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Good morning, good morning, and good morning!

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Good morning, here we are ready to reach the heights in Jesus.

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We're gonna pray together just shortly.

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I want to remind you that next Sunday will be different.

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Next Sunday will be gratitude Sunday.

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We'll be meeting in this room just like normal,

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that part of it the same.

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We'll be worshiping God, the same God,

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the God who's creator of the universe,

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in charge of all things.

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But we will be worshiping him with a focus on gratitude.

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So everything in our service will be about gratitude.

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And to do that, to be grateful to God,

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we need to do that together as a group.

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And together we prepare.

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And so for this coming week,

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we want you to be focused on gratitude.

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What reasons have you to be grateful for God?

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How are you grateful to God?

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And then as we worship this coming week,

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we will have a song or two,

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and then a break where we will have people

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have an opportunity to present.

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So you might have a song yourself

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that you would sing especially for the congregation.

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If you're gonna do that,

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I would ask you to write away this week,

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get ahold of Brother Tim and Leeching

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and get that scheduled so we know that's coming.

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And you might also have a poem that you'd like to share

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or something you read out of a devotional book

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or your own story or what you're grateful for.

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You might wanna give us a list

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of things you're grateful for.

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Perhaps you'd prepare a craft.

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I know that the Little Wonders are preparing a craft today

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that if they are courageous,

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they will next week share in those sharing times.

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And we will work through our services that day,

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just like that.

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And then at the end,

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we will have a brief message about gratitude from the Bible

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and what we will be together as a group the whole time.

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Okay, so all kids, teens, and adults will be in this room

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and we'll have constant activities going on.

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And so I ask you to think this week

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about how you're grateful to God,

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what God has done for you and come prepared to share.

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And you can do multiple things.

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You could do a craft and then you could explain

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why I made this craft, because,

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or we could just display it for you

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if you don't wanna talk about it.

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And then later in the service,

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you might say, this is my testimony.

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This is how God has blessed me

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and share what you're grateful for.

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Or you might say, I have a song

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and later I'll talk about a craft.

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Or you might have two or three things, right?

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If you're a speaker, if you're a preacher or a teacher

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and the Lord is leading you to do that,

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you're on a five minute time limit.

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Okay, you don't have to tell us what it's about in advance.

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It should be about gratitude in some way,

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but you will be timed five minutes max,

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because that way there are several of us in the room

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who love the Lord and would speak on behalf of the Lord

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and would share a testimony and you'll be limited to that.

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Okay, and then I'm just kind of warning you now,

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if we get through that first three quarters of the service

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and we don't get a lot of folks sharing testimony,

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sharing what they made, what they did, grateful to God,

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then that'll just make the sermon a little longer

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when the time comes, okay?

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So we're prepared to make sure we give God the glory

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that and share the gratitude.

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Really, we just gotta remember how grateful we are.

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It began with him, it all began with him

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long before you and I were ever here.

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And he did it all, he provided it all,

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and yeah, he's working in us now, we're grateful, okay?

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So we're gonna pray together.

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So I'm gonna ask Brother Mike Brister,

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would you lead us in our opening prayer today?

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And then let's pray along with Mike

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and then we'll work with God some more.

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Brother God, we wanna thank you for this day,

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thank you for the sunshine, thank you for this place.

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God, I pray for you to go to our service,

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bless our time together,

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pray to lift our voices in you,

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bless our time together, you too, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I love you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I'll give you all my worship.

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I'll give you all my praise.

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Oh Lord, I long to worship.

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You alone are worthy of my praise.

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You alone are worthy of my praise.

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With all of my body.

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I with my corpse.

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We can do all of our things

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We can go all the way

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We can go all the way

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All the way

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We can go all the way

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We can do everything

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We can do everything

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I will give it all to you

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And I will trust you

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I will give you all my love

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I will give you all my worship

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I will give you all my praise

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You're not alone to worship

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You're not worthy of my praise

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Worthy of my praise

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I will worship you

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In everything I do

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I will give you all my worship

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I will give you all my praise

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You're not alone to worship

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You're not worthy of my praise

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I will give you all my worship

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I will give you all my praise

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You're not alone to worship

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You're not worthy of my praise

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It's that inspirational moment in time

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It's that moment in time where we ask ourselves, how has the Lord been working this past week?

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What did you see? What did you hear? What did you discover in the Word?

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Or maybe there was a moment where the Holy Spirit said, hey, just pay attention to that, I want you to see that

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What do you got? Chris?

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Last week I was invited down to Allen Correctional Facility in Lyme, Ohio

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To be the guest speaker, the honored speaker down there to beg with

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And usually I don't write speeches

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They said, oh, you gotta have some for ten minutes, I'm like, I don't write speeches

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Of course down there you're not allowed to take your paperwork in, so the speech would have done me any good anyway

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So I get down there and what inspired me was just the love that the guys showed