This podcast episode emphasizes the importance of gratitude in our daily lives and its connection to faith. Dr. David Spoon explores how giving thanks in every circumstance is not only a biblical command but also a vital expression of trust in God's goodness. He highlights that, regardless of our situation, expressing gratitude is a way to acknowledge God's sovereignty and faithfulness, reassuring us that all things work together for good. The conversation includes heartwarming interactions with listeners, sharing personal insights and prayer requests, reinforcing the sense of community and support. With a blend of humor and earnest reflection, the episode encourages listeners to embrace thanksgiving as a powerful practice that transforms our perspective and deepens our relationship with God.

In a dynamic episode, Dr. David Spoon delves deep into the transformative power of gratitude, particularly as it relates to the Thanksgiving season. He begins by setting the tone for a reflective discussion, inviting listeners to consider the broader implications of being thankful—not just during the holiday but as an integral part of their spiritual lives. Spoon draws from biblical teachings, especially emphasizing 1 Thessalonians 5:18, which calls believers to give thanks in all circumstances. This foundational idea serves as a springboard for Spoon's exploration of how gratitude can profoundly impact one’s relationship with God and others.

The episode features a lively dialogue with callers who share their personal stories and insights, creating a rich tapestry of community engagement. One particularly touching moment occurs when a caller expresses heartfelt Thanksgiving wishes, prompting Spoon to reflect on the importance of fellowship and mutual support among believers. He stresses that prayer is essential, especially for those facing difficulties, and encourages listeners to actively seek out opportunities to uplift one another. This theme of interconnectedness resonates throughout the episode, reinforcing the notion that gratitude fosters unity and strength within the Christian community.

As the conversation unfolds, Spoon confronts the challenges of harboring bitterness and resentment, particularly in the context of past experiences that can cloud one’s perspective. He passionately advocates for the power of forgiveness and the necessity of releasing negative emotions to experience true freedom in Christ. By promoting a lifestyle of gratitude, Spoon crafts a compelling argument for why believers should actively cultivate thankfulness as a means of spiritual growth. The episode culminates in a powerful reminder of God’s unwavering faithfulness, encouraging listeners to embrace a life marked by gratitude, trust, and a commitment to community, thereby enriching their faith journey and enhancing their relationships with God and each other.

Takeaways:

• Thanksgiving should be a continual practice in our lives, not just a holiday.
• Our words hold power; we should choose to speak life and gratitude daily.
• Expressing faith through thankfulness acknowledges God's sovereignty and goodness in our lives.
• Bitterness can block our blessings; let go of past grievances to find peace.
• The will of God is to give thanks in every circumstance we face.
• Trusting God means believing He has our best interests at heart, always.

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Here's what's coming up this hour on today's Experience.

It's wild and wonderful.

What's going to happen?

We have no idea.

Hey, let's sit back and enjoy the ride.

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Wednesday Because God is in charge of this crazy bus called the Christian Journey.

It's Wednesday and it's time for a review of one of our classics.

Now listen carefully.

True to form on the David Spoon Experience, we will not follow tradition by actually following a tradition, as we don't do traditions.

So if we follow a tradition, it's not actually being traditional.

That, by the way, is an excellent word salad.

Thanksgiving is upon us, so it's an excellent time to remind ourselves that Thanksgiving is not a once a year experience.

Next.

I have never taught a message like this without realizing how much I need to do better myself.

It's fairly simple.

If life and death are in the power of the tongue, how often are we speaking life and how often are we speaking death?

It's not just words we say to other people.

It's also words we say to ourselves.

And it's words we say to ourselves about other people.

Finally, we'll close this message with a very intricate review of what the will of God is concerning you and me.

We already understand from many passages that the will of God for you and me is to have faith.

Because without faith, it's impossible to please God.

But there are other elements we need to activate and be active in with our walk in the Lord.

He specifically tells us what these things are and we will examine them and ask God to help us to apply them.

David Spoon's life has been an experience.

While growing up in a Jewish family, he made a wrong turn towards drug abuse.

Then David Spoon found Jesus Christ and his life completely changed.

The more he studied the gospel, the more he wanted to share his experiences with others.

After 35 years of ministry, David discovered a new path of service.

He joined KAAM and this radio program began.

You're about to hear the David Spoon Experience.

Welcome to the David Spoon Experience.

Local, national and heavenly talk.

Here's what else we're looking at during the show.

Lessons for surviving living and prevailing politics, Entertainment and current events, Personal revelations, Spiritual observations, My life's insanities.

Novey so much more.

Now we've told you many, many, many times that this show is not professional radio.

And just to prove that it's not professional radio, we will talk to the ringmaster of professional radio, his own zoo that he's in charge of his own circus, that he's in charge of the ringmaster, our very own Jam and Jacob.

Jam and Jacob is the David Spoon Experience.

Professional radio.

No, it is not.

