{"id":301920,"date":"2009-11-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/whom-are-you-going-to-trust\/"},"modified":"2009-11-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T17:00:00","slug":"whom-are-you-going-to-trust","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/whom-are-you-going-to-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Whom Are You Going to Trust?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving is getting closer, but is your heart prepared?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2009-11-16.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"11.59M","filesize_raw":"12155297","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2822,2823],"tags":[4615,4792],"podcast_series":[7688],"cwp_profile":[3052,3196],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301920","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing-in-your-faith","category-thanksgiving","tag-gratitude","tag-thanksgiving","podcast_series-choosing-gratitude","cwp_profile-barbara-rainey","cwp_profile-nancy-demoss-wolgemuth","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/301920\/whom-are-you-going-to-trust","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301920\/whom-are-you-going-to-trust","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"V97U5dRJSS\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/whom-are-you-going-to-trust\/\">Whom Are You Going to Trust?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/whom-are-you-going-to-trust\/embed\/#?secret=V97U5dRJSS\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Whom Are You Going to Trust?&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"V97U5dRJSS\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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are always, always, always debtors.\u00a0 We owe him, we owe others.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t owe us anything.\u00a0 Yet God has given me Christ; he has given me his grace\u2014He has lavished it on me.\u00a0 For me to be anything other than grateful is really, really wicked.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Monday, November 16.\u00a0\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 With Thanksgiving just around the corner, this would be a good time to take a good, long look at the biblical grace of gratitude.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife Today;<\/em> thanks for joining us.\u00a0 You know how you end most of your prayers?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 I pray in Christ\u2019s name.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 I know; but back before that.\u00a0 Go back a few lines before that.\u00a0 Do you know what you say?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I guess not.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Can I ask your wife if she knows how you end most of your prayers since she is with us?\u00a0 Do you know what I\u2019m talking about?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 No.\u00a0 (Laughter)\u00a0 Let\u2019s see, what does he\u2014you know, I don\u2019t know what I normally say either.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Normally, at the end of your prayers, after you are done interceding, praying, acknowledging, whatever it is you are doing.\u00a0 You say, \u201cWe love you.\u00a0 We give thanks.\u201d\u00a0 Then you add something else\u2014\u201cWe commit this time to you,\u201d or we do whatever.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That sounds about right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>There is this cadence\u2014\u201cWe love you; we give thanks,\u201d and whatever.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Man, I\u2019m glad I did it right!\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I\u2019m just wondering if this established pattern of saying, \u201cWe love you\u201d and \u201cWe give thanks,\u201d is that something that worked its way into your prayer life?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I hope so!\u00a0 I hope it is working itself into my life.\u00a0 In fact, my wife, Barbara joins us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 We have already tapped into her vast knowledge of my prayer life here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara<\/strong>:\u00a0 (Laughter) Which clearly is not very big since I didn\u2019t have much of an answer.\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, thank you!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yeah.\u00a0 No, my knowledge is not very vast.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay, my prayer life\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That\u2019s not what I\u2019m saying; no, no, no.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Okay.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I don\u2019t want to give that impression to our listeners.\u00a0 Also, Nancy Leigh DeMoss joins us.\u00a0 Welcome back, Nancy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Thank you, Dennis.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Nancy is the host of <em>Revive Our Hearts<\/em> and a lot of our listeners listen to both <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>and <em>Revive Our Hearts<\/em>.\u00a0 She is an author, speaker, and most importantly, a friend.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 We\u2019re thrilled to have her here.\u00a0 She has written a book, <em>Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I just want to say, \u201cBefore you go to bed tonight, when you pray, just listen and see if he doesn\u2019t say, \u2018We love you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 I will.\u00a0 As soon as you said that, I went, \u201cYou know that is what he says.\u201d\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I do want to express love to God.\u00a0 I want to tell you something\u2014I think Thanksgiving is very, very important.\u00a0 So does Nancy.\u00a0 In fact, she has just finished a book on this.\u00a0 Instead of beginning at the start of the book, Nancy, I want to begin by going to nearly the last chapter of the book where you wave a white flag. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 In fact, that last chapter was an add-on.\u00a0 It was a postscript\u2014it wasn\u2019t intended.\u00a0 As I was working on this book over a period of months, I found its message working its way into my heart.\u00a0 I really thought this was going to be an easier book to write than some of the other tougher subjects I\u2019ve written.\u00a0 I thought I might get a \u201cfree pass\u201d on this one; but I found that God\u2019s Spirit was convicting my heart of how many times my default response to pressure and challenges is to whine rather than to worship.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs I came to the end of this book, I thought, I cannot put a book out there that is talking about something I am not living.\u00a0 The Lord began wrestling with my heart.\u00a0 I really preached myself under conviction.