"Gratitude is so Gangsta: Evicting the Entitlement Effect w/ Yolanda Stith" S1 Ep20

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Ancient Roman statesman Cicero accurately said,

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what starts his gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends in entitlement.

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As a society, we seemingly have involved to the point where we can customize our circumstances

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according to how we wish it to be, fashioning our world to favoring our whims.

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Yet when we live in a way that we believe we deserve, we actually knock God out of the center of our lives.

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Gratitude is a currency that secures more blessings and places you in the favor of the Father.

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In this episode of Kicker 100, we go into Thanksgiving week talking about gratitude,

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entitlement, and having a wisdom window with special guest Yolanda Stith.

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What's good family? We are Sean and Christa Smith.

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Hey everybody and welcome to another exciting episode of Keeper 100.

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You are in for the Taster's Choice Pod experience today.

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We are so looking forward to this conversation but before we dive into that,

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I want to talk to the Keeper 100 tribe and kind of share with them where we've been the last week.

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We've had such an incredible week with the Lord.

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Yes, we have. We began at Fresh Start, an incredible church just outside the Phoenix,

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Arizona area. Some great friends of ours, the Owens.

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Yeah, truly. We just saw God do some incredible things. Christa, you really got touched.

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Oh my goodness. Keeper 100 tribe, you got to know. I had a genuine encounter with God that I have

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never had in my whole life. I literally had electricity from the Lord like voltage going

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through my body. I ended up not even preaching that night. I just ministered. I prophesied.

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I flowed. I laid hands on people. I mean, there was just the flow of the Holy Spirit was incredible.

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And the word you brought was so profound. People were so impacted. There were salvations.

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There were healings. There were deliverances. It was a true Holy Ghost service. And it was really

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cool because a father walked up to me with his young son, Osman. And the interesting thing is

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a previous time when I was at the church, I prayed for Osman who he ranked on the autistic spectrum.

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And after praying for him, his dad took him back and they ran a battery test on Osman and he no

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longer is on the autistic spectrum. He's in regular class. He's smart. He's intelligent. We got a

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chance to hug him and talk to him. And I so love the fact that Jesus healed little Osman.

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It is so amazing. I mean, I really want to keep it 100 tribe to grab ahold of that testimony because

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I know there's so many people that, you know, that is their story. They have an autistic child or they

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know someone that has an autistic child. And here is a medically verified healing of a child that

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was once on the spectrum is no longer medically on the spectrum. Oh my goodness. And right from there,

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we went to Dallas because we were a part of a Mama Cindy Jacobs call together a global

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prophetic council. We're probably 40 or less different leaders and generals. We got together

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and we just prayed about this upcoming year and share what we felt God was placing in our hearts.

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Powerful. And then we stuck around and we were part of the global prophetic summit.

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They had probably a thousand people in attendance and multiplied, multiplied thousands of people

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that watched it around the world. And Christ and I got a chance to have a session amongst this

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powerful conference of generals. It was such an honor to be speaking in that lineup. There's

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so many of these people I've just always looked up to and admired and to just be able to minister

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alongside them. I'm just like, wow, God's like, you know, it's funny as we're flying back on the

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plane. I just was just so grateful for opportunity that in that week of ministry, because it was

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about eight days there that God allowed us to just be with friends, new friends, but old friends

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and just see God move like that. And that Thanksgiving just welled up in my heart. Speaking

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of Thanksgiving, here we come. That's right. You know, it's always humorous to see how people gather

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together at their homes with their families, their friends, and they stop and they give thanks

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before they carve the turkey. But it's always interesting to see how quickly that Thanksgiving

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fades from Thursday to Black Friday. And all of a sudden we mourn from dinner table gratitude to

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fighting Fred at Walmart for a flat screen over a doorbuster special because we feel that we're

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entitled to that deal. Isn't that funny? Oh, it is. And it's really funny. You called them Fred

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at Walmart. That's hilarious. But it is. Isn't that funny how we shift from this day of like

