Radical Gratitude

I want to talk about radical gratitude today. But before I get started, I want to say that both Scripture and science studies show having a mindset of gratitude yields great blessings. That's science, psychology, and spiritually we're blessed when we are grateful people. Here's some things I wrote down that I discovered. Gratitude improves your brain and physical health.

Gratitude creates happiness. Gratitude helps you sleep better. Gratitude is the antidote to toxic emotions and toxic thoughts. Gratitude improves relationships. We all need that and we'll talk a little bit more about that.

Gratitude opens the door to people and opportunities. And gratitude is the evidence of maturity. Gratitude pleases God and brings His blessings. So the Bible tells us to be continuously grateful, to have gratitude that never stops. There's a deep spiritual root of maturity when we are practicing gratitude all the time.

If you'll turn in your Bibles or follow your notes in Colossians 2, 6, and 7, it says this, So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. Overflowing with thankfulness. Meaning it's a habit. It's a lifestyle. For radically sold out believers, this is not an option for us.

We practice gratitude all the time. Thankfulness is a sign of maturity. It's a sign of deep roots. It's a sign of this radical kind of gratitude that we see in our anchor verse in 1 Thessalonians. It's not just being thankful for pumpkin pie and turkey on Thanksgiving and family and health and all the things that are easy to say thank you for.

Those are easy. It's being thankful in everything. Thankful in all circumstances. Look what 1 Thessalonians says, and we've repeated this week after week to get this into your heart. Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

So give thanks in all circumstances. Now, it doesn't mean give thanks for all circumstances, because there are certain circumstances that just are hard to be thankful for. Let's just be honest. It's tragedy and death and unfortunate situations. It's hard to be thankful for those things.

It doesn't say be thankful for those things. Although, in the end, we can be thankful for things that have happened in our lives as we come through those situations. You know, we see that we come on the other side with good things. God has a plan. I'm not saying that we don't thank God for things that move us to where we need to be in Christ, or helps us grow, but it says be thankful in all circumstances.

Not for all circumstances, but in all circumstances. And then it says this is the will for you in God. This is God's will for you. I'm thankful that God is in control. I'm thankful that He makes good out of evil, that His plan is perfect and He gives me heaven and all these things, but ultimately it is the will of God.

This happens first, being thankful, and then God begins to reveal the rest of His will for you in your life. So the start of God's will is being grateful and being thankful and practicing gratitude. Did you know that? That's the will of God. If you're not being grateful, if you're not practicing gratitude, if you're not learning how to operate that way, then you're out of the will of God.

And if we want more of God in our lives and experience more of what God has for us, we must start here, plan A, be thankful, be thankful in all circumstances, and then God will begin to reveal the rest to us. Thank you, five people. Yes, hallelujah. That feels good. Thank you.

Thank you. I got three hand claps there. It does help. Thank you. So, I want to talk to you about why is gratitude always God's will?

Why is it always God's will to practice gratitude? Number one, it honors God. It honors God. When you express gratitude to someone, you are honoring that person. You're lifting up that person.

Look what it says in Psalm 50, 23. It says, The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies him or glorifies me. It glorifies God. It's a sacrifice. Sometimes we don't feel like glorifying anybody or anything in our situations, but he talks about it being a sacrifice.

Again, it's easy to say I'm thankful for this thing in my life that's working out for me, but when we're thankful in other circumstances, it's a bit harder. It's a sacrifice to God, and it honors him, that no matter if I'm going through a trial in my life, I can still be thankful. And I sacrifice with my time. I sacrifice with my money. I sacrifice with my talent.

Talent. And real thanksgiving is not just thanking someone for what they do. It's easy to thank somebody for something they do for you. But it's about who he is. That's real love.

See, my kids, if they only thank me for what I do, like when I give them something, thank you, Dad, when I give them something, and that's the only time they thank me, then it's not real love. But they love me for who I am, so they're thankful for who I am. And if you have a friend who only thanks you when you go out of your way for them, the only time you hear from them, and the only time you hear a thank you, and that's it, and they never say anything outside of that, then they're not truly a friend. They don't really love you. They're not thankful for the relationship you have.

