Gratitude | Elder Terence

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Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord. Okay, this morning, the

word really is gratitude. Ah. I was praying as asking

the Lord God, what do I share with with people?

What do I share with your people? And it's important

for us, and God say, well, gratitude. It is one word, gratitude,

and it always starts off as a word. And the

Lord will put a word in my heart, and you know,

just one word. That's how it works for me, in

one word. And then as I spend time thinking about

this word, then the Lord will bring context and it

will grow, It'll grow, it'll grow. And so the context

is taken from Exodus chapter fifteen. And you know, this

is the Lord's people who are actually coming out of Egypt,

and there are good people who learn gratitude from because

they had very little of it. God's people actually had

very little gratitude. And we need to learn and understand

that because there is an importance in having a heart

that's full of gratitude to the Lord. To the Lord.

How many of you attended homes on Friday, Quite quite

a number of you, okay or Wednesday, all right, we

must be politically correct, okay, Wednesday. And you know the

story of the ten lepers, right, and the thing that

struck me, and you know it actually ties in with

the world, although it was not in my notes, but

I just thought, I you know, because it tied in

with it. And the thing about this was you. You

had ten people who suffered from leprosy and who came

before the Lord, you know, asked the Lord to do something.

And you know, Jesus, being who he is, does not

make life difficult. He did not give them a difficult task.

He did not say, climb Mount Everest and bring me

back snow so I can make water from it and

pour it over you and you will be ill. Did

he do something like that. No. You see, God, your God,

and mind works in simplicity. And all he did was

he said, just go and show yourself to the priest.

Just go go in sho it. Because if you if

you read, you know in the Old Testament, when people

had leprosy, you know, everybody stayed away from them, right,

everybody stayed away from them. And in order for them

to come back into society, they had to go and

see the priest, and the priest would say, you're clean,

and then they could come back into society. Isn't it

strange that they did They not say go and see

the doctor. It was the man of God or the

men and women of the men of God who declare

that they were healed. And then of course I was

talking to some people about, you know, a leper colony,

and we had one in Suna Bulo, and I just

found out that the hospital Sunabulo is that the one

that was the leper colony. And I didn't know that.

So you learned something all the time. Anyway, nine of

them that they were all hereed okay, they were all here,

and nine of them went on their way because they

got what they came for. Somebody agreed, okay, they got

what they came for. But one of them realized, this

is extraordinary and I have to go and show gratitude.

So what he did was he went back to Jesus

and you know what scripture says, he fell on his

face and worshiped and gave thanks. You see a lot

of us miss and sometimes we get confused. We think

that that giving thanks or having a high of gratitude

is worshiped. Yes and no, they are two separate things.

And in order for this man to be made whole,

as Jesus declared, two things had to happen. One he

had to worship. Falling down on your face is not

saying thank you. What is for down on your face worship?

After he worshiped, or together with his worship, he then

gave thanks. And then Jesus said, you are made well.

You see, there's something more than physically physical healing. It's wellness,

wellness of the soul, wellness of the heart, wellness of

the mind that comes to you when two things take place,

when you worship and when you give thanks. I thought

i'd share that and why, But you know, as I

was sitting there, the Lord said, you know this is

what it is, and I want to life is full

of things that you can give God thanks for. You know,

I really believe in worshiping the Lord. This morning. I

do not come to you and just share words. I

get up at four o'clock in the morning and I

walk for two hours. And during that walk I'm worshiping

the Lord and praying that I deliver this to you,

that your lives may be changed. So by the time

service is over, I will be hardly able to stay.

That's my pattern on the Sunday and then the Lord.

You know, I keep telling you that God speaks to

me in simplicity, in simple ways. He helps me with

a lot of day to day things. And some people say, ah,

you know, why do you talk about this. You know,

I actually had somebody who was offended that I give

testimonies of God helping me with day to day things.

You know that some people don't like that. I give

you an example of one thing that just happened. This

so small, but I'm I'm so thankful to God for you.

See my house, we have the guest toilet downstairs, all right.

The guest toilet is a dry toilet, dry because you

know you want to walk. It's very very clean, very

very dry. And there was a foul smell, not because

you know, now new houses, all the sewers are connected

with the pipes, right, so it was a smell of

swage coming through. And I was wondering, our toilet is clean,

where's this smell coming from. It's so odd, it's so strange.

