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Grateful for Family & Community | Better Together

November 21, 2019

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Who taught you how to live grateful? How can we pass those lessons along to the next generation? | TBN Prayer Line: 1-888-731-1000

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Grateful for Family & Community | Better Together

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- Family, friends, your church community.
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Who are you most thankful for,
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and how can we spread an attitude of gratitude?
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Come on, let's talk about it.
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(uplifting music)
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- I am grateful for family and community.
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- Yeah.
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- You know, one of the things
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that I love to thank the Lord for,
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even in all the years that I've traveled,
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I think one of my favorite things
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has been to meet godly people.
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When I think us as the body of Christ,
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we aren't grateful enough for one another.
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- Right, right.
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- But going to my family, I thank God for my mom and dad,
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you know, raisin' us in,
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in the word of God.
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No family is perfect. - Right.
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- Everybody has flaws, and have made mistakes,
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but when you have the foundation of the word of God,
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and that being the standard that you live by,
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it just brings so much peace and so much strength,
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and I'm so grateful that I've had that throughout my life.
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You know, it's not that you don't mess up,
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but you know how to get back up.
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- Yeah.
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- You know, and that's just so important to me.
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One of my heroes is my mom, you know.
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I never had to wonder what living holy looked like.
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- Right.
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- She was a praying woman.
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Very strong, but yet very soft.
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And that's just a blessing, it's a blessing.
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She taught me how to be grateful, you know.
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'Cause I would wake up in the morning,
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and I would see her worshiping the Lord,
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and being thankful if we had food on the table
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or if we didn't, you know.
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And so, having that example has been a blessing in my life,
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so I just wanna hear from you ladies,
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who inspired you to...
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- Well, I think you're so right on
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with being grateful for those that have gone before,
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before us and shown us.
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I know that I come from a very faithful family
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that taught us how to walk in faith,
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and how to trust God on both sides.
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You know, and a lot of people don't have that.
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- It's awesome, right.
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- You know, and so that's why we're here,
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we're gonna help show and pour what we've learned,
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'cause we pour into the next generation.
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But the faithfulness of the previous generations
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that have gone before that have shown us
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how to walk the walk of faith,
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and to how to believe God in the middle,
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and how to just believe for miracles, you know.
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- So how did they, Laura, how did they inspire you
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to help others?
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- Well, I'm not sure how they did it but I have it,
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so it had to be instilled in me somehow.
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- Yeah, I think they just, they showed it.
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- Yeah, my mom and dad were always, that's all I knew.
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You know, and that's why I'm always so,
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show your kids.
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- There you go. - Show your kids,
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they're watching, you don't have to say a word.
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- Mmhmm.
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- They're listening, and they're watching,
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so when you get in those times
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where you just wanna do a meltdown and just start talking,
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there are your little babies watching you.
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- Yes. Uh huh.
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- Pick it up, and grab your bible
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and say who God is in the middle of that storm.
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That's what I saw. - Yeah.
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- That's what I saw done when things looked really bad.
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You know, when I heard of really bad things going on,
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I would do it, standing tenacious with this bible,
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and speaking the word of God, and who God said He was,
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and then we'd see it happen.
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- Right. - We'd see it, that's right.
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- We saw it happen and that's what we're supposed
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to teach our children.
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- Yeah. - Mhmm.
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- And be grateful for.
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- So when I think back about someone
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who has really shown me what it looks like to be grateful,
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I think about my grandmother.
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My grandmother and my grandfather
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are both with Jesus now, which is just so cool,
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but my grandfather for the last probably 10 to 12 years
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of his life was bedridden,
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and my grandmother took care of him every single day
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until he went home to be with Jesus.
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And I look back and I think about that time
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when I would go visit them, and I never heard
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my grandmother grumble or complain about the life
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that she had.
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I never heard her talk down to my grandfather.
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I never heard her look at him as if he was a problem,
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or if it was like just this,
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I mean, no one thinks that your life might go that way,
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and my grandmother served him and the Lord
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faithfully until he went home to be with the Lord.
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And I look back at her and I think,
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"Man, I wanna be that way.
