So communion with God in thanks and praise. We're still in the prayer section, just coming at the issue of fellowship with God by our speaking to God in various ways. And now we're focusing on one of the ways you speak to God is in thanks and in praise.

You are my God and I give thanks to you. You are my God. I extol you. Develop a vocabulary like that.

Thanks and extol are two words there. Build words like that into your language so that when you come

to him you don't have to slip into ruts you have lots of of language so i'm i'm a christian hedonist

i'm always trying to build my vocabulary lest i am stuck with one word like satisfied. Okay? So I want to be

satisfied in God and cherish God and delight in God and be glad in God and rejoice in God and

extol God and prize God and I just keep trying to add, I get out my thesaurus sometimes.

Thesaurus for praise. Thesaurus for praise, thethorists for satisfactorous, the thoris for happy, because I want, I want my language to be fresh for people.

I don't want it to just sound tired and old bogged down and same old, same old. And pastors and anybody who wants their language to be helpful

in any relationship needs to expend a little bit of effort to say thing another way say it another

way you have turned for me my morning into dancing you have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.

My soul, that my soul may sing praise to you and not be silent.

Oh, Lord, I will give thanks, thanks to you forever.

So the language of thanks and praise.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication,

with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God.

So as you go to God asking for things, thank him for things.

You know, healthy, humble minds are thankful minds. It's thankful minds. And you can sow so many seeds of

health into relationships by verbalizing gratitude.

Verbalize gratitude in every relationship.

Just before you say anything else, say something you're thankful for.

And especially if it regards a person in a relationship.

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