So I went into you know, I was thinking about

this for some time. Then I went and say, God,

where is this coming from? And you know when you

ask the Lord, the Holy Spirit will give you an answer.

The answer is so simple. You'll learn something from this.

There is a water trap on the floor, all right,

and in my house, I do not like vermin, I

do not like cockroaches. So I got this kind of

water trap that has a little moat that means, you know,

it's got a cover on a moat that retains water

so that insects cannot come out. You see, for about

two years, there's been a little drip in the toilet,

a little drip that goes and eventually finds its way

to this and you know, there was no smell in

the toilet, but this drip irritated me. So one day

I came to my senses and he said, I gotta

stop this. What did I do? I replaced the problem

whatever it was causing the leak, and the water dried up.

Remember I say, it's a dry toilet, right, water in

that little moat dried up. And when it dried up,

smell from the sewer was coming through. And I didn't

know until the Lord brought it to my attention. So

you know what I did, just took a little bit

of water and I poured into it. Everything is fine now,

and my heart was so full of gratitude to the Lord.

And I'm thanking God and say God, Wow. I mean,

who would have thought of this with me? Others would

have loved but you told me when I asked you.

You know, I get excited about things like this. And

this is why the Lord keeps telling me things. When

things go wrong, He tells me how to fix it.

Because I'm not going to say I came up with it.

I'm going to give glory back to God and say God,

thank you Jesus. So I was having this conversation with

some family members the other day and I said, I

was just you know what, when I was younger, everybody

who made it, who met me, hated me. They didn't

like me from the time they saw me. I'm talking

about people in church, and I'm talking about people at work,

I'm talking about people at school. There's why. So somebody said,

because you're annoy all. You know what is annoy all? Everything?

You know, know it all. So I said, can I

can you blame me? I do know it all. You

can't blame me for that. I was joking with them. Lah.

But then the reason why I know things is because

I asked the Lord and he tells me. And you know,

when I tell it to you, it's not so that

I get some kind of glory, you know. I tell

it to you. So when you have that problem, you

know what to do. So now those of you who

buy new houses, when you have a foul smell coming,

you know where it's coming from, and you know how

to resolve the issue. So I share my knowledge. People

don't like that, But I want to tell you something.

In Exodus fifteen twenty two to seven, it says this,

so Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea. Now this

is about one week, okay, just imagine that this was

one week after they left Egypt. So I brought the

Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of

Sure and they went three days in the wilderness and

found no water. So this would be roughly about the

eleventh day after leaving Egypt. And when they came to Mara,

they could not drink the waters of Mara, for they

were bitter, poisonous, not good. Take your pick, all right.

Therefore the name of it was called Mara. Never wonder

where the Marie word came from. This was just eleven

days after an extraordinary miracle. How many of us live

our lives on miracles? Are you happy to base your

life on a miracle? Those who base their lives get

this what I'm about to say on miracles are just

one miracle away from leaving the Lord. Those who base

their lives on miracles are just one miracle away from

leaving the Lord. You're not supposed to base your life

on miracles. You're supposed to base your life. I am

supposed to base my life on a relationship with the

one who performs the miracles. So he was called Mara,

and the people complain against Moses, saying what shall we drink?

So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord

showed him a tree, and he cast it into the water,

and the waters were made sweet. This is the first

time that now after that great miracle, the people are

complaining about not having water. You know, God is a

god of patience. The first time they complain, God did

not take them to task. Do you realize you see

what he says? It says here. So he cried to

the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. There

was a complaint. Moses cried to the Lord. The Lord

gave an answer, and the Lord left it at that.

You Lord left it at that. I've given an answer.

I've that's the reason, and that water that's that's the reason.

And God left it at that. What was the answer?

You know, God's a god of wisdom. If you keep

asking the Lord, the Lord's going to give you wisdom.

And really the answers are simple. Put a little bit

of water into the dream and it'll be okay. What

did the Lord tell Moses take this tree and throw

it into the water. Was it some fantastic he take

the water out. I want you to put it in

a glass beaker, and I want you to look for

this chemical and put it in, and he returns good.

What you have to do is put another capital until

it turns blue, and then take that one and throw it.

Did God do that? No? Take this three and junk

it in the water. And Moses did it. And guess

what the bitter was made sweet? In continuing then there

he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and

there he tested them. Hell, hey, guys, life is a test. Everything,

oh everything in life is a test, and said if

you diligently heed my voice, the voice of the Lord,

your god, and do what is right in his sight.