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family and gathering and so much gratitude and it's like warm, fuzzy, feel good to people like

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all out war and videos that go viral on Black Friday fights. I mean, it's great. It's like the

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battle of Black Friday. Yes. You know, it's so interesting because, you know, we're talking

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about gratitude today, but the antithesis, the opposite of gratitude is entitlement. And, you

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know, the truth is with the bigger our sense of entitlement is the smaller the sense of our

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gratitude is. And our gratitude disappears and entitlement reappears when we believe and work

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from a place that we think we deserve something. So true. And, you know, the word entitlement has

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so become a part of our modern culture these days where we believe, you know, what we need and want

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is actually owed to us. And when we don't get what we feel like we should have been given, we believe

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we've been treated unfairly and therefore insert entitlement. We have seen that over and over again

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in modern culture. In fact, that leads me to this fact I found that wasn't that long ago several

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years back, the two siblings, 23 and 20 years of age, sued their mother. What? Claiming that she

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was negligent and caused them emotional distress. Oh my. Now get this, Christa, they sued their maternal

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figure for bad mothering because she didn't send her son a care package at college. What? She didn't

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buy her daughter an expensive homecoming dress. What? The siblings said in court, there must be

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an accountability for her actions. There must be an accountability for their actions. What are you

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talking about? And get this, these two young 20 year olds were being raised by their father who's

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worth $1.5 billion. You got to be kidding me. Living in a Barrington Hills home. Stop it. And of course,

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their lawsuit was tossed out of court. Oh, absolutely, as it should have been. That is crazy.

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These wealthy, wealthy children are suing their mom because they weren't given what they thought

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they should have deserved a care package and a homecoming dress. My Southern black grandma would

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have took care of that real quick. Just saying. Ethel, Ethel to the rescue on that one. I tell

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you what, you know, it's so true. You see these crazy scandals about entitlement, you know, the

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one I'm reminded of and it happened somewhat in, you know, recently and remember admission gate.

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And it was when multiple celebrities, you know, were charged and I believe it was actually more

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than 50 people if memory serves me right, were charged with participating in the college admission

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scandal and it was a scheme involving bribery, money laundering and all these parents paid approximately

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a collective $25 million to bribe universities on behalf of their children's acceptance and

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admissions. And you know, even one of the actresses actually did her 14 days serving at a federal

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correction center, which was only 10 minutes from our house. Shout out to the Dublin correction

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facilities. You know, it reminds me of this thought. Some people are born on third base and think

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they hit a triple. They don't realize that it wasn't them that got themselves there. And speaking of

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a baseball metaphors, the San Francisco giants were once sued for passing out Father's Day gifts

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to men only. Now, Hallmark has made sure of it that no matter who you are, you got a day or a

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month to celebrate you. Can you imagine suing a professional? Here's another one. A psychic was

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awarded close to $1 million. So she won this when a doctor's CAT scan impaired her psychic abilities.

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Am I responsible to that? She should have saw it coming. That's hilarious and very witty. I love

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that. You know, entitlement can leave you constantly feeling angry, resentful or frustrated by others

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because if you actually believe that someone owes you something and that person doesn't come through,

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do you feel like you've been ripped off and cheated out of what you rightly deserve? You're

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always going to be living in a place of frustration and not in peace. Keep it 100. We have our new

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segment that we introduced last week called the 100% segment or like we love to do in modern culture.

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We have a nickname for it. We call it the Hondo P segments. So our discussion topic for this

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episode is what do you think contributes to our ingratitude and entitlement as a culture? Well,

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you know, what's interesting about this, my mind and the way I'm wired is I a lot of times look

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historically of how trends have been created in order to understand modern day society,

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modern day culture. And one thing I learned was after World War II, the United States experienced

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an unprecedented economic growth and the baby boomers became the largest population at that time,

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and they experienced the highest consumer market because the baby boomers were the largest population

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and they on average were making more money than the average income than past generations. They

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begin this consumerism of the best cars, the nicer house, everything began to go up a level with the

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baby boomer generation where it was always kind of that keeping up with the Joneses, that high

