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The Difference Between Gratitude and Thanksgiving | Bible, Bros & Brew
As we've journeyed through the scriptures regarding the importance of being grateful, a thought-provoking idea has emerged: Is there a difference between gratitude and thanksgiving? Armed with the Bible and a healthy supply of coffee, David & Phil tackle this intriguing question, and the discoveries they've made are definitely worth further study. Using key verses from the Old and New Testaments, the bros offer this thesis: Gratitude is an attitude of the heart based on an inward acknowledgement and appreciation of who God is and what He's done, whereas thanksgiving is the outward expression of gratefulness to God for all that the heart experiences. So grab your Bible and your favorite cup of java or tea, and join us as we explore the life-changing power of gratefulness!
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00:00 – Episode intro: gratitude vs thankfulness
00:54 – Welcome back + “What’s in the Cup” begins
01:49 – John’s cup: Dunkin’ gingerbread (and peppermint love)
03:28 – Phil’s cup: decaf “Dancing Goats” + Bloom Coffee
05:23 – David’s cup: Lidl salted caramel K-cup
05:59 – Ryan’s cup: Farmhouse Coffee in Gainesville + life update
07:48 – Back to the Word: thanksgiving theme + recap (OT/NT)
13:46 – Phil: thanksgiving changes your heart (God’s commands bless us)
16:35 – Colossians connection: prayer + thanksgiving
18:46 – Colossians 3:15 + Greek insight (“well-favored/grateful”)
20:40 – Big idea: gratitude (inward) vs thanksgiving (outward expression)
24:58 – “Out of the abundance of the heart…” (Matthew 12:34)
29:49 – The “stripping down” journey: God reshaping the believer
38:24 – 2 Corinthians 9: gratitude that becomes worship-language
41:50 – Philippians 4:6: praying with thanksgiving as faith
42:50 – Challenge: build daily gratitude through year’s end
46:36 – Prayer over listeners (peace, anxiety, strength to obey)
48:59 – Outro + next week’s Q&A invite + contact info
50:46 – End
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I am so thankful that you are here. Tonight we are talking about gratitude. And oftentimes, gratitude and thankfulness can be used interchangeably. But tonight we're going to take a deeper dive to see if there's even a difference and what that difference may be. We're going to drink some coffee, we're going to get our Bibles open, we're going to get our notes taken. Um, and we're hoping to sharpen one another up next on Bible Bros Ember.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, welcome back.
SPEAKER_00:Bible bros and brew. We got all the bros here. We got the brews here. So let's just get right into it uh with our addition of What's in the Cup. Oh yeah, it's late. It's getting dark early. Um it's hard to stay energized and jazzer sized and pumped up. So we gotta have our caffeine. So let's take it around the horn. Uh, we gotta start with our main man on the ones, twos. He's looking fresh, he's looking clean, he's got a smile on his name is Big John. John, what are you drinking today?
SPEAKER_01:What is going on, dude? Okay, okay. I lost my whole train of thought just now. Check it out.
SPEAKER_04:Did you really have the train of thought though?
SPEAKER_01:I actually did. It was just the first car, and then it's just the engine, but it was going somewhere and it needed to go fast. But uh anyway. Um, you know how I love peppermint, right? Peppermint is like that's my personality during Christmas. Yes, sir. I tried something new, and last week I got Dunkin' white chocolate peppermint. That thing was heavenly, right? Um, with what I didn't tell you is that with that coffee, we also purchased a Dunkin' gingerbread coffee. Um, I gotta tell you, dude, this junk that sound bite. I feel like I've got it timed perfectly. It's delicious, dude. That junk is so good. Like, I I made this cup like maybe maybe an hour ago, and I'm struggling so hard to like keep it for this one moment right here. It's almost empty because of how it's really delicious. It's it's nothing too crazy, it's just gingerbread from Dunkin' Donuts.
