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The Power of Gratitude

on November 29, 2020
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Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you and your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Things were a bit different this year for me and my family. We had a small thanksgiving meal, just my husband and children. I definitely missed spending the day with my entire family. For the past several years, my husband and I have hosted Thanksgiving. This year was a lot smaller and quieter. At moments I felt sad because I wasn’t able to be with all of my family like in years past, but I began to reflect on the things that I’m grateful for and slowly my whole attitude started to shift.

About five years ago, I attended a women’s conference and the speaker told us how she had been keeping a gratitude journal. This one thing had changed her life! When I got back home that weekend, I decided to go purchase a journal so I too could start writing gratitude. That was day one. Here’s the thing, I haven’t stopped writing! I have now gone on to fill up several journals with gratitude. Every day, I take just a few minutes to jot down a few sentences and sometimes a few paragraphs for the things and people I’m grateful for. This has literally changed my entire life!!!

There is POWER in GRATITUDE. The psalmist tells us in Psalm 107: 1, “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.” Every time that we give thanks, we are reminding God of His goodness. His love. His mercy. And His grace.

When we give thanks and when we express our gratitude whether it be in prayer or on paper, we take our focus off our problems and we put our focus back on God …the Author and Finisher of our Faith!

Psalm 9:1 tell us, “I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.” Too many times we keep our thanksgiving hidden. We keep our gratitude hidden. We don’t share with anyone the goodness of the Lord. I encourage you to take time to share all of the wonderful things that God has done for you and your family, especially during this year. After all, there is POWER in GRATITUDE!

May you have a wonderful week and may God’s glory be revealed to you as you take time every day to reflect on the goodness of our Lord!

“I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever!” Psalm 86:12.

Be blessed,

~Ofelia

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The Power of Gratitude

on August 12, 2016
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Gratitude…

The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness according to Webster’s dictionary. Something so easy yet so difficult to demonstrate. Think about this quote: It’s not happiness that brings us gratitude. It’s gratitude that brings us happiness.
Gratitude is a lost art. We hear too many people murmuring, grumbling, and complaining. So negative and so full of negativity. The amazing thing is the opposite of complaining is being grateful.
I want to encourage you to go on a 30 day complaining fast where you don’t complain for 30 days. It sounds really simple until you start to try it. You will begin to realize that by nature we are negative individuals, human beings. We tend to focus more on the negative instead of the positive. The good news is that you can change your mindset by focusing on all of the positive in your life. And how do you begin doing this? By focusing on the things your are grateful for! Truth is, there’s always something to be thankful for. You might just need to look a little closer.
So for sometime now I have been practicing gratitude. I first wake up and before my feet hit the floor I go over 5 things I’m thankful for. Usually something like, thank you God for a new day, I’m thankful to be alive. I’m thankful for my husband. I’m thankful for my children. I’m thankful for my loved ones. It’s really simple. You should try it sometime. It immediately puts your mind into a state of gratitude. In another post I will mention other ways I practice gratitude. For now, I want to encourage you to begin and end your day with gratitude!
Have a blessed day!
Amazed by His grace,
~Ofelia
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Gratitude

on March 10, 2016
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A heart of gratitude is one of the greatest attributes of successful people. When you express appreciation for the blessings in your life, you become more blessed. You have the ability to change the entire direction of your life with your mouth. Proverbs 18:21 (AMP) says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it.” Every time you open your mouth, you speak life or death over your circumstances. Choose life!

When you thank God for something that hasn’t manifested yet, you demonstrate the greatest faith. Hebrews 11:6 say that it’s impossible to please God without faith. Begin to release your faith today with a heart full of gratitude.

Begin to mediate on these key verses in Philippians 4:6-8, “Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition, WITH THANKSGIVING, continue to make your wants known to God.”

I encourage you tonight before you go to bed to release all of your worries and cares unto God and begin to thank God for what He has done, is doing, and getting ready to do in your life! By faith!!!

God Bless,

Ofelia Lawrence

 

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