\u00a0 (Laughter)\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt was a bit of a wrestling match to say, I want to be a woman who is radically thankful and to put away whining, complaining, lack of gratitude, and to become a really grateful woman.\u00a0 Even as this book was going to the publisher, I had to wrestle that through.\u00a0 The Lord wrestled with me to say, you need to wave a white flag and say, You are going all the way with this.\u00a0 You are going to choose gratitude as a way of life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 When you started writing this book, did you think of yourself as a grateful person?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I would have said I was above average on that count.\u00a0 I think the people who know me would as well.\u00a0 I grew up in a home where, and you all have probably done this with your children, but thank you notes were a way of life.\u00a0 As soon as you got gifts for Christmas or birthday, we had to write thank you notes.\u00a0 That is a pattern in my life.\u00a0 I have been blessed, and I do try and express gratitude to the people who bless my life and to the Lord for the circumstances in my life that are happy ones.\u00a0 Until I got immersed in this subject, working on this book, I didn\u2019t realize that there were corners and edges of my life where ingratitude was reigning instead of a grateful spirit.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, I want our listeners to know that Nancy may not be the only one to wave a white flag when it comes to this topic because there may need to be some surrender by some other wills.\u00a0 I think part of our fabric is to gripe, complain, blame, and whine.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 That is the default mechanism we are born with.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It seems to me it is.\u00a0 It seems what the Scripture is trying to do is break a habit.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Honestly, Bob, I didn\u2019t know that at the end of my prayers that I did give thanks.\u00a0 That is really, in a way, encouraging to me because in the past, I would say seven or eight years, Barbara and I have been through a number of challenges and trials--I would say the Refiner\u2019s fire.\u00a0 I think the Refiner may have given me an \u201cF\u201d on the blue book, not for \u201cFaith,\u201d but for \u201cFailure.\u201d\u00a0 I have felt on many occasions I was complaining, whining, and blaming more than having an attitude of gratitude.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I have heard both of you, Barbara, Dennis, reflect on 1 Thessalonians 5 on a number of occasions where it says we are to rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and then the next verse, \u201cin everything.\u201d what?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Give thanks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 For this is God\u2019s will for you in Christ Jesus.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 So you do have a knowledge that that ought to be the default of the New Man--that if we are in Christ, we should be giving thanks, even in hard times.\u00a0 But, Barbara, that doesn\u2019t come naturally, does it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, it doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 Sadly, it\u2019s not our first response.\u00a0 I would like for it to be my first response, but so often my first response is what the situation or circumstances are costing me.\u00a0 Then as I think it through, I can come to gratitude on the other side.\u00a0 I wish it were more spontaneous and automatic to respond more instantly with a heart of gratitude.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I had an experience with Joni Erickson Tada, who is a friend of all of us around this table.\u00a0 A number of years ago I was interviewing her.\u00a0 At the time, she didn\u2019t know this, but we were going through some changes in our ministry.\u00a0 For months I had felt weighed down and burdened and was grousing about the impact of those changes on my life.\u00a0 As I was with Joni that day, I just couldn\u2019t help but notice how she, with all of her physical challenges\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Explain to our listeners what\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Having been 40 years, more than 40 years now, a quadriplegic, in a wheelchair with very limited physical capacity.\u00a0 Things that come easily for us\u2014just getting up, getting dressed, feeding ourselves\u2014she can\u2019t do those things by herself.\u00a0 Anytime that anybody is with her, you can\u2019t help but notice that she has this effervescent, joyful, hymn-singing, praising, thankful spirit.\u00a0 I asked her during that interview, I said, \u201cJoni, I\u2019ve noticed that you are a joyful woman.\u00a0 You are a thankful woman.\u00a0 How do you maintain that spirit with the challenges that you have in your life?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHer answer really started me on the journey that became this book, choosing gratitude.\u00a0 She paused just a moment and then she said, \u201cYou know I think over all these years I\u2019ve so disciplined and trained myself to give thanks in all things that that has become my reflex reaction.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe said a lot of things that day but that lodged in my heart and I pondered it after I left.\u00a0 I realized that the reflex reaction in my life was not to give thanks in all things but first to whine and then to get to the place of gratitude.\u00a0 I usually get there but she had trained and disciplined herself to start by giving thanks in all things.\u00a0 I looked at this woman who has so many challenges and reasons not to be thankful and realized how many reasons I do have to be thankful by comparison.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou realize that the happiness quotient, the joy quotient in your life is not determined by whether you are in a wheelchair or not by your life circumstances but by that inner discipline and choice to do what the scripture says and give thanks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Of all of the graces or fruit of the Spirit that we read about this is one, Barbara, for you that you have really locked in on.\u00a0 Not just for yourself but as you raise your kids, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been amazed at the list in 1 Corinthians 10 that the Bible gives us explaining the things that the Israelites did that God disciplined them for with 40 years of wandering in the wilderness.\u00a0 He listed idolatry.\u00a0 And He listed worshipping the golden calf and those things that they did that were so clearly wrong but on that list there is also the word grumbled, some of them grumbled.\u00a0 That was also why they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years.\u00a0 I thought about that as I raised my kids because\u2026 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Some of them grumbled.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They thought they were in the wilderness.