SPEAKER_00:Uh bomb coffee. Nice, man. All right, we like it. We like it. Uh, Seven says that they have their coffee ready. Let us know what you're drinking, Seven. We we love good recommendations, we love it. Thank you for joining along with us. Let's let's head over to my man Uncle Phil. What what's in the cup today?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, wait, let's guess you would be surprised to know, uh, believe it or not. I actually have Caldi's coffee. What? Yes, Decaf dancing goats. This is a pretty cool coffee, man. Um, it's from the the local shop. Uh, I don't know if you guys have probably heard me talk about this little spot called Bloom. It's a little coffee shop in Peachtree City, and they they I don't know where they get this coffee from, but it's I think they're a local kind of people, uh local roaster kind of thing. But yeah, man, it's you know, when I'm ready for a good decaf that's also got this kind of a bit of a punch to it, yet it can also mellow you at the same time. It's kind of a wild thing, but um shout out to dancing goats, man. It's it's good stuff, so beautiful.
SPEAKER_00:All of that sounds well above uh my pay grade. Bloom, we're going to bloom, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it's it's yeah, it's it doesn't have a reputation for that.
SPEAKER_04:I'm not I'm not gonna pick on Philip because he went to outside of the fine.
SPEAKER_01:I mean today. It's I should have known when you didn't have the peregrine hat, something was off, something was different.
SPEAKER_02:It was the the non-matchingness of it all. So um, but but dude, Peregrine has got a new merch drop, so I'm about to get a new hat. Uh I'm very excited about that.
SPEAKER_01:Streamless plug, part three, part four. I don't even know how many we are.
SPEAKER_02:So yeah, just be on the lookout for that in future episodes, everybody. So I'm so excited. All right, what about you, David? What's going on with you, man?
SPEAKER_04:Uh tonight I am uh in the Christmas mood by drinking uh actual K cup tonight from Little of all places. I think I've shared this one before, but just to say this is the salted caramel from Letl. And let me tell you, this is a good cup of coffee. I taste the salted, I taste the caramel, it's wonderful, and I highly recommend it to you. You can grab it.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, all right, man.
SPEAKER_00:What about you, Ryan? Welp, um, I stopped by a coffee shop on my way uh home or not home. I'm at an Airbnb. This is not home, uh, from work uh in Gainesville, Georgia, which is a long way away from where I live, which is a soft launch to what David was alerting alert alluding to earlier.
SPEAKER_03:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:And the fact that I'm venturing out and moving. So uh I stopped by a place in Gainesville, it's called um uh farmhouse coffee. And so shameless plug to them. Nice farmhouse, and um, they got some good coffee, and it's a nice little place in downtown Gainesville. So if you ever later stop by farmhouse, um good stuff, man.
SPEAKER_01:Shout out to farmhouse, beautiful, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Got a good little spot over there. So I got a little Americana, the typical, like that's what I always get. So no sugar, it's very manly, feel masculine, patriotic.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, but make sure it doesn't turn you toxic. Toxic masculinity, it's gonna start lifting cars any minute.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, of course, we're gonna lift cards with just a hint of sexism.
SPEAKER_02:Wow, a crisp hint of sexism, and we're back on track now.
SPEAKER_04:That's my fault.
SPEAKER_00:Sorry, sorry. Um, we're glad that you're here. That's what's in the cup. Hey, let's dive into the word now. Uh David, uh, where should we go first?
