{"id":301922,"date":"2009-11-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/learning-to-speak-the-language-of-heaven\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:00:00","slug":"learning-to-speak-the-language-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/learning-to-speak-the-language-of-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Speak the Language of Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would others say you\u2019re a grateful person?<\/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\/fl2009-11-18.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"11.86M","filesize_raw":"12440489","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2822,2823],"tags":[4615,4792],"podcast_series":[7688],"cwp_profile":[3052,3196],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301922","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\/301922\/learning-to-speak-the-language-of-heaven","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301922\/learning-to-speak-the-language-of-heaven","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=\"SlWqNrCYHr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/learning-to-speak-the-language-of-heaven\/\">Learning to Speak the Language of Heaven<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/learning-to-speak-the-language-of-heaven\/embed\/#?secret=SlWqNrCYHr\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Learning to Speak the Language of Heaven&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"SlWqNrCYHr\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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gratitude to the Lord and others, then God does bring His peace to rescue my heart.\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 Wednesday, November 18.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0\u00a0 If you are discouraged or despondent today, it might help to say out loud what you are thankful for.\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 I bet you had a crush on Hayley Mills.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Come on, be honest.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0Oh, come on!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 You didn\u2019t, really?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You never had a crush on Hayley Mills?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>She was cute!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>From <em>Parent Trap<\/em>?\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>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sorry.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Did you watch these movies?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 It was Annette Funicello.\u00a0 \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>Barbara<\/strong>:\u00a0 That figures.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Mouseketeers.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 The reason I brought up Hayley Mills is because one of her starring roles was Pollyanna.\u00a0 Did you see the movie, <em>Pollyanna<\/em>?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m sure I did.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Pollyanna was the little girl who, no matter what was going on, seemed to find a way to put a sypruppy, sweet, sickingly happy\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>How do you really feel about this?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, the look on your face.\u00a0 Do you know any Christians like that, Bob?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0Well, you know, you watch the movie and it\u2019s kind of like, \u201cOh come on!\u00a0 Get real!\u201d\u00a0 You know people who in the midst of it go, \u201cWell it\u2019s okay, I\u2019m just going to have a nice day any way.\u201d\u00a0 You just want to go, \u201cWould you just be honest?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So my question here\u2026is really less about Hayley Mills. \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>Barbara:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It goes beyond Hayley?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 It really goes to the whole issue of how can we be people\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Who are authentic?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about being grateful people.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Does being grateful mean that we are supposed to just stuff down how we really feel and act like we are happy about whatever is going on?\u00a0 That\u2019s my question.\u00a0 Are you going to answer that or are you going to get it from somebody else?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>(Laughter) He\u2019s going to punt.\u00a0 (Laughter)\u00a0 Right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, I\u2019m going to ask our guests because I\u2019ve got Barbara in here, who joins us, my wife.\u00a0 Welcome back, honey, and our friend, Nancy Leigh DeMoss.\u00a0 Welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, hello; but I\u2019ve got to come to the defense of <em>Pollyanna<\/em>.\u00a0 That\u2019s like my favorite movie.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Is it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Because this gal\u2014she\u2019s unfortunate, she\u2019s orphaned, she\u2019s had this hard life--She goes to live with this aunt who is bitter and cantankerous and sees the whole world through negative eyes.\u00a0 Pollyanna introduces the \u201cGlad Game.\u201d\u00a0 Every time something hard happens, she says, \u201cLet\u2019s find something to be glad about.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just want to say, Bob, in spite of the fact that you just gave <em>Pollyanna<\/em> a really bad rap, the neat thing about that little girl is that her attitude changes the entire atmosphere around her.\u00a0 That ornery aunt becomes this pleasant person.\u00a0 The whole town is impacted by her happy heart.\u00a0 I am just so thankful that I have some friends in my life who will occasionally, when it is needed, say to me, \u201cCan we think of something to be thankful for?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Can we play the Glad Game? (Laughter)\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>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Can we play the Glad Game?\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 Okay.\u00a0 I\u2019ll back of a little bit from Pollyanna but you know what I\u2019m talking about, right?\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>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 The people who just seem like they are out of touch with reality.\u00a0 It\u2019s not gratitude as much as denial.