Cultivating Thankfulness

Oh online, without further ado, awesome pastor Justin is just

about ready I have Can we have a.

Moment of silence. I went to the kitchen to get

coffee and water came out. It was like an opposite

of a miracle. So, uh, rub it in, rub it in, dude.

So I'm gonna drink a bubbly not in the sense

that like champagne, but you know water. Ah huh oh,

I'm good, thank you. I already had a few cups.

It'll probably be better for y'all if I don't have anymore.

I just want to encourage y'all. Take he spilled that

thing twice for service, there's nothing left in it. I

want to encourage y'all. Sometimes God will speak to you

very quickly. And the only thing I had when I

first called her out was a quick flash of her

with an oxygen line. Everything else, all the rest of

that revelation came with my obedience of stepping out by faith.

Don't dig your feet in and put a demand on

the Lord like somehow he has to give you the

whole word before you step out, because you're not going

to be moving in faith. And it says we're supposed

to prophesy to the measure of our faith?

Right?

Are you all awake? Are you with me? So many

times you're missing out being used of the Lord because

he shows you something very quickly, and then you argue

with what you saw, or you're fearful that you might

miss it. Listen, no one's perfect. There's two prophets in

all of the scripture that none of their words hit

the ground. Who Jesus, Yeah, that's good, He's one and

Samuel all the rest of the prophets, it does not

say that. In fact, Nathan goes to David and tells him,

go do everything that's in your heart. The Lord's with you.

But then the word of the Lord came to him

that night and said no, and so he had to

go back and correct what he said. Are you all

breathing this morning? Am I just the only one wound up?

Or what?

So?

Over the next three and a half hours, now, I

want to talk to you about cultivating a life of

thanksgiving or cultivating thankfulness. I know it's the season, and

Mark just gave me a look like he's not happy

that I'm going to be talking about Thanksgiving? Are you okay?

I'm just playing? Yeah, go for it first first one

Timothy six six. But godliness with contentment is great gain. Yeah,

we live in a culture that wars against us being content.

Do you realize that? Go look at all of marketing.

You're bombarded with marketing every single day of your life.

My wife had the audacity to go shopping Friday, Black Friday,

Black Friday. Yeah, black Friday shopping. Not the audacity, but

the hootzfa, I guess, and because everybody is shopping on Friday, right,

But all of the marketing is designed to create a loss,

a perceived loss or need, and all of a sudden

you're like, oh man, five seconds ago, I didn't know

I needed that. Now now I can't live without it.

And literally, our culture because of the way the marketing is,

it's designed to create a negative in your life and

wars against being content correct, and so literally we have

to have right thinking, we have to have a heart

of gratitude. And the only way that we are content

in the Lord is if we're actually cultivating that giving thanks.

One Thessalonians five p. Sixteen to eighteen says rejoice, always

pray without ceasing, give thanks Sometimes when things are going

your way. Oh wait, a minute. Oh sorry, that was

the nearly inspired version. Give thanks in all circumstances, For

this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

How many you know it's easy to give thanks when

everything's going your way, right, He's got to raise at

work and everything. You know, you're sailing in the and

everything's beautiful, rainbows and sunshining. But it's not always easy

to give thanks when everything seems to go wrong, when

when we hit a valley of a shadow of death,

which we have act we without a doubt, have walked

through as a community in the last several months. And

it's not easy to give things. But yet thanksgiving and

having the ability to bounce back and give thanks in

all circumstances is a massive weapon. It will keep you

out of depression. It will keep you out of depression.

You'll never find a grateful person that's depressed. That was good.

Rejoice always. We have the power to choose joy. Joy

comes an act of obedience of rejoicing, y'all. So many

times I said this. For I woke up this morning,

I was like, man, I don't even want to go

to church today. Can we be real like I don't

like I don't show up every single Sunday always ready

to rock and roll, wanting to let's go. Sometimes I'm tired.

Sometimes I'm like, oh, I could sleep in right like

some of y'all do. The only thing I'm paying attention, No,

I'm planning. But seriously, faith isn't a feeling. It Too

many times, especially in the charismatic movement, we're always waiting

for the big feels, right, the heat and the and

the and the fire and the and guess what, many

times you're gonna miss out because you're waiting for a

feeling when you just need to simply be obedient to

what the Lord said, and he's not concerned about how

you feel about it. So read choice always. We have

the power to choose joy. Joy comes in the act

of obedience of rejoicing. There are times when the act

of rejoicing is perhaps the greatest act of faith we

will see. Rejoicing is a key to your emotional health.

