was that there before? You know, 22 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,400 was there really always a book of Genesis? You know, Anyway, 23 00:01:34,140 --> 00:01:37,980 anyway, I love that he continues to open his word 24 00:01:37,980 --> 00:01:41,580 to us, and that's my prayer this morning, is that he would open his 25 00:01:41,580 --> 00:01:45,340 word to us. We do have some visitors in the house. 26 00:01:45,420 --> 00:01:48,780 I am Barbie Laughlin. I'm the executive 27 00:01:48,940 --> 00:01:52,740 pastor here, and I've had the honor and privilege of serving in 28 00:01:52,740 --> 00:01:55,340 this house for almost 30 years. 29 00:01:59,420 --> 00:02:02,860 You know, I think I need to sit down now that I've said that out 30 00:02:02,860 --> 00:02:06,600 loud. Actually, you know, the goodness of God thing, I was sitting here 31 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:10,400 just a second ago and had the most poignant, sweetest 32 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,800 moment because I'm sitting here as people are walking up 33 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,600 for communion, and I hear these two voices, and they are 34 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,240 the most beautiful voices in the world to me. And I rarely get to hear 35 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,080 them together. And it was Pastor Ronnie and Pastor Wayne who were 36 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,800 in front of one another in the aisle. And I'm like, oh, God, I've 37 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,600 been so blessed. I've been so blessed. And we are 38 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,340 so blessed by what God has done and continue and by who 39 00:02:36,340 --> 00:02:40,140 he is. So we are going to jump into the Word and see what 40 00:02:40,140 --> 00:02:43,620 he has for us this morning. You know, what's interesting is 41 00:02:43,620 --> 00:02:46,820 that I can study and I can plan, 42 00:02:47,380 --> 00:02:51,100 and I really have no clue what's going to happen when I get 43 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:54,900 up here. Which is good, because all I want to do is follow 44 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:58,620 the Holy Spirit and follow his leading. I want to study, and then I just 45 00:02:58,620 --> 00:03:01,060 want to see where he takes us. Are y' all cool with that? 46 00:03:02,310 --> 00:03:06,110 Okay. Because if you said no, we were in big trouble. So we're going to 47 00:03:06,110 --> 00:03:09,270 stand up and we're going to get into the Word. And I will tell you, 48 00:03:09,510 --> 00:03:13,270 these scriptures may seem random, but they're not, 49 00:03:15,510 --> 00:03:19,150 or they weren't in my office, and I 50 00:03:19,150 --> 00:03:22,990 don't believe they will be by the end of this time together. So if we 51 00:03:22,990 --> 00:03:26,390 could read together. And God said, 52 00:03:26,870 --> 00:03:30,550 let there be lights in the vault of the sky to 53 00:03:30,550 --> 00:03:33,980 separate the day from the night, and let them sit 54 00:03:34,610 --> 00:03:38,450 as signs to mark sacred times and days and 55 00:03:38,530 --> 00:03:42,330 years. That last line. Let them serve as 56 00:03:42,330 --> 00:03:45,970 signs to mark sacred times and days 57 00:03:46,050 --> 00:03:48,930 and years. Okay, now we're gonna jump over 58 00:03:49,570 --> 00:03:53,410 into Genesis a little further. Then 59 00:03:53,410 --> 00:03:57,210 Moses said to him, if your presence does not go 60 00:03:57,210 --> 00:04:01,010 with us, do not send us up from here. How 61 00:04:01,010 --> 00:04:04,650 will anyone know that you are pleased with me and 62 00:04:04,650 --> 00:04:08,470 with your. Unless you go with us? What 63 00:04:08,470 --> 00:04:12,270 else will distinguish me and your people from all 64 00:04:12,270 --> 00:04:15,070 the other people on the face of the earth? 65 00:04:16,270 --> 00:04:19,950 And the Lord said to Moses, I will do the 66 00:04:19,950 --> 00:04:23,590 very thing you have asked because I am pleased with 67 00:04:23,590 --> 00:04:26,950 you and I know you by name. Then 68 00:04:26,950 --> 00:04:29,950 Moses said, now show me your glory. 69 00:04:30,510 --> 00:04:34,160 And the Lord said, I. I will cause all my 70 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:37,680 goodness to pass in front of you, and I will 71 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,280 proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. 72 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,920 Father. God, I thank you so much for your word. 73 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,599 I thank you so much for your 74 00:04:48,599 --> 00:04:52,360 word. It truly is a light in our 75 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,200 path. It's a lamp unto our feet. I thank you, Father, 76 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:00,040 that you alone have the words of wisdom, the words of life. And 77 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,770 so, Father, thank you. Thank you for giving that to us. 78 00:05:04,090 --> 00:05:07,770 I pray our hearts are attentive to you and what you have to say today, 79 00:05:07,770 --> 00:05:11,610 Lord, not me. Let my stuff fall in your stand in 80 00:05:11,610 --> 00:05:15,210 Jesus name. And they all said, amen. 81 00:05:15,370 --> 00:05:19,130 Amen. I have read Genesis so many times 82 00:05:19,610 --> 00:05:23,290 as have you, and for some reason, it just 83 00:05:23,610 --> 00:05:27,450 hit me as I was reading this passage when it 84 00:05:27,450 --> 00:05:30,930 said that there would be lights in the 85 00:05:30,930 --> 00:05:34,650 expanse of the heaven. This was day four. That there would 86 00:05:34,650 --> 00:05:38,290 be lights in the expanse of the heaven, and that they would mark 87 00:05:39,090 --> 00:05:42,730 the sacred days. They would mark the sacred 88 00:05:42,730 --> 00:05:45,970 days. And there are a lot of ways we can go with this, but I'm 89 00:05:45,970 --> 00:05:49,250 just gonna sit here with this for a minute. You know, when you. 90 00:05:49,890 --> 00:05:53,730 Last night, did any of y' all go outside Last night, any 91 00:05:53,730 --> 00:05:57,410 of you close to, have you been 92 00:05:57,410 --> 00:06:01,250 outside in the last month? Did 93 00:06:01,250 --> 00:06:04,210 you happen to see that it gets dark in the evenings? 