Hi, it's David Platt. Have you signed up for Secret Church 25 yet? It's happening online, April 11th,

and I would love for you to join us. We're going to spend six hours together studying the book of

Matthew, discovering how to make our lives count for what matters most, and praying for our

persecuted family around the world. Prices go up after February 25th, so register today at radical.net slash

SC25. I'd love to see you there. Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Psalm chapter 50, verses 14 and 15. Offer to God a sacrifice of Thanksgiving and perform your vows to the

most high and call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver you and you shall glorify me

oh I love this chapter in the Psalms right Right before this, we see a powerful picture of God's sovereignty over all things,

his ownership of all things, the fact that God has no needs.

Like, we have needs.

We need breath.

We need food.

We need water.

God has no needs. Everything belongs to him. He is

Lord over at all. It's what he says in Psalm 50, verse 10. Every beast of the forest is mine. The cattle on a

thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hills. All that moves in the field is mine. He says in

verse 12, if I were hungry, I would not tell you.

God's saying, well, one, I don't get hungry, but even if I were hungry, I wouldn't be coming to you.

For the world and all its fullness are mine. And then, so that's the setup for verses 14 and 15,

where we read, offer to God a sacrifice of Thanksgiving and even just

there we could stop and meditate on the importance of thanksgiving in our lives because we are

needy people we need God for everything good in our lives and the world around us. And so it is

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