David, like that ringmaster, it's good to have your own circus.

Do I have tigers?

Tigers and lions and bears.

Oh, my.

It's not professional radio.

It's just radio.

Relax.

It's just us doing our best to do our best before the Lord.

So here's what we want to know.

What do you think?

How you doing?

That's what we want to know.

And it's a simple question, but it's a good question because it.

It connects us to one another.

That's just the best way to say it.

That's like waking up and feeling like you got a great night's sleep.

What?

Thank you, David.

Happy Wednesday.

Happy Wednesday to you, my friend.

Of course, I'm hoping you have a phenomenal Thanksgiving.

I think most people can understand and look, I know sometimes it's hard on people, and especially if you're going through something where you've had some loss in family.

What we understand.

We understand that that's harder.

Nobody's unaware of that.

We're not going to, you know, we want you to do well.

We want you to be well.

And if you need to get prayer for that, we'll help.

We'll do our best.

I just want you to be aware of what's going on as a nation.

The more thankful we are to God, the better off this country will be.

So let me just say that in a very, very specific way, getting way past anybody's brilliant or not brilliant politics.

If we as a people are more grateful and appreciative and thankful to God, our country will do better than it's ever done.

Everybody's thinking, it's the people.

It's the power of the most high God.

Never forget that.

Okay.

All right, so we're going to tell you why you can contact us but we do have somebody on the phone, and in lieu of that, we want to give them an opportunity.

It's what we do.

And we'll just go with wherever the show goes today because that's the fun of being Christians together.

Let's send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Hi, David.

This is Carla.

Hi, Carla.

How are you?

I'm doing wonderful.

How are you?

I'm doing really good.

I got a little scratchy in my throat, but it doesn't bother me, so I'm doing really good.

So.

Well, if it gets bad, go to the doctor.

I'm gonna go to the physician.

The great physician.

Exactly right.

Exactly right.

How can I help you?

What can I help you with?

I just wanted to call and wish you a happy Thanksgiving.

Oh, that's so sweet.

I really, really appreciate that.

I'm grateful for you, and I'm thankful that you provide this avenue for instruction and for fellowship.

So thank you.

That's so nice of you to do that, and I really do appreciate it.

And I'll tell you one thing.

There's moments where it's hard, but when I'm doing it and people are calling and we're doing our engagement, our interaction, it's nothing like a job.

It's just like, living.

It's like breathing.

It's, like, so different.

It's like.

I love that, but the prep is hard, but the other stuff's not.

So thank you so much for saying that.

That's truly, truly a blessing.

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

And please let your family know how much you appreciate them.

I'm sure you do, every day.

Yes, yes, absolutely.

It's easy to forget sometimes.

People need to hear it.

They do, in fact.

I mean, my wife's the best of the best.

And.

And so it's.

For me, it's, you know, because she's.

She's the best.

The best human gift I've ever received.

That's what I would say.

So that's my take.

Well, you have a good rest of the day, and I hope you have wonderful blessings in the days ahead.

Thank you so much.

God bless you for that.

You, too.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

All right.

Very cool.

And I love stuff like that, you guys.

I really do appreciate it.

You just keep praying.

And here's the thing.

For the show.

Keep praying for the show.

Keep praying for the audience, people.

One of the things I really did not do well this year was to remind people to pray for the audience, people.

Pray for them.

These are your brothers.

And sisters, you're going to spend eternity together.

I mean, that's pretty cool, right?

And it's not going to be a lousy eternity.

Right?

So that's the other part that's really cool.

All right.

So why then would you, by the way, to call us?

Why then would you text us?

Or why, in fact, would you even bother to email, which you can do any of those things.

It's very, very simple.

It could be a praise report, something the Lord has done for you that he's blessed you and you just want to share it.

You don't really have a lot of places to share it here.

Share it here.

This is great.

Doesn't matter what your background, just share you love Jesus.

Cool.

Share it.

Tell what he's done.

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so if you got a prayer request, let's pray.

Prayer works.

I'm telling you, the world has changed multiple times because of petitions and prayers.

Do you know how many times God answered prayer in scripture?

And look how it changes things.

It just changes your circumstance.

Remember, he's not just a way maker, he's a moment maker.

Because it only takes a moment for a miracle.

Get that?

All right.

Maybe you've got something you want to share.

Scripture, something going on.

Cool.

Share that.

Maybe you've got an answer to.

Trivia.

Ooh.

These are all about Luke.

Let's see if you can get this.

This is an interesting one.

To whom?

We'll use the whom.

To whom did Luke address the gospel of who did Luke address his gospel to?

What was the person's name?

Luke, chapter 1, verse 3, 4.

What was the name of the person that Luke addressed his gospel to?

Hmm.

He addressed it to somebody specific.

He did indeed.

Luke addressed his gospel to somebody specific.

What was that person's name?

Luke, chapter one, verses three through four.