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 And we are not talking about that but we are talking about something that is gutsy and vibrant and takes faith and courage.\u00a0 I\u2019m sitting here thinking of some really dear friends of mine who are on the staff in our ministry and two or three years ago she was diagnosed at age 56 with Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease.\u00a0 That\u2019s a death sentence but during the 26 months of her illness her husband would send out updates and they weren\u2019t good reports ever.\u00a0 It never got better.\u00a0 It only got worse but he would sign those e-mails \u201cwith thanksgiving, Charles.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn the midst of that really painful hard time in their lives knowing what was coming and that he was going to be a widower and burying his wife.\u00a0 He found occasion to give thanks to the Lord not for the sickness, not for the impending death but for the goodness of God in the midst of all of that.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s not denying reality.\u00a0 That\u2019s having a robust faith that works even when your eyes are filled with tears and your life is falling apart around you.\u00a0 Because you know that this is not the end and that we have a redeeming God who is in the process of making all things new it is a courageous way to live with a spirit of gratitude.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You have one chapter in your book, <em>Choosing Gratitude<\/em> that is almost an apologetic for being grateful, an apologetic for gratitude.\u00a0 So convince me.\u00a0 Talk me into the idea that it really does make sense both as a follower of Christ and just as a person living in the real world to be grateful.\u00a0 Where would you start?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I wish it was enough for all of us to start because God commands it.\u00a0 He says we are to be grateful.\u00a0 In everything we are to give thanks and if there weren\u2019t any other reasons that should be enough.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 So it is a matter of obedience?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is a matter of obedience.\u00a0 It is a matter of surrender and saying God is God and even when my eyes are filled with tears I will lift them up and say Lord you are good.\u00a0 You are enough and I choose to give you thanks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know we lost a granddaughter about a year and a half ago and there is no sufficient answer.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, not this side of eternity.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You can ask why but there is no sufficient answer that really satisfies the soul.\u00a0 Those questions can\u2019t be answered.\u00a0\u00a0 But what the scriptures point us to is really the command to be thankful and then it really ties us to another benefit of giving thanks.\u00a0 When we give thanks and we praise God the scripture says he inhabits the praises of his people.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, praise is God\u2019s address.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>He\u2019s near people who praise him.\u00a0 That is the promise of scripture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 He comes to the scene and not that he is not omnipresent he is but there is a special sense and Barbara I\u2019ve heard you talk about this as you think about the loss of Molly.\u00a0 That in the midst of the tears and the trauma as the family gathered together there was that extraordinary sense that through praise and a grateful heart for God\u2019s provision and gift of this child but also trusting the Lord in taking her life that God\u2019s presence drew near in those moments.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s really true Nancy.\u00a0 We experienced his presence in ways I would never have expected.\u00a0 I really believe it\u2019s because we started giving thanks from the moment she was born and we knew something wasn\u2019t right we started giving thanks.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt wasn\u2019t just us but it was also her parents, Jake and Rebecca and her other grandparents, Bill and Pam and the extended family.\u00a0 We all began to corporately give thanks to God for what he was giving us in Molly.\u00a0 I think that opened the doorway for him to reveal himself and it gave us spiritual eyes to see what he was doing that we would have missed otherwise.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t mean it wasn\u2019t hard.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was very difficult.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was one of the most difficult weeks of my life.\u00a0 I mean to watch your daughter say good bye to an infant is a heart ache that is unimaginable.\u00a0 But in the midst of that here is where the scripture pulls us out of our valley and it lifts us up and it says praise God.\u00a0 He is the giver and the taker of life and he is in charge.\u00a0 He is in control.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I know it ought to be enough that God commands it and we should be grateful because it\u2019s a command of God and so we will but you don\u2019t stop there in the book.\u00a0 You offer some other reasons why gratitude makes sense, right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, on a practical level I think gratitude is a means of experiencing God\u2019s peace.\u00a0 You think of that passage in Philippians 4 about not being anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.\u00a0 And what follows?\u00a0 The peace of God that passes all human understanding will garrison your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019ve found that I can real easily get sucked into the undertow of life as it is happening around me.\u00a0 My emotions can real quickly get on a negative spin or negative track.\u00a0 Gratitude and a thankful spirit and thinking and expressing gratitude to the Lord and others is so often in my life a life preserver.\u00a0 It\u2019s God throwing out a means of rescue to my heart and it lifts me up out of that emotional quicksand that I often find myself in.\u00a0 When I will stop and say thank you to the Lord and verbalize the things I\u2019m grateful for then God does bring his peace to rescue my heart.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And I know we are building a case for the rightness of being grateful and expressing gratitude but at some level if we are not interested in expressing gratitude we have to pull back and say does God\u2019s spirit live in us?