Give you to his commandments and keep his statutes. I

will put none of the diseases on you which I

have brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord

who heals you. So the thing is this, sir, What

did the Lord tell them? If you will religions hear,

if you heed my voice? What did the voice tell Moses?

Take the tree, throw it into the water. Things became better.

Put some water into that drain and it's going to

be okay. Simple things, not difficult things, he says. I

tested them. You know, we have to learn something from

these people, these ungrateful people, because firstly they were suffering

in Egypt. You think it was a party. I mean

they didn't fulfill their quotas. You think they were wet

with candy. Candy flows bad person? You was he like that? No,

they were whipped, they were beaten, they were uh torture.

Oh you got timer, you want to go and leave

your work and go and worship the Lord. I give

you more work means you gotta know work to do.

How many have you actually heard this in your office. Well,

you've got no worker. You want to leave early to

go and go to church. That means you've got no work.

I give you more work. How many of you have

heard this? Oh, I've heard this, and now people are

there bit softer like those days are you had? You

had dragons for bosses? Okay, And these are the things

you hear very common. You know what was my reply?

The Lord first you after that? I mean they saw

me do it. They would see me go to church

and come back to the office at eleven am in

eleven pm in the night and work through the whole

night to get out my commitment. The Lord tested them

and when they came to Elim, where there were twelve

wells of water and seventy palm trees, so they came

thereby the waters. I just want you to know it

just took three days. Three days after an absolute miracle,

these children of Israel, they rebelled against the Lord. It

didn't take a long time. It didn't take a long time,

just three days. The opposite of gratitude. Some of the

things that the opposite of gratitude is you know what complaint? Complain? Hey,

if you complain, guess what you're not being gracious. You're

not having a heart of gratitude. You don't want a

heart that complains we have no water. I ask you

this thing. Do you think God, who took them out

of Egypt, who could split the Red Sea, is gonna

bring them into the desert to kill them. The Lord

is blessing you with a child, Praise the Lord. Do

you think the Lord will bless you with a child

and then leave you the drown No, the Bible says

that every child comes with a blessing. You know, if

you ask me how I put through, how my two

girls went through university, I really don't know. If you

ask me how that they've come true to this day,

I can tell you only one thing. If it's not

for God, God actually blessed me every time we had

a child. Somebody said these days somebody came up to me.

This is one of the church leaders came up to

me and said, you know, somebody told her when they

were discussing, is oh, I don't want to have children.

I don't want to have children. Very difficult to have children.

Now you know that the gen what is it now? Zee?

What is it now? It's alpha? I also get confused

I'm stuck with millenniums millennials because these were the ones

that I used to complain about. So now the millennials

are complaining about the gen Z, and now gen Z

is complaining by alpha. Is it okay? The point of

the matter is that where these people are concerned, I

don't want to have kids because it's too difficult. So

I just told this church leader. I said, that's true,

it is difficult not having a child. But you tell

this person the word of God is true, blessed the

man who's quiver is full of errors. So if I

got to trust the word and trust what they say,

I will go with God's word. So tell them the

face the difficulty now, or face the face the difficulty

now of having children, or face the difficulty later in

life when you have no one to look after you.

Everything is fairma, nothing comes without a price. Everything is

a test. Bitter water is made sweet when we go

to the Lord and ask for a solution. Bitter what

How many of us taste bitter water when I say

bitter water struggles in life? We do right? How many

of us feel truly blessed when God comes true for

us and that bitter experience becomes sweet or God came

through for me. Everything again, I'll say this again, Everything

is a test. Do you know that abundance is a test.

You have to take that note. Abundance is a test

because the time where people forget the Lord is in

a time of abundance. Abundance is a test. Life is

a test. I've told you this story before. There was

a pastor that I was helping garden in his house.

Gardening in his house, all right. He came and he

had two guavas. He gave it both to me, and

he said, give one to the give one to the

other brother who was working in the garden. And then

I didn't know he was watching me. So I went

to this brother and I held out the guava and

I gave out the smaller one. One was really smaller,

one was bigger. I gave the smaller one. Then I stopped.

I took the small one back and I gave the

larger one. So he actually saw that. Oh. Then I

went back to do the work. And then after that

he comes and says, Terence saw that. Let me tell

you that was a test to see what you would do,

and you pass the test. Guys, Life is a test.

