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If it's fire, it's got to look like fire, feel like fire, smell like fire or something.

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Well, welcome to another Raising Home Fire Secret Place Training session.

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Hope you really enjoy this session, and I hope that this results in you knowing God

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in a deeper and more personal and more connected way.

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Hey guys, welcome to another Secret Place Training session.

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I want to talk to you about something today, something that I practice in my personal prayer

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life that has dramatically blessed me and that has caused me to grow really so much

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depth in terms of my connection with the Lord and my connection, my personal connection

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with God and prayer.

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What I want to talk to you about today is the practice of thankfulness, setting memory

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stones and enlarging the influence of God and the influence of the kingdom of God in

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your life.

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I want to begin by just reading a psalm, Psalm 69 verse 30, not a whole psalm, just a verse

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from a psalm.

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Psalm 69 verse 30, something that King David wrote.

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He said this, I will praise the name of God with a song and I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

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That word magnify literally means to enlarge or to make bigger or to make more powerful.

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What David is, what King David is implying here is that when we neglect the practice

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of thankfulness, we actually decrease the power of God in our lives.

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We don't make God less powerful, but we decrease the influence of God's power in our lives.

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We decrease the size of God in our lives and we decrease the influence of God and his kingdom

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in our lives.

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When we engage in the practices of thankfulness, we actually enlarge the kingdom of God, the

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influence of God, the reality of God, the presence of God, and we grow what God is doing

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in our lives.

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The activity and the influence of God gets deeper and wider in us and over us.

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This is a really powerful thing, the practice of thankfulness.

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I want to take that a step further and talk about the setting of memory stones.

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I want to share just something that happened in my life a few years back.

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I went through about 18 months that were really, really tough.

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I know we all go through hard times in our lives sometimes, and sometimes when we go

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through hard times, I don't know, for me, it was at least easy to neglect the practice

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of thankfulness.

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I started to get kind of bogged down with some of the negative things that were happening

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and I forgot to be thankful for the many, many, many, many amazing and good things that

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were gifts to me and that were happening in my life and gifts from the Lord.

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I remember about 18 months down the journey, it felt like a night season for me.

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It felt like there was just no light around.

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It was just night around, and it felt like a dark season.

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I was kind of in this space of waiting for the sun to rise, waiting for the season to

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change, waiting for the corner to be turned into the next season of my life.

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I was ready for that dark season to be over and to step into the new.

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I remember being in my lounge, I remember worshiping the Lord and praying.

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I was listening to an album by the band House Fires.

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It was a song that I hadn't heard before at the time, the song called Life is a Gift.

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The singer started singing these words, My life is a gift from heaven.

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Every breath is something you've given.

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My life is a gift from heaven.

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Every breath is something you've given.

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As I started singing those words along to the song, I started to realize, man, every

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breath that I'm breathing right now is something I'm not entitled to.

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I don't deserve it.

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I'm not owed it.

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God doesn't need to give it to me.

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He's not required to give it to me, but it's a free gift from heaven.

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It's a free gift from a loving Father.

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That started me off on this tangent of starting to realize that every good thing, every blade

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of grass I get the opportunity to cast my eyes upon, every amazing conversation I've

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had with my kids, every time I've got to kiss them goodnight, every time I've had the privilege

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of a mind that is functioning well, and I've been able to use that mind to think about

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just my wonderful children, my wife, or just the pleasure of life and of knowing God.

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I started to just think about all these things that I was grateful for.

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I started to realize, man, I'm not entitled to any single one of them.

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They're all a gift from heaven.

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They're all a gift from God.

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This gratitude started to rise up within me, and I just went into this wild time of thankfulness.

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I just went into this wild time of thankfulness.

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I was thanking the Lord for everything that was coming to my mind.

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I started to realize the manifest presence of God is coming over me.

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Thankfulness is ushering in the presence of God and the kingdom of God into my living

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room right now, around my life right now.

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And the season, in that exact moment, my season changed.

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I went from night to light.

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I went from dark to day.

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It was as if, not physically, but in the Spirit, it was as if that's the moment that the sun

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That's the moment that I went into a new season in my life.

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That was the moment I turned the corner.

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That was the moment that everything changed for me.

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And in that moment, I realized again, and I was reminded by the Lord, of the extreme

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value of thankfulness and of the consequences that happen in a person's life when we neglect

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to be thankful.

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And I realized that over the 18 months, I hadn't been practicing as much as usual my

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practices of thankfulness.

