{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F37de982c-c15f-4c16-b88b-b5a3c019d4ec","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Savor the Journey: How Gratitude Changes Everything (Ep 297)","description":"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.\nGo further with this episode > see the show notes for Savor the Journey: How Gratitude Changes Everything (#295)\nPodcast Vault > see all Jesus Smart podcast episodes\nElevate your inbox > subscribe to The Smart, a newsletter from Jesus Smart\nWhat do you believe? > see the Jesus Smart Creed\nNotes:\nGratitude 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.\nTo whom or what are we grateful? Can we be abstract or vague about gratitude?\nI believe that as we are first grateful to our Creator, then we condition and position ourselves to be authentically grateful to others \u2026 in whatever context we relate to them: family, friendship, business/work, our place in the larger world, and so on.\nGratitude is like PRIMING a PUMP. Surprisingly, as we decide to be thankful, it releases a spring of gratitude, a flow of thankfulness.\nResources:\nThe audio excerpt in this Jesus Smart episode is from this episode > listen to a Ransomed Heart podcast on gratitude with John Eldredge\nVisit Wild at Heart with John Eldredge\nThis is the article by Dr. Craig Keener of Asbury Theological Seminary I reference in this episode > The Down Payment\u20142 Corinthians 1:22; 5:5; Ephesians 1:13-14\n7 Scientifically Proven Benefits Of Gratitude That Will Motivate You To Give Thanks Year-Round (Forbes)","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/ee21fc9b-6b80-4115-9a89-d7a1816a89ce/Jesus-Smart-X-pod-art-Oct-25.png"}