\u00a0 When the Spirit does live in us and through us gratitude is going to come out, isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know there is a fascinating passage in Ephesians 5 which addresses the connection between gratefulness and being filled with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 We all know that verse \u201cdon\u2019t get drunk with wine be filled with the Spirit of God\u201d Ephesians 5:18.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 And then in the rest of that chapter and into chapter six there is this whole list of the evidences that we are filled with the Spirit.\u00a0 You have that we will edify one another with scripture based words and with singing to the Lord.\u00a0 There will be Christ centered worship.\u00a0 There will be humility and mutual submission.\u00a0 There will be godly family relationships that are an evidence of being filled with the Spirit.\u00a0 There will be right attitudes in the workplace.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere will be victory in our spiritual life.\u00a0 But in the midst of that list of the fruits and evidences of being filled with the Spirit is this picture that we will be thankful.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe would not say that someone who comes to church drunk is a spirit filled Christian.\u00a0 We would not say that a husband and wife who were living at odds with each other or are being violent toward each other are Spirit filled and yet in the context of this passage you have to ask if we are not grateful people and if we are whining and murmuring and complaining can we claim to be Spirit filled?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 For some people it takes a person coming alongside them and saying you know sweetheart I think maybe you are complaining.\u00a0 Like maybe Barbara has said to me on occasion.\u00a0 Or perhaps I have\u2026 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2026said to me on occasion.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Encouraged her with on occasion.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Let\u2019s play the Glad game.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 There you go.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Speaking the truth to one another, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, when you are in a close relationship whether it be single people who have roommate relationships or whether it be a spousal relationship or with children you are living life every day with each other and there are going to be times when you get in a rut.\u00a0 It\u2019s in those moments you need a friend.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need a judge.\u00a0 You do need kind of a Pollyanna Glad game although that\u2019s really hard for me to say in a way.\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>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We need each other though.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We do.\u00a0 We really do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 It reminds me of when we were raising our kids, Dennis and you would play the Mr. Rogers neighborhood, \u201caren\u2019t we glad to live in this neighborhood?\u00a0 Aren\u2019t we glad to have this family, children?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh, I wish I could have been there for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And our kids would go\u2026they didn\u2019t like it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Boys and girls isn\u2019t it wonderful to be in our family?\u00a0 They would go \u201cOh, dad this is such a gag.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 A few rolled eyes there?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, my goodness.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Many rolled eyes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But seriously I was trying to lighten up the family because families can just wind down like an alarm clock that has been wound up and slowly deteriorate.\u00a0 They need instruction.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 We can get into negative patterns that we need to be rescued from.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 We actually had the kids and I think some of our regular listeners have heard me say this on occasion.\u00a0 Over in Philippians 2 it says to do all things without grumbling or disbuting.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, it\u2019s one of our favorite verses at our house.\u00a0 \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>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, I think it\u2019s most parent\u2019s favorite verse.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Honestly I wish it had exterminated the griping, grumbling and complaining but it didn\u2019t.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s not a magic wand.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Scripture is really healthy for the kids to memorize and they need it in their soul.\u00a0 They need the Scriptures but they also need to be guided by parents.\u00a0 Parents need to model a spirit that is not complaining.\u00a0 So, maybe parents could use a little of Pollyanna\u2019s Glad game themselves.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You need to talk to them and say, \u201cParents aren\u2019t you glad you have those children?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Or isn\u2019t it a privilege to be their mommy and their daddy?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Don\u2019t you love those little rug rats, today?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 We laugh but it\u2019s no small thing.\u00a0 I\u2019m sitting here thinking about a couple of places in Scripture where it talks about the downward spiral of a whole culture.\u00a0 Romans 1 and 2 Timothy 3 those passages list this hoard of horrendous sins\u2014sexual sins, perversion, violence and things that can become characteristic of a culture and right in the middle of both those lists you find failing to give thanks or ungratefulness.\u00a0 I really believe that ingratitude if you look at it in Romans 1 it is our first step individually or as a family or as a culture away from God.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen we make room for ingratitude in our hearts it\u2019s a tap root of all kinds of other sins that come and fill up our hearts and become characteristic of our culture.\u00a0 So, eradicating it and dealing with it and parents modeling gratitude and then saying this is a serious issue we have to encourage and challenge our children and deal with it.\u00a0 It\u2019s for all of our good that we do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m trying to think of where we see gratitude lived out in the life of Jesus.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wow, what an amazing picture of gratitude we have in Christ himself and all through his life.