1. TBN
  2. Programs
  3. Allen Jackson Ministries
  4. Episodes
  5. Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 2)
Allen Jackson Ministries

Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 2)

December 15, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
#WordofGod #Strength #Worship #LoveofGod #Gratitude #Thankfulness #Rejection #Suffering #AllenJackson

Closed captions

Show Timecode
Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 2) | December 15, 2025
  • ...
  • 00:00:00.633 --> 00:00:02.017
  • Allen jackson: we began allen jackson ministries to strengthen
  • 00:00:06.755 --> 00:00:09.124
  • The church.
  • 00:00:09.258 --> 00:00:10.459
  • Thank you for your partnership.
  • 00:00:10.559 --> 00:00:11.794
  • Together we made an impact in this nation, but we're not done.
  • 00:00:11.894 --> 00:00:12.961
  • In fact, in many ways, i believe we're just beginning.
  • 00:00:14.997 --> 00:00:18.033
  • The status quo is not adequate any longer.
  • 00:00:18.033 --> 00:00:20.936
  • We can't sit in our churches and have our polite bible studies
  • 00:00:20.936 --> 00:00:24.006
  • And sing our favorite choruses while we watch darkness
  • 00:00:24.006 --> 00:00:27.910
  • Increasing in the world around us.
  • 00:00:27.910 --> 00:00:30.045
  • We have to have the courage to tell the truth to our culture, a
  • 00:00:30.045 --> 00:00:33.582
  • Biblical worldview to engage current events in a way to make
  • 00:00:33.582 --> 00:00:37.419
  • What we believe a part of the fabric of our schools, our
  • 00:00:37.419 --> 00:00:40.422
  • Homes, our communities, our nation, and beyond.
  • 00:00:40.422 --> 00:00:44.026
  • We have invitations now from war-torn countries in israel and
  • 00:00:44.026 --> 00:00:47.062
  • Ukraine to strengthen the churches there.
  • 00:00:47.062 --> 00:00:49.098
  • I want to ask you to make an investment with us in allen
  • 00:00:49.098 --> 00:00:51.867
  • Jackson ministries to make 2026 the most fruitful year we've
  • 00:00:51.867 --> 00:00:55.604
  • Ever had together.
  • 00:00:55.604 --> 00:00:57.072
  • God is moving in the earth.
  • 00:00:57.072 --> 00:00:58.574
  • We want to keep pace.
  • 00:00:58.574 --> 00:00:59.942
  • We want to take new steps to make a new impact.
  • 00:00:59.942 --> 00:01:02.744
  • Your help makes that possible.
  • 00:01:02.744 --> 00:01:05.414
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:01:05.414 --> 00:01:17.593
  • Allen: psalm 136, it was written to be a corporate worship.
  • 00:01:07.583 --> 00:01:23.665
  • In fact, we can do it together.
  • 00:01:23.665 --> 00:01:25.033
  • I'll read the part that's in bold and you'll do the "his love
  • 00:01:25.033 --> 00:01:27.136
  • Endures forever."
  • 00:01:27.136 --> 00:01:28.871
  • Do you know your part?
  • 00:01:28.871 --> 00:01:30.839
  • We can do this.
  • 00:01:30.839 --> 00:01:32.207
  • "give thanks to the lord, for he is good."
  • 00:01:32.207 --> 00:01:34.176
  • Congregation: "his love endures forever."
  • 00:01:34.176 --> 00:01:36.979
  • Allen: "give thanks to the god of gods."
  • 00:01:36.979 --> 00:01:38.814
  • Congregation: "his love endures forever."
  • 00:01:38.814 --> 00:01:41.350
  • Allen: "give thanks to the lord of lords."
  • 00:01:41.350 --> 00:01:43.752
  • Congregation: "his love endures forever."
  • 00:01:43.752 --> 00:01:45.487
  • Allen: "give thanks to the god of heaven."
  • 00:01:45.487 --> 00:01:47.990
  • Congregation: "his love endures forever."
  • 00:01:47.990 --> 00:01:49.625
  • Allen: look at y'all.
  • 00:01:49.625 --> 00:01:52.461
  • If you get a group of christians together this week, you could do
  • 00:01:52.461 --> 00:01:55.063
  • That together.
  • 00:01:55.063 --> 00:01:57.633
  • They'll know you're weird. "where'd you get that idea?"
  • 00:01:57.633 --> 00:02:00.969
  • Well, i went to church on saturday night.
  • 00:02:00.969 --> 00:02:02.604
  • "you go to church on saturday night?"
  • 00:02:02.604 --> 00:02:04.006
  • Yeah, i do.
  • 00:02:04.006 --> 00:02:05.374
  • You could come--go with me. there's a space or two.
  • 00:02:05.374 --> 00:02:11.680
  • We're gonna thank god in our lives.
  • 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:13.415
  • Look at colossians 3:17: "whatever you do, whether it's
  • 00:02:13.415 --> 00:02:17.386
  • Word or deed, do it all in the name of the lord jesus, giving
  • 00:02:17.386 --> 00:02:21.023
  • Thanks to god the father through him."
  • 00:02:21.023 --> 00:02:24.359
  • God, i just wanna say thank you.
  • 00:02:24.359 --> 00:02:26.695
  • Not for something.
  • 00:02:26.695 --> 00:02:28.964
  • Because you exist.
  • 00:02:28.964 --> 00:02:31.833
  • Thank you, god.
  • 00:02:31.833 --> 00:02:33.902
  • I could be alone, i could be isolated, i could be forgotten.
  • 00:02:33.902 --> 00:02:40.142
  • I could be nothing more than a collection of random molecules,
  • 00:02:40.142 --> 00:02:44.680
  • Hurtling through space with no purpose and no value, but you
  • 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:48.717
  • Called me by name.
  • 00:02:48.717 --> 00:02:50.852
  • God, i thank you.
  • 00:02:50.852 --> 00:02:53.522
  • I thank you.
  • 00:02:53.522 --> 00:02:56.124
  • Yes, we suffer rejection.
  • 00:02:56.124 --> 00:02:57.726
  • Yes, we suffer disappointment.
  • 00:02:57.726 --> 00:02:59.728
  • Yes, but, god, thank you.
  • 00:02:59.728 --> 00:03:03.298
  • Thank you.
  • 00:03:03.298 --> 00:03:07.703
  • It'll take a little discipline.
  • 00:03:07.703 --> 00:03:09.905
  • It'll take every bit as much discipline as a physical
  • 00:03:09.905 --> 00:03:13.275
  • Exercise program.
