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This program is made
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Hello friend. My name is Denise Renner
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and I wanna welcome you to my program.
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On this series, we've been talking about
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how you can pull the giant down,
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and our series is called, Giant -
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It's time for you to come down.
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Are there any giants
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that you're facing in your life right now
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and you're like, I'm done with this.
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I can't take this anymore.
And giant, you're coming down.
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Well, I've had giants in my
life that had to come down,
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and the only way that they could come down was with the word
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of God and with the spirit of God.
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And honestly, I had to spend much time in the word
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of God getting my mind renewed.
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And that's why I'm doing these programs
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because I want you to have some equipment
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that when the giant, a giant pops up,
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that you have some
equipment to know what to do
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because you have equipment
on the inside of you.
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And today we're gonna talk about a powerful weapon against
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the giant, the giant of complaining.
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And you know what the weapon is? It's thanksgiving.
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Oh, friend, I've seen thanksgiving whip that giant
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so many types just start being thankful.
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You know why? Because there's thanksgiving
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and joy on the inside of
you by the Holy Spirit.
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So when you start
rejoicing on purpose, that
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that just clicks into
that well of rejoicing
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and thankfulness on the inside of you.
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So that's what I'm gonna
talk to you about today,
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and I wanna offer you my 5-part video series,
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and I'd love for you to have it,
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because maybe you need to give it to somebody
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so they can watch this.
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Maybe they're struggling with
giants in their lives or,
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the study guide getting this deeper on the
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inside of you as you open the study guide
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and study the word with it,
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or my book, Unstoppable
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because you have to have an attitude.
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I'm telling you what: the enemy, he wants to bring us down,
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but Jesus said, greater
he that's in you than he
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that's in the world.
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And you have to have an
attitude of being unstoppable.
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So I want you to stay with
me, and I'm coming right back.
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It's time for big miracles
and changes in your life.
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Join Denise Renner
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and dive into the study of God's word which has great power
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to strengthen faith, inspire change, heal physically
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and spiritually, and most importantly,
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help you learn about the power
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of Christ Jesus living in you.
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It's time with Denise Renner.
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Well, I wanna talk
to you about the power
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that you have on the inside
of you of thanksgiving
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to come against the enemy of complaining.
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Let's think about David just for a minute,
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when he faced that giant of Goliath. What if when
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Eliab came to him and said, you are just here,
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you are just insolent of heart, you're just prideful.
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Where are the - who's taking care of those few sheep?
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And he put him down.
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What if David started complaining
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and he said - Oh man, I'm not gonna face
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that giant; not me.
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I'm just gonna give this food
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and I'm going back to my few sheep as my
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big brother says.
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What if he had taken on that attitude?
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David didn't take on that attitude.
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It said, the Bible says that David turned.
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And when complaining starts to starts
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to like a boiling inside of us, and,
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and then we want it to
come out of our mouth,
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we've gotta stop that giant.
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And the only way we can stop it is with thanksgiving:
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to be thankful.
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So I wanna talk to you about
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how absolutely dangerous complaining is.
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And we're gonna go to Numbers and it's chapter 14.
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And the Israelites,
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they had, they had received so much from God;
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they had experienced so much from God.
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They saw the 10 plagues,
they saw the Red Sea split,
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they walked through it on dry land.
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They watched as the Pharaoh
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and his army went into
the sea on the dry land,
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and the waters closed
in and they all drowned.
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They saw it all. Then
God takes care of 'em.
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And and he starts feeding them manna.
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I want, I wanna show you something about
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how much manna they received.
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What a miracle this is.
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And this is what they're
complaining about.
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Every day out of the sky
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would come manna, this
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kind of a bread substance.
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It probably had every vitamin
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and mineral that you could
possibly need in your body,
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4,500 tons
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or 65,700,000 tons in 40 years
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of manna.
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And they are complaining.
They are complaining.
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They don't want manna anymore.
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And so then God gives them quail.
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Listen to how much quail they got. Every day:
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this is the miraculous power
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and provision of God - every day -
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90 million quail showed
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up, 90 million
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quail every day.
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Can you even imagine? They just show up.
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Well, they're complaining.
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They're complaining about the manna,
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then they complain about the quail.
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I mean, they, they are complainers.
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And they have developed such a habit
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of complaining that when Caleb and Joshua
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and the other spies go
into the land of Canaan
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and they come back and, and Caleb and
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and Joshua say, we can take, we can take this.
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We've got this. And they are such complainers.
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And that's what I wanna say to you, to us,
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that complaining is so dangerous
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because it can be habitual.
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Like instead of being habitually thankful,
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we can have be habitually ungrateful
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and complaining.
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And that's how these Israelites were.
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And so Caleb, they come back, they say
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that we can take 'em down
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and the giants
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and then the Israelites,
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they say we're grasshoppers
in their sight.
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And then that, and then in verse 14 of numbers,
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they started crying.
