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Now listen, don't cheer for me. Can you make some noise for the King of Kings?

The Lord of Lords, Jehovah Jaira, the beginning and the end.

Welcome, welcome, welcome. We're so glad you're here today in the room you can grab a seat.

Man, welcome to church today. We're so glad you're here.

And man, I just love being a part of a church that is actually making a difference in the world.

And sometimes we can get so familiar with church and so familiar with what God is doing that you forget that it's an actual miracle.

And just like the children of Israel, there was a time where they were in the desert and the thing that God blessed them with actually slowly became the thing that they complained about.

And what a shame for the blessing to somehow become a burden. And I think a lot of times the enemy's temptation is to be that the thing you prayed for, the kids you prayed for, the marriage you prayed for, the house you prayed for, the car you prayed for, to be sitting in the very thing you prayed for and to be questioning God, where are you?

And I just made a decision. I was driving in to church this morning and I just made a decision that I'm just always going to be grateful.

And sometimes you know, we get moments like this and we need like, I'm ready for a word.

First, that's the lonesians. It talks about in chapter 5 says, rejoice, rejoice always, pray without ceasing and give God thanks at all times.

And then this is the crazy part of the scripture. So many of us, we wonder like, what's the will of God for my life? What's the will of God? You know what that scripture says? This is the will of God for your life.

The will of God is to rejoice, pray and be grateful for what you got. And I just think sometimes we overcomplicate this thing.

There's a reason God said, if you don't come to me like a child, that's because children need to be taught. Just be grateful. I was walking in the parking lot the other day and we have three little babies.

And anytime I see another parent with kids, I just stop. I'm like, you're amazing. You're doing so good. God loves you. I love, like, I do it all the time.

You can ask, I want people to be a mom's, I'm like, you got this. You're a chair. I need that encouragement sometimes. So I just try to be that for other people. But I saw this mom. And literally she's walking. And she said, you know what, Kennedy, you have an opportunity to be very grateful today.

You got to do things that other people don't get to do. And I was like, oh my gosh, Kennedy, you be grateful. But I felt like literally I was just walking to my car and over her, say that to her dog. And I felt the Holy Spirit say the same thing to me.

Charles, you've got an opportunity to be very grateful today. You get to do a lot of things people don't get to do. You know what, one of those things is for some people, the sounds intense, but some people didn't wake up today.

And sometimes we forget the regular stuff. Like you weren't, you didn't say, all right, long start breathing and wake up. Okay, boom. And you didn't. But God saw it fit for you to wake up today.

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