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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce. And today, by the title of this episode, we are going to be talking about gratitude. I feel like we hear about this term. Whether we're in church settings or you listen to Brandon Lake or in many different Christian environments, we hear the term gratitude. What is gratitude? What does it look like in the scriptures? How can we apply it more in our life? What does it ultimately look like? We're going to get into it. Hey, real quick, before we keep going, I have an announcement I've been really excited to make. I'm officially announcing our ministry's biggest live event ever, Open Heaven. It's happening Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 7:30pm at the Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving, Texas. This is going to be a night centered around worship, faith and genuine community. All of us together in one room, encountering God in person. There's going to be live worship and really special moments throughout the night. Tickets are on sale right now. Head to bryce crawford.org tour or cl the link in the description below to grab yours. And please only buy through my official site or that link. Do not buy from random resellers online. A lot of them are scams. I genuinely believe this is going to be a night people carry with them for a long time. I would love to see you there. All right, back to the episode. But before we get into the scriptures, we have to understand exactly what gratitude is. Gratitude in its simplest form is saying thank you. It's saying thank you for receiving something that you didn't deserve. It's saying, thank you for receiving blessings and gifts and favor and life and breath and everything in between from God, whether it's from himself or through people from God. We are saying thank you. Thank you. That's how powerful it is. Gratitude and thanksgiving go hand in hand and we'll get to that later on in the episode. But one of the primary scriptures that stuck out to me about gratitude and is actually Luke, chapter 17 and. And we're going to start in verse 11. But Jesus is about to heal 10 lepers. And it's so interesting what happens in the story. I want you to hear this. On the way to Jerusalem, he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by 10 lepers who stood at a distance and lifting up their voices, saying, jesus, master, have mercy on us. When he saw them, he said to them, go and show yourselves to the priest. And. And as they went, they were cleansed. Now, I want to stop right here. There's many times in the scriptures where people come to Jesus and say, lord, if you'll make me clean, would you do so? And he's like, absolutely, absolutely, I'll make you clean. It's the Lord that loves to give. You know, every good gift comes from above. So God, us being his children, he wants to take care of us. He's jealous for our love. He loves us so desperately. He loves giving good gifts. We have a lot to be grateful for. We have many reasons to practice gratitude because of the character of God. Now look at this. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. And he fell on his face at Jesus feet, giving him thanks. Now, he was a Samaritan. Now let's start right there. Now that sounds good. At face value, a guy looked down, he's like, oh my gosh, I'm healed. Because you have to understand, the lepers are outcasts. They're sick. No one wants to get near them. Oftentimes, lepers out. Not only were they outcasts outside of the city, but many lepers oftentimes had some sort of bell signifying that when they walked in the city, people would know that's the leper. Get away from that guy. I don't want to get near him. I'm going to get unclean if I get his disease. So at face value, you're like, oh, great, turn around. He's grateful, and all that jazz. But the sad part is there was 10 of them that got healed. Only one of them turned around with gratitude in verse 17. Then Jesus answered, Were not 10 cleansed? Where are the 9? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except his foreigner? And he said to him, rise and go your way. Your faith has made you well. Let me give you a practical warning here about your life. Many times we cry out to God in the depths and darkest parts of our lives. And we ask God, pull through. If you do this thing, then I'll start following you or God. I promise I'll stop cussing if you just do this one thing for me. If God pulls through in your life and you lack gratitude, then you're going to convince yourself that you got yourself out of that hole and Jesus did it. Whenever we lack practicing gratitude and we conquer a mountain, we're pulled out of a hole. We finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. We then convince ourselves that it is we that got ourselves out of the bond and not Jesus. And it's so interesting. Jesus is like, wait, there was 10 of you guys. Only one of you turned around to praise God for healing you. I mean, there's no way that anyone else but Jesus could have healed these men. And 90% of them had the audacity to walk away as if they had nothing to be grateful for. You know, you see so often in society, we cry out to God to move in our life, we move in our circumstances, move in our country, then God does, and we act as if there wasn't even a problem. And so we show a lack of gratitude towards God. How hypocritical it is of us to cry out and ask God to move in our life, show up, speak to us, be with us, pull us out of a dark pit, and then he does. And then we just do nothing about it. That is a lack of gratitude. You know what the greatest form of gratitude is? Preaching the gospel. Why? Because Jesus Christ pulled you out of the darkest pit possible, which comes to your salvation, which comes to your eternal destination, which comes to your ultimate satisfaction. He pulls us out of this hole. And the ultimate view, the ultimate display of gratitude is saying, God has saved my life. Now I got to preach the gospel to other people so he can save theirs. That is the ultimate form of gratitude. And oftentimes I remember, for me personally, like, growing up, I had heard a lot about Jesus. I went to private Christian school. I'm very grateful for my education. I got there. I went to church camps growing up, and there were so many times where I asked God to move in my life, or I was struggling or I was hurting, or I cried. I mean, I got saved like 39 times in two summers at church camp. And then God would pull through and I would act as if he didn't do anything. And there was a lack of gratitude. A lack of gratitude will allow pride to creep in your life, and then you will become your own God and not Jesus. No wonder we find ourselves struggling and suffering underneath the pressure of performance, underneath the pressure of sin, underneath the pressure of opinions and people, because we lack gratitude. I mean, what does Philippians 4 say? Let's flip to Philippians 4. Philippians says says this. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. I love how it says in prayer and supplication. It doesn't exclude the thanksgiving says with thanksgiving. The Psalms say we enter his courts with praise and thanksgiving. So often our prayer lives have become merely wish list to Santa Claus. And it's God ain't a genie. God is our Father. God is our Lord. He is a friend to us that are brokenhearted. He's not a genie. With prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, in everything that we do, thanksgiving is attached. Gratitude is attached. Because gratitude aligns our heart posture with the Lord's. Gratitude keeps us centered, rounded, and rooted in the work of the cross. Gratitude allows us not to lose sight of the beauty of what Jesus has done. Because the second we lose gratitude, we lose everything. Because if we are not grateful for Jesus and his finished work, then what are we grateful for? Something that you did. Were you grateful for the way that you. You conquered your porn addiction and then 48 hours later, you fell back in because you thought you were the one that got you out of the hole? After you cried out to Jesus because you felt shame and guilt for falling into sin time and time again? And then you got one little bit of peace because Jesus is the prince of peace. You got one ounce of peace and you forgot Jesus is the one that brings you comfort, satisfaction, and strength. You thought, I just got myself out of this hole. Then you fell back in 48 hours later. Because we lack gratitude. Look at Luke 24. Jesus, resurrected in his physical body, appears before the disciples. He says, I'm the resurrected Christ. Look, it's me. They're like, nah, I don't believe it. He shows them holes in his hands, holes in his side. They're like, nope, don't believe it. They were marveled and amazed. And he said, do you guys have something to eat? I'll have fish off bread. And they sit down, and as they broke bread, Jesus opened their minds to the scripture. It was in that moment I view that like a Thanksgiving holiday, right? Jesus is having Thanksgiving around the table. And Jesus turned Thanksgiving from being a holiday to a weapon. Gratitude will be your number one weapon against sin and temptation. Because one major reason we fall into sin and temptation time and time again is because we think that that thing will satisfy us. And we are not satisfied and grateful for the peace and provision and satisfaction that the Lord Jesus fills our heart with. And so when we fall into sin and temptation, we're saying, no, I'm not grateful for Jesus. I don't think he's doing it enough for me. I don't know if this is going to work out. And so we turn to sin. Gratitude is going to be a primary weapon that will keep you on the straight and narrow. Gratitude is going to be A single handed practice that is going to keep you rooted and grounded. A practice that I have implemented in my daily walk with Jesus is in the. I have a routine in the morning I gotta do. I wake up and I go on a prayer walk with my dog. And at first when I started doing this, my prayer walk was like honestly, exactly what I said at the beginning. It was me asking God for specific things. The Bible tells us make our requests known to God, but that's not the primary purpose of prayer. And so now my prayer walks in the morning with my dog Moses have now changed from me asking God for things to simply being grateful. God, thank you for this. Thank you for. I remember this morning particularly I was walking Moses and I could not stop but sit and thank God for the weather. I just thought it was such a beautiful day out this morning and still is. And I couldn't stop. And for some reason that that continual prayer, God, I'm just in awe of the weather. Like, thank you that you've allowed us to be today, God, thank you for who you are and thank you for your character and thank you for my breath. Thank you that I have the ability to walk and thank you that we have a roof over our head and thank you Lord for the things that you do in our life. Because this constant state of gratitude keeps us dependent on God. Because when we are grateful, we realize he is the only one that can provide and give good gifts. We realize that he the only one that gives us not what we not what we want, but what we need. And when we are dependent on him, we can't help but stay in a constant place of gratitude. Man, if you're someone that's struggling with sin right now, maybe reflect on your own life, maybe you're not being grateful. Maybe one of the reasons why you're continually falling into sin is because you are so down on yourself and down on your luck that you were so hyper fixated on your suffering. Rather than gratitude. It's like, what do you mean, Bryce? How could I be grateful in the midst of my suffering? Look, your story wouldn't be your story without your suffering. It would be ignorant for us to neglect our suffering and hardship and trial. And at the same time it would be foolish of us to not be grateful for what God is teaching us through it. Be grateful that his characters remain the same at the peaks of our life and the lows of our life. That we would be insane to neglect gratitude for Jesus Christ that he doesn't change his opinion about us despite our suffering. And sin. He doesn't change his mind about us just because we're having another hard day. And so maybe the missing piece to get you out of this pit of despair, this pit of hopelessness, this pit of pride, this pit of sin, is simply gratitude. Actually, as society grows and temptation grows and all of these things, it's actually quite simple. Maybe gratitude is the missing piece in your life that could change the trajectory of your faith journey. Simply because you are grateful for every ounce and aspect of your daily life through Jesus Christ, because he is the one that gives it to you. And so I want to pray for you. I want to pray that gratitude becomes a practice in your life. I just want to thank God. I want to pray that gratitude becomes a practice in your life. And I just want to thank God for you, your life, this day, the next day, Lord willing, if there is one, we want to thank him. Lord Jesus, we love you, God, we are so grateful for the life that you've instilled in our lungs. Gratitude. We want to be a daily part of our practice. So, Lord, we are just grateful right now, wherever we're watching or listening, God, we say we're grateful for you. We're grateful for the word of God. We're grateful for Jesus Christ, death and resurrection on the cross. We're grateful for breath in our lungs, Lord. We're grateful for sunshine. We're grateful for the weather. We're grateful for animals. We're grateful for friendships. We're grateful for toothpaste. We're grateful for food. We are grateful for legs. We are grateful for eyes that can see. We are grateful for smell that we can smell. We're grateful for sounds that we can listen. We're grateful for music, Lord. We are grateful for creativity, Lord. We are grateful for the person watching and listening. And Lord, we are grateful for our enemies. Because you care for them just as much as you care about us. Lord, we are grateful and we want to stay in this place. Lord, would you let gratitude become a daily practice in our life? Let us not lose sight of you because we lack gratitude. But Lord, continue to remind us of things that we can continue to praise you for. Because you have given us a new song in our mouth. Lord, we love you. We thank you. We are so grateful for you. In Jesus name, amen.