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consumerism, that high buying, less saving. And you barely begin to see that trend be passed on

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from the boomer generation and all. And so when that's passed on to their kids, they begin to

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call that the American dream. And so that sense of entitlement has been pedaled very profitably by

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advertisers all over our society, really in every sphere of our society. And it's created an expectation

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that the standard of living would always be better than your parents. But here's what's crazy. For the

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first time in history, the millennial generation not exceeding the livelihood or income that their

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parents have lived at, the millennials are not living at a better place. And historically, the

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generations have followed have always had a better income than the previous generations. So we're

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seeing now a downtrend of that. But one of the initial trends historically was the baby boomers.

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And that's really affected current modern day culture of the American dream is high materialism,

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high spending. You know, you said something really that triggered me. And you just said,

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hey, the parents passed something on to their kids. And so as much as it's easy to point at the

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emerging generation and talk about their title, their this, their that, I don't know that the

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blame should be placed as much on just one generation. When you look at it, you have to admit

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parents have contributed to this. I think about when I was growing up, boo, and my grandmother

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would make vegetables I didn't like like lima beans, very southern black eyed peas. Right. Right.

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Right. And I didn't want to eat it. But my grandmother would make me eat it. I could not

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leave the table if in fact she had made a dessert, I wasn't going to have the dessert. And there was

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no throwing a fit and having my way. It's like you eat this or you don't eat. Right. Right. And

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my grandma take a step beyond that. You're going to eat it no matter what because you need your

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vegetables. I think about there's come on the scene a generation that moms or dads cook the

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kids meals. The kids didn't like it. So the kids threw a tantrum and forced their parents to make

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them something else. Or maybe I should say their parents capitulated and made them something else.

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And then these same kids, they were getting cell phones, nice cell phones before they even got to

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junior high. And then when they got to junior high, they had to get the $175 sneakers because

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everyone else had it. And then I was reading this one article that said participation trophies. And I

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thought about participation trophies. It's like the one kid is overplaying with caterpillars,

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didn't really want to be on the team. He didn't even really want to play the sport. And he got

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the same trophy as a kid that made every practice, played hard and did everything. And this one

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article was calling and it was by behavioral experts was calling in the question and they said

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participation trophies are a false representation of how life works. And so all of a sudden,

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maybe you think you're supposed to get the trophy, but you haven't worked to get the trophy.

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Right. And then as you grow up, you never lose that. And then you combine that with the presence

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of victimhood culture where we've turned a grievance into a fad. If you've been hurt and you've been

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wounded, you have a platform, you become an authority, everybody hears you and you may not

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even have a solution. You just have a problem. And I think about even in the church, people are

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saying, Lord, I've followed you for 17 years and I'm still believing for a mate. How can you allow

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that person hasn't even been saved two years to already be getting married? And it's almost a merit

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thing. But what happens is many people walk away from the Lord because God didn't give them what

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they wanted, when they wanted. So they said God didn't work for them. But for many, the reason why

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God didn't work is because he was never made Lord of their lives. And what happens in that point

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is that God was just a means to get what they felt entitled to. And if God's just a means to get

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you what you think you're entitled to, he's not your God. He's a genie to you and you need to make

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him Lord. You know, it's something else to really break entitlement because you just hit something

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so key. It's like, if someone doesn't get what they want, they're automatically like, oh my gosh,

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God doesn't work for me. I'm going to do my own thing. But I really believe in the timing of God.

