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This program is made
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner,
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and here I am in my studio
with Denise and Paul and Joel.
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And in just a moment, we're gonna talk
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to you about intentionally
teaching our children
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and our grandchildren to
express thankfulness for
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what people do for them.
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It's really going to be good today.
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But first I want to remind you
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If you'll just reach out to us
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and this is on my heart, or I need this
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to happen in my life,
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and Jesus really move and
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We're told in one John five, 14
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and 15 that if we pray
anything according to his will,
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he hears us.
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That means praying scripturally.
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So when we pray, scripturally,
it opens the ears of God.
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He hears us,
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and the Bible says, if he
hears us, we have the petitions
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that we request of him.
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And we'll be back in just a moment.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times.
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And doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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We're wrapping up a week of Thanksgiving,
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but that doesn't mean that you have
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to stop being thankful. It should be a part of your life.
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In fact, I wanna read to you from Hebrews 13:15 & 16.
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Listen to what it says, Denise, this is powerful. Paul.
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Joel, are you listening? Yes,
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sir.
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Through Jesus. Therefore,
let us continually offer
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to God a sacrifice of praise continually.
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And notice it's called a sacrifice.
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Sometimes it is very
sacrificial to make a decision
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to be positive and to give God thanks.
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Sometimes you don't feel
like you have anything
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to be thankful for,
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but when you make a decision
to bring thanksgiving
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and to bring praise, God sees it as a sacrifice.
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And the verse goes on to
say, the fruit of our lips
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that openly profess his name.
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God appreciates that kind of sacrifice.
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And the rest of the verse says, and do not forget to do good
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and to share with others for with such sacrifices
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God is pleased.
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When here it says to share with others,
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it's really talking about
financially sharing.
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And we need to remember that we have a
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responsibility to share with others.
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But in the context of relationships, I think it's important
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for us to be very intentional
about expressing our
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thanksgiving to others.
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Many times people live in the same home.
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Families spend time together.
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They never express
thanksgiving to each other
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for what they all do.
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And it's very important to be thankful.
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And today, I wanna say
thank you to Denise.
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Honey, you are really
an anchor in our home.
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You have been my best friend for 44 years
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and we've got a long life still to live.
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And I'm so thankful for who you are and you just get better
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and better and better.
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Thank you Red. - And Paul, I wanna say thank you to you.
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You're our senior son,
you're a great example.
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You've always been at my side.
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And I want to say how
thankful I am to God for you,
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for your family, for Paulina, for all 4 of your kids.
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I think you are an amazing
dad and an amazing son.
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And you're not just a natural
son, you are a spiritual son.
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I'm very thankful. Thank you.
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And Joel, I'm very thankful to you.
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I'm very thankful to your wife, Olya
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and to your boys for the sacrifices that you've made
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and for the sacrifices that you do make
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and that you are such a principled person.
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There's so much I could say
thank you to God for you
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and for who you are.
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And Philip and Ella you're not with us today, but Mom
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and I are thankful for you.
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We're thankful for your ministry.
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We're thankful that you go
where other people don't want
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to go, and you reach people
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that other people are not
interested in reaching
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and that God is using
your ministry in such
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a tremendous way.
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And Ella, we're thankful that you are willing to get behind
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Philip and Mika and Mia, we're thankful for you.
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Those are Philip and Ella's kids. We're just thankful.
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And I think it's very important that we as parents remember
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to say thank you to our children.
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I mean, Denise, I think about
the things we've been through.
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These guys have been right at our sides.
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I mean, we are so thankful.
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I am thankful that
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more than 4 decades ago when we started our traveling
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ministry, Paul, I'm thankful
that you were at our sides
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and that from the time that
you could just barely walk,
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you were helping me to
set up product table
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and resources for people to take home.
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And from the very young age,
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you were like designing the resource table
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and how it should look and making sure
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everything was perfected.
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And Joel, I'm thankful that
you have had such heart
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for administration and managing
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and seeing that the
ministry grows in a very
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strong and stable way.
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I'll never forget when the
Lord told me to obey you.
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He said, just listen to
your son and obey him,
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and your ministry will do well.
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Wow. - Thank you. And Joel, I'm very thankful.
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I'm really, really thankful.
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Honey, we have so much to be thankful for.
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Oh, we have so much to be thankful for.
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And I mean, I can say all the
same things to the boys and
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and to Philip and Ella, and,
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to our sisters, to your brother, to our employees.
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I mean, I, the people
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who work in our ministry are amazing, Denise.
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Oh, they are amazing.
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They're people who work in partner care,
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taking your phone calls,
taking your emails.
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When I tell you that
we really pray for you.