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So I re-engaged in these practices of thankfulness.

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And like I said, I'm going to talk to you in a moment about the setting of memory stones.

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And everything shifted from that moment on.

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Another amazing Psalm that I want to read to you is Psalm 78.

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And we'll start in verse 40 to 42.

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I'm reading the NASB version, but I'm going to also mention the New King James version.

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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert.

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I had just gone through a desert season.

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I had just gone through a wilderness season.

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Again and again, they tempted God and pained the Holy One of Israel.

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The New King James version says, limited the Holy One of Israel, which I think is probably

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more accurate in this particular context, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

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They did.

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And how did they do that?

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How were they paining?

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How were they limiting?

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How are they tempting God?

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This is how.

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They did not remember his power the day when he redeemed them from the adversary.

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And this is the truth.

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This is the truth, is that when we neglect the practice of thankfulness, we limit the

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power of God.

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When we neglect the practice of thankfulness, it brings pain to God's heart because he loses

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a level of influence in our lives.

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That sets us in a direction that is often not a good direction.

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Here's something that's true, a principle that has helped me and that I pray helps you.

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What you put your attention on, you agree with.

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What you agree with, you empower.

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And what you empower manifests in your life.

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I'll say that again.

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It's a really powerful principle.

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What you put your attention on, you agree with.

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What you agree with, you empower.

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And what you empower manifests in your life.

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Selah.

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One of the things I do, as I said, is I practice the practice of thankfulness.

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And one of the ways I do that is I have a practice of setting memory stones.

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We each get to decide how our story is told, first of all, to ourselves, and secondly,

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to others.

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We get to choose what reference points and what marker points we hammer in to things

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that we've experienced in the past in order to be reference points for us for the future.

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And one of the ways I do this as well is both in my personal life and also when I'm leading

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teams overseas, mission teams and things like that, ministry teams, is that whenever I'm

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leading a team, we always do a debrief at the end of each day.

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And in that debrief, we always do some certain things.

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Some of the things we do is we go through and we talk about the stuff that was challenging,

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difficult, disappointing, hard.

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We never neglect to talk about that.

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We're always open to talking about that.

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We never want to be sweeping that under the rug.

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We want to deal with that head on.

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So we always have a moment where people can go around and share what was challenging,

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what was hard, and they're going to share their hearts vulnerably and honestly, and

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we value that time.

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And we process that and we go through that, and then we say, okay, if we finish it, we're

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done, finished, good.

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If it still needs to be talked about, maybe we'll carry the conversation on the next day

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or the next time we meet, but that's done.

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Then we always end on this.

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We always end on what's a celebration point for you, what's a thankfulness point for you,

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what are you stoked on, what is a victory for you, what is something that you overcame,

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what's a breakthrough for you from today?

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And we go around the group and the group always shares something that was a breakthrough,

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something that was amazing, a testimony, something that God did, something that they witnessed,

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something that happened, an amazing experience they had.

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And what I say at the end of the day,

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at time as I say, okay, guys, we've just talked about the stuff we found hard and we've talked

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about the stuff we found amazing.

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What we're going to do is we're not going to hammer our tent pegs in.

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We're not going to put our anchors down into the negative.

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We acknowledge that that happened, but that's not where we're sitting our reference point.

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That's not where we're sitting our marker point for how we're going to tell the story

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of our lives.

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What we're going to do is we're going to hammer our pegs in.

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We're going to put our anchors down.

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We're going to set our memory stones on the goodness of God, on the victories of God,

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on the breakthroughs of God, and on the things that we're thankful for.

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They are going to be our reference points.

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When we go to tell the story, we're going to refer back not to the negative stuff, but

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we're going to refer back.

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We're not denying that the negative stuff happened.

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We're not sweeping it under the rug, but we're referring back primarily to the goodness of

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God.

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That's how our story is going to be told.

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At the end of most years, what I often do, well, pretty much what I always do, is I go

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through a time of just reflecting upon the year that I've just lived.

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I sit down with the Lord, and I just have a prayer time, and me and God talk about and

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reflect upon and review the year that I've just had with Him.

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At the end of most of those years, I can do two things.

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The first thing I can do is I can look back, and I can say, man, I have evidence that that

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was a really, really, really, really, really, really, really bad year.

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Look, I can look at this.

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I can look at this.

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I can look at this.

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This happened, this happened, this happened, and this happened.

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And that's evidence that I had a horrible year.