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Episode Overview

Podcast: The Bryce Crawford Podcast
Host: Bryce Crawford
Episode: How Gratitude Keeps You From Sin (EP 209)
Date: July 17, 2026

In this episode, Bryce Crawford explores the critical role of gratitude in the Christian life, drawing from scriptural examples, personal anecdotes, and practical advice. He emphasizes how a posture of thanksgiving can safeguard believers from pride and sin, and offers tools for incorporating gratitude into daily spiritual practice.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Defining Gratitude in a Christian Context

[03:40] Bryce starts by defining gratitude:
“Gratitude in its simplest form is saying thank you. It's saying thank you for receiving something that you didn't deserve… blessings and gifts and favor and life and breath and everything in between from God.”
He connects gratitude with thanksgiving and notes their interchangeability throughout the Bible.

2. The Story of the Ten Lepers (Luke 17:11-19)

[05:00] Bryce walks through the account where Jesus heals 10 lepers, but only one returns to thank Him.
The one grateful leper, a Samaritan and an outcast, is highlighted as the example of true gratitude:
“Only one of them turned around with gratitude.”
Bryce warns against the danger of receiving God’s blessings and failing to thank Him, leading to pride and self-sufficiency:
Quote [09:20]: “If God pulls through in your life and you lack gratitude, then you're going to convince yourself that you got yourself out of that hole and Jesus did it.”