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The timing of the Lord will break that entitlement because when you trust God, you have to surrender

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and surrender breaks entitlement because you're recognizing his ways are not your ways, his ways

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are higher. Surrender breaks entitlement. And when we live from a place of entitlement, we're not

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surrendering, right? And so that's so important for us to understand when you have that attitude

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toward God of it's not this way. And you kind of feel that adult tantrum coming on. And we've all

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gone there. You know, some of us less than others, like probably my husband's never had one because

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he's like so, so kind. On the other hand, it probably definitely at times been like, God,

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why? You know, but I think what's so important in that process is understanding. I have, that's

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one thing I've learned in my life is the timing of God, which is so, so, so important in the trusting

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of seeing God's plans and purposes in your life. So when things don't go in the way you,

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you want or hope or even prayed for, you know, in the end, God's going to work it out. I think

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that's important, you know, for our listeners to really grab ahold of today. You know, researchers

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have also proven what most parents really knew instinctively that gratitude doesn't come naturally

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to people and especially kids. They did a study, which I thought was really cool, that children

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spontaneously say hi 27% of the time, goodbye 25% of the time and thanks only 7% of the time. So,

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you know, the really the conclusion from that research is children had a much more difficult

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time learning how to say thank you. And I think that's a really telling trait of humans. It's of

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the human race. We are quick to say hello, goodbye, but not so much thank you that gratitude is a

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learned trait and it's not just a learned trait. It has to be a learned lifestyle. With that being

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said, we want to jump into an incredible conversation with Yolanda Stith. We love this woman. She is

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a lead pastor of all nations worship assembly in Baltimore, Maryland. She has, she has authored

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multiple books and she is a mover shaker in the kingdom. God, this woman is a woman of wisdom.

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She has transformed so many lives, including Sean and I's. We can't wait for you

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to enjoy this conversation with apostle Yolanda.

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Amazing. Come on Yolanda. One of my favorite, favorite, favorite people and to have this

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woman's voice on our podcast is truly an honor when Sean and I were talking about who do we want to

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have contribute to the gratitude conversation? Yolanda was like our pick number one. So I was

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like, I'm going to send her a message and see if I can get her on. And she said, yes. So Yolanda,

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welcome. Thank you so much for inviting me on your podcast. Yes. Yes. Thanksgiving is one of my

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favorite topics. So thank you. Right. Well, you know, the reason is you carry it and you really

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embody gratitude. And we've seen that in you and our time we've shared together and just being able

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to partner with you and so much that God's put in you. But I have some questions for you. Is

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it okay if I just dive in? Yes. All right. Awesome. So, you know, we're talking about gratitude and the

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power of gratitude and why it's so significant for people's life. And in such a tricky year,

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like we've been in 2020, I think gratitude for many of us has been a little more scarce or something

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you had, you've had to be a lot more intentional about, right? Yes. So for you in 2020, what is the

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thing that you're most grateful for excluding God and your family? I think the thing that I'm most

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grateful for is health and strength. I've seen so many people impacted by this year, all that's been

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going on, and I've counseled so many people that are on the brink of mental breakdowns and different

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things. It's so true. The body of Christ included. And so I've just every day felt such a sense of

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gratitude about God just keeping our mind, right? We're blessed to have our mind kept in just in

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the perfect peace of God. Yes. And I've been through things. I've gone through so many different

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trials this year, but my saving grace has been the power of thanksgiving. And so that's what I'm

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grateful for. Yeah. Oh, that is so, that's so good. You know, it's so true. And I think, would you

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agree that when we really practice gratitude, it shifts obviously your mind, right? Because what

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your mouth declares, it shifts your internal atmosphere. You're so right. I've been in moments

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where one specific attack hit our family. And I remember just consistently, like for three days,

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thinking about it. And I was sinking. And all of a sudden, I felt the Holy Spirit just overshadowed

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me. And he said, I want you to begin to give thanks. And I began to give thanks from the depths of

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my soul. And when I tell you, it shifted everything about how I felt even about the situation. And

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I just began to thank God that it could have been worse, but we overcame. And so my peace was found

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in thanksgiving. That is so good. Having counseled so many people, fighting the brink of just kind

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of that breakdown. So many people have been attacked mentally, like what you're saying,

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you've walked your own battles this year, I've walked my own battles. I think we can all agree.