SPEAKER_04:Well, tonight we're gonna first of all, we have been talking about over the last few weeks the concept of thanksgiving or giving thanks. And if you've been following us along as we've been talking about this, you know we kind of started this conversation off in Psalms 150. And we found out in Psalms 150 that God says that what he desires of us is an offering of thanksgiving. And not only does he say it once around verse 13, 14, he says it again at the end of the chapter rather than you trying to do something to repay for the ills that you've done, he'd rather have you give an offering of thanks. And as we looked at that, we began to see that the Old Testament word for thanksgiving refers to the extending of hands and a vowel or um the use of a choir in communicating or expressing your thankfulness and gratitude towards God. Then last week we dug a little deeper and we moved into the New Testament and we began to look at some verses there. We looked at 1 Thessalonians 5, and uh we spent a good little a little bit of time um kind of digging around, if you will, I'm looking at some of my notes, uh, digging around, but we came to understand that the Greek word for giving thanks or thanksgiving is the Greek word Eucharisto and uh or Eucharestio. Uh please, I'm not a Greek scholar, so don't judge me for how I pronounce it. I'm getting it my country best uh to get it out the right way. But we began to see, and we talked about the fact that the word Eucharist is also used, particularly in the Catholic Church, uh, to communicate the Lord's Supper. And so we saw that in the Lord's Supper that Jesus gave thanks over the bread, he gave thanks over the blood, and that over time the Lord's Supper for the Greeks was known as thanksgiving. And so uh we looked at that, we dug into that, and then we began to look at the number of places where we saw God do great things because he gave thanks. We saw thanks show up in other places. We looked at uh Lazarus, uh uh when Jesus bought him from the dead, he prayed to God, he gave thanks. We talked already about the Lord's Supper and Him giving thanks there. Uh, there were some other occasions uh we saw that uh when he fed the 4,000 or the 5,000, that he gave thanks and blessed what he had and then began to distribute, and it left with so much more than what they started with. There are seven baskets full of fish and as many baskets full of bread. So we saw in some cases, as Jesus gave thanks, miracles happen. In other times, we looked like at Paul in Malta, and we see that even Paul, in the midst of getting ready to have this boat crash, because they were in the midst of this storm called Euroclid, and uh things were not looking good. They could tell they were close to the land, they threw out the anchor to make sure they didn't crash into the land. And while they were all not eating because they were worried about what was going on, they were sick about it and trying to figure out how to deal with it. At one point, men were gonna jump overboard, but Paul says, don't do that. And he comes back and brings the men together and he says that God is going to preserve everyone and that not one hair on their heads would be lost. And then he took bread and he gave thanks, and everybody on the boat ate, they ate till they were full. The Bible says uh their constitutions came back to them. There was, there was, they were, they were both fed and nourished. Uh, if you can understand what I mean by that, that they had enough to eat, but they were also, I believe there was a spiritual nourishing that happened and that obedience to doing what God gave them to do, and they were ready for the next step. So we see Paul in the midst of this craziness have this opportunity to give thanks. And then we saw in First Thessalonians 5.18, which is where we'll start tonight. 1 Thessalonians 5.18 tells us it says in all things, in everything. Um I'm reading this from the King James Version, it says, in everything, give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. And so we see that we have instruction to give thanks, and not just in some things, but to give thanks in everything, that everything that we experience, good and bad, is an opportunity for us to give thanks to God. And through the giving of thanks, I believe that we open a door for God to do great things in our lives, or we're giving thanks for the great things that God has already done. Philip, what stands out to you about the last couple of weeks that we've covered as we get started to look at these pictures?
SPEAKER_02:I think the thing that's really been, I guess, working on me, um, is how Thanksgiving, the effect that it has on your own heart. Um, that to me has been one of the most amazing, you know, discoveries, if you want to call that. Is just it's just the the effect that Thanksgiving has on your own uh sense of well-being, you know, your attitude, uh, a lot of that can be affected in a positive way by just you know practicing gratefulness, practicing thankfulness. Uh, it's not, and this is something that I've heard people say before, just at different times, you know, the people maybe atheists and and things like that, who are like, you know, I'm not gonna serve a God who just demands to be worshipped, and you know, and this kind of thing like that, where they they think God's some kind of a tyrant, you know, making people praise him and thank him and all that stuff. Uh well, we all know if you've you know been in the word for any length of time, you know, that's not even what the Bible uh implies. But um, those of us who have you know come to to walk with the Lord, you know, mature in the word, um, understand some things over time, you realize that anything God has instructed you to do, it's actually for your benefit, it's not for him.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, it is.
SPEAKER_02:You know, he he's fine. You know, I think it's in Psalm 50, he says, If I was hungry, I wouldn't even tell you.
SPEAKER_03:You know, that's fine.
SPEAKER_02:It's like the world is mine and the fullness thereof. I'm not lacking anything, bro. I'm good. So, you know, if God has instructed us to be thankful or to be grateful or practice gratefulness, it's because he knows what it's doing in our own minds and hearts. And uh and I think about I was thinking about the scripture in Colossians 2, where it says, you know, that if you can continue in the faith and be grounded and settled and don't be moved away from the hope of the gospel, um, and it says, uh, you're something like you're being rooted and built up in him. There we go, appreciate that. Uh Colossians 2, verse 7. Yeah, rooted and built up in him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. You know, I mean that to me, he's setting these instructions out going, here's how to practice uh uh fellowship with me, here's how to practice walking with God. Part of it is being thankful because the effect that that has on your heart and the connection that builds between you and him as a result of thankfulness is something that's gonna bless you beyond description for sure.