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I wanna be grateful even when life looks like
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not like I planned,
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when it's just not how I ever
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thought this was gonna go down."
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And so, my grandma taught me that
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and I'm so honored that she was my grandmother
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and I'm so happy
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that her and my grandfather are with Jesus,
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and he's not in bed anymore,
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he's like praising the Lord,
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so my grandmother taught me gratefulness.
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- I recently was reading through some of Paul's letters,
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and yeah I love it where he tells Timothy,
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"You know be gait and grateful for your mama."
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- That's right, positively, yeah.
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- He basically stand on Lois and Eunice's shoulders,
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and then he talks about fanning the flame,
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but first he reminds him of his scaffolding.
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And last year my mom took me to a church
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that I never knew existed, tiny little country church,
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and she said, "Your great great grandfather's name
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is on the foundation stone for this church.
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- Wow.
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- Because he was an itinerant minister."
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And he traveled all around central Florida preaching,
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and they had told me about him,
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but I didn't, you know, such old stories
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there have been so much.
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And just to see his name, my mom's maiden name was Brown,
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and to see Pastor Brown's name on that tombstone,
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and to go, "I come from a family, from generations."
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Like you said it, our families,
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we've got some messy stuff.
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I always say we're kind of a Jerry Springer family,
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but there's this legacy of faith in our family,
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and Missy and I were hikin' a couple days ago in Nashville,
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and she always, if I get her out in nature and it's quiet,
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she'll just, I mean she's just a question a minute,
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and she said, "Mama, does everyone
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in Nashville know Jesus?"
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(chuckles)
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And I said, "No, baby."
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'Cause we'd been singing a worship song,
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she loves to sing, especially Lauren Daigle,
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so I can't sing but I was trying not
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to scar other hikers, she was singin' Lauren Daigle,
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and that just made her talk about Jesus.
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She said, "Does everyone in Nashville know Jesus?"
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And I said, "No, baby, everybody in Nashville
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doesn't know Jesus."
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And she said, "Well, what is wrong with Nashville?"
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And I said, "Well honey, that's everywhere.
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You know, there's people don't know
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Jesus all over the world."
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She said, "But we're Harpers, so we know Jesus."
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(chuckles)
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- I love it.
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- I was like, "Yes, ma'am."
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I thought, she's 10, she will be shaken in life,
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but I love that even now, as this 10 year old little kid,
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she's just like, "But this is what we do,
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this is what Harpers do. We love Jesus."
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And I was like, oh Lord, let me keep fannin' that flame
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(chuckles) in my kid.
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She reminds me of how generous He's been
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because everybody doesn't come from a family of faith.
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I have a lot of friends
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who are first generation Christians.
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- Right. - They look back,
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they didn't have grandmamas and granddaddies
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who actually knew Jesus,
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so I'm really really grateful for that.
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- Good. - Yeah.
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I was going to say that one
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of the things I'm really grateful for
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is the global church, that capitols of church,
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the family of God.
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- Family. - 'Cause not all of us
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have had just even conventional families,
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not all of us have had families that knew Jesus.
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Some of our foundations are not the foundations
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that God would have liked for us to have had.
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- Right, right.
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- Some of the things in our lineages
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are not things that He would prefer to be passed down.
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Somethin' that I'm grateful for is that
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throughout the country and throughout the world,
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there are men and women of God
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who feel called not to just be biological parents
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but will parent and bring in people
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that need to be bring toward and loved on.
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And I lost my dad eleven years ago,
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and I am so grateful for the men of God
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with who, along with their wives across the country
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took me in as I traveled and as I spoke places,
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people didn't just let me come in and out as a guest
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without investing in me, making me feel loved,
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seeing valuable outside of what I was doing a little bit,
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and the relationships that I've had because of that,
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so I think for some of us it's a family we make.
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- Right.
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It's the family of God, we're adopted
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- It's the community, that's right.
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- into this community.
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That's something to be grateful for, I think,
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is the awareness that family might not look like
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what you thought it was supposed to look like
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but it is still available to you.
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- Right, right. - The awareness
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that you can create a family,
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you can be a part of creating a new community.