94 00:06:04,850 --> 00:06:08,450 And the last time, whenever that might have been, did you 95 00:06:08,450 --> 00:06:12,170 notice that there were stars in the 96 00:06:12,170 --> 00:06:15,570 sky in the expanse of the heavens? Well, this 97 00:06:15,570 --> 00:06:19,330 tells me that they are still marking sacred times, 98 00:06:20,220 --> 00:06:23,860 that they're still marking sacred times. And that as 99 00:06:23,860 --> 00:06:27,700 long as those stars are there and the lights are 100 00:06:27,700 --> 00:06:31,380 there, God's doing stuff. God's doing 101 00:06:31,380 --> 00:06:33,820 things. Because, see, here's what this says. Sacred, 102 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:38,500 regarded as holy and entitled to reverence or set 103 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:42,300 apart for a specific and elevated purpose. Dedicated and 104 00:06:42,380 --> 00:06:46,140 consecrated, hallowed, directly associated with 105 00:06:46,140 --> 00:06:47,260 deity and worship. 106 00:06:50,110 --> 00:06:53,630 So if there are stars in the sky 107 00:06:54,510 --> 00:06:57,150 and there are lights in the expanse of the heaven, 108 00:07:00,030 --> 00:07:03,830 there are holy things happening. There 109 00:07:03,830 --> 00:07:07,550 are sacred things happening. There are moments that 110 00:07:07,630 --> 00:07:11,150 are entitled to reverence as the Lord unfolds them. 111 00:07:12,350 --> 00:07:15,750 There are days that are appointed in your life for 112 00:07:15,750 --> 00:07:19,390 specific purpose, and they're still being 113 00:07:19,390 --> 00:07:23,230 marked by the expanse, the lights in the heavens. See, 114 00:07:23,230 --> 00:07:26,950 here's my revelation, my day for revelation. The reason it's a day for 115 00:07:26,950 --> 00:07:30,709 revelation is because that's the day that it was created. My day 116 00:07:30,709 --> 00:07:34,070 for revelation is this is as long as there are lights in the vault of 117 00:07:34,070 --> 00:07:37,830 the sky, we are marking and standing 118 00:07:37,830 --> 00:07:41,490 witness to sacred seasons and appointed and 119 00:07:41,490 --> 00:07:45,290 holy times. We are marking 120 00:07:45,450 --> 00:07:49,050 those seasons. And I see the Lord in my life. 121 00:07:49,450 --> 00:07:53,250 It seems like there is just such a keen awareness these 122 00:07:53,250 --> 00:07:56,810 days. And they're not easy days, but there's this keen awareness, 123 00:07:57,130 --> 00:08:00,530 there's this keen calling in my spirit to pay 124 00:08:00,530 --> 00:08:04,330 attention. To pay attention. Not to social 125 00:08:04,490 --> 00:08:08,210 media, not to NBC and ABC and FOX 126 00:08:08,210 --> 00:08:11,770 News, but to pay attention to what God is 127 00:08:11,770 --> 00:08:15,470 doing in the earth, to pay attention to 128 00:08:15,470 --> 00:08:19,110 what he is accomplishing in the earth. It's like 129 00:08:19,750 --> 00:08:23,190 I asked him. I'm like, lord, what is this? Because it's been going on for 130 00:08:23,190 --> 00:08:26,550 several years, but, Lord, what is this? And 131 00:08:27,590 --> 00:08:30,070 he is teaching my spirit 132 00:08:32,150 --> 00:08:35,630 to stand witness. And he is 133 00:08:35,630 --> 00:08:39,439 calling his people to stand witness 134 00:08:40,079 --> 00:08:43,639 to what he is doing in the earth. And it isn't. There's an 135 00:08:43,639 --> 00:08:47,119 element of witnesses. Like, go and be witnesses. 136 00:08:47,199 --> 00:08:50,919 Absolutely. You go and you share the gospel. You go and share 137 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:54,319 the message of Christ. But there's also an element to 138 00:08:54,319 --> 00:08:57,999 witness, to be aware and to see what God 139 00:08:57,999 --> 00:09:01,599 is doing in the earth, what God is doing in these moments 140 00:09:01,599 --> 00:09:04,610 in your life, what he's trying to do, to teach you. 141 00:09:05,090 --> 00:09:08,690 Because he's always trying to teach you to be 142 00:09:08,690 --> 00:09:12,210 aware and to be awake. Here's the thing. In seasons of 143 00:09:12,210 --> 00:09:16,050 witness. And trust me, whether you know it or not, you are 144 00:09:16,050 --> 00:09:19,770 in one because you are called to see what 145 00:09:19,770 --> 00:09:23,490 God is doing and to be aware and to grasp it 146 00:09:23,490 --> 00:09:26,810 so that not only can we witness it, but we can be a part of 147 00:09:26,810 --> 00:09:30,270 what he's doing in the earth and seasons of 148 00:09:30,270 --> 00:09:33,910 witness. Elroy, the God who sees 149 00:09:33,910 --> 00:09:36,870 me and the God who sees you 150 00:09:37,670 --> 00:09:41,430 is teaching you to see him in 151 00:09:41,430 --> 00:09:45,030 what you're doing. Now, listen, I understand there's a passage of scripture that 152 00:09:45,030 --> 00:09:48,870 says no man can see God and live. Okay, 153 00:09:49,030 --> 00:09:52,470 I get that, and that's not what I'm saying, but I am 154 00:09:52,550 --> 00:09:55,830 saying you can see him. 155 00:09:56,910 --> 00:10:00,430 You can see him. It's, you know, the old thing. You 156 00:10:00,430 --> 00:10:04,190 cannot see the wind, but you can feel its effects. 157 00:10:04,910 --> 00:10:08,390 You can know that God is moving in a 158 00:10:08,390 --> 00:10:12,030 moment if you are aware and see, he's getting 159 00:10:12,109 --> 00:10:15,630 me in these seasons to understand the 160 00:10:15,630 --> 00:10:19,150 sacred nature of where you're walking right now. 161 00:10:19,150 --> 00:10:22,950 Today. Today. Now, see, there are things that you 162 00:10:22,950 --> 00:10:26,690 know. Don't jump. Don't jump 163 00:10:27,570 --> 00:10:31,370 where you're walking today. Where you are walking today is 164 00:10:31,370 --> 00:10:35,090 in the season of Witness, when we begin to understand 165 00:10:35,090 --> 00:10:38,290 the sacred privilege of standing witness. Under the lights, 166 00:10:39,250 --> 00:10:42,970 God births a heart of gratitude for even the things we 167 00:10:42,970 --> 00:10:46,450 once found impossible to look upon. He 168 00:10:46,450 --> 00:10:49,930 begins to show us the collateral beauty of things. When the 169 00:10:49,930 --> 00:10:53,690 ashes are still ashes, you can see the beauty that 170 00:10:53,690 --> 00:10:57,430 will come from them because of the faithfulness of God and the 171 00:10:57,430 --> 00:11:00,270 gratitude that it can birth in your spirit. 