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This is the verse 1: And they wept all night.
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Could you even imagine? And then look at verse 2.
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They so believed in their complaining - listen to this -
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And all the children of Israel complained against Moses
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and Aaron and the whole congregation said to them,
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if only we had died in the land of Egypt,
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or if only we had died in this wilderness.
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Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall
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by this sword that our wives
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and children should become victims?
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Would it not be better
for us to return to Egypt?
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So they said to one another,
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let us select a leader
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and return to Egypt.
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Complaining is deceptive
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because when you complain
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and you, you grumble, maybe you just grumble on the inside.
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Maybe it's not coming outta your mouth yet,
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but you just start
grumbling on the inside.
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But you start believing
that you have a right
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and you start believing you are right.
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And then you just complain more.
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And then we become deceived
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by our complaining.
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They become so deceived,
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and you saw it, I read it, that they start saying
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that they're gonna choose another leader
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and they're gonna go back to Egypt
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where they were in bondage.
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Complaining is so dangerous.
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And then God has an attitude about complaining.
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And he says, How long -
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this is verse 27 of chapter 14:
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How long shall I bear with this evil generation
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who complains against me?
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I have heard their
complaints, which the children
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of Israel make against me.
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When we complain, it's not
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that we're just complaining
against the situation
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or against that person.
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We're complaining against God;
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we are complaining against our situation.
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We are dissatisfied.
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I wanna read you a definition that I found
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of complaining.
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It's, it's a murmuring,
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it's an expression of dissatisfaction.
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It's grumbling, it's
muttering in a low voice.
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It's a kind of grumbling action
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that promotes ill will instead of harmony
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and goodwill: inward questioning,
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dispute discussion, skeptical
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questioning and criticism.
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It refers to the intellectual rebellion
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against God.
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Oh, friend, we don't want this giant
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of complaining to have ruler ship over our life.
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So how are we going to escape
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from this giant of complaining?
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We're going to be thankful.
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Let me show you a couple of more verses.
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It's in Hebrews
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of the danger of complaining.
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It's in Hebrews and it's chapter 3:8.
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And the writer says, Today, if you hear his voice,
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do not harden your hearts
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as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness
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where your fathers tested me, tried me,
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and saw my works
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40 years. Complaining
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will harden our heart:
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harden our heart. Friend,
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I've counseled a lot of marriages
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and taught a lot on marriage.
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And I have mostly spoken to the wife,
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but I have seen how wives
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with their own attitude of
complaining, they don't like
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how their husband treats their mother.
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They don't like that the children don't get enough
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attention from their father.
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They don't like that the husband doesn't make enough money.
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They don't like that how the husband eats.
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They don't like
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that the husband leaves his socks on the floor.
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I mean the complaints like it's complaints,
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complaints, complaints,
complaints, complaints.
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And what that can do in a marriage
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that can build a wall so thick
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that the sweet communication
that that husband
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and that wife once had is broken:
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absolutely broken. Broken by what?
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The wall of complaining that stands between
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the two of them.
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And we wives, if we are not careful,
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we can fall into that trap
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and let that giant of
complaining overcome us,
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harden our hearts.
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And even in some
marriages that I have seen
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through the years, it even
brought them to the place
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of wanting a divorce.
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That husband's heart was
so hurt by the complaining
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and the criticism of that wife.
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I'm not saying that divorce
is correct. No, I'm not.
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But I'm just saying to you
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that complaining is a giant
that's got to come down.
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And the only way in our
lives that it's coming down
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is through submitting to God
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and being thankful:
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be thankful.
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I wanna give you an example
from the Apostle Paul's life.
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the Apostle Paul in Philippians 2,
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we get great instruction from him,
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but let me tell you where he is.
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He's in a horrible prison. And historians
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say that he was in a prison
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where all the sewage that
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because he's down under,
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and all the sewage from that palace
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and all those people
up there came down into
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this room where these prisoners were,
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where the Apostle Paul was,
where he's writing the book
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of Philippians:
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amazing. And he starts out in chapter
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1:3.
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And he says,
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I thank my God upon every
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remembrance of you.
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That's verse 3 of chapter 1.
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The first thing in this horrible place
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where he is in, death is all around him.
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Historians say that rats are crawling on the sewage
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that surrounds him, that he's
standing in; people are dying
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around him.
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But the first thing that comes
out of his mouth is, I think,
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I think my God,
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upon every remembrance of you. Is
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that not amazing?
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And then in chapter 4, in this terrible place,
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I gotta show you this
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because this verse has touched my heart
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so many times: he's in this horrible place.
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And in verse 18, this is what he says; Indeed,
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I have all and abound.
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I am full,
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having received from Epaphroditus the thing sent from you;
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a sweet smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice,
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well pleasing to God. Friend, he says,
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I have all and abound.
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How can you abound in a
horrible prison like that?