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I mean, we have got a team
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that prays ferociously. Oh, the ship.
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And our leadership. I'm so
thankful for our leadership,
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so called by God. Denise
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and I, we as a family, we cannot do
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what we do without a team.
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It's just not possible. And
we're thankful for our team.
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Hey, team, we're so
thankful for you, partners.
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We're thankful. And I want
to tell you that there is not
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a penny you send to this ministry
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that we don't pause and thank God for.
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We realize everybody needs money
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and they could spend their
money somewhere else.
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But when you give it for
the work of the Lord,
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that is a very, very special thing.
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And we as a ministry
really value what you do.
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And we're grateful.
Thank you so much, Joel.
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I was going to say that the shipping
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and receiving area, they pray
over every single parcel,
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every single order that goes out the
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back door of our building.
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They pray over that because we
believe that this is material
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that can change people's lives.
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And we are so, so aware of that.
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And we pray over all of those orders.
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The finance department, when
they process all the donations
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or orders, we give thanks
to the Lord for every one
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of those donations.
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Absolutely. The publications
team helping you write
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it takes a whole team to do this.
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Our TV department
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where we are right now
filming these programs, we are
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so grateful for our team
who make this happen.
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You know, before we
film every TV program,
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Alexander Dogan, who's my producer, he walks over to me
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to make sure my shirt's
in the right order.
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And we always take hands.
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And I always say, Sasha,
would you please pray?
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And he always prays.
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I mean, we literally hover over everything we do with prayer
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and such seriousness, because this is eternal.
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This is really eternal what we're doing.
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This is impacting people's
lives all over the
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world with a word of God.
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In Proverbs 10:21 says, "The lips
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of the righteous feed many."
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What a responsibility that God's people
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would pull a chair up to the table
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and would wait for us to put food on the
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table for them to eat.
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It is such a responsibility.
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And as a spiritual chef, God
is holding us responsible
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for the ingredients we use,
how we mix them together,
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how we present them, the the food
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that we present is healthy.
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I mean, we understand this
is such a responsibility
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and we're thankful to everybody for every part they play
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to help us do this ministry.
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Rick, I was thinking about
the power of Thanksgiving,
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and I was thinking about when Jesus took the
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5 loaves and the 2 fish.
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That's right. Or as he teach
the crackers and the minnows,
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and all the word of God
says is that he gave thanks.
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And in that giving thanks,
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it opens such a place of multiplication:
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multiplying, multiplying, multiplying, and multiplying.
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And when we really truly give thanks,
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we are agreeing with heaven.
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Because in heaven, there's
not gonna be any complaining.
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It's all gonna be glory,
hallelujah, thanksgiving.
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And there's no lack in heaven.
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And there's no lack.
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And, and so when we start thanking God,
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and especially you right now,
that maybe you have been alone
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for Thanksgiving,
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and you give a sacrifice of praise
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and you say, Lord, you know, I don't like to be alone,
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but Lord, I'm thankful.
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I'm thankful that you saved me.
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I'm thankful that you live in my life
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and you just from your
own heart, your own will,
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you just give the fruit of your lips
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and give him thanks.
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Just like when Jesus gave
that thanks to, to the Father
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for just such a small amount.
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And God multiplied it,
God's gonna multiply to you
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when you open your heart
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and you start giving him
thanks out of your need,
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you give him thanks. Jesus
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thank God out of a need.
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And when we thank God out of a need,
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multiplication can come.
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And it's called a sacrifice of praise
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because sometimes it really is a sacrifice.
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You know, we all have emotions
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and sometimes our emotions
affect us negatively.
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And we don't feel positive,
we don't see anything good.
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We don't feel anything good.
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And honestly, we just may
not want to give thanks.
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But God sees when you make a decision
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and when you say, I'm gonna,
I'm gonna be thankful.
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The Bible says with thanks,
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let's your requests being made known unto God.
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We all have requests,
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but not all of us start with thanks.
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But that's what the Bible says - with thanks
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let's your request be made known unto God.
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Actually, the Greek means you need to match your asking
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with your thanking.
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And it people do a lot of
asking, asking, asking.
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But there should be just
as much thanking God
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as there is asking of God.
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That's so good. Paul.
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You guys are all so spiritual.
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My story today is not so spiritual. - Well tell us, Paul.
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We'll tell it Paul.
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Okay, here we go.
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Not so long ago, I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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with my wife Paulina,
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and they built a new outlet mall
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across the river.
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Now, if there's a new outlet
mall, Paulina has to go.
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There's no not going. She
has to go to the outlet mall.
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I am not a shopper,
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but I can drive.
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Of course she can drive,
but she wants to spend time
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with me, but I'm not a shopper.
