November 19, 2025
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Talking on to I'll only actually put about fifty eight thousand dollars of those money, you know, in a Good morning, everybody.
God bless. Welcome to our faith class. This is bishop Benjamin. Glory be to god. And, we are so thankful as we are preparing for thanks giving.
My goodness. And we thank god for GoldCare. Thank god for doctor Simone Gold and her vision. Amen. And and understanding true health health and wealth. Amen.
Through right medical practice. This this is an amazing time for us, and we are thankful to you all to what God is doing in your life, and we we see here that we have an awesome opportunity to allow God to use us during this Thanksgiving season to understand the power of Thanksgiving. That's what we're gonna talk about today and and allowing our understanding of of being thankful. Hallelujah. Let it just spill over into everyone that we have to deal with in this season. The government is open. Of course, you guys got the word.
So travel is going to be amazing, and we're praying for everybody's safe travel during this season and making sure that you guys understand, amen, that God is in control regardless of what men and people are are doing.
Glory be to god. And so I just wanna share today as we are headed into this Thanksgiving season, what what god is saying about how the power of god works with us in thanks thanksgiving. This this lesson, of course, you know, I like to take the word, and we make it a little bit get in a little bit trouble with with the scriptures. But just know without a shadow of a doubt, god wants us to know the power that we have in giving thanks and and how that works. And I hope you guys can see me in just a minute.
Sometimes I try to recording in progress.
Let's see if I can do it like this. Hope you guys can see me.
See if you guys can see me now. Hope you guys can see me. Amen. I am so, looking forward to seeing the the family and the faces around the table, who you guys gonna be with this Thanksgiving, and what you're gonna be doing, what you're gonna be talking about. Of course, I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan, so don't nobody beat me up. Okay?
But some of us could be watching football and college football all day and whatever you're gonna be doing, talking around the table. Some of us dare to talk about politics around the table, but, anyway, we we are going to believe God for GoldCare family, to have a wonderful and prosperous, thanks Thanksgiving. One of the things that we're gonna talk about, and we're gonna try to hit it on on on this day, is how how does God receive a thankful heart? Let's look at the book of Jonah.
Anybody ready to get in trouble with Jonah today? Let's look at Jonah chapter two Jonah chapter two verse number nine. The book of Jonah, we call him a mate a minor prophet. Nothing minor about the book of Jonah.
Jesus quotes, amen, out of the book of out of the book of Jonah. Amen. So nothing minor about Jonah, but let's look at the fact how does god receive a thankful heart. Jonah chapter two Jonah chapter two verse number nine.
Jonah chapter two verse number nine. Again, welcome everybody. God bless you guys. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.
Thank you for joining us and being with us today.
Let's go ahead and pray. Father god, we thank you for who you are, for what you're about to do in this season. We thank you, lord, for giving us the new strength and the new courage to believe, oh god, that you want us to be thankful, that you want us to be filled with your love, filled with your hope, filled with your faith, and that, lord, there are things that you have put in store for us, and we thank you for giving us, oh god, that expectation and that we will, oh, God, receive in Jesus' name. We do pray in the name of the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Amen. Amen.
Amen. Now, here, Jonah Jonah two and nine simply says this, and I'm gonna read a little bit above. Amen. Because we know what happened. He's running from the purposes of god.
What do you think happens when we run from the purposes of God? Do you think we end up in a whale? Well, we end up in something that we wish we never would have ran. But, anyhow, he's in the belly of the whale, and it talks about if you if you look at this, Jonah prayed, verse number one, he prayed unto the lord his god out of the fish's belly and said notice, he's in the belly praying.
Now whether he's praying in the spirit, when I mean in his consciousness, or he's alive in the belly, whatever way the scriptures record that Jonah prayed. Obviously, Jonah wrote this, so I I guess if he did get revived again after three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, he was able to come back later on and write about it. Say amen, somebody. It's something we can go come back and tell somebody about your death experience.
Hello. And and some of us may have had those near death experiences or death experiences had been revived and able to come back. Jesus quotes this. As Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the son of man be.
Uh-oh. And and we know that he died. Hello, somebody. We know that he died. Our lord and savior did die.
So he wasn't alive in the grave.
He was dead. Oh my god. Help us, somebody. And and god rose them from the dead on the third day.
