Living Thanksgiving

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Gateway Worship, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Gatewaypeople, Gateway Church, Dfw Church, Gateway Conference., Gateway Women

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Are you living in freedom? Or do you find yourself struggling with unforgiveness? Pastor Joakim Lundqvist helps us reflect on the significance of what God has done for us. God’s forgiveness doesn’t automatically erase the pain of our wounds, but remembering His great mercy enables us to release our pain and walk in forgiveness and joy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.
0:08.4	And a happy Thanksgiving weekend to everybody in this house, all over our campuses, our prison campuses, and everybody watching online.
0:18.0	Let me tell you, being a European and not really having Thanksgiving
0:22.5	as part of our culture, this must have been one of the best things that ever come out of the
0:27.6	United States of America. An entire holiday dedicated to gratitude and Thanksgiving. What an
0:35.1	amazing idea. Thank you, US. This is incredible. And we're going to stay on
0:40.4	this theme of gratitude and Thanksgiving throughout the service. But before we dive into the Word of God
0:45.9	today, I just want to share a little anecdote from my home country, Sweden, that actually ties him
0:52.1	perfectly with this season.
1:00.5	And I want to bring us back to the year 1885, and I want to introduce you all to a pastor called Carl Bauerg.
1:03.1	Now at the time, Pastor Carl was pastoring a small little church in a tiny little village
1:09.2	in southeast Sweden. Now, Pastor Carl was a man of God and also
1:13.8	a worshipper. And one day in the late summer of 1885, Pastor Carl was out doing a walk in the forest
1:20.9	land that surrounded his little village. And it was a beautiful late afternoon, clear skies, evening, sun was shining, but all of a sudden, within minutes, the whole sky was covered by dark clouds.
1:36.3	And there was a thunderstorm, a dramatic one. And Pastor Carl was watching as lightnings lit up the sky and colored the clouds purple and pink.
1:48.5	And then a huge rain started to fall.
1:51.7	But then again, after a minute or two, all the clouds dissolved.
1:56.2	The sky went back to being clear.
1:58.4	He saw the stars and the moon appearing.
2:02.7	And Pastor Carl was just standing there in awe of the amazing beauty of the creator displayed through his creation. So being the
2:11.8	worshipper that he was, he fell down on his knees and he started to praise and give thanks to the Creator of all things.
2:19.3	And as he did, he started to sing a new song, a spontaneous song that was given to him by the Holy Spirit at that moment.
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