  • 00:03:13.275 --> 00:03:15.978
  • There are days you won't feel like it.
  • 00:03:15.978 --> 00:03:17.346
  • In fact, the days you feel the least like it are the days you
  • 00:03:17.346 --> 00:03:19.348
  • Need to use your words the most.
  • 00:03:19.348 --> 00:03:21.950
  • There's days there'll be something in you that'll make
  • 00:03:21.950 --> 00:03:23.919
  • You angry when you say, "god, i thank you."
  • 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:27.623
  • Those are the days i get louder.
  • 00:03:27.623 --> 00:03:30.292
  • Those are the days i go for a walk outside because i need to
  • 00:03:30.292 --> 00:03:32.194
  • Be outside.
  • 00:03:32.194 --> 00:03:33.962
  • I'll just let everything that's out there hear me.
  • 00:03:33.962 --> 00:03:36.565
  • "god, i'm gonna thank you today.
  • 00:03:36.565 --> 00:03:38.767
  • I feel like shaking my fist at you, but i'm gonna say thank
  • 00:03:38.767 --> 00:03:41.236
  • You today.
  • 00:03:41.236 --> 00:03:42.704
  • You're good to me."
  • 00:03:42.704 --> 00:03:45.073
  • I gave you a proclamation for this day one of thanksgiving.
  • 00:03:45.073 --> 00:03:51.513
  • It's psalm 103.
  • 00:03:51.513 --> 00:03:53.315
  • And since daniel went and prayed three times a day, i'm gonna
  • 00:03:53.315 --> 00:03:55.617
  • Suggest that you take this proclamation; when you choose
  • 00:03:55.617 --> 00:03:58.186
  • This day and do it three times in the day.
  • 00:03:58.186 --> 00:03:59.988
  • Do it morning, midday, and evening.
  • 00:03:59.988 --> 00:04:04.393
  • Oh, come on.
  • 00:04:04.393 --> 00:04:06.228
  • You know, we read our bibles and we act like it's somehow
  • 00:04:06.228 --> 00:04:08.263
  • Separate from us.
  • 00:04:08.263 --> 00:04:09.631
  • If daniel was praying three times a day, what are we doing?
  • 00:04:09.631 --> 00:04:13.435
  • Daniel's circumstances were not simple, but he led a
  • 00:04:13.435 --> 00:04:16.405
  • Tremendously triumphant life.
  • 00:04:16.405 --> 00:04:19.541
  • We can read this proclamation together.
  • 00:04:19.541 --> 00:04:22.277
  • We're gonna say several prayers so can you handle it?
  • 00:04:22.277 --> 00:04:24.112
  • It's thanksgiving week, we're gonna start early.
  • 00:04:24.112 --> 00:04:28.350
  • Okay, let's read it together.
  • 00:04:28.350 --> 00:04:29.685
  • "praise the lord, o my soul; and all my inmost being, praise his
  • 00:04:29.685 --> 00:04:34.256
  • Holy name.
  • 00:04:34.256 --> 00:04:35.691
  • Praise the lord, o my soul, and forget not all his benefits--
  • 00:04:35.691 --> 00:04:40.395
  • Who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who
  • 00:04:40.395 --> 00:04:44.766
  • Redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and
  • 00:04:44.766 --> 00:04:48.370
  • Compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that
  • 00:04:48.370 --> 00:04:53.075
  • Your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
  • 00:04:53.075 --> 00:04:55.977
  • The lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
  • 00:04:55.977 --> 00:05:00.082
  • He made known his ways to moses, his deeds to the people of
  • 00:05:00.082 --> 00:05:03.819
  • Israel: the lord is compassionate and gracious, slow
  • 00:05:03.819 --> 00:05:08.023
  • To anger, abounding in love," hallelujah.
  • 00:05:08.023 --> 00:05:11.660
  • If you'll do that three times a day, it'll help your attitude.
  • 00:05:11.660 --> 00:05:15.263
  • It'll also make people around you think you're weird.
  • 00:05:15.263 --> 00:05:18.200
  • It's all right.
  • 00:05:18.200 --> 00:05:19.534
  • If they think i'm weird for jesus, it'll be okay.
  • 00:05:19.534 --> 00:05:25.440
  • You're willing to be weird for all the other things you want to
  • 00:05:25.440 --> 00:05:27.376
  • Be an advocate for.
  • 00:05:27.376 --> 00:05:31.146
  • How did they convince us to be quiet about our faith?
  • 00:05:31.146 --> 00:05:34.850
  • What exactly caused us to say, "okay," when they said, "you
  • 00:05:34.850 --> 00:05:38.487
  • Shouldn't do that"?
  • 00:05:38.487 --> 00:05:41.623
  • I went to a football game this week.
  • 00:05:41.623 --> 00:05:44.593
  • And they put up on the big screen that you weren't supposed
  • 00:05:44.593 --> 00:05:47.028
  • To say anything derogatory.
  • 00:05:47.028 --> 00:05:50.332
  • Well, first i googled "derogatory."
  • 00:05:50.332 --> 00:05:54.569
  • And then i, when i realized what it meant, i thought, "well,
  • 00:05:54.569 --> 00:05:56.705
  • That's why i came to the game"-- to say happy things about the
  • 00:05:56.705 --> 00:06:01.676
  • Young, the young men that were playing football that i knew and
  • 00:06:01.676 --> 00:06:05.247
  • To say derogatory things about the other ones.
  • 00:06:05.247 --> 00:06:09.785
  • They've changed the rules.
  • 00:06:09.785 --> 00:06:12.554
  • You don't have to be obscene, but you can say they're slow
  • 00:06:12.554 --> 00:06:14.823
  • Or--but apparently not.
  • 00:06:14.823 --> 00:06:20.128
  • We have to manage our attitudes towards the lord.
  • 00:06:20.128 --> 00:06:22.431
  • They told us not to talk about him and we said okay.
  • 00:06:22.431 --> 00:06:27.903
  • You can talk about every sort of perversion, every sort of
  • 00:06:27.903 --> 00:06:30.672
  • Ungodliness, every sort of immorality.
  • 00:06:30.672 --> 00:06:35.977
  • No, i think i'm gonna take jesus with me.
  • 00:06:35.977 --> 00:06:38.647
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:06:38.647 --> 00:06:43.118
  • You can be thankful in a way.
  • 00:06:43.118 --> 00:06:44.986
  • You can be thankful that you have a place to work.
  • 00:06:44.986 --> 00:06:46.855
  • You can be thankful you have a school to attend or a hospital
  • 00:06:46.855 --> 00:06:49.491
  • Where you can be, or a courtroom where you can be.
