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The Art of Gratefulness | Bible, Bros, & Brew
In life, we can always find something to complain about, but how about redirecting your focus toward finding things to be grateful for? That's what this episode is all about. With a healthy dose of java on hand, David & Phil explore the scriptures to tackle the topic of being grateful, an underrated practice in a culture where negativity, complaining, and entitlement are pervasive. Not only can gratefulness keep you from spiraling into a negative "feedback loop" of only seeing the bad side of things, but it can also open doors for God to bring additional goodness and blessings into your life. So grab your Bible, your favorite cup of java or tea, and join us as we dig into the Word together!
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It's one of the simplest things in the world that you can do. It costs nothing to do, yet if you practice it on a regular basis, it can absolutely change your life. And I am talking about the art of being thankful. So in this episode of Bible Rose and Brew, we're going to get into that, what it means to be thankful, the biblical uh understanding of it, and also just how important it is for the believer to practice that in their everyday life. Stay tuned, it's going to be good. Welcome to this episode of Bible Bros and Brew. We're going to be talking about an awesome topic today, something that's often overlooked, but yet it can be one of the most powerful things you can implement in your life. And I'm talking about the art of gratefulness, the art of being thankful. Um, it's gonna be a great thing to dig into tonight, especially on uh as we're taping this, it's actually Thanksgiving Eve. So um just kind of running with that theme for uh for this episode. But I'm not gonna do this alone. I have my bros with me. So uh if you guys I'm sorry, man, I kind of stumbled into that segue, so uh it's all good. But um, I've got my bros here, I've got David down underneath here, I've got John that way, Ryan. Whoops, you know, Ryan's yeah, I can my pointing is not working, but um uh again, I could never do the weather on the local news, that's for sure. So um, but so we're talking about again this this concept of gratefulness, this concept of being thankful. Um, it's one of the things that if you practice it, it really can change your perspective on life, just uh overall. And of course, like for the believer, it's not only something that um is is useful and helpful and and will bless your life, but it's something that the Bible encourages you to do. Uh Paul talked about it in Colossians 3. He said, you know, let the peace of God rule in your hearts and always be thankful. Uh, there's a powerful spiritual principle that that gets put into practice and gets put into motion when you begin to operate in thankfulness and gratefulness. And on the flip side, uh, if you begin to drift towards unthankfulness and ungratefulness, you'll find that things just start to kind of shut down in your life, honestly. And uh it's easy to lose perspective uh if you get in, go down that road. So we'll talk about kind of both sides of it and uh just give you a good working definition of what thankfulness and gratefulness is all about, according to what the Bible says, what God's Word says. But before we dig too deep into that, of course, we have to start with our famous question on Bible Bros and Brew, and that is what is in the cup that man, dude. That intro is fire, but uh so what is in the cup? We're gonna start down uh with David. We'll do a little clock clockwise action. Uh David, man, uh, what is in your cup tonight on Thanksgiving Eve?
SPEAKER_05:Well, I debated whether I was gonna go ahead and go into Christmas or whether I would stick it out and finish off this Thanksgiving season with the perfect mix, and I think I decided to go with the perfect mix and to bring back one more time a favorite. Nothing better than sweetie pie, the uh ground coffee from Paramount Roasters. You can find this on Amazon, one of the few coffees that I recommend from them. Uh, but when I tell you this tastes like uh pumpkin pie, it is called pumpkin pie, but it tastes like pumpkin pie. It is a great coffee, and uh it's probably one that I will pull out tomorrow to go along with the pumpkin pie and cakes and whatnots that I plan to eat all day long.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, sir. Rock and roll, man. Good stuff, good stuff. All right, well, um, since I've I bound myself to a clockwise motion, I'll go next. Um, I've got for this this time around, I've got peregrine's decaf. It's Guatemala uh alma decaf with notes of sticky toffee pudding. Now I do. Um, sweet cream and milk chocolate, man. This stuff is fantabulous, man. Uh, you know how sometimes when you drink a decaf, you know it's a decaf because it's kind of um that's not the case with with Peregrine's decaf. They they always bring the heat, they always bring the flavor. So um, shout out to them and to this amazing Guatemala decaf. But um, yes, sir. Beautiful, yes, sir. Ryan, how about you, sir?
SPEAKER_03:I've got um, so I did. It is um officially now Christmas season. Well come in across the line.
