Hi everyone. Thank you for joining. My name is Itai Shokuri and I work for Aqua Security on open source security related projects mostly for the cloud native ecosystem. Lately I've been working on a project that is a system tracing tool and its integration into a dynamic image scanning product and I wanted to share with you first of all the concept of dynamic image scanning the way that we perceive it and also the relationship between this and other concepts that you are familiar with maybe you're using today and also I wanted to talk about system tracing and how important it is for dynamic image scanning and how we can leverage that. So to start the discussion I would like to first discuss what we have today with container scanning. So I'm going to look at Trivi which is a popular open source container scanning tool. Full disclaimer it's being built by my team in Aqua but this is just an example for any container scanning tool most of them work the same way. So here I'm asking Trivi to scan this image. It's Drupal image which is a popular content management system. Trivi will discover that this image is based from Alpine and because of that it will look for Alpine packages that were installed using APK and then it will understand that this image was the software is using PHP so it will also look for a composer software installed using Composer and similarly there are some JavaScript components in there so Trivi will also look at the yarn file that it found in order to obtain the list of software relating to JavaScript. The goal here is to compile a list of installed software within the container and most importantly the versions because in the next step we're going to compare this list with a database of known vulnerabilities. This is the other piece of any container scanning tool for Trivi because it's open source and we build the database itself in GitHub and we store actually the database inside of GitHub. It's very easy to go ahead and see what we're doing there so just for example we aggregate vulnerability information from different sources for example NVD which is a great comprehensive database of vulnerabilities. We also consider different advisories and lists that publish their own security advisories and vulnerabilities. We even go as far as looking inside of the code of some projects that we are interested in. In this case you see an example from Alpine if we know that we can parse some security vulnerabilities from these sources. There are many other different sources that goes into the Trivi database but the result is just a simple database of vulnerabilities and the affected software and then we can go ahead and cross reference the list of vulnerabilities with the list of software that we found inside of the container and we see here that low-dash which is a JavaScript dependency library has a high severity vulnerability because of the 4.17.15 version that we were using. So great this is a very useful thing that any static image scanning tool can give us discovering known vulnerabilities. What else can we learn by statically scanning the image? So another thing is misconfigurations. Unlike vulnerabilities where vulnerabilities are basically bugs in the software, in the dependencies that needs to be fixed upstream, misconfiguration is not about bugs it's mostly about improper usage of the software and if we look out there we see a lot of examples for misconfigured container images that we could have detected just by scanning the image. For example, people using the default settings for the software and wasn't adapting it for production. People leaving a lot of unnecessarily open ports, TLS settings which were incorrectly configured, people even use sorry people even forget their passwords and the keys inside of the code and inside of the containers. So these are all examples for things that we could easily have discovered just by looking at the container image itself. So vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, what else can we understand just by analyzing the image at rest? So another thing is malware. The container itself is just a bunch of files so we can take any number of files from within the container and use traditional anti malware tools in order to identify those files and see if any of them appears to be malicious. These are all examples for the benefits of static image scanning. Just by looking at the image at rest we can learn a lot about what this container is up to. So what do you think? If you are scanning containers today is this satisfactory to you?  So my claim here is that you shouldn't be because there is an entire category of risks that simply cannot be detected using static image scanning. And one example for that is evasive malware that we have observed in the wild. So this is an example for an image in Docker Hub that passed all of the scans. It has no known vulnerabilities, no misconfigurations, no known malware. But when you run it, you see the entry point here on the right. There is an encoded base 64 encoded string here that is essentially a malware encoded as characters. And only at runtime the script will unpack this and run it. So if you were to scan this script, you know, it's a string, it's a weird string, but it's not necessarily malicious. Not a lot of static scanning tools will be able to understand what's going on here. But when you run the image, it's very easy to see that it is actually executing a malware. And this is not a made up example. Our research team has recently uncovered a big operation of a group that has used and abused Docker Hub in order to distribute malware in seemingly legitimate containers where the end goal was to run crypto mining tools on your servers. And my point here, you can go ahead and read the blog post if you want, but my point here is that this is real. This happens. And the fact that we are trusting Docker Hub in this case, Docker Hub has no fault here. They're just storing files. But the fact that we are trusting the source here blindly is an open door. There's actually an entire category of risks here that is called supply chain attacks. And this is where the hackers will not even target your servers. They will not try to hack you directly. Instead, they will target your supply chain that you already trust. Think about where you store your source code today. Think about where you build and test and produce artifacts, your CI CD pipeline. Think about where you store artifacts today and how you deliver those artifacts into production. Each and every one of those chain in the links is a point of interest to the attacker. Because if they compromise one of them, most likely their malware will be able to find its way into your servers because you already trust this pipeline. So to summarize, static image scanning can tell us a lot about the container. And it's very important to scan our containers. We learn about the known vulnerabilities. We learn about misconfigurations maybe, and maybe even about malware inside of the container. But there's also an entire category of risks that we were overlooking. We've discussed evasive malware. There's also unknown vulnerabilities. There's also more sophisticated attacks that are harder to scan for. My point is that the image itself at rest can only tell us so much about what the container will do at runtime. And the best way to understand what the container will do at runtime is to run it. And this is where system tracing also enters the picture because system tracing allows us to understand what's happening from the operating system point of view. This is something that the malware, the software that's running inside of the container, cannot simply evade or escape. So I would like to show you now a quick demonstration of what it means to detect a malicious behavior using system tracing. All right. So we will start by looking at an example for a script similar to the one that I showed you in the slides. And you see here the very long base 64 encoded string. And in the end, there is a command to decode it and to make it un-executable and to execute it. And then just as the disguise show that something else is happening. If we run this, this is called evasive script, we see hello world. This is being printed by the malware. And we see I'm good, which is the disguise of the script. Now, if the malware didn't naturally print hello world to us, how would we be able to understand that this script hides another executable? We could read it. But if this wasn't a script, if this was an executable, maybe even an obfuscated executable that's harder to manually analyze, then would be in some kind of trouble. So this is where tracing comes in. I'm going to use a very popular tool that's called strace. This is a very common Linux toolbox kind of tool. It allows us to trace system calls from the operating system point of view. And I'm going to run the same script, except I'm prefixing it with the command strace. I also want to tell it exactly what to trace. So I will say trace equals exactly e. Exactly e is the name of the system call that's being used to ask the operating system to execute something. If we do that, we see the same result here, hello world. I'm good in the output, but also we see all of the exactly e equals. And we see here that this file was executed. And again, this time it was a script, so we know that it was in there. But think about a different case where this was a binary where it wasn't so easy to understand what's going on in there. Actually, let's take a look at an example like this. So here I have another example. It's the same hello world application that was the malware. This time, this is the malware itself, this time I am hiding it within this hello world dot pect. It feels similar to the previous example where we reheat it within a script. But this time, it will not be that easy to discover it. First of all, this is a binary. So if we look at the binary itself, yeah, nothing really readable for us here. It's just binary data. This is one thing. Second of all, if we trace it using the same strace command