me be apart tonight. I always feel like apart sitting on the front row. Nice thing about

sitting on the front is you can sort of yell it out. There's no one in front of you to hear it.

I don't think they can hear us up there. I think there's too many monitors and stuff, but

might need to check because I'm usually on a different part than what I'm supposed to be on.

So, glory to God. Well, I told you things we're going to be a little bit

different tonight. And I just wanted to share something from my heart. I don't want to be

heavy. It's not, you know, four points in a sermon. That's not my thing. But I do want to share

with you and encourage you on being thankful.

There's a lot of things that come up in my heart,

and that's probably the most important thing that I have come to understand

and the Lord has dealt with me on over the last few years.

And it's because it really is key to everything.

If you're thankful,

and I'm not talking about thankful in the sense of, oh, thank you for doing that.

Thank you.

I'm talking back to the lyric thing.

It's a meaningful way.

It's not just a word.

It's a meaningful thing, both being thankful for others, but being thankful for what God has done in our lives.

It puts us into a place and into a position. It puts us into a place and into a

position, puts us into a place of power, because if you're truly thankful for what God has done for you,

you understand what he's done for you, you understand what that does for you, and what that gives

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