SPEAKER_04:The line is tomorrow. I'm not gonna crash out live on the stream. Sorry, I won't do that to you.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, dropping the bomb on us sometime. I mean, right, we're doing the live thing today, and if you're watching, you're watching exclusively, which we're so glad that you are, but because this is going to premiere next week, first Thanksgiving. Uh we can cross the line into Christmas. It's officially official, you're allowed. So we have none other than the Pete's holiday blend.
SPEAKER_00:Come on, yes, can't go wrong with a holiday blend. It's too good, it's too good, man. Beautiful, good stuff. All right, John. What's what's uh percolating in your cup, sir?
SPEAKER_04:Dude, listen, forgive me for Mr. David. I I I was much in your seat where I debated, and I but I didn't have to debate for too long because uh I had to pull this bad boy out again. I know it's like against the rules. Like, please forgive me for drinking the same coffee twice, back to back. I might even I'm gonna even give you a live pour because uh the cup's a little empty. But uh this is the peppermint stoke, the peppermint mocha stoke ice cold brew. It's beautiful, like it's just it's Christmas in a cup. I can't even be mad. Like, this is like and I know Thanksgiving's great and all, food is great and all, but like this is where I'm at. This I just want y'all to know, like this, like I am where I have where I have been wanting to be for the past like three weeks. So uh I'm doing great. This is a great stuff.
SPEAKER_00:Good stuff. Well, I mean, dude, you can't go wrong with stoke, first of all. It's just an awesome coffee roaster blender person, people. So um, but I've never tried peppermint mocha, man. I might have to have to give that a shot, dude. Um, now how many of you guys are into the eggnog situation? Like, and when do you get into the eggnog situation?
SPEAKER_04:Done diddly did it already. What'd you say, David?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, some people some people were in the eggnog last night.
SPEAKER_04:I don't know why you're mad.
SPEAKER_00:Oh boy, not that you're talking to me or anything, right? Right, right, right. Could not be. Not even possible. Good stuff, man. Well, well, that is a um that wraps up our what is in the cup. Hope you guys are enjoying whatever's in your cup as well. And now we're gonna roll into what is in the word. And I wish my camera looked better. Uh, not only is it out of focus, but I'm also uh quite jumping. Mr. Roboto. Yeah, I don't know what that's all about at this point, but we're just gonna give it to focus hand real quick. Focus hand, all right. Okay, and we pull it out like so. Ah, there we go. Maybe I'm gonna grab the uh but um I'm sorry, okay. Uh anyway, we're gonna um we're gonna dig into this topic of thankfulness. We are, of course, kind of uh staying with a theme here because it is uh the day before Thanksgiving as we're taping this. And uh as we talked about before, it's it's something that I think gets overlooked a lot of times in in the Christian's walk and the believers' walk. Yet it's one of the most important things you can do because if you're not thankful, um it can get to a point where your perspective gets warped and now life becomes more of a burden and you're not seeing things as you should. Um, and if all you do is focus on what you don't yet have or what's going wrong in your life, then whatever you're focusing on, that's what's being magnified in your life. And sadly, you can skip over the 150 things that are good about life that God's done for you and that you currently enjoy, but yet just to focus on those one or two or three things that are bothering you or that are troubling you. And in other words, it can just really, really mess up your whole perspective on life, man. So we want to talk about thankfulness in in that regard, but also just um dig into the scriptures about it and to see what God's word actually says about thankfulness and and what it means to be thankful. And I believe, David, you've got uh a scripture to kick us off with in that regard. Am I correct, sir?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I do. Um, I do I do want to add though, just to say that you know, if you take into account the big picture of what we've been talking about over the last not just several weeks, but months, because we've kind of been on this picture where we've looked at fruit of the spirit, we've looked at how we're supposed to live, we've looked at the um uh these virtues, you know, that are critical to the Christian believer. And it walks up to this place where we begin to look at this concept of pride and humility, and in the midst of that, we've uncovered and discovered, you know, repentance, uh, you know, and turning things around. And right out of that, you know, right out of pride and humility, seeing this need for uh repentance and the need that there's restoration in it, it would seem like there the the natural outcome of that would be that of thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:There's this uh, you know, after you have after you have and repentance, after repentance has come, you begin to become thankful for what God has done and what he's doing. You become thankful for his creation and all the things around you. And so it it's all in one sense you could say this is a continuation of our conversation around humility and those