SPEAKER_04:That's good, Philip. You know, this um as I'm reading, because I've we um Seven shared in the in the chat Colossians four. You were just in Colossians two, he is reading bringing Colossians four to the great to the place to the plate where it says continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving. And so um, you know, I'm I'm starting to think, you know, Colossians is a book all about Thanksgiving to one degree because now I want to bring you another verse in Colossians. I want to look at Colossians 3 15, because in Colossians 3.15, maybe we'll go back. Um let's look at 14. It says, and above all these things, I'm again out of the King James Version, and above all these things, put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness, and verse 15, let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body, and be ye thankful. Thankful. But there's some there's something interesting here. This word thankful, if we go ahead and look at that in the Greek, um, it's a little bit different than the other thankfuls that we were looking at um in last week, where we saw Eucharistio. In this case, it comes from the Greek word eucharistos, which is slightly different, but check out its meaning. Its meaning is well favored and grateful. So we have this interesting concept where the same word thanks communicates um something different, but yet it's in the family. Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_04:Um so in this case, when we see thanks, we recognize that we are talking about thanks and gratitude or gratefulness. And if we go on down to the helps word study, uh it goes, it it comes from two Greek words from 29 2095, you, which means well, and 5483 zerazomi or zomai, which means to grant freely, properly, thankful for God's grace, working out what is externally good, grateful, which literally means graceful, thankful for God's grace, what brings his eternal favor. And so as I began to dig into this, and I think Philip, you'll appreciate this. I began to ask the question so what is the difference between gratitude and thanksgiving or giving thanks? And as I searched this out, I I found a great, a great little answer for it, and it boils down to this that gratitude. Is something that you feel or hold inside. It is a heart posture, an internal awareness of blessing, an attitude of appreciation, and a recognition of God's goodness, presence, andor provision. Gratitude in scripture is often connected with the heart. Whereas one other thing I'll say about that is gratitude is the inward recognition of God's gift.
SPEAKER_02:That's good. That's good.
SPEAKER_04:Whereas thanksgiving is gratitude when it becomes expressed. So gratitude in the heart, which is I recognize, I acknowledge, I'm aware of God's goodness, favor, blessing in my life. And when I verbally express that, I'm giving thanks. Two different things that are happening inward recognition and outward declaration. And when we think about giving thanks, it moves gratitude from the inside to the outside. So now I think that we begin to see that these things, these two things are very connected. Because if we look at um, if we could go to Psalms 103. So bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not his benefits. In other words, in order to not forget, you have to ponder it, you have to consider it, you have to think upon it, you have to meditate on God's word, you have to chew on it. That's what meditation in one sense is. It's like how a cow chews its cut, is the same way that you can think of meditation. And so the word tells us that an act of gratitude, an act of gratefulness, is the pondering of the word in your heart. And then it gets so good to you that it has to be outwardly expressed. And if we continue, if we read all of Psalms 103, or at least the first several verses, listen to what it says. It says, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. And then he begins to declare his benefits, who forgives all of our iniquities, who heals all of our diseases, who redeems our life from destruction, who crowns our head with loving kindness and tender mercies, who satisfies our mouth with good things, so that our youth is renewed like the eagles. The Lord executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. And then it goes on and declares God's goodness even more. But we see that there is a pondering of it, the consideration and a placement of it in the heart that created gratitude. And that gratitude needed in the verbal expression, and that comes out as thanksgiving. What do you think of that?
SPEAKER_02:I like that, David. To me, it's like when that attitude of thanksgiving is like growing in abundance in your heart. You know how Jesus said, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Um actually, if you look up that word abundance in the in the Greek, it means out of the overflow of the heart. So when you've got gratitude, when you're acknowledging and really just taking time to think on, like you said, like meditate on what God has done for you and all that He is, it's like it just starts bubbling over to the point where you have to say something. You got to give Him thanks because that's that verbalizing of what has been, I guess, brewing in you, you know, Bible Bros and Brew, uh what has been brewing in you, you know. Um, and so that it just after a while you can't even hold it back. It's like, God, thank you, man. I mean, I know David, you probably experienced this too, and you just start really thinking on God's goodness. It's like after a while, you know how you get like they used to say, like, take a praise break, you know, that that that was uh that becomes a real thing, man, for sure.