\u00a0 You think about the time when he sent the 70 disciples to go out and minister and they came back.\u00a0 He prayed this prayer.\u00a0 He said, \u201cI thank you, Lord God.\u201d\u00a0 Jesus gave thanks to his father there at the tomb of Lazarus in John 11 Jesus prayed and he said, \u201cthank you father that you have heard me.\u201d\u00a0 Before the prayer is even answered Jesus is saying thank you.\u00a0\u00a0 When he was at meal times you know the story of the feeding of the five thousand and the feeding of the four thousand.\u00a0 In those passages we read that Jesus stopped and gave thanks.\u00a0 Why would the Spirit inspire that little detail?\u00a0 And in one of those passages he did it twice before each course of the meal.\u00a0 Before the bread was distributed and before the fish were distributed he stopped and he gave thanks.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen in what I think is one of the most powerful, poignant pictures in all of scripture in each of the three synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke you have it recorded that at the last supper with his disciples as Jesus knows that he is going to the cross he knows he\u2019s going to become sin for us and he\u2019s gathered there with his disciples.\u00a0 If you put those passages together you find out that three times in the course of that meal Jesus stopped and gave thanks to his heavenly father.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou say, how do I give thanks in the midst of pressure or suffering or loss or grieving or challenges in my life?\u00a0 You look at Christ.\u00a0 He knew that God\u2019s redemptive plan was about to be fulfilled.\u00a0 He knew that God was still good and God was still worthy of his trust and his praise even as he faced the cross.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And Nancy, I want you to know that I am thankful for you and I am thankful and grateful for this book.\u00a0 I think as we consider Christ\u2019s example it challenges us as men and women, husbands and wives, moms and dads to practice that in our own lives.\u00a0 To be grateful and thankful.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Even when we know that what is in front of us is going to be hard.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 To be able to give thanks and praise him for circumstances that you don\u2019t necessarily like and you don\u2019t necessarily enjoy.\u00a0 Nancy, I want you to know I really appreciate you and I\u2019m grateful to God for you.\u00a0 Before we are done here what I want you to do is come back and make the last point of why we need to be grateful.\u00a0 It has to do with how praise is the language of heaven.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And Nancy before you unpack that for our listeners and for us let me encourage folks to go on line at FamilyLife Today.com to get more information about your book which is called <em>Choosing Gratitude<\/em> which we have in our FamilyLife Today resource center.\u00a0 The subtitle is <em>Your Journey to Joy<\/em> and you really believe that cultivating a heart of gratitude is a part of what brings joy to our lives.\u00a0 Again we have the book <em>Choosing Gratitude<\/em> in our FamilyLife Today resource center.\u00a0 We also have Barbara Rainey\u2019s seven day devotional guide for families called <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>.\u00a0 There is information about that book on our website as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOf course we have Barbara\u2019s book, <em>Thanksgiving: A Time to Remember<\/em> that tells the story of the pilgrims coming to America on the Mayflower and settling here.\u00a0 It tells of the hardships they endured and it tells of the first Thanksgiving. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can call us toll free at 1-800-FL-TODAY and say I\u2019d like that thankfulness card.\u00a0 We\u2019d be happy to send it out to you.\u00a0 Again the number is 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 That\u2019s 1-800- F as in \u201cfamily,\u201d L as in \u201clife,\u201d and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd if you\u2019ve never contacted us here at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> we\u2019d love to hear from you.\u00a0 In fact we have a card that we are sending out to folks this week.\u00a0 All you have to do is call and request it.\u00a0 It\u2019s called <em>A Family Prayer of Thankfulness<\/em>.\u00a0 We\u2019ve taken Psalm 103 and found all of the blessings of God that are addressed in that Psalm and we\u2019ve put them in a format where we can cultivate a heart of gratefulness and thanksgiving.\u00a0 If you\u2019d like to receive this laminated card to put on the refrigerator of to use at the dinner table or to keep in your Bible we\u2019d love to send it to you.\u00a0 You just need to call and request it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr 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 We hope to hear from you.\u00a0 Dennis?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 As I said earlier Nancy Leigh DeMoss I thank God for you.\u00a0 And Barbara, thank you for joining us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> as well.\u00a0 Nancy in your book you talk about one last reason why gratitude is good for us it\u2019s the language of heaven.\u00a0 What do you mean by that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 When you go to the last book of the Bible, Revelation, chapters 4-5 in particular John is given this vision of what\u2019s going on in heaven.\u00a0 There are in heaven now myriads thousands of thousands of angels who have a full time responsibility and they are giving praise and glory and honor and thanks to the one who is seated on the throne and to the lamb of God\u2014the Lord Jesus Christ who was slain for sinners so he could ransom people from every tribe and language and people and nation, that\u2019s us.\u00a0 They give him thanks day and night.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo when you think that we are going to spend eternity those who have placed their faith in Christ repentant of their sins we\u2019ll spend eternity in heaven that is what we are going to be doing for all of eternity.\u00a0 So in a sense what we are doing here on this earth is a dress rehearsal.\u00a0 It\u2019s a practice getting ready for what we will spend all of eternity doing in heaven.\u00a0 I sometimes wonder if we spend a lot of time on this earth griping, whining, and complaining\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Now you are getting convicting here.\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>Nancy: <\/strong>\u00a0How are we going to enjoy or speak the language of heaven if we don\u2019t get practice doing that now?