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Explore how Thanksgiving can extend beyond a holiday into a daily attitude of gratitude.
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Thanksgiving as a Lifestyle 0:43 Welcome to today with Marilyn and Sarah. And happy Thanksgiving. Oh my goodness. Love Thanksgiving. Really, really love Thanksgiving. And, not only do I love it for like the day and the0:54 weekend. But even more so I like that it can be a lifestyle and not just a holiday. And I wanna encourage you, there's some really cool testimonies. 1 of them to help us with Thanksgiving.1:06 Pamela called in for prayer because her new house had been flooded when a pipe burst. And after she received prayer, they moved and received a brand new house. So1:18 that's a really, really cool, praise report and something to be thankful for. And I just wanna encourage you. If you have a need in your life, why don't you hop on the phone, get on the website? We'd love to pray for1:29 you. We know that God answers prayer. And of course, partners, a special shout out to you. Thank you on Thanksgiving. Thank you for helping us to cover the Earth with the word and connect everyone1:41 to the heart of God. We're so very grateful. Thankful for you our partners and you know we're doing a teaching today and Thanksgiving is such an essential ingredient for us. And I think when1:53 we think about Thanksgiving for you and me, I always think about it in terms of like the holiday. You know, like the Thursday, it's I think it's the last Thursday in in November. And so, you know, we always suddenly amp2:04 up our our gratitude or awareness of being thankful. But I think we've got to really consider that Thanksgiving is more of a lifestyle and not just a 12:16 holiday on the calendar year. It's a lifestyle. And and I was thinking about this in relation to and I and I've been reading lately actually in Luke 17. And it's a really interesting scenario because2:28 Jesus was passing through Samaria on his way to Jerusalem. And he was passing by this town and there were 10 lepers who were on the outskirts of the town.2:40 And leprosy at this time was a really really major problem. There was no cure for it. And if you caught leprosy, you were ostracized. You were kicked out of the2:52 community, out of your village, your town because it was highly contagious and nobody wanted to catch it. And if you did catch it, it was a drastic lifestyle change. And it was a very3:04 painful, gory, gruesome disease, and and really kind of disgusting and gross. And these 10 lepers are on the outskirts of this town. They're3:16 not welcome to come in. And as they're out there, they hear about Jesus passing by and they call out and they say, hey, Lord have mercy. Have mercy on us. And you know, you might3:28 be watching right now and maybe you are calling out. You need to call out to Jesus to have mercy on you. Maybe you have a physical need in your body. Maybe you're struggling. It's Thanksgiving. Maybe you feel like3:40 you you just don't have the finances. Maybe you're watching right now and you're lonely. I would encourage you to hop on the phone, get on the website, give us the opportunity to pray for you and really see God come3:52 in and intervene. And, you know, something to encourage you with. Just, for on this special day, if you hop on the phone, get on the website, grab this copy as well, speak the word because it will help you and encourage4:03 you 1 sometimes when you're discouraged in your soul and your heart, then you can speak the word and it helps you, really lift up your faith and keep your focus and confidence on God. And, you know, that's what4:15 these lepers who are on the outskirts of the town, that's what they did. They called out to Jesus and they said, Lord, have mercy on us. And I really think it's very incredible to think4:27 about these lepers because they didn't have any kind of resources. They didn't have financial resources. They didn't have medical resources. They didn't have a like a supportive community except to4:39 themselves. And they were excluded from everyday life. And it's so so very sad because they didn't have an opportunity for any kind of of connection with family.4:51 And some of you right now, you're watching and you're not connected with your family and it's hard. This is a hard season for you, a hard day for you because of the family dynamics. Maybe maybe you think, that5:02 means I have to get around my family again and and it's difficult for you. We would love to pray for you with any kind of family struggles, family needs, tension, difficulty, conflict. Sometimes you sit around the5:14 table and you wanna make sure you'd sit don't sit by that 1 but deuce, you know. And we do all these things, you know, and and accommodate and all this stuff because it's Thanksgiving and we have to and it's like we're5:25 forced. But we'd love to pray for you. We'd love to pray for you to have some healing in your family, to have some peace in your soul. So hop on the phone, get on the website. And these lepers, you