and we ask it to trace exactly remember that in the previous example, we saw that the script was started and then other processes started and then explicitly the malware itself had started. And this time, I'm going to see a different result. I only see the execution of the host of the routing binary. There is no exact VE malware here, even though we know, because we see the output that hello world was invoked. And this is not hello world. So how can we still detect it? So this is where behavioral analysis comes into the picture. So far, we've seen an example for how tracing can help us understand what's going on. So we can look for exactly E and so on. But in this case, we need something more powerful. We need to learn about the behavioral pattern of this technique, and then we can detect it. So I'm going to add a few events to trace here. Not only exactly E, I want to look also at mApp and mProtect. These two same system calls are used to allocate memory, manage its permissions, basically to manage memory for the process. And I do this because I know that the packed version is using this technique in order to hide the embedded binary. So this time, we see the same exact VE of the hello world that packed. This is the entry point. We still don't see any other exact VE for the embedded malware, but we do see a suspicious pattern here. We see that the process has allocated a memory region and it has actually made it executable. As we can see here, this is necessary for it to execute the binary data that it writes into this memory region. And if we compare this to the trace of the regular hello world, we see that it is very, very different. Here we see just exact VE, and here we see a whole lot of suspicious activity. Okay, so this was about how we can understand what the software that we are running is doing by observing its behavioral patterns. We have done it manually this time, but soon we will see how we can also use more sophisticated tools to help us in this analysis. All right, so let's move back to the slides. Okay, so we have seen how we can use system tracing to understand the software that's running in the containers. Maybe some of you think this sounds familiar, maybe it rings a bell. We have been using similar techniques in production to prevent from certain things to happen or to alert. This is often called runtime security or runtime protection. It's nothing new, right? There's a lot of mature solutions in the market for runtime security. And what it means is that we are going to monitor everything that happens in production. We are going to analyze this stream of events, and we are going to look for suspicious patterns. And if we find something, then we are going to alert or we can even block it from ever happening. Again, this is not new. The company that I work for is one of the leading vendors in this space. So there's a mature market for these kind of solutions. But my argument here is that if we are dealing with malware and trying to assess the containers, won't it be even better to make this assessment earlier in the pipeline? Why are we waiting for the containers to be running in production in order to observe their behavior? In other words, what I'm saying here is let's shift left and use the same techniques or technology that we have been using for runtime security, but use it earlier in the pipeline when we build the container where we test it and so on. Now, this is not simply taking the same product and running it in a different place because there are different constraints here. We can actually tailor the product to fit its new place in the pipeline, in the pre-production environment. And this is what we call dynamic scanning. So this solution will now also run the containers inside of an ephemeral sandbox, right? Because we're not running the containers in production anymore, we need to run them somewhere else. And these are untrusted software. So an ephemeral sandbox sounds like a good solution. We can also use more comprehensive tracing when we do it in this stage. I will explain this point very soon. And we can also automate this into a solution that we can integrate into existing processes. Think that whenever you do a pull request, you can now spin up in the ephemeral sandbox, run the container in there. It is heavily, heavily instrumented. And you have all of the same heuristics that you've used for runtime security, but even more this time. And you are able to flag this container as suspicious or safe before it reaches production, actually before it reaches even your container registry. And I want to emphasize the fact that this is not the same as runtime security because it is quite similar, but not the same. There are different constraints here. And we need to even leverage these different constraints in order to build a solution that is tailored for this new place. In runtime security, in production, we always aspire to minimize the overhead of everything that we add there. But in dynamic scanning, there is no such requirement. These are ad hoc environments that we spin up just for the sake of testing the containers. We can turn on the verbosity to the maximum. We don't really care. We can even collect more kinds of information. For example, we can run a TCP dump while we read it. Why not? We can collect a lot more information in higher fidelity and the more data we have, the better decisions we can make. This is just one example for why the constraints are different and why the resulting product might look different. Another example is that in production, we have to make quick decisions. This makes sense, right? Because the runtime protection solution is in the critical path. We don't want to delay too much the decision-making process. But with dynamic scanning, we don't have these constraints. We can take as long as we need to in order to make decisions. We can use more complicated algorithms to test or to make the decisions. We can even defer the decisions. We can see that if something specific happens, we can flag this container for someone else, some security researcher to take a deeper look at later on. This is a privilege that we have with dynamic scanning and we don't have this with runtime security. Another example for the differences is that in production, the stakes are much, much higher. Everything is high-impact.  It's not real customer data. We can actually let the malware run to completion and do what it wanted to do. Maybe we will learn something about it that we couldn't have because we had to stop it short in production. So my point here is just to explain why dynamic scanning is not runtime security. Yes, it is using system tracing. It is using even similar terminology or technologies. But because the constraints are different, we can build two different products that each one of them leverages the constraints to its own benefit. All right. So now I want to explain what I meant earlier when I said advanced tracing. In the demo that we saw earlier, I used Strace, a very popular and very effective tool to trace the system calls that a process makes. But we cannot speak about system tracing today without mentioning EBPF. This is not going to be an introduction to EBPF. There are other sessions that cover that. But I think that EBPF is such an impactful and critical component that affects system tracing today that we need to mention it. So EBPF is just a subsystem in the Linux kernel that allows you to run your own code within the Linux kernel. And this is very unique because if you wanted to do something similar to that before EBPF, you had to maybe build a kernel module and load it. So that means that the code that you write this kernel module is essentially at the same level as the kernel. It has the same privileges. It has the same blast radius. And when we talk about security products, it is not so easy to convince a security-minded customer to run some arbitrary kernel module and basically load it into their production environment, which means that it can do everything that it wants to do. EBPF allows us to load our programs into the kernel in a safe way, in an isolated way. So that means that the risk is lower and it also has a lot of different kinds of integrations. One of them is tracing. So we can do everything that we wanted to do with tracing, even more than S-tracks. And I'm going to show it very soon in a safe way, in a more performant way. And this is really why EBPF is so important today. By the way, the name EBPF doesn't really make sense today. It carries a lot of legacy with it. It originated as a packet filter utility to filter the packets in the kernel, and then it was related to Berkeley's BSD, and then it was extended to do more than this. This is why it's called Extended Berkeley Packet Filter. EBPF, not a very meaningful name today. But still, this is the name and the technology itself is amazing. So in a high level, what it means is that the application is going to run somewhere on the stack, in user space, in a container. It's going to make a system call at some point or another because every resource that it needs to work with, a network call, writing to a file, everything has to go through the operating system. And this is where we're at, because we have injected our EBPF probes into the kernel. We will be waiting there and intercepting those requests from the applications. And at this point of interception, we can do a lot of interesting things. So this is a very, very high level explanation of what EBPF means for us. And this is what we are using for our container scanning tool. We've actually took this work and open sourced it. And we have a project on GitHub that is called Tracy. And this is basically the engine behind our commercial offering container scanning tools. So it is completely open source under a permissive license Apache 2. We have external contributors. And it is very interesting project for you to look at if you're interested in EBPF or system tracing. What's special about this project, besides the fact that it provides seminal functionality to S-Trace, but