  • 00:06:49.491 --> 00:06:51.993
  • God, i thank you for this place.
  • 00:06:51.993 --> 00:06:55.363
  • You're not proselytizing.
  • 00:06:55.363 --> 00:06:58.733
  • It's time to take our faith with us and begin to act like we
  • 00:06:58.733 --> 00:07:01.770
  • Think it's meaningful.
  • 00:07:01.770 --> 00:07:03.104
  • I'm done apologizing for it.
  • 00:07:03.104 --> 00:07:04.906
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:07:04.906 --> 00:07:08.210
  • And thanksgiving week's a great breakthrough week.
  • 00:07:08.210 --> 00:07:11.446
  • So, you know, my family, they're not all christians.
  • 00:07:11.446 --> 00:07:13.315
  • We got atheists and agnostics and all sorts of kinds of great
  • 00:07:13.315 --> 00:07:17.052
  • People coming together.
  • 00:07:17.052 --> 00:07:18.386
  • I know, god, i thank you for this crazy family i'm a part of.
  • 00:07:18.386 --> 00:07:23.024
  • Bless us!
  • 00:07:23.024 --> 00:07:25.627
  • I'm just gonna be the jesus one there.
  • 00:07:25.627 --> 00:07:29.164
  • The 2nd day, day 2 of thanksgiving, is we're gonna be
  • 00:07:29.164 --> 00:07:33.068
  • Thankful for specifically for the blessings god's brought to
  • 00:07:33.068 --> 00:07:35.670
  • Our lives.
  • 00:07:35.670 --> 00:07:37.005
  • The first day is just, "god, you're so good to me.
  • 00:07:37.005 --> 00:07:38.473
  • I'm thankful for you."
  • 00:07:38.473 --> 00:07:39.808
  • But now we're gonna start to tick off some of the things god
  • 00:07:39.808 --> 00:07:41.543
  • Has done in our lives that's made them different,
  • 00:07:41.543 --> 00:07:43.645
  • Better, upgrades.
  • 00:07:43.645 --> 00:07:46.147
  • Deuteronomy warns us when moses was getting ready to--for the
  • 00:07:46.147 --> 00:07:49.618
  • People to think about entering their inheritance, he gives them
  • 00:07:49.618 --> 00:07:53.355
  • A cautionary message.
  • 00:07:53.355 --> 00:07:54.723
  • He said, "when the lord your god brings you into the land he
  • 00:07:54.723 --> 00:07:56.691
  • Swore to your fathers, to abraham, isaac, and jacob, to
  • 00:07:56.691 --> 00:07:59.928
  • Give you--a land with large, flourishing cities that you
  • 00:07:59.928 --> 00:08:02.230
  • Didn't build, houses filled with all kinds of good things that
  • 00:08:02.230 --> 00:08:05.800
  • You didn't provide, wells you didn't dig, and vineyards and
  • 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.270
  • Olive groves you didn't plant-- then when you eat and to be
  • 00:08:08.270 --> 00:08:11.673
  • Satisfied, be careful that you don't forget the lord, who
  • 00:08:11.673 --> 00:08:17.045
  • Brought you out of egypt, out of the land of slavery."
  • 00:08:17.045 --> 00:08:20.582
  • I think we're a little guilty on this point.
  • 00:08:20.582 --> 00:08:23.818
  • I think we forget the blessings of god.
  • 00:08:23.818 --> 00:08:27.923
  • I just--i think we're--the messages that wash over us so
  • 00:08:27.923 --> 00:08:31.393
  • Frequently are intended to make us dissatisfied.
  • 00:08:31.393 --> 00:08:35.664
  • You know, the whole nature of sales is to make you
  • 00:08:35.664 --> 00:08:37.866
  • Dissatisfied with the status quo, so you want to upgrade--
  • 00:08:37.866 --> 00:08:41.202
  • Your clothing, your vehicle, your shoes, your whatever.
  • 00:08:41.202 --> 00:08:45.340
  • And then politicians tend to get elected by trying to convince us
  • 00:08:45.340 --> 00:08:47.943
  • To be dissatisfied with whoever has authority over us right now.
  • 00:08:47.943 --> 00:08:52.080
  • So we're kind of trapped in this cycle of dissatisfaction.
  • 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:55.016
  • It isn't helpful.
  • 00:08:55.016 --> 00:08:57.319
  • Folks, we are a uniquely blessed people.
  • 00:08:57.319 --> 00:09:02.557
  • We truly are.
  • 00:09:02.557 --> 00:09:04.025
  • I've had the privilege of traveling around the world a
  • 00:09:04.025 --> 00:09:06.728
  • Bit, and i can tell you there's no place in the world quite
  • 00:09:06.728 --> 00:09:08.797
  • Like it.
  • 00:09:08.797 --> 00:09:10.165
  • If you get sick, you can call 911 and they will send a bus to
  • 00:09:10.165 --> 00:09:12.167
  • Your house filled with equipment and trained people to help you.
  • 00:09:12.167 --> 00:09:16.871
  • If you feel threatened, you can dial a phone number and they'll
  • 00:09:16.871 --> 00:09:19.975
  • Send a social worker.
  • 00:09:19.975 --> 00:09:22.177
  • [congregation laughing]
  • 00:09:22.177 --> 00:09:29.184
  • I repent.
  • 00:09:29.184 --> 00:09:30.518
  • [congregation laughing]
  • 00:09:30.518 --> 00:09:32.253
  • Send a police officer.
  • 00:09:32.253 --> 00:09:34.956
  • We are uniquely blessed.
  • 00:09:34.956 --> 00:09:37.959
  • One of my favorite places--it still is--is the grocery store.
  • 00:09:37.959 --> 00:09:42.030
  • I've told you this before.
  • 00:09:42.030 --> 00:09:44.099
  • I know everybody doesn't like the grocery store, but it's
  • 00:09:44.099 --> 00:09:45.834
  • Amazing to me.
  • 00:09:45.834 --> 00:09:47.836
  • I mean, i understand everything in there is not good for me, but
  • 00:09:47.836 --> 00:09:49.871
  • It's still amazing to me.
  • 00:09:49.871 --> 00:09:51.239
  • I've lived places where you couldn't go to the
  • 00:09:51.239 --> 00:09:52.574
  • Grocery store.
  • 00:09:52.574 --> 00:09:53.942
  • If you could, it wasn't in a language i could understand, it
  • 00:09:53.942 --> 00:09:55.543
  • Wasn't helpful.
  • 00:09:55.543 --> 00:09:56.878
  • And the choices they had were very, very limited.