When things are going well, guess what it is a

test when it is going badly? What is it? It

is a test? And you know what is the test?

How will you respond to the Lord? You saw it

with the ten lepers. Nine ten of them had the

abundance of healing. One of them came back and passed

the test because he worshiped and he thanked the Lord.

And guess what he was blessed with something else. He

was blessed with wellness. So sweetness will be a response.

It is simple to God. Hey, every situation is simple

to God, as simple as throwing a tree to water.

So abundance is a test. How will we respond? Okay,

got that, Let's move on. In Exodus sixteen, so now

the journey from Ilimen, all the congregation of children of

Israel came to the wilderness of Sin. And this is

what I meant, and I said, this is about three days.

If I'm not mistaken, it's about three days journey wilderness

of Sin, which is between Ilimens Sinai Sinai, and on

the fifteen day of the second Man after their departure

from the land of Egypt, which is about true, is

about two weeks that the whole congregation of the children

of is A complain against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

Just three days after the Lord provided water for them,

they complain again. Remember what I said, people who rely

on miracles are one miracle away from leaving the love.

These people just didn't get it. And the children of

Israel said to them, all that we had died in

the by the hand of the Lord, in the land

of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat,

and when we ate bread to the full. For you

have brought us out into the willness to kill the

whole assembly with hunger. What's so dramatic? This is like

one of those drama movies, you know, where the camera

goes in. All the five people had faced very dramatic,

very dramatic, all that we had died by your mouth.

You get what you say, because they did die. None

of them made it, And they should have stayed in Egypt,

maybe they would have lived a little longer, for you

have brought us out into the willness to kill the

whole assembly with hunger. I gotta ask you this question,

why is it so easy to complain even after God

has done some things for us. What makes it so

easy for us to believe that God will not see

us through and bring us the whole journey. Why is

it so easy for us to believe that God wants

us to fail? It's because our experience as such, the

devil has always been working towards our failure, and a

lot of us have spent a more time in our

younger days being formed by that ideology, that thinking, until

we came to Jesus. So if you did not know

the Lord for seventeen years, you got seventeen years of

rubbish in your head that you you need to clean

and cleanse and clear. And if you don't address it,

it still stays with you and becomes a snare to you.

Do we have snares in our life, it means we

have not taken the time to address it. So these

people did not address They were so caught up in

their slave mentality that they did not see what God

was doing. Why is it so easy to complete? Do

you know that the Bible says to remember remember as

often as you drink the body, drink the body. As

often as you eat the body and drink the blood,

you proclaim my coming again. So first part is you

remember that Jesus died for your since and you are saved,

and the next one you remember what he is coming again,

meaning what there is a future and a hope. God

sent Jesus to die for you so that you would

be saved and have a future and a hope. So

why is a memory so short? Then the Lord in

his wisdom said, do this as often as you can.

So every time you do it, force yourself to remember.

It helps you. You don't want to be like the

children of Israel. You have to remember because by golly,

these guys had all short memories, really really short memories.

So the miracle is just fifteen days after Egypt and

twelve days and about three days. Sorry I got it

wrong that three days after Ilien. And guess what. The

people of Israel had this fascination with death because that's

what they saw all this time as slaves. They just

saw death. So they had this pretty they had this

this morbid fascination with that everything is all we should

have died. Oh sailor, is that right? And say that?

I say it right, h don't say that. Stop it.

Stop saying that, because scripture says you will have what

you say kayla that what this cantonisa? Hm? I only

know one other Cantonese, not a few others. You know.

There was this timer, This person tried to cheat the company,

and I said, you know, so I was taking them

the task. Then I heard this engineer tell the contract

more coong. So I told him, say what you're telling him? Mocong?

What are you telling him not to tell me the

good shop? Because I learned very very early on in

my Christian walk this statement more kong yessue, because that's

what the condeenies say, don't talk Jesus. In other words,

they're saying, I don't talk nonsense. Okay, So I learned that, Mocong.

What do you telling me not to tell me? Mocong? So? Okay,

let's let's get so don't say it. Okay, stop saying

the wrong thing, all right. Let me just tell you

The main takeaway from this is what the spirit of slavery?

Do you know that the spirit of slavery is entitlement.

If you feel you are entitled, everyone owes us a living,

that is slavery. We have a lot of people who

are slaves. Think about it, because there's always this feeling

of you owe me a living That is a spirit

of slavery. You blame God for your misfortune? If every

say God you blame for this, guess what spirit of slavery.