Pray without ceasing. This is similar to Jesus's instruction in

John fifteen seven to abide in him. The constant and

ongoing fellowship with Him is what positions us to ask

for anything, and it will be done. This is his

positioning his people to have influence over what happens on

planet Earth. I've said this many times. I think one

of the biggest problems is the Body of Christ. The

Church is actually afraid of the responsibility we truly carry

over this earth, and it shows because we leave the

mountains of influence and then all we do is shoot

arrows from the cheap seats and complain that the culture

is going to hell, when it's actually our responsibility to

be the light and salt to change it. And if

you have an end time's perspective that doesn't activate you

to advance the kingdom, then throw it out, because we

are called to advance the kingdom. We're called to occupy

until He comes, no matter what that. You know. We

just had the conference with Ken last weekend, which I

thought was brilliant. There's some things I had not heard

before that he taught that they're hard to argue with.

But in the same breath I loved his humility and

how he said, listen, I stayed away from a lot

of these little pre mid posts and all that stuff,

because there's holes in all these different perspectives. But he

is going to come back. He is going to come

back and its things are gearing up right now that

I was reminded of the word that I had for

next year about standing. I hate to break it to you,

but we've got some We've got some things coming to

our country in the next twelve months that we really

need the church to stand up. You understand, you can't

fall asleep. This is not a time to lay back

and eat cotton candy and lollipops. This is a time

that we advance the kingdom, that we actively ask the

Lord where he wants us. What is your assignment? Like,

what is your assignment in this hour? I don't care

if it's If you're a janitor, then be the best

janitor unto the Lord that you can possibly be. And

you have no idea even with that, what the Lord

can do through your life. So praying is a key

to spiritual health and everything. Give thanks. It is nearly

impossible to be thankful for everything and of itself, but

a thankful heart in the midst of unexplainable tragedy renders

the enemy powerless over the believer. Listen, there are things

that happen all the time. Sean and I were literally

just talking about you know, God's will, and I looked

at him, I said, you understand, we're just arguing over

the sovereignty of God right now, which they've been doing

for thousands of years. We weren't arguing, we were just

giving different perspectives. And there are things that happen y'all

in planet Earth every single day that if you demand

to know why, you will shipwreck your faith. You'll never

pull out of that spot. If you say, I'm not

giving up my question mark. One of the most important things,

especially as turbulent times are happening, is that we get

into we posture our hearts into a place where we're

willing to give up our right to be right and

to be okay, to live in the tension, Minister of Mystery,

because if you don't, then you're going to begin to

cultivate a theology of unbelief and not faith. I promise you,

if all you do is focus on why something didn't happen,

and when you go to pray for somebody, you're gonna

have faith for them not to get healed rather than

get healed. And so we have. I'm reminded what the

Lord told Richard Hokum. They said, you pray for every

single person, like I want to heal them, and you

leave the results up to me. And I think there's

a lot of wisdom in that because I don't know

about you, but I'm not bating one hundred percent, right,

y'all with me? So praying without ceasing or giving thanks

and everything, even in the midst of tragedy, renders the

end to be powerless over you. The most powerful expression

happens because of our trust in God. He makes all

things work together for the good. That's why we can

give thanks. And that those three things are excerpts out

of Bill's book. Even if there's nothing else in this

season of your life, in this moment, you can absolutely

give thanks because He's working all things together for the good.

You may not see it, you may not feel it.

You may you may not even really believe it that much.

But the reality is you have his words, you have

his promise, and come hell or high water, he's actively

working on the behalf of those that wait for him.

He is working on your behalf right now. This is

a chapter of your life. It's not the end. What

was the quote we heard earlier from a few months

back from Kylie, Heaven is our home is our assignment.

And then I remember Sean taking that long piece of

string that represented eternity, and he's like, hey, you're right here.

But also I ought to make us not get too

big for our breeches because we're a tiny little speck

in a universe. So if you're not a flat earther,

the universe is expanding at the speed of light too soon.