it is safer and a lot more performant, by the way. What's interesting about it is that it was built for security. So when we instrument a function in the kernel, we can not only report it like S-Trace does, we can do a lot of more interesting things with it that I'm going to show in a second. And we can also trace other things besides system calls. This is something very unique. We can also instrument just arbitrary functions within the kernel that we're interested in. And this produces a much higher quality of data for us to analyze in order to detect behavioral patterns. All right. So what we're going to do now is to take a look at Tracy and see how it can help us solve a few issues. Some of them we have already started to discuss previously. So you remember that packed binary that we have looked at previously using S-Trace, we were able to manually detect that it was using S-Trace. I want to first of all show you how it is done using Tracy. So I'm going to run Tracy. Let's do this. All right. So this is Tracy. And there's a lot of options here. I'm not going to cover them all. I'm just at this point trying to reach the same result as we have done with S-Trace. So I'm telling you to trace exact to the E. I'm telling you to trace and I'm telling you to trace and protect. All right. And I'm also going to prepare to run my Hello World Pact version. Let's start Tracy. Tracy is now registering the EBTF probes and we can now run the binary. And we see a very similar output to what we have seen before. We see exactly for the entry point, we see the M-up and M-protect system calls. We see that the arguments to these calls, in this case that someone requested the executable memory region. So far, pretty similar to S-Trace. Now I'm going to do the same, but to turn on this very interesting flag that's called security events. Oh, security events. And, sorry, what did I miss here? Security alerts. My bad. I'm going to run the same Pact executable. And this time, almost the same output, but this time you can see here that we have a new kind of alert here. M-prot alert. And this is basically Tracy telling us, hey, we've noticed that the protection of this memory region has changed to executable. This is a notable event. This is not raw data. This was not collected from the operating system. This is security insight that Tracy is adding on top of the raw data. Eventually you can see here a state machine that is tracking the behavioral pattern and it results in this final alert that protection change to executable, which is a trigger point that you can react to. So this is very cool. Tracy is not only surfacing raw data. It is actually producing security insights. But you know, Tracy can do something even better. It can actually collect the evidence for the security incident. In this case, the embedded binary that was ran from memory, it can actually capture this memory region into a file that you can later go on and investigate. This is super cool. So I'm going to run the same. I will tell Tracy to capture memory files. And I'm going to tell it to clear the output directory before he does that. So run this again and run the back version again. Almost the same output, except this time where we see this alert from Tracy, we also see that saving data to this file. This is the addition. And we can take a look at this file here. If we look at the temp Tracy, this is by default the output directory where Tracy saves stuff. We can see that we have this same file here. And this file, the contents of this file, this is not a memory dump. This is not the entire 16 gigabytes of memory. This is the precise memory region that triggered this alert. So if we take a look inside of this file, so it's under this directory, this is the name. So this is the binary data. It's not readable for us. But this is the same binary data that you would find if you were to take a look at the original embedded binary, which is the Hello World binary. It's basically the same binary data. And you can take this evidence and analyze it, investigate it, and so on. All right. So some very cool stuff here with Tracy. And by the way, this is what I meant earlier when I said how EBPF is such a game changer for us or for anyone who is doing system tracing today, because this is actually running our own programs in the kernel. At the point of interception, we can do all of this very cool stuff. We can track this state machine of behavioral pattern within the kernel. We can copy bits of information into the user space just to save it aside. We can do a lot of other cool stuff. And we actually have a lot of interesting things. For anyone who is interested in system tracing, we have seen the capture option with the man option. But we have like capturing of executed files, capturing of written files. We have the security alerts that we discussed. We have events which are not only system calls. We also support tracing arbitrary kernel functions. We have container tracing specifically. So a lot of very interesting capabilities here for a system tracing tool that is security minded. And Tracy is built in the open and we welcome you to participate and tell us what you think. And Tracy, I remind you, is the engine for our dynamic scanning solution. And this session was about dynamic scanning of containers. So I hope now maybe it all starting to tie together for you how static scanning relates to dynamic scanning which relates to runtime security and how system tracing is enabling this dynamic scanning technology. I think one of my goals here today was to explain why dynamic scanning is distinct from static scanning and from runtime security, even though it draws similar characteristics in some ways, similar technology to runtime security or similar requirements such as static scanning, but still it is a piece of its own. And I hope that you find this idea interesting. If you do, then you can start to explore dynamic scanning of your images as well. So thank you everyone. This has been great fun. I think we have a few more minutes for questions. If you don't make it, this time you can reach out to me personally over at Twitter, I'm at it is gay. And I wish you a fruitful rest of the conference.


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No, no, I think ucf could beat them No, okay, it's Ace of clubs. There's a sydney. I haven't seen an ace before I don't think Sit the kid Got back from grocery shopping. Do that's the most expensive thing you can do nowadays. Carl Let's go grocery shopping You may as well just go on like a cruise because at least the food's all included And you get to at least go to like a some nice places Yerichak, we've got a Vlasik To 75 Alex Vlasik for the Hawks Matt Bouldy marky rookie a red Jordan Everly Pierce in three of hearts to brink it That's what I'm saying Carl that blue Dylan Strom That's what I'm saying I buy groceries for like a for like a few days and it's expensive Premier rookie Jacob Hurrell for the ducks. I mean, you honestly may as well just go out to eat for every meal It's like the same price A lot less work nine of diamonds Darcy Kemper It's Fajimo Bennington blue Yeah, so I'm gonna do I'm gonna convince my wife. I'm just gonna buy into breaks instead of eat dinner from now on Oh and power rookie. We got Timo Maya rainbow foil With uh some print lines to 350 Also in a box the print lines don't look really that great at all You go sharks on the Meyer. I don't know if they'll replace kiss print lines, but uh They're all over it Troy Terry got blue uh isamont for the Jets Premier rainbow foil alex the brinket for the senators to 99 Caulfield Braden Tracy a blue Andre Pallott Ronny Addard There's Ron came of clubs is Patrick Kane Matthew drew Marky rookies Jordan Spence blue Gustav Forseling black Colton Cissons for uh Nashville to 100 rainbow foil Sebastian aho for the uh For the Keynes the 350 all-star aho beating Jake's team pretty bad right now actually Shots 18 to 4 dude trophy winners Wayne Gretzky nice president trophy Gretzky Oilers Ranta on the director. We're missing like base cards there. We're only missing base cards though Tyler Myers marky rookie Jack McBain Yeah, I was illegal I was I was telling Jake that earlier. I wanted to take endeavors six of spades Barthol We are going for another seven hours Shane, right? Is that he we're trying to get illegal like seriously? Lou Dylan Who's this? What does he want ask him? What he wants sleep? What do you want your sleeves? Great It's gonna be sleeves. Tell tell Sam. I said no, please Just have Jake speak for me to not talk directly to sam uh Jordan Kyru Illegal sam is here Are you taking next to the draft you're almost up? I think am I?  