  • 00:09:56.878 --> 00:09:58.513
  • To go to the grocery store, you know, if i'm sent to the grocery
  • 00:09:58.513 --> 00:10:02.117
  • Store and the instruction is to get lettuce, i'm gonna have to
  • 00:10:02.117 --> 00:10:07.355
  • Take pictures and send it back to the house for further
  • 00:10:07.355 --> 00:10:09.724
  • Instructions because there's a dozen kinds and am i supposed to
  • 00:10:09.724 --> 00:10:14.696
  • Get lettuce in a bag or lettuce that's undressed or?
  • 00:10:14.696 --> 00:10:18.833
  • I mean there's just so many kinds.
  • 00:10:18.833 --> 00:10:21.803
  • Or if you were told to get crackers, yeah.
  • 00:10:21.803 --> 00:10:26.941
  • There's 70 kinds, right?
  • 00:10:26.941 --> 00:10:32.013
  • You know how blessed we are?
  • 00:10:32.013 --> 00:10:36.017
  • "well, i don't like any of them."
  • 00:10:36.017 --> 00:10:37.352
  • Well, aren't you happy?
  • 00:10:37.352 --> 00:10:42.057
  • I mean, it's just amazing to me to walk through the
  • 00:10:42.057 --> 00:10:44.459
  • Produce section.
  • 00:10:44.459 --> 00:10:45.794
  • I didn't have to plant it. i didn't have to hoe it.
  • 00:10:45.794 --> 00:10:48.630
  • I didn't pull any weeds.
  • 00:10:48.630 --> 00:10:50.398
  • I wasn't concerned about bugs or droughts.
  • 00:10:50.398 --> 00:10:53.468
  • I just go pick it up.
  • 00:10:53.468 --> 00:10:57.839
  • And then you have to check out yourself.
  • 00:10:57.839 --> 00:10:59.474
  • "i can't believe i have to check out myself."
  • 00:10:59.474 --> 00:11:04.179
  • You mean for the food you didn't grow?
  • 00:11:04.179 --> 00:11:08.883
  • "well, it's so expensive, oh."
  • 00:11:08.883 --> 00:11:12.854
  • Well, put it back. we are so blessed.
  • 00:11:12.854 --> 00:11:19.194
  • We live in cities we didn't build.
  • 00:11:19.194 --> 00:11:22.130
  • We drink water from water systems we can't reproduce.
  • 00:11:22.130 --> 00:11:27.035
  • We are the people that he was writing about.
  • 00:11:27.035 --> 00:11:29.037
  • Let's just begin to say, "god, you've been so good to us.
  • 00:11:29.037 --> 00:11:32.273
  • You've blessed our lives in so many, many, many ways."
  • 00:11:32.273 --> 00:11:38.012
  • And i'm not even talking about the spiritual blessings.
  • 00:11:38.012 --> 00:11:42.383
  • God made it possible for you and me to be forgiven of our sins.
  • 00:11:42.383 --> 00:11:46.054
  • We've never earned that.
  • 00:11:46.054 --> 00:11:48.323
  • We can't be good enough or moral enough or kind enough.
  • 00:11:48.323 --> 00:11:51.793
  • You can't be generous enough.
  • 00:11:51.793 --> 00:11:53.161
  • Folks, your generosity, your kindness won't qualify you for
  • 00:11:53.161 --> 00:11:55.663
  • The kingdom of god.
  • 00:11:55.663 --> 00:11:56.998
  • Hell will be crowded with people that were kind
  • 00:11:56.998 --> 00:11:58.566
  • And generous--
  • 00:11:58.566 --> 00:12:02.237
  • Good people.
  • 00:12:02.237 --> 00:12:04.773
  • Goodness isn't the qualifier.
  • 00:12:04.773 --> 00:12:06.174
  • God intervened.
  • 00:12:06.174 --> 00:12:07.509
  • He offered his son as a sacrifice.
  • 00:12:07.509 --> 00:12:09.344
  • God, thank you.
  • 00:12:09.344 --> 00:12:11.846
  • Why would i bear the name of jesus?
  • 00:12:11.846 --> 00:12:13.381
  • Why would i take jesus to work with me?
  • 00:12:13.381 --> 00:12:15.049
  • Why would i take him to wherever you go for your
  • 00:12:15.049 --> 00:12:17.886
  • Discretionary time?
  • 00:12:17.886 --> 00:12:19.254
  • Because of what he's done for me.
  • 00:12:19.254 --> 00:12:22.757
  • He's been good to me.
  • 00:12:22.757 --> 00:12:26.227
  • He has been good to me.
  • 00:12:26.227 --> 00:12:27.562
  • He is good to me, so far.
  • 00:12:27.562 --> 00:12:33.635
  • Isn't that an awful phrase?
  • 00:12:33.635 --> 00:12:39.107
  • Thank you, god.
  • 00:12:39.107 --> 00:12:41.543
  • Thank you.
  • 00:12:41.543 --> 00:12:43.311
  • I gave you a day 2 assignment-- or application sounds nicer,
  • 00:12:43.311 --> 00:12:47.549
  • Doesn't it?
  • 00:12:47.549 --> 00:12:49.050
  • Make your list of seven blessings which god has brought
  • 00:12:49.050 --> 00:12:51.286
  • To your life.
  • 00:12:51.286 --> 00:12:54.556
  • I'll give you a little hint.
  • 00:12:54.556 --> 00:12:56.558
  • In difficult seasons when the pressure is great, start with
  • 00:12:56.558 --> 00:13:00.395
  • The attributes of god's character.
  • 00:13:00.395 --> 00:13:03.431
  • God, i thank you that you're a faithful god,
  • 00:13:03.431 --> 00:13:06.401
  • That you're a just god.
  • 00:13:06.401 --> 00:13:09.771
  • There have been times in my life when i had a very difficult time
  • 00:13:09.771 --> 00:13:13.341
  • Finding circumstances that i was grateful for.
  • 00:13:13.341 --> 00:13:17.478
  • I was really struggling because i wanted to be mad at god.
  • 00:13:17.478 --> 00:13:19.414
  • I'd stand in the field at night and shake my fist at the stars
  • 00:13:19.414 --> 00:13:22.317
  • And go, "agh, i don't like this."
  • 00:13:22.317 --> 00:13:27.488
  • But i knew i needed the relationship.
  • 00:13:27.488 --> 00:13:30.959
  • And so i'd find myself, i'd find a way to get still with the lord
  • 00:13:30.959 --> 00:13:35.797
  • And i'd say, "god, i thank you that--i may not feel like it,
  • 00:13:35.797 --> 00:13:39.234
  • But i know that you're a faithful god.