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I know you\u2019ve been living in those last chapters of that last book.\u00a0 Paint the picture of Revelation 5 for us.\u00a0 Would you just recite it for us here?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>\u00a0 Five is what you want?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Then I saw on the right hand of him who is sitting on the throne a scroll written within and on the back sealed with seven seals.\u00a0 I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, \u201cWho is worthy to open the scroll and to breaks its seals?\u201d\u00a0 And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it.\u00a0 I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.\u00a0 And one of the elders said \u201cto me weep no more behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David has conquered so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd between the throne and the living creatures and among the elders I saw a lamb standing as though it had been slain with seven horns and with seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.\u00a0 And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who is seated on the throne and when he had taken the scroll the 24 elders and the four living creatures fell down before the lamb each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints and they sang a new song saying \u201cworthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals for you were slain and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.\u00a0 You have made them a kingdom and priests to our God and they shall reign on the earth.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen I looked and I heard among the elders and the living creatures the voice of many angels numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.\u00a0 And I heard every creature on heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea and all that is in them saying, \u201cto him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever\u201d and the four living creatures said \u201cAmen.\u201d\u00a0 And the 24 elders fell down and worshipped.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Amen.\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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He\u2019s going to punt.\u00a0 (Laughter)\u00a0 Right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, I\u2019m going to ask our guests because I\u2019ve got Barbara in here, who joins us, my wife.\u00a0 Welcome back, honey, and our friend, Nancy Leigh DeMoss.\u00a0 Welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, hello; but I\u2019ve got to come to the defense of <em>Pollyanna<\/em>.\u00a0 That\u2019s like my favorite movie.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Is it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<strong>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Because this gal\u2014she\u2019s unfortunate, she\u2019s orphaned, she\u2019s had this hard life--She goes to live with this aunt who is bitter and cantankerous and sees the whole world through negative eyes.\u00a0 Pollyanna introduces the \u201cGlad Game.\u201d\u00a0 Every time something hard happens, she says, \u201cLet\u2019s find something to be glad about.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just want to say, Bob, in spite of the fact that you just gave <em>Pollyanna<\/em> a really bad rap, the neat thing about that little girl is that her attitude changes the entire atmosphere around her.\u00a0 That ornery aunt becomes this pleasant person.\u00a0 The whole town is impacted by her happy heart.\u00a0 I am just so thankful that I have some friends in my life who will occasionally, when it is needed, say to me, \u201cCan we think of something to be thankful for?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Can we play the Glad Game? (Laughter)\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>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Can we play the Glad Game?\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 Okay.\u00a0 I\u2019ll back of a little bit from Pollyanna but you know what I\u2019m talking about, right?\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>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 The people who just seem like they are out of touch with reality.\u00a0 It\u2019s not gratitude as much as denial.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 And we are not talking about that but we are talking about something that is gutsy and vibrant and takes faith and courage.\u00a0 I\u2019m sitting here thinking of some really dear friends of mine who are on the staff in our ministry and two or three years ago she was diagnosed at age 56 with Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease.\u00a0 That\u2019s a death sentence but during the 26 months of her illness her husband would send out updates and they weren\u2019t good reports ever.\u00a0 It never got better.\u00a0 It only got worse but he would sign those e-mails \u201cwith thanksgiving, Charles.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn the midst of that really painful hard time in their lives knowing what was coming and that he was going to be a widower and burying his wife.\u00a0 He found occasion to give thanks to the Lord not for the sickness, not for the impending death but for the goodness of God in the midst of all of that.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s not denying reality.\u00a0 That\u2019s having a robust faith that works even when your eyes are filled with tears and your life is falling apart around you.\u00a0 Because you know that this is not the end and that we have a redeeming God who is in the process of making all things new it is a courageous way to live with a spirit of gratitude.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You have one chapter in your book, <em>Choosing Gratitude<\/em> that is almost an apologetic for being grateful, an apologetic for gratitude.\u00a0 So convince me.\u00a0 Talk me into the idea that it really does make sense both as a follower of Christ and just as a person living in the real world to be grateful.\u00a0 Where would you start?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I wish it was enough for all of us to start because God commands it.\u00a0 He says we are to be grateful.\u00a0 In everything we are to give thanks and if there weren\u2019t any other reasons that should be enough.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 So it is a matter of obedience?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is a matter of obedience.\u00a0 It is a matter of surrender and saying God is God and even when my eyes are filled with tears I will lift them up and say Lord you are good.