Or send an email David must increase.org now, we do have somebody on the line.

Are they doing trivia or they just want to share?

What do we got?

Do you know?

Trivia.

Trivia.

Wow.

Well, let's send him on through.

Knock knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

This is your little brother.

Hello, little brother.

How are you?

Oh, well, actually, I don't know.

You don't?

You don't know there's warfare.

Listen, if there was no warfare, I'd be more concerned because that means that nothing is going on that you need to help generate warfare for.

So that would be something that I would be more concerned about.

Well, let's do the trivia question and find out what's happening.

Okay, sure.

All right, let's do it.

To whom did Luke address his gospel to?

To Dear Theophilus.

Dear Theophilus is correct.

Emonio.

And what's cool about Theophilus?

Theophilus means one who loves God.

Theophilus.

Theophilus.

The Theophilus, that is one who loves God.

So even though it was addressed specifically to Theophilus, it was addressed to ones who love God.

Ah, isn't that great?

That's so great.

So great.

Tell me what's going on, because we're going to pray and bring victory.

Tell me what's happening before prayer.

Before prayer.

I want to.

If you allow me, I have a quick three jokes.

Three.

Okay.

Very quick, very quick.

Okay.

I know you know this one because you love that one.

Okay.

What is the easiest way to burn thousand calories?

What's the easiest way to burn a thousand calories?

Is that the question?

What is the easiest way?

What is the easiest way?

Leave the pizza in the oven.

Actually, that's a really good joke.

I gotta give you mega prompts on that one.

That's really good.

Way to burn the calories.

Leave the pizza in the oven.

That is a good joke, brother.

I'm gonna give you that one.

I'm giving you props on that one.

Good job.

All right, I'll give you one more, and then we'll talk about what's going on.

What other joke?

Okay, well, what kind.

Okay.

What kind of car would Jesus drive today if he.

If he lives today?

I think I know, but I'm gonna let you answer a keisler.

A Christler.

A Christler.

There you go.

Very good, brother.

Very good.

There's our comedic part of the show.

All right, now tell me what we're going to pray for victory in.

What do we got going on?

I don't know.

Out of nowhere since yesterday afternoon, I'm just having a little pain on my right side under my rib.

Rib cage.

Okay.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Okay, well, why it's happening?

All right, well, you don't need to.

Sometimes it triggers little fear, but I'm.

I'm canceling that fear.

And I'm speaking the name of Jehovah Rapha, the God who healeth that's right.

And as you earlier use this scripture, like, if God heals me, praise the Lord because he is my.

My praise like a Jeremiah 14, 17.

I believe you used earlier that reference.

Yep, yep, yeah.

17, 14.

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

So just pray for me that God will he remove this discomfort.

And if there's something then he would reveal.

Okay, let's pray.

Let's do it.

Father, we come before you right now.

I thank you for my brother Samson.

I ask you, Lord, as he's going through this holiday, that Lord, instead of having that foreboding sense or kind of like the down sense, that you would put joy into his heart knowing that you are with him.

And he does not have to be afraid of anything.

There is nothing he has to be afraid of, nothing he has to worry about.

And he doesn't need to embrace any type of anxiety because you love him and you have his life in the palm of your hand.

Now there he's getting pains and they then lead to other thoughts and other things going on.

And we are asking you in the name of Jesus Christ, by whose stripes we are healed, as you teach us in 1 Peter 2:24, that you would bring healing fully into him, into his ribcage, into his inside, inside of his body, and that it would be a nothing nothing, as my mom would teach Lord, let it be a nothing nothing.

And let him just be free to enjoy and to be thankful and grateful and blessed and full of your presence and full of a deep desire to closely connect to you.

Bless my brother, encourage my brother, lift him up out of the mire, put his feet upon a rock and a new song in his mouth.

We pray for him.

This in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen and amen.

Amen.

Hey, David, I was praying for you.

I know I either yesterday or day before yesterday.

You said, pray for me because you're looking for wisdom for the next step or for the ministry.

Yeah.

I feel like in my.

I got the impression like a Yukon river, that as the Yukon river is flowing through the frozen land, but it's still flowing.

I felt like a Lord is saying, just dwell in me, be by my side, and you will flow like a Yukon river.

Even when the season of weather is tough, you're going to keep flowing.

So that's what I felt.

Prophetic word for you.

Amen, brother.

I appreciate that very deeply.

Thank you for that and happy Thanksgiving.

Enjoy your time with your family.

All right, my brother.

God bless you.

God bless you too.

Bye bye.

Bye bye.

All right.

All right.

Let's get a little bit into this teaching.

I don't know when we're breaking.

Does it matter?

Okay, if my voice is scratchy, just ignore it.

Listen to what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

Okay, here we go.

All right, I'm going to run through three things in a row, and I want you to follow them.

They're really good.

First of all, this is something we need to be aware of.