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You know, it's been a challenge. What has been kind of your counsel for people in the area of

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what they can be grateful for during this time? I think my counsel, number one, is reflecting

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just on the goodness of God, because God, he's never changing. That's not predictable, but he is

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still the same. And that's one of the things we have to do. I felt that very strongly when I was

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thinking about this question, he is still the same. And I remember reflecting on just the

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sameness of God, he's not predictable, but he is consistent. And we see this all throughout the

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scripture, where the end result is we overcome, we overcome because of the testimonies of the saints,

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because of the blood, we overcome because God has a consistent track record with these people of

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bringing us through. He has already given us the victory. Come on, already, we know the end result

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of everything, and it's going to be victory. And so I think thanksgiving is directly connected

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with peace and remembering that God is still in charge is a saving place. Yeah.

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That is a profound statement you just said. I'm like, I want you to preach that one day,

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that he is the same, but he's unpredictable. He can surprise you at any moment. He can change

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things in a moment. I always wake up every day you'll want to, with that hope for the things I'm

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believing for, for those breakthrough. Like, God, at any time, today could be the day.

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And I just have that, that, you know, it's like, he is the same. He is the God of breakthrough.

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He's bell pairs him, the Lord who sees me. And yet he's unpredictable in a great way,

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because in any moment it can turn, and yet I can rely on his faithfulness and his goodness.

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We know what Philippians says, Philippians four and six says, do not be anxious for anything,

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but in every situation by prayer and petition with thanksgiving. Yeah, come on, present your request

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to God and the peace of God, which transcends all understanding. And so the peace of this

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peace that's connected to this thanksgiving, it transcends all understanding. And so that means that

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even when our breakthrough doesn't come, we know that he is right on the brink of doing it for us.

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And so we can hold on to the fact that he is the God of breakthrough.

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Yes. I know you all can't see Yolanda and I, but right now I'm like cheering her on. I'm,

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I put my hand in the air and I gave her a praise on that because that's so good. That is so good.

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I love that. You know, in our culture, there's so many things that mitigate against being grateful.

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But what do you feel like those top things are that really fight against being,

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being really having a culture because it's a culture. It's a lifestyle of gratitude. It's not

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a one time moment. What do you think that looks like for our culture today? I think two key things

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are self centeredness and entitlement. Hit that break that down. Yolth, centeredness and entitlement.

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We live in a world that tells us to create your own lane, do it your own self, just make it happen.

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And it takes our reliance off of God and it puts it on ourself. And so we think that we are our own

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God or we made it our own way, done it within our own strength. It totally removes God from the picture.

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And so when we've been taught to be creators of our own lanes and not wait for God to open the door

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it's a do it yourself type of culture. Sometimes we can create that very self centered attitude,

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which totally takes us from the reliance upon God. When we learn to rely upon God,

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it brings us into the sense of Thanksgiving. So in our culture, especially, well, I won't say what

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generation I've seen this in the most, but in this. Well, that will go on smoking right now.

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I have a feeling what you're talking about. Like people, you know, it's unjust, so

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engrossed in my own pain and so engrossed in my own thing. And what's not happening for me,

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that I forget that God is still worthy of the praise. Come on, that we base our ability to

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praise and worship based on how we feel. Yes. And nothing could be further from the truth.

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Right. Because if I relied on how I felt to praise God, there would be some days that there

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wouldn't be some praising, but it's when I haven't felt like it, when I've leaned into it, that's

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what's actually shifted me to come into alignment with him. And then when I come into alignment

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with him, it's like my perspective, my eyes get off myself, right? And I think so many times our

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eyes have to get off ourselves in order to worship, right? Yes, it's called the sacrifice of praise.

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Oh, come on. Given God the sacrifice of praise, it's beyond how we feel. He deserves it because

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he's God. And I think that sometimes we forget that he is the creator of the universe and that

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we were created to do this very thing. Yes, life circumstances, pain and everything has a way of

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being able, we're having the power to smother that, but it takes the sacrifice, which is just

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like you said, when we remove ourselves from this situation and remember that he is God.