know, they came to5:36 Jesus and they called out to him. They didn't have family. They had been excluded from their family. They had been isolated. And their bodies were literally decomposing,5:48 literally, falling disintegrating. So their noses were were getting eaten away by the leprosy. Their ears, their their digits, their toes getting eaten away by the leprosy.6:00 And sometimes that could be such a very difficult disease because there was no cure. It was hopeless. It was very hopeless. And you might feel that way in your soul right now. Maybe you feel hopeless. I just6:12 encourage you to hop on the phone, get on the website. It'll give us an opportunity to get to pray for you. And if you do feel hopeless, if you feel like you have a lack in your life right now, there you have famine,6:23 there's a deficiency in your life. I want you to watch this part of this teaching now. This is like a team thing with mom and me. Mom's gonna teach you now about 13 famines and 13 miracles6:35 to encourage your faith that there's not a famine, that God doesn't have a miracle to meet that famine.6:47 I'm thankful.6:47 I am thankful.6:48 I am thankful for Freedom of living in the United States.6:53 For the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday at my favorite church.6:57 My cuddly, snuggly, warm puppies. They keep me warm at night.7:01 For, like, the thousands of books that I have at home.7:04 I'm thankful for my career and being able to minister to students.7:07 Coffee, good friends, and wise counsel.7:10 That I'm a part of a ministry where people stand on7:13 the word of God, believe God no matter what.7:16 My 4 awesome grandkids.7:19 Of what Jesus has done and the great sacrifice on the cross that has set me free, and I get to share that freedom with others.7:25 For my family, for the free gift of salvation, and that God turns every persecution into a blessing.7:30 And I'm thankful for food because7:32 I like to cook, and food makes me happy.7:43 Speaking the word of God can change your life. For your gift of any amount, we will send you our speak the word booklet. This simple, concise booklet will help you activate God's word over your life. For your gift7:55 of 35 dollars or more, we will also send you Marilyn's classic teaching, 13 famines, 13 miracles, her harvest in the famine mini book, and treasures of a thankful heart journal, and our8:07 provision scripture card. These encouraging resources are filled with practical advice showing Jesus is your perfect provision for all you'll ever need. For your gift of 65 dollars or more, we will also send8:18 you our mustard seed necklace. This necklace will be a reminder that you can speak to your mountain, and God will move it out of your way. Enter his court with thanksgiving and present your requests. Be lifted above8:30 the heaviness and hopelessness of your situation. Call or click today for this anointed resource.8:44 So I believe tonight that you will see there are 4 keys to a miracle in every economic crisis. So when you go through these and I have8:55 the keys in it and I'll be referring to them quite a bit, but I'm going to kind of zip through 13 famines. So those of you watching on television, watch very intensely now because the Holy9:07 Spirit's going to speak to you. When you look at the first famine, it's right there on your sheets, it is found in Genesis 12 and it has to do with Abraham. Abraham was called to go to9:19 the promised land and he travels, leaves, goes to the promised land and when he gets there, there is a famine. Did you ever find you're in the perfect will of God and yet you're in a crisis?9:32 And it can be an economic crisis, doesn't mean you're out of the will of God. So here he gets into that crisis and what did he do? He didn't stay there and he's young in faith. Faith is a9:44 process, everybody say faith is a process. And so he's young in faith and he goes down to Egypt thinking well I'll go there temporarily and really he did some very stupid things in Egypt.9:56 You know he lied about his wife Sarah and it was not a good scene, but he comes back to the promised land and God begins to bless Abraham beyond anything you can imagine10:08 and from there on you will find that God blessed Abraham and blessed him and blessed him and we could have said, well you didn't do so well, you should never have left to start with, you should never have lied about your10:19 wife like you did, but God blessed him. What is the key that God is blessing? And I'll tell you the key, it's covenant. Everybody say covenant. Covenant. When you get born10:31 again you are in covenant, you're in a new covenant, everybody say new covenant. And because you're in covenant God will bless you and encourage you and10:43 multiply you. And in the new testament it says we are the seed of Abraham and it doesn't say maybe he will bless us, it says surely he will bless you and surely he10:54 will multiply you. Why? Because you're such a hotshot? No, because you're in covenant. Everybody say covenant. And so Abraham was blessed because he was in