Okay.

I want you to kind of catch this with me.

Okay.

In ephesians, Ephesians, chapter 5, verse 18 through 20, not Ephesians 18, Ephesians 5, 18, 20, it says this.

Be filled with the spirit addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always for everything, to God the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So when you get a text like this and you keep it in context, if you keep the context together, there is a connection between being filled with the spirit and thankful for everything.

There's this connection that it's an indicator that the spirit is filling you when you are thankful.

And here's the element, giving thanks always for everything.

And then there's, of course, a group that says, well, you can get too weird on that.

And you know what?

In a certain sense, you can.

You can say, well, I just want to thank God that there's 37 clouds above my house instead of 36.

You can do whatever you want.

That's fine.

The premise of the text is this.

Whatever you're encountering, whatever you're going through, not from your estimation, it's whatever you're going through.

For everything you're going through, there should always be a thanksgiving to God.

And the reason is because that thanksgiving.

Listen to what I'm going to say.

Demonstrates faith.

That's what I got.

I just got to communicate this.

It's not a matter of you and I just saying, thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

And then some of us do it begrudgingly.

We do it kind of like under almost like a mumble.

That is not what the Lord is trying to teach us.

What he's trying to teach us is he's faithful.

He's true, he's right.

He'll never forsake you.

He'll never leave you.

He'll never abandon you.

He'll never do to you what is not in your best interests.

And when we give thanks in the middle of our everythings, we're expressing our faith.

It's not fake to believe Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct your paths.

Now every one of us has heard that proverb, Proverbs 3, 5 and 6.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart.

Why does it say heart?

Because that's where your feelings are.

And lean not on your own understanding.

That's where your processing brain is, in everything.

Acknowledge Him.

Right?

So trust the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding.

In all your ways, acknowledge Him.

God is here.

God is in charge.

God has me covered and he will direct your path.

He will lead you, he will guide you.

And so when we express thanksgiving, when we say lord, thank you, it doesn't mean that you're trying to say something that's pie in the sky.

You're trying to express your actual faith that God really is faithful and true to his word and that he actually does love you and he cares just the way you thought.

So when you said yes to Jesus Christ.

What?

He loves you less?

Now you know that's a lie.

God knows everything about you BC and AD before Christ and after death.

In other words, he knows everything about you before you said yes.

He knows everything about you.

For everything you'll ever do chose you anyway.

So there's this nonsense that goes on from the enemy saying, no, no, this is going to be this.

This is disaster here.

This is this.

And the truth.

I'm sorry, what does the truth do?

It destroys a lie.

And what's the lie?

This is a mess.

There's nothing that can get me out of this.

I don't know what to do.

I don't know where it's going.

I feel all alone.

Nobody's for me.

I get nothing.

Those are all lies.

Verse 20 of Ephesians 5.

Giving thanks always for everything to God the Father, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Bringing in that the redemption, the sacrifice, the giving of Jesus Christ was for our behalf.

Even when we were enemies with God, he still provided a way to him through Jesus Christ.

So we give thanks, we say thank you.

It's like, but Dave, are you trying to tell me that everything I should just have.

Just say thank you to everything?

I don't think you should actually say thank you to everything.

I think you should be thankful for everything.

Not necessarily say it that way, but I think in the process of using truth, you ought to understand that when you say thanks, it's an expression of your faith, your confidence, your just commitment that you trust God.

So I'll just Drop this on you?

Do you trust him?

Do you trust him?

And then I'll drop this on you.

And I drink.

I'm dropping this on me too.

At the same time, has he ever failed you?

Now granted, you don't understand everything.

Get in line.

You and every other human being that's ever walked the planet.

But has he ever failed you?

Has he ever forsaken you?

Nope.

So we need to remember, and I don't want to just leave it there.

I want you to understand.

Because the opposite of giving thanks, the opposite of expressing that Thanksgiving, the other side of that, of being thankful, is complaining.

So I just want to point this out because it's the antonym to Thanksgiving.

And So in Malachi 2 17, this is what the Lord says, and you better listen.

Cause this is important.

The Lord says, you have wearied the Lord with your words, yet you ask, how have we wearied him?

Everyone who does what is evil is good in God's sight, and he's pleased with them.

Or where is the God of justice?

In other words, it's complaining about what God isn't doing for them.

The same thing that Job did.

It's justifying themselves versus justifying God, which we do quite often.

And the Lord says he's teaching us in his word.

Malachi 2:17.

You have wearied me with your words.

That's God's nice way of saying, I'm getting tired of hearing you whine.

You're complaining an awful lot about a God who's given everything to you so you can live forever.

Wow.

Right?

Wow.

That's a challenge.

So when we're looking at Thanksgiving, we need to understand something.

First of all, the words that we use, life and death, are in the power of the tongue.

When we start doing that complaining, we're killing a part of ourselves.