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- Yeah, yeah, because it's so awesome what you said,
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I think we were talkin' about this yesterday
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how it takes a village to raise a child,
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and it's so true. - Oh man.
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- Yeah, you know? - A few villages, I'm sure.
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- A few of 'em,
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and so, again going back to the family of God,
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it is so important because even though
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I had both my parents who were in church,
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it was because of so many other people
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who took out time to disciple us,
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who took out time, 'cause you know,
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everybody goes through, "I don't wanna hear my parents."
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- Right.
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- You know, anybody else besides my parents.
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And havin' that family of God,
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and I think that is so important
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that all of us as believers,
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that it's not just about my four and no more,
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- Right.
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but who can I mother?
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Who can I pour into? Who can I take out time to love on?
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You know, but I am so grateful for the church at large.
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I think it's just amazing when you see men and women,
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mothers and fathers in the spirit.
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- Yeah. - Right.
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- That God has anointed to build the kingdom of God.
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I am so grateful because I've been blessed
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to meet so many incredible godly people,
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men and women of God,
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who have impacted my life over the years.
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It starts out with my grandmother,
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one of my favorite people, and all of her friends.
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I used to hang out with all the mothers of the church,
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and from them I received wisdom.
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I received love.
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They taught me how to be a good wife and a good mom,
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and they were faithful, they taught me how to pray.
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And these are things that really
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was the foundation of my life.
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These are the prayers that I stand on today,
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so I'm totally grateful for my grandmom,
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and all the mothers of the church,
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but all the pastors and the ministers, and the teachers
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that I've met over the years
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who have prayed for me and who have embraced my ministry,
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and encouraged me along the way.
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- I could think, look back, and I'm grateful that my dad
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got saved when I was younger.
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I just look back and I like think our whole family changed
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by Jesus capturing my dad's heart, you know,
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and so I look at that, and I'm like,
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man we had a shift in our change,
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I mean a shift in our family that season.
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But I think in my season right now,
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when I think about community and family,
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I am so grateful for women
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who are ahead of me in life.
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I just look around and I think sometimes
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it's scary to be a wife and a mom,
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and to do ministry and to preach God's word,
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and I look around and I think there are women
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who are mothering me in a sense,
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we'll say sistering me,
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- I'll take anything.
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(laughing)
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- Mothering and sistering me,
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locally, from a distance,
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who I can say, I watch women, and say,
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they love their family well, they love God with everything,
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and they're gonna serve Him until the day they die,
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and I think that's who I want.
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I'm gonna like, I'm grateful to watch that
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and see where I wanna be, because I think,
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I say all the time that I'm gonna show up to heaven
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only, obviously by the grace of God.
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(chuckles) - Right.
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- But it'll be because of His word
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and because of community in my life.
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- Right. - That's awesome.
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- To keep me grounded and going the way
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I'm supposed to be, and so I'm grateful
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that we live in a day where we can look around
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and see other women running the race really well.
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- We want you to join the conversation.
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- Connect with us on social media
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and let's get better together.
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- Culture tells us, kind of after 50,
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once you're hair's chemically dependent,
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and you slow down or you coast,
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and I'm like, actually, I feel like
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I have more purpose in my 50s than I did in my 30s,
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and there's my body has shifted.
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(chuckles)
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And I need a few more, a little more tinsel strength
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under my clothes to hold things
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where God intended them to be,
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but I am more convinced than
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ever before of the love of Christ.
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- Right.
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I'm more excited about learning about God,
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you know, I went back to school
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because I thought it's good for me
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to be in school while Missy's in school.
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- Yeah, it's great.
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- Her to see me grappling and studying,
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but I thought, when I was in my 20s,
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I think I thought 50 was akin to death.
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That basically you just coast and then you die.
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And now that I'm 55, I'm like,
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my goodness, I might physically be step slower,
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but I feel like my heart has kinda just starting runnin'
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at full speed.
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- That's right.
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- But the changes, the standard for us looking up to you
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thought because maybe you thought that way
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because you didn't have a Lisa Harper in your life,
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- Yeah.