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 They did.\u00a0 I think I was in the wilderness, too, actually.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You may have done a little grumbling yourself?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 I did a lot of grumbling but it was one of those things about parenting that was really irritating for me because I was working so hard to do such a good job raising those kids and praying for them and providing healthy food and all of those things.\u00a0 To have it be met with grumbling wasn\u2019t very pleasant.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, Dennis and I worked hard to focus on that and to teach our kids to be grateful.\u00a0 We had them memorize verses.\u00a0 And we did as Nancy said she was trained to do.\u00a0 Trained them to write thank you notes for everything they got and to do it immediately and joyfully.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI learned through all of that that becoming a person of gratitude and raising children of gratitude it is still their choice.\u00a0 I could teach them as many verses as I wanted to and give them all the training in the world but it still is a choice of the heart.\u00a0 My children had to decide if they were going to be grateful people or not.\u00a0\u00a0 They could conform on the outside but the inside I couldn\u2019t control.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 When you think of how it impacts you as a parent when your children are not grateful and how repulsive that is to see in others especially your own family.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a picture I think of how God must feel\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 When He listens to me whining and grumbling when there is so much to be thankful.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, which is why I think it was included on the list of the sins of the Israelites.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right there with idolatry and immorality is grumbling.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That must speak of its value at that point.\u00a0 Gratitude must be one of the more back to the graces of the Christian faith.\u00a0 It must be one of the more noble expressions of faith, Nancy, as you researched this?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, I think we tend to think of it as an add-on, maybe a second tier\u2014grace.\u00a0 You know, right up there with going to church on Sunday night or cheerfulness or hospitality; which are also important but not up there with faith and love and those kinds of qualities.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut as I got into this subject, I realized this is foundational because it has to do with how I view the grace of God and how I view the fact that I don\u2019t deserve God\u2019s grace.\u00a0 I am a guilty sinner who deserves nothing apart from Christ and yet God has given me Christ.\u00a0 He has given me his grace and lavished it on me.\u00a0 For me to be anything other than grateful is really, really wicked.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What you are saying there is ultimately ingratitude is unmet expectations?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Comparison, unmet expectations, forgetting the mercies of God and thinking that he or others owe us something rather than realizing that we are always, always, always debtors.\u00a0 We owe him, we owe others; he doesn\u2019t owe us anything.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think ultimately ingratitude is a reflection of a lack of faith.\u00a0 It\u2019s unbelief because if we really see that all things are from God then we should be giving thanks for all that he allows in our lives knowing that he is ordaining it and leading and providing and giving us the grace and the strength to go through whatever he is calling us to do and to endure or to practice.\u00a0 I think our heart attitude when we are not grateful is saying to God I don\u2019t believe you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Let me ask you this.\u00a0 A year and half ago when you and your whole family were gathered together in a hospital room for a week with a little girl who you expected was not going to live very long.\u00a0 Were you giving thanks in all things and having a heart of gratitude for where you were?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Interestingly, Bob, I think we were.\u00a0 I think the reason we were is because it was so clearly from God.\u00a0 Even though we didn\u2019t like it and it wasn\u2019t what we wanted or expected.\u00a0 If we could have we would have changed it in an instant.\u00a0 We were praying for a miracle and yet I think we all knew in our hearts that God was calling us to walk this road.\u00a0 To do anything other than to give thanks for the road He was calling us to walk was going to make it a miserable experience.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt was difficult and sad and it was full of anguish and grief and tears and mourning.\u00a0 But there was a sense because we began to give thanks from the very first moment that we sensed God\u2019s presence in a way that I think few of us had before or have since.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s because by giving thanks we invited Him into the midst of what He had called us to do.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe didn\u2019t shut him out and say God we are mad at you for doing this to us and we don\u2019t want you to have any part of it because we don\u2019t like what you are doing.\u00a0 Rather we said God, you are bringing this into our lives and we want to receive it.\u00a0 We\u2019ve receive Molly as a gift from you and the way she was made is also a gift.\u00a0 I think that in some way it was easier for us to give thanks to that because it was if there was no other choice.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s the daily stuff that gets me.\u00a0 In fact, just a couple of days ago I got up and there were all these interruptions that I wasn\u2019t counting on for my day.\u00a0 I had my day planned and these things lined up that I was going to do \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019re laughing because you remember, don\u2019t you?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I\u2019m not telling the story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 I know, but I am.\u00a0 But there were these interruptions that I hadn\u2019t counted on.\u00a0 Those are the things that cause me to be ungrateful.\u00a0 Dennis looked at me that morning because I was bemoaning the fact that these things had interrupted my plans for the day and he said, \u201cI think God is trying to teach you gratitude.\u201d\u00a0 And I said, \u201cYou think?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI said, \u201cHe is, no doubt.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I guess it was in your book, Nancy, but I read the statement it\u2019s easy to accept the roses God brings us but we don\u2019t necessarily want to embrace the thorns.