But when we start praising God and know why we're praising God and mean it, we're speaking life.

And it's not just to others, it's to us too.

Why?

Because they reveal our heart.

And if our heart does a lot of complaining, there's a lot of dissatisfaction in us.

And by the way, complaining is certainly telling God, we don't like the way you're doing the God thing.

But when we're praising and when we're thankful and when we're grateful and we express that, it's life.

So here's what I just want you to seize this.

When you say, lord, I don't understand what I'm going through, and I really can't grasp it.

But I thank you that you are in charge and you're taking care of me and you will guide me.

That is an expression of your faith.

And without faith, it is impossible to please God.

And it doesn't have to be a ton of faith, just got to be a mustard seed.

But it has to be real.

So when we're talking about being thankful, we're talking about that.

It's not an exercise in futility.

It's an exercise of obedience.

And believe me, I do this worse than you.

I talk to God a real lot.

And I probably, probably say things.

I'm not supposed to deal with that some other time.

The idea behind this is to express that faith and to express what's genuine, what you really believe about God.

We can't just let the frustration of the moment keep overwhelming us.

We can't express because we don't understand everything, how it's not right.

We need to trust him.

We need to actually trust God.

That's what he wants from us.

That's what he expects from us.

That's how he pours his peace into us.

You get that?

All right.

All right.

We will take a short break here and then we'll come back.

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Then they complained against Moses and Aaron and they said it had been better for us to die in Egypt or even here in the wilderness.

Their theory in that thought process is they're thinking it'd be better for us if we just died in the wilderness or we're back in Egypt where we know where things were at as opposed to going to a new land and being consumed by these big people.

This is a terrible idea.

There's some commentators that believe that their complaining really has to do with they thought it would be better to die over time in the wilderness or over time in Egypt versus going to the land and being immediately killed by these big people.

And they were bumming.

And look what they said.

Wouldn't it be better to go back to Egypt?

How quick we forget what the bondage is once you're out.

Oh, how quickly do you forget the bondages that God brought you through once you're away from it?

Like, I don't remember being that bad.

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Welcome back to the David Spoon Experience.

Thank you for joining us here at KAM 7 the Truth Station here in Texas.

That's K double Amen.

770, the Truth Station here in Texas where this show has definitely gone off the rails from our normal processes.

But that's all right, folks.

Here's what we're going to do.

We're going to do our next trivia question.

We're going to send you to the website.

Then we're going to end up doing our DNA and eventually we're going to get Jake's taken here because that's important.

So here's your next trivia question.

Who was the seller of purple in Thyatira with whom Luke and the others stayed?

In other words, Luke and the others stayed with this person.

Who was the seller of purple?

Who was that?

Okay?

That's my challenge to you.

Ask the Lord if you've been giving.

Thank you.

Okay.

I don't want you to be hurting yourself here, right?

Only do what the Lord tells you to do.

If you can't give or you haven't given, or you don't want to give but you like the show, pray for us.

Just figure it out.

We're just asking for the help.

Just keeping it that simple.

We did pay radio rent, praise the Lord.

But we are always in that continual place of now we have no money left.

It's kind of funny.

So this is how we do it.

This is how we exist.

So I'm just letting you know what's going on.

Check it out on the website.

Here's our scripture, by the way.

Give and it will be given to you.

Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over will be put into your lap for the measure you use will be measured back to you.

That's God's commitment.

And I think that's more important than a human commitment ever.

Luke 6:38 Check out the website where you can give hemustincrease.org Prayer request Hemost praise report he must increase.org Looking to give to this ministry.

He must increase.org Confused by what's happening right now.

He must increase he must increase.org that seems about right for how the show's going today.

Just seems like it's got the right feel to it.

All right, your trivia question pretty straightforward.

Who was the seller of purple in Thyatira with whom?

Luke and the others stayed.

Acts 16, 14 through 15.

If you think you know, you can reach out to us.

D stands for Draw closer to the Lord daily.

Every day.

Heaven is going to be every day with the Lord.

If you're having a hard time doing that, ask the Lord to help you acclimate, because all you're doing is prepping for what's coming.

Spending time in the presence of God changes your life in a powerful way.

It makes your life better.

There's a book by Merlin Carruthers, Bringing heaven into Earth.

And there's a great truth that connecting to God brings that about.

So I encourage you to spend time with the Lord.

And I'm not talking about.

I'm talking about you and the Lord.

I think it's really important for you to understand what I'm trying to do.

I'm trying to split it off so that you understand it's you in God.

Spend time with the Lord.

Draw closer to the Lord daily.

D and never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

Never be ashamed of what he had to say, ever.

Doesn't matter how unrighteous the world is or how mean they get you.

Never, never, never be ashamed of Jesus, of what he said, of what he did, of his word, ever.

Or he'll be ashamed of you.

And then a Always be ready.

To serve, to serve.