172 00:11:00,990 --> 00:11:03,230 I am a 173 00:11:04,030 --> 00:11:07,870 blessed, blessed woman. I am 174 00:11:07,870 --> 00:11:11,390 a blessed woman. God has given me the best 175 00:11:11,630 --> 00:11:15,230 husband. He gave me exactly what I needed. He 176 00:11:15,230 --> 00:11:17,950 gave me three children. I have 11 177 00:11:18,190 --> 00:11:21,470 grandchildren. And those moments in my life have 178 00:11:21,470 --> 00:11:24,430 marked me. Those have been sacred moments. 179 00:11:25,510 --> 00:11:28,390 I remember holding each of my children. 180 00:11:29,190 --> 00:11:32,990 I remember holding James, Aaron for the first time and being 181 00:11:32,990 --> 00:11:36,670 scared out of my mind. God, are you sure you can 182 00:11:36,670 --> 00:11:40,310 trust me with this? Probably not, but anyway. 183 00:11:41,350 --> 00:11:45,070 And I remember staying up all night that first night in 184 00:11:45,070 --> 00:11:48,550 the hospital because I didn't know I was going to need my sleep later anyway. 185 00:11:49,590 --> 00:11:53,140 But I remember staying up and being in that bed and 186 00:11:53,540 --> 00:11:57,220 holding him for the first time in my 187 00:11:57,300 --> 00:12:00,260 arms and being overwhelmed 188 00:12:00,980 --> 00:12:04,820 with how precious and holy and 189 00:12:04,980 --> 00:12:08,180 sacred that moment was. I remember 190 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:12,020 holding each of my grandchildren for the first 191 00:12:12,020 --> 00:12:15,780 time and how precious that was and how everything 192 00:12:15,860 --> 00:12:19,600 in you shifts at that moment. But 193 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,240 equally as precious was in that same 194 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,280 hospital, in that same hospital, 195 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,840 I would crawl into bed with my mother and hold her 196 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:31,960 for the last time. 197 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,640 Just as sacred, just as 198 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:42,440 holy, One was exceeding joy 199 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:46,210 and one was exceeding pain. But equally as 200 00:12:46,210 --> 00:12:49,730 sacred, these moments that God entrusts us with 201 00:12:50,050 --> 00:12:53,730 in our life, if we just look for the beauty 202 00:12:54,690 --> 00:12:58,490 in those moments, see, we can spend 203 00:12:58,490 --> 00:13:01,090 our life looking for the miraculous 204 00:13:02,530 --> 00:13:05,570 and only seeing God in the. I stood right over here 205 00:13:06,050 --> 00:13:09,450 several years ago, and I was standing over here, and it was an 206 00:13:09,450 --> 00:13:13,010 altar gathering like we do, and a young lady came up, 207 00:13:13,250 --> 00:13:16,980 and as soon as she came up, she started to weep. 208 00:13:16,980 --> 00:13:20,540 And she said, I went to the doctor this week, and I'm having 209 00:13:20,540 --> 00:13:24,100 twins, but there's no membrane between 210 00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:27,860 them. They're conjoined twins. And I said, you 211 00:13:27,860 --> 00:13:31,180 know what? I don't know what God has planned here. I don't know what he 212 00:13:31,180 --> 00:13:34,740 has planned here, but I know that he's good. So we're going to 213 00:13:34,740 --> 00:13:38,540 pray and we're going to trust him. And about three 214 00:13:38,540 --> 00:13:42,380 weeks later, I'm standing in the exact same spot, and I see her 215 00:13:42,380 --> 00:13:45,850 come through the back doors, and she comes down and she goes, I went to 216 00:13:45,850 --> 00:13:47,970 the doctor. There's a membrane. 217 00:13:50,130 --> 00:13:53,850 She said, there's a membrane. And then about. Oh, I don't know, 218 00:13:53,850 --> 00:13:57,250 about four months. No, about a year and four months. Because they were 219 00:13:57,250 --> 00:14:00,930 toddlers, and the back doors open, and 220 00:14:00,930 --> 00:14:04,770 she's got a little boy, one by each hand. She said, I just wanted you 221 00:14:04,770 --> 00:14:08,090 to see him. We serve a God of the 222 00:14:08,090 --> 00:14:11,490 miraculous. Absolutely, we serve a God of the 223 00:14:11,490 --> 00:14:15,010 miraculous, but we don't spend our lives waiting on the miraculous. 224 00:14:15,390 --> 00:14:19,070 What we do is spend our lives day after day after day after day, 225 00:14:19,390 --> 00:14:23,110 watching God's goodness, God's goodness. 226 00:14:23,110 --> 00:14:26,790 And so I'm like, lord, I don't know what's going on with me, Lord, 227 00:14:26,790 --> 00:14:30,510 it's like, I'm just seeing you and all of these things. What are you 228 00:14:30,510 --> 00:14:33,470 doing? And he took me to Genesis 229 00:14:33,710 --> 00:14:37,150 33. And I'm like, what? Genesis 33. 230 00:14:38,030 --> 00:14:41,070 I will cause my goodness to pass in front of you, 231 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,520 and I will proclaim my name. And I'm like, okay, okay, 232 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,800 okay. But you know what's really cool 233 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,960 is that Moses didn't ask him if he 234 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:57,680 could see his goodness. Moses asked him, can I see your glory? 235 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:03,240 It's two different words. And the Holy 236 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,800 Spirit just went, all your life, you were 237 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,520 raised as a glory girl. You responded 238 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:14,200 to me in moves that went this way or went 239 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,960 that way. And this is how you expect to see me, is in those 240 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,720 specific moves. But I'm gonna take you from being a glory 241 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,040 girl who has to have a different kind of manifestation 242 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,920 to understand that my presence is right there. I am going 243 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:32,400 to teach you, train your heart 244 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,740 to Be aware of my goodness. To be aware 245 00:15:37,740 --> 00:15:41,220 of my goodness. Oh, Jesus, help me. 246 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:46,340 Gratitude disciplines our hearts to judge a moment 247 00:15:46,420 --> 00:15:48,580 only after finding him in it. 248 00:15:49,940 --> 00:15:53,620 Lord, how can I be grateful in this? This is hard. This is 249 00:15:53,620 --> 00:15:57,060 painful, Lord, this is not what I expected. This 250 00:15:57,060 --> 00:16:00,820 feels like suffering, Lord. But all 251 00:16:00,820 --> 00:16:04,080 the while, if you look for him, 252 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,320 if you will look for him, you will see things. 