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 The person who wrote that little parable about roses and thorns was an old time writer George Matheson.\u00a0 He was blind and had a fianc\u00e9 break off her engagement because he went blind.\u00a0 As a young man heading into the ministry he wrestled with whether God really was good and could be trusted.\u00a0 During this season of his life he wrote that prayer about God challenging him to give thanks not just for the roses but also for the thorns.\u00a0 Often it is the thorns that press us closer to the heart of God and show us and give us an experience of his face, and his character, and his heart that we might otherwise not have.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 In fact, I don\u2019t think it is just sometimes I think it usually comes to the thorns.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 In fact, it takes thorns many times to reduce us and to take us back to the very character of God and say, who are you going to trust?\u00a0 Are you going to trust yourself to run the show?\u00a0 Your circumstances that you don\u2019t like?\u00a0 What is there about this picture that you don\u2019t like and are you willing to trust God for?\u00a0 Ultimately you fall upon him and say, \u201cYou know God I\u2019m not in control.\u00a0 You are.\u00a0 I trust you as being the giver of good gifts.\u00a0 I think that ultimately is the issue when it comes to the subject of gratitude.\u00a0 Who are you going to give thanks to?\u00a0 If you\u2019re not going to give thanks to God you will ultimately implode in bitterness and anger and resentment.\u00a0 You will complain about life and be like what Barbara read here a few moments ago the children of Israel.\u00a0 They grumbled and griped and complained in their tents and wasted away in the wilderness.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m reflecting back on your observation that there is an exorable link between the grace of gratitude and the gospel.\u00a0 If we find ourselves being ungrateful we really have to ask ourselves the question have we really understood what God has done.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think of the parable of the one who had been forgiven the great debt and he\u2019s released and he goes out and finds someone who owes him just a little and he wants him thrown in jail.\u00a0 That\u2019s really a picture.\u00a0 When we are ungrateful about whatever is going on in our lives to go back to the cross and go back and remember what God has done for us in forgiving our debt.\u00a0 If that doesn\u2019t stir up gratitude in us I think we need to pull back and ask do I really know Christ?\u00a0 Do I really understand what God has done?\u00a0 If we do understand it then how can we lack gratitude for whatever is going on in our lives?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think you could in a way sum up the gospel and sum up the message of the scripture with three words: guilt, grace, and gratitude.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe were guilty to the hilt.\u00a0 God poured upon us in Jesus Christ His undeserved grace.\u00a0 What short of unbridled gratitude is worthy of the way God has dealt with us.\u00a0 Not according to our sins but according to His mercy.\u00a0 So when I choose gratitude I\u2019m saying Lord, I\u2019m grateful for your grace.\u00a0 I\u2019m a recipient of your grace and when I choose ingratitude or when I choose the way of whining or grumbling or murmuring I\u2019m oblivious to the grace of God.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if it doesn\u2019t\u2019 matter or as if it hasn\u2019t made a real difference in my life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u00a0You mentioned, Bob, what we went through a year and a half ago with our daughter, Rebecca and her husband, Jake.\u00a0 It was back last summer as we celebrated Molly\u2019s seven day life we interacted with Rebecca and read her blogs.\u00a0 She was blogging about how she was processing the past 12 months not only having lost an infant after seven days but then some 10 months later losing a baby after 14 or 15 weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 She lost two children in one year.\u00a0 In one of her blogs she wrote about the temptation to think wrongly about God.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBack to Nancy\u2019s book <em>Choosing Gratitude<\/em>.\u00a0 It is a choice.\u00a0 I think it was Chuck Swindoll who said 10 percent is what happens to us, 90 percent is our choice in how we respond to what happens to us.\u00a0 So the question is as you get a bunch of roses they have a bunch of thorns.\u00a0 You embrace them and feel the pain of the thorns and you don\u2019t like the thorns.\u00a0 What are you going to do?\u00a0 Will you embrace it by faith and trust the One who is the giver of good gifts.\u00a0 He knows what he\u2019s doing.\u00a0 Or will you reject the gift and the giver?\u00a0 That really is the issue.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI like what you said Nancy summarizing all of life.\u00a0 Guilt, grace and gratitude.\u00a0 That really ought to be how we finish life moving toward gratitude in all that befalls us.\u00a0 Undoubtedly there are listeners right now facing some pretty challenging circumstances.\u00a0 What are you going to choose?\u00a0 What are you going to do?\u00a0 Who are you going to trust?\u00a0 I would encourage you to put your faith in Christ and his word.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And we do want to encourage listeners to join us in praying for Jake and Rebecca as they are now expecting twins and we hope folks will join us in praying throughout their pregnancy.\u00a0 I think the twins are due in the springtime and we\u2019ll keep you up to date and hope you will pray for Jake and Rebecca.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me to encourage you to go to our web site FamilyLife Today.com where you\u2019ll find information about Nancy\u2019s book, Choosing Gratitude.\u00a0 Obviously we have it in our FamilyLife Resource Center and we would encourage you to get a copy of this book and use it to counsel your own heart and to counsel your thinking on the subject of gratitude.\u00a0 Again the book by Nancy Leigh DeMoss is called Choosing Gratitude.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAlso, don\u2019t forget we have Barbara Rainey\u2019s seven day devotional guide for families called <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>.\u00a0 We\u2019ve already sent out hundreds of these books to families this month.\u00a0 Families are using it as a part of their family devotions leading up to the celebration of Thanksgiving.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to just use it before Thanksgiving you can use this devotional guide at any time in your family when you want to remind one another of the importance of having a heart of thankfulness and gratitude.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can get more information about both Nancy\u2019s book, <em>Choosing Gratitude<\/em> and Barbara Rainey\u2019s devotional book for families <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em> at our web site FamilyLife Today.com.