According to Stephen Kendrick, expressing gratefulness to God is a great way to battle fear and unbelief.

If you'll spend time with Thanksgiving, you're looking in the rearview mirror of your life

and you're seeing nothing but the faithfulness of God in your past.

And you begin to say, Lord, thank you that you carried me here, and thank you that you brought good out of that,

and thank you that you worked in here, and thank you that you brought good out of that, and thank you that you worked in here,

and thank you that you provided there,

and thank you for this, thank you for that.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamooz, author of Choosing Gratitude.

For October 27th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

All this month, here on Revive Our Hearts, we've been focusing on crying out to God on behalf of our families, our churches, our communities, our nations, and our world. Today we'll hear

from Stephen Kendrick on how we can make sure our hearts are prepared to cry out to God. But you know,

we don't want to just talk about praying. We want to actually pray. So let's start today's program

by hearing our dear Iranian friend, Sabrina Aslan,

as she leads us in prayer. Oh, Lord, we humble ourselves and approach your holy presence,

expectantly and with confidence, knowing that you are our only and only source of hope.

We are here to lift up our broken word to your throne of grace

and ask you to pour out your mercy upon the dark, crumbling world we live in today.

A world that is similar to the time of Cain,

a godless world, possessed and preoccupied with temporal pleasure, outward beauty,

and worldly success and achievements. Yes, Lord, today our word, just like Cain and his family

line, chooses to live a life without you, a life of independent from God. But, Father, in the midst of such a time that breaks

your heart, you always raise a group of people that bears your name, a people that calls upon

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