253 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,360 I just. I have just. I've just never 254 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,280 ever been as aware of the goodness of God 255 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:20,040 as I am these days. And they're hard days. You 256 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,760 look around in the world and you're like, God, where are you? That's the 257 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:27,520 appropriate question. Because he wants you to find him, because he 258 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,510 is there. Then if your heart is going, God, where are you? Where are you 259 00:16:30,510 --> 00:16:34,350 in this? Dig in deeper. Spend some more time 260 00:16:34,350 --> 00:16:38,070 with him. Get on your face in the room with nothing 261 00:16:38,150 --> 00:16:41,670 going on and talk to him. Because, see, there are these 262 00:16:42,470 --> 00:16:43,190 preachers. 263 00:16:47,350 --> 00:16:49,030 Hiding behind keyboards 264 00:16:51,590 --> 00:16:54,950 with imacs in front of them who are 265 00:16:55,190 --> 00:16:58,830 preaching a gospel of distraction. And you know what really 266 00:16:58,830 --> 00:17:02,530 makes me mad is everything they say is, oh, you could have more. 267 00:17:03,970 --> 00:17:07,770 If you will just do this like and follow, like and follow. If 268 00:17:07,770 --> 00:17:11,610 you will like and follow, then you can make $70,000 in four and 269 00:17:11,610 --> 00:17:15,250 a half minutes and your life will be different. And what it's teaching 270 00:17:15,250 --> 00:17:18,930 us is that what you have is not enough. What 271 00:17:18,930 --> 00:17:22,650 God has provided for you is not enough. And so there's 272 00:17:22,650 --> 00:17:26,490 this constant longing for more. And media is telling us 273 00:17:26,490 --> 00:17:29,850 that we're doing it wrong. Do it the way they say to do it. We 274 00:17:29,850 --> 00:17:33,130 don't have enough, so we have to do it. You know, you'll have more if 275 00:17:33,130 --> 00:17:36,790 you don't. Passive income. You don't wanna work for it. You want the passive income. 276 00:17:37,670 --> 00:17:41,190 And the whole thing, the whole thing 277 00:17:41,430 --> 00:17:45,030 is a distraction from the fact that God has been good to you. 278 00:17:45,590 --> 00:17:49,390 God has provided everything you need. He 279 00:17:49,390 --> 00:17:52,630 has opened his hand according to scripture 280 00:17:53,030 --> 00:17:56,870 and provided for you, supplied everything that you 281 00:17:56,870 --> 00:18:00,550 need. And the enemy wants us to be so distracted and 282 00:18:00,710 --> 00:18:04,550 so busy trying to gain more that we do not appreciate 283 00:18:04,550 --> 00:18:06,930 what is right, right in the room with us. 284 00:18:08,290 --> 00:18:12,130 Gratitude. An awareness of God and His work 285 00:18:12,290 --> 00:18:16,010 that allows us to be grateful. And I'm like, lord, what is this thing 286 00:18:16,010 --> 00:18:19,610 you're doing? You know, I know it's a spiritual occurrence 287 00:18:19,610 --> 00:18:22,850 thing that you're waking me up, Lord. And he gave me this. 288 00:18:23,250 --> 00:18:25,090 Did you know that there is such a thing? 289 00:18:29,810 --> 00:18:33,450 To actively see God's hand, to 290 00:18:33,450 --> 00:18:37,290 witness his work and stand witness. There's that word, witness 291 00:18:37,850 --> 00:18:41,130 to what he is doing in the Space and in the moment 292 00:18:41,770 --> 00:18:45,490 to stand witness to what he is doing. This literally 293 00:18:45,490 --> 00:18:48,730 means God, give me eyes to see, Lord. Give me an 294 00:18:48,730 --> 00:18:52,250 understanding of what I'm looking at, but give me eyes 295 00:18:52,490 --> 00:18:56,250 that see you. And when that happens, there's 296 00:18:56,250 --> 00:19:00,050 this gratitude thing that begins to well up. When I first read 297 00:19:00,050 --> 00:19:02,810 that, doesn't that seem like a transformer's name to you? 298 00:19:06,670 --> 00:19:08,350 I want to see that one transform. 299 00:19:10,350 --> 00:19:14,150 But the goodness of God to be able to see it. And as 300 00:19:14,150 --> 00:19:17,830 they said a few times, we get so distracted that we don't 301 00:19:17,830 --> 00:19:21,550 see it. And as the Lord began to shift that in me, 302 00:19:21,550 --> 00:19:25,150 this was what I felt like. He told me our prayers need to shift from 303 00:19:25,150 --> 00:19:28,990 show me your glory to allow me to stand witness to your 304 00:19:28,990 --> 00:19:32,600 goodness. Allow me to stand witness 305 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,600 to your goodness. To the goodness of the 306 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,400 Lord. Well, what does that even mean, goodness of 307 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,120 God? The tool of God. It includes his beauty. Can 308 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:47,960 you look at ashes and go, I see the potential beauty here. 309 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,160 I see what you can do in this moment. 310 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:55,960 His fairness, his joy. That joy 311 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,510 that you get when there's no reason for you to be 312 00:19:59,510 --> 00:20:03,150 happy, but there's something on the inside of you that still cries 313 00:20:03,150 --> 00:20:06,910 out, God is good and he is faithful and we will survive this. 314 00:20:07,150 --> 00:20:10,350 And if not, I get to live with you forever. 315 00:20:11,710 --> 00:20:15,270 He'll either keep us here or take us out. And my mama used to always 316 00:20:15,270 --> 00:20:17,070 say, you can't threaten me with heaven. 317 00:20:20,590 --> 00:20:24,430 The goodness of God. That we would see the 318 00:20:24,430 --> 00:20:28,280 goodness of God. You know, David had a life, you 319 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,360 know. Yeah, he did, Connie. 