I like my joke, so I will laugh. So anyways,

we're expanding at the speed of light, right So the

moment the Lord said let there be, it started expanding

and has not stopped. And as you ponder that moment

that the universe is expanding right now has never stopped.

And yet the universe exists inside of him. Are you

with me? So why in the world do we not

believe that he can do all things and that the

impossible is nothing to him? As Troy says, I'm in

the mood to quote people this morning. Apparently, I guess

I want everybody to be happy, be thankful, So thankfulness,

I'll be thankful when this stays clicked. Hold on, yo.

So thankfulness is a key to mental health. You know

the benefits of gratitude. I'm glad you asked, I'm going

to read you a couple. Ultimately, gratitude is more complex

than merely expressing courtesy or focusing on positive thinking. By

the there's been so much New Age hogwash that has

crept into our faith. There's so much humanism that has

crept into spirituality, and it's not spirituality, it's just secular.

But true gratitude is in the heart. Gratitude helps you

to develop a more positive mindset. It can lead to

an improvement in your mood. Look at somebody next to

you and say you need a mood adjustment, and if

it's your spouse, back off real quick. But it actually

helps condition your brain to filter out negative thoughts. It

becomes easier to avoid dwelling on toxic emotions like resentment, envy,

and jealousy. Gratitude reduces stress. Who wants some stress? Reducer

of this hour? Anybody wants some stress? Good job, son,

good job. So it reduces levels of stress and specifically

your stress hormone cortisol, which does not help with shrinking

the kingdom. If it's high, which in turn benefits your

cardiac function. It actually improves your heart rate variable and

your nervous system Gratitude reduces anxiety. It affects your something

another that regulates your SNS and anxiety responses. Gratitude reduces depression.

Who wants to who doesn't want depression? Every hand should

be up right now. Because gratitude reduces stress hormones and

manages your nervous system functions, it can help to significantly

reduce depression symptoms. Y'all, I want to tell you something.

The moment you start to feel heavy, the moment you

start feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders

and all down and out and woe is me and

ba humbug. In that moment, give thanks, and you know what,

You may be feeling something legitimate. You may not even

be it could be true. You may be feeling lost

in this moment. We get to the holidays and Thanksgiving

and Christmas and you start thinking about family and friends

and loved ones and those that have graduated to heaven.

And it can be very difficult. It's not easy. But

as you feel yourself starting to sink and grief, you

can begin to say Lord, thank you, thank you, thank

you for the roof over my head, thank you for

the clothes I wear, thank you for the food I eat.

Thank you for my family, thank you for my job,

thank you that I have the best pastor I mean,

I mean cultivating gratitude. Gratitude improves emotional resilience. Practicing gratitude

can help you reduce future stress and rewire cognitive pathways,

literally renew your mind. Gratitude will improve your focus. The

release of dopamine enhances concentration and vitality. Gratitude improves your immunity.

It triggers the release of hormones that regulate the immune

system and help it function efficiently. Gratitude will improve your sleep.

It triggers the hypothalamus, which is an important role in

the regulating your sleep. Gratitude helps with social bonding. Maybe

you don't want to bond socially, but it does. Expressing

appreciation enhances our connection with others. What that's the angel

on the roof. Gratitude can improve general health concerns. Individuals

who experience high levels of gratitude have been found to

have fewer headaches, infections, digestion problems, dizzy spells, and less congestion.

And it can decrease symptoms of head pains, sore muscles,

and nausea. And this is all literally from having a

heart of gratitude. And you get a grateful heart by

activating your faith and giving things in all circumstances, even

if you're going through the valley of the shadow of death,

you don't have to fear evil. The Lord's with you.

He's not done with you. Do you know how many

testimonies over the last what eight years since Mercygate and

nine years since the Church of Family Restoration, families coming

back together, how many Mercygate women have gotten their children back?

And in the natural it was absolutely impossible, right, yeah,

like impossible, impossible, And yet we have so many testimonies.

I love this. Get them, Lord mess him up. That's

a good prayer. Just lay your hand on somebody next

to you and say, get them, Lord, mess him up.