But look what happened. He cried by reason of, he says, of mine affliction unto the lord. He is praying and crying. Anybody ever prayed and cried?
Cried and prayed? I'm raising my hand. These are the days where sometimes you have to mourn. You have to pray and cry.
You have to cry and pray. Sometimes you cry, and then then you go back to praying, and and and then you pray a little bit, go back to crying, but we are real humans. This new age of humanism and and and and transhumanism and part man, part machine, and all kind of crazy experimentations that they are trying to do on us. COVID nineteen, come on, surveillance under the skin, you know, those things inside the COVID nineteen shots also had some stuff in there that can be tracked or traced through what we call five g.
Alright. I'm not I'm not gonna go deep with that, but some of that stuff that's inside the shot could actually be manipulated by by by by electrofrequencies. Come on, somebody. And and and I I don't wanna go deep into that, but this whole died suddenly thing, it has a little bit to do with what those things are doing inside of your body and your cells, and your body is not reacting, cooperating.
Matter of fact, he's trying to kick it out. And but but understand this. He is being afflicted.
He's being afflicted and he says, the lord heard him out of the belly of hell. Whoo. Somebody say god can even hear you in hell.
Out of the belly of hell, he cried and he heard my voice for thou hast cast me into the deep in the midst of the seas. The floods compass me about. All that billows and thy ways passed over me. Notice, all the stuff that could've got to him even though he was in hell.
I want you to understand the mercy of god. The water could've got to him. The waves could've got to him. The temperature could've got to him.
You know it was cold. He went all the way down. Whales go deep. Say amen somebody.
And I'm telling you, your trouble can be deep, but God is still merciful. Our trouble can be deep. GoldCare, you know they don't like GoldCare. This new organization coming on the scene talking about, we gotta have right medical practices.
We everybody doesn't have to take the shot. So we're going deep into the belly of hell. Yes. We are.
Oh, god. And I'm not saying we're running from god's plan, but sometimes, amen, god's plan may include a little visit because god knew that Jonah was gonna run. How many know that god was not surprised with Jonah running?
God knew Jonah. And and so sometimes we in doing god's plan sometimes end up in little fishy situations and god says, that's okay because you could die in that situation but I'll keep the the waves from crashing you. I'll keep the the, come on, the temperature from freezing you. And he's inside this the belly of hell crying out to god, praying to god. I love this situation. Many of us have been here and might have to go back.
God is so merciful even in our troubles.
So merciful. But here it says, I I I yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. What?
Jonah is in the belly of hell, and he still wants to go to church. You know what I found out? Some people don't wanna go to church until they end up in hell.
I'm not talking to none of y'all. But some people, it takes hell to get them to look towards the church.
It takes in other words, it takes a situation. They've been ignoring the temple. They've been ignoring prayer. They've been ignoring the things of god.
And then all of a sudden, hell breaks loose, and now they wanna go to church. Now isn't it something? He couldn't get there. He could only look towards the temple.
This is what I'm talking about. Sometimes when we had a chance to do what's right, we had a chance to go to church, and now we are separated because of our problems, separated because of our situations. And and now we are at least now looking towards this is what going on with Jonah. This is called repentance, by the way.
When you're truly repenting, you start looking towards god. The word is met Noah in the Greek. It means to change one's mind towards god. So god is receiving this now.
A thankful heart. At first, Jonah wasn't thankful, but now god is receiving his what? His cries.
Come on. A thankful heart. God is receiving his voice, his prayers now, petitions, and now God is receiving his body because his body is turned towards the temple. Look at all these things with a thankful heart.
God is just receiving all of our whatever we think we need to do to get back to him. Jonah is trying as much as he can in the belly of hell. How many know you could do a lot more out of hell, amen, than you can in hell? Somebody raise their hand.
You could do a lot more, but at least he is trying in his affliction. He is trying to do the right thing. I give my young people credit. I know they're not perfect, but when I see a young person at least trying to do the right thing, trying to pray, trying to read the word, trying to come to church.
You gotta have some mercy, y'all. You can't be so headstrong saying, no. I don't receive that. Here, God is receiving all of that from Jonah even though he's still not, you know, where he's supposed to be.
He's supposed to go to Nineveh to preach to the Ninevites about judgment. But here, the waters was all around him even to the sole. The depth closed me round about. The weeds were wrapped up about my head.