I took a gold II second I'll just try to take Debra someone took him like 14th though But that was that was gonna be a Homer pick by me. Yeah, I'm not excited about Goldie. That's at all Um, a selly. We got pink Coleman for the flames 75 Guy sam will be live in like half an hour Personals on drip all night. No personals here tonight all on drip all on all drippy drippy Ovi red dripperino drip drip moondo Uh-oh, don't look up Jake Get a jake christensen marky rookie black for the jackets 22 of 100 They're having a tough go at it right now. That's okay. Just one game Dude, the canes are so good though your defense led Vassie down bad right there and a diamond's jack use Manko A lot of stuff here sherry for hagi Oh, he did. I don't think he saw the happy birthday. Why we bring to a diamond jack Quinn Nice rookie there dude, man, you got I Can't what I'm trying to say. I can't stay on stream, but they got their their butts whooped dude like I was shocked when I saw the uh I wasn't watching I saw half time square. I'm like, oh Like this is this is something new right here And then I was kind of following in the second half like I had it up. I'm like, how what what is happening in this game? I'm gonna have to go back and like watch the game Liverpool beat man. You guess the final score jake. It's the final score. That's Liverpool man you game That's right. Terry. I'm gonna say dude. It was seven nil. Yeah, seven nil. I was gonna say like six or something And Liverpool has been pretty pretty mad this year for Liverpool's standards and manu has been hot recently So it's like it's pretty damn surprising Like Liverpool one of the bigger underachievers this year so far And manu started off slow, but have been hot hot recently one game, dude How it goes Yeah, I know now they have to fight off Spurs and Liverpool for for champions league now and what new castle in reyton I'll cook chetkov Could chuck for the senators this time into 75 very nice Two numbered could chucks two different players What's up, mike Wafflin, there's a william carlson warm-up jersey. There you go knights warm-up jersey variation Yeah, I think the average is like two variations per like eight boxes we've done so far So what do we have three right now or two two? Okay. Yeah, that's that's that's about on average I don't think I've seen more than two Or less than two or more than three is what I think so Uh vlasik six of diamonds is kairu. I don't think there's like odds on those There might be someone packs, but there wasn't on the checklist And I don't know if you guys have uh, like a microscope with you for any chance or if you want to see the pack odds there they are What is this pack odds for ants? These three times is big Right go we got ilia sarokin islanders 31 of 100 on the retro Oh, yeah, fulham too. I forgot fulham is ahead of like all of them right now. It's so weird premiere rookie shane right kraken sanderson van reamsdyke Yeah, I didn't get to see the forest game, but I I was hoping they would be everton, but you know a point is a point for a you know a team that Desperately needs points. I guess It just gets it gets tough now. It's it's gonna be fight to stay up now It's gonna get tough marco rossi Rensky blue shane right marky rookie retro. Oh power and the kisser Dude kucherov just took oh no was it headman or kucherov? Just took a puck to the face Not like a shot, but yeah, it's not good. Uh, rookie maddie biniers premiere or the kraken excelsior seven of hearts taylor hall post it in yohansen I always think of power and a kisser power and a kisser power and a kisser Chris critter on the rambo fold of 350 for the uh for the rangers all star nice card That guy's one of the most underrated players. I'd say in the sport at least is for like a center Jack quinn at least under appreciated kawaii yama moto, which I guess is the same thing Underrated under appreciated Jake i'm waiting for the lightning to get another shot on goal here I they absence. We started it was watching they had they don't have another shot on goal blue no It's going Everyone Oh, man Oh, man No, I have not checked the checkers donner's basketball yet Wyatt johnston owen power nine of spades And a nice a op chi platinum premier car or a preview card is ovechkin So an ovechkin base preview brodeen and that we'll do it another pretty solid op chi break. Let's go ahead and do a Puzzle bounty random and then uh We'll recap Only one puzzle bounty car, which is kind of strange All right, again, this is random everybody. It's number six in the puzzle Say one five six times Rims up top gets the bounty card one Two three four five and six drew b Okay, so we had variations of tage thompson outdoor game variation there sabers nice card a william carlsson warm-up jersey variation ovechkin platinum preview Number to 350 at chris krider sebastian aho That's the cane sebastian aho timo meyer for the sharks kent johnson marquis rookie philip roose semi-fugemo dylan halloway All the blacks are to 100 kyle paul mary andres lee victor sodastrom colton sisson Arthur khalia vaunders bjork sydney cross v ilia sarocan michael isamont jake christensen and a foil of brady kichuk We had premier rainbow foil alexa brinket for these senators. Okay. I thought it was in blackhawks for some reason senators pink to 75 brady kichuk vlasik mckinsey on swissle blake colman derrick grants luke luke cunin yeah, luke cunin Green number 233 is matias macelli coyotes marquis rookie is awesome. Congrats coyotes printing plate one of one jt comfort for the abs And relics we had barkoff selkie trophy pronger heart trophy and president's trophy gretzky That'll do it everybody another opc coming up


Well, are you glad to be in the house of God on this Wednesday night? Come on, let's try it again. Are you glad to be in the house of God on this Wednesday night?  Amen Why don't you turn around and shake someone's hand let them know you're glad to see them Let there be the sound of fellowship in the house of God tonight Praise the Lord such a great crowd in God's house tonight Now before your seat, let's give God a great big hand clap offering a praise. I Tell you what don't be seated yet. We got to pray. I want us to go to the Lord in prayer There are a number of needs tonight And I want us to come together and believe God that he's going to meet needs all over this house I want us to remember two very important needs brother Rae Carmley's daughter Alice was admitted into the hospital with COVID She's in need of a touch from God in her life tonight. I also want us to remember Cindy Hudson. This is Pastor Gene Hudson his wife of Pine Forest Assembly of God She's in the hospital with COVID tonight as well and All of these needs need a touch from the Lord if you'll grab your prayer and praise How many of you walked into this house? You've got a need in your life and you need God to reach down his hand and touch you and strengthen you. I Want you to know that you walked into the right house tonight. We believe that we serve a God that heals He hears and he answers our prayers and he is well able to touch you exactly where you're at So let's come together by faith and let's believe and let's believe God for great things in this house Father we thank you tonight For the privilege we have to be in your presence No place we would rather be than in your presence It's in your presence where there's fullness of joy and it's at your right hand where there are pleasures forever more And father we're asking you to reach down your hand You know the needs that are represented across this congregation and father We're trusting you that you're going to hear and answer the prayers of your people today Right now we come together and we lift up Alice that God you would touch her go right into that hospital room and Reach down your hand and bring strength and bring healing today We pray for Cindy Hudson that God you would touch her Lord we stand upon your word that you were wounded for our Transgressions and you were bruised for our iniquities and the chastisement of our peace was upon you and it's by your Stripes that we are healed tonight and everyone that's walked into this house Wherever they're struggling at whatever they're facing in their life if they have a sense of hopelessness and despair Reach down your hand lift them up tonight Straighten them and encourage them and let them know that they're not alone that there's a God that's with them That's walking with them. That's gonna see them through we pray for this service tonight We pray for pastor T as he ministers to the youth that pastor Caleb as he reaches out to these children tonight Every aspect Lord of ministry that's taking place across his campus Lord Let the fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit be reached be stretched out over this house We give you praise or what's gonna take place?  We thank you that you're hearing our prayers We thank you Lord that you're leading us into victory father. Oh, we love you. We're so grateful for your presence We're so grateful for your hand tonight, and we love you and we praise you hallelujahs in the sanctuary Give him praise in this house the Lord is worthy the Lord is worthy you might be seated Once again, we're glad that you're in the house of God.   Hey, why don't you come to church with me Sunday and right after service? I'll take you to lunch get them here watch what God does in their life If they can just get in this atmosphere in this house Where the anointing of the Holy Spirit will move and touch You know the Bible says that Paul planted the seed Apollos watered but God gave the increase and Sometimes our role is simply to plant the seed God will bring someone else along to water the seed and God may bring someone That you don't even know That's able my friend to see them come to know Jesus to see the increase But what we're to do and what we're to be our seed planners We're just to throw the seed out and so I encourage you invite someone to church this We can and I believe as they get connected to pace assembly that God's gonna be a begin to do a work And God's gonna flourish them. How many of you believe it if you believe it say man Several things that are taking place across the campus You could find these things on the pace assembly app or you can find these on the website The men's fish fry is the 31st our sign-up sheet our star sign-up is active online As I speak right now, so I encourage you To all the men we want you to come and be a part of this men's fish fry And make sure that you get online and you sign up Also ladies you'll be able to sign up for the chat and chew that's coming up August 13th As I as I say when I'm allowed and I get the great privilege to to give the preliminaries This is the time of the season for you to get connected to the house of God to the life of the church And I encourage you to come and be a part Of many of the auxiliary ministries that are taking place I promise you you'll be strengthened and encouraged through that. Can you see man? We want to take this time and welcome all of our guests If this is your first time being with us or you haven't been with us a sea in a season We're honored that you're with us tonight those of you that are watching this online Thank you for being a part of this as well. We encourage you to stay tuned For the entirety of the service. So let's welcome our second campus our online campus And let's welcome all of our guests tonight. Thank you so much for being