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And so we went to the outlet mall and, and she went shopping
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and I sat in the car and then I got bored
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and I drove around the parking lot.
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And then I slept in the car.
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And, and then, so she finally
calls and here she comes.
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It was more than 4 hours later. You know what she bought?
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She bought a belt, a belt:
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one single item after 4 hours of shopping.
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Now, of course, today is a shopping day.
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So this is a shopping story.
And you know what we did?
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Two days later after I waited for her,
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it was probably 6 hours in the shopping - in the -
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let me guess, you took the belt back.
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We returned the belt.
I knew that was coming.
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We returned the belt that we spent
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so long choosing.
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And, and, and of course
I am not a shopper,
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but I love my wife.
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And as, as they say, it's
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Well, I have to ask, how long did it
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take to return the belt?
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Not long. No, that
didn't take long at all.
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She promised it wouldn't take
long. And it didn't take long.
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It literally took, you know,
15 minutes. So that was okay.
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And of course, you know,
men support me here.
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Tell me, you know, yes,
you've done the same thing.
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And or, or am I the only
crazy one? Just let me know.
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Well, Paulina is a very thoughtful person.
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And it's not about the belt that she bought and returned.
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Not at all. It's probably
about everything else
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that she looked at and price compared.
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And everyone she thought
about while she was looking at
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things, I'm sure that she thought about
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so many people looking
at every single item,
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should I buy this or should I buy that?
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And who is this a gift for?
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And then she goes back and
she buys gifts for people.
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It's about the thoughtfulness
of the process.
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And of course, as many people
today are thinking about
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Christmas and so on, we have
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so many people in our
lives to be thankful for.
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And, and, and I wanna
say thank you to Paulina
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and to all the wives, all the
shoppers who are thoughtful.
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Thank you for thinking of all of us.
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Now, even if you don't buy a
gift for each of us, thank you
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for thinking of us.
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Thank, thank you for spending the time
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and keeping it all in your
hearts and your minds.
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And some of these
thoughts end up, you know,
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under Christmas trees.
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Thank you so much. I think it's precious
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how much we invest in these relationships.
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And even though, even
though the gifts are small,
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the investment is
sometimes so much larger.
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And, and, and that's another reason.
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Now, of course, I know that
we have a 25% discount on our
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online store, but I like shopping or,
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or no, I'm not a shopper,
but I like going to the store
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and actually picking
something out, feeling it
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because there's something
tangible in the process.
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So, so thank you to
everyone who does that.
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Well, something else
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before we wrap up the week is, as a parent
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and a grandparent, you
need to teach your kids
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and your grandkids to say thank you.
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In the home that I grew up
in, we did not have a lot.
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My parents really struggled
financially when I was
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a young boy.
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And when somebody did something for us,
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we were really taught to say thank you
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and to appreciate what people did for us.
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If somebody had given me a gift
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and I didn't say thank you,
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my dad probably would've
knocked me across the house.
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And I'm not kidding.
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I mean, we were really
taught to say thank you.
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I made a big mistake
when I was a little boy.
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We went to my grandfather
and grandmother's house.
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Now I had
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at one point, 7 living grandmothers.
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I had three grandfathers.
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So we had a lot of grandpas
and grandmas in our house.
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But one Christmas we went to Grandpap's house.
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That's Grandpa Miller.
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That was my mother's dad and his wife Joe.
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And for Christmas, they gave me a shirt.
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Now I was a little boy at the time, I didn't want a shirt.
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And when they gave me the shirt, I threw it across the house
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and threw a fit because I did not want a shirt.
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My dad disciplined me and I will never forget it.
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He said, I don't care whether you like
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what people do for you or not.
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When people put out effort, you say - thank you.
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And my parents really taught us from the time we were young,
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and sometimes they disciplined us.
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You say thank you. Our pastor Brother Post,
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on Wednesday nights during adult choir practice,
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he wanted to get the Renner kids out of the auditorium.
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So he would give us a dime so
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that we would go across the street
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to the filling station to buy a Coke.
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And that he would get us
out of the auditorium.
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We were taught to say
thank you for that dime.
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It didn't matter why he gave
it to us. It was a dime.
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And we were to say thank you.
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And Denise
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and I were always very intentional about teaching our
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kids to say thank you for everything that was done for them.
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If we did something, they
were to say thank you.
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They were to say thank you for dinner, thank you for this,
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thank you for that. It needs to be a way of life.
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And now we're watching our grandkids
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and they're all very well
taught to say thank you.
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But that's something you
have to teach people.
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You have to teach people because naturally speaking, we tend
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to be selfish, tend to be
ungrateful, not expressive.