\u00a0 You are enough and I choose to give you thanks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know we lost a granddaughter about a year and a half ago and there is no sufficient answer.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, not this side of eternity.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You can ask why but there is no sufficient answer that really satisfies the soul.\u00a0 Those questions can\u2019t be answered.\u00a0\u00a0 But what the scriptures point us to is really the command to be thankful and then it really ties us to another benefit of giving thanks.\u00a0 When we give thanks and we praise God the scripture says he inhabits the praises of his people.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, praise is God\u2019s address.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>He\u2019s near people who praise him.\u00a0 That is the promise of scripture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 He comes to the scene and not that he is not omnipresent he is but there is a special sense and Barbara I\u2019ve heard you talk about this as you think about the loss of Molly.\u00a0 That in the midst of the tears and the trauma as the family gathered together there was that extraordinary sense that through praise and a grateful heart for God\u2019s provision and gift of this child but also trusting the Lord in taking her life that God\u2019s presence drew near in those moments.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s really true Nancy.\u00a0 We experienced his presence in ways I would never have expected.\u00a0 I really believe it\u2019s because we started giving thanks from the moment she was born and we knew something wasn\u2019t right we started giving thanks.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt wasn\u2019t just us but it was also her parents, Jake and Rebecca and her other grandparents, Bill and Pam and the extended family.\u00a0 We all began to corporately give thanks to God for what he was giving us in Molly.\u00a0 I think that opened the doorway for him to reveal himself and it gave us spiritual eyes to see what he was doing that we would have missed otherwise.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t mean it wasn\u2019t hard.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was very difficult.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was one of the most difficult weeks of my life.\u00a0 I mean to watch your daughter say good bye to an infant is a heart ache that is unimaginable.\u00a0 But in the midst of that here is where the scripture pulls us out of our valley and it lifts us up and it says praise God.\u00a0 He is the giver and the taker of life and he is in charge.\u00a0 He is in control.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I know it ought to be enough that God commands it and we should be grateful because it\u2019s a command of God and so we will but you don\u2019t stop there in the book.\u00a0 You offer some other reasons why gratitude makes sense, right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, on a practical level I think gratitude is a means of experiencing God\u2019s peace.\u00a0 You think of that passage in Philippians 4 about not being anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.\u00a0 And what follows?\u00a0 The peace of God that passes all human understanding will garrison your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019ve found that I can real easily get sucked into the undertow of life as it is happening around me.\u00a0 My emotions can real quickly get on a negative spin or negative track.\u00a0 Gratitude and a thankful spirit and thinking and expressing gratitude to the Lord and others is so often in my life a life preserver.\u00a0 It\u2019s God throwing out a means of rescue to my heart and it lifts me up out of that emotional quicksand that I often find myself in.\u00a0 When I will stop and say thank you to the Lord and verbalize the things I\u2019m grateful for then God does bring his peace to rescue my heart.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And I know we are building a case for the rightness of being grateful and expressing gratitude but at some level if we are not interested in expressing gratitude we have to pull back and say does God\u2019s spirit live in us?\u00a0 When the Spirit does live in us and through us gratitude is going to come out, isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know there is a fascinating passage in Ephesians 5 which addresses the connection between gratefulness and being filled with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 We all know that verse \u201cdon\u2019t get drunk with wine be filled with the Spirit of God\u201d Ephesians 5:18.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 And then in the rest of that chapter and into chapter six there is this whole list of the evidences that we are filled with the Spirit.\u00a0 You have that we will edify one another with scripture based words and with singing to the Lord.\u00a0 There will be Christ centered worship.\u00a0 There will be humility and mutual submission.\u00a0 There will be godly family relationships that are an evidence of being filled with the Spirit.\u00a0 There will be right attitudes in the workplace.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere will be victory in our spiritual life.\u00a0 But in the midst of that list of the fruits and evidences of being filled with the Spirit is this picture that we will be thankful.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe would not say that someone who comes to church drunk is a spirit filled Christian.\u00a0 We would not say that a husband and wife who were living at odds with each other or are being violent toward each other are Spirit filled and yet in the context of this passage you have to ask if we are not grateful people and if we are whining and murmuring and complaining can we claim to be Spirit filled?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 For some people it takes a person coming alongside them and saying you know sweetheart I think maybe you are complaining.\u00a0 Like maybe Barbara has said to me on occasion.\u00a0 Or perhaps I have\u2026 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2026said to me on occasion.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Encouraged her with on occasion.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Let\u2019s play the Glad game.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 There you go.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Speaking the truth to one another, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, when you are in a close relationship whether it be single people who have roommate relationships or whether it be a spousal relationship or with children you are living life every day with each other and there are going to be times when you get in a rut.