3. Gratitude as a Defense Against Pride and Sin

[12:45] Bryce shares from personal experience about the potential to become self-reliant and forgetful of God’s action.
He warns that a lack of gratitude allows pride to take root:
“A lack of gratitude will allow pride to creep in your life, and then you will become your own god and not Jesus.”
[13:55] He applies Philippians 4:6–7, emphasizing prayer and thanksgiving:
“So often our prayer lives have become merely wish lists to Santa Claus. And it's—God ain't a genie. God is our Father.”

4. Gratitude as the Ultimate Response to Salvation

[10:50] Bryce argues that the greatest form of gratitude is sharing one’s faith:
“The ultimate display of gratitude is saying, God has saved my life. Now I got to preach the gospel to other people so he can save theirs.”
He urges listeners to consider gratitude as a lifestyle and missional act.

5. Thanksgiving as a Weapon Against Temptation

[17:55] Drawing from Luke 24, Bryce reframes thanksgiving from a holiday to a spiritual weapon:
“Gratitude will be your number one weapon against sin and temptation.”
He explains that cycles of sin often stem from a lack of satisfaction in God and therefore, a lack of gratitude:
Quote [20:10]: “When we fall into sin and temptation, we’re saying, no, I’m not grateful for Jesus. I don’t think he’s doing it enough for me.”

6. Practical Applications: Building a Routine of Gratitude

[21:40] Bryce shares his personal morning ritual—a prayer walk with his dog—emphasizing how focusing on gratitude, not just requests, has changed his relationship with God.
Quote [22:35]: “Because this constant state of gratitude keeps us dependent on God. Because when we are grateful, we realize he is the only one that can provide and give good gifts.”

7. Gratitude in Suffering

[23:50] Bryce addresses the challenge of practicing gratitude amidst hardship:
- Acknowledges that suffering is part of everyone’s story but insists it’s possible and vital to be grateful even then.
- Quote [24:30]: “It would be foolish of us to not be grateful for what God is teaching us through it. Be grateful that his character remains the same at the peaks of our life and the lows of our life.”

8. Gratitude as the “Missing Piece” in Spiritual Growth

[25:45] Summarizes the main thesis:
“Maybe gratitude is the missing piece in your life that could change the trajectory of your faith journey. Simply because you are grateful for every ounce and aspect of your daily life through Jesus Christ, because he is the one that gives it to you.”

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

“Gratitude aligns our heart posture with the Lord's. Gratitude keeps us centered, rounded, and rooted in the work of the cross.”—[15:00]
“Because the second we lose gratitude, we lose everything.”—[16:10]
“Jesus turned Thanksgiving from being a holiday to a weapon.”—[18:40]
“Maybe the missing piece to get you out of this pit of despair, this pit of hopelessness, this pit of pride, this pit of sin, is simply gratitude.”—[26:15]

Timestamps for Key Segments

[03:40] – Defining gratitude and its importance in scripture
[05:00] – The ten lepers: a lesson in thanksgiving
[09:20] – The danger of self-reliance and pride without gratitude
[13:55] – Prayer with thanksgiving: Philippians 4
[17:55] – Thanksgiving as a weapon against sin
[21:40] – Bryce’s practical morning routine of gratitude
[23:50] – Practicing gratitude in the midst of suffering
[25:45] – Gratitude as the spiritual “missing piece”

Closing Prayer and Reflection

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Bryce closes with a prayer, modeling gratitude for everything from breath, weather, and loved ones to even one’s enemies, asking that gratitude would become a daily practice in the listener’s life.

Quote:
“We are grateful for legs. We are grateful for eyes that can see. We are grateful for smell that we can smell... We are grateful for our enemies. Because you care for them just as much as you care about us.”