other things, because Thanksgiving should come out next, and and we see demonstrations of that planted throughout the Bible. But I'm gonna start in an interesting place. I'm gonna start in Psalm 50. Um, because uh something interesting happens here, and if we start in Psalms 50, I'm gonna read this from the Berean Study Bible, I think. Um it says the mighty one, starting at verse 1, and I'm gonna read a little bit here, and then we're gonna come to it in 14 and 15. Um, but it says in verse 1, the mighty one, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets. From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. Our God approaches and will not be silent. Consuming fire precedes him, and a tempest rages around him. He summons the heavens above and the earth that he may judge his people. Gather to me my saints, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice, and the heavens proclaim his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God your God. I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices and your burnt offerings are ever before me. I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens. For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle of a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains and the creatures of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine and the fullness thereof. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? Sacrifice a thank offering to God and fulfill your vows to the most high. Call upon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver you, and you will honor me. And I thought that was so uh it just really stood out to me as I read it because you get this entrance that kind of exalts God and who he is, and he begins to speak through it. And from verse 7 on down to 15, where we just ended, is God talking? And he basically says, It's all mine. Yeah, it all belongs to me, all the fullness thereof. I know the birds, I know the cattle, I know it all. And then he goes on and says, If I was hungry, I wouldn't tell you about it. Could you imagine where God is like, Man, David, I'm hungry. What can you get me something? God's like, I don't have any need for that, right? And then he goes on to say, quite frankly, your offering the your offering is not for me. I don't eat your bulls and I don't eat your goats. So the offering is for you and for your benefit, right?
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_05:And but then he brings it down in verse 14. He says, Here's what I do want sacrifice a thank offering to God and fulfill your vows to the Most High. Then call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver you, and you will honor me in exchange. But he calls for thanksgiving over all of that other stuff, and you get the impression that he's saying here that he would rather have the thanks than the bulls and the goats. And you know, this is the old testament, so it's interesting because the establishment of the bulls and goats and the different offerings and all of that were for the benefit of the people, it wasn't for the benefit of God, you know, because he even says in different places, you know, I'd rather have a a different offering, a contrite heart, a broken spirit over all of this stuff. And so he he's sitting here saying to us, give him thanks. And so I read that and I thought that was amazing. But then as you keep reading down, there's one more place where he talks about asking for that thanksgiving again. And if we pick up in 16, it says, To the wicked, however, God says, What's right, what right have you to recite my statutes and to bear my covenant on your lips? So before he was talking to Israel, he was talking to his chosen people. Now he's talking to the wicked. What right have you to recite my statutes and to bear my covenant on your lips? For you hate my instruction and cast my words behind you. When you see a thief, you befriend him and throw you in your lot with adulterers. You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. You sit and malign your brother, you slander your own mother's brother, your own mother's son. You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought I was just like you, but now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face. When it says you thought I was just like you, you thought I was silent.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_05:But you didn't know I was coming, just waiting for the appointed time.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:And verse 22 says, Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces with no one to rescue you. Dang. He who sacrifices a thank offering honors me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of the Lord. So once again, here we are at the end of this scripture, and God is bringing it back to not the bull offering, not the goat offering. He's not asking for two pigeons and a dove, he's not asking for any of that stuff. He's asked for thanks and says, the person who offers thanks to me honors me. And to him who writes his way, we talked about this a couple weeks ago, who repents, who does the 180 and turns, I will show the salvation of God. Wow. Wow. So there's a call here for us to be thankful people, whether in this case you are on the side of Israel, or even for the wicked, there's a path back that God creates, and that path back comes through Thanksgiving. Wow. What's your thought, Phil? What are you seeing?