in the house of god We also want to thank you for your faithfulness in giving to the work of the lord So many amazing things are happening and are yet to happen God is doing great things and it's so good to be partnered and be planted in a church where we're seeing the blessings In the favor of god and you're tied that you're offering your faithfulness and the giving And the work of the kingdom is vital and important. So thank you so much Several ways in which you can give whatever is most convenient for you. We encourage you to do just that So let's pray tonight. Let's ask god to bless the tide than the offering father We thank you lord for the privilege that we have to give We ask you lord that you would reach down your hand bless the tide the offering the gift to give her a like Good measure press down shaking together running over and we'll give you praise for it in Jesus name and everybody says a man and a man god bless you today I want you to take your bibles to the book of first Thessalonians The book of first Thessalonians I feel that the lord has put a word in my spirit for you tonight And one of the things that I discover and and when the lord begins to give me a message or challenge my heart It's first I believe many times I have to look in the mirror and as I'm preparing I'm having to say god you got to help me with this Lord this at times. This is a weakness in my life. Thank you, brother at times This is a weakness in my life And and I need you to help me And as the lord begins to speak to me and as I begin to study and dig in a little bit I discover more and more in me that I'm I'm having to ask god for guidance and direction and help How many of you understand what I'm talking about tonight? And so in the book of first Thessalonians now, are you going to help me tonight? Come on. Are you going to help me tonight? Whenever you walked in you should have received a handout I hope that you grabbed one because I want you to follow along with me tonight And it's going to be I believe an encouraging word. So first Thessalonians chapter number five And I want us to start with verse number 16 The bible says this rejoice evermore Pray without ceasing In verse number 18 in everything And this is the first two words of this verse Is very difficult at times In everything In everything Give thanks For this is the will of god in christ jesus Concerning you Has there ever been a season in your life where gratitude was difficult? Have you've ever been in a place having a heart of Thanksgiving? Has been difficult. Well, don't worry every last one of us are guilty of that But what I'm believing today Tonight that from this word that there's going to be a culture That's going to be created in your home in your family and it's going to be a culture Of gratitude and when you begin to look and define the word culture it is Very simple. It is a set of shared attitudes Values goals and practices that characterizes an institution Or an organization. Let me give that to you again and follow along with me on your paper So the definition of culture is this the set of shared attitudes of values goals And practices that characterizes an institution or an organization And can I tell us tonight as a church and as a family? We have the power Listen to me. We have the power to change the environment of our family We have the power to change the environment of our employment We have the power to change the environment of our church by simply having a culture of gratitude If we've ever needed anything in our families, it is a heart of gratitude for one another If we've ever needed to have a heart of gratitude Is the fact that god has opened the doors of employment and god has opened the doors of opportunity And we need to be grateful for that But if the church has ever needed anything in this hour, the church needs to have a culture Of gratitude a culture of thanksgiving can somebody say amen at pace assembly tonight Now gratitude it is the quality of being thankful A readiness I want you to mark that word underline that word a readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness Somebody say gratitude More families have been destroyed More careers have ended prematurely Many churches have lost ground because of the lack attitude The lack of appreciation how many of you have ever heard the term I don't feel appreciated In my years that I that I pastored and I would I would give marital counseling to couples one of the Statements that was constantly made. I feel that he or she doesn't appreciate me Times whenever I was pastoring the church and and it's always said by by some we don't feel appreciated We need to be a people that create a culture Of gratitude our spouse should never feel that they're not appreciated Our children should never feel that they're not Appreciated our employer should never get the sense from us that we don't appreciate the opportunity To work for your company or work for your ministry Somebody are you here tonight? so We need to develop a mindset that looks for God's grace and goodness at all times And when you and I lack gratitude because I've been there before I've been there with the lack of appreciation and the lack of gratitude But I want you to hear something very clearly when we lack gratitude We begin to take for granted each other It happens in the family and it happens in the place of employment When we when we lose or we don't operate in the spirit and the heart of gratitude We take our spouse our family for granted We and then we begin to take our employer For granted and we think that we're owed that it that it should be ours Because we lose the aspect of gratitude how many of you are grateful for your family tonight Let me see your hand. How many of you are grateful for your job tonight. Let me see your hand So the next question is have you shared with your family that you're grateful for them Have you shared with your employer about just getting a little card and say hey I appreciate the fact that you are employing me Now it's those kind of things where as the body of Christ and and and really as as Moral human beings we should be of people that have the heart of gratitude. Amen Now I'm preaching better than you're amen in me tonight Pastor's gonna be back sunday, okay So an attitude of thanksgiving and gratitude Should dominate the life of a believer Gratitude and thanksgiving Appreciation that should dominate your life In my life that we are living Constantly in the state Of gratitude and thanksgiving and can I tell you our worship? Is hindered when that attitude of gratitude is not in operation or his absence Now I want you to look at this statement because this statement may rub you the wrong way But watch this gratitude is a mark of the presence of God on the life And in gratitude is the mark of the devil on your life When we're not living With a heart of gratitude When we're not living with the spirit of thanksgiving That means we're not giving glory You see every good and perfect gift has come from above You're here tonight because you're blessed You're here tonight because God made a way The bible says you have not chosen me, but I have chosen you you within your own self never chose this way You never chose God rather. God Chose you somebody help me in this sanctuary.  We're going through difficulty that these are the times and the seasons that god has left us God wants us to look at what he has freely given to us The bible says in romans 8 32 he who did not spare his own son But delivered him over for us all how he will not also with him freely give us all things We have so much to be thankful for tonight So we have so much to be thankful for tonight when the nation of israel moved out of egypt In mass into the wilderness of sinai the bible says that they immediately began complaining The very first thing that they done they started complaining they complained about the conditions They complained about the water they complained about the lack of meat and their vulnerability to the egyptians God just brought them out of bondage and the very first thing they did is begin to complain God set them free from slavery But they had already forgotten what god had done for them and pace assembly. Can I ask you this question? Have you forgotten? Have you just listen? Have you forgotten? Have we gotten so called up in the time that we're in and what's taking place all around us? Have we forgotten about the goodness the grace and the mercy of god? It's easy to do It's easy to look on our problems. It's easy to look on our troubles It's easy to focus on the pressure that we're under It's easy to look at all the mountains around us and and the valleys that we're having to walk through It's easy to forget, but pace assembly. Let's not forget the good hand of the lord That has kept us that has sustained us that has held us during these times in this life Have you forgotten? The children of Israel they sing god at work like no one else have They sing it with their eyes And god made a way for them to be free from the hand of the egyptian And so quickly they forgot You see when you get your eyes off god It's so easy to quickly Forget Amen, don't lose the heart of gratitude Don't lose The heart Of thanksgiving the bible says in Colossians 3 and 17 No matter what is on your journey the the scripture is speaking here and whatever you do in word or indeed Do everything in the name of the lord jesus giving thanks to god the father through him Gratitude is the key Everything in this life Gratitude is the key appreciation and Thanksgiving is the key thankfulness and gratitude as you begin to look at those two words Gratitude and thankfulness it is a prominent theme as you read the bible First Thessalonians 5 16 17 and 18 Rejoice evermore pray without ceasing and in everything give thanks for this is the will of god in christ jesus concerning you This is the thing that i want you to see today So important that you catch this word tonight. We got to give thanks in all Circumstances give thanks in all circumstances somebody say in all circumstances