Summary Table

| Segment | Timestamps | Main Points | |----------------------------------|------------|------------------------------------------------------------| | Defining Gratitude | 03:40 | Thankfulness for God’s undeserved gifts | | The Ten Lepers | 05:00 | Only one expressed gratitude after healing | | Warning Against Pride | 09:20 | Lack of gratitude leads to self-reliance | | Prayer and Thanksgiving | 13:55 | Incorporate gratitude into every prayer | | Gratitude Preaches the Gospel | 10:50 | Sharing salvation as the ultimate gratitude | | Thanksgiving as a Weapon | 17:55 | Gratitude as defense against sin and temptation | | Morning Gratitude Routine | 21:40 | Practicing gratitude redirects the heart to God | | Gratitude in Suffering | 23:50 | Maintaining gratitude despite hardship | | Gratitude is the Missing Piece | 25:45 | Gratefulness as a key to spiritual growth | | Closing Prayer | 27:10 | Prayer of comprehensive gratitude |

Final Thoughts

Bryce’s episode is a passionate reminder that gratitude is not only a polite response, but a transformative spiritual discipline closely tied to joy, humility, and resistance against sin. He challenges listeners to examine their daily practices, especially in hardship, and see gratitude not as a feeling, but a weapon, a witness, and a foundation for faith.