SPEAKER_04:So you know, I you just said that, Philip, and uh, I want to bring people to it. It's in um it's in Matthew 12, 34. Jesus says, Oh generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yep.
SPEAKER_04:And so the the lesson here is if your heart is filled with evil things, then evil things are gonna come out of your heart because that's what's abundant.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:But if your heart is filled with good things, then it's going to be inevitable that out of that mouth will come good things, and those good things are called thanksgiving, those good things are called praise. I think Philip said it uh well, it was actually he mentioned it in the description to last week's episode that it's the fruit of our lips giving praise to God. Yep, and that's such a it's such a good thing, and it it you know, Phil, I if I could this has been messing me up, um, just because coming off of what we had been talking about with uh pride and getting into humility, and that really set my record straight, and it caused me to have to lay aside my pride and humble myself and to realize I needed a great deal of humbling because I was too full of myself, and I was too sure of myself and too dependent upon myself, and um I had gotten it twisted, and out of that there began to be there began to be this thanksgiving that built up in me because I wasn't like oh man, I can't believe well, I was a little bit, you know. I can't believe I was that prideful, I can't believe I was guilty of this and all that. What bubbled up first was man, thank you, Lord, for revealing this to me. Thank you for not letting me be undone by this. Yeah, thank you, Lord, for your grace and even being willing to say anything to me. Yeah, thank you, Lord, for letting us even have the conversation to walk ourselves here for me to see it very clearly that I have missed it. And giving that that that just caused Thanksgiving in my heart and a gratitude towards God that kept bubbling up. And then we started walk talking about Thanksgiving. I'm like, yeah, I get that. That makes perfectly good sense. And then we start talking about gratitude. I'm like, there it is. That's where the bubble starts. The bubble starts in gratitude, and then it comes out of your mouth, it bubbles up. And I I just I feel like I am a changing, I feel like I'm a changed man who's working on changing his outward behaviors to reflect the goodness of God that I now feel and sense and believe that he's shown me to be a better and different man than I was before, a better and different man to my family, a better and different man to the people around me, a better and different man in my church that I'm affiliated with, and getting connected and doing some other things like that. I feel that gratitude, I feel that sense of God's goodness, I feel his favor on my life, and none of it is like it was before, it's different, and it's feels there's this sense that what I have now is genuine, and I can't lose it again. Yeah, and I'm just I'm I'm so grateful. It is it's you know, sometimes you just what are the right words? It's like I'm grateful, I'm just grateful for it, and I'm and I'm grateful for you because you preached a lot of stuff over these last few weeks. I don't know we're gonna talk about the full year later, but you've said so many things over the last week that have really just poked me and pierced me and caused me to think about some things and come to grips with stuff, and God's word, of course, is doing all the heavy lifting, and you know, it's just it's it's a great thing to get right with God and the gratitude and the thanksgiving and the praise that that brings is significant.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, agreed. I appreciate that, man. You know, it's it's it's something that if you you know, it takes years, honestly, to develop. Well, it did for me, you know, like years to develop. Um how do I put it? Like you were talking about how you know you you started getting confronted with some things about yourself, you know, and God was starting to show you some things based on the pride and humility teachings that we were doing. Um, what I've found, man, is that like there is a bit of a, and I hate to, I don't want to sound religious or weird, but there is a bit of a stripping down that can happen when you start really trying to walk with God like in an honest heart. You know what I mean? Uh there's a stripping down that can happen sometimes where he's because you know, we're like a like an onion where you got to peel off layers, and God can't really deal with every single thing at one time because that would just blow you out of the water.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, it would.