covenant11:06 and he stood in his covenant right. The second 1 you will see there is Isaac and it's in Genesis 26 and if you notice Abraham, Isaac, Jacob they11:18 all had famines. I mean people think economic crisis. It's not so unusual folks. It happens all the time. So it's not so unusual it would happen in our11:30 timing and we've had more than 1 in in my lifetime, that's for sure. So here we see Isaac, head of all things, he lives with the Philistines and God tells him stay here with the11:41 Philistines. Now the Philistines are yucky people. I mean they are ugly to the core and they were the enemies of Abraham's seed and God says you stay and live here during the famine.11:53 So he's got to live in a bad circumstance and some of you tonight, you may be living in a very bad job, bad circumstance in an economic crisis, but remember you're in covenant. Everybody say covenant.12:06 Now in this chapter, and I don't have time to teach the whole chapter, I love Genesis 26, but he starts to redig some wells that his father dug. And the12:17 Philistines, they're such jerks, everybody say jerks. They had filled those wells. Now who would be so stupid as to fill a well, that would be really stupid, but they did it.12:29 So Isaac comes and he starts redicking and clearing out the wells and the Philistines show up and just fill them again. And Isaac instead of getting into a big fight, big strife situation12:41 just moves on. And it's famine time and it said he sowed and when he sowed, he reaped 100 fold in the time of famine. Now everybody12:53 wants 100 fold, everybody say hundred fold. Man I'd love to, sow 10 dollars tonight, reap a hundredfold, wouldn't you? Come on, be be honest with me. Everybody likes, they want a13:05 hundredfold blessing, but remember he sowed in a famine time. Everybody say famine. And 1 of the big keys for you in famine time, economic crisis, is to sow.13:17 Everybody say sow. So we stand on the covenant and what do we do? We sow our seed and so tonight I have 4 keys for you and I think if I hold them up it will13:29 help you to remember them better because we're such visual people. The first key is stand in covenant. Everybody say first key. Stand in covenant. Now if you're not born again, you're not in covenant.13:41 You have to be born again to be in covenant. The second key is so, everybody say so. And that hundred fold, when did it come in? At what timing? What13:53 timing? Famine time, famine time was when it came in. So we begin to see some things, if you want miracles in economic crisis you have to do the things that God14:05 says. I have a friend and she loves to give but she called me 1 day and she said, you know we're in our mid sixties and we'd14:17 like to have our house paid off and my husband is retired and we don't have a big income, actually she said we're on social security, but we'd really like to have our house paid off. Would you pray with me14:28 that God would make a way to pay this house off, that we could live in this house debt free? So we prayed on the phone and about, I don't know, a couple months later, she was going,14:40 to another country to do some ministry. So she's in kind of a limousine type service and she's witnessing to the driver and she leads the driver to Christ.14:53 And the Lord said to her in his winter time, give him your coat for his wife. Oh she said, Lord this a new coat. In fact this coat cost me 50015:05 dollars and probably this coat is a size 14. His wife probably wears a 2. So she said to him, what size coat does your wife wear? He said a 14.15:18 So she knew what she was supposed to do. Everybody say sew. Sew. Say time to sew. Time to sew. So she took the coat off and said, I feel that God wants me to give you this coat for your wife.15:30 Well he he was very touched by it, of course she just led him to the Lord. So she goes to this other country where she had relatives in this country. So she's visiting and you know she's ministering and 1 of her15:41 relatives said to her, how much do you owe on your house? And she thought that was strange so she told him and he paid her house off. Now folks I'm gonna ask you15:52 a very personal question. If she hadn't sown the coat, if she hadn't been sowing do you think she would have reaped the house? Come on people, unless you sow seed don't call in harvest.16:04 Harvest don't come without seed. That would be stupid. Everybody say stupid. Look at someone say, honey. I know. I know. You're not stupid. And so16:16 when I saw and heard that I thought, man, that is so marvelous. Now the third 1 I want you to look at and these just kind of go in order, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and it's another key. So get ready, get ready16:28 for your third key. In Jacob's day, oh there's a terrible famine. And he has all these children, you know he had 12 sons, 1 is missing16:40 and famine hits. Now 12 boys or 11 boys to feed would be a crisis anyway, I think. And he had a daughter named Dinah and so here the famine hits16:52 and his sons hear that there's food in Egypt and you know the