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when you were at our point,
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but it changes now what we think we'll be able to do
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in the next season and the next season
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because you changed the standard
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by living a different standard.
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- [Jamie] Yeah.
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- I hope to be that. - I do too.
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- And it takes seasons to do that,
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I mean we've been through a lot of stuff,
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- That's right.
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we've been through life,
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this is I pray that you be rooted and grounded.
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That takes a while.
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- Yeah, that's right.
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- And for people to stay faithful to the call,
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and for people to stand firm in their faith
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and show and pave the way, we've all gleaned from that,
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and that's what we're trying, hopefully you're doing.
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- You're doing it.
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- And there's baby sisters gleaning from you.
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- One of the things I'm most grateful for as I mentioned
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is the generation in front of me of women
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who have literally paved the way for my generation.
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They have served God faithfully,
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they have served their churches night and day,
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they have raised children that love the Lord.
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And so, I look at these women, I think,
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"Oh I wanna be like you, I wanna follow in your footsteps,
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you are literally showing me what it looks like
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to be a woman who passionately follows Jesus."
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And then I look behind me, and I see,
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these girls are killin' it.
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You guys are amazing. I look at the women
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in their 30s and 20s and teenagers,
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and I think, when I look at them I think,
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we're gonna be okay, and I wanna cheer them on so loud.
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And so I think this kind of effect
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of these women in front of me are cheering me on,
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they had women in front of them cheer them on,
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I'm cheerin' on these women behind me,
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and we're just all runnin' towards the Lord,
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and doin' our thing and runnin' our race.
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And Lisa was challenging us and like,
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"Hey let's tell people thank you."
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Let's tell people that we're thankful for them,
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and I think it's important.
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She challenged me and I wanna go home
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and start writin' thank you notes
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to all the women in front of me,
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but I think it's important for us to verbally say,
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"Hey we see you, we see the work that you're doing,
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you're doing good stuff, keep going sister,
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we're runnin' beside you, we're runnin' with you."
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So, I wanna challenge you and myself
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like let's be women that cheer each other on,
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and part of that is sayin', "Hey I see you
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and I'm thankful for you."
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- In the scripture I think it's Hebrews 6 and 12,
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when it's also, "I follow those through faith and patience,
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inherit the promises," you know,
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so havin' that model, I thought that was great
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that you brought that up 'cause a lot of women,
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they didn't have a mom, or they didn't have a grandma,
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but you can look and see, you know,
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and you can learn from afar, you know,
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how to have grace, and how...
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- That's powerful, how you can learn from afar.
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I think that's powerful.
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I think for some people, they want community maybe,
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but they're not, there's not a woman specifically
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at their local church that they feel akin to.
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- Maybe they can't get out.
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- Maybe they can't. Maybe they're not mobile,
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and they're not able to, maybe there isn't somebody.
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And I think that's so powerful saying
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about learning from afar because in today's day and age
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we have so much access to watch sermons
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from women we look up to,
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podcasts from women we look up to,
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books from women we look up to,
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- Thank you, Jamie.
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- For doing all three, thank you for doing all three.
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Watch this show, because maybe you can't learn directly
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but you don't have to receive something directly
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from someone to learn something--
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- To learn.
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- Some of the people I'm learning from the most right now,
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are from people I'm watching online or listening to
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on podcasts, you could continuously be a learner,
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this community can fight for you,
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without you being physically at their location.
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- That's good.
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- That's powerful. - Awesome.
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- And that's access we have today
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that people didn't have years ago.
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We have less excuses, so we should be accessing that.
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- Somethin' else to be grateful for.
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- That's right. (chuckles)
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- Something else to be very grateful for.
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I also think women have, because of things
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like Better Together and The Happy Hour,
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I think women are becoming more intentional
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about going, "How can I help the women behind me
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not break their ankle in the same holes I stepped in?"
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- Yeah.
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- Because we didn't, at least in my era,
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I thought to really be focused on Jesus
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and to be about the Father's business means,
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I marry a pastor, I learn how to play the piano,
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or I cross stitch.
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I didn't, there weren't too many--
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- You didn't have the examples.