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You could receive offerings,
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but how can you abound in
a horrible prison like that:
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because of the thankfulness in your heart.
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I heard one story of a missionary
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and he was out in, in the field
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and he's given his life and
he has pain all over his body.
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But he notices because he's so exhausted.
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He's so exhausted from serving.
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He notices that there's one thing
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that doesn't hurt on his body: his ears.
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He starts thanking God
that his ears don't hurt.
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When he started thanking God
that his ears didn't hurt,
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it just changed his whole demeanor.
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I know of one story of a missionary
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who had given his life to other countries
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and he's in another country and had a wife
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and children in America.
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He goes to that other country
he serves, he hears word
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that his wife
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and two of his children
were killed instantly in a
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car accident.
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Horrible. He comes back to America.
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He does what he needs to
do, the funeral, everything.
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But he is so depressed,
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he cannot hardly lift his head.
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His trust in God has been shattered.
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How could have God not protected my family
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when I'm giving my life in this other country?
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You can understand why he had those thoughts.
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That missionary, he went
to another godly minister.
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He just because he is so depressed.
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And the minister said, brother, you've got
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to get some thanksgiving.
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You got to be thankful.
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And this, this missionary said, I met him,
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had the privilege of meeting him.
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He said it took two hours
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before he could get
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one tiny word
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of Thanksgiving out of his mouth.
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Friend, when he began to
thank God - God, I thank you
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that I'm alive.
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God, I thank you for my salvation.
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God, I thank you that you're in me.
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He started thanking God, thanking God for his faithfulness,
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thanking God for his love.
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When he started thanking God, it was like -
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it untapped a river of thankfulness on his inside
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of his spirit.
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And - it just flooded out
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of him this thanksgiving.
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And through that
thanksgiving, the oppression,
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the depression that he had been under,
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absolutely lifted up off of him.
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That man of God, he got married again,
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had another baby, and he went out
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and served on the field again
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and died a great victor in the faith.
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The enemy could have stopped him by
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that one terrible thing that happened.
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But what was it that
brought down that enemy?
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The enemy of complaining: the enemy of depression:
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the enemy of oppression.
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It was thanks giving - and friend -
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I'm telling you, when we just by our own will
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just say, God, you know everything is not how I want it,
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but God, you are faithful.
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God, you love me. God, I have,
I have breath in my lungs.
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God, I woke up today. God,
you've given me a job.
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God, you've given me a home.
God, I have food to eat.
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God, I thank you God.
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I thank you for the Holy
Spirit that lives on the
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inside of me.
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And you start thanking him.
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It will put down the enemy of complaining.
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We don't want that door open.
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We don't want to be habitual complainers.
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We want to be habitual
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thinkers, giving thanks.
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Those who give thanks to God habitually.
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Actually in 1 Thessalonians 5, it says,
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be thankful in all things.
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Not for all things,
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but in all things.
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Oh Friend, I've enjoyed bringing
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the word of God to you today.
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I know this has encouraged your heart.
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And maybe you need to ask yourselves,
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can I be doing better at being thankful
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and not complaining?
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Would that help my relationships?
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Well, stay with me 'cause
I'm gonna be right back
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and we're gonna pray together.
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When David faced Goliath,
he didn't allow the doubts
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or negative opinions of others
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to keep him from claiming the victory.
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Likewise, when Jesus faced the storm,
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he didn't allow the wind to intimidate him
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and his faith produced great
peace to calm the waves.
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The moment you were born
again, that same unwavering,
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giant killing faith was deposited in you.
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Friend, as I was
meditating and on this lesson
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and even teaching it right now,
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I started thinking that God,
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it's not like he's got the rules:
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don't complain, don't complain, don't complain.
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But he knows that if we complain,
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we're not thankful.
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And if we're not thankful
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and we're complaining we cannot see
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what God has given us.
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We - our eyes are blinded.
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It's like we got blinders on our eyes
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and all we can see is what I don't have
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or what's not working out or,
or what I wish was better.
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And, in all that thinking
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and all that complaining in our mind
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or maybe with your mouth,
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we absolutely have blinders over our eyes
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to see the good or appreciate it.
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And you know, when you
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and I, we don't
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see what God is doing,
we're not thankful for
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what God is doing.
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It's hard to believe that God is
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who he says he is -
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because our eyes are on our complaining,
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and it's taken our attention off
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of the goodness of God.
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Father, right now, I pray for my friend
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and I pray, Lord, that we will start
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to be thankful.
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Thankful for everything, Lord,
and thankful in everything.
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Because you are faithful.
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You've never stopped; you are the same yesterday,
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today and forever.
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You are loving and kind then, you're loving
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and kind now.
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And Lord, we thank you for
your mercy that's extended
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to us right now in Jesus' name.
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Well friend, it's been my
pleasure to be with you
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and I'll see you on the next program.
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life,
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord,
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I repent of my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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