Give thanks in all Circumstances of your life thankfulness and gratitude It should be a way of life for us Naturally flowing from our hearts in our mouth. It should be something that is natural for the child of god and for the believer How's your attitude? How's your attitude? Attitude check when i was a youth pastor. We used to do this attitude check and the youth group would say praise the lord So let's try that attitude check Let's try it again attitude check You see in everything that you go through when it's dark And it's dismal and you can't believe the phone call you just got You can't believe that the mail that that you just opened and this is doing that's due my friend You got to have an attitude check. Well, praise the lord. Amen somebody. I'm telling you developing that heart of gratitude you've got to give god praise in all Circumstances thankfulness And gratitude should should be a way of life for us naturally flowing from our hearts in our mouths now As you dig in the scriptures a little more deeply We understand Why we should be thankful and also how to have gratitude in different circumstances Psalms chapter 136 verse number one Give thanks unto the lord for he is good and his love endures forever In this passage there's two reasons Why we should be thankful god's constant goodness and his steadfast love God is good I said god is good Maybe i'll talk to this career over here, but god is good Are you glad about that? And his steadfast love i'm grateful for the love of god No greater love that a man would have than this that a man would lay down his life or his friend I'm grateful for the love of god and the psalmist here gives us two reasons Why we should have a grateful heart and a grateful attitude and an attitude of thank giving And it is because of the lord's constant goodness to us Can I tell you church god has been so good to me when my performance didn't line up when my life didn't line up When I had an attitude when I wanted to rebel when I wanted to do my own thing When I wanted to go in my old direction there he was still good to me and still loving on me And he's done it for you. He's done it for you and he's done it for you His love and his goodness and his mercy it keeps chasing it keeps running after me And I should have a heart of gratitude and a heart of thanksgiving Amen Gratitude and thanksgiving should be a lifestyle We got to practice it and we got to practice it on purpose On purpose An attitude of gratitude Gratefulness On purpose You can change the atmosphere of your home And let's face it the ambience of our home needs to change some in here Some of you work You work in an environment that is very toxic Change you you be the one that starts changing the culture You be the one that pays assembly That begins to show appreciation To people Hey, I appreciate you. Thank you. It's so good to see you today. I'm so grateful for you I'm so grateful that we're able to come to church together That that culture of gratitude No, oh here they come walking on the aisle. I'm going the other way You see god brings different personalities different people Into god's house It becomes like a melting pot. There's all different sorts of people that come from different backgrounds They have a different Way that they were up that they were brought up They don't talk like you do they don't act like you do but my god, they're here I said they're here They're different. They're struggling. They're battling, but man, they're here And that simple arm that we put around their shoulder Man, it's so good to see you And then they say man, I'm struggling listen struggles and all So good to see you hardships and all so good to see you Addictions and everything else so good to see you struggling in your life It's so good to see you. Can I tell you? This is a hospital for the wounded the broken the least the last of all And no matter who walks into this house a heart of gratitude because there's plenty of churches my friend They are shut down and the possibility of them being Reopened and then even staying open for many it is slim to none But god is blessed pace assembly and blessed us with a great pastor We need to have the spirit that jesus had Whosoever will let him come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden come and i'll give you a wrap god's gonna bring Different folks and we need to have a heart of gratitude for the people that god brings Come on give god a great big hand in this house Hey, i'm gonna tell you something and all I really believe When the church has Creates that culture of gratitude And we welcome people See first off one thing that i'm realizing I'm not the messiah and a lot of us we have a messiah complex We try to fix people and change people and we have no power to do that And then we try to have that that then we try to become the holy spirit of people And we try to bring conviction upon their life and change it and we cannot do it All right It will simply be see we've got a man of god that preaches to us every week He's got listen you get him here. You know, he's going to preach the word You know, he's going to preach with the power of the holy spirit And as he preaches the word conviction comes into the house and men and women are drawn to the altar That's why i'm telling you to get them here And it doesn't matter what their background is what they're struggling with leds listen We need to have the heart of gratitude for people Jesus came for people Jesus loved people Amen He left the 99 that were staying in the phone and he left them just to go get the one because the one meant so much to him Amen A heart of gratitude A heart of gratitude. I dare you Tonight Pace assembly hear me today.  Are you saying that we don't absolutely not I would never say that But I will tell you this. I know if jason pool Can be guilty of showing the lack of gratitude and appreciation. I know everyone in this house can as well We're all guilty of it And see what god wants to do in this church god wants to bring people in Amen God wants to bring people in but why would god ever bring people into his church When they're not going to grow when they're not going to feel loved when they're not going to feel accepted when they're not going to feel like They've been forgiven and we're the when there's no gratitude. No appreciation.  There's a lot of them. They don't have to cut in fact You don't have to come but you're coming for a reason because you know, there's life in this church The presence of god is real and my thing is many people can just get here And if they could just feel what I feel and if they could just know About this jesus that loves him and that cares for them man. They're life forever And that happens when we show gratitude For people in the church house and in the marketplace Gratitude somebody say gratitude We've got to create a culture change the culture of your home Change the culture of your home Make sure that you tell your children. I do this all the time. They probably get sick of hearing it But I'll always tell my man.  Thank god every day for you on a regular basis Do that in your family it had changed the culture of your home Do that to your employer Not to butter up not to get it but appreciate them Appreciate them and and let me tell you something for pastors because Last year I walked through it y'all I walked through it God saw our church through covet It was not always easy. It was a struggle at times And when I was down and discouraged I was in destined and I could call my pastor And he would encourage me and build me up When I had people at the at that time complained They wouldn't come back to church and I'd see Post on social media that they're going out of town and going on vacation or going shopping and I'm like What in the world? I'm in church and well, it's coven. I'm scared, but You're you're going to walmart and hold depot and lows and the places feel right Let me tell you because a lot of pastors felt they felt the lack of gratitude Can I just be real with you? They felt the lack of appreciation the lack of gratitude And many couldn't handle it and they quit and they gave up Let me tell you something tonight A culture of gratitude at you and myself It is so important our pastor. This has not been an easy season the last year and a half to pastor through this pandemic He listen, I'm grateful that he went against the grain of a lot of people He went against the grain of a lot of people's opinions their thoughts their ideas Well, we got to do it this way and that way Let me tell you something if we've ever needed to have a heart of gratitude for the man of god that he's placed in Your life and he's placed in my life This is the time and season that we should have a heart Of gratitude for the man of god because it hasn't been easy. Come on give god a hand of praise Because it hasn't been easy Open church closed the church This and that and and somewhere down the line. You got to say, okay, god. I'm gonna trust you And that's why the heart of gratitude is so important We have two reasons to be thankful god's constant goodness and his steadfast love psalms 30. I begin reading this today Gives praise psalms 30 gives praise to god for his deliverance and as you read psalms 30 I see seven things that this scripture points out I don't know if I put that on on your paper If not just make sure that you write it down and you'll go back and you'll read it David writes this I I will exalt you oh lord number one You lifted me out of the depths Has god left has god lifted anyone from the depths today? Look at the hands in here. That's a testimony today that god's lifted you out of the depths You have something to be thankful for And did not let my enemies gloat over me Come on somebody how many of you can give god praise for that? Oh lord my god. I called To you for help and you healed me number three.    