story, they go down to Egypt to meet Joseph and Joseph has had a17:04 revelation, and he had a revelation that there would be 7 years of plenty and then 7 years of famine and the 7 years of plenty would serve the 7 years of17:16 famine and literally their lives were saved in the famine time because of revelation. Everybody say revelation. Revelation. Say it again. Say it again. That is17:27 another key. Now folks, you need to ask God for a revelation for your own personal economic condition. God has a revelation and he has a secret that I17:39 believe he can reveal to you about what to do, how to make it work, and how, you know, you're to act in the situation.17:48 Together we are impacting thousands of lives with the truth, compassion, and power of God's word. When you become a 30 dollar a month partner, we'll send you the Jehovah Rofah oil vial with oil prayed18:00 over by Marilyn and Sarah, the key to more miracles book, the majesty coffee table book featuring beautiful representations of the names of God, and more. Call or click today to become a partner and help18:12 us cover the earth with the word and connect everyone to the heart of God.18:19 Hey there. I wanna encourage you to download our app on your phone. You're like, really serious? Absolutely. We have some amazing things on our app, really convenient for you. We have today's program. We have18:29 opportunities to pray for you. We have places for you to give and partner with us. We also have things that'll help you know what events are coming up and group tours that you could join, as well as a bible reading plan,18:39 daily bible reading plan. This app is super relevant, very convenient, and super helpful for your daily living with Jesus.18:48 Speaking the word of God can change your life. For your gift of any amount, we will send you our speak the word booklet. This simple concise booklet will help you activate God's word over your life. For your gift19:00 of 35 dollars or more, we will also send you Marilyn's classic teaching, 13 famines, 13 miracles, her harvest in the famine mini book, and treasures of a thankful heart journal, and our19:12 provision scripture card. These encouraging resources are filled with practical advice, showing Jesus is your perfect provision for all you'll ever need. For your gift of 65 dollars or more, we will also send19:24 you our mustard seed necklace. This necklace will be a reminder that you can speak to your mountain, and God will move it out of your way. Enter his court with thanksgiving and present your requests. Be lifted above19:36 the heaviness and hopelessness of your situation. Call or click today for this anointed resource.Keys to Miracles in Economic Crisis 19:50 That was really, really good teaching for mom and you're like, yeah, but what's the last point? Well, of course, you need to hop on the phone, get on the website and grab today's offer. So you can get all of the content20:01 from what she taught related to 13 famines and 13 miracles. And along this line in terms of famines and miracles, I do think that being thankful is a key20:12 part to having a famine or a hardship or a struggle turn into the miraculous. And of course, when you hop on the phone, get on the website, grab your copy copy of Speak the Word.20:24 Really powerful booklet, for any gift, really help you to turn difficult things and speak the word and see them turn into miraculous victory. So make sure you grab20:36 that as well. You know, in terms of Thanksgiving, 13 famines, 13 miracles and what is that how does that tie into Thanksgiving? Well, as we were talking about the lepers in20:48 Luke 17, they lived in a kind of a famine depleted existence. And their life was continuing to decline, get worse and and they were just it was not a hopeful21:00 future for these lepers in any way, shape, fashion, or form. They needed a miracle. And when they saw Jesus come by their town, they were on the outskirts of the town, they called out, Lord have mercy21:12 on us. And I love what Jesus does because Jesus speaks into our deficiency, speaks into our hopelessness, speaks into our despondency, our21:23 our impairment, the our pain, our suffering, our disease. Jesus speaks into that and we give him the opportunity. And and know any of those areas right now in your life, I'd encourage you to hop on the21:35 phone, get on the website. If you feel hopeless, if you have disease, if you have impairment, if you feel like there's no future for you, love to pray for you today. So hop on the phone, get on the website,21:47 and give us an opportunity to call out to Jesus on your behalf and say, Lord, have mercy. And that's what these lepers did. They called out to Jesus, Lord, have mercy. And I love what Jesus21:59 did. He said, go and show yourself to the priest. And it says, as they went, they were cleansed. It's interesting because leprosy22:11 was a skin disease and it was it was a disease that would eat away at your flesh. And in order to be cleansed, you had to have the disease removed. But I appreciate that as they22:23 went, and this was kind of