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Oh, that's so profound and deepest. If one of our listeners grabs the hold of that today,

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that there at times is a sacrifice of praise. And yet the breakthrough that happens as we praise and

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we position ourselves in gratitude, it shifts everything. I really believe that there are

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realms that get opened up to us in the heavens with gratitude. For you, in what ways have you seen

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that? Observe that in your life and other people's lives that when gratitude is expressed, it opens up

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the realms of heaven. A few months ago, I ministered from a title called Into His Gates,

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and that one is a revelatory series about the heavens opening up when we praise, right? And so

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we read what Psalms 100 verses four through five, it gives us the revelation about entering into the

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gates or the portal of glory through Thanksgiving. And so it says, enter into his gates with Thanksgiving

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and towards course of praise, give thanks to him and praise his name. Thanksgiving is the key

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that will unlock the doors of God's blessing in our life. It will unlock the doors of great breakthrough.

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We enter into this realm of Thanksgiving. It gets the attention of heaven, but it also gets the

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attention of hell. And it is actually warfare when you learn to give the offering of Thanksgiving

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in the midst of hell in circumstances. We see this in the book of Acts, and slow me down if you want

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to, but we see this in... This is awesome, go. We see this in the book of Acts where Paul and Silas

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and they pray and the Bible says that they sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard them,

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and suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prisons were shaken.

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And then what happened? God released an angel. There was an angelic assistance that was released

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as a result of Paul and Silas' praise. They were in a circumstance that they could not get out on

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their own, but when they learned to praise him and give thanksgiving, offer thanksgiving to God

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in the midst of their circumstances, great breakthrough happened, heaven responded, and

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all that witnessed were astounded because God came through. And I honestly feel like that's

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a word for us right now. That is. Because I feel like we've been in a situation, we've been in these

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situations all throughout this year, and we've needed God to come through in my own life.

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I needed God to come through for me. I have been under pressure, and I knew it because there was

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another place that God was going to open up for me. And nevertheless, it was still pressure.

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And I knew that I needed God to intervene. And so in the midst of the pressure, in the midst of what

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appeared to be bondage, I had to give God the praise and offer up songs and offer up gratitude

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because it could have been worse. Great is his faithfulness to what he is. Amen. Because he came

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through, right? He came through. Yes. For us all, we're sitting here, we're conversing. My family

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has their health, their strength. We're all strong. We've not lacked one thing because God

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right? Yes. Right. Okay, come on. I mean, I think you just preached and we all literally just had

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an encounter. I tell you what, because that just came out of you because of who you are and what

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you carry. And you have battled, I can tell, right? You know, when you hear someone's story,

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when you hear someone's testimony and they walk in an authority, it's often because they've battled

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for the breakthrough in that area. It's like, I hear the gratitude come out of you. I hear

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the praise and the worship, the sacrifice of those things come out of your life. But you know, it's

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like for you and I, for our listeners today, it's like, hear what apostle Yolanda just released

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over you. And that is when we praise and we worship and not only breaks the chains of the enemy,

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the chains of captivity, but it also sets those free around us because what I love in Act 16

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is every prison door opened, not just Paul and Silas' but every prison door. I mean, every prison

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door. It's like we change atmospheres not only for ourselves, but literally everyone that we come

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in contact with. You know, you're coming into your workplace, your family, your friends, whomever,

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your grocery store, your Starbucks, whatever. It's like when we walk into an atmosphere and we release

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the praise of the Lord, we literally shake the foundations of what the enemy thought he had set.

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We shift the foundations and there is an openness of the heavenly realm. And I love what you brought

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out and you highlighted that the angels were released, right? The ministering angels were

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dispersed when the praise of heaven was released. And I believe for some people, as you release your

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praise, the angels are getting dispatched. I believe in the angels of the Lord being sent to

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come alongside us and minister and to be activated, right? And so I believe there's an activation of

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the angelic realm that happens in our praise. And so, you know, I believe there's some people that

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are listening right now in your home or in your car, your workplace, and you just need to start

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thanking God like Rhonda reminded us, you know, be reminded of what God has done. He might be

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unpredictable, but he's exactly the same. Come on. Yeah. I tell you what, Apostle Yolanda, you are a

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woman of wisdom and revelation. I know we're just getting a small piece of the well that is within

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you today. But I know from this conversation, there's so many of our listeners are going to be like,

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I want more of this woman. She's incredible because that's exactly how I felt the first time I met you.