SPEAKER_00:First of all, you're dropping some bombs on me right now, man. Um that's that's heavy. That's heavy. Um if you think about it, uh, the scripture came to my mind in 1 Corinthians 4, verse 7. It says, uh, what do you have that you did not receive? You know, I've I've been thinking about that. Um, it's something that came up in a conversation with me and my daughters uh a few weeks ago, too. We were just talking about it. Like, what do you have that you did not receive? You know, God has been so good to all of us. And uh there's that scripture in James as well, James 1, where he said, every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, yeah, and comes from the Father of lights, you know, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Um, basically telling us that if you have anything in your life that is good and that has been valuable to you, bro, you can go ahead and credit God for that because you're not as awesome as you think. You know, it's like there's so many things that his grace has afforded us that we're not even aware that it was him that did it. You know, it's it's so easy for us to get kind of the, I don't know, like this idea that um, you know, okay, like let's say that you even built a business or did something amazing and got some type of rewards for it or whatever, and and you're looking back, going, man, you know, uh deep down in your mind or heart, you might be thinking, well, yeah, I did work hard and I did do this and that. Yeah, but who woke you up that morning? You know what I mean? Where'd you get the oxygen from to breathe? Do all that? You know, it's like, yeah, okay, you did work, but bro, the the the part that you put in is about one percent versus God's 99. You know what I mean? And we gotta be we gotta be honest with ourselves about that. And so I think like what you're saying, David, that's powerful, man. This this this uh whole passage in Psalm 50. It's like, dude, um, you can't give God anything that he doesn't already have. Right, you know, the there's nothing like no amount of offerings, or even if you wrote a gigantic check to your local church, you know, here's$200,000 or whatever, whatever. Uh God's like, dude, I own all the cattle of a thousand hills. You know, you're not impressing me with with any monetary donation, trust me, you know. Um, but with this idea of thankfulness and thanksgiving, that is something that is solely ours to do. You know, God can't thank himself on our behalf, right? You know, we have to be the ones thanking him, you know, forming the words in our mouth and using our minds and our will to actually give him thanks. So that's something that's uniquely our assignment to do, or our our responsibility, if we're gonna call it that, to do. And so if we do that, it's something truly, truly coming from us. You know, that we got to remember that God, and I'm sorry that I'm so jittery on the um the way the video looks, but um, we got to remember that God made human beings sovereign as he is sovereign because we're made in his image. You know, there's nothing that uh that God's gonna force us to do. He didn't make us robots, he didn't make us any kind of uh, you know, automatrons to where we only do what God makes us do. You know, we have a full free moral agency, as they call it. We can choose to serve God or choose not to, we can choose to walk with him or choose not to. We I mean there's there's no uh constraints on that. We can go either way, it's up to our own power to decide. So when we take our will that God freely gave us, the one thing that he doesn't interfere with, even if it would be for our good, he won't interfere with our will. He's gonna let us make the choices that we want to make. Um, when we take that will and we decide to acknowledge him in our lives and give him thanks, that is truly a gift that is uniquely ours that we can offer to him. And so, like you're saying, David, I think that's something, uh, like you said, even the person that's not walking with him, the person that's distant from him, if they begin to practice that, it's something that could bring them close uh to him and bring them back to him, you know. So uh that's that's a powerful thing, man. Acknowledging and being thankful is actually far more powerful than I think we've maybe recognized.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I I can I completely agree, Philip. And it's you know, once again, it's even this concept, God is really talking to us through this psalm and reminding us it's not you He God brings everything to the table, yeah, yeah, everything He's bringing it all and the table. It's all it's all Him, and it's all you know, it's a wonder we we ought to really consider it because then we ought to say, if God brings everything and He owns the cattle on a thousand hills and all of this is true, then what does He need us for? And the answer is revealed through what He communicates. One of the things I need from you is I need your thanksgiving. Yeah, it's almost like saying, be appreciative for all that I am, all that I've done, all that I will do, and for who I am, and specifically who I am in your life. Yeah, you know, it's a it's a it's a real thing. So now let's dig a little deeper for just a second, if we might. We looked at this word, uh, and if we go back up to 14, we can look at it there. We says it says sacrifice a thank offering. Now remember, we're just a little little thing because we're often digging in the New Testament. Now we're digging in the Old Testament. So when we dig into words and word meanings, we're now looking at the Hebrew rather than the Greek. All right, so we're gonna jump into the Hebrew for a second and understand what this word thank offering means. So when we look at it, it takes us to the strong Hebrew word. Um it's 8426, and it's to da. Tuda. And it means confession, sacrifice of praise, thanksgiving, offering. Uh, that's in the King James, and then it goes on to the NASB, but it basically boils down to properly an extension of the hand, a vowel, or usually adoration, and specifically a choir of worshipers. Wow. So now it's gone big because it's not like you know, the thanks is you know, thanks can be your personal thanks to God, and it could be the collective thanks of your choir lifting up and exalting God. And a choir, you know, it just doesn't have to be the church choir, it could be a group of people who all choose to exalt and lift up God and come as one voice before Him and exalt Him. Then when you get into the strong's exhaustive, it says that this word comes from Yada properly, an extension of the hand by implication, a vowel or not