Come on Give god a shout of praise for that. He's turned your morning into dancing Number seven you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy David begins to think of all the things that god has done for him And then when he said all of that he said it for this reason that my heart may sing to you and not be silent Oh lord my god, I will give you thanks forever or in other words forever I will have a heart of gratitude Gratitude should never escape us Gratitude should never escape us His praise and his Thanksgiving should be should be forever on your lips And that's the culture we have to create in our homes The culture that we should have In a church not just this church, but god's church a heart of gratitude You didn't have to save me, but you did you woke me up this morning. Amen, and I'm grateful for it Amen And here david gives thanks to god When you begin to read psalms 30, he's obviously giving thanks to god during difficult circumstances And isn't that a hard place to be in When you're going through difficulty giving god praise One of the youth elders that's working up in the youth department tonight He was sharing with me when he was going through dealing with cancer throat cancer and going through chemotherapy and I don't mean to be gross, but he said Brother Jason every time I would Have to go to the restroom and vomit. He said I would Hallelujah Thank you jesus Thank you jesus hallelujah, well, that's okay for him pastor, but I don't know if I could do that He's up in the youth building tonight, and he's got a clean bill of health somebody shout hallelujah in every circumstance When my back's against the wall god, I don't understand it But i'm not going to get mad at you or get angry at you. I don't understand it. It's a mystery I've tried to live for you and do what's right. I don't understand it, but god regardless I'm grateful for you. Can I hear an amen in this house? It's creating a cult listen and it's not a cultural gratitude in your family Or or where you work at or in this church, but in your own life And if we can make up in our mind that no matter what place that i'm in in my life I'm always going to give god praise I'm always going to be thankful and grateful Will you say amen? listen David gives thanks to god in the difficult circumstances and this psalm of thanksgiving not only praises god in the moment But remembers god's past faithfulness Can we start for a few moments and think about god's past faithfulness? Come on That ought to make you scream for joy right now When you think about god's past faithfulness How many of you has he done it for you? Come on. Has he done it for you? Has he made a way for you in the past? Has he provided a need for you in the past? Has he healed one of your children? Has he restored your marriage? Listen has he opened some doors for you? Has he closed some doors for you when you thought you couldn't make the house payment when you thought you wasn't going to be able to Have money for groceries or medication. Did you discover him in the past? Be jahoba gyre the lord your provider come on somebody you can't forget what god has done in the past I'm not going to build a memorial about what happened in the past But I know if he did it back then I know that he's in the right now moment of my life and he's going to be with me tomorrow If I'll maintain a heart of gratitude and thanksgiving somebody shout hallelujah Lift your hands all over this sanctuary and thank god for what he's done for you in the past And what he's getting ready to do for you now Hallelujah god. I thank you lord. I thank you lord. I thank you lord a culture of gratitude A culture of gratitude a lot of families can be restored If we would have just showed Some appreciation Where would you be in your career? If you were grateful Well, I didn't like sweeping the floors I didn't like stuck in the shelves I didn't like taking the trash out And because you were grateful That door Proper door didn't open for you because god couldn't trust you with it If you will be thankful with what god is placed in your hands It right now in this moment in your life God's preparing you God's molding you and shaping you God knows how to take you from the back take you all the way to the front But he wants to get the glory the honor and the heart of gratitude from us Well, I don't understand why I don't have this opportunity and I don't get to do this and this maybe it's not your timing Well, I just feel overlooked Did you know that blind Bartimaeus when you look at Bartimaeus his name his name means overlooked But at the right time jesus came by And i'm going to tell you if we will be faithful in the small things at the right time if god sees our faithfulness Our heart of gratitude if we're blossoming where god's planted us Even if it's in the back corner Even if it's taking a trash out Even if it's stuck in whatever it is if we will be faithful in the small my new things in life He knows how to give us even more somebody It's all about gratitude It it truly is it's all about gratitude Well, for some reason pastor pulled things and my marriage is not working out. Well, have you for once Said hey, i'm thankful for you I know we clash but when it's all said into i'm thankful for you You help the rough edges of my life. Thank you And she may say you aggravate the heck out of me, but thank you And then you know what you say? Well, i'm going to try to do that later And then i'm going to do it tomorrow and i'm just going to keep aggravating you and aggravate you That that heart of gratitude appreciate one another In ministry there's going to be different personalities You're going to work with different people in different parts of the ministry And just because someone's got a different personality Don't mean you quit where god has put you in the ministry here at pace assembly You turn around and you're just grateful for them and know that god's trying to work something out in you Y'all not clapping on that one Don't don't we realize that god puts us around people That rub us the wrong way God puts us around people that challenges Listen, you got to be careful of the folks in your life that doesn't challenge you If you're the smartest person in the room, you need to go to a different room You don't need to be the sharpest knife In the drawer beta listen I've made it a mission To read books To be connected to people that are a whole lot smarter than i am because as they go up i get to go up Where does all that come from it comes from a heart Of gratitude because if i'm walking around with an attitude all the time well, they got this opportunity this happened They have this happened to them. This happened to them. I'm going nowhere Who wants to follow some prune face? Nobody wants to follow that But what people want to follow someone that's filled with the joy the lord They want to follow someone that that that appreciates and has that heart. Well, that's just not my cultural We don't say thank you. Well change how you believe then I'll never forget. I was doing some marriage counseling with a couple It's honest to god truth I'll sit down there talking to this couple and and and um We were getting into some details and he said well, I told her I loved her 35 years ago and I felt that was enough And I ain't told her ever since And I said well bucko. That's your problem then Somebody say gratitude Now if I don't stop and move on then my wife is going to tell me jason you have rambled and so Um, how many of you know what i'm talking about out there, right? So We have examples of being thankful in the midst of hard circumstances and after david cries out to god. He writes this David's going through the most difficult season of his life. Listen. He's going through one of the most difficult seasons of his life And david cries out to god and he writes his praise be to the lord For he has heard my cry for mercy The lord is my strength of my shield my heart trust in him and I am helped my heart bleeps For joy and I will give Thanks to him in song And in psalms 28 david Is giving praise in the midst Of distress Well, it's hard to give god Praise and have a heart of gratitude when you get a negative report from your doctor Or you're going through a foreclosure of a bankruptcy a repossession The irs in you a letter It's hard to give god praise when Circumstances are taking place when you're hearing of loved ones That are sick and dying or one of your children something's taking place in in your children's marriage And it's hard to give god praise And it's in the midst of hardship david remembers who god is And as a result of knowing and trusting god He gives thanks Job had a similar attitude of praise Even in the face of death the lord gave and the lord is taken away. May the name of the lord be praised There's examples of believers thankfulness in the new testament as well. Watch this the apostle paul somebody say paul Paul was heavily persecuted But yet he wrote this thanks be to god who always leads us in Triumphant possession in christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him He was heavily persecuted But yet he kept the heart of gratitude and the heart of thanksgiving The writer of hebru says therefore since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken Let us be thankful my goodness We serve a god Of whose kingdom will reign forever and forever and forever in church if we really Absolutely really passionately Believe that then we will live a life of thanksgiving Knowing that this world is not all there is I can give god praise and thanks that there's a better world to come And if i'll live right and live for jesus and have that born to get experience that heaven is my Destination and i can live with a heart of thanksgiving and a heart of gratitude in every single Circumstance of my life hallelujah Now I know my time is getting away from me. So i want to hurry tonight One of the characteristics of the last days Is the lack of thanksgiving according to second timothy three and two Says the wicked people will be ungrateful And aren't we in that season? Wicked people That are unthankful ungrateful They don't have heart of gratitude And isn't it interesting that when we don't operate in thanksgiving And gratitude he correlates us with wicked people Think about that If we don't live A life of gratitude and thanksgiving he correlates our lives with wicked people Whatever place you're in in this life, and I don't know all of your stories I don't know some of the troubles some of you're in the difficulty the hardship That that some of you may be facing in this house And I don't think worship is preeminent above the word Think the word the word of god that is the most powerful thing on this earth Because it's god breathe that's inspired By the holy spirit written by men inspired by the holy ghost And that word is for you and that word is for me But i'm gonna tell you when you're going through hell When everything's in shambles And chaos has hit Your household chaos has hit your place of employment When chaos hits the church That better be the season That gratitude and thankfulness Steps in Amen Gratitude and thankfulness needs to be the welcome guest of your home your place of employment In your church how many of you are grateful tonight? Come on. How many of you are grateful tonight?  