So we know he was inside the belly, so it had to be some some stuff in there like know you know, sharks and whales eat at anything. But in this case, it was a whale. Sharks eat anything, but a whale so, obviously, the food, whatever's in the the whale was eating I want y'all to hear me.
Sometimes the world is eating a bunch of junk, and that's what's wrapped around us. The world is believing all types of propaganda, like doing COVID nineteen that you had to take the shot. Those are weeds wrapped all around us. We're all in they they we we we believe in that and and and that that that that that you had to how can I say this?
I I don't wanna be offensive. Glory be to god. But but we don't we don't believe that you got to marry a man if you're a man. That's a weed.
Oh, come on. We don't believe that. Okay? That you have to abort your baby because you got pregnant and wasn't expecting the pregnancy, but you have to abort your baby.
We don't that's a weed. All these things can be wrapped around us, inside this hellish situation. But but it was all wrapped around him, and he went down to the bottom of the mountains. Now you know good and well.
Did you know that there are mountains in the in the ocean?
The god is so awesome. The the earth didn't always have water. I mean, the way that we see now, it was all land, and god caused the water to be divided so that now some of the water covered the earth. Hello?
So not only the mountains above us, there are mountains beneath us. In other words, Jesus said this, if you have the faith of the grain of a mustard seed, you should say unto this mountain, be what? Be cast into the sea and it should obey you. Well, who did it first? God. God has covered mountains.
And he tells us by faith that we can do the same thing. You can have a mountain situation. It is so unsurmountable. It looks like you can't get around it. It because it's too wide and it looks like you can't get above it because it's too high. But here today, I'm telling you with a thankful heart like Jonah. Jonah says, I am about to get this mountain, this assignment done.
I'm about to go and cover this mountain just like this water is covering these mountains here while I'm inside the belly of hell.
The earth with its bars was about me forever. See, the earth can be a jail for people. Everybody's trying to go to jail. Earth can be a jail for some people because they're running away from the things of god.
Yeah. Jonah says, the Earth with her bars was about me forever. He's basically saying, god has put him in jail.
Oh god is something. God knows how to god knows how to deal with all of us. God knows where to put us when we act like we cuckoo for cocoa puffs. God knows how to put us in his jail.
God can use the whole earth to put you in jail. It don't have to be a little but look, he was like in a jail cell. The belly of the whale was probably a what? A a a two by two by two cubicle.
Come on somebody. But but but god knows how to put us in places to get our attention.
When my soul yet thou has brought up my life from corruption, o lord my god.
Yet has thou brought up my life from corruption, o lord my god. He is writing about how he began to believe that god can get him out of hell.
And that god can get him out this situation. Anybody want to believe like that right now? What is your situation? What is your circumstances?
What is GoldCare going through? Come on. We gotta believe that whatever that we think we might be in that here, Jonah says, yet thou has brought up my life from corruption. Oh lord, my god.
He gives god the glory that the lord is about to bring me up out of this out of this belly of hell.
What we are fighting right now, especially with GoldCare, where people have to learn now how to do health differently.
Obamacare is about to explode and and and health premiums are through the roof. And where do you get good care from? Where do you get it from?
And now we have to believe that the life of health care is coming out of hell. How many wanna believe right now? The life that should be in health care is coming out of hell. The life.
Jonah representing the life in hell is now coming out from that corruption. So much corruption has happened in our medical system from doctor Fauci to doctor Burke and so many others, the WHO, the CDC. So much corruption, but yet Jonah believed that he's coming out of corruption. And I just choose to believe that GoldCare is is that life that's coming out of corruption, the corruptible things.
Boy, I can preach on that one too, that this body in the resurrection did you know what's gonna happen? In the resurrection, this body, which is corruptible, shall be changed to incorruptible. This body which is mortal shall be changed to immortality. Hallelujah.
I'm getting happy. Alright. But look, check this out. Jonah says, my soul fainted within me.
I remembered the lord, and my prayer came in unto thee into thy holy temple. Wait a minute. Now he's seeing not only did he look towards the temple, he is now seeing in his mind that he's now talking to God in his holy temple. The power of the mind, I'm telling you somebody, this this is where faith really works. Okay? Faith without works is dead. But in order to receive it, you gotta see it.
Jonah saw his prayers being answered inside the temple. He was inside hell. So where are you? In hell or in the temple?