Ready.

Ready to honor your king.

Ready if he.

I'm just like Somebody knocks at your door right now.

Are you ready?

Ready for what?

What I want you to do.

Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord.

Use me in any way, shape or form you want to use me.

I'm here.

The oil, the lamps are trimmed.

We're ready to go.

Whatever you want, Lord.

I'm waiting on you.

Direct my steps.

D Draw closer to the Lord daily.

And never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

A.

Always be ready to serve.

There you go.

That's our DNA.

See, we got the DNA in.

Very, very good.

Your trivia question.

Who was the seller of purple in Thyatira with whom Luke and the others stayed?

What was her name?

Acts, chapter 16, verses 14 through 15.

What was the name of the seller of purple?

There you go.

All right, all right, next.

Here's something I want to talk to you about.

We're not done.

Relax.

We'll do Jake's take in the next segment.

Okay?

Listen, I want you to Understand something.

Many of us, and I'm bringing this up on purpose, many of us have gone through tough times, and then that's in the past.

And what we need to be aware of is that sometimes when we look backwards in the past, if we're not looking at the things God has done, there is an easy tendency for you and I to tap into a root of bitterness because it didn't go the way we thought it should go.

I want to address that for some people.

Some people look back and you get frustrated because if this person would have done this or if this would have happened here, and I did this for the first several years of my Christianity of Lord, if you only would have done this, or if this would have happened, or if this would have happened, and every time you're doing that, you're expressing or demonstrating your own lack of confidence in God, telling him how he should have been a better God or how another person should have acted differently, and you're carrying forward a bitterness.

I've got this message for you, and I'm telling you this is for a couple people, very specifically.

If you hang on to bitterness, you are robbing your life and giving Satan a huge gateway into yourself.

If you hang on to being bitter, you're giving the devil an open door in your life and he'll take it.

You don't have to understand why it didn't unfold perfectly the way you thought it should because you don't understand how things should have unfolded.

That goes back to that same trust, that same confidence in the faithfulness of God.

And I get to talk with some of you, and I like talking with you guys, just in case, you know, I don't talk to everybody all the time, but I do talk to people.

If you are so focused on what was, and you are so sore, you're bitter and you're hurting yourself.

When I wrote that book, Broken for His Glory, when I went through that process and was going through that process of being hurt in the first significant church by a man who represented God, he represented God to me.

You understand that, right?

He's God's authority, God's pastor.

And that guy hurt me, and I was really mad.

And.

And when I had left, and this is what the whole book's about, and I was angry and I was frustrated.

And then I met with that one pastor to kind of share with them, and I told him my story, and he starts crying and I'm like getting really mad because it's like, it's my story and he's like, this is how the Lord feels for you.

And it was like it dawned on me.

I'm the bitter one.

I'm carrying bitterness.

I'm the idiot.

And then I realized I'm the one that's creating this by thinking this is how it should have been done, or this is how it should have happened, or this should be this way, 40 years later, I'm doing nothing but ministering to hundreds and thousands of people to not do what I did.

If I stayed in that bitterness, I'd never have that opportunity.

Don't stay in your bitterness.

If you have to get down on your hands and knees and ask God to wash your mind, do it.

Because that bitterness is like a cancer and it'll kill you.

Don't be that way.

That's not what the Lord wants for you.

Okay?

It's very important for those of you that are hanging on to that.

You gotta get that washed out.

A washing from the Lord.

Get it?

Okay.

All right.

Somebody is ready to answer the trivia question.

Let's send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Hello, David.

This is John.

Hi, John.

How are you?

Okay.

I'm okay.

I got a prayer request.

Well, let me go ahead and answer the.

Okay, first of all, who was the seller of Purple in Thyatira with whom Luke and the others stayed?

What was that person's name?

Her name was Lydia, wasn't it?

That is correct, Amanda.

Sir.

It was Lydia.

That's right.

She was the seller of Purple.

And she was pretty good.

She convinced them to do what she asked.

It's like the Bible says, she pressed them, which means she pushed it.

She pushed it pretty hard.

And to get the way she wanted it to go.

It's pretty funny, actually, because it's like sometimes people just have that influence.

It's like, Wowzer.

Excellent.

Excellent job.

Excellent job, John.

All right, what's going on for prayer request, Talk to me Friday morning, day.

After tomorrow, my wife's going in for some surgery.

Okay.

If you could just pray that it goes well, you know, and everything comes out just fine, you know?

Okay.

You got it.

Results?

Fine.

Okay.

All right.

Let's do it, John.

Let's do it.

Let's pray.

Father, we come before you right now.

I lift up John.

I lift up his wife to you right now.

I thank you for John.

He's a blessing to the show.

And we ask you to bless them, him and his wife.

Bless them as they have been a blessing to us.

Pour that back out on them.

But they've Got a surgery situation coming up, Lord.