I had a friend I've known since elementary school just lost his father. And obviously, when I heard that his father was passing, I called him immediately and I talked to him and prayed with him. And then after he passed, I called him again. And my parents went to the funeral. I was out of town, so I couldn't go home and be with him.

I had something else on the agenda. And then I... I told him, and I felt so bad about not being able to be there because he is one of my closest friends, and he sent me the nicest text the other day. He says, Leon, I just thank you for our friendship. I thank you that we are still friends even since sixth grade when we first met.

I thank you that your mom and dad were there. I told them they're my family, that I've known you all my life. You've been like a mom and dad to me, and I just can't believe we're still friends. I'm so thankful. He wasn't expecting anything from me.

I'm not expecting anything from him. I'm not rich. He's not rich, so we're not after each other's money. We simply just love each other. We love each other for who we are.

We know each other really well, and we just love each other. That's a true friend. That's real love. That's what love is all about. And it honors God, and that's the same way with God.

He wants us to just be thankful for him. I'm so thankful that you are who you are, that you're smarter than me, that you're greater than me, that you're more consistent than me, that you're more merciful than anybody could ever be in this world, that you are a great God. And what more would I want but have you in my life, God? That's what he expects from us. You have my best interest in mind, God.

Your plan's greater than mine, and I am so glad that I can lay it all at your feet. And let me say this. If you do this every day, when you wake up, first thing you do when you get out of bed in the morning, when you look at the ceiling, you make that sacrifice of praise. Just say, I thank you, God, that I'm living another day. I thank you, God, that you are God.

And no matter what I face today, I know that you are still Lord, and you are a good God. And watch how it changes your day. You'll be happy, and you'll be closer to God as a result. Number two, it creates fellowship. It creates fellowship.

If you want to get closer to someone, express gratitude. If you want to know somebody better, express gratitude. Try this with your spouse. Just go up to them one day and say, I just appreciate you. What's going to happen there?

They're going to be like, what is wrong with you, right? What's going on? I love you. If you want to get closer to your spouse, if you want to get closer to your friends, if you want to get closer to those who you do life with, just simply make it, without anything expected back, just reach out. Maybe a text, maybe a letter, whatever that looks like, and just say, I'm thankful for you.

I express my thankfulness for you. That's what ministry groups and small groups and different things are for in this church, so that we can practice gratitude for each other. Practice that. Therefore, encourage one another, as the Bible says. Therefore, encourage one another, and build one another up just as you are doing.

So my question is, are you on that last part, just as you are doing? Do you find yourself encouraging and building people up, or do you kind of lack that? Perhaps that's something to look at. Number three, it develops my faith. It makes me stronger.

It grows the roots of my spirituality. A mature person practices gratitude in tough times. If you can practice in tough times, you are spiritually deep. It determines who's shallow, it determines who's superficial, or who's actually a hardcore follower of Christ. It decides that.

And when things don't make sense, gratitude makes my faith stronger. Stronger. Because anyone can thank God for good things, as I said earlier. But if you can thank God in the bad times, you're a very, very deeply rooted believer. It's an act of humility.

That I'm humble enough to say that God, I don't understand it all. I don't know it all. You know it way more than me. You're smarter than me. And I trust you.

Here's what Habakkuk says in chapter 3, verse 17 and 18. Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be in the vines. The produce of the olive fail, and the yields yield no food. The flock be cut off, and the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls. Yet I will.

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, and I will take joy in the God of my salvation. No matter if anything, everything's taken away from me. You have those Job moments in your life. Habakkuk tells us we rejoice, yet we rejoice, and we always give thanks. And that determines whether you're really grounded or you're just superficial.

Are you grounded in Christ? Instead of looking at what I've lost, how about looking at what's left? And bless God with what's left. I might have had a big hit in my life, but man, you know what? I still have health.

I still have family that love me. I still have a lot of opportunity in my life. Instead of focusing on what's lost, because if you focused on what's lost, you'll always be at that state of unthankfulness and ungratefulness. But we want to be people who are grateful and thankful. It's a radical way to live.

It's an extreme way to live. Number four, it serves others. It becomes a ministry. Who's called the ministry? All of us.

Yes, good answer. All of us. All of us. Not just me. I'm called to an office to preach and teach the Word of God.

