Five Minutes Of Gratitude

Looking for a cleaner, calmer start to the day? We share a five-minute reset that shifts the heart from constant requests to humble gratitude, using Brandon Lake’s “Gratitude” as a lens for honest worship. Instead of trying to impress God, we explore the freedom of offering what we truly have—our hallelujah, our breath, our attention—and why that simple gift can change the tone of an entire morning. We reflect on how prayer often leans toward asking and how a small, deliberate pivot toward thanks restores balance and peace. 
God isn’t asking for perfection, just presence. One small act of praise can reframe worry, invite peace, and remind you who holds the day. Listen for the clip of “Gratitude,” check the link in the notes to hear the full track, and try this practice tomorrow morning: name three specific gifts, lift your voice, and let your soul catch up to your hope. If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who needs a reset, and leave a review to help others find the show.

Here is the youtube link to Gratitude.                  
https://youtu.be/dQdfs5S6jyA   

Chapters

• 0:05 Welcome And Daily Five-Minute Reset
• 0:26 Shifting From Requests To Gratitude
• 1:00 Introducing Brandon Lake’s Gratitude
• 1:30 We Can’t Impress God, But We Can Praise
• 2:22 Encouraging Your Soul To Worship
• 2:51 Worship As Choice, Not Feeling
• 3:26 Scripture Anchor And Thanksgiving
• 4:12 Listen, Be Thankful, And Be Encouraged

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:05

Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mack. I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great five-minute start to your day. So grab your cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and let me help you start your day right. Good morning everyone, and welcome to this brand new week. Today we are going to talk about a song that is a powerful reminder of our relationship with God. So much of the time when we talk to God, we're requesting His answer and His power and His goodness to work to do something in our lives. We need Him to work. And there's nothing wrong with that. God tells us that we are to bring our requests to Him. But if we were to place that on a scale, how much of a balance would there be between our requests and our thanks and gratitude to God? I think that for many of us, our requests would overbalance much of our thanks. Today we're going to look at a song by Brandon Lake called Gratitude. It was released on his 2020 album called House of Miracles. It starts out with these words All my words fall short, I got nothing new. How could I express all my gratitude? I could sing these songs as I often do, but every song must end, and you never do. So I throw up my hands and I praise you again and again, cause all I have is a hallelujah. You know there's really not much that we can bring to God that can impress him. After all, he is the creator of the entire universe, the star is flung from his fingers into the sky. He created the earth and the animals and breathed the breath of life into the people. We really can't impress God. But we can give him what we do have, which is our praise, our our lives of worship. You see, what sometimes when we come before him, we know that he knows everything about us. He knows all of our failings, all of our weaknesses, and still he wants us to come and give him praise and thanks. Sometimes we just don't feel worthy of that, and I get that. I really, really do. But really it's what he wants from us. He wants us just to worship him. He wants us to give him our heart and to speak words of praise and thanks to him. My favorite part of this song is the way that he encourages himself. At one point he says, Come on, my soul, don't you get shy on me. Lift up your song, because you've got a lion inside of those lungs. Get up and praise the Lord. Hey, praise the Lord. There are times when we need to encourage ourselves, we need to give ourselves a jolt that says, Come on, get out there and praise God for who he is. There really is the power of God. There is this lion within our lungs that just wants to cry out and worship God. Worship, like most things, is not always based upon how we feel. Worship is a choice. We choose to worship God and to thank him for who he is and what he's done. And we praise and honor him because he is God. He deserves all of our praise, he deserves all of our worship, he deserves a thankful heart and everything that we can give him. And sometimes we just need to speak to ourselves and say, Come on, my soul, let loose and worship God with all you have, because he is God, and he is so worthy of that worship. Colossians chapter three and verse fifteen says, Let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts, to which indeed we are called in one body, and be thankful. Worship God for who he is, and thank God for who he is. And then we can start to do what this song speaks about. So I throw up my hands, and I praise you again and again, 'cause all I have is a hallelujah. I know it's not much, but I've nothing else fit for a king except a heart singing hallelujah Hallelujah. I've got one response, I've got just one move. With my arms stretched wide I will worship you. So I throw up my hands and I praise you again and again 'cause all I have is a hallelujah. Here's a clip of Brandon Lake and gratitude. And in your show notes today there is a link to the YouTube version of it. I hope you will listen to it. Don't forget to be grateful and thankful to God today for who he is and what he's done in your life. And even if you don't feel worthy or right before him, he is still there for you, and he's waiting for you just to reach out to him with what you do have and give him a hallelujah and a thank you. Let God bless you today. Let him encourage you and strengthen you, and we will talk again tomorrow. Here's Brandon Lake with gratitude.