Get that spirit of slavery out of your life. Blame

everyone else when things don't go your way. This person's

fall love, that person's fall love? Why this love? Why

that last spirit of slavery? It's the spirit of slavery.

Do you know that the spirit of slavery warps our

understanding of reality? Moses had already escaped. You know I

can tell you this. Why on earth did Moses want

to come back and save those people? Those people should think, hey,

forty years ago, or you didn't if I was Moses

forty years ago, or you didn't want me when I

came to help you. What you tell me? Mind your

own business? Okay, now you suffer. I already outward forty

years I'm out. I got my own family, I got

my own wire, I got my own churn, I got

my own cows, I got my own lambs. I got

a life. Man, Why do I want to come and

help you? Who rejected me forty years ago? Did they

ever think that maybe they should have considered that spirit

of slavery. And I gotta ask you, this is the

world really the one responsible for giving you what you

eat and drink, because that's what the spirit of slavery

was telling Moses in Egypt. I had food, I had this.

They were actually saying, God is not responsible for giving

me what I need. It's the world. When you meet

someone who does not want to receive the Lord because

they say, why do I need everything? Tell them you

know what, You're a slave? What do you mean I'm

a slave? Tell them this story. It's the spirit of slavery.

So this is the main takeaway from this part. Let's

move on. Okay. The Lord said to Moses, behold, I

will rain bread. You know God he's got class. He's

got class. Of course, now you say rain bread, I

think of loads of bread falling from the sky. Okay, behold,

I will reign break from heaven for you and the

people should go out and gather a certain quarta every

day that I may what test them. Everything is a test,

even when the Lord provides, guess what. It is a

test whether they will walk in my law or not.

And it shall be that on the sixth day they

shall prepare what they bring in and it should be

twice as much as what they gathered daily. In morning

evening God would bring quail. So they had meet God's hand.

It's not short enough. God did not bring one butcher

house from the sky and dropped down because that didn't happen.

But he rained. And then I was thinking to myself,

what is wrong with these people? Real stinger? The Bible

tells me how they walked out with animals again. They

walked out with cows, they walked out with ghosts, they

walked out with sheep. Then somebody said, oh, I did

some research. Oh maybe they wanted to sacrifice these animals,

So that's why they didn't want to eat. Can I

tell you that is a physical impossibility? Do you know why?

Because anything of what to the Lord had to be

without spot and without blemish. They had to go through

the whole animal to make sure it was perfect before

they're sacrificed. Are you telling me that every animal that

came out of Egypt was perfect and they were keeping

it to be sacrificed. If that's the case, then they

don't have to go through the process of checking everything

very carefully correct, not perfect or reone. Why do I

want to check something that's perfect. How many of you

checked one plus one equals to one plus one? Is

the perfect answer is to correct. So when you see

one plus one equals to do you give it to

the moderator and say, can you moderate this? This is correct?

You don't, isn't it? It's correctly. So if all the

animals were without spot and blemish, I would agree with you.

Then they were keeping the animals for sacrifice. But the

fact that they had to check tells me it was

not the case. So these were a people. This is

their attitude. Okay, what mine is mine? What I need

you give me? You know what that is? Spirit of slavery?

Did y'all ever ask yourself this question? It bothered me,

It really bothered me. I needed to check. Okay. So

the children isra did so and gathered some more than

some less. But when it measured, measured it by home

by omers. Okay, who gathered much and nothing left over,

and he who gathered little had no luck. Every man

a gathered, calling each one needs, and mons said let

no one leave anything till the morning. This was eh test.

Do you believe me as God to be able to

look after you? On a daily basis, while some did

not believe because Bible says collect every day only what

you need, and on a six day, gather twice so

that you can rest on a seven day, but only

what you need. Don't gather more because what does that mean?

You are trusting God? But they didn't do that right,

Some of them just didn't. So do we follow what

God tells us to do? Do we? Because everything is

a test. When you start living your life like everything

is a test, good or bad things that happened to you,

perhaps our responses will become a little bit better. You know.

Imagine what the children of Israel's lives would have been

if they had trusted God, if they were grateful instead

of having a spirit of entitlement. Can you imagine, Well, God,

I sat down and thought about this. Oh God, you're

brought me out of Egypt. We don't have water. But

I tell you what, God, if you can take me

through the Red Sea, you can provide water. Oh my,

that would at touch God's heart in such a fantastic way.