a process. And a lot of times, Jesus will do a miracle as a process and not just instantaneous. And if you're in the middle of process22:35 right now, you're like, well, I'm not where I was, but I'm not where I wanna be. But you're struggling in the process, we'd love to pray for you. Hop on the phone, get on the website, give us the opportunity to help you22:46 and to pray for you in the process that you don't get tired and weary, that you keep walking. Because as they went, they were cleansed. And it's interesting, when when they went22:58 to show themselves to the priest, it says out of the 10 that 1 of them saw that he was healed. He was healed. And he came back to23:10 Jesus. And this is 1 of the coolest things. When you read what he said and you read what he did, he when he realized he was healed, he was very loud and vocal23:21 giving glory to God. Oh my God. I'm healed. I'm well. I'm cleansed. Oh my goodness. And he's over the moon excited and jubilant. And why wouldn't he be? I mean, if you think about it, this is23:33 this is supernatural. His life was kind of in fade, degrade, decline, hopeless, no future, no community, no family, all kinds of isolation, exclusion, hanging out and just falling apart23:45 a little bit, a little bit, a little bit every day. And now suddenly, that's completely changed. He's over the top excited, giving glory to God. And you know, you might be watching right now and you're like, I'd23:57 love to have God do that turnaround miracle for me. I'd love to see God take the eating away leprosy, the decline, the the slow degrading decay to nothing.24:09 Love to see God turn that around. We wanna pray for you. Hop on the phone, get on the website. We love to pray and we see that God answers prayer. But it says this 1 guy out of the 10, the 1 leper, when he knew24:21 he was he had been cleansed, he recognized that he was healed. He came back and he gave thanks to Jesus. And he expressed gratitude.24:33 And this is 1 of the key things I really want us to take as a lifestyle and not just a holiday. That we have gratitude as our lifestyle. And gratitude, I think sometimes we24:45 wanna see gratitude for the big things, you know, like, oh my goodness, I got healed from leprosy. That's, you know, miraculous, that's magnificent, that's huge. But I think we can also be grateful and have24:57 thanksgiving for small things, medium things, big things. And I appreciate that when this guy came back, the leper who was cleansed and healed,25:09 he came back to give thanks to Jesus. And Jesus responded to him and he's like, wow. That's really great that you came. You're a Samaritan. But it's interesting because Jesus said,25:21 go in faith. Your faith has saved you. And I want you to see that in this process with gratitude, there's healing, there's cleansing,25:33 there's healing, and there's wholeness, deliverance, salvation. These 3 verbs are all intertwined and go with gratitude and thanksgiving. And I25:45 want to encourage you today that as we are grateful, Jesus can cleanse us, can heal us, and can save and deliver us. Because these are all integral pieces25:57 that go with Thanksgiving. So, if there's a need in your life, you have a a deficiency, you're hurting, you're depressed, you're discouraged, you're struggling. We want to pray for you today. Hop on the phone,26:09 get on the website, give us the privilege to pray for you.26:18 I'm thankful.26:19 I am thankful.26:20 I am thankful for26:21 Freedom of living in the United States.26:24 For the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday at26:27 my favorite church. My cuddly, snuggly, warm puppies. They keep me warm at night.26:33 For, like, the thousands of books that I have at home.26:35 I'm thankful for my career and being able to minister to students.26:38 Coffee, good friends, and wise counsel.26:41 That I'm a part of a ministry where people stand on the26:44 word of God, believe God no matter what.26:48 My 4 awesome grandkids.26:50 Of what Jesus has done and the great sacrifice on the cross that has set me free,26:54 and I get to share that freedom with others. For my family, for the free gift of salvation, and that God turns every persecution into a blessing.27:01 And I'm thankful for food because27:04 I like to cook, and food makes me happy.27:15 Are you tired? Are you broken? Do you feel far from God? I want you to know that God is a God of forgiveness. He says that if we confess our sins,27:28 he is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. This forgiveness is available to anyone,27:40 anywhere, at any time. Does this sound too good to be true? Can you imagine a God who loves you, who sent his son to die for you, and who27:52 wants to welcome you into his kingdom of love. This is God's invitation to you today. He loves you and wants to save you. Call out to him today.28:04 Pray now. Ask him to be the lord of your life. He is waiting for you. Waiting for you.In this video 0:00 Thanksgiving as a Lifestyle19:41 Keys to Miracles in Economic Crisis28:30
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