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- No, I didn't know women who went to seminary,
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I didn't know women who were rightly divining the word,
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and I was like, okay I just, I wanna be in order in church,
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and so I guess I'll just put my head down,
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and try to learn how to play the piano
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even though I had no musical gifts.
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And then, now I feel like you've got this whole counsel
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of godly women who are goin', "Come on. Come on.
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Let's run hard toward Jesus."
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In a way that is with the men we love in our lives,
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to run in heart toward Jesus,
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so that the world around us goes, "Wow."
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And where is it in Psalms where it says
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that there will be a counsel of women
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who brings about revival?
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- Oh, I don't know, but you just said that earlier.
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- [Jamie] So good all the time. I like that verse.
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- Um, yeah I do too.
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Again, not women who are strident who hate men.
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It's women who go, "Let's use our strengths,
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let's come alongside with the body of Christ, the family."
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Like you said, local church, global church,
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let's do this together, and when I'm weak,
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you're gonna pick me up.
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- 'Cause God, He needs all of us.
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And He's given just like His word says,
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we all have different gifts and different talents,
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and we're all in different places around the world.
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And God has specifically said,
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"I'm gonna put you, Lisa in Nashville."
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Nashville, California, California, Texas.
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"I'm gonna put you here, I'm gonna give you gifts,
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and you get to use them."
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And so, when we get to look around and say,
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well you know cheer other women on,
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but also just be grateful.
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- Grateful.
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- Grateful that we get to do this together
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in our local churches and show people Jesus.
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- Right. - I mean--
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- We're grateful because we're all the sum
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of what people poured into us.
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- Somebody, yes that's exactly right.
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- You know, over the years, when I look at
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when I was 17, and when I was 20,
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and this person gave me wisdom here,
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and this person corrected me here,
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and all of that makes us who we are.
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You know, and so you have to take out time and be grateful.
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Even like we said, even the bad times.
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We learned lessons, and you were able to get back up,
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and you're stronger than what you were before, so...
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- Sometimes I feel like the younger generation,
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those of us who haven't lived as long
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have more of an inclination towards entitlement.
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We are given so many things that other generations
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paved roads for. - Right.
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- And when we get to reap the benefits
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of seeds that other people planted,
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sometimes we think we're entitled to all of that fruit.
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I do think because so many things are instant for us,
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instant photos, instant, I was gonna say,
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instant mac and cheese.
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Jesus, give me something more profound to say.
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(laughing)
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- I think that's profound.
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- You still have to watch that water boil.
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- Like my grandma Shay used to do the rice she had to make
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in Hong Kong, and I'm thinkin' like
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I just microwave these bags,
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there is an inclination towards entitlement,
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not because we were born more sinful,
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because there was more convenience in our world,
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so I don't, I think, I sometimes think that.
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That our generation has to work harder
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to fight that natural tendency to be entitled
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because we've been given so much convenience.
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However, I do think it's a choice
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because I do see people in older generations
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who also, they do not continuously
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continue to be grateful.
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They will also fall into the same trap.
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We're all living in the same generation.
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They can fall into the same trap,
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and if the younger generation chooses the right role models,
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if they look up to the right people,
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they're less inclined, if you see the roads
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that are paved before you, you will be grateful.
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If you are focused on paying attention to it,
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so I think it's a choice, we might be inclined one way,
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but I believe in the younger generation,
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and we can have role models and can be more grateful if we--
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- So I believe a lot of that's taught
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to that generation. - Mmhmm. I agree.
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- Because I even remember, our previous generation,
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you know, I remember Papa Crouch.
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They dug it out of the ground with their fingernails.
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And I remember he said that to me that day.
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"Maybe it is good that you guys go to Hollywood
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and dig it outta the ground up there,
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you know, with your fingernails.
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and that dog eat dog world."
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Because they, you know,
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and we were kinda like all the authority
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and no responsibility, back in the day.
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- Right.
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- And so, that time away was very good for us.
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- Right. Mmhm.
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- You know where you stand alone,
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and that's when you become grateful,
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you know and it's kind of forced.
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- And that's Christ followers,
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'cause Christ followers, success and humility
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are supposed to be hand in hand,
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but you don't maintain humility without failure.