And that is always a breeding ground for a lot of fear, a lot of anxiety because of not knowing what's going on.

So first and foremost, we pray against the fear and we pray for the peace that passes all understanding so that John and his wife can be steady in this process.

Additionally, we're asking for good news.

We're asking for great results and a great sense of relief and joy and that they would both know your hand is with them.

They do not need to be afraid.

Instead, they need to have faith because nothing is impossible with you and everything is impossible to him that believes.

So let that be a part of their thinking and their processing and let them find that comfort as you are the God of comfort.

We pray that over them and to bless them and to hear good news.

We pray that in Jesus name, amen and amen.

Thank you so much.

I wanted to give you a call before I head out again to work at 3.

So anyway, thank you for your ministry, you and Jacob, our good team, and just keep on keeping on, I guess.

All right, my brother, have a phenomenal Thanksgiving.

And then you're welcome to text me or email me on Friday as well.

And I'll be praying for you and your wife throughout.

Okay?

Okay, David, thank you.

You got it, bro.

Bye.

Bye.

All right.

Bye bye.

All right.

John's great, great, great guy.

All right, so here's what we got.

I got one more segment to teach on.

I got one more trivia question, but we have to do Jake's take because half of my day is revolving around this.

So Jake's take, ladies and gentlemen.

All right, sir.

Jacob, it is in you, your hands.

Well, David, the Cowboys and the Lions play some Thanksgiving football tomorrow as the Lions play first against the Chicago Bears in Detroit.

So I'm going to give my pick here.

I think the Lions keep on rolling.

Get another win against the Chicago Bears tomorrow morning.

I concur 100%.

I am also.

I'm only concerned that they're going to be a little overconfident.

That's the thing that happens.

And Thanksgiving is not the kindest day to the Detroit Lions.

That is true.

They have a really bad record on Thanksgiving, so hopefully that changes tomorrow.

Okay, so that's.

We're not telling people to pray that way.

We're just hoping that way.

Okay.

Because if you're from Chicago, I'm not asking you to pray differently than me.

Okay, there's.

That's the first one.

What's the second game?

And then tomorrow afternoon, the Cowboys play at home in Arlington against the New York Giants.

And I'm going to go with the home team.

I'm going with the Dallas Cowboys to beat the Giants tomorrow afternoon.

Back to back win for the Cowboys.

I concur.

I do believe they're going to win.

I think they're.

I think they're going to make some turns and some changes.

I think it'll be a good game.

I think it'll be.

I'm hoping that Detroit games will blow out, but that's besides the point.

But I'm thinking the Dallas game is going to be more interesting game.

So we shall see.

I agree with you.

There's an excellent job right there.

So thank you.

I think the Lions game, I think it could be an ugly game, but in favor of the Lions, as in it's, it's not close.

That would be fine.

That's fine.

I received that.

No, I'm kidding.

And then the Cowboys, I think it would also be an ugly game, but I think it'll be an ugly game.

And wow, both these teams are not great.

One is ugly because of the score.

The other is ugly because they're just not playing good.

Right.

Okay, got it.

All right.

Going to take our break and then come back.

We got more.

Don't leave yet.

You're listening to the David Spoon experience radio on KAM 770, the true station here in Texas.

Don't go anywhere.

What is the David Spoon Experience?

She thought he was a gardener, sir.

She said, if you have taken him away, tell me where you've put him and I will go and get him.

Mary, Jesus said, now you think.

Three words.

Come on, Dave.

Mary, Jesus said.

She turned to him and cried out rabboni, which is Hebrew for teacher or it doesn't matter if your translation says master, Rabbi.

It doesn't.

She said, mary, she.

She responded, master, Lord, you see, the resurrected Jesus Christ speaks the name of his sheep.

And Jesus knows your name.

My sheep.

Jesus said, know my voice and they hear me.

And you were going along on your journey.

Maybe you were young and you were in church.

Maybe you were young and somebody brought it to you.

Maybe you were in middle, the middle part of your life.

Maybe in the later part of your life.

But at some point, Jesus said, your name.

He said, david, Tiara, Tiffany, Noel, Joshua, Ashley.

At some point, he called your name.

The risen Messiah spoke your name to you.

You know what?

That's when you said, yes, Lord.

Yes, Master.

Yes, Rabboni.

It's the most powerful moment because it's the moment that the divine Messiah speaks to you and pulls you from one kingdom, the kingdom of darkness, into another kingdom, the kingdom of light.

It is the moment that changed everything.

And Billy Graham had a really good piece on it, said some people can really define that moment.

Some people can't.

Doesn't matter.

It happened for those.

That was kind of like a metamorphosis, but it happened.

And in the economy of God, it happens more specifically.

And maybe the person doesn't know the date.

I know my date.

But maybe the person doesn't know the date that he said yes to Jesus.

But there was a moment where Jesus called your name and you said yes.