That's something that God specifically called me to. But I'm also a minister, and you're a minister, and we're all saints, and we're all ministering together. And gratitude serves others. Every Christian owns this thing called the ministry of gratitude, the ministry of loving and a ministry of appreciation. You were saved to serve, okay?

You were saved to serve others. You're not saved just to sit on a pew or a chair in church on Sunday. You're saved to serve the world. We're saved to bless people, to love people, to practice gratitude. And what gratitude does, it serves others.

The ministry of appreciation. You know what depreciation means. You know, everybody knows that. When I drive that car off the lot that's brand new, it immediately depreciates in value. The value of that object goes down when it depreciates.

But appreciation, what does that do? It gives greater value to somebody. When you speak life into somebody, when you give thanks for them, I bet you've been spending time with that. Just out of appreciation, it lifts them up. It gives them greater value.

So you give greater...practice that. Practice that with your husband, your wife, your co-worker, you know, just walk in one day and just tell them, see what happens, that co-worker that just irritates you. We all have them, right? That person we have to be with at work, that we just, I gotta deal with this again, right?

Why don't you just go up to them one time and just say, you know what? I really appreciate you. I really appreciate what you do and I really appreciate that you have this and have that because you're looking at the things that they're good at and the good qualities about them and see what they do in response. They're like, what? What's going on?

You know? It really does make a difference. Radical Gratitude is a ministry and everyone needs encouragement. Everybody needs encouragement. Nobody's walking around like, well, I got enough encouragement today.

Goodness gracious, get it off of me. My bucket's full of encouragement. Please, no more. Encouragement. Please.

Please. I have an overdose of it. Okay? Nobody's walking around saying that, right? Everybody wants to be encouraged and not just one person, but all of us should be a group of encouragers practicing gratitude.

Gratitude. Look at this. Ephesians 4 29. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. So no unwholesome, no trash talking, no critical talk about others, but lifting people up, encouraging people, speaking affirmation over people.

Let me ask you this. Do you tend to be somebody who sways more on the side of cynicism and overly critical of other people just all the time? Putting others down and maybe towards them in person, or maybe it's just your talk when you're at home or when you're talking to other people. Do you weigh yourself? The litmus test there.

Think about it for a minute. Is that something that you do more of? Or would you say you're more on the side of lifting people up, encouraging people? And when you hear that talk, you know, going on, are you instead of thank you, God? Thank you, Lord.

Thank you for that. The youth seem to kind of enter into that situation. We need to lift people up. Number five, it is a witness. It is a witness.

We are a witness when we practice gratitude. The best way to share your faith is gratitude. Did you know that? And if you start a conversation with anybody, and you say, you know why I'm so thankful for you? It will blow their minds.

Especially those who you don't get along with well. They'll be like, why are you thankful for me? I know you don't like me. Your boss. You know what I'm thankful for you?

Even though you cut my salary last year and you didn't, you know, you don't have to say that part, right? But you go in and you just say, you just say those things. Just see what it does. Live in a way that makes the truth about God attractive. We attract people to God.

We should be attracting people to God. People don't want to be around whiny, ungrateful people. And especially if you have Christian on your name and there's a bunch of Christians standing around being whiny and ungrateful, then what are you doing? What are you showing the world? You're showing the world not God.

You're showing the world something else. And then they think that's God. The best way we can share the gospel with people is to be a witness in gratitude. And then they'll be like, you know what? I want to be like that.

I want what they have. Here's what Philippians 2 says. It says, Do everything without grumbling and arguing so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God, without fault in a warped or crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the Word of God. There goes that phrase again, shine like stars in the sky.

We talked about that in our last series, that we will be like stars now. Now, grumbling for a minute. What I find hard to do when I read the Bible, I find it harder to accomplish the things that are there in black and white than those gray areas that I don't really understand. When I look at the Bible and I see something I don't quite understand that's above me, that God knows better, I find it easier to accept, hey, you know, it's in God's hands. I don't really understand it.

I'll do the best I can, but I don't understand it. But the hardest thing for me to do is the things that say, do not grumble. Because everybody, let's just be honest, everybody grumbles. I got a can clap there. Some people are like, what?