I can only imagine what God would have done for them.

And when they ran out of when they ran out

of water a second time, they say God, hey, Lord,

you provided water there by throwing a branch into a tree.

This is nothing for you, Lord, I'm just waiting to

see what miracle will happen. Now, imagine what God would

have done for them. Oh Lord, hmmm, I don't have

mean I have lamb lambs and sheeps and cars. I

tell you what, Lord, I'm gonna trust you all right

that you will provide so those lambs and those cows,

and we will still eat them. Lord. You know what

could happened, Lord, would cost their animals to multiply it

two or three or four times the rate. Think about it.

So when we respond correctly to what God tells us.

If our response is correct, imagine how much it excites

the Lord and how much more he wants to do

for us. Where's this in scripture? Hey, don't need to

go very far. Look at Solomon. What do you want, Lord?

I want wisdom to govern my people, to govern your people?

The Lord said, I am so blessed by what you said,

because you did not ask for yourself. You've done so rightly,

so unselfishly. You got me on your side. I give

you what you want, and I'm going to give you

much more. Where do we draw the line men take away.

When we keep more of our blessings to us than

we need, it is because we feel it will run out.

Spirit of slavery. God gives you a blessing, No, I

keep it to myself? Why because I fear it will

run out? So what are you telling God? God, you

can't give me more? An he won't you have? What

you say? Is it because he runs out or we

run out? Always remember God doesn't run out of things.

He owns the cattle on a thousand, he else, he

owns everything. The earth is his footstool. Does he have

what it takes to keep you blessed your whole life?

You better believe it. So it is not God that

runs out, but we run out of what faith? Not

that we run out, well, not that we but we

run out of faith in Him. Not so much that

we run out of faith. We believe God. Yeah, you

can do it, that's faith. But we believe Lord. I

have this doubt whether you will do it continuously. He

got's sensitive about that. Okay, God is very very sensitive

about that. So we better get our lives right. Okay.

Moving on, So in verse twenty seven, and now it

happened that some of the people went out on the

seventh day together, but they found none. And the Lord

said to Moses, how long? Now you remember the very

first time, Lord, we had no water, and God gave

them water without response. Then the second time, you know,

he did it to test them. And now he says,

how long more am I supposed to contend with these people?

God was beginning to get frustrated. You want to get

on God's bed side, very easy, complain, complain someone very

fast to get on God's bed side. And the Lord said, tomorrows,

how long do you refuse to keep my commandments? See?

For the Lord has given you the Sabbath. Therefore he

gives you on the sixth day two pieces. But God

is fairma, He already told you in ad once there's

gonna be nothing on the seventh day. Trust me, Just

take what you need. Time's two on the sixth day,

and you'll be fine. Let every man remain his place,

Let no man go to his place on the seventh

day exodus. So you and I we have got to

remember this very very, very very important. We're gonna listen

to what God says, because when we do, even when

we don't see, it is faith so you don't know

what's going to happen on the seventh day. You don't

know what's going to happen in your life on the

seventh day. But God has told you do until the

sixth day. You do until the sixth day. Let God

take care of the seventh. In Ephesians five twenty, it says,

it's giving thanks always for all things to God the Father,

in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You know,

as I was seated there today, I will at this

this portion, Jesus said in John chapter sixteen. It's not

my norther John chapter sixteen, Um worse, okay, sorry, John

chapter sixteen, verse seventeen. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth.

It is for your advantage that I go away. For

if I do not go away, the helper will not

come to you. But if I depart, I will send

him to you, and he will come, and he will

convict the world of sin and of righteousness, and no

judgment of sin, because they do not believe in me.

Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you

will see me no more of judgment, because the rule

of this world is judge Verse twelve. I have many

things to say to you, but you cannot bear them.

Now do you know that God will tell you more

things with the help of the Holy Spirit. That's because

that is the capacity of our minds and hearts. God

doesn't want to overwhelm our capacity, all right. In verse thirteen,

it says when he comes the spirit of truth, the

spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into

all truth. Do you realize most of us only take

it that the Holy Spirit will guide us into all

spiritual truth. Is this correct? Yes, it is. The Holy

Spirit will guide us into all spiritual truth. But the

Bible says that he will guide us into what all truth.

