Embracing Gratitude: Transforming Challenges into Blessings
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"Is the glass half full or half empty? You ever heard that? Okay, and it dictates how we live, how we think, and for some people the glass is half full and for some people the glass is half empty. How many, how many believe that they live their life the way that glass is half full?" [00:01:57] (28 seconds)
"It is never empty. Okay? So we need to look at our attitude, and our attitude will decide how high we go. Is that right? You know, your attitude decides your altitude, how high you go depends upon what you think, how you think. Okay. Then we have the other angel question. Do you see challenges or opportunities?" [00:03:07] (25 seconds)
"Challenges and opportunities are the same, it just depends upon how you look at it, depends upon how you look at it, okay? Just like you said, is the glass half full or half empty? The glass is the same, the difference is how you look at it." [00:05:27] (17 seconds)
"Now, what happens is that, as a friend of mine told me, I'm always looking for challenges because I want to show my God off, I want to show how good my God is. So, no matter what happens, I know my God's got it, I want to show him off, okay? So, you see, there's an opportunity to show what God can do." [00:05:44] (23 seconds)
"How we look at things. Now, the importance of gratitude that goes along with that is what? Is that, think about all the challenges, all the opportunities, all the half glasses, and how all the half glass empty, empty and say, look what God has done for me. Look what God has done for me. We got through this year, okay?" [00:06:29] (27 seconds)
"Because I chose not to look at it as challenging, find it difficult. I chose to look at it as an opportunity to let God shine. To let him show off. That makes sense? It's a different way of looking at it, but how we look at things dictate how we deal with issues." [00:06:57] (21 seconds)
"What has God done for us, what has he provided for all of us no matter how little or how big he has done what, he's provided financial stability we're still here, alright he's provided health maybe not as good as you want it to be but you're here, okay he's provided relationships you got me nobody else got me, okay alright, we got everybody okay, we got relationships okay, you got opportunities God gives us an opportunity to get it right to do other things, okay that some people may not have okay, but they don't understand it okay, and our daily bread you know we all got something to eat, okay understand that daily bread means means not just food." [00:08:03] (59 seconds)
"God protects us in difficult times. How has God protected us? How has he protected us as a knowledge? Challenges facing this year? Okay, we acknowledge them. There have been some. There have been some. But through it all, through it all, we have a loss, we have illness and fear, but God has carried his people through them." [00:11:16] (22 seconds)
"Amen. Sometimes things don't run the way we want them to. And some things occur, but we got to understand that through it all, through it all, God's going to protect us. He continually protects us through it all. Okay. He's our refuge and our fortress. And we use the example of the mother bird. And she puts her little chicklings under her and protects them." [00:12:43] (34 seconds)
"Lessons in disguise lesson in disguise when we sometimes things happen and we want to know why we ask the question why why me and we find out that it worked out what we thought we wanted we didn't need and what we needed. We got it. Blessings in disguise. That's an interesting kind of concept because it doesn't matter what happens. God's in control." [00:13:54] (42 seconds)
"It says all things work together for the good of those who love God, okay? Okay, and take a minute to just think about something that happened during the year that you initially thought was bad, and then you find out that it was good. Take a second to think about it. Something you were blessed with that initially you said, wait a minute, why? And then you find out the reason why." [00:14:44] (34 seconds)
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"It is never empty. Okay? So we need to look at our attitude, and our attitude will decide how high we go. Is that right? You know, your attitude decides your altitude, how high you go depends upon what you think, how you think. Okay. Then we have the other angel question. Do you see challenges or opportunities?" [00:03:07] (25 seconds)
"Challenges and opportunities are the same, it just depends upon how you look at it, depends upon how you look at it, okay? Just like you said, is the glass half full or half empty? The glass is the same, the difference is how you look at it." [00:05:27] (17 seconds)
"Now, what happens is that, as a friend of mine told me, I'm always looking for challenges because I want to show my God off, I want to show how good my God is. So, no matter what happens, I know my God's got it, I want to show him off, okay? So, you see, there's an opportunity to show what God can do." [00:05:44] (23 seconds)
"How we look at things. Now, the importance of gratitude that goes along with that is what? Is that, think about all the challenges, all the opportunities, all the half glasses, and how all the half glass empty, empty and say, look what God has done for me. Look what God has done for me. We got through this year, okay?" [00:06:29] (27 seconds)
"Because I chose not to look at it as challenging, find it difficult. I chose to look at it as an opportunity to let God shine. To let him show off. That makes sense? It's a different way of looking at it, but how we look at things dictate how we deal with issues." [00:06:57] (21 seconds)
"What has God done for us, what has he provided for all of us no matter how little or how big he has done what, he's provided financial stability we're still here, alright he's provided health maybe not as good as you want it to be but you're here, okay he's provided relationships you got me nobody else got me, okay alright, we got everybody okay, we got relationships okay, you got opportunities God gives us an opportunity to get it right to do other things, okay that some people may not have okay, but they don't understand it okay, and our daily bread you know we all got something to eat, okay understand that daily bread means means not just food." [00:08:03] (59 seconds)
"God protects us in difficult times. How has God protected us? How has he protected us as a knowledge? Challenges facing this year? Okay, we acknowledge them. There have been some. There have been some. But through it all, through it all, we have a loss, we have illness and fear, but God has carried his people through them." [00:11:16] (22 seconds)
"Amen. Sometimes things don't run the way we want them to. And some things occur, but we got to understand that through it all, through it all, God's going to protect us. He continually protects us through it all. Okay. He's our refuge and our fortress. And we use the example of the mother bird. And she puts her little chicklings under her and protects them." [00:12:43] (34 seconds)
"Lessons in disguise lesson in disguise when we sometimes things happen and we want to know why we ask the question why why me and we find out that it worked out what we thought we wanted we didn't need and what we needed. We got it. Blessings in disguise. That's an interesting kind of concept because it doesn't matter what happens. God's in control." [00:13:54] (42 seconds)
"It says all things work together for the good of those who love God, okay? Okay, and take a minute to just think about something that happened during the year that you initially thought was bad, and then you find out that it was good. Take a second to think about it. Something you were blessed with that initially you said, wait a minute, why? And then you find out the reason why." [00:14:44] (34 seconds)
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