It's easy for me to say I don't understand those other things, but it's hard for me to really understand things like this. As believers, we are to never grumble. Never grumble. Wow. And you know what will happen if you don't grumble?

You will be different than the rest of the world because everybody grumbles. Everybody complains. And if you're a person who's able to not grumble, you will be radically different. It will be weird different. And it's good to be weird in that way, right?

It's very good to be weird. I mean, who doesn't complain? And Christians should be known for radical love, radical kindness, radical generosity. It's called being Christ-like. That's what being like Jesus is.

We don't leave any of those things out. We do every one of those things. Here's what Proverbs 11 says. Good people bless and build up their city. Good people bless.

They practice gratitude and bless their city, but the wicked can destroy it with their what? Words. We're called to build up our city, build up our congregation, build up the people outside the walls of this church. What if we all could practice this radical kind of gratitude in every area of our lives? Not just with our church people, not just with our church community, or not with just the people we like, but what if we went out there and just practiced?

We took a random act of kindness card. By the way, we have those out on the table. You need to take those and bless people this Christmas. This is a time where we need to push in more and bless people and do more for people and love people. And what if you just, in the grocery store, you see a young lady behind the counter and you know they're a single mother and they have kids and they're hurting right now and they're not able to make it with...

The economy, and you just bless them with a hundred dollar bill and a radical act of kindness card that just says God loves you. And so I love you and God does too, you know, and you don't have to do anything else. You're not like you're not that's preaching the gospel right there. That's sharing that God loves you and cares for you. And I'm not giving you this because I think it's going to make me better.

I'm I'm giving you this because there is a God that truly loves you. And if you did that with with that person, maybe it's your doctor. Maybe it's maybe it's the mail person that that's not very nice to you. That's always arguing about, you know, your packages being away the mailbox or whatever it is. I don't know what your situation is, but you all have those people in your life.

And and we need we need to practice. We need to build our city up. We need to build our city up. So if we do these five things, we're going to see something happen because God hardwires something in the universe. That when we practice radical gratitude, that things begin to benefit us.

It's just the way it is. We're not doing it to benefit us, but God does. It does benefit us. It just happens. So let me quickly give you four things that will benefit you if you begin to do this.

First of all, we'll keep you in God's will. You won't be out of God's will. You'll be in God's will. There's peace in God's will. You don't have to doubt.

You don't have to wonder. You don't have to question what God's will is. Where does God want me here? Where does God want me there? If you're practicing gratitude and you're loving people where you are, then you will see that God's will is being fulfilled in your life right now.

And it will bring peace to your life. The second thing is it will it makes you better, not bitter. It makes you better, not bitter. Because everyone has excuses to be bitter. They don't have reasons.

They have excuses. A lot of people don't have reasons to be bitter, but they have these excuses. And do not take your grudge into tomorrow. You've got to lay that down. You've got to put that down.

You've got to put that in God. You need to be thankful. Just practice gratitude instead of all those things. Someone just shared a story as I finished the first service. Somebody came in and shared a story with me real quick about how they were assaulted and how they really had this bitterness in their heart.

And they had been working on it for like six months. Just couldn't get over this bitterness towards this assault that happened. And then a pastor at the time or spiritual leader at the time came up to them and said, You know what? I want you to teach on thankfulness. Thankfulness.

I don't want to be thankful right now because I'm bitter. And what she learned as she began to teach on thankfulness and practice thankfulness within two weeks, she was done with that situation. Because that's what God does. He makes things better. And you make them bitter if you hang on to them.

So we need to let... We're coming into a new year here soon. And maybe that needs to be your New Year's resolution. So I'm leaving everything in the past behind and I'm moving forward. You can't go back in time and fix those things.

You can't hop into the DeLorean and go back and then try to fix all the mistakes that were made or not enter into that situation. And some of these things, frankly, are out of your control anyway. Why are you allowing them to hurt you? Let them go. Move forward.

Drop them at the cross and head towards heaven. Amen? Let's head towards the kingdom of God. Let's build the kingdom of God. You're missing out on so much God has for you because you're focused on your bitterness and your grudges and that thing that you haven't let go of in 20, 30, 40 years.