a vowel like a V-O-W-E-L. A vowel, it means to commit in a sense to commit oneself to a vow something, right? Or usually adoration, specifically a choir of worshipers, confession, a sacrifice, sacrifice of praise, thanksgiving, and offering. And so then, Ryan, if you would, if you will continue to scroll down on that, and we get down to the um the topical lexicon, it gives us a little bit more. It says to spans the concepts of thanksgiving, praise, and confession. In the approximately 32 Old Testament occurrences, it describes both verbal expression, spoken or sung, material offerings presented to the Lord, and material offerings presented to the Lord. The context cluster around worship, sacrifice, testimony, and even prophetic vision. So this is a this is a broad and wide kind of thing, but I think where we want to focus, and it happens in in all of these ways, um, is we want to focus on the spoken or the sung, because that's what we're deal usually dealing with every day. Every day we don't have a choir just read them randomly available to sing and give thanks with us. Usually it's you, and this opportunity to praise God um is it's an amazing thing. But let's look at Psalms uh, I think it's Psalm 100 verse 4. When this psalm David tells us to enter his gates with thanksgiving and enter his courts with praise. That even tells me that before as I start praying every morning, one of the things that I do before I ask God for anything is I start off with thanksgiving and praise and Worship because I exalt him first because he's the great one, he's the holy one, and I I've come I've begun working myself to this point in my life that I begin to understand God's been so good to me. Yes, yes, I don't have the days well, I do, and that's what Thanksgiving is for. But you know, there's a part of me that feels like there's not enough time for me to recount how good God has been to me on a day-to-day basis, yeah, from just simply waking me up in the morning to allow me to rest my head at the end of the day in peace in bed, and even when I don't have peace, I can still call on God for peace because the Bible says he never sleeps nor slumbers, and that he is watching over me both night and day, and I can rest in that, and I'm supposed to rest in that, and the fact that God would even think that far ahead for my benefit and desire that for me is a cause to give him thanks.
SPEAKER_01:That's right, man.
SPEAKER_05:And so we we we start our prayer time, we start whatever we do going into the presence of God with praise and thanksgiving. If you look back a few uh chapters, Psalm 95, 2, it says, Let us enter his presence with thanksgiving. Let us make a joyful noise to him in song. So once again, we're going before God. Let's enter his presence with thanksgiving. Let's make a joyful noise to him in song. And look, we could do that, we can make a joyful noise to him in song at any time. I mean, all we gotta do, you can turn, you can turn well, I'm about to say something that may not be true. So you can turn the radio on and start thanking and worshiping God. You just might have to do it from your own music, you might not be able to do it from a Christian music station. And I hate to say it this way, but Christian a lot of Christian music right now is a lot of self-worship.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, come on, man.
SPEAKER_05:And giving thanks to yourself and then demanding God do for you, and that's not the worship God's called for. And it's you know, yeah, I'll leave that alone, Philip. Jump in here, Philip, before I say something stupid.
SPEAKER_00:I just uh you made me think of this when when we you looked, you were looking at the Psalm 100 scripture. Um it's almost like in my mind those two verses are like a progression because I've found that when I start naming the things that I'm thankful for, you know that that old saying, count your blessings, right? Um that I I feel like as I do that, like I say, Father, I I thank you that I woke up today in good health. I thank you for my wife, I thank you for my kids, I thank you that I have a house to to live in, food in the in the pantry, thank you for you know the clothes I have. I mean, all of these things that there's so much that we can easily take for granted. And if you don't stop to really think about it, number one, um, if you live in America, okay, you're you know, the average income here is in the top five percent of incomes worldwide. If you really just think about that for a minute, that's enough to blow you out of the water. It's like it's like, dude, the standard of living we enjoy here, trust me, it's not like this everywhere. It's not. And that's something that's something to be thankful for right there. The fact that you got running water in your house, you know, the fact that uh every time it rains, you don't have a daggone mud slide wiping out half your your neighborhood, you know, things like that. We we take it for granted, a lot of things. And and but the more I I do that, I start counting my blessings just with even with this seemingly simple things, it's almost like you can't help but start praising when you think about all the things that you have to be thankful for. You know, it's like it just starts leading to you praising God, like Father, I just praise you because how good you've been. You know, thank you for all this that you've done. And it's like, I don't know, man, there's been times it's it's like you can have your a one-man revival uh when you start thinking about everything God's done for you, you know, and and I don't want to ever uh become numb to that. And I think thanksgiving and praise is part of what keeps you from becoming numb to or indifferent to the things that God has done for you. And if you think about what uh happened with the people in in uh the children of Israel in the wilderness experience, you know, 1 Corinthians 10 talks about the whole thing. You know, it said that um, you know, those things happened to them for examples, so that we wouldn't do the same bad things they did. And one of the things mentioned that they did that God actually brought judgment for was this act of complaining, you know, this act of murmuring, this act of always looking at what's wrong. Um, because God was sitting there for 40 years, he was providing water from the rock for them, he was giving them a pillar of fire by night to keep them warm because the desert gets cold at night, guys. Don't get it twisted. The desert gets cold. Uh he provided a pillar of cloud by day so that they would be shielded from the sun and not get burned all the time. You know, he provided man.