  • 00:13:39.234 --> 00:13:43.705
  • And i know that you're a good god.
  • 00:13:43.705 --> 00:13:45.773
  • It doesn't feel good to me right now, but i know you're a
  • 00:13:45.773 --> 00:13:47.942
  • Good god."
  • 00:13:47.942 --> 00:13:49.711
  • And if in making your list, if the challenges you face are so
  • 00:13:49.711 --> 00:13:53.948
  • Intense, you start with the attributes of god's character
  • 00:13:53.948 --> 00:13:57.619
  • That you know.
  • 00:13:57.619 --> 00:13:58.953
  • For most of us, you don't have to start there.
  • 00:13:58.953 --> 00:14:00.555
  • Our lives are filled with so many blessings.
  • 00:14:00.555 --> 00:14:03.958
  • If we have the health to gather together on thanksgiving, you
  • 00:14:03.958 --> 00:14:06.194
  • Better start with that.
  • 00:14:06.194 --> 00:14:08.796
  • If you have someone to share thanksgiving with, you
  • 00:14:08.796 --> 00:14:11.766
  • Include that.
  • 00:14:11.766 --> 00:14:13.668
  • In fact, i invited you to build two lists.
  • 00:14:13.668 --> 00:14:15.370
  • The second list is if there's seven things to be thankful for,
  • 00:14:15.370 --> 00:14:18.306
  • Then there's seven people to be thankful for.
  • 00:14:18.306 --> 00:14:22.043
  • And with all the ways you've got to communicate, you can let
  • 00:14:22.043 --> 00:14:24.078
  • Them know.
  • 00:14:24.078 --> 00:14:25.813
  • Send them a text: "grateful for your life this thanksgiving."
  • 00:14:25.813 --> 00:14:31.586
  • Take a picture of all the desserts you have.
  • 00:14:31.586 --> 00:14:33.021
  • "my desserts are better than yours this thanksgiving.
  • 00:14:33.021 --> 00:14:35.323
  • God bless you."
  • 00:14:35.323 --> 00:14:38.359
  • "you've been a great friend to me.
  • 00:14:38.359 --> 00:14:41.262
  • So far."
  • 00:14:41.262 --> 00:14:46.734
  • Seven things and seven people.
  • 00:14:46.734 --> 00:14:50.505
  • See, don't let this be an idea, a thought, a feeling.
  • 00:14:50.505 --> 00:14:57.612
  • Don't let it be about recipes and travel and cleaning the
  • 00:14:57.612 --> 00:15:00.515
  • House, and trying to out-decorate your favorite
  • 00:15:00.515 --> 00:15:04.886
  • Whomever on hgtv.
  • 00:15:04.886 --> 00:15:09.991
  • Bring the lord into it.
  • 00:15:09.991 --> 00:15:11.359
  • "god, you've been so good to us."
  • 00:15:11.359 --> 00:15:14.095
  • Folks, there is a spiritual force in being thankful.
  • 00:15:14.095 --> 00:15:20.802
  • The devil wants you to be more aware of how you've been
  • 00:15:20.802 --> 00:15:23.471
  • Wronged, of how you've been mistreated, of
  • 00:15:23.471 --> 00:15:27.842
  • Something egregious.
  • 00:15:27.842 --> 00:15:30.445
  • He wants you to be aggravated or agitated or frustrated
  • 00:15:30.445 --> 00:15:33.848
  • With circumstances.
  • 00:15:33.848 --> 00:15:35.717
  • And you and i have a choice to make.
  • 00:15:35.717 --> 00:15:38.553
  • "no, god, i thank you that you exist.
  • 00:15:38.553 --> 00:15:43.191
  • You have been good to me.
  • 00:15:43.191 --> 00:15:45.460
  • You have blessed me.
  • 00:15:45.460 --> 00:15:46.828
  • You've called me out of darkness, you've filled my life
  • 00:15:46.828 --> 00:15:49.097
  • With good things.
  • 00:15:49.097 --> 00:15:50.465
  • You've given me a future in your kingdom, and i thank you
  • 00:15:50.465 --> 00:15:53.134
  • For that.
  • 00:15:53.134 --> 00:15:55.036
  • I will praise you today."
  • 00:15:55.036 --> 00:15:59.974
  • Allen: god is moving in the earth, and at allen jackson
  • 00:16:04.145 --> 00:16:06.547
  • Ministries, we're doing everything we can to strengthen
  • 00:16:06.547 --> 00:16:09.384
  • The church in our nation and wherever god opens the door.
  • 00:16:09.384 --> 00:16:12.653
  • We don't intend to maintain the status quo or to gather in our
  • 00:16:12.653 --> 00:16:15.590
  • Churches for polite bible studies.
  • 00:16:15.590 --> 00:16:17.492
  • We're gonna engage our culture with biblical truth and give you
  • 00:16:17.492 --> 00:16:20.762
  • The tools to do so.
  • 00:16:20.762 --> 00:16:22.597
  • We want our children and grandchildren to inherit a
  • 00:16:22.597 --> 00:16:25.066
  • Church that's vibrant and vital, and to do that, we've got to
  • 00:16:25.066 --> 00:16:29.270
  • Make an investment.
  • 00:16:29.270 --> 00:16:30.605
  • Will you give generously to what we're doing at allen
  • 00:16:30.605 --> 00:16:32.440
  • Jackson ministries?
  • 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:33.775
  • Your partnership will make 2026 the most fruitful year we've
  • 00:16:33.775 --> 00:16:36.744
  • Ever known.
  • 00:16:36.744 --> 00:16:38.079
  • Thank you.
  • 00:16:38.079 --> 00:16:39.447
  • Female announcer: at allen jackson ministries we're
  • 00:16:39.447 --> 00:16:40.782
  • Committed to strengthening the church and sharing the truth of
  • 00:16:40.782 --> 00:16:43.785
  • God's word.
  • 00:16:43.785 --> 00:16:45.119
  • When you support this ministry with a gift of $75 or more,
  • 00:16:45.119 --> 00:16:48.990
  • We'll send you the "lead with faith esv journaling bible."
  • 00:16:48.990 --> 00:16:52.493
  • Your generosity will help us equip more people with the
  • 00:16:52.493 --> 00:16:55.296
  • Biblical truth and encouragement they need for the year ahead.
  • 00:16:55.296 --> 00:16:59.233
  • Give today at allenjackson.com or call...