Why? It's not doing you any good. It makes you better when you practice gratitude and you're thankful. And because when I focus on what I have now, I don't let... The past doesn't bother me anymore.

It makes me better. It defeats the devil, number three. It defeats the devil. It defeats the enemy. Because you know what the devil wants you to do?

He wants you to get angry. He wants you to get irritated. He wants you to not be joyful. He wants to steal your joy. He really does.

He takes your joy away from you. He knows how to work you. He studied you. He knows your buttons and he will push those buttons until... He probably knows you better than you know you because he studied you for so long.

And if you let the devil continue to irritate you, he's happy. And he's going to keep irritating you. I had a mentor of mine tell me one time when I was going through a tough, tough time in my life, it feels like the devil is just punching you to the ground, doesn't it? I said, yeah. And you get up and he punches you again, right?

I said, yes. And he's going to keep doing it. Because that's what the devil does. He keeps entering into the situation to hit you again. Right hook, left hook, all that he can.

He will do it. But if you can practice thankfulness, the devil hates that when you thank God. When you begin to thank God, whenever that irritation comes in and you begin to thank God, it will leave you. The devil will leave you. He will give up.

He will stop. He hates it when you thank God. He wants to keep you from thanking God. And if I can practice gratitude and be thankful even when that thing in my life happens, when that irritation comes, when that person in your life comes in and you're like, you're wondering why. Why do they keep showing back up in my life?

Why does this keep happening? Why are they irritating me so bad? Because you're not thanking God, you're complaining. Stop complaining and start thanking God. Thanking God for just who He is.

I thank God for my irritation. Could you imagine that? I thank God for that person that irritates me, Lord. I can thank God in all circumstances, right? And then number four, and this is a good one, it opens up the doors for miracles.

It's a source of miracles when we practice gratitude. Did you know that? We have this thing called the prayer of faith. It says it in Mark 11, 24, Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them and you will have them. Prayer of faith.

Believe that you are going to have an answer to your prayers. Thank God in advance. Pray and thank God. Give your needs to God and thank Him. Rejoice and thank Him for what He's going to do.

We call it the prayer of faith. Because God doesn't want to listen to whiners, okay? Don't be whining. And God, why, God, this, God, that. No, you need to just put your...

He wants to hear your needs. He already knows what you need before you even know it. He wants you to get in line with Him. He wants your heart to get in line with Him. And if your heart is not in line with Him, you're just going to be a whiner, selfish person, you know?

I've done all this for you and you haven't done this for me. God says your heart's not right. I want to answer your prayer, but you've got to believe it and you've got to be thankful for what I'm already doing in your life. So it's the prayer of faith. Say thank you in advance.

We see this. Jesus actually practiced this. Jesus actually practiced this. It's a story of Lazarus. And the thing about Lazarus and Jesus is that Lazarus was dying and Jesus gets the word and he waits three days.

Disciples are even wondering, why is he waiting around three days? Don't we need to get down there? Get on the nearest donkey and roll your butt out there as quick as you can and see Lazarus before he dies. But Jesus isn't in a hurry because there's something better. There's something greater He wants to reveal in this.

He's going to do something way, way, way better. He's going to show them something. And sometimes in our prayers, God doesn't answer our prayers right away. And it may be a long time until God answers your prayers. Or maybe God doesn't answer your prayers in this lifetime.

But can I say to you, God's up to something way, way, way better. I think of Joni Erickson-Totta, who is in a wheelchair. She's an evangelist. If you ever want to know somebody who's going through really bad things in life, this woman's incredible statements about her faith in God and trusting God. She said, I'm not healed, but I give God the glory.

And God's given me every opportunity to minister the gospel in this life. And I know that one day in heaven, I will be walking and I'll be skipping on the streets of gold. But until then, I've accepted that God did not answer my prayer of healing to get me out of this wheelchair, paralyzed as a teenager in a pool. If we all could have that kind of faith, trusting in God, more glory to God is what we should want. But Jesus arrives three days later.

He says, open up the tomb. They're like, what are you talking about, Jesus? He's been dead three days and you're late. You're late, Jesus. Jesus says, just listen to me, open up the tomb.

