Prayer: Lord, help me to see that everything you have created is good even on challenging days. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.” Psalms 100:3 “Know and fully recognize with gratitude that the Lord Himself is God It is HE who has made us, not we ourselves. We surrender our