  • 00:16:59.233 --> 00:17:06.841
  • Allen: day 3, and i'm gonna stop this session with this one.
  • 00:17:06.841 --> 00:17:11.179
  • I've got five, but you'll have to listen to the next one to get
  • 00:17:11.179 --> 00:17:13.347
  • Them all.
  • 00:17:13.347 --> 00:17:15.383
  • Day 3: we're going to repent for those times when we've been more
  • 00:17:15.383 --> 00:17:21.289
  • Ungrateful than grateful,
  • 00:17:21.289 --> 00:17:23.858
  • When we've been more entitled than responsible,
  • 00:17:23.858 --> 00:17:27.328
  • We've been more demanding or discontent.
  • 00:17:27.328 --> 00:17:30.364
  • This isn't something that's unique to our generation.
  • 00:17:30.364 --> 00:17:32.633
  • It's a challenge for humanity.
  • 00:17:32.633 --> 00:17:35.002
  • In fact, the bible describes for us this incremental
  • 00:17:35.002 --> 00:17:37.505
  • Decline--that there's a momentum that comes with
  • 00:17:37.505 --> 00:17:39.640
  • A lack of gratitude;
  • 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:41.576
  • That if you start down that path, it's like a snowball
  • 00:17:41.576 --> 00:17:44.212
  • Coming downhill.
  • 00:17:44.212 --> 00:17:45.546
  • You're gonna gain momentum and scope and mass
  • 00:17:45.546 --> 00:17:48.883
  • Until it becomes an avalanche.
  • 00:17:48.883 --> 00:17:50.485
  • It's not a good thing.
  • 00:17:50.485 --> 00:17:52.920
  • The most clear description of that downward, destructive
  • 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:56.557
  • Avalanche is in romans chapter 1: it's an incremental decline,
  • 00:17:56.557 --> 00:17:59.927
  • But it describes humanity beginning with the inherent
  • 00:17:59.927 --> 00:18:03.097
  • Knowledge of god and ending up in the most appalling
  • 00:18:03.097 --> 00:18:05.933
  • Expressions of wickedness and perversion.
  • 00:18:05.933 --> 00:18:09.770
  • It's a horrible decline in romans chapter 1, but i gave you
  • 00:18:09.770 --> 00:18:14.075
  • The key verse.
  • 00:18:14.075 --> 00:18:15.443
  • It's romans 1:21.
  • 00:18:15.443 --> 00:18:16.777
  • It says: "although they knew god--" that's the beginning.
  • 00:18:16.777 --> 00:18:18.146
  • We knew there was a god, we could have said, "god, thank you
  • 00:18:18.146 --> 00:18:21.015
  • That you let me know you."
  • 00:18:21.015 --> 00:18:23.985
  • But our choice was to not glorify him or to give thanks
  • 00:18:23.985 --> 00:18:28.189
  • To him.
  • 00:18:28.189 --> 00:18:30.858
  • "i'm not gonna give glory to you."
  • 00:18:30.858 --> 00:18:34.028
  • You see, there's something inherent in that decision, we
  • 00:18:34.028 --> 00:18:38.566
  • Might as well acknowledge it.
  • 00:18:38.566 --> 00:18:39.901
  • If you decide to give glory to god, you're acknowledging you're
  • 00:18:39.901 --> 00:18:41.936
  • Not god.
  • 00:18:41.936 --> 00:18:44.305
  • If you're going to give thanks to god, you're acknowledging
  • 00:18:44.305 --> 00:18:46.874
  • That you're not the pinnacle.
  • 00:18:46.874 --> 00:18:49.477
  • And if you do that, whether you do it consciously or
  • 00:18:49.477 --> 00:18:53.481
  • Subconsciously, the--a part of that bargain is you recognize,
  • 00:18:53.481 --> 00:18:57.285
  • Then, that if there is a god and he can be known and you're gonna
  • 00:18:57.285 --> 00:18:59.687
  • Be thankful to him, then he would be the authority in
  • 00:18:59.687 --> 00:19:02.990
  • Your life.
  • 00:19:02.990 --> 00:19:05.193
  • And if you intend to be the authority, if your will and your
  • 00:19:05.193 --> 00:19:09.263
  • Way, and what you want are going to be the dominating influences
  • 00:19:09.263 --> 00:19:13.834
  • Of your life, then you're gonna follow that downward progression
  • 00:19:13.834 --> 00:19:17.205
  • Because you won't give glory to god, 'cause you want the glory
  • 00:19:17.205 --> 00:19:19.674
  • For yourself.
  • 00:19:19.674 --> 00:19:22.009
  • And you won't give thanks, because you're gonna try to
  • 00:19:22.009 --> 00:19:24.145
  • Accumulate it for yourself.
  • 00:19:24.145 --> 00:19:29.517
  • "although they knew god, they neither glorified him nor gave
  • 00:19:29.517 --> 00:19:32.320
  • Thanks to him.
  • 00:19:32.320 --> 00:19:33.788
  • And their thinking became futile.
  • 00:19:33.788 --> 00:19:36.324
  • And their foolish hearts were darkened."
  • 00:19:36.324 --> 00:19:41.462
  • I've been inviting you to consciously, intentionally,
  • 00:19:41.462 --> 00:19:44.265
  • Cultivate gratitude and thankfulness.
  • 00:19:44.265 --> 00:19:46.734
  • The opposite of being thankful, in biblical language and words
  • 00:19:46.734 --> 00:19:50.838
  • And descriptions, is murmuring, grumbling, complaining.
  • 00:19:50.838 --> 00:19:55.109
  • To be unthankful, it's pretty simple.
  • 00:19:55.109 --> 00:19:56.444
  • That little prefix "un" means without, you're
  • 00:19:56.444 --> 00:19:58.212
  • Without thankfulness.
  • 00:19:58.212 --> 00:19:59.947
  • You're not grateful.
  • 00:19:59.947 --> 00:20:01.382
  • Ingratitude is you're not grateful.
  • 00:20:01.382 --> 00:20:03.784
  • But complaining is the active expression of ingratitude.
  • 00:20:03.784 --> 00:20:08.256
  • If giving thanks is an expression of gratitude,
  • 00:20:08.256 --> 00:20:11.359
  • Complaining is your expression of the absence of that.
  • 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:16.564
  • Don't give yourself to that.
  • 00:20:16.564 --> 00:20:17.932
  • "well, it's legitimate."
  • 00:20:17.932 --> 00:20:19.300
  • No, don't give yourself to that.
  • 00:20:19.300 --> 00:20:23.471
  • "well, it's true."