\u00a0 Or you can call 1-800-FLTODAY, that\u2019s 1-800- F as in \u201cfamily,\u201d L as in \u201clife\u201d and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 Give us a call and someone on the team can make arrangements to have the resources that you need sent to you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur team has also put together a prayer card where we\u2019ve taken Psalm 103 and adapted it to be a family prayer of gratitude.\u00a0 A prayer of thankfulness and on the back of the prayer card there are suggestions for ways to lead your family in cultivating a heart of thankfulness.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe prayer card\u2014A Family Prayer of Thankfulness\u2014is available for anyone who would like a copy.\u00a0 Just call us at 1-800-FL-TODAY.\u00a0 That\u2019s 1-800-358-6329 and say I\u2019d like that prayer card that Bob was talking about on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 We are happy to send it out to you and we hope it is something you can use with your family at Thanksgiving.\u00a0 We are sending it to you because we are thankful for you and are thankful that you listen to <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>and hope this will help you and your family cultivate gratitude as we\u2019ve talked about today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are going to continue to talk about gratitude with our guest Nancy Leigh DeMoss on tomorrow\u2019s program.\u00a0 I hope you can be back with us for that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today Keith Lynch and our entire broadcast production team on behalf of our host Dennis 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is getting closer, but is your heart prepared?","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2009-11-16.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think we tend to think of it as an add-on, maybe a second tier\u2014grace.\u00a0 You know, right up there with going to church on Sunday night or cheerfulness or hospitality; but as I got into this subject, I realized this is foundational.\u00a0 We are always, always, always debtors.\u00a0 We owe him, we owe others.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t owe us anything.\u00a0 Yet God has given me Christ; he has given me his grace\u2014He has lavished it on me.\u00a0 For me to be anything other than grateful is really, really wicked.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Monday, November 16.\u00a0\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 With Thanksgiving just around the corner, this would be a good time to take a good, long look at the biblical grace of gratitude.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife Today;<\/em> thanks for joining us.\u00a0 You know how you end most of your prayers?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 I pray in Christ\u2019s name.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 I know; but back before that.\u00a0 Go back a few lines before that.\u00a0 Do you know what you say?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I guess not.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Can I ask your wife if she knows how you end most of your prayers since she is with us?\u00a0 Do you know what I\u2019m talking 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life\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That\u2019s not what I\u2019m saying; no, no, no.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Okay.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I don\u2019t want to give that impression to our listeners.\u00a0 Also, Nancy Leigh DeMoss joins us.\u00a0 Welcome back, Nancy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Thank you, Dennis.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Nancy is the host of <em>Revive Our Hearts<\/em> and a lot of our listeners listen to both <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>and <em>Revive Our Hearts<\/em>.\u00a0 She is an author, speaker, and most importantly, a friend.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 We\u2019re thrilled to have her here.\u00a0 She has written a book, 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postscript\u2014it wasn\u2019t intended.\u00a0 As I was working on this book over a period of months, I found its message working its way into my heart.\u00a0 I really thought this was going to be an easier book to write than some of the other tougher subjects I\u2019ve written.\u00a0 I thought I might get a \u201cfree pass\u201d on this one; but I found that God\u2019s Spirit was convicting my heart of how many times my default response to pressure and challenges is to whine rather than to worship.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs I came to the end of this book, I thought, I cannot put a book out there that is talking about something I am not living.\u00a0 The Lord began wrestling with my heart.\u00a0 I really preached myself under conviction.\u00a0 (Laughter)\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt was a bit of a wrestling match to say, I want to be a woman who is radically thankful and to put away whining, complaining, lack of gratitude, and to become a really grateful woman.\u00a0 Even as this book was going to the publisher, I had to wrestle that through.\u00a0 The Lord wrestled with me to say, you need to wave a white flag and say, You are going all the way with this.\u00a0 You are going to choose gratitude as a way of life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 When you started writing this book, did you think of yourself as a grateful person?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I would have said I was above average on that count.\u00a0 I think the people who know me would as well.\u00a0 I grew up in a home where, and you all have probably done this with your children, but thank you notes were a way of life.\u00a0 As soon as you got gifts for Christmas or birthday, we had to write thank you notes.\u00a0 That is a pattern in my life.\u00a0 I have been blessed, and I do try and express gratitude to the people who bless my life and to the Lord for the circumstances in my life that are happy ones.\u00a0 Until I got immersed in this subject, working on this book, I didn\u2019t realize that there were corners and edges of my life where ingratitude was reigning instead of a grateful spirit.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, I want our listeners to know that Nancy may not be the only one to wave a white flag when it comes to this topic because there may need to be some surrender by some other wills.\u00a0 I think part of our fabric is to gripe, complain, blame, and whine.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 That is the default mechanism we are born with.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It seems to me it is.\u00a0 It seems what the Scripture is trying to do is break a habit.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Honestly, Bob, I didn\u2019t know that at the end of my prayers that I did give thanks.