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I was like, I want to be this woman's friend. I pray she wants to be my friend because I just love

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who you are. What you carry. So how can people get in touch with you? Tell us about your ministry.

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You've authored an incredible book. You have a podcast as well. I'd love for people to be able

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to connect with you. I just want to say thank you and you are my friend. You are so beautiful.

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I honor you. I honor Sean. Thank you so much for having me. Well, my podcast is Junius Table Live,

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with Yolanda Stiff. You may find that on any of our podcast outlets. And my website is www.yolandastiff.com.

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You'll see all resources there. Finally, I have two books, one newly released called Jail's Tent.

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And if you are a woman that has been born for the frontline, I would like you to get that book.

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Thank you. All women need to get that book. Yes. Thank you so much. I tell you what, thanks so much

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for coming and having this conversation with us. And you are such an empowerment to the body of

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Christ. Keep doing what you're doing. And I know you've been fighting on the front lines, but no,

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Sean and I love you. We support you. Can't wait to continue to partner with you. Thank you so much.

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Yo, that was so powerful. Yolanda, man, she just came, comes from such a deep place. I love how

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authentic, how real she is. You could tell she has lived that. There is traction to the things that

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she's saying and not to continually hit our theme. But man, Keep Your 100. She kept it 100 in that

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interview. She really did. As always, Keep Your 100 Tribe, we want to give you the Keep Your 100

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takeaways. In this episode, we're focusing on gratitude. First takeaway that we want to give

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you is gratitude is where you begin to experience God in a powerfully personal way. I think that's

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so important because many people that don't understand that you come into God's presence

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with thanksgiving in your heart, they never get to enter into a deeper place of God's presence

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because they've never learned gratitude. If you want an encounter with God, begin to express

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thanksgiving and praise. The Lord inhabits the praises of His people. And that reminds me of one

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of our core values. And it really comes from the story in the gospels where Jesus healed 10 lepers.

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And leprosy was, of course, at that time, an incurable disease apart from Jesus healing you,

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God healing you, you would die of that. It's far more contagious than any other disease in the

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history of mankind. And Jesus walked up upon a leper colony of 10 lepers. And He said,

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hey, go show yourself to priests. So they began to walk away. And the narrative of the passage would

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indicate that they were healed as they went. So I love what you said earlier. It's a process of

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time. We want it now, but maybe there's a process. That's right. When they discovered they were healed,

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it's the funniest thing happened. Only one out of the 10 lepers turn, return to Jesus to say thanks.

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When Jesus saw him, He says, was there, was there not 10 lepers that were healed? Where are they?

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And the one leper, of course, couldn't answer for the rest of them. But the interesting part of the

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passage is nine of the lepers were Jewish, like Jesus was Jewish. And obviously, saw him as a rabbi.

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So maybe they felt a bit entitled that, hey, we're Jewish. And the one leper that did return to say

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thanks was Samaritan. So he probably felt unworthy. So he said, thanks. And so my core value is that I

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always think about the one leper. I want to be the one leper return to Jesus says, thank you.

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And if you could thank Jesus, you can connect with Jesus. And from that, at that point, you move from

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the cuts to the condo of intimacy, which is my way of saying you move from the outer courts to the

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inner courts. I will enter into His gates with thanks, give Him to my heart. And gratitude creates

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an opportunity for further blessing because that one leper not only got healed, Jesus basically

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used the word sozo, which really meant that he was delivered. He was redeemed. He entered in a

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covenant. All that happened to the Samaritan leper because he returned to say thank you.

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You know, another takeaway about gratitude is gratitude defies Satan's lies. The enemy always

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wants to distort who God is. But gratitude always reminds you actually of who God is. And you know,

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when the devil's whispering that God's withholding something good from you, he's not going to come

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through. He begins to distort the character of God. What does gratitude do? It puts it back in

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perspective. It reminds you of who our God is. It makes God big. And the obstacles battle small.