Where where are you? I'm talking to somebody right now. Are you in debt or out of debt? Is the glass half empty or is it half full? Where are you?
Where do you see yourself? Me and my wife are going through certain challenges, glory be to God, even now believing God for certain things to come to pass. Hello, somebody.
Now we gotta either see ourselves coming out of it, or we just keep see keep seeing ourselves still in it. Which one? Jonah decided to see himself talking to God in the temple when his body was actually in hell. That's faith.
I I don't want y'all to quit. Whatever you're going through right now, I don't want you to lose heart. You can see this. Come on.
If you can in other words, it's called belief. The word is pistis in the Greek. It means we get the word pistuo. It means to be persuaded in one's own mind.
I want you I want everyone. My god. Doctor. Simone Gold, I just love her so much because she gets this type of pistis, this type of faith where she says, I don't care what it looks like.
We're coming out of this.
Some of y'all are like that. I don't care what it looks like. We are coming out of this.
And so Jonah started acting like that even though he was in the belly of hell. So he says, and my prayer came unto thee into thy holy temple, and they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy, but I will sacrifice unto thee with the with the voice of thanksgiving, but I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. In other words, sacrifice means you're doing something that is gonna take a little effort and maybe a little bit of pain.
Glory be to god.
Amen. He he missed the the window of obedience. He was supposed to obey god and go to Nineveh, but now he has to sacrifice. So I just wanna let you know, if you missed the window of obedience, there's still room for Even though obedience is better than sacrifice. Come on. But but if you miss the window of obedience, there may be room still to sacrifice and Jonah found that room by faith. He found that room to sacrifice unto god even in the midst of his troubles.
Let's believe god now that his mercy endureth forever. That you and I will find room to sacrifice when we sometimes have missed the will, the perfect will of god. Remember, you got three types of wills. You got your will Amen. You got god's will and then you got what is called the permissive will.
It's what god allows. It's not his perfect will and sometimes in Romans chapter twelve, it says, the the good acceptable and perfect will of god. Amen.
You you you you gotta understand. God wants you to keep going until you get to that perfect will.
I want us this Thanksgiving season to say, God, I pray that you put me in your perfect will. This is what Jonah was saying. I was supposed to go to Nineveh. I'm gonna sacrifice. I wanna I wanna do it now.
Anybody changing their mind right now about what they told god they won't gonna do? Jonah now is changing his mind in the belly of hell saying, I'll I'll do it. I'll go.
That's what I want y'all to start saying now. God, whatever I told you no to, I say yes to right now. I say yes to your will. Yes to your way.
Yes to your purposes. Glory be to god. Hallelujah. Oh, come on. Tell the lord yes right now.
Just just lift your hands and say, yes, lord. Yes, lord. Yes to your will. Yes to your way.
Yes to your power. Yes to your word. Yes to your plans. Glory be to god.
I'm gonna stop right there because I'm getting happy. This this level of the benefits of of how god receives a thankful heart, Jonah went through all that process until he got to the point where he says, I will pay that I have vowed. Salvation is of the lord. So we know that salvation is really about god giving you mercy and I mercy, us mercy to do what we've been called to do.
It's the mercy of god that we're not consumed.
And Jonah learns that it's the mercy of god that allows him now to pay his vows, to actually do what he was called and sent to do. Anybody feel a little bit better about a thankful heart, how god receives our thankful hearts? He might take us through a process, but look. Don't quit.
Don't be weary in well doing. You and I shall soon reap if we faint not. Michelle says fighting the flu. Prayers, please.
Come on. Let's pray right now. Father god, thank you for Michelle. We know that this flu is temporary.
No weapon formed against her shall be able to prosper. And, father, we pray now that by your stripes, she is already healed. Send your angels now to minister to Michelle. We bind that flu in the name of Yeshua Hamashiach, our lord and savior Jesus Christ.
We thank you, lord, that she is now delivered out of the hands of the enemy. We cancel this assignment.
It is so, and it is done. Alright. I'm gonna open the lines up. Bless you, Michelle. We love you. Alright. Anybody wanna come out here and talk about this Jonah getting out of hell today?
I'm getting out.
I'm getting out. I'm not staying I'm not staying in nothing that god don't want me in. Who wants me first to say something? The line is now open. God bless you all today.
Good morning. I'll take the pressure off doctor John. Uh-oh.
Good morning, doctor Data.