\u00a0 That is really, in a way, encouraging to me because in the past, I would say seven or eight years, Barbara and I have been through a number of challenges and trials--I would say the Refiner\u2019s fire.\u00a0 I think the Refiner may have given me an \u201cF\u201d on the blue book, not for \u201cFaith,\u201d but for \u201cFailure.\u201d\u00a0 I have felt on many occasions I was complaining, whining, and blaming more than having an attitude of gratitude.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I have heard both of you, Barbara, Dennis, reflect on 1 Thessalonians 5 on a number of occasions where it says we are to rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and then the next verse, \u201cin everything.\u201d what?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Give thanks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 For this is God\u2019s will for you in Christ Jesus.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 So you do have a knowledge that that ought to be the default of the New Man--that if we are in Christ, we should be giving thanks, even in hard times.\u00a0 But, Barbara, that doesn\u2019t come naturally, does it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, it doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 Sadly, it\u2019s not our first response.\u00a0 I would like for it to be my first response, but so often my first response is what the situation or circumstances are costing me.\u00a0 Then as I think it through, I can come to gratitude on the other side.\u00a0 I wish it were more spontaneous and automatic to respond more instantly with a heart of gratitude.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I had an experience with Joni Erickson Tada, who is a friend of all of us around this table.\u00a0 A number of years ago I was interviewing her.\u00a0 At the time, she didn\u2019t know this, but we were going through some changes in our ministry.\u00a0 For months I had felt weighed down and burdened and was grousing about the impact of those changes on my life.\u00a0 As I was with Joni that day, I just couldn\u2019t help but notice how she, with all of her physical challenges\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Explain to our listeners what\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Having been 40 years, more than 40 years now, a quadriplegic, in a wheelchair with very limited physical capacity.\u00a0 Things that come easily for us\u2014just getting up, getting dressed, feeding ourselves\u2014she can\u2019t do those things by herself.\u00a0 Anytime that anybody is with her, you can\u2019t help but notice that she has this effervescent, joyful, hymn-singing, praising, thankful spirit.\u00a0 I asked her during that interview, I said, \u201cJoni, I\u2019ve noticed that you are a joyful woman.\u00a0 You are a thankful woman.\u00a0 How do you maintain that spirit with the challenges that you have in your life?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHer answer really started me on the journey that became this book, choosing gratitude.\u00a0 She paused just a moment and then she said, \u201cYou know I think over all these years I\u2019ve so disciplined and trained myself to give thanks in all things that that has become my reflex reaction.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe said a lot of things that day but that lodged in my heart and I pondered it after I left.\u00a0 I realized that the reflex reaction in my life was not to give thanks in all things but first to whine and then to get to the place of gratitude.\u00a0 I usually get there but she had trained and disciplined herself to start by giving thanks in all things.\u00a0 I looked at this woman who has so many challenges and reasons not to be thankful and realized how many reasons I do have to be thankful by comparison.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou realize that the happiness quotient, the joy quotient in your life is not determined by whether you are in a wheelchair or not by your life circumstances but by that inner discipline and choice to do what the scripture says and give thanks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Of all of the graces or fruit of the Spirit that we read about this is one, Barbara, for you that you have really locked in on.\u00a0 Not just for yourself but as you raise your kids, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been amazed at the list in 1 Corinthians 10 that the Bible gives us explaining the things that the Israelites did that God disciplined them for with 40 years of wandering in the wilderness.\u00a0 He listed idolatry.\u00a0 And He listed worshipping the golden calf and those things that they did that were so clearly wrong but on that list there is also the word grumbled, some of them grumbled.\u00a0 That was also why they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years.\u00a0 I thought about that as I raised my kids because\u2026 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Some of them grumbled.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They thought they were in the wilderness.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 They did.\u00a0 I think I was in the wilderness, too, actually.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You may have done a little grumbling yourself?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 I did a lot of grumbling but it was one of those things about parenting that was really irritating for me because I was working so hard to do such a good job raising those kids and praying for them and providing healthy food and all of those things.\u00a0 To have it be met with grumbling wasn\u2019t very pleasant.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, Dennis and I worked hard to focus on that and to teach our kids to be grateful.\u00a0 We had them memorize verses.\u00a0 And we did as Nancy said she was trained to do.\u00a0 Trained them to write thank you notes for everything they got and to do it immediately and joyfully.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI learned through all of that that becoming a person of gratitude and raising children of gratitude it is still their choice.\u00a0 I could teach them as many verses as I wanted to and give them all the training in the world but it still is a choice of the heart.\u00a0 My children had to decide if they were going to be grateful people or not.\u00a0\u00a0 They could conform on the outside but the inside I couldn\u2019t control.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 When you think of how it impacts you as a parent when your children are not grateful and how repulsive that is to see in others especially your own family.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a picture I think of how God must feel\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 When He listens to me whining and grumbling when there is so much to be thankful.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, which is why I think it was included on the list of the sins of the Israelites.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right there with idolatry and immorality is grumbling.