Do you believe it? Do you believe that god is in control? Thankfulness gratitude then is not only appropriate But it reminds us of the bigger picture that we belong to god and that we've been blessed with every spiritual blessing According to the book of Ephesians chapter number one verse number three now When you begin to look at some of this There are some aspects of developing an attitude of gratitude that only come from walking through struggles Difficulties Are not meant to be roadblocks in your life God wants to use them to transform you and to make you more like him Gratitude produces something greater in you and something greater in others Quickly tonight Don't get ahead of me.   When you get a heart of gratitude It changes perception And many times the way we're looking at things we need to look at it from a different point of view And look at it in a different perception And as we do that and we we live With that heart of gratitude And optimism it causes there to be joy and hope and and you and i Walking a life that is positive gratitude reduces materialism Grateful for what god has entrusted you with Amen Gratitude reduces Materialism you'll be thankful for what you have I remember when my daughter turned 16 she was wanting a car And i said well you're gonna raise Half the money whatever you raise i'm gonna give that to you well lord jesus that girl raised over three thousand dollars She was telling she was telling me and her mom I want a bmw i said well you better get you a bmw job so so So we had to we had to give her money Right, you know what else gratitude does gratitude makes us left self-centered Have you ever met anyone that was so self-centered you wanted the spirit of slap to come on you?   But it is true Because when you're going through it sometimes you gotta You got to look at yourself in the mirror and chew yourself out You're not going to have that attitude. You're not going to feel that way You're not going to talk that way. You're not going to be that person You're not going to be ungrateful Gratitude reduces the feelings of envy Can I just tell all of us? You may not have everything you're wanting right now But I got what I need right now Come on give god praise right now And and and I have to believe this If I will be a good steward Say I want god to be able to trust me I can't be trusted if I can't tie Tied of what god gives me If I want more if if and it's listen We need to have those financial goals and those financial dreams and I dream that my house was paid for I'm able to retire at this age and I'm able to go on this cruise or vacation and you plan and you budget for Do all of those things my friend? We got to do all those things God will make a way If he finds that we're faithful in the area of our money I had my first test with money My first youth pastor job Boy, time is getting away from me, but I'm gonna share this because I think it'll be an encouragement to you My first youth pastor job was in Pensacola and it was in the mid 90s. My wife and I we just left here was in 1996 And and I got invited to go to India And as I wasn't even 20 years old yet and I was living behind the church my wife and I we we bought us a mobile home and Number one don't ever if you ever want to be in ministry don't ever put a mobile home on church property I was not grateful for that Anyway, that's a whole other story Let me tell you my I'm gonna tell you something We had that mobile home, but we had nothing else and I mean when we had nothing We had no money And I remember walking on that porch that Sunday morning right behind the church And I put my foot on that porch going to the church And the holy spirit spoke to me To give a hundred Dollars above my tithe than offering and I know you're gonna sit here and say well, that's no big deal When you don't have nothing And you're not even bringing home 300 dollars a week I said okay, god. I'm gonna do it And that morning my first test ever in my that I can remember I gave that hundred dollars Right after service A man that came up and says I heard that you're going on a mission trip How much more money do you need? I said I got to have a thousand dollars He says god has checked me out. Here's one thousand dollars here Put it in my hands Oh That's just one of some y'all I'm a blessed man preaching to you tonight of the goodness of god that's been upon my life Because we have practice Tithe and offering So I'm saying all that to say this As you have that heart of gratitude you feel left self-centered you bounce back your feelings of envy you understand What you have is enough It's enough And if you try to keep up with the johns's well boy if your name's johns. I'm sorry, but it's just a saying, all right honey They just got that new escalade Why don't we go and you get You can't even afford it But it's a blessing the blessings of the lord maketh rich and it adds no sorrow Okay, let me get to the next part.   Well, have you looked in the mirror lately I want in the number 10 on the scale.  Not with her but the big dog, right? Okay real quick real quick and I promise I'm gonna I'm closing. I'm closing. All right. Here we go Five ways to cultivate a culture of gratitude. Here's five things for us to do give voice to your gratitude. Don't keep it in Don't don't keep it in if you really appreciate somebody communicate that with them talk to them. Let them know Do that You know i'm gonna tell you something I know pastor appreciation is coming up in october What a great time it would be to make sure That you voiced that heart of gratitude For our pastor Amen Come on. Amen somebody Let him know man. Thank you To be the watchman of this house watching over my soul. Thank you. I'm great. I'm grateful for you Voice give voice to your gratitude and then here's another one meditate on god's goodness remember And reflect on all the things you're thankful for and brag about how good god is Express gratitude tangibly look for practical ways you can show your thankfulness to your family friends co-workers and anyone in your life Practical ways tangible ways It's important Seek gratitude in the bible receive encouragement from the lives of godly men and women who cultivated a lifestyle of thanksgiving Lastly keep a clean heart and let go of offense To have a heart that is free from being offended offer all your offenses to the lord Listen don't allow yourself Don't allow yourself don't ever allow yourself Things may ruffle you the wrong way at times. Let it go.  Listen, I hope you're grateful for one another Hey, guess what? Here's a late breaking news bulletin. We're going to heaven together We're going that we're going to spend eternity together. So why don't we appreciate each other right now? Get right the things that need to get right Say the things that need to be said With the heart of gratitude. Amen Value heads women god, we thank you tonight. We love you Thank you for the opportunity to be able to open the word lord in my feeble attempt tonight I pray god that pace assembly Will have a culture of gratitude I pray that every family at pace assembly Will change the culture of their house With gratitude Now here's another one and this is going to be hard. Now. I want you to pray this Pray it in your own way, but all my job When it's easy to get caught up in drama in this and that Let me have a heart of gratitude That you've given me strength to work Thank you lord because I know everybody's going to appreciate that paycheck this week So god, we just thank you for the blessings of god all the things that you've done for us. You've been good to us Thank you so much Now lift your hands And let's just have a heart of thanksgiving I thank you lord. I thank you lord I thank you lord I thank you. Come on truly Give god thanks Give god thanks I give you praise. I thank you lord. I thank you lord Thank you lord Thank god for your marriage right now god. I thank you for my wife I thank you for my husband. Come on. Thank him right now. Thank god Gratitude thank him right now Thank you Thank god for your children. Come on do that right now god.  Come on. Thank him for your church Thank you for your church God, I thank you for pace assembly. Come on. Thank him A heart of gratitude. Thank you for pace assembly. Come on. Let's thank god for our pastor god. I thank you For pastor rogers and miss rita. Thank you god. They're a gift to us Thank you lord that they've been heroes to us. They've been mentors to us counselors to us At times they've had to be the principal to us, but I thank you for all my thank you god Thank you for the people in my life Thank you for the people in this church And we give you praise In jesus name Come on. Will you give the lord some gratitude and thanksgiving? So david said I was glad when they sent in to me Let us go to the house of the lord. So david is the lord. It's with the heart of gratitude That I was able to go to the house of the lord. So guess what?  I get to come to church, right? As we're leaving tonight. Look to the left. Look to the right.