And that was the beginning of your understanding of his depth of love.

Amazing grace.

How sweet.

Oh.

Welcome back to the David Spoon Experience.

Thank you for joining us here at KAM 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

That's K double amen.

770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

Couple things to make you aware of.

I will not be texting anybody till after four today.

Okay.

And maybe even a little bit longer because traffic has been a little heavier on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

So just be aware of that.

I want everybody to be aware of that.

I do want everybody to be aware.

We'll be off tomorrow and Friday.

But really good replays.

Let me say that again.

Really good.

How good?

Really good replays.

So if I want you to spend time with your family, but if you have time and you want to listen, you're welcome to.

Okay.

Just keeping it as simple as we can keep it.

All right.

We do have somebody that is called in.

Not sure what's going on yet, but we'll take care of that.

Let's send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Hi, Dr.

David.

This is Joanne.

Hi, Joanne.

Cordelia.

Hi, Cordelia.

Say hi.

How are you guys?

We're very blessed.

We have someone who wants to wish you a happy Thanksgiving.

All right.

Hi, David.

This is Yelena Venat.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Thank you so much.

Happy Thanksgiving to you.

Awesome.

Awesome.

Very, very nice.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

What's happening?

It sounds like things are good.

Yes.

Thank you for praying.

And we're going home.

Yolanda's home from the hospital and we're heading home for the holidays, the Thanksgiving holidays.

So thank you for praying.

We have a miracle Working God.

Dr.

David.

Yes.

Thank you all.

Yes, we do.

What a great praise report.

That's so awesome.

That's just the thing.

It's just the grace and the goodness of God shining through, pouring into your guys lives.

He is so faithful.

Praise his name.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

And we'll catch the whole show, but we're praying for everybody else as well.

And for thanksgiving, blessings and reward and peace and joy and hope and great things are coming, aren't they?

Yes, great things are coming because God is great.

Amen.

Yes.

He's Lord of all.

All right, thank you, Dr.

David.

We'll talk to you again soon.

All right, God bless God.

Praise the Lord.

Okay, bye bye.

Bye bye, you guys.

God bless.

Isn't that nice?

Yeah, it's nice.

That's a great way to do it.

Let's just.

I mean, we've got three minutes left.

We're not going to have time to do the history and actually we're not going to have time to do a trivia question.

Don't get upset.

So let's just do this last little bit because I don't have very much time left.

Here it is.

So many of you are out there and you're thinking, you know, I'm listening to this and I'm trying to trust and you know, I'm just trying to follow the Lord.

I'm just trying to do the will of God and trying to, you know, honor him.

Okay, cool.

I'm gonna tell you exactly what the will of God is.

And you'll never have to ask this question again.

First Thessalonians 5, 18.

Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

What I find amazing is that people will say, wait, wait.

People will say, I'm just looking for the will of God.

Well, here it is.

It's not hard to find.

1st Thessalonians 5, 18.

Give thanks in every circumstance.

How many circumstances is that?

I think it's every one of them, I'm pretty sure.

For this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

You want to know the really cool specific things that the Lord wants you to do that are like the specific will?

Well, you got to be doing the general will first.

And the general will is for you and I to express thanksgiving for all of our circumstances.

Because in spite of what we think, God is weaving it out for good.

How do you know?

Romans 8:28.

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

And you're called according to his purpose if you love him.

See, that's the whole point.

So if you love God, all things are being caused together to work together.

For good.

And because all things are working together for good, you can give thanks for every circumstance.

And this is what God wants from you and I.

He wants us to be thankful.

Because if we're genuinely thankful and expressing that Thanksgiving, we're operating in faith.

And without faith, it's impossible to please Him.

So he's just.

It's not like a deep, deep philosophical thought.

God is going to take everything in your life and work it out for good.

So while you're going through it, for you to express thanksgiving of faith because of his faithfulness is not weird.

It's called for, because he's going to bring it there.

You may think, well, it hurts.

Yeah, I know it hurts.

But God is faithful.

God has never failed you, nor will he ever fail you.

So you can boldly say, the Lord is my helper.

I will not be afraid.

You can boldly say, may his name be praised.

You can boldly pray, father, who art thou in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.

First and foremost, I thank my God.

Romans 1:8.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ.

I mean, that is what you can say, because he will never fail you.

He will always continue to love you.

So here's the challenge.

Ready?

Believe it.

Be a believer.

Wait, here's a really good one.

Be a Bible believer and please the Lord by being thankful, expressing genuine faith through praise and thanksgiving.

Yeah, you can't beat that.

That's just too cool, right?

All right.

I didn't add up the hours, but it's a lot of hours.

So here's what we're going to say.

Thank you and have a phenomenal Thanksgiving holiday.

You've been listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on KAM 770, the true station here in Texas.

We'll be back on Monday.

God bless you.

Just as I am.

He reached down and seek me.

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