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That must speak of its value at that point.\u00a0 Gratitude must be one of the more back to the graces of the Christian faith.\u00a0 It must be one of the more noble expressions of faith, Nancy, as you researched this?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, I think we tend to think of it as an add-on, maybe a second tier\u2014grace.\u00a0 You know, right up there with going to church on Sunday night or cheerfulness or hospitality; which are also important but not up there with faith and love and those kinds of qualities.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut as I got into this subject, I realized this is foundational because it has to do with how I view the grace of God and how I view the fact that I don\u2019t deserve God\u2019s grace.\u00a0 I am a guilty sinner who deserves nothing apart from Christ and yet God has given me Christ.\u00a0 He has given me his grace and lavished it on me.\u00a0 For me to be anything other than grateful is really, really wicked.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What you are saying there is ultimately ingratitude is unmet expectations?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Comparison, unmet expectations, forgetting the mercies of God and thinking that he or others owe us something rather than realizing that we are always, always, always debtors.\u00a0 We owe him, we owe others; he doesn\u2019t owe us anything.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think ultimately ingratitude is a reflection of a lack of faith.\u00a0 It\u2019s unbelief because if we really see that all things are from God then we should be giving thanks for all that he allows in our lives knowing that he is ordaining it and leading and providing and giving us the grace and the strength to go through whatever he is calling us to do and to endure or to practice.\u00a0 I think our heart attitude when we are not grateful is saying to God I don\u2019t believe you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Let me ask you this.\u00a0 A year and half ago when you and your whole family were gathered together in a hospital room for a week with a little girl who you expected was not going to live very long.\u00a0 Were you giving thanks in all things and having a heart of gratitude for where you were?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Interestingly, Bob, I think we were.\u00a0 I think the reason we were is because it was so clearly from God.\u00a0 Even though we didn\u2019t like it and it wasn\u2019t what we wanted or expected.\u00a0 If we could have we would have changed it in an instant.\u00a0 We were praying for a miracle and yet I think we all knew in our hearts that God was calling us to walk this road.\u00a0 To do anything other than to give thanks for the road He was calling us to walk was going to make it a miserable experience.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt was difficult and sad and it was full of anguish and grief and tears and mourning.\u00a0 But there was a sense because we began to give thanks from the very first moment that we sensed God\u2019s presence in a way that I think few of us had before or have since.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s because by giving thanks we invited Him into the midst of what He had called us to do.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe didn\u2019t shut him out and say God we are mad at you for doing this to us and we don\u2019t want you to have any part of it because we don\u2019t like what you are doing.\u00a0 Rather we said God, you are bringing this into our lives and we want to receive it.\u00a0 We\u2019ve receive Molly as a gift from you and the way she was made is also a gift.\u00a0 I think that in some way it was easier for us to give thanks to that because it was if there was no other choice.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s the daily stuff that gets me.\u00a0 In fact, just a couple of days ago I got up and there were all these interruptions that I wasn\u2019t counting on for my day.\u00a0 I had my day planned and these things lined up that I was going to do \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019re laughing because you remember, don\u2019t you?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I\u2019m not telling the story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 I know, but I am.\u00a0 But there were these interruptions that I hadn\u2019t counted on.\u00a0 Those are the things that cause me to be ungrateful.\u00a0 Dennis looked at me that morning because I was bemoaning the fact that these things had interrupted my plans for the day and he said, \u201cI think God is trying to teach you gratitude.\u201d\u00a0 And I said, \u201cYou think?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI said, \u201cHe is, no doubt.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I guess it was in your book, Nancy, but I read the statement it\u2019s easy to accept the roses God brings us but we don\u2019t necessarily want to embrace the thorns.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 The person who wrote that little parable about roses and thorns was an old time writer George Matheson.\u00a0 He was blind and had a fianc\u00e9 break off her engagement because he went blind.\u00a0 As a young man heading into the ministry he wrestled with whether God really was good and could be trusted.\u00a0 During this season of his life he wrote that prayer about God challenging him to give thanks not just for the roses but also for the thorns.\u00a0 Often it is the thorns that press us closer to the heart of God and show us and give us an experience of his face, and his character, and his heart that we might otherwise not have.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 In fact, I don\u2019t think it is just sometimes I think it usually comes to the thorns.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 In fact, it takes thorns many times to reduce us and to take us back to the very character of God and say, who are you going to trust?\u00a0 Are you going to trust yourself to run the show?\u00a0 Your circumstances that you don\u2019t like?\u00a0 What is there about this picture that you don\u2019t like and are you willing to trust God for?\u00a0 Ultimately you fall upon him and say, \u201cYou know God I\u2019m not in control.\u00a0 You are.\u00a0 I trust you as being the giver of good gifts.\u00a0 I think that ultimately is the issue when it comes to the subject of gratitude.\u00a0 Who are you going to give thanks to?\u00a0 If you\u2019re not going to give thanks to God you will ultimately implode in bitterness and anger and resentment.\u00a0 You will complain about life and be like what Barbara read here a few moments ago the children of Israel.\u00a0 They grumbled and griped and complained in their tents and wasted away in the wilderness.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m reflecting back on your observation that there is an exorable link between the grace of gratitude and the gospel.