Good morning. Hey. I just wanted to say that what you said there about the the world, the earth becoming your prison, I really like that, and it really did ring true to me because as we awaken and I thank God for COVID now because I do think he used it as a way to to wake so many of us up.
But as you wake up and you see the shackles that they put on us to even care for each other and the division that is used to pull us apart from each other, it it sometimes becomes intolerable.
You know? And and that's living in a supposedly free country. So that really meant a lot to me, and I don't wanna go into detail, but it has to do with just all the ways they layer upon layer bondage in the world, whether it's through our licensing or through censorship. There those are all levels of bondage. And so I just thank god that through COVID, many of us were able to awaken to that.
And I also wanna just say again how thankful I am for you. You always talk about how thankful you are for doctor Gold and her vision. I am too. I I am so grateful that God put warriors here, warriors like doctor John too, you know, that that take up their assignment on the battlefield and that they discern and prophesy and they speak truth to power. And I appreciate all of those that are, you know, ordering their steps under the Lord's direction. And, you know, it's it's given me a lot of good insight to be able to work with people who are leaders and see this, you know, this for what it is. It truly is spiritual warfare.
And, you know, I I'm grateful for you and others in this, you know, in this time, in this period of time that God has put us here on Earth for that we have people who are on that battlefield with us. And and I can't thank you enough.
This morning on our national prayer call, father Frank Pavone was on there and talk about someone who has, you know, really held the line under God's call to protect the unborn.
And I had the pleasure of interviewing him through AFLDS, and the man is another, you leader on this spiritual warfare. So, again, thank you, bishop Benjamin, for the faith foundation that you provide at GoldCare. Without the faith foundation, I just don't believe that GoldCare would succeed because that is, you know, what we are here to do is to pull in faith and to make our members strong in all areas of faith that will also heal their body, mind, spirit, soul.
And thank I'm just so thankful for you since we're coming into that season of Thanksgiving, and just prayers to God for allowing us to live in this incredible time.
Wow. That is you know, you you hit a very valid point that some of these things are trying to pigeonhole us and put us in all types of loopholes and make things difficult, our prayers of thanksgiving give us the power to see beyond the attack, to see beyond Jonah had to, even though it was he brought it on himself, he still had to see beyond the weeds, beyond the the the the depths of the ocean, beyond the billows and the waves crashing against the whale.
He he saw it, and he said, heard my prayers. And I just believe in GoldCare that God is hearing our prayers. I just choose to believe that. God is hearing our prayers at GoldCare and that we should not lose hope no matter how deep we are in the belly deep in situations or deep in circumstances, relationships gone south, hopes and dreams, disappointments, whatever it is.
So doc doctor Dana, you are so right. Let's keep holding on, and I do thank God for you all. I I didn't think I was gonna be here doing what I'm doing right now. But to God be all the glory.
To God be all the glory. Thank you so much for all that you do, all you contribute, your leadership, your wisdom, and and how you are helping so many doctors and nurses and PCs of these primary care physicians get back on track. So thank you so much. Alright.
Doctor Dana got you, doctor John. Anybody else?
Praise god. I thank, doctor Dana for the kind words she said.
That has to be Jerusalem. That has to be Jerusalem.
That's gotta be Yeah. You got it right.
Soon we're gonna see it, my brother. Soon we're gonna see it. Man, there's so many things I wanna say, and I don't know.
First of all, it was a great fish, not a whale. And being one that at one point in my life, I had money and I was able to travel to the Bahamas to go diving, I actually ran into a large fish.
It's called the Jew fish. It's part of the group of family that can actually swallow a diver whole.
God made a special fish for Jonah to save him and for him to get his life right. And sometimes we have to go through a lot of things in order for us to straighten out our lives and to fly right with the Lord, if you wanna put it that way.
You know, Doctor. Dana mentioned, pat father Frank Pavone. And, I know from personal personal very personal experience that abortion is a dead end. And I'm getting real personal right now. As he was speaking this morning, Bishop, I lost two children to abortion.
The first one, I was not walking with the Lord. I was living with a woman, but I loved her, and I was going to marry her.
And she got pregnant before we got married, and she didn't want to have that baby or be pregnant as we got married. I'm not gonna go through all the details.
But I also saw what happened after she had the abortion, and her attitude totally changed. Her hormonal structure totally changed.