\u00a0 It\u2019s in those moments you need a friend.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need a judge.\u00a0 You do need kind of a Pollyanna Glad game although that\u2019s really hard for me to say in a way.\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>Nancy:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We need each other though.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We do.\u00a0 We really do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 It reminds me of when we were raising our kids, Dennis and you would play the Mr. Rogers neighborhood, \u201caren\u2019t we glad to live in this neighborhood?\u00a0 Aren\u2019t we glad to have this family, children?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh, I wish I could have been there for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And our kids would go\u2026they didn\u2019t like it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Boys and girls isn\u2019t it wonderful to be in our family?\u00a0 They would go \u201cOh, dad this is such a gag.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 A few rolled eyes there?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, my goodness.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Many rolled eyes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But seriously I was trying to lighten up the family because families can just wind down like an alarm clock that has been wound up and slowly deteriorate.\u00a0 They need instruction.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 We can get into negative patterns that we need to be rescued from.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 We actually had the kids and I think some of our regular listeners have heard me say this on occasion.\u00a0 Over in Philippians 2 it says to do all things without grumbling or disbuting.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, it\u2019s one of our favorite verses at our house.\u00a0 \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>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, I think it\u2019s most parent\u2019s favorite verse.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Honestly I wish it had exterminated the griping, grumbling and complaining but it didn\u2019t.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s not a magic wand.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Scripture is really healthy for the kids to memorize and they need it in their soul.\u00a0 They need the Scriptures but they also need to be guided by parents.\u00a0 Parents need to model a spirit that is not complaining.\u00a0 So, maybe parents could use a little of Pollyanna\u2019s Glad game themselves.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You need to talk to them and say, \u201cParents aren\u2019t you glad you have those children?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Or isn\u2019t it a privilege to be their mommy and their daddy?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Don\u2019t you love those little rug rats, today?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 We laugh but it\u2019s no small thing.\u00a0 I\u2019m sitting here thinking about a couple of places in Scripture where it talks about the downward spiral of a whole culture.\u00a0 Romans 1 and 2 Timothy 3 those passages list this hoard of horrendous sins\u2014sexual sins, perversion, violence and things that can become characteristic of a culture and right in the middle of both those lists you find failing to give thanks or ungratefulness.\u00a0 I really believe that ingratitude if you look at it in Romans 1 it is our first step individually or as a family or as a culture away from God.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen we make room for ingratitude in our hearts it\u2019s a tap root of all kinds of other sins that come and fill up our hearts and become characteristic of our culture.\u00a0 So, eradicating it and dealing with it and parents modeling gratitude and then saying this is a serious issue we have to encourage and challenge our children and deal with it.\u00a0 It\u2019s for all of our good that we do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m trying to think of where we see gratitude lived out in the life of Jesus.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wow, what an amazing picture of gratitude we have in Christ himself and all through his life.\u00a0 You think about the time when he sent the 70 disciples to go out and minister and they came back.\u00a0 He prayed this prayer.\u00a0 He said, \u201cI thank you, Lord God.\u201d\u00a0 Jesus gave thanks to his father there at the tomb of Lazarus in John 11 Jesus prayed and he said, \u201cthank you father that you have heard me.\u201d\u00a0 Before the prayer is even answered Jesus is saying thank you.\u00a0\u00a0 When he was at meal times you know the story of the feeding of the five thousand and the feeding of the four thousand.\u00a0 In those passages we read that Jesus stopped and gave thanks.\u00a0 Why would the Spirit inspire that little detail?\u00a0 And in one of those passages he did it twice before each course of the meal.\u00a0 Before the bread was distributed and before the fish were distributed he stopped and he gave thanks.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen in what I think is one of the most powerful, poignant pictures in all of scripture in each of the three synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke you have it recorded that at the last supper with his disciples as Jesus knows that he is going to the cross he knows he\u2019s going to become sin for us and he\u2019s gathered there with his disciples.\u00a0 If you put those passages together you find out that three times in the course of that meal Jesus stopped and gave thanks to his heavenly father.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou say, how do I give thanks in the midst of pressure or suffering or loss or grieving or challenges in my life?\u00a0 You look at Christ.\u00a0 He knew that God\u2019s redemptive plan was about to be fulfilled.\u00a0 He knew that God was still good and God was still worthy of his trust and his praise even as he faced the cross.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And Nancy, I want you to know that I am thankful for you and I am thankful and grateful for this book.\u00a0 I think as we consider Christ\u2019s example it challenges us as men and women, husbands and wives, moms and dads to practice that in our own lives.\u00a0 To be grateful and thankful.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Even when we know that what is in front of us is going to be hard.