Then as he entered a certain village, there met him

ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off, and

they lifted up their voices and said, Jesus Master, have

mercy on us. So when he saw them, he said

to them, go show yourselves to the priest. And so

it was that as they went they were cleansed, and

one of them, when he saw that he was healed,

returned and with a loud voice, glorified God, fell down

on his face at his feet, giving him thanks. And

he was a Samaritan. So Jesus answered and said, were

there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were

they not any found? Were there not any found who

returned to give glory to God? Accept this foreigner? And

he said to him, arise, go your way. Your faith

has made you well. The Greek word for well is soso,

which means to save, rescue, preserve, or make hole that Troy,

you and I were talking about this the other day

that if you don't go back to the original language,

so many times you miss what's really going on. Now,

let's unpack this for a second. You've got ten lepers,

not leopards. Where's Kaylan? Last time I said he came

to cleanse the leopards? Caylin took an Ai photo of

me washing a leopard in it like a zoo and

texted it to me even before I was done preaching.

If you're online, thanks, I appreciate that one. And so leper.

So there were ten. A foreigner comes back, falls on

his face and gives thanks to the Lord. Leprosy removes it,

eats away fingers, toes, nose, ears, So all of them

were healed, but he was made whole. So by his thanksgiving,

he went from not just being physically healed, but unlocking

a miracle and restoration of everything that that disease had

taken from them. So do you think that giving thanks

is powerful? See we always look at these things. It

says that we have weapons of righteousness in our right

hand and in our left. So what is your spiritual

weapon today? What if you woke up and said, Lord,

do you know exactly what I'm going to face today?

What spirit What is my spiritual weapon for the day?

What do I need to pull out of my arsenal? Well,

we know giving thanks is every day in all things,

so we know that's one of our spiritual weapons. I

was at HB last week and this guy was putting

his groceries in his vehicle and I'm back, you know,

with my turn signal on because two vehicles in front

of him, this car was about to back out. He's

not a very grateful person, and he was not grateful

for the fact that I was waiting to pull into

a parking spot two cars after him, and he starts

yelling at me. But I got my windows up so

I can't hear him. So I'm still at peace, and

he's doing all this stuff, and I'm like, what was

this guy's problem? Man? And so I just go, I'm

am I jeep. Well, apparently that that didn't calm down

the situation, and so he puts his groceries up. The

other car is about to back out, and because I

didn't do what he said I should do, which is

apparently moved because God forbid he'd have to wait three

seconds to back out of the AHV parking lot, he

really starts putting it on. I have no idea. I mean,

he's probably cussing me every which never mind, Okay, there's

a pattern at ATP for me. Apparently he's doing all

this stuff and because he was so irritated that he

might have to he might have to wait. And as

he's coming back after he put his card up, he's

doing hand signals and yelling and all that. So then

I changed my Then I started doing this. I started

waving him that way, you know, sharing the joy, and

I mean just I was like, what in the world,

I mean, just think of what's going through that guy's

head and the negative thoughts and how ungrateful and unthankful

he is in that moment. But I want to tell

you that there are people all around you right now

in kirk count Me that are fighting battles, that are

absolutely sinking in negative emotions. And if you're walking around

with the joy of the Lord and you're giving thanks

in all circumstances, and you're looking for these folks, think

about the ministry opportunities you can have. Wednesday, we were

handing out gift cards with Mercy Chefs and gave a

card and the lady started crying and she said, I

have not been able to buy groceries for two weeks

and she's just crying and crying. You know, I never cry,

so I was real. I start crying. Thus say it

the frank I start, I start crying. Well, here's another one.

So I give her. I give her a second card.

But she was so thankful. You understand, generosity is a weapon.

Some of y'all are holding on to your money and

when you open your wallet, George goes like this because

he hadn't seen the light of day forever, and you're

actually robbing yourselves of so many blessings. Do you understand

that if you don't give, stop it. You need to

have a you need to have a heart of generosity. Yes,

I know the pastor you just talked about giving and truths. Well,

it's okay, because I don't want you to get robbed

and you need to have a life of generosity. If

you don't give, start giving, you're robbing yourself and you're

not taking that with you. We're not going to bury

you in a coffin full of cash that you take

into the eternal life. You don't need it. I think

Troy said this, We will walk on what is the

most prized thing in the world, gold streets of gold

in heaven. This is good, y'all. Generosity is a weapon.

Why do you think that It says in Deuteronomy eight

eighteen that it's the Lord that gives you the power

to make wealth. If there's not spiritual warfare against your prosperity,

why do you need the power of God to get it?