It really messes up a woman. But what people fail to realize is a man who truly loves that woman and is a part of that situation, it messed me up.
And something I never really talk about, the second abortion happened when I was leading a church, a church that was growing and had recently married a woman. I thought she was full of the Lord, and she got pregnant.
And she didn't want that baby because we didn't we didn't have enough fun yet, she told me.
And those wounds are heal or healing, I should say. I thought they were healed until I talk about it.
Because I want often wonder what would have what would have been the difference if those children were still alive.
So but God is still merciful.
He is still one who still loves you when you make mistakes.
He is still the one who is willing to use you even in your brokenness. In fact, the scriptures are clear.
When you are weak, he is strong.
And I think with all of those wounds I had, those scar tissue that I still have, those things are what has grown me into a man that has been able to stand up to authority and tell them when they're wrong and point out what things are wrong.
Yes. I've been ridiculed. Yes. I lost my jobs. Jobs that I really truly love teaching the medical students in the three three universities, three medical schools I was working at.
But but like in here, you know, Jonah was put into a situation where the the last thing he could do was to look up and cry out to the Lord, and he was finally spit out, and he went into Nineveh.
And most people don't realize Nineveh was the Assyrians, and Nineveh was known for its brutal, brutal punishment of its enemies.
And not to get too graphic, but you need to understand this.
They're the ones who would take their enemy when they capture them, they would actually skin them alive and hang them from the walls to warn all those who oppose the Assyrians, this is what's gonna happen to you. And he had to go into that place and preach one sentence.
Yet forty days and never Nineveh will be over overthrown.
And he had a a massive revival.
It says at the end of it that Nineveh had a hundred and twenty thousand persons who did not know the difference between the right hand the right and and the left hand as well as many animals. That's with the lord's last question in verse eleven four.
Basically, those are children.
So you're looking at a population of close to four hundred thousand people in Nineveh, and they all repented.
So, you know, we go to to Corinthians. Sometimes the wounds that we have and the and the issues that we've gone through and god has healed us through through his mercy and grace, god will use that.
God will use that so you can help somebody else, and that will be used for them to turn to the Lord.
My god.
You know what you just said, doctor John. It's basically God uses our scars and turns them into stars.
Amen. The all the trauma that Jonah went through, for all those who've gone through PSD, PTSD, and and all the other different traumatic events, God took all of that and balled it up for Jonah and reshaped it in his journey to Nineveh to cause four hundred thousand people to turn back to God.
Only God can do that. Only God can take our scars and turn them into stars.
Only God can take our lemons and turn it into lemonade. I tried to take my lemons during the lemonade, but it just wasn't enough sugar, or it was too dark.
But but God has that element called mercy. That's why Jonah talked about lying lying vanities. This his thing about lying vanities, how we sometimes pump up our own testimony.
It says they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
In other words, instead of just humbling ourselves saying, I'm just a worm that needs salvation, we we hype up our own testimony to a place where it doesn't even look like God really delivered us like we delivered ourselves.
And so we forsake our own mercy through hyping up our own personal worth.
But Jonah said, I am going to stay this little guy wrapped with weeds and wait for God to deliver me.
And but that fish vomited Jonah out because Jonah now humbled himself. No more running. As he told the guys, he was on the what? Sort of like Saul on the road to Damascus.
And and and he was on the same, so to speak, trip, and God said, You ain't going there.
No. Go away. I'm telling you to go.
And he did the same thing to Saul.
He was on a road to Damascus too, going to go persecute Christian.
And God says, no. I'm gonna put I'm gonna knock you off your horse and put some blinds some scales around you.
And and and and when you when I'm done with you, you are going to do like Jonah and go to these Gentiles and tell them about the gospel of the kingdom.
So I love it. I I'm learning that more and more too, doctor John, that our life is but as David said, you know, our life is is is is just temporary. It's it's it's it's like grass. It's here today, gone tomorrow.
And and and we just have a David said, teach me how to number my days that are in the earth. And so there's a level of humility that's on you, doctor John, that that that we we hunger for, we thirst for, because that's who God uses.
God uses the humble, but he resisted the proud.
And I've seen so many of these young people, so much pride in them, and they forsake their own mercies because they would rather tell a lie to make themselves look good than to humble themselves and know that they need deliverance from God.