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 To be able to give thanks and praise him for circumstances that you don\u2019t necessarily like and you don\u2019t necessarily enjoy.\u00a0 Nancy, I want you to know I really appreciate you and I\u2019m grateful to God for you.\u00a0 Before we are done here what I want you to do is come back and make the last point of why we need to be grateful.\u00a0 It has to do with how praise is the language of heaven.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And Nancy before you unpack that for our listeners and for us let me encourage folks to go on line at FamilyLife Today.com to get more information about your book which is called <em>Choosing Gratitude<\/em> which we have in our FamilyLife Today resource center.\u00a0 The subtitle is <em>Your Journey to Joy<\/em> and you really believe that cultivating a heart of gratitude is a part of what brings joy to our lives.\u00a0 Again we have the book <em>Choosing Gratitude<\/em> in our FamilyLife Today resource center.\u00a0 We also have Barbara Rainey\u2019s seven day devotional guide for families called <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>.\u00a0 There is information about that book on our website as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOf course we have Barbara\u2019s book, <em>Thanksgiving: A Time to Remember<\/em> that tells the story of the pilgrims coming to America on the Mayflower and settling here.\u00a0 It tells of the hardships they endured and it tells of the first Thanksgiving. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can call us toll free at 1-800-FL-TODAY and say I\u2019d like that thankfulness card.\u00a0 We\u2019d be happy to send it out to you.\u00a0 Again the number is 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 That\u2019s 1-800- F as in \u201cfamily,\u201d L as in \u201clife,\u201d and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd if you\u2019ve never contacted us here at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> we\u2019d love to hear from you.\u00a0 In fact we have a card that we are sending out to folks this week.\u00a0 All you have to do is call and request it.\u00a0 It\u2019s called <em>A Family Prayer of Thankfulness<\/em>.\u00a0 We\u2019ve taken Psalm 103 and found all of the blessings of God that are addressed in that Psalm and we\u2019ve put them in a format where we can cultivate a heart of gratefulness and thanksgiving.\u00a0 If you\u2019d like to receive this laminated card to put on the refrigerator of to use at the dinner table or to keep in your Bible we\u2019d love to send it to you.\u00a0 You just need to call and request it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr 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 We hope to hear from you.\u00a0 Dennis?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 As I said earlier Nancy Leigh DeMoss I thank God for you.\u00a0 And Barbara, thank you for joining us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> as well.\u00a0 Nancy in your book you talk about one last reason why gratitude is good for us it\u2019s the language of heaven.\u00a0 What do you mean by that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 When you go to the last book of the Bible, Revelation, chapters 4-5 in particular John is given this vision of what\u2019s going on in heaven.\u00a0 There are in heaven now myriads thousands of thousands of angels who have a full time responsibility and they are giving praise and glory and honor and thanks to the one who is seated on the throne and to the lamb of God\u2014the Lord Jesus Christ who was slain for sinners so he could ransom people from every tribe and language and people and nation, that\u2019s us.\u00a0 They give him thanks day and night.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo when you think that we are going to spend eternity those who have placed their faith in Christ repentant of their sins we\u2019ll spend eternity in heaven that is what we are going to be doing for all of eternity.\u00a0 So in a sense what we are doing here on this earth is a dress rehearsal.\u00a0 It\u2019s a practice getting ready for what we will spend all of eternity doing in heaven.\u00a0 I sometimes wonder if we spend a lot of time on this earth griping, whining, and complaining\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Now you are getting convicting here.\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>Nancy: <\/strong>\u00a0How are we going to enjoy or speak the language of heaven if we don\u2019t get practice doing that now?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I know you\u2019ve been living in those last chapters of that last book.\u00a0 Paint the picture of Revelation 5 for us.\u00a0 Would you just recite it for us here?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>\u00a0 Five is what you want?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Then I saw on the right hand of him who is sitting on the throne a scroll written within and on the back sealed with seven seals.\u00a0 I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, \u201cWho is worthy to open the scroll and to breaks its seals?\u201d\u00a0 And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it.\u00a0 I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.\u00a0 And one of the elders said \u201cto me weep no more behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David has conquered so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd between the throne and the living creatures and among the elders I saw a lamb standing as though it had been slain with seven horns and with seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.\u00a0 And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who is seated on the throne and when he had taken the scroll the 24 elders and the four living creatures fell down before the lamb each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints and they sang a new song saying \u201cworthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals for you were slain and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.\u00a0 You have made them a kingdom and priests to our God and they shall reign on the earth.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen I looked and I heard among the elders and the living creatures the voice of many angels numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.\u00a0 And I heard every creature on heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea and all that is in them saying, \u201cto him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever\u201d and the four living creatures said \u201cAmen.\u201d\u00a0 And the 24 elders fell down and worshipped.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Amen.\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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