SPEAKER_02:So he has to kind of incrementally start revealing things to you about yourself, you know, and then like I I've had the I've been on this journey um in a more intense way for about two years now, where things that I thought that I was certain uh about myself in certain ways, like uh things about my character, about my just my idea of who I was that I was fairly certain of, I started realizing, you know what, dude, you're you're not as on point with that as you think you are, you know. It's like, oh, that's painful. But when you finally can get to that place where you know God can show you things for the purpose of building you up, because the Bible says in Hebrews 12, he's like, you know, what what father uh doesn't chasten their son, you know, to let them know when they're going the wrong way and that kind of thing, you know, if he's doing it, it's for the purpose of producing that fruit of holiness later in your life. Um, I'm kind of totally paraphrasing that, but I think you get my point. But um, but what that does though, and that this is where I'm getting the point I'm getting to, what that does after a while, it really does produce a thankfulness in you. Like, God, I'm so glad you actually showed me this. You've been saving me from myself for years. Yes, you know what I'm saying? You've been helping me and dealing with me, and for the purpose of improving me from the inside out, and all for the purpose of being conformed to the image of his son, you know. But that takes time. Some things we are simply not ready for until we get a little further down the road. But as we transition into those things with the help of the Holy Spirit, after a while, it's like, man, I am I'm grateful that you showed me this about myself, Father, because I didn't realize this was a bondage that I didn't know I was in. This was some pride that I had no idea I didn't want to let go of. You know, all those things like that. And you realize everything that he's like trying to strip from you in that sense, it's things you never needed in the first place.
SPEAKER_04:Right.
SPEAKER_02:You know what I mean? So um that's a little bit of a, I guess, maybe a I don't know what to call it, more personal, if you will, but um it has truly been a journey, man. And I know like you you said you've been on a similar journey. Uh, anybody watching, like like even Seven's pattern, um uh we we do pray for that uh for you, man, as far as um, because he put in here, uh I must make my mind obedient to God and everything. Please pray the Lord will give me the strength to do this. I feel you, you know, and we will definitely do that, um, keeping our prayers as well. So um, but just wanted to share that that that sometimes it's the things where God is like a sculptor, he's chiseling away things that you don't need uh out of your character, out of your life, so that you can look like a real you know work of art after a while, and that produces thanksgiving and gratefulness.
SPEAKER_04:And you know what, Phil, it speaks to something else, and it's a it's a myth that I want to once again. We've already talked about this myth before, but it's to debunk this myth, and it's that this you know, you start walking with God and everything's boring, and it's like so not true. Um I never knew over the last three years or so that I would have the things happen in my life, feel the way that I feel, and find myself in the middle of a God reset.
SPEAKER_02:Come on, bro.
SPEAKER_04:And it's like nobody told me to expect that. Nobody told me that, oh, yeah, somewhere along the way, when you're feeling like you've arrived, God is going to absolutely rewrite your story. Yes, and I I know I'm in the middle of a rewrite, yeah, but I know that that rewrite is making me stronger now. It's it's giving me the strength that I thought I already had, right?
SPEAKER_02:Man, that's a good way to put it, David.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and coming to grips with the fact that you ain't ninja, you ain't have no strength, you're out here living living off the fumes of what you thought you could be.
SPEAKER_02:Resting on your laurels, man. Good lord. I I know exactly what you're talking about, man. Right.
SPEAKER_04:And look, Philip and I are I I I don't want to, I'm not trying to pump us up, but you know, I've known Philip for all these years, and he he's known me. And with Ryan, you know, John's a newer addition. Um, but we've known each other for many, many years, and I wouldn't exactly say that any of us are slouches, right? You know, we've lived lives studying the word, digging in, teaching, sharing. We've been put in positions where we've gotten to do amazing things that only God could orchestrate. Only God you could you could begin to feel like um, yes, you can recognize that God got you there, but you can start hyping up your study time, and you can even start hyping up your prayer time and look at all of these things and begin to miss the opportunity to acknowledge the one who got you there because it wasn't my prayer time, it wasn't my study time, all those things are good, but I got where I got because God put me there. Yeah, yeah, and what I was responsible for was to be ready when he put me. And it's just, you know, and you can you can lose track sometimes. You can you can get frustrated and lose heart about things, you can get frustrated in your walk with God and wonder why am I not seeing and and frustration in your walk with God is such an interesting tool because that frustration can lead you to the next level if you allow it to, but you can be frustrated like I've been frustrated about why am I not further along? Why hasn't this happened in my life yet? Why are we still struggling here? Why am I back here again? And you can look at all of that stuff, and it's like, you know, I've just I've come to realize I need to take the ride.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, come on, bro.