Open up the tomb. Jesus is going through the pain of every one of them as well. He lost Lazarus, his closest friend. He says, open up the tomb. And then Jesus begins to pray.

Here's what he prays. So they took away the tomb and Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I thank you that you have heard me. You hear my prayers. You have heard me already when I pray this.

I'm already thanking you, God, for what you're getting ready to do. And then he says this. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of what people standing around that they may believe that you sent me. And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out. And Lazarus came out of that grave.

Jesus, thank God in advance. And we need to thank God in advance. We've got to pray, believe, and trust. Pray, believe, and trust that God has a greater plan and we can thank Him for it. Amen?

It will open up the avenue of miracles. You will see miracles happen when we begin to believe and thank God in advance. Hallelujah. That's radical gratitude. It's radical when we live these points.

It's radical when we think this way. It's radical when all the world seems to be on fire in times in our lives that we can still be thankful. People see that and they're like, what in the world? God, that's what God people do. That's what Christians do.

That's what mature, deep-rooted Christians do. And my prayer today is to invite you, as we close this series, to invite you on this radical gratitude journey. Will you practice this? Will you begin to form a habit to live out your life as a person who is generous? A person who, not only with their finances, not only with their words, not only with their, you know, just in every way, the way we live out our lives should be so great.

You know, the New Testament talks about the church and how, in the book of Acts, and how they were so loving and so generous, taking everybody in, giving what they had, being grateful. And people all around them were like, what in the world are these people? They're kind of crazy. They're kind of nuts. But I want that.

I want to see what's going on. And they grew in numbers. And they grew. The kingdom of God grew and advanced because people decided, I'm not going to live a selfish life anymore. I'm not going to live an unthankful life.

I'm not going to live a life that's ungrateful. And they said, I want to be a deep-rooted follower of Christ. And granted, a lot of these people, not all of them, but many of them that started the church did see the resurrected Jesus, so they understood it. But Jesus did say greater, you know, greater are those who don't see me and believe than those who actually see me and believe, that you can even do greater things. Because He knew that you would have questions in your heart about God and what His plans are.

So He says, will you practice what I teach you? Let me show you what I have in store for you. Will you walk this path? And for those of you who have not surrendered to Jesus yet, I would ask you, would you start that walk? That you would trust in Jesus?

Because there's no other way. There's an old song that says, trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. So trust and obey for us who are believers, and then trust and obey for those who are new. And just discovering Jesus, would you do that today? Let's pray.

Father, thank you so much. Thank you so much for the blessings. We are so grateful. We just practice gratitude today, Lord. It's Thanksgiving weekend, and as we enter into Christmas, Lord, and we look at the child that came to this world, this little humble child.

Jesus, God, you became a child for us. What more can we be thankful for? What more could we do to give our lives to you, Lord? We take on your heart, Lord, the things that you love, Lord, because it is about your world, Lord, the world you want to save, the world you came. Your only Son was sent to this world, not to condemn it, but that it would live.

Lord, let us be living, breathing testimonies of the goodness of you, Lord. Father, if there's one here today that does not know you, I pray that they would surrender their lives right now. If you are here today, just say, Lord, I give my life to you. I give it today. I don't want to walk out of this room without knowing you.

Would you come into my heart, Lord? Would you make me a new creation? You do that right there in your seats, and He will make you a new creation today. If you are somebody here that's shallow Christian, that you've lived superficial Christianity, but you don't want that anymore, you want it all. You want it all?

Just say that. Just say, I want it all, Lord. I remember a man in that same spirit of prayer. I remember testimony of a man when I was a teenager that walked into our church. He was a drunk.

He was the town drunk, the area drunk. Walked in, walked to the front, crying and on his knees. And the pastor asked, he said, Do you want... Are you willing to make a real commitment to Jesus? He says, I don't want some of Jesus.

I want all of Jesus. God changed him out there on the spot. He can do that for anybody in this room. Lord, I pray that you would do that. Confess your sins to Him.

Confess your sins, and He will make you new. He will give you a spirit of gratitude where you desire to honor Him and live out your life like that. We thank you, Jesus, for that. We praise you, Jesus, in your name. Amen.

Amen.