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce. And today, by the title of this episode, we are going to be talking about gratitude. I feel like we hear about this term. Whether we're in church settings or you listen to Brandon Lake or in many different Christian environments, we hear the term gratitude. What is gratitude? What does it look like in the scriptures? How can we apply it more in our life? What does it ultimately look like? We're going to get into it. Hey, real quick, before we keep going, I have an announcement I've been really excited to make. I'm officially announcing our ministry's biggest live event ever, Open Heaven. It's happening Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 7:30pm at the Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving, Texas. This is going to be a night centered around worship, faith and genuine community. All of us together in one room, encountering God in person. There's going to be live worship and really special moments throughout the night. Tickets are on sale right now. Head to bryce crawford.org tour or cl the link in the description below to grab yours. And please only buy through my official site or that link. Do not buy from random resellers online. A lot of them are scams. I genuinely believe this is going to be a night people carry with them for a long time. I would love to see you there. All right, back to the episode. But before we get into the scriptures, we have to understand exactly what gratitude is. Gratitude in its simplest form is saying thank you. It's saying thank you for receiving something that you didn't deserve. It's saying, thank you for receiving blessings and gifts and favor and life and breath and everything in between from God, whether it's from himself or through people from God. We are saying thank you. Thank you. That's how powerful it is. Gratitude and thanksgiving go hand in hand and we'll get to that later on in the episode. But one of the primary scriptures that stuck out to me about gratitude and is actually Luke, chapter 17 and. And we're going to start in verse 11. But Jesus is about to heal 10 lepers. And it's so interesting what happens in the story. I want you to hear this. On the way to Jerusalem, he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by 10 lepers who stood at a distance and lifting up their voices, saying, jesus, master, have mercy on us. When he saw them, he said to them, go and show yourselves to the priest. And. And as they went, they were cleansed. Now, I want to stop right here. There's many times in the scriptures where people come to Jesus and say, lord, if you'll make me clean, would you do so? And he's like, absolutely, absolutely, I'll make you clean. It's the Lord that loves to give. You know, every good gift comes from above. So God, us being his children, he wants to take care of us. He's jealous for our love. He loves us so desperately. He loves giving good gifts. We have a lot to be grateful for. We have many reasons to practice gratitude because of the character of God. Now look at this. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. And he fell on his face at Jesus feet, giving him thanks. Now, he was a Samaritan. Now let's start right there. Now that sounds good. At face value, a guy looked down, he's like, oh my gosh, I'm healed. Because you have to understand, the lepers are outcasts. They're sick. No one wants to get near them. Oftentimes, lepers out. Not only were they outcasts outside of the city, but many lepers oftentimes had some sort of bell signifying that when they walked in the city, people would know that's the leper. Get away from that guy. I don't want to get near him. I'm going to get unclean if I get his disease. So at face value, you're like, oh, great, turn around. He's grateful, and all that jazz. But the sad part is there was 10 of them that got healed. Only one of them turned around with gratitude in verse 17. Then Jesus answered, Were not 10 cleansed? Where are the 9? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except his foreigner? And he said to him, rise and go your way. Your faith has made you well. Let me give you a practical warning here about your life. Many times we cry out to God in the depths and darkest parts of our lives. And we ask God, pull through. If you do this thing, then I'll start following you or God. I promise I'll stop cussing if you just do this one thing for me. If God pulls through in your life and you lack gratitude, then you're going to convince yourself that you got yourself out of that hole and Jesus did it. Whenever we lack practicing gratitude and we conquer a mountain, we're pulled out of a hole. We finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. We then convince ourselves that it is we that got ourselves out of the bond and not Jesus. And it's so interesting. Jesus is like, wait, there was 10 of you guys. Only one of you turned around to praise God for healing you. I mean, there's no way that anyone else but Jesus could have healed these men. And 90% of them had the audacity to walk away as if they had nothing to be grateful for. You know, you see so often in society, we cry out to God to move in our life, we move in our circumstances, move in our country, then God does, and we act as if there wasn't even a problem. And so we show a lack of gratitude towards God. How hypocritical it is of us to cry out and ask God to move in our life, show up, speak to us, be with us, pull us out of a dark pit, and then he does. And then we just do nothing about it. That is a lack of gratitude. You know what the greatest form of gratitude is? Preaching the gospel. Why? Because Jesus Christ pulled you out of the darkest pit possible, which comes to your salvation, which comes to your eternal destination, which comes to your ultimate satisfaction. He pulls us out of this hole. And the ultimate view, the ultimate display of gratitude is saying, God has saved my life. Now I got to preach the gospel to other people so he can save theirs. That is the ultimate form of gratitude. And oftentimes I remember, for me personally, like, growing up, I had heard a lot about Jesus. I went to private Christian school. I'm very grateful for my education. I got there. I went to church camps growing up, and there were so many times where I asked God to move in my life, or I was struggling or I was hurting, or I cried. I mean, I got saved like 39 times in two summers at church camp. And then God would pull through and I would act as if he didn't do anything. And there was a lack of gratitude. A lack of gratitude will allow pride to creep in your life, and then you will become your own God and not Jesus. No wonder we find ourselves struggling and suffering underneath the pressure of performance, underneath the pressure of sin, underneath the pressure of opinions and people, because we lack gratitude. I mean, what does Philippians 4 say? Let's flip to Philippians 4. Philippians says says this. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. I love how it says in prayer and supplication. It doesn't exclude the thanksgiving says with thanksgiving. The Psalms say we enter his courts with praise and thanksgiving. So often our prayer lives have become merely wish list to Santa Claus. And it's God ain't a genie. God is our Father. God is our Lord. He is a friend to us that are brokenhearted. He's not a genie. With prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, in everything that we do, thanksgiving is attached. Gratitude is attached. Because gratitude aligns our heart posture with the Lord's. Gratitude keeps us centered, rounded, and rooted in the work of the cross. Gratitude allows us not to lose sight of the beauty of what Jesus has done. Because the second we lose gratitude, we lose everything. Because if we are not grateful for Jesus and his finished work, then what are we grateful for? Something that you did. Were you grateful for the way that you. You conquered your porn addiction and then 48 hours later, you fell back in because you thought you were the one that got you out of the hole? After you cried out to Jesus because you felt shame and guilt for falling into sin time and time again? And then you got one little bit of peace because Jesus is the prince of peace. You got one ounce of peace and you forgot Jesus is the one that brings you comfort, satisfaction, and strength. You thought, I just got myself out of this hole. Then you fell back in 48 hours later. Because we lack gratitude. Look at Luke 24. Jesus, resurrected in his physical body, appears before the disciples. He says, I'm the resurrected Christ. Look, it's me. They're like, nah, I don't believe it. He shows them holes in his hands, holes in his side. They're like, nope, don't believe it. They were marveled and amazed. And he said, do you guys have something to eat? I'll have fish off bread. And they sit down, and as they broke bread, Jesus opened their minds to the scripture. It was in that moment I view that like a Thanksgiving holiday, right? Jesus is having Thanksgiving around the table. And Jesus turned Thanksgiving from being a holiday to a weapon. Gratitude will be your number one weapon against sin and temptation. Because one major reason we fall into sin and temptation time and time again is because we think that that thing will satisfy us. And we are not satisfied and grateful for the peace and provision and satisfaction that the Lord Jesus fills our heart with. And so when we fall into sin and temptation, we're saying, no, I'm not grateful for Jesus. I don't think he's doing it enough for me. I don't know if this is going to work out. And so we turn to sin. Gratitude is going to be a primary weapon that will keep you on the straight and narrow. Gratitude is going to be A single handed practice that is going to keep you rooted and grounded. A practice that I have implemented in my daily walk with Jesus is in the. I have a routine in the morning I gotta do. I wake up and I go on a prayer walk with my dog. And at first when I started doing this, my prayer walk was like honestly, exactly what I said at the beginning. It was me asking God for specific things. The Bible tells us make our requests known to God, but that's not the primary purpose of prayer. And so now my prayer walks in the morning with my dog Moses have now changed from me asking God for things to simply being grateful. God, thank you for this. Thank you for. I remember this morning particularly I was walking Moses and I could not stop but sit and thank God for the weather. I just thought it was such a beautiful day out this morning and still is. And I couldn't stop. And for some reason that that continual prayer, God, I'm just in awe of the weather. Like, thank you that you've allowed us to be today, God, thank you for who you are and thank you for your character and thank you for my breath. Thank you that I have the ability to walk and thank you that we have a roof over our head and thank you Lord for the things that you do in our life. Because this constant state of gratitude keeps us dependent on God. Because when we are grateful, we realize he is the only one that can provide and give good gifts. We realize that he the only one that gives us not what we not what we want, but what we need. And when we are dependent on him, we can't help but stay in a constant place of gratitude. Man, if you're someone that's struggling with sin right now, maybe reflect on your own life, maybe you're not being grateful. Maybe one of the reasons why you're continually falling into sin is because you are so down on yourself and down on your luck that you were so hyper fixated on your suffering. Rather than gratitude. It's like, what do you mean, Bryce? How could I be grateful in the midst of my suffering? Look, your story wouldn't be your story without your suffering. It would be ignorant for us to neglect our suffering and hardship and trial. And at the same time it would be foolish of us to not be grateful for what God is teaching us through it. Be grateful that his characters remain the same at the peaks of our life and the lows of our life. That we would be insane to neglect gratitude for Jesus Christ that he doesn't change his opinion about us despite our suffering. And sin. He doesn't change his mind about us just because we're having another hard day. And so maybe the missing piece to get you out of this pit of despair, this pit of hopelessness, this pit of pride, this pit of sin, is simply gratitude. Actually, as society grows and temptation grows and all of these things, it's actually quite simple. Maybe gratitude is the missing piece in your life that could change the trajectory of your faith journey. Simply because you are grateful for every ounce and aspect of your daily life through Jesus Christ, because he is the one that gives it to you. And so I want to pray for you. I want to pray that gratitude becomes a practice in your life. I just want to thank God. I want to pray that gratitude becomes a practice in your life. And I just want to thank God for you, your life, this day, the next day, Lord willing, if there is one, we want to thank him. Lord Jesus, we love you, God, we are so grateful for the life that you've instilled in our lungs. Gratitude. We want to be a daily part of our practice. So, Lord, we are just grateful right now, wherever we're watching or listening, God, we say we're grateful for you. We're grateful for the word of God. We're grateful for Jesus Christ, death and resurrection on the cross. We're grateful for breath in our lungs, Lord. We're grateful for sunshine. We're grateful for the weather. We're grateful for animals. We're grateful for friendships. We're grateful for toothpaste. We're grateful for food. We are grateful for legs. We are grateful for eyes that can see. We are grateful for smell that we can smell. We're grateful for sounds that we can listen. We're grateful for music, Lord. We are grateful for creativity, Lord. We are grateful for the person watching and listening. And Lord, we are grateful for our enemies. Because you care for them just as much as you care about us. Lord, we are grateful and we want to stay in this place. Lord, would you let gratitude become a daily practice in our life? Let us not lose sight of you because we lack gratitude. But Lord, continue to remind us of things that we can continue to praise you for. Because you have given us a new song in our mouth. Lord, we love you. We thank you. We are so grateful for you. In Jesus name, amen.