  • 00:20:23.471 --> 00:20:27.275
  • The--in philippians, you're given a grid of what to
  • 00:20:27.275 --> 00:20:30.578
  • Think about.
  • 00:20:30.578 --> 00:20:32.013
  • Said, "if it's lovely and true--" there's a whole list
  • 00:20:32.013 --> 00:20:34.849
  • Of things.
  • 00:20:34.849 --> 00:20:36.183
  • You can't just choose one of the markers and because it meets
  • 00:20:36.183 --> 00:20:38.019
  • That marker give yourself to thinking about it.
  • 00:20:38.019 --> 00:20:43.524
  • It doesn't mean we ignore the realities of the world we live
  • 00:20:43.524 --> 00:20:46.093
  • In, but when it comes to choosing my attitudes and my
  • 00:20:46.093 --> 00:20:48.929
  • Response to the world i live in, i'm gonna lead with a gratitude
  • 00:20:48.929 --> 00:20:52.133
  • To god.
  • 00:20:52.133 --> 00:20:54.101
  • And i will not cultivate an ungrateful heart.
  • 00:20:54.101 --> 00:21:01.142
  • 1 corinthians 10 gives us a rather stark picture.
  • 00:21:01.142 --> 00:21:04.879
  • It's describing that exodus generation--
  • 00:21:04.879 --> 00:21:06.914
  • These people who'd seen more miracles?
  • 00:21:06.914 --> 00:21:09.050
  • They're following a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire.
  • 00:21:09.050 --> 00:21:11.886
  • They're eating manna every day.
  • 00:21:11.886 --> 00:21:13.254
  • They have god food stuck in their teeth.
  • 00:21:13.254 --> 00:21:17.825
  • But the whole generation said no to god.
  • 00:21:17.825 --> 00:21:19.827
  • Did you know you can experience god in the most supernatural
  • 00:21:19.827 --> 00:21:22.229
  • Ways and say no to him?
  • 00:21:22.229 --> 00:21:24.699
  • In my years in ministry, i would have to say, more than half the
  • 00:21:24.699 --> 00:21:27.368
  • People that i see experience the supernatural involvement of god
  • 00:21:27.368 --> 00:21:30.805
  • Choose not to follow.
  • 00:21:30.805 --> 00:21:37.011
  • But in corinthians it's describing that
  • 00:21:37.011 --> 00:21:38.713
  • Exodus generation.
  • 00:21:38.713 --> 00:21:40.514
  • Says: "these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting
  • 00:21:40.514 --> 00:21:43.217
  • Our hearts on evil things as they did."
  • 00:21:43.217 --> 00:21:47.221
  • Manna, they're eating manna every day and they set their
  • 00:21:47.221 --> 00:21:49.557
  • Heart on evil things.
  • 00:21:49.557 --> 00:21:51.158
  • "don't be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written:
  • 00:21:51.158 --> 00:21:53.627
  • 'the people sat down to eat and drink and they got up to indulge
  • 00:21:53.627 --> 00:21:56.063
  • In pagan revelry.'
  • 00:21:56.063 --> 00:21:58.366
  • We shouldn't commit sexual immorality, as some of them
  • 00:21:58.366 --> 00:22:00.668
  • Did--and in one day twenty-three thousand of
  • 00:22:00.668 --> 00:22:02.670
  • Them died.
  • 00:22:02.670 --> 00:22:04.605
  • We shouldn't test the lord, as some of them did--and were all
  • 00:22:04.605 --> 00:22:07.074
  • Killed by snakes.
  • 00:22:07.074 --> 00:22:08.843
  • And do not grumble, as some of them did--and were killed by
  • 00:22:08.843 --> 00:22:12.480
  • The destroying angels."
  • 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:14.782
  • That's an unsettling list.
  • 00:22:14.782 --> 00:22:17.485
  • Because for three out of the four, i'm thinking, "oh, no, i
  • 00:22:17.485 --> 00:22:19.353
  • Wouldn't do that.
  • 00:22:19.353 --> 00:22:21.255
  • I'm not gonna be an idolater.
  • 00:22:21.255 --> 00:22:22.590
  • We're not gonna commit sexual immorality.
  • 00:22:22.590 --> 00:22:24.125
  • We're not gonna test the lord."
  • 00:22:24.125 --> 00:22:26.694
  • But i mean, grumbling.
  • 00:22:26.694 --> 00:22:30.531
  • I mean, we just call it a prayer request.
  • 00:22:30.531 --> 00:22:35.536
  • Or "i have a burden."
  • 00:22:35.536 --> 00:22:38.639
  • Or "the lord's put something on my heart."
  • 00:22:38.639 --> 00:22:42.843
  • We wrap our ungodly behavior in acceptable language for our
  • 00:22:42.843 --> 00:22:47.114
  • Brothers and sisters.
  • 00:22:47.114 --> 00:22:50.551
  • Idolaters, the sexually immoral, those who test the lord and
  • 00:22:50.551 --> 00:22:53.687
  • Those who grumble are all on the same list.
  • 00:22:53.687 --> 00:22:57.725
  • In the book of revelation we have a really stark contrast to
  • 00:22:57.725 --> 00:23:00.694
  • That, a very--a much wiser choice.
  • 00:23:00.694 --> 00:23:03.764
  • It's a scene in the heaven.
  • 00:23:03.764 --> 00:23:06.634
  • It says: "the angels were standing around the throne,"
  • 00:23:06.634 --> 00:23:08.803
  • It's a scene in the throne room of god, "and around the elders
  • 00:23:08.803 --> 00:23:11.405
  • And the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces
  • 00:23:11.405 --> 00:23:13.874
  • Before the throne, and they grumbled and they complained
  • 00:23:13.874 --> 00:23:17.144
  • About all the things happening in the earth.
  • 00:23:17.144 --> 00:23:22.183
  • And they said, 'blessing and glory and wisdom and
  • 00:23:22.183 --> 00:23:25.286
  • Thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our
  • 00:23:25.286 --> 00:23:30.624
  • God forever.'"
  • 00:23:30.624 --> 00:23:34.228
  • Well, if you can't remember the whole list, just remember
  • 00:23:34.228 --> 00:23:36.831
  • The thanksgiving.
  • 00:23:36.831 --> 00:23:39.166
  • God, i'll be thankful forever.
  • 00:23:39.166 --> 00:23:41.802
  • You revealed yourself to me.
  • 00:23:41.802 --> 00:23:45.406
  • "well, it's a dark season."
  • 00:23:45.406 --> 00:23:46.740
  • I'll be thankful forever.
