Gratitude

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Gratitude

• Making known to God and
  others the ways they have
  benefited my life

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Science Gratitude

• Expressing Gratitude positively affects your
  physical, emotional and spiritual health

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Definition of Gratitude
Gratitude is a feeling-

• The feeling of being blessed with more than you
  deserve, being thankful for what you have.

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Definition of Gratitude
Gratitude is a choice-

• The intention to count-your-blessings every day,
  every minute, while
  avoiding, whenever possible,
  the belief that you need or deserve
  different circumstances.

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Gratitude is a decision-

• To focus on
• positive, not the negative
• faith, not doubt
• God, not self

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How to cultivate a grateful heart

• Count your Blessings
• Nurture Grateful feelings
• Express Gratitude to others
• Remember trials are blessings
• Study Scripture Inspirational stories- Romans
  831-39
• Express Gratitude to God

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How to show gratitude to God

• What do you have that God hasnt given you?
  And if all you have is from
  God, why boast as though you have accomplished
  something on your own?
• 1 Corinthians 47b

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How to show gratitude to God

• Verbally- praise and thanksgiving
• Live your life as an offering to God

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Will you decide to live
a grateful life?
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Prayer for Serenity
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I
cannot change, the courage to change the things I
can, and the wisdom to
know the difference.
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Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment
at a time
accepting hardship as a pathway to
peace taking, as Jesus did, this
sinful world as it is, not as I would
have it
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Trusting that You will make all
things right if I
surrender to Your will
so that I may be reasonably
happy in this life and supremely happy
with You forever in the next. Amen.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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At the heart of true giving
there must be a spirit of Genuine
Gratefulness

• Only as we recognize the truth
  that we have freely received
  will we be able to obey the
  instruction to freely give