And what is it that the enemy knows that you're

apparently not knowing in this moment. He knows that a

heart of gratitude and a generosity, a heart full of

generosity is a weapon. Because he also knows that if

you don't have the provision you need, you actually have

to ask money to be obedient to God. Could hear

a pindrob so soso? So the physical healing, the word

can mean to rescue from physical danger and disease, making

the man physically well from his leprosy. Spiritual salvation it's

a broader meaning includes saving a person from their sins

and making them spiritually whole. So this guy walks away

the Samaritan cleansed completely. Do you understand in that culture

they would have to yell unclean as you approached. They

would literally have to yell out unclean because you weren't

supposed to get by them. I mean, how humiliating is that?

And all of a sudden, because that guy came back

and gives thanks to the Lord Lord, thank you for

healing me, all of a sudden, he's fake and now

he yells I'm clean because of Jesus. Part of stewarding

your breakthrough is actually stewarding where you're at in this moment.

Part of that wordship is you having a heart full

of gratitude and thanksgiving with what the Lord has done

in your life, what he's doing in your life, and

what he longs to do in your life in the future.

Are you with me? Allowing that thanksgiving and gratitude to

bubble up is a spiritual weapon to protect you from

shipwrecking your faith in these times to come. The Hebrew

word for thanks is YadA, and it appears one hundred

and fourteen times in the Old Covenant, and it means

to cast out, to make confession, to praise, shoot, or

give thankful. There's another word Hebrew word for thanksgiving is tada,

and it's from the root word YadA, and it appears

thirty two times. Tada means to confession, hymns of thanksgiving, praise,

sacrifices of thanksgiving. Listen, there are times where you don't

feel like giving thanks and everything is going wrong, and

it literally is a sacrifice to give thanks in that moment.

But you're never gonna have to give a sacrifice of

thanksgiving in heaven. That's only on this side of earth.

It's a thank offering. We're so so richly blessed. Giving

thanks will open your eyes to the things that you

have not been stewarding, because the enemy wants to get

you so focused on what you don't have that you

lose sight of what you have, and so you get

lasered in on this one thing that hasn't happened yet,

and you forget about all of his benefits, all of

his blessings that he loads you up with daily, and

it just works like a cancer through your soul when

you're unthankful and negative. Naman Namon was so unthankful, so ungrateful,

He had a heart of stone. Glossians three sixteen says,

let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching

and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and

hymns and spiritual songs, with thanksgiving in your heart to God.

Back one verse, it says, let the peace of Christ

rule in your hearts to which indeed you werecalled in

one body, and be thankful. There's this theme over and

over and over of thanksgiving. Listen of the only thing

the Lord did was save you from hell? Is that

not enough to be thankful for? Is real? It's not

going away. Period. You can't preach a gospel without preaching repentance,

and preaching repentance from what. And there's consequences to not

having repentance. That is a heresy to say there is

no hell, and that is one of the doctrines of

demons being taught today. That's inmpiltrated the church, seducing spirit,

doctrine of demon. If we don't protect the Gospel, it

no longer is the good news. Are you with me?

Paul said, he called it his gospel, that's how much

he literally it was all about the Gospel. And there

is no revival without the Gospel being at the forefront,

being preached and the harvest happening Colossians one to three.

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ,

when we pray for you, over and over and over Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving.

Let the Word of Christ dwelling you richly, teaching and

admonishing one another in all wisdom. Singing hymns are psalms

and hymns and spiritual thought. This am I as right

as root off or what oh my word?

Well?

And that, folks, is how you stay humble. Oh Lord,

help me. Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thanksgiving.

Don't put those two words together in your hearts to

God who and let the peace of Christ rule in

your hearts, to which indeed you recall to one body

and be thankful. Mm oh, okay, I'm breathing. Who there's

there was no pass I just had to stop. I

will praise the name of God with a song. I

will magnify him with thanksgiving Psalm sixty nine thirty. It says,

offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your

vows to the most high Psalm fifty, verse fourteen. This

is a little rabbit trail. But during worship, as I

was looking around the room and upstairs, and at the time,

we had some more young people up there during worship,

and I just heard in my spirit, get ready, the

youth are coming. And I really, even in the midst

of turbulent times and difficult things, there's five generations on

the earth at all times. And I also want to

tell you that all five generations God is interested in using.