This is exciting because when the Bible says the Holy

Spirit will guide us into all truth. Lord, I do

not know why the toilet is thinking up, pour a

little bit of water into the drain problems off all truth?

All truth? You know how many cars I fixed? Not

knowing anything about cars. I remember I was ten years old,

ten years old, and this guy was we had a

big garden and we had a gardener who was who

was just trying to start that law more. He's pulling

it for about ten minutes, and he was getting frustrated.

I was ten. I went and I said, can I

have a look? He said sure, And my mind went

to the spark plug. Do I know anything about spark plugs? No?

I don't, But for some reason, the Holy Spirit put

my my attention on that, and he said, and I said,

can I take this? He said sure, so I took

it out. Then I said, is it possible that this

is not starting? Because you see that spark plug holder

is a ring and the ring has got to rest

on the spark plut But the ring was not resting

on the splug plack. The ring was turned on its

side and hitting the spark plug, so it was not

resting in the spark plot. Is this a reason? He said,

Let me try. He turned the thing around and he

put it back in, and he pulled and it started. Wow,

the Holy Spirit can lead us into all things. At

that time I did not know the Holy Spirit. But

is that me? It cannot be. It has to be

the Lord. And this is why, after forty five years

of knowing the Lord, this happens over and over and

over and over again. What a great way to live.

So he will lead us. Give thanks always for all

things to God the Father, in the name of the Lord.

Jesus Christ, all that we have been given, all that

we have, all that we possess. I do not take response.

I do not take gloria for the things that God

helps me with. Do you know why? Because I don't

want it to stop the moment I say, it's my

intelligence that cause that that that thing in the toilet

to be a fixed. Even those little things will stop.

I told the last last time I shared this message,

I said, I got a new project. The Lord is

my heart. You know what it is? Fix the washing machine.

Because if I don't fix the washing mission, I've got

to buy a new washing machine. So I ask the

Lord Lord, what is it? He says, absorbers? Huh, absorbers

Are you mean, say, washing machine or absorbers? That I

actually went through and the found yeah, they do. They

have absorbers. So I researched and I found a place

by the absorbers. How much it costs each twenty eight

dollars if I buy a new washing machine? How much

it will cost me close to two thousand dollars. It

is the Lord God will help you. So I'll let

you know the next time I come. Whether or not

you work. Bible says in everything for all give thanks

for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus.

Concerning you, God's desire is for us to give thanks

in every thing. The scripture was before was for all

things all right, I want you to know there's a

difference between for all things and in all things. Giving

thanks for all things is a I thank you, Lord

for helping me to do this and helping me to

do that. Thank you Lord for the healing. Thank you

Lord for the food that's for all things. Giving thanks

to God in everything is you know what, Lord, my

car tire has got. I got a puncture. Lord, I

thank you for this puncture because not because it's it's

a puncture, but because perhaps by fixing this puncture you've

prevented me from an accident up ahead. See. Do we

live a life like that? Perhaps we should? Perhaps we should?

And when we give thanks? Oh? Have I ever given

thanks to God for a sickness? No? But have I

given thanks to God in a sickness? Yes? I'm sick today, Lord,

but I can thank you. You know why? Because You're true.

I'm thanking God in sickness. Do I say, Oh, God,

I thank you I've got chicken pox? No? Why? Because

his purpose is for us always to be healed. There's

a difference when we become. When you come to terms

of the difference, we see a lot more things happen

in our lives. Psalms one hundred and four, it says

this enter his gates with thanksgiving, and to his courts

with praise, Be thankful to him and bless his name. Worship.

Let this always be our attitude. Worship. And then the

bottom by the scripture says thanks giving, thanks Was that

not what we went through in our homesnotes on Wednesday

must be politically correct. We did right. But when I

prepared this message, I I didn't know. But it just

it's the way the Lord works. Okay, So worship, let

this be our attitude. The main takeaway The opposite of

a slave mentality is a mentality of gratitude. Hey, if

you forget everything that I've told you this morning, remember this.

The opposite of a slave mentality is a mentality of gratitude.

They are opposites. I can only imagine the greatness of

the people of God if they had a spirit of gratitude.

So end with this statement, let us not be entitled,

but let us always be grateful. With that to God,

be always grateful. Praise the Lord. Happy New Year twenty

twenty five. Let's live a heart life of gratitude and

see God accomplish great great faith. Amen.

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