Start your day out grateful. Isn’t that something? How would our outlooks be different if we started the day grateful rather than anxious or worried or even hopeful? <\/p>\n
Gratefulness, or thankfulness, changes everything. It forces you to look at the good rather than the bad in every situation. <\/p>\n
Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving;
\n-Colossians 4:2 (NASB)<\/p>\n
Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire.
\n-Hebrews 12:28-29 (NASB)<\/p>\n
in everything give thanks; for this is God\u2019s will for you in Christ Jesus.
\n-1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NASB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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