SPEAKER_05:Can I can I just say, Philip, everything you're saying, and you're about to add to it, all of it is absolutely miraculous. Yes, miraculous. There is a reason to praise God for.
SPEAKER_00:That's right, man. And I mean, think about it. That it was literally everyday miracles for these people, you know, and and including the manna that came from heaven. And and they they, you know, could gather it, eat it up, and folks got creative and made some manna pies and manna cakes and all kinds of cool stuff they were doing, you know. But um, but God told them, you know, don't take more than the one day's provision, you know, trust me for the next day, trust me for the next day. And he was training them in this art of uh being thankful and appreciative for what they currently had in their hand, you know? And I think that uh that was the big big failure was uh they would they would say things to Moses and start complaining. The it talks about it in the book of Numbers. It's like you know, they were sitting there going, Did God bring us out here for us to just die in this desert? You know, they were mad, and after a while they complained about the food, and it's like, you know, how come we don't ever get any meat, man? It's all this manna all the time, manna manna. And then of course God rained down the the was it quail from heaven, like beyond, you know, it was like, Oh, you want meat? Oh, I got some meat for you, you know. Next thing you know, man, it's like you know, yes, to the point I think it said they were vomiting uh from eating all that meat, you know. But um, but point being in First Corinthians 10, he said, Don't don't murmur as they did, because the ones who murmured and complained were destroyed by the destroyer. That sounds pretty rough to me, man. So God takes this thing of ungratefulness pretty seriously, like it's it's like, what do you mean being ungrateful? What do you mean that you're gonna complain to me? Uh it's like you're not recognizing all that I've done for you, and that's exactly what it boils down to.
SPEAKER_05:So, dude, and you know, I I sometimes think about it, you know, we all look at that story and look at these stories about the children of Israel and be like, shoot, that's crazy. Them people were wild, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, we sometimes forget you could have been one of those people, you could have been the same way, dude.
SPEAKER_05:Absolutely, absolutely ask myself is would I have had the fortitude to follow God, or would I have gotten on board with the murmurers and complained?
SPEAKER_00:Come on, that's a good question, baby.
SPEAKER_05:You know, and and and the answer to that question is what do you do now?
SPEAKER_00:Come on, man.
SPEAKER_05:And we do a lot of murmuring, we do a lot of complaining. I'm talking to you not as an accuser of the brethren, but as a chief sinner, and complain, get to run in my mouth, popping off at the gums because I got them, and doing all this stuff. But you know, as we have talked about this and as I've been going through really a life transformation, as we've talked about this humility and and pride and stuff like that, and realizing I have some changing to do and have been working on it. This week I have started my day in praise. I've taken opportunity to uh in thanksgiving and praise. I've taken opportunity to say to my wife thank you, to my family and the people around me, to be grateful and thankful. Um, it just so happens that at church this Sunday, um, the pastor decided he needed to talk about thanks. And you know, they gave us a list of five or six things that we could actively do to demonstrate our thanks. And so I've been working on doing some things. And do you know, even in the midst of right now, we have some real struggles going on in our life, just being honest. We have some real struggles, and we're looking for how the Lord will deliver us from the stuff that we're dealing with, yeah. But the reality is I have so much joy right now. Yeah, I'm not fearful about our outcome. Um I'm not even in one sense worried because I know that the God of the universe, the one who owns the cattle on a thousand hills, just like he said, has sufficient supply for me. Yeah, and he shall supply all of my need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus, that he'll do exceeding abundantly above all that I could ask or think, according to the power that worketh within him. And so I have great and precious promises from God that says that even in my troubled times, he will come through rather than worry. I give him thanks. Come on, I give him praise, and then I put on my full armor of God because I also recognize that this is an attack of the enemy, yeah. And so it's just it's just like um Jehoshaphat, I forget where it is, Chronicles maybe, you know, when they were being attacked, Jehoshaphat went to God and asked him what to do, and God said, Send the praisers first.