Gonna preach that Sunday, so I'm gonna steal that message from you, doctor John. And I'm not gonna tell I'm not gonna tell anybody where I got it from.
I might mention your name in passing. Oh, yeah. This is there once was a man named John.
But anyway, that's that's what, you know, a thankful heart is all about. When you have a good estimate about yourself and stop all this lying, you know, lying to people and just trying to make yourself look better than what you really are.
And Right. And so thank you so much, man. I'm gonna steal that message, and I'll just say there once was a man named John, and that's all I'm gonna say. And then I'm gonna keep preaching after that.
Anybody else before we close?
Anybody else before we close? This is good. I thank for heart. Kathy, Audrey, Thomas, doctor Thomas, Vanessa, Michelle, Jerry.
I'm picking on you guys.
Miss Kathy. Miss Kathy.
Good morning. Speaking of that, we are finally at our destination. What a move. But I have to say there's been so many times that God has shown me.
See, you need to listen to me, and I will show you that this will work in, you know, in my plan for you and whatever. And, God has demonstrated that to me so many times through this process. It was one heck of a process, let me tell you, and one heck of a move. But I'm in a place where I know I feel like this is where god wants me to be.
We've been truly, truly blessed to be able to get back on our feet and to be able to bless our kids and, to share that with everybody. And I I do all the time. We went from, you know, one house to a very modest means house. Something that people would you know, like, I have a few relatives that would say, you put something like that?
You know, we went we went and we bought a manufactured modular home, and we had it put on my son's property. And you know what? I'm living the best life. I'm quiet.
I can appreciate just walking out on the porch and just being grateful.
We'll have our first Thanksgiving here with the family.
God has done so much for us in this last couple of months that I truly feel this is where he wants us to be.
We've humbled ourselves. You know, people would say, like I told you, I have friends that was, like, you know, snubbed their nose at what we did because, you know, why did you buy a house like that? Why did you have that done? You know?
You know how people are. And, like, they're pride. They're prayerful, and they, you know, they they feel that the material things are more important. I don't think the material things are more important.
I think living simply and being able to do more with my family, you know, and listening to what god wants in our lives, and sometimes I don't know exactly what he wants, is really important. So having that thankful heart every day, I thank god every day for being here for his blessings because it's it's truly a blessing. We made it through. Let me tell you.
I didn't realize I had so much heart stuff.
We made it through and seeing the last part of some of the things and plans that we had for this property for a garden. Got my greenhouse in. I've been blessed. I you know, I'm like, I'm so happy.
I I don't know what to do. You know? It's like it's just the blessings have come. We've had some, you know, through COVID and everything else that everybody goes through.
We've had some heart heartaches, but the blessings and when they come, you know, you you appreciate it so much more. You appreciate it so much more that you know what God has done for you. So, you know, I continue to pray for all of us, for GoldCare, my family, you know, health, happiness, many celebrations, traditions, memories to come. So, yes, this is such a great topic that you've been talking about and so applicable in all our lives.
You know, I thought something leaves me speechless. But anyway, thank you so much.
Never speechless, Kathy. You will never be speechless.
You're you're you're like bubbling a bubbling well that Jesus said, out of our belly shall flow rivers of living waters springing up into everlasting life. So your new community, where you are, your neighborhood, I pray that you just flow all over them the life of God.
Your new neighbors and all of them, they're gonna be so happy that they meet Kathy. Oh my god. A bubbling spring, a well of life. That's who you are, Kathy.
Glory be to God. So thank you for that testimony and the the the giving a clear indication that Thanksgiving is not always about being a billionaire. Now look. We're not gonna say we don't want it, but we're gonna be thankful for whatever place we are.
Oh, the Bible says, godliness with contentment is great gain. Hallelujah. Godliness with contentment is great gain. Some who have went after money because the love of money is the root of all evil.
Some who have been pierced through, it says, with with so many hurts and pains. And so it was good to hear you say that what whatever station in life, what God has given us, I am thankful. And now you got your garden. You know, I'm a farmer too, and glory be to God. It's good to see how you can grow off the stuff eat off the stuff you grow.
Amen. So God God bless you. Anybody else before we close? This has been great today, gang.
Happy Thanksgiving to everybody. Happy Thanksgiving, doctor Gold. Happy Thanksgiving, GoldCare, and all of the GoldCare family. Anybody else before we close?
Anybody else?