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When I need to be reminded of who God is in the midst of obstacle or obstacles that I'm facing

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against the things that are coming against me, I begin to worship and I begin to praise him,

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which is a posture of gratitude. And it's the posture of gratitude that shifts me from anxiety

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to peace. And it also teaches us to discipline our thoughts because you know, the word talks

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about taking thoughts captive. This is how I take thoughts captive. This is how our listeners can take

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thoughts captive is when you're in a place of gratitude, it forces you to meditate and be

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reminded of the memorials of when God has answered your prayer, when he's come through, who he is,

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what he has done in the past. And it puts it back in perspective that God is going to come through

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because he's true to his word and he cannot deny himself or his word or his promises. And when we're

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in from a place of gratitude, it reduces anxiety, which I love that because so many people struggle

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with anxiety. You want to break anxiety in your life, it increased the gratitude in your life.

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Yep. And gratitude also erodes envy and comparison, which is so important. Yes, it is. In a social

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media world where we are so looking at the highlight reel of people's life and we can often compare

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one another like they have this, they have that. And you know, we've all been there and done that,

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but the way you break it is number one, just sometimes put away your social media. And then

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number two, go into a place of thanking the Lord for what he's done in your life. And when you

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begin to see the faithfulness and the goodness of God in your own personal life, it makes you stop

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comparing what other people have and what everyone else has is better than what you have. No, no,

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God has blessed you in your life. And having that practice of gratitude is so important to break

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envy and comparison. You know, a truly grateful person learns how to train their thinking to jump

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to gratitude instead of grumbling. You can actually change your default setting in your life from

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grumbling to gratitude. That's so good. When gratitude becomes a normal daily practice,

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because not a moment, it's actually a lifestyle. And you know, really, I'll end with this and I

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want to jump to the last takeaway. Gratitude gives us an eternal purpose. It sets our eyes on who God

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is and who our Lord is and what better is that to then to be daily reminded of the goodness and

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the bigness of our God. You know, last takeaway with about gratitude is gratitude. And this is one

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of my favorites, attracts the miraculous. It keeps us continually aware that the Lord is close by

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and our dependence upon him alone. And I love this because gratitude focuses our attention on him

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rather than our circumstances. You know, and John 1144 talks about how Jesus gave thanks before

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raising Lazarus from the dead. I love that. That is so great. Right? Before the miracle took place,

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Jesus thanked the Father, which again, I said this earlier that gratitude is an expression of praise,

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is an expression of worship. And that is a place, an atmosphere that hosts the miraculous. And what

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I love is the angels are dispatched in our praise and in our worship. And what I love is the Spirit

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of God came and raised Lazarus from the dead as Jesus gave thanks to the Father. And as you and I

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give thanks in situations that seem dead and need resurrection, just like Jesus, we can see things

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resurrected when we give thanks to the Father. Gratitude hosts the miraculous. It invites the

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miraculous into our situations. And lastly, in John 6 11, we also see Jesus giving thanks again

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before the miracle of multiplying the fish and the loaves. I just want to reiterate that point.

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You need a miracle in your life. You need breakthrough in your life. I challenge you

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to begin to worship, to praise and make declarations of gratitude of what God has done in your life.

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And I tell you what, there's going to be an unleashing and an unlocking of the miraculous realm

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because of the multiplication, the miracle power, miracle working power of God in our lives,

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I believe is partnered with the declaration of our mouths and our hearts. For those of you

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that are listening, you have a challenge before you to be like that one leper that your life

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is continually returning back to Jesus to say thank you, that you may live in a world of entitlement,

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but the world of entitlement doesn't have to live in you. And this crucial component of gratitude

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is so pivotal and foundational to your life that if you allow this to really sink deep inside of you,

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I believe they could truly revolutionize your life from this point on. Keep it 100 tribe. We

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relief may change your circumstances, but a revelation will change you.