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- Right.
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- And I think our culture says, "Success, success, success."
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And I'm like baby you need a little failure
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or otherwise you are gonna be insufferable.
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- Absolutely.
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- Because then you go this isn't about my gifts,
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this is about God's kindness.
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He uses my gifts, but if anything good happens,
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it's Him.
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- It's because of Him. - That's so true.
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- Here's one of the things I want y'all
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to help us bring back on trend.
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And that is, Paul constantly in the New Testament
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writes thank you notes.
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He is constantly saying,
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"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you."
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And I don't think we necessarily have to have
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thank you cards anymore,
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but I think we could shift culture
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if we would intentionally go to the generation
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in front of us and go, "Thank you
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for the witness you were to me.
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Thank you the way I learned how to pray
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because I watched you on your knees."
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I think if everybody watching and all of us just said,
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I could be intentional about it at least once a month.
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I'm gonna write either an email, verbal,
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or a literal thank you note
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to a saint in my house, in the global church,
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and say, "Because of the way I watched you walk
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through this, it made me faithful to my husband
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or it made me learn how to parent more."
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I think we should re-trend thank yous.
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- I'm in. (overlapping chatter)
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- And I think what we're talkin' about,
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I mean I'm so thankful for people
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who've walked in front of me
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and paved this way, and I'm just like,
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"I wanna be like you when I grow up."
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But I also, and you're gonna appreciate this,
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'cause you're the young one in this circle,
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I look back at the people comin' behind us
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and I say, "You guys, I'm proud of you."
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- Oh yeah.
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- I am cheering you on, and I am saying,
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"Come run this race with us." - Absolutely.
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- I see good stuff comin' up.
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(overlapping chatter)
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- Where there was a bunch of young people,
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and my question was, "How were they?"
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- They were amazing.
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I see you Hosanna, and I go, "We're gonna be okay."
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Jesus-taries, We're good.
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- So I think what I'm hearing
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is that we have to be outspoken.
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- Outspoken teenagers, like,
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"I wanna be a speaker. I'm sure you hear this all the time,
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but I wanna be a pastor.
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I'm sure you hear this all the time,
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but I wanna be a speaker."
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I'm like, "Yes, please. Join us.
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There is not enough of us.
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There is not just room for you, there is a need for you.
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Thank you for coming to me. What do you need?
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You have a mentor?
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Bring over your pastor.
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And what do we need?"
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I'm thankful for the road paved before,
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the roads that are gonna be paved after,
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and we have a bride perspective
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of the overall bride, the overall church,
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then we're able to be grateful
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for what's been done, what God is doing,
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what he's going to do.
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- That's right.
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- That's more of a heavenly perspective.
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- We're all on the same team.
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- Amen. Cheers to you.
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(cheering)
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- I think as believers,
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when we live out a life of gratitude,
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that people will come to know Jesus.
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Why? Because the bible says,
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"With loving kindness, I draw men unto me."
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Okay? So it's through our thankfulness, our kindness,
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our love, that people will come to know who Jesus is.
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Let's pray.
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Father God I pray that the lost will
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be able to see who you are
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through the love that we share,
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through the love that we show to you,
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and the love that we show to one another.
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Let us live a life of gratitude
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so that the eyes of people will be opened
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to your love.
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In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
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- Practical ways that we can be grateful women,
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is we can say things out loud.
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We can be grateful verbally in front of our children,
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in front of our spouses, in front of our coworkers.
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I also think we need to be telling people
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that we're grateful for them.
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Looking people in the eyes and saying,
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"Thank you for what you've done for me today."
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And then another one that I think is the most important
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is that we start our day, every day,
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giving thanks to God for what He's given us
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and it sets our hearts upon Him for the rest of the day.
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- I just got kinda overwhelmed
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'cause I love Eva so much,
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and I got real teary, and I said,
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"I hate that chair."
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And she said, "Oh, Lisa.
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She said, "You hate this chair 'cause you love me.
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But you need to know I don't hate this chair anymore.
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I don't even just tolerate this chair anymore.
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I'm grateful to this chair.
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