Hallelujah. Again, Jonah, by by the end of this Thanksgiving prayer he gives, it says the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Thank God that the fish did not vomited him further into the ocean. Right?
See, this is the mercy of God. I love the mercy of God. He knows after he's gotten our attention, he knows exactly where to where to vomit us out, so to speak.
It's just amazing how God prepared. Like, John said, it wasn't a whale per se, but it was a great fish.
And when Jonah prayed, whatever he did, he says, I will do the work. I'll pay my vow, and then the fish vomited him out. I like to think of it like this. The Bible talks about us after we have suffered a while. After we have suffered a while, God will then, what, strengthen us, establish us, and make us perfect.
I love scripture. It's it's in the New Testament.
After we and this could be any type of suffering, emotional suffering, physical suffering, financial suffering, whatever, but it's first Peter five and ten. First Peter five and ten. Now this is the American Standard Version ESV. But it says after you have suffered a little while, the god of all grace who has called you unto his eternal glory in Christ in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. Glory be to God.
I I of course, you know, I'm a King James version guy. I'll read you the King James version. Amen.
And it's it's something King James says that but the god of all grace remember, where there's grace, there's mercy. But the god of all favor, grace carries, who have called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
God's gonna settle us in America. God's gonna settle GoldCare.
After we have suffered a while, gotta put these programs together. We gotta put these initiatives together. We gotta get the right team, the right staff. Come on.
He's we suffered a while. He's gonna perfect us. He's gonna perfect the systems in GoldCare. He's gonna perfect the team in GoldCare.
Oh my god. The families that join GoldCare. And then he's gonna establish GoldCare, and then he's gonna strengthen GoldCare. Oh my god.
And then he's gonna settle GoldCare where it becomes what we call a household name. How many know that GoldCare is going to be a household name? It is. It's gonna be settled.
Hallelujah. Like, founding fathers came over here to settle. They didn't come over here temporary. They came over here.
That's because it's called the Jamestown settlement.
They came here to settle, but they know they had to go through a process, and so must we, if we're here to stay, glory be to God, we gotta go through that process in Jesus' name. So read first Peter five and ten.
Again, I'm gonna read it again, and it's it's a beautiful thing.
It says, but the God of all grace who have called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered a while, so it's not forever, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. In Jesus' name, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. I'm done, gang, today. If there's not any final comments, doctor John, I'd like to hear final comments if you got any.
Yeah. Just like Jonah, allow the the God to give you mercy and grace, but pass it on. Give grace and mercy to others.
Remember, we're living in a very stressful time. Now it's the holidays that adds more stress on other people. And just bless those who you run across, even those those customer service agents who may not be treating you right, bless them anyway.
Right? Hey, gang. Y'all know Black Friday. People gonna be out there in front of Walmart sleeping in in in in in what do you call those those bags sleeping bags.
They're gonna be all over the place. Come on. Black Friday, and people gonna be hopefully loving each other in the Walmart line and not beating each other up for a thirteen inch screen TV. Come on.
So we we pray that we walk in love.
Amen. And this Thanksgiving, I hope you guys have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Now we are gonna have a lesson the day before Thanksgiving. I will be settled at home, not doing any traveling that week.
I am gonna go to Tulsa to this week. But next week, we will have a teaching the day before Thanksgiving unless something else is said that that everything is shut down at GoldCare. So I I love you guys. And you guys all of y'all family, GoldCare family, doctor Gold.
Father God, I thank you, Lord, for the GoldCare family. I thank you for doctor Simone Gold and all her heart. You have given her heart to do. Thank you for the doctors and the nurses and the staff and the IT people.
Thank you for all of the patients, the clients, and and the members, oh, God, that get on board with GoldCare. We thank you, Lord, that we will love each other as you have called us too, and we bless your holy name. It's in the name of the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus Christ, our Lord and savior. Amen.
Amen. You guys have a great weekend. See you guys next week before Thanksgiving. That that that'll be our last session for dealing with Thanksgiving, and then we're going into another topic in December. I am gonna be in Jerusalem, so we're have to work this out for one week next week first week in December. I will be in coming back from Jerusalem.
So I will not be here, so I'll talk to you, doctor Dana, about getting all that straight. So God bless you guys.
Love you all. Have a great day.
Bye, everyone.
Have a blessed day, everyone. I'll be in Jerusalem with you.