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And the other thing that I can do is this, is I can look back on my year and I can find

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concrete, solid, firm evidence that it was an amazing, glorious, if not the best year

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of my life.

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I can look back.

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Man, look at that, look at that, look at that, look at that, look at that, look at that,

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and look at that.

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That is amazing.

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This has been one of the best years of my life.

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I can do both things.

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And I get to choose where I set my memory stones up.

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I get to choose what reference points I put in my past that are references for me telling

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my story into the future.

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And what I choose to do is I always choose to hammer my tent pegs in and to set my memory

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stones up upon the ground of the goodness of God, on what God has done, on what God

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is doing, on the blessings that I've received, and on the things that I'm grateful and thankful

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for.

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Because as you do that, you grow the influence and power of God and reality and manifestation

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of God in your life.

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Whatever you put your attention on, you agree with, whatever you agree with, you empower,

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and whatever you empower manifests in your life.

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Setting your memories and setting your memory stones in the right place of your past sets

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you up to be thankful.

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And thankfulness, when it's practiced and setting memory stones up, allows you to practice

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it in a deeper and more expressive way.

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When you practice thankfulness, the kingdom of God and the influence of God and the manifestation

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of God gets bigger over your life.

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So I want to encourage you, choose how you will tell your story.

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Choose the reference points that you put in place, and start to think about some things

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you can do, and some ways that you can practice thankfulness in your life, and the setting

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of memory stones as a part of your prayer life.

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What we're going to do now is we're going to go into an activation time, and we're going

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to activate on thankfulness, and we're going to activate on setting memory stones.

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So God bless you.

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What about this baptism of fire thing?

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What does that mean?

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Because like, if it's fire, it's got to look like fire, feel like fire, smell like fire.

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Well I hope you enjoyed that session.

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Right now we're going to go into a time of activation, where we take what's been taught

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in the session, and lead you through an activation that will take what's been taught, and bring

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you into the experience of that.

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We're going to begin a practice of thankfulness.

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This is something you could apply to your own personal prayer life.

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There's many ways to practice thankfulness, and this is one of them.

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I want to encourage you, whatever you do, find a way that you can practice thankfulness

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on a daily basis in your own prayer life.

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For now, this is the activation.

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What I want you to do, is I want you to find some space, and I want you to write down.

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This is a thankfulness challenge for you.

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I want you to get a pen and paper, or a file on your iPhone, or iPad, or computer, or some

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way of writing this down.

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I want you to write down 78, why 78?

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Because we just read Psalm 78.

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I want you to write down 78 things that you are thankful for.

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78 things that you're thankful for.

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Take a couple of minutes, where you might need more than a couple of minutes.

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a couple, you might need 10 or so minutes

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to write down 78 things that you're thankful for.

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Awesome, now you've written those 78 things.

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Thanks for doing that.

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I want you just to read through that list,

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and I just want you to spend some time

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just pointing that thankfulness,

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pointing that gratitude towards God,

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pointing that gratitude towards the Lord

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and saying, God, thank you.

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I didn't deserve, I wasn't owed,

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and I wasn't entitled to any of these things,

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but all of these were beautiful gifts

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from an extravagant Father.

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Thank you, and I just want you to just take a moment

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just to be thankful for what's on your list.

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Awesome, and the last thing that I'm gonna ask you to do

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is I'm gonna ask you to look through that list,

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and if there is anything on your list

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that is a moment from the past,

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something that you're thankful for

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that's happened to you in the past,

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something that God's done in your life,

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something that is a breakthrough moment for you

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that's happened already,

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then what I wanna encourage you to do

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is I want to encourage you to just highlight

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at least three or four of those moments

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that are on your list right there.

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or things that have happened,

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then just think about what some of those things might be,

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and I want you to take three or four,

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and what I want you to do is I want you to set them

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as memory stones in your life,

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and to do that, what I'm gonna ask you to do

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is some homework.

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I want you to take those three or four things

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that God has done in the past that you're thankful for,

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those breakthrough moments, those moments of victory,

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those moments of, man, I'm so grateful

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that God you did that in my life,

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and I want you to take those,

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and I want you to write them in a separate list,

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a short list, three or four,

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and for the next week,

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I want you to write over those four things

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with thankfulness.

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I want you to take those four things,

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and I just want you to start to replay them in your mind,

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replay them in your heart,

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replay them in your prayer life,

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and point the thankfulness and gratitude towards the Lord,

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and just see what that does in your life.

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It does amazing things.

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All right, God bless you,

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and we'll see you next week.

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