SPEAKER_00:That's good stuff.
SPEAKER_05:And so while the praisers, so he puts he pulls all the praisers together. Now, if you're on the praise team, I bet you're probably surprised.
SPEAKER_02:Like getting called up to you.
SPEAKER_05:Uh, you might have been like places I would have never thought I would be, but yet God sends praise first, and while the praisers are praising, he's setting up ambushments against all of the enemies of Jehoshaphat.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_05:You know what they're fighting and destroying one another, and Jehoshaphat's people ultimately go in and collect the spoil.
SPEAKER_01:Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_05:And so if God will do that for Jehoshaphat, He'll do it for David. He'll cause my enemies to be at war with one another to the degree they've forgotten about me so much that they destroy one another, and I'll be able to walk through and pick up the spoils of the war and succeed and prosper and flourish. Well, that's the same promise God has for you. He's not a respecter of persons. Yes, I am God's favorite. I know that to be true, but I also know that you're his favorite as well. Come on, and so he'll do for me what he'll do for you. And I just hold on now to things and pray and worship. And and Philip, if I could I'll can I give us just one more verse and we'll use that to catapult us to next week if we now push over and look at Ephesians chapter five, and Ephesians five. If you look at verse 15, it says, and I'm reading out of the King James here, it see, it says, See then that you walk circumspectly, wisely, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil. Wherefore, don't be not unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is, and be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be filled with the spirit. Verse 19, speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing, making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. See how even the submission we talked about just last week or the week before? That's right. But here it is, once again, and it's part of your thanks, it's part of your sub your your praise to God, and it's not once again, it's not about being on top of somebody, but submitting to one another in the fear or respect and honor of God.
SPEAKER_00:That's so good, David. You know, dude, I love how in verse 20 it says giving thanks always. That means not occasionally, not sporadically, literally all the time. And and I know, David, like like you're saying, like there's something about it that it really does do something to increase your confidence in the one you're praising and thanking, right? I mean, all of a sudden you start, there's something in you that's going, yeah, I'm thanking, I thank God for what you know, for what I have in my life. I thank God for what he's doing in my life. And because of that, I just I just believe that he'll do even more, that he's got my back, that just like David uh in the Bible, David said, Um, I've I've I once was young, but now I'm old, yet I've never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging for bread. Praise God. And and that other scripture that I thought about um it blessed me so much. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. Out of them all. I think they're actually both in the same chapter of Psalms. I might be wrong about that. Maybe Psalm 37 or Psalm 34, one of those two. But uh, I think about that because he said, Many are the afflictions of the righteous. He didn't say that we would never have any problems, that we would never have any issues or any obstacles or roadblocks or things that are hard to get through. He said, actually, many are the afflictions of the righteous, but what's what comes after the but is more important than anything else. He said, But the Lord delivers him out of them all. And I thought about that, you know, with Paul. Um, when he was writing to Timothy, he said that same thing. He said, You know, all the different things I endured. He said, When I was in Lystra, persecutions there, uh, crazy people trying to kill me. He said, What persecutions I endured? He said, But out of them all, the Lord delivered me. And I believe he was quoting Psalms when he said that. You know, I think he was kind of had that in mind. I can't prove it, but that's just kind of my my thought on it, man. But um, but you know, David, man, I appreciate what you shared, dude. Like, yeah, because I know there's people watching that, you know, you've got your struggles that you're dealing with in life as well. I mean, all of us have something we we deal with. There's nobody who lives an absolutely problem-free life, it's not even possible. But you can take confidence and you can take courage in the fact that as you trust God, as you acknowledge him, begin to praise him for the things that he has done. There's something about that that builds your confidence, it steadies your spirit to where you can trust him to bring you through this thing, whatever you're dealing with. You'll know that he'll do it in his timing, in his way. And when he does it, you'll come out perfect and entire, lacking nothing. Praise God.