320 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,200 And you had a life. Good, the bad and the 321 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,240 ugly. We all got a history and we all got a future in him. Amen. 322 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,919 Cause that's what his word says. The goodness of God. We can see the 323 00:20:42,919 --> 00:20:46,720 goodness of God. And I think about David and his failures 324 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,560 and his falls and him drooling against the wall while he 325 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:55,040 was literally holding Goliath's sword. 326 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:58,320 Makes. Anyway, it's a long story. We'll get into it somet. 327 00:20:59,900 --> 00:21:03,660 But his life story was crazy. Yet he was still known 328 00:21:03,660 --> 00:21:07,180 to be a man after God's heart. Why? 329 00:21:07,180 --> 00:21:10,860 Because he knew the goodness of God. He knew 330 00:21:10,860 --> 00:21:14,540 the goodness of God. This is what I remain confident of. This 331 00:21:14,619 --> 00:21:18,340 I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of 332 00:21:18,340 --> 00:21:22,140 the living. Wait for the Lord. Be strong and take heart 333 00:21:22,540 --> 00:21:24,460 and wait for the Lord. 334 00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:29,940 Sometimes it's not immediate. Sometimes all you see is the 335 00:21:29,940 --> 00:21:33,260 crash instead of the people crawling out of the car. 336 00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:38,140 Sometimes all you see is the immediacy of the moment and your 337 00:21:38,140 --> 00:21:41,860 breath catches and you don't know what to do in that moment. Can 338 00:21:41,860 --> 00:21:45,700 I encourage you be still and know that he's God and 339 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:49,220 give him a minute to wait. This word right here, when it says wait for 340 00:21:49,220 --> 00:21:51,740 the Lord, it literally means lay down. 341 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,400 Lay down and wait on me. 342 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,080 Just lay down. See, we can wait about this long. And I know 343 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,480 this because I've stood behind some of you in the checkout counter. Anyway, 344 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,800 you can wait about this long. What if he asks you to just 345 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,560 stretch out? What if he asks you to just wait in that for 346 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,120 just a little bit? What if he says, just wait on 347 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:20,710 me until you see his hand? Because, see, even when he took 348 00:22:21,030 --> 00:22:24,790 Moses, he didn't just. He went and he put him in the cleft of 349 00:22:24,790 --> 00:22:28,590 a rock and put his hand over him, and he could 350 00:22:28,590 --> 00:22:32,310 only see him from one angle. Sometimes you just 351 00:22:32,310 --> 00:22:35,350 gotta move around a little bit to catch the right angle 352 00:22:36,870 --> 00:22:40,550 to see what you need to see in that moment. But I 353 00:22:40,550 --> 00:22:44,270 ask you this. Like David, Hardships, blessings, and 354 00:22:44,270 --> 00:22:48,070 all people throwing stones at him. Conviction, losing child. 355 00:22:49,270 --> 00:22:53,110 Are you confident that you will see his goodness? 356 00:22:54,150 --> 00:22:57,230 Some of you are in a mess, Some of you are struggling, Some of you 357 00:22:57,230 --> 00:23:01,030 are in broken places. You're having a hard time. And 358 00:23:01,510 --> 00:23:05,110 are you confident underneath, underneath, 359 00:23:05,270 --> 00:23:09,110 like, physical stress, underneath those moments where you're not really 360 00:23:09,110 --> 00:23:12,790 figuring out, is there something on the inside of you that says, God, I will 361 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:17,360 see your goodness. I will see your goodness, and I'll 362 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:20,760 wait for it. Are you looking for it? Are you looking for it? 363 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,800 Or is the problem all you can see? 364 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,440 Is the issue all you can see? Or are you looking for 365 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,200 him in it? 366 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,520 Has your heart shifted to that of one who 367 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,290 witnesses the sacred? Has your heart shifted to that, 368 00:23:40,530 --> 00:23:44,370 to me? There are three heart postures when you. You can know you're standing 369 00:23:44,370 --> 00:23:47,450 as a witness on the planet. There are three heart postures, and I think there 370 00:23:47,450 --> 00:23:49,890 are three cries in our heart, and they are this. 371 00:23:51,570 --> 00:23:54,210 I need to see God. 372 00:23:55,650 --> 00:23:58,930 I need to see God in this. 373 00:23:59,330 --> 00:24:02,690 I need your presence, God, I need to see you 374 00:24:03,010 --> 00:24:06,460 in this situation. I need to see you 375 00:24:06,860 --> 00:24:10,500 in this situation. And then you move 376 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:14,060 from that to go, I will, I will. 377 00:24:14,460 --> 00:24:18,220 I will see you, God, in this God, I trust you, God. 378 00:24:18,220 --> 00:24:21,980 I know what your word says. I can't see it yet, but I will see 379 00:24:21,980 --> 00:24:25,700 you in this situation. And then there's the victorious part 380 00:24:25,700 --> 00:24:28,140 that goes, ha, I've seen him. 381 00:24:29,580 --> 00:24:33,020 I see your hand in this, God. It took a while. 