\u00a0 If we find ourselves being ungrateful we really have to ask ourselves the question have we really understood what God has done.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think of the parable of the one who had been forgiven the great debt and he\u2019s released and he goes out and finds someone who owes him just a little and he wants him thrown in jail.\u00a0 That\u2019s really a picture.\u00a0 When we are ungrateful about whatever is going on in our lives to go back to the cross and go back and remember what God has done for us in forgiving our debt.\u00a0 If that doesn\u2019t stir up gratitude in us I think we need to pull back and ask do I really know Christ?\u00a0 Do I really understand what God has done?\u00a0 If we do understand it then how can we lack gratitude for whatever is going on in our lives?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think you could in a way sum up the gospel and sum up the message of the scripture with three words: guilt, grace, and gratitude.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe were guilty to the hilt.\u00a0 God poured upon us in Jesus Christ His undeserved grace.\u00a0 What short of unbridled gratitude is worthy of the way God has dealt with us.\u00a0 Not according to our sins but according to His mercy.\u00a0 So when I choose gratitude I\u2019m saying Lord, I\u2019m grateful for your grace.\u00a0 I\u2019m a recipient of your grace and when I choose ingratitude or when I choose the way of whining or grumbling or murmuring I\u2019m oblivious to the grace of God.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if it doesn\u2019t\u2019 matter or as if it hasn\u2019t made a real difference in my life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u00a0You mentioned, Bob, what we went through a year and a half ago with our daughter, Rebecca and her husband, Jake.\u00a0 It was back last summer as we celebrated Molly\u2019s seven day life we interacted with Rebecca and read her blogs.\u00a0 She was blogging about how she was processing the past 12 months not only having lost an infant after seven days but then some 10 months later losing a baby after 14 or 15 weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 She lost two children in one year.\u00a0 In one of her blogs she wrote about the temptation to think wrongly about God.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBack to Nancy\u2019s book <em>Choosing Gratitude<\/em>.\u00a0 It is a choice.\u00a0 I think it was Chuck Swindoll who said 10 percent is what happens to us, 90 percent is our choice in how we respond to what happens to us.\u00a0 So the question is as you get a bunch of roses they have a bunch of thorns.\u00a0 You embrace them and feel the pain of the thorns and you don\u2019t like the thorns.\u00a0 What are you going to do?\u00a0 Will you embrace it by faith and trust the One who is the giver of good gifts.\u00a0 He knows what he\u2019s doing.\u00a0 Or will you reject the gift and the giver?\u00a0 That really is the issue.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI like what you said Nancy summarizing all of life.\u00a0 Guilt, grace and gratitude.\u00a0 That really ought to be how we finish life moving toward gratitude in all that befalls us.\u00a0 Undoubtedly there are listeners right now facing some pretty challenging circumstances.\u00a0 What are you going to choose?\u00a0 What are you going to do?\u00a0 Who are you going to trust?\u00a0 I would encourage you to put your faith in Christ and his word.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And we do want to encourage listeners to join us in praying for Jake and Rebecca as they are now expecting twins and we hope folks will join us in praying throughout their pregnancy.\u00a0 I think the twins are due in the springtime and we\u2019ll keep you up to date and hope you will pray for Jake and Rebecca.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me to encourage you to go to our web site FamilyLife Today.com where you\u2019ll find information about Nancy\u2019s book, Choosing Gratitude.\u00a0 Obviously we have it in our FamilyLife Resource Center and we would encourage you to get a copy of this book and use it to counsel your own heart and to counsel your thinking on the subject of gratitude.\u00a0 Again the book by Nancy Leigh DeMoss is called Choosing Gratitude.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAlso, don\u2019t forget we have Barbara Rainey\u2019s seven day devotional guide for families called <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>.\u00a0 We\u2019ve already sent out hundreds of these books to families this month.\u00a0 Families are using it as a part of their family devotions leading up to the celebration of Thanksgiving.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to just use it before Thanksgiving you can use this devotional guide at any time in your family when you want to remind one another of the importance of having a heart of thankfulness and gratitude.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can get more information about both Nancy\u2019s book, <em>Choosing Gratitude<\/em> and Barbara Rainey\u2019s devotional book for families <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em> at our web site FamilyLife Today.com.\u00a0 Or you can call 1-800-FLTODAY, that\u2019s 1-800- F as in \u201cfamily,\u201d L as in \u201clife\u201d and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 Give us a call and someone on the team can make arrangements to have the resources that you need sent to you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur team has also put together a prayer card where we\u2019ve taken Psalm 103 and adapted it to be a family prayer of gratitude.\u00a0 A prayer of thankfulness and on the back of the prayer card there are suggestions for ways to lead your family in cultivating a heart of thankfulness.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe prayer card\u2014A Family Prayer of Thankfulness\u2014is available for anyone who would like a copy.\u00a0 Just call us at 1-800-FL-TODAY.\u00a0 That\u2019s 1-800-358-6329 and say I\u2019d like that prayer card that Bob was talking about on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 We are happy to send it out to you and we hope it is something you can use with your family at Thanksgiving.\u00a0 We are sending it to you because we are thankful for you and are thankful that you listen to <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>and hope this will help you and your family cultivate gratitude as we\u2019ve talked about today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are going to continue to talk about gratitude with our guest Nancy Leigh DeMoss on tomorrow\u2019s program.\u00a0 I hope you can be back with us for that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today Keith Lynch and our entire broadcast production team on behalf of our host Dennis Rainey I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you tomorrow for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHelp for today.\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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