SPEAKER_05:That's good, Philip. That's good. I think we put a bookmark in it right there, uh, for now, uh, because we're gonna dig more into this concept of praise and thanks and gratitude. Um, because I think it's what I think it's what this season is calling us to. Yeah, I think it's I think it's where we need to be uh despite everything that may be going on. Uh we need to be in that season of thanks, and um we need to not only be in the season of thanks, but we need to create a habit of it so that it leads the way for us and all that we're doing and working. And I think that by doing so, you're going to see God more involved in your life, and you're going to sense his direction, connection, and the path that you're supposed to take the more that you focus on and give God praise and allow that to lead into lead you as you're going about and doing whatever you got to do. Thank you, God. I got home safely today, and wasn't there were no issues with the car. Thank you, Lord, that my children are home safely. Thank you, Lord, for this good job that you've given me. I'm not gonna complain with all my coworkers, I'm gonna give you thanks because you've made a provision for me through this job so that I could have what I need to provide for my needs. And Father, I give you thanks for that. Thank you for thinking of me when you put this business in my hands, Lord God. Let me be a faithful steward over what you've given me, Lord. Thank you for the blessing of family, thank you for the blessing of a wife and people who love me. Thank you, Lord, that I'm able to love others and pour out into their lives. Thank you for my church, Lord God. Thank you for a pastor who loves you and seeks to do your will and guide the sheep and do well by you. Thank you, Lord, for friends who love me. Thank you, Lord, for friends who love you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, for going in and out before me and guiding and leading me, Lord God. Thank you for who you are. Thank you that you're Jehovah the good and you're a good to us all, Lord God. Thank you for everything you are, thank you for everything you've been, thank you for everything that's to come, Lord God. Thank you for your care for me. Thank you that you've bought me out from bad places, from the mud and the miry clay, Lord God, and you set my feet once again on solid ground. I thank you for it, Lord. I give you praise for it. In Jesus' name, I give you praise and thanks for it. Praise open your mouth and let praise pour out on God for his goodness. Thank him for everything and allow him to do what he does for you. Praise God, praise God, man. Thank you, Jesus. Yes, we're glad that you guys have joined us. Uh, we would be so thankful if you uh would just let us know that you enjoy this episode. You can like and subscribe on any of the platforms that you may be watching or listening on. You can also leave us a comment, let us know if there's something you'd like for us to talk about, something that we can help you with, and something that we can pray about. Um, we also want to invite you to um just get connected with us through our study guide. You can use the study guide uh down below. There's a link uh in the description section that will tell you how to subscribe. And uh you can subscribe and it'll come instantly to your mailbox uh every Monday morning as part of the release of this episode or each episode of Bible Bros and Brews. So you have a study guide to walk you through that will be with you through the week that will help guide you and help you to remember some of the things that we're talking about. Philip, any final words before we wrap up?
SPEAKER_00:Man, uh David, I just want to say, man, that the the the demonstration of thankfulness you just showed uh right here, it that's that's what we're talking about. Pour out your heart to God, recognize, uh just look around, look at the things that He's done for you. You know, every time He's every time a bill's been paid, you know, every time you had a meal, right? I mean, there's there's people that in this world that haven't even had a meal for for today or for the past few days, you know. So we're we're there's a lot to be grateful for, guys. A lot to be grateful. You just got to open your eyes to see it, man. It's all around you. Um, and the more you acknowledge it and acknowledge God's provision and his you know, his blessing that gave you those things, I'm telling you, it's just it's like David said, it set your feet on the on the solid rock, man. So um good stuff.
SPEAKER_05:That's good, Phil. And maybe that's that's not maybe that's our prayer tonight, that you'll open your eyes and see the things that you have to be thankful for. Yeah, and I don't care if you start off one day with only one thing, praise God for that thing all day long. Yeah, and then the next day another thing, and you'll see that your eyes, the eyes of your understanding, being enlightened, and good things will come. So we're so glad you joined us. Uh, for those of you who do Turkey Day, uh, we wish you a happy Thanksgiving, a blessed day, and our prayer is that it just is full of love and connection and family and good things for you. Until next time, I'm David, he's Philip, and we're out of here.