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It's very important to express
thankfulness. And guess what?
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A thank you will take you a long way.
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People remember when you say thank you.
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People remember when you don't say thank you.
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So being expressive about your thankfulness,
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it's very important for you
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and it's very important for your future. Denise.
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Well, when you said people
remember your thankfulness
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well, it made me think about Jesus
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because when he, when he
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healed all those 10 lepers,
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only one came back to say thank you.
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And he said, where are the others? And,
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and Jesus said, where are the other 9?
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I healed them too.
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And when I've studied that, I thought
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Jesus notices.
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'cause you just said that people notice.
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Jesus notices when we say thank you
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and when we don't say thank you,
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because he noticed those
lepers that were absolutely
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as healed as the, as the one
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that came back to say thank you.
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He noticed that they didn't
come back and say thank you.
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And so it's important for us to fill our mouths
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with thanksgiving, a thankful heart to God,
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a thankful heart to one another.
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Because when we thank him, we
are changing the atmosphere.
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And I wanna say that
something about Philip,
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because his ministry is called - Shocking The Darkness.
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And they go into these really dark,
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dark places like in Salem, Massachusetts,
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where on October the 31st,
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all the witches come together,
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Witches come together.
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Well, that's where he goes
and preaches the gospel.
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And they go in and they,
they start with thanks.
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They start with praising God.
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That's how they always go in,
is with a song of Thanksgiving
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and praising God.
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And when they bring that praise
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and worship to God,
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it absolutely changes the atmosphere.
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And people's hearts open to the gospel
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and a lot of people get saved.
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And that's just an example of
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how powerful our praise is.
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And you can go in an atmosphere
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where people are complaining
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and you can feel it, you
can feel, you can feel
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that atmosphere.
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You can change the
atmosphere by being thankful.
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But you can also go into a place
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where people are joyful and thankful.
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And you can feel that atmosphere too. - You can.
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I mean, they are opposite of each other.
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And so we've been talking
about doing things on purpose
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and being thankful.
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There's a huge reward in being thankful.
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Denise, that is so good.
Well, we are out of time.
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This has been a week of Thanksgiving
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and today we're gonna wrap it up.
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I'm gonna ask Joel to pray.
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So let's join hands and
we want you to join us.
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And Joel, would you please pray
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for our friends and our
partners? Absolutely.
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Father God, we thank you for this day.
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We thank you for our
health, for our family,
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for our relationships.
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We wanna show gratitude.
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We wanna say thank you for where we live,
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for having a roof over our head.
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For our needs being met. We are showing gratitude.
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And Father God with a grateful heart
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we ask you to bless our friends and partners.
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We ask you to meet all their
needs according to your riches
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and glory by Christ Jesus.
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In Jesus' name, for their health to be whole.
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Yes,
For their relationships
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to be together.
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In the name of Jesus Christ,
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Amen. Amen. Amen. Well,
we wanna say thank you
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for joining the runners
for a week of Thanksgiving,
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and we will see you in the next program.
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But please, until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:
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4 says, "Where the word of the king is there is
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is power."
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What do you attribute your three sons to
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loving the Lord and the ministry and not being resentful
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of ministry?
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Well, you know, a lot of pastors kids resent the ministry.
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And I'm just gonna tell you the truth.
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That's because the pastors
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and their wives have talked
about things in front
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of their kids that they
should not have talked about.
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When you boys were young, we wanted you
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to believe the church was the
happiest place on the planet.
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And when we were in front
of you, if we had a problem
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with anybody at the church,
you never knew about it
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because we didn't tell you. If we had issues,
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we dealt with those issues behind closed doors.
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Why should we give our issues to our kids?
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And not only that, we
involved you in ministry.
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You and your brothers were involved in
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everything that we did.
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So it wasn't just me and mom's ministry,
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it was our ministry as a family.
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And together we served God.
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And I believe that's why you love the Lord
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and why you've never
resented the ministry.
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This week, you can order all
Renner products for 25% off.
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Take advantage of our cyber sale
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and stock up on powerful
teaching resources
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this holiday season.
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It's the perfect time to invest in your spiritual growth
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or bless someone you love.
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Do you really know the Christmas story?
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You can order Rick Renner's book, Christmas, The Rest
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of the Story, which reveals the facts of Jesus's birth
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as you've never heard them before.
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Using scripture
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and documented historical writings,
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Rick dives deeper into - the angel's message to Mary:
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the dreams God gave
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to Joseph: Christ's early years fleeing from Herod
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with his parents: the reason God came
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to the earth clothed in human flesh.
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Additionally, this week we are
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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. If you just prayed the prayer of salvation
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with us, would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation? We would love to connect with you.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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