I don't care what your age is, of your eighty five,

or of your twenty five, or of you'r fifteen. God

is after you and he wants to use you period.

So there is no sitting on the shelf. If you

have breath in your lungs, you are here on divine

assignment for a purpose. And hopefully I won't get fired

after today's message, Give thanks always and for everything to

God the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus

Christ Ephesians five twenty one Timothy two to one. First

of all, then I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and

thanksgivings be made for all people. Do you see the

theme of what He's called us to? How thankful are

you this morning? Are you thankful? When was the last

time you just literally sat alone with the Lord and

started giving thanks and intentionally started thinking about things that

you were thankful for. I bet you there's twenty five

things right now that you have totally forgotten about that

are a blessing. And every good and perfect gift comes

down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is

no shadow of shifting Thessalonians five eighteen. Give thanks in

all circumstances, for this is the will of God in

Christ Jesus. For you. Where's michaeh. We get on the keys.

We're gonna do something different as we close. I did

this first service, and this is going to take a

few minutes, so I'm landing the plane early. So I

want you every stand up. I want you to find

someone you don't know, if possible, I know that's not

always possible, but try to find somebody you don't know.

I want each of you, obviously, one at a time,

not at the same time, so you can hear each

other give five things that you're thankful for, and then

each of you give a prayer request and the other

pray for each other. So you're gonna tell the person

five things you're thankful for, then you're gonna give a

prayer request. That person's gonna pray for you, and you'll

switch and that's and that's that's our activation. That's how

we're gonna finish this morning. So feel feel free. Seat

belt signs off to move about the cabin and find somebody.

U M. As you all finish, if you can find

your seats.

H h.

H hey, as y'all are. As y'all are done, there's

there's one one thing we're gonna do before we before

you all go, so I can get you to if

you're if you're done praying, uh M, one more quick activation,

I said, as they're done. Hey, just on a curiosity,

was anybody in pain before we did this? And they're

you're not in pain now? Okay, okay, So this this

has been on my heart a couple of times for

this service. As we finish up, I just want to

go after healing, physical healing for a couple of minutes.

So you had your hand up right you said you

were in pain. What's going on? Can you hear him?

A couple of car accidents? Okay, those that are around you,

can you all get around him? So Father, right now?

I asked that you would meet him, Lord, meet him

in those moments when the trauma came in. Lord asked

that you'd remove the trauma from those events in this

moment in order to speak to his body, specifically to

the body memory, and say, trauma, go right now in

Jesus' name. Uh, do you steel that pop off your back? Yeah?

You had a light that just left you. Check your knee,

do something you couldn't do. How are you totally painfree?

The Lord's touching your heart right now, isn't he? Come on?

Get them Jesus heal them, Lord, heal them.

H m hmm, more Lord, more Lord.

Do you feel the compassion of the Lord moving in

the room right now? That just totally shifted. You can

feel it, like just a warmth came in and it's

just swirling. Oh yeah, if you need emotional healing right now,

just stand up Father, right now, the mighty name of Jesus,

I thank you. Now you are Jehovah Rapha. Lord, I

thank you for emotional healing right now.

Lord.

Each of these individuals are stuck in a place, Lord,

and they need breakthrough. They need breakthrough from trauma from

the memorials that have been set up on their mind.

Lord that they keep rev sitting over and over and over.

And I specifically break word curses from parents right now,

and we come on and we just forgive dad for

the word curses. We forgive mom, and we specifically forgive

parents that have abandoned the responsibility to parent. Lord, I

thank you for healing hearts right now. The Lord's somebody,

who is it that's got rheumatoried arthritis. I just heard

rheumatoorid arthritis, and I actually feel like it's tied to

emotional pain. So would y'all put your hands on her too,

with those that are around her. Jesus, I thank you

for bringing the healing right now, and we just curse

arthritis in the name of Jesus. We command arthritis to

get out now, and I thank you just for emotional release.

I say to that buried grief, you got a release

now and the mighty name of Jesus, and I thank

you Lord for just washing over her memories, Lord, washing

over the past, and meeting with her and bringing healing, Lord, removing,

removing all that stored pain out of her joints. Lord, kidney,

who's got h who's got either a kidney infection or

low functioning kidneys?

Right now? What do that means?