SPEAKER_04:I just gotta take the ride, and I think so many of us out there as Christians need to take the ride, and but can I say I also feel like we need to take that ride quickly, we need to get on and get moving with God because there's a lot of things happening in our world, and we're needed, yes, and we need to be made ready, not get ready, we need to be made ready for God to use us.
SPEAKER_02:Absolutely, that's good, David.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I want to share, I want to share one other scripture. Um, Seven actually shared this one too, um, because it it just showed me another another side of this gratitude piece in 2 Corinthians chapter 9. I'm gonna read uh verse uh 11 and 12 uh out of the English Standard Version. It says, You will be enriched. Well, let me read verse 10. He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, that's God, will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. Yeah, you will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God. In other words, that your supply to the needs of the saints is not only causing thanksgiving from us, but it's causing thanksgivings from the saints and others to thank God for what's happening. But if you look at that thanksgiving in verse 11, it's the Greek word, we're still in the Eucharist, and it comes, it's the Greek word Eucharistia. So, what we keep seeing is that variations of thanksgiving and gratitude. Are all fit seem to be fitting in in the New Testament in the Greek and these variations of Eucharist, Eucharistio, Eucharistia, Eucharistius. Uh, and this is Eucharistia. And it means listen to this gratitude, and number two, actively grateful language to God as an act of worship.
SPEAKER_02:That's good.
SPEAKER_04:Grateful language to God as an act of worship. So you see that gratitude is uh it just communicates I think it reinforces the heart-mouth connection. Gratitude in the heart comes out as thanksgiving out of the mouth, and there is a language gratitude gives, and that's connected with gratitude. That um I think is is just so there. It's um it goes on to say in strong that it is grateful language, grateful language to God, and that it's thankfulness, like the giving of things. Um so yeah, that's that's good. That's just good stuff there. Thanks for sharing that, Seven. Um Philip, my heart is full.
SPEAKER_02:I'm right there, Reggie, man. I I think it's good for us to put a our bookmark here, man.
SPEAKER_04:Um let me just look at here, make sure I didn't jump any notes. I just want to remind us again, 1 Thessalonians 5:18. In everything give thanks. And then Philip, what was the what was the other one? Was it Philippians 4?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, the one um where he said in verse 6, I think he says, be careful for nothing, meaning be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. With let your request be made known to God. So he's saying, Bring your request to God. When you do, also bring your your cares to him and cast those cares on him. But in the midst of doing all that, make sure you you bring thankfulness as well. Um, because we if you think about it, David, you know, thankfulness is that attitude of faith, you know, it's it's the attitude of I believe God is already working on this, you know. So I thank him for what he's doing. I may not see it, it may be behind the scenes right now, but I truly believe that he's working on it. And and he is, you know, he's he's good, he's God. Uh, there's no prayer that a believer prays uh according to his word that is not heard, you know what I mean? So praise God.
SPEAKER_04:No, that's good. If there, if I if if there was a challenge I'd give you, that we would give you, it would be just just take this season that we're in right now, from now all the way through the end of the year, and every day find something, some not just one thing, but find many things to be grateful for. I'm not gonna be one of those people that tell you, you know, don't do the same thing in the next day, uh, because there's nothing wrong with me being thankful for what the Lord has done in my life every day, right? But you can find new things. Look around, take opportunity to identify new things that God has done that are that exist because of his word. Um be thankful, even be thankful and find gratitude in your heart and let this thing just build in your heart with gratitude for your friends and family, the people that love you, the people that will hear you when others won't hear you, the people that will come to you and tell you the truth when uh nobody else will, the people who come and tell you the word, even when you want to just stick to your flesh and what your flesh wants to hear and what your flesh wants to understand, people who will love you no matter what. And then thank you for God. Thank you that you sent your angels whom you've given charge over me to keep me in all of your ways, and all of my ways. Thank you, Lord, that you, you know, that you're my shepherd, that you lead me by the still waters, you restore my soul, Lord, and you lead me in the paths of righteousness. My heart is overflowing with gratitude because you're so good, Lord. Thank you that this morning you woke me up again. I thank you for another day, Lord. A day that your word says that no next day is promised. But yet you saw fit to give me this day. And I don't know how many days that I have, but today I thank you for this day. And today I live and abide and I'm present in this day because this day that you've given me is the day that the Lord has made. I rejoice and I'm glad in it. My heart is full, God, because you're so good to me that you favor me, that you favor my children, well, Lord, that you love my children up, and you called me to bring them up in the fear and the admonition of the Lord, Lord God, and my children are so pleasing to me. I thank you for the opportunity to even have children to love and pour out the love that you've given me into their lives. Let me be everything that you want me to be in their lives and for them. There's so much. Thank you for my mom and dad. Thank you, Lord, that you've given them 80 plus years of life. And I get to still walk with them today. Others have lost their family members, but I'm so grateful that you've given me mine and I appreciate it, Lord, and I'm grateful and I'm thankful we can live grateful, thankful lives for so many reasons. And we can walk this out through the end of this year and see if we can't create a habit where gratitude and thanksgiving are just a part of our everyday flow. And I believe that if they're part of our everyday flow, something is going to begin to happen to our everyday flow.