  • 00:23:46.740 --> 00:23:49.076
  • You revealed yourself to me.
  • 00:23:49.076 --> 00:23:51.579
  • It's a better choice.
  • 00:23:51.579 --> 00:23:54.415
  • It is a better choice.
  • 00:23:54.415 --> 00:23:58.018
  • Folks, it's thanksgiving week.
  • 00:23:58.018 --> 00:23:59.653
  • Our nation is going to stop and say, "thank god."
  • 00:23:59.653 --> 00:24:04.859
  • "well, everybody won't do--"
  • 00:24:04.859 --> 00:24:06.227
  • No, but hundreds of thousands will.
  • 00:24:06.227 --> 00:24:10.397
  • So let's lead with our faith.
  • 00:24:10.397 --> 00:24:14.168
  • Let's lead with our faith.
  • 00:24:14.168 --> 00:24:15.503
  • If everybody at your gathering doesn't want to participate,
  • 00:24:15.503 --> 00:24:17.505
  • Find somebody that does.
  • 00:24:17.505 --> 00:24:19.773
  • "step out on the porch with me, we're gonna thank the lord."
  • 00:24:19.773 --> 00:24:24.078
  • "come help me wash the dishes, we're gonna thank the
  • 00:24:24.078 --> 00:24:25.946
  • Lord," whatever.
  • 00:24:25.946 --> 00:24:31.285
  • Don't give up the privilege of saying thank you, no matter what
  • 00:24:31.285 --> 00:24:36.957
  • You're facing.
  • 00:24:36.957 --> 00:24:38.626
  • You will unleash the power of god on your behalf with
  • 00:24:38.626 --> 00:24:41.829
  • Gratitude more forcefully than any other single thing i know.
  • 00:24:41.829 --> 00:24:47.301
  • So if we've been complaining-- you know, the problem with
  • 00:24:47.301 --> 00:24:52.573
  • Complaining is once you choose that path, you cannot
  • 00:24:52.573 --> 00:24:55.042
  • Be satisfied.
  • 00:24:55.042 --> 00:24:59.413
  • And the only way out of that is to repent.
  • 00:24:59.413 --> 00:25:02.149
  • Repentance is a change of thought and a change
  • 00:25:02.149 --> 00:25:04.151
  • Of behavior.
  • 00:25:04.151 --> 00:25:05.586
  • So i brought us a prayer.
  • 00:25:05.586 --> 00:25:06.954
  • We're gonna close with this one. you've done pretty well.
  • 00:25:06.954 --> 00:25:09.557
  • You prayed your way through church tonight.
  • 00:25:09.557 --> 00:25:10.891
  • You've done my job. thank you.
  • 00:25:10.891 --> 00:25:13.327
  • Won't you stand with me? we'll read this prayer together.
  • 00:25:13.327 --> 00:25:21.569
  • I started to bring a prayer to repent of gluttony in advance,
  • 00:25:21.569 --> 00:25:24.204
  • But...i didn't want to.
  • 00:25:24.204 --> 00:25:29.376
  • Let's read this together.
  • 00:25:29.376 --> 00:25:31.545
  • "almighty god, forgive me for complaining and grumbling.
  • 00:25:31.545 --> 00:25:36.016
  • I have experienced your blessings and hardened my heart
  • 00:25:36.016 --> 00:25:39.353
  • In selfishness.
  • 00:25:39.353 --> 00:25:40.888
  • I will give thanks to the god of heaven.
  • 00:25:40.888 --> 00:25:43.857
  • I will acknowledge your great mercy and kindness.
  • 00:25:43.857 --> 00:25:46.794
  • I will tell of your wonderful works.
  • 00:25:46.794 --> 00:25:49.330
  • I will lift my voice in praise, i lift my hands as an expression
  • 00:25:49.330 --> 00:25:53.701
  • Of humility, and i lift my heart to you as an expression
  • 00:25:53.701 --> 00:25:57.538
  • Of gratitude.
  • 00:25:57.538 --> 00:25:58.872
  • Your lovingkindness has sustained me, amen!"
  • 00:25:58.872 --> 00:26:03.110
  • Hallelujah, go forth and be grateful, in jesus's name.
  • 00:26:03.110 --> 00:26:08.449
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:26:10.985 --> 00:26:16.023
  • Allen: allen jackson ministries was created to strengthen
  • 00:26:18.058 --> 00:26:20.461
  • The church.
  • 00:26:20.461 --> 00:26:21.829
  • With your help, we've been able to take some steps in that
  • 00:26:21.829 --> 00:26:23.664
  • Direction, but we're more determined than ever to make an
  • 00:26:23.664 --> 00:26:26.600
  • Impact in our world.
  • 00:26:26.600 --> 00:26:28.302
  • We have some invitations internationally to step into
  • 00:26:28.302 --> 00:26:30.304
  • Some war-torn countries, into israel and ukraine, to help
  • 00:26:30.304 --> 00:26:33.107
  • Strengthen the church there.
  • 00:26:33.107 --> 00:26:34.575
  • We plan to respond to that.
  • 00:26:34.575 --> 00:26:36.543
  • But as importantly in this nation, folks, business as usual
  • 00:26:36.543 --> 00:26:40.180
  • Isn't gonna get this done.
  • 00:26:40.180 --> 00:26:41.548
  • We can't be timid and sit in our churches and have polite bible
  • 00:26:41.548 --> 00:26:44.118
  • Studies and sing our favorite choruses.
  • 00:26:44.118 --> 00:26:46.720
  • We've got to take the truth into the public square, a biblical
  • 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:49.923
  • Worldview back into the midst of our culture.
  • 00:26:49.923 --> 00:26:52.893
  • We're creating tools to help you do that in your home, in your
  • 00:26:52.893 --> 00:26:55.796
  • Church, in your community: bible studies, publishing books,
  • 00:26:55.796 --> 00:26:59.667
  • Content that we can share with you.
  • 00:26:59.667 --> 00:27:01.301
  • It's time for the church to be the church.
  • 00:27:01.301 --> 00:27:04.071
  • We have an advocacy for jesus of nazareth that has to be heard in
  • 00:27:04.071 --> 00:27:07.775
  • This season or our children and grandchildren will pay
  • 00:27:07.775 --> 00:27:10.444
  • The price.
  • 00:27:10.444 --> 00:27:11.812
  • Will you make an investment in this ministry to make 2026 the
  • 00:27:11.812 --> 00:27:14.815
  • Most fruitful year we've ever had together?
  • 00:27:14.815 --> 00:27:17.785
  • Thank you.
  • 00:27:17.785 --> 00:27:27.394