382 00:24:33,260 --> 00:24:36,880 I had to lay there for a while, but I see your hand. I 383 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,680 finally see your hand. But the issue Is so often 384 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,960 we need to see him. We cry out, I will see him. But when we 385 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,560 do see him, we don't tell anybody. We don't tell 386 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:52,280 anybody. Do you know what God did? Do you 387 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:56,040 have any idea how he met me in this moment? I 388 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,880 thought I was going to die, but I didn't. God met 389 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:03,720 me there. I have seen God. See, there's a before, 390 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,430 during, and after in all of it. And each of you sit in one of 391 00:25:07,430 --> 00:25:11,150 those right now. Some of you need to see God in your 392 00:25:11,150 --> 00:25:14,950 situation. You need to know that he is there. And some of 393 00:25:14,950 --> 00:25:18,750 you need to allow faith to arise and go, okay, God, I am confident, 394 00:25:19,390 --> 00:25:23,230 shaky, but I'm confident that I'm going to see you in this. 395 00:25:23,470 --> 00:25:27,150 And, Lord, after we've sussed this out and I can 396 00:25:27,150 --> 00:25:30,510 figure it out in you, I'm going to tell everybody what you did. 397 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,840 I want to tell everybody what you did. When with a pure heart, 398 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,480 we ask to see his goodness in our situation, he gives us 399 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,240 glimpses of a greater work in that moment. And the lens through 400 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,040 which we see life changes and gratitude 401 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:49,640 awakens. Things look different. Things look 402 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,000 different. Pastor Wayne was sharing about this in one of our flow 403 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,680 meetings. It looks different. The lens that you 404 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,040 wear, the lens that you allow the Holy Spirit to 405 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,200 flesh out life for you, changes 406 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,840 with gratitude. With gratitude. When you begin 407 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,120 to look and see everything you have instead of everything you do not have. 408 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,280 When you begin to see the potential of the moment instead of what the moment 409 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,880 looks like at that time. Because see, gratitude 410 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,560 trains your heart to see the goodness of God. What does 411 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,840 that say? Trains our heart to see the goodness of God 412 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,640 regardless of our circumstances. Listen, gratitude is 413 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,260 not a moment. Gratitude is not standing and going. 414 00:26:34,260 --> 00:26:37,780 I thank you, Lord. Gratitude is a lifestyle. 415 00:26:38,020 --> 00:26:41,820 It is a place that we plant ourself and decide to 416 00:26:41,820 --> 00:26:44,940 live a grateful life instead of having a 417 00:26:44,940 --> 00:26:48,420 dissatisfied, unfulfilled heart all the time. 418 00:26:55,620 --> 00:26:59,180 So what do you do? What do you do? What is our 419 00:26:59,180 --> 00:27:02,980 instruction? What do you mean? It's an act of obedience. It's a lifestyle. 420 00:27:02,980 --> 00:27:06,240 It is a choice. It is an act of obedience. Well, 421 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,080 rejoice always. Pray continually. 422 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,080 Give thanks. When? 423 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,440 In just the ones you like. In the easy 424 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,360 ones. In the ones that involve ice cream. 425 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,280 Those are easier. I will give you that. Give thanks in 426 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,000 all circumstances. For what? This is 427 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,760 God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Do you know 428 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,940 how many times we get the question, what's God's will for my life? 429 00:27:37,740 --> 00:27:41,340 What? Start here, start here, 430 00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:46,460 Start here and see. David saw the goodness of the Lord. You've 431 00:27:46,460 --> 00:27:49,980 seen the goodness of the Lord. We have all stood witness to the goodness of 432 00:27:49,980 --> 00:27:53,020 the Lord, or we would not be sitting here today. His 433 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:56,940 faithfulness has brought you to this place at this time. 434 00:27:56,940 --> 00:28:00,580 And we are all still standing under the 435 00:28:00,580 --> 00:28:04,140 expanse of the stars in the skies. There's still 436 00:28:04,460 --> 00:28:08,290 that canopy above us, witnessing sacred moments. And we are beginning 437 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,840 the opportunity and the privilege to stand with them and 438 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,600 witness the sacred in the earth. If we will just do 439 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,960 it. If we will just do it. 440 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:25,720 He's been good to me. And, you know, 441 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,560 I was thinking about. I shared this 442 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,850 many years ago, but there is one instance, 443 00:28:37,090 --> 00:28:40,370 you know, those sacred times, it says that they are marked, 444 00:28:40,770 --> 00:28:44,530 that they would mark sacred times. I believe there's something in 445 00:28:44,530 --> 00:28:47,890 our own spirits that mark sacred times, 446 00:28:48,610 --> 00:28:51,090 things that happen in our life. And I had one 447 00:28:52,290 --> 00:28:55,930 many years ago. I will never forget it. Ever 448 00:28:55,930 --> 00:28:59,290 forget it. It is etched into the 449 00:28:59,290 --> 00:29:03,120 eternity on my soul. It is etched there. And 450 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,840 it was. Many of you all know, and a lot of you don't, 451 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,120 because there's a lot of new people. But I had 452 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,400 a niece who was diagnosed with leukemia when she 453 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,240 was almost three years old. And this was back 25, 30 years ago, 454 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,240 when the prognosis was not 455 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,200 good, when you were diagnosed with this. 456 00:29:26,970 --> 00:29:30,410 And I had the awesome privilege and 457 00:29:30,410 --> 00:29:34,250 opportunity of attending her wedding later in life because God was 458 00:29:34,250 --> 00:29:37,530 so faithful. But there was this moment in that process 459 00:29:38,170 --> 00:29:41,810 that marked me. I don't know that I 460 00:29:41,810 --> 00:29:44,330 have ever or will ever see 461 00:29:45,290 --> 00:29:47,850 gratitude in the same way again. 