SPEAKER_02:Amen. So amen.
SPEAKER_04:Philip, let's pray for the people and let's let's let God do what he does.
SPEAKER_02:All right, Father, thank you for just how good you've been. All the things you've done for us, Father. There's so much that um that that honestly sadly goes unnoticed that you do for us. And we just want to acknowledge even those things, Lord, that we sometimes have the tendency to overlook because you know we can focus on our problems sometimes more than on all the great things you're doing. And we just want to take this moment, this time, to say thank you. Thank you for everything that you've blessed our lives with. Um, Lord, you know, you know all the things that we deal with, all the things we struggle with. Uh Lord, for those of who are listening, I pray over uh them as well. Lord, you said in your word that in the multitude of our thoughts within us, your comforts will delight our soul. Lord, for those who are feel weighed down by anxiety, weighed down by worries and cares and all the different stuff going on in the world, whatever it is, Father, I pray that your peace that passes understanding would emerge and make itself prominent in their minds and hearts, that your peace would be a barrier and a guard to surround their minds and hearts so that they won't be uh pulled in, pulled into worry, pulled into anxiety or any other thing like that, Lord, but that they will be able to uh to walk free from that because you have not given us a spirit of fear, you've given us a spirit of power and love and a sound mind. We we just thank you for that, Father. And Lord, um, we do lift up seven's pattern tonight, Lord. Um that he may stand, as Colossians 4 says, that he may stand perfect and complete in everything that you will for his life. We give you praise for that, Lord. Thank you for working in him to will and do of your good pleasure. You know the things he's dealing with, uh, you know all the things that he's um uh have has cried out to you about, Lord. Um let let Christ be formed in him and that his mind and heart will uh will be bent towards your way, bent towards your will. We just give you praise for that, Lord. We thank you for all these things and we agree on them now in Jesus' name. Amen.
SPEAKER_04:Amen. Well, guys, we're so glad that you joined us. Uh, we're bubbling over here with some gratitude and uh thanksgiving. Um, make sure that you uh connect with us on social media. You can check us out on Instagram. You'll see a great picture today of Philip. Uh, or uh maybe it was yesterday, uh National Pastry Day. So you can see Phillips pastry combination and his preferred coffee. Yeah, so just connect with us on social media. We're on TikTok and we're on Instagram. We're also on Facebook, but you know, me uh touch and go. Touch and go. Also, if you'd like to reach out to us, you can drop us a note by way of email. You can reach us at gotbrew at biblebros.net. That's gotbrew at biblebros.net. Uh next week, we're also gonna do something special. We're gonna take a look back over some of the things that we've talked about this year, and we're also gonna tackle some questions. So if you've got some questions, some things that you've been curious about, some things you want us to tackle, uh either drop them in the comments or when we come on live next week, uh, be ready and drop your questions in the comment section, and we'll tackle those as we talk uh for our time next week. Well, that's it for this time. Until next time, I'm David. He's Philip. Uh John's in the background watching Ryan. Ryan's running from John. It's the same thing we deal with every week. So Philip and I are gonna go separate the boys now. Until next time.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you guys.
SPEAKER_04:Peace.