That's?

Yeah, the kidney pain.

Why, I know Laurie's got that. But and specifically disks

in your lower back. So you and you and you

and you and you, okay, keep your hands up, get

some folks around them, and pray for that. Lord, I

thank you that you gave us power and authority for healing.

So right now, Lord, glorify your name, Lord Jesus. Will

you stretch forth your arm with healing, stretch forth your arm? Lord,

Would you heal backs? Would you restore discs? Right now?

Lord?

But I thank you for your fire. I thank you

for your fire.

Lord.

I thank you just for a fresh baptism of fire

and healing. Right now, Lord, let the fire fall, yeah,

Lord in the back pain specifically tied to accidents. Would

you heal right now?

Lord, check your back? If you see how you're doing?

How are you a lot better than this morning? So

are you like one hundred percent?

Or are you what? Are you well?

Lord? I thank you that you don't leave five percent?

So Jesus, I thank you for one hundred percent right now,

one hundred percent. Lord, thank you, Lord, thank you for

that ninety five percent. We thank you for the other

five right now. Lord in Jesus' mighty name, Lord, thank

you for that five percent. And Lord, would you who

I don't know if you've been asking for the gift

of healing, but Lord, I asked that you would give

him the gift of healing right now, that he would

laying his hands on all those people that he's been

working with, Lord, and they would be healing right now.

Lord, let them have it.

Light them up, Light them up, Lord, real quick before

we before Troy's says something, Who out anybody else with

improvement in your back?

Yeah?

How are you? Is all gone?

Well?

Come on, thank you Jesus. Anybody else all right?

Go ahead? Sure?

I just had an observation. How many of you know

that Jesus said, follow me, not follow your heart. Right,

So to follow the bravest person who's ever set foot

on this earth, we're going to have to have courage

and bravery right today. I'm not sure who I'm saying

this for, maybe all of us, but I really feel

like there's a handful here that need this. You saw

something happen up here earlier. You saw your praise and

worship leader talk about this. One of the scariest scriptures

in all of the Bible, one I hated for thirty years.

Confess your sins one to another that you may be

made whole. Well, who wants to do that? It's pretty

embarrassing to go to someone in confess your sin, right,

But doesn't that take courage and bravery? Okay, so it's

like we all cry for powerful faith, but we forget

that it's built on quiet trust. Right, So just be encouraged.

Take the devil out behind the woodshed and beat the

snot out of him with your bravery and courage to

expose him. What you reveal can be healed. The example,

after Chris said that was your pastor, he sees her

has a little well, it's quick, quick word and then

steps out into what faith right, and look what happened.

She received freedom today. So it's it's time for bravery

and courage.

You know.

I was thinking as he was talking, I felt like

I saw justin. I felt like I saw an angel

putting a medal around your neck, just that little thing.

It was like, how little can I give this crazy man?

And he'll still jump through this, through through this doorway?

Right?

So I think there's honor in the little So I

honor you as my brother and friend. Your bravery encourage

inspires me and us. Right, So I was thinking you

real quick. I was thinking about the guts of Shadrack

and Meshak and to bend to go watching these guys

heat the furnace up seven times. Our God is able,

but if he does it, we're still not worshiping you. Right,

bravery encourage. Now, look looking in the times ahead, how

much bravery you encourage do you think we're gonna need?

Then start cultivating it. Come on, James five sixteen, have

a nice day.

All right, Lord, thank you, let's just give the Lord

a hand. Well, thank you, Lord, thank you, Jesus, y'all.

I am so thankful that we honestly don't know what's

going to happen when we gather. I'm so thankful that

it's not the same old, mundane religious hogwash, but that

the Lord is on the move and he's moving here.

So Father, I thank you for your love. I thank

you for your goodness. Jesus. I pray that you were

a hunter and glory today, our glory today by us, Lord,

because you said you won't share your glory with a man.

So Lord, we give thanks. We praise you. Lord. Teach

us to be able to give thanks in all thanks. Lord,

let us exercise our spiritual muscles and take the risks

of faith, Lord, and begin to cultivate the things that

should be in our lives, because when we look at you,

we see them in you. So we honor you today, Lord,

and we thank you. We thank you for life in

Jesus' mighty name. Amen. All right, glass, y'all.

Wost by the Lord today and we look forward to

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