462 00:29:49,370 --> 00:29:52,720 My sister Angie, I don't know if she's. Lord, 463 00:29:53,110 --> 00:29:56,670 my sister, she's younger, 15 months younger than I am. And Heather was her 464 00:29:56,670 --> 00:30:00,390 daughter and is her daughter. And 465 00:30:00,790 --> 00:30:04,590 they. I have to tell you, I am just going to say this. 466 00:30:04,590 --> 00:30:07,590 When Angie was young, she was very emotional. 467 00:30:08,230 --> 00:30:11,350 She was the youngest of the family. Do I need to say anymore? 468 00:30:12,310 --> 00:30:16,070 She was the youngest child, and she was a little spoiled. 469 00:30:16,150 --> 00:30:19,510 You know, I got that on good authority my own. And. 470 00:30:22,370 --> 00:30:25,970 And she was beautiful, little princess girl. And actually, she is still 471 00:30:25,970 --> 00:30:29,810 beautiful, but she was very emotional. And 472 00:30:29,810 --> 00:30:32,690 later in life, she just stopped. 473 00:30:33,570 --> 00:30:37,290 Stopped. And one day I asked her, 474 00:30:37,290 --> 00:30:41,050 I said, I don't understand what's going on. You 475 00:30:41,050 --> 00:30:43,250 know, what happened? And she said, well, 476 00:30:45,010 --> 00:30:48,580 Heather had gone in for another spinal tap. And 477 00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:51,380 my understanding is that those are extremely painful. 478 00:30:52,580 --> 00:30:56,420 And she said, I was sitting beside the bed holding 479 00:30:56,420 --> 00:31:00,180 her hand, and she said. Heather looked at her and 480 00:31:00,180 --> 00:31:03,140 said, mommy, if you won't cry, I won't. 481 00:31:04,660 --> 00:31:07,460 And from that moment forward, 482 00:31:08,420 --> 00:31:11,620 their deal was, we're going to be strong 483 00:31:12,980 --> 00:31:16,510 we're going to walk through this. And from that 484 00:31:16,510 --> 00:31:20,190 moment forward, if there were 485 00:31:20,190 --> 00:31:22,110 tears in her life, I didn't see them. 486 00:31:23,870 --> 00:31:27,630 And then flash forward, they walked through everything 487 00:31:28,030 --> 00:31:31,510 together. And God was so faithful and he was so good, but it was a 488 00:31:31,510 --> 00:31:34,990 journey. And we're sitting in a cabin in North 489 00:31:34,990 --> 00:31:38,750 Carolina, in the woods of North Carolina. I know. Cause I got lost going 490 00:31:38,750 --> 00:31:42,560 there anyway. And we've had a day and we've had the 491 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,200 dinner and the families all come in, but everybody's gone to their own cabins 492 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,720 and everybody's doing their own thing. And the only. It's quiet. 493 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,520 And I'm sitting on the sofa with Heather, my niece, and 494 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,720 Angie's sitting in a chair across the room. And 495 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,960 Angie, in her way, I just. She is an amazing woman. 496 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,240 She just goes, okay, let's do this. 497 00:32:06,290 --> 00:32:09,970 And she looks over at Heather and she says, 498 00:32:12,930 --> 00:32:16,730 you know, when I got pregnant with you, I so wanted 499 00:32:16,730 --> 00:32:20,410 a little girl. I so wanted a little girl. But we didn't find 500 00:32:20,410 --> 00:32:23,890 out. And I would have been happy with whatever, but we so wanted a little 501 00:32:23,890 --> 00:32:27,730 girl. And she said, and when you were born, your voice was so 502 00:32:27,730 --> 00:32:31,170 deep that when you cried, I didn't know. 503 00:32:31,330 --> 00:32:34,130 And. And your daddy said, you got your girl, 504 00:32:35,330 --> 00:32:38,930 you got your girl. And she said, I was the 505 00:32:38,930 --> 00:32:41,650 most grateful woman on the planet. 506 00:32:42,610 --> 00:32:45,970 And she said, and then I got to enjoy you. 507 00:32:46,290 --> 00:32:50,130 And we, you know, we played. We had our life until you were 508 00:32:50,290 --> 00:32:53,410 two and we sat in front of that doctor and the doctor 509 00:32:53,890 --> 00:32:57,530 gave their news. And she said all I could remember, said, I 510 00:32:57,530 --> 00:32:59,670 remember Mama would always say, 511 00:33:01,110 --> 00:33:04,710 don't ask God for everything, lest you seem ungrateful for what you 512 00:33:04,710 --> 00:33:08,510 have. And she said, so all I did 513 00:33:08,510 --> 00:33:11,430 was say, God, can I see her turn three? 514 00:33:12,710 --> 00:33:15,990 Can I see her turn three? And she said, 515 00:33:17,270 --> 00:33:20,790 you turned three and I was the most grateful 516 00:33:20,790 --> 00:33:24,390 woman on the planet. I was the most grateful 517 00:33:24,550 --> 00:33:28,260 woman planet. And she said. 518 00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:31,780 So I just said, God, can I see her turn four? 519 00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:36,740 And she said, we spent the year and I watched you turn 520 00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:40,660 four. And before she could get the words out of her 521 00:33:40,660 --> 00:33:44,460 mouth, Heather, who's sitting beside me, this 27 522 00:33:44,460 --> 00:33:48,300 year old gets up and runs across the room and climbs 523 00:33:48,300 --> 00:33:51,610 into her mother's lap and tucks her head in. 524 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:56,040 And she said, I was so grateful, she said, 525 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,680 and you turned five. And she said, but here's the thing, she said, I never, 526 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,680 I would have never even imagined this 527 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,520 day. I couldn't let my heart go there to go. God, can I 528 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:11,200 see her get married? Can I see her grow up? She said, every 529 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,800 single day of your life. I have been 530 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,510 grateful. I have been grateful for. For every 531 00:34:18,990 --> 00:34:22,590 moment that we've had together. And all I could think was, oh, I 532 00:34:22,590 --> 00:34:25,670 shouldn't be here. This is such a private moment. Why am I here? But I 533 00:34:25,670 --> 00:34:29,430 couldn't move and I wasn't gonna leave. And I was like. It was the 534 00:34:29,430 --> 00:34:33,270 most beautiful thing in the world because I knew my s. You 535 00:34:33,270 --> 00:34:36,950 know what? I have always known and loved my sister. But I 536 00:34:36,950 --> 00:34:40,550 think I saw her for the first time to go. She 537 00:34:40,550 --> 00:34:44,350 has lived on that razor's edge between 538 00:34:44,350 --> 00:34:48,030 not knowing what God was gonna do or not do and trusting 539 00:34:48,030 --> 00:34:51,850 him and just asking for. Because she knew the goodness of God that 540 00:34:51,850 --> 00:34:54,890 surrounded her life on a daily basis. 541 00:34:55,210 --> 00:34:58,810 Sometimes all we're doing is asking for more and we can't see and 542 00:34:58,810 --> 00:35:02,570 be grateful for what we have today. To 543 00:35:02,570 --> 00:35:05,850 live in a posture of gratitude, to go God, 544 00:35:08,650 --> 00:35:12,490 to be able to sit in that room and watch someone 545 00:35:12,490 --> 00:35:16,170 that we didn't know what was going to happen. To watch her marry Chris, 546 00:35:16,250 --> 00:35:19,750 who is crazy in to have. 547 00:35:19,830 --> 00:35:23,430 She's got a baby now. She's got a little boy. And God 548 00:35:23,430 --> 00:35:27,190 just was so amazing through all 549 00:35:27,190 --> 00:35:30,230 of it. But it's the attitude, 550 00:35:31,030 --> 00:35:34,829 that posture of gratitude that my 551 00:35:34,829 --> 00:35:38,550 sister taught me, it's not about all of that. It's about 552 00:35:38,710 --> 00:35:42,550 this and it's about now, and it's about what God has done 553 00:35:42,550 --> 00:35:46,310 in your life. Everybody's waiting on this big thing. 554 00:35:46,970 --> 00:35:50,370 You're the big thing. God is the big thing. This moment now is all that 555 00:35:50,370 --> 00:35:54,090 we're promised. We know that. So to live in gratitude 556 00:35:54,730 --> 00:35:58,410 for what he has done and all that he's doing. And 557 00:35:58,410 --> 00:36:02,090 I honestly say with David, what shall 558 00:36:02,090 --> 00:36:05,850 I return to the Lord? What shall I return 559 00:36:05,850 --> 00:36:08,970 to the Lord? For all his goodness to me. 560 00:36:10,410 --> 00:36:13,100 For all his goodness to me. 561 00:36:14,860 --> 00:36:17,660 I ran across this thing and I thought, lord, this is so. 562 00:36:18,620 --> 00:36:22,300 This is so. If I were 563 00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:25,580 little. Actually, that's not an excuse. We can do it. 564 00:36:25,980 --> 00:36:29,500 You'll see. But to go, Lord, I want this heart 565 00:36:30,140 --> 00:36:33,740 of gratitude. I want this to be 566 00:36:34,220 --> 00:36:38,060 how I worship you. This is what I want to do, 567 00:36:38,140 --> 00:36:41,960 to return to the Lord all his goodness. And I want you 568 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,640 to pay attention to the ancillary things in this video I'm getting 569 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,120 ready to share with you. Because the beautiful part of it is, is that if 570 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,960 I learn. If I learn to see and appreciate the goodness 571 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,720 of God, I can teach my children to see and appreciate the goodness of 572 00:36:56,720 --> 00:37:00,360 God. And if you will, it will be perpetuated through the generations 573 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:04,280 and the changes that come. So I'm gonna Ask them to take the 574 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,600 lights down and crank this up for me, if you would. 575 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,440 You can. Go ahead. Start us up there, Jonathan. 576 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,760 Here's the thing that's in 577 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,600 all of us. We lost it somewhere along the 578 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,920 way, but it's there. 579 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,320 Grandma and Grandpa are encouraging you. Mama's singing in the 580 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:30,160 background. Do that for your babies. Do that 581 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,840 for your babies. You know, this week, actually, last night, 582 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,080 Rowan and Norin was gonna watch Kung Fu Panda. 583 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,080 And in the beginning, at one point it says, you know, 584 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,680 you must bow to your master. At which Rowan looks up and says, 585 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,520 I don't bow to anyone but the Lord Jesus Christ. 586 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,640 And Nora said, pass the ketchup. 587 00:38:01,470 --> 00:38:05,230 You win. Some guys, there 588 00:38:05,230 --> 00:38:08,870 should be something in our hearts that testifies to the 589 00:38:08,870 --> 00:38:12,350 goodness of God as we stand witness to all 590 00:38:12,510 --> 00:38:16,229 he has done. And so we're going to stand for just a second, and we 591 00:38:16,229 --> 00:38:19,630 are going to sing. And I'm going to ask you to take just one 592 00:38:19,630 --> 00:38:22,590 moment and think of one thing 593 00:38:24,270 --> 00:38:27,960 and be grateful. And we're going to sing. We're going to sing like he 594 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,560 sings. We're going to lift our hands. I'd like to see some feet 595 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:35,280 moving, if possible. We are going to declare the goodness of God. Let's 596 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:36,200 go. Let's.