Gratitude changes everything -- it conditions us to live our highest life. Authentic Christ-Followers are trailblazers of the future, empowered by the Holy Spirit to live in the extraordinary powers of the Future World. Beginning now.

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Notes:

Gratitude changes everything. So embrace a grateful mindset and heartset, focusing on what you have. Experience the mysterious magnetism that increasingly attracts what is good and aligns with God's purpose in your life.

To whom or what are we grateful? Can we be abstract or vague about gratitude?

I believe that as we are first grateful to our Creator, then we condition and position ourselves to be authentically grateful to others … in whatever context we relate to them: family, friendship, business/work, our place in the larger world, and so on.

Gratitude is like PRIMING a PUMP. Surprisingly, as we decide to be thankful, it releases a spring of gratitude, a flow of thankfulness.

Resources:

The audio excerpt in this Jesus Smart episode is from this episode > listen to a Ransomed Heart podcast on gratitude with John Eldredge

Visit Wild at Heart with John Eldredge

This is the article by Dr. Craig Keener of Asbury Theological Seminary I reference in this episode > The Down Payment—2 Corinthians 1:22; 5:5; Ephesians 1:13-14

7 Scientifically Proven Benefits Of Gratitude That Will Motivate You To Give Thanks Year-Round (Forbes)