Thankfulness Therapy | Part 2 – Living Thankfully Choices!

1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NLT)

Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.

Living Thankfully Choice #1 –

Quit

Philippians 2:14 (NLT)

Do everything without complaining …

Complaining negatively impacts our brain!

Complaining releases the stress hormone cortisol!

Complaining negatively impacts us relationally!

Complaining negatively impacts us spiritually!

1 Corinthians 10:1-5;10-11 (NLT)

I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground . . . ³ All of them ate the same spiritual food, ⁴ and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. ⁵ Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

¹⁰ … Don’t grumble (complain) as some of them did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death. ¹¹ These things happened to them as examples for us.

Living Thankfully Choice #2 –

Stop Grumbling and Start

Exodus 2:23-25 (MSG)

The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Their cries for relief … ascended to God: ²⁴ God listened to their groanings . . . ²⁵ God understood.

Lamentations 2:19 (MSG)

Get up and cry out in prayer. Pour your heart out face to face with the Master.

Romans 8:26-27 (NLT)
The Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness … the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. ²⁷ And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.

Living Thankfully Choice #3 –

Prize Over More!

Hurry sickness is a continuous struggle and unending attempt to accomplish or achieve more and more things or participate in more and more events in less and less time.

People with “hurry-sickness” miss out on knowing and enjoying

Psalm 46:10 (NLT)

Be still, and know that I am God!

People with “hurry-sickness” miss out on knowing and loving

1 Corinthians 13:4 (NLT) — Love is patient …

People with “hurry-sickness” miss out on special

Ephesians 5:15-16 (NIV)
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise,
¹⁶ making the most of every opportunity …