You can choose what you are grateful for. It will be easier. You will feel happier if you are grateful. You will feel more grateful if you take the time to reflect on what you have to be thankful for.
Sometimes it can be hard to find gratitude in times of extreme hardship. Sometimes, we have to turn our frown upside down or get out of bed. There are many ways to get help: Scriptures about hope, healing or just a kind word.
To put it mildly, it's been a challenging year. It's important to remember that God loves and walks beside us, listens to us, and saves us. In difficult times, the Bible can be a comforting reminder and comfort. These verses can be comforting and provide peace through difficult times.
Keep them close to your desk or in your car, so that you can recall them throughout the day. These truths can be beneficial to your friends and family. These scriptures will remind both you and the person you love about the importance gratitude.
Here are 10 Bible verses that encourage us to be thankful in every circumstance, organized by relevance.
Romans 1:8
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
1 Thessalonians 1:2
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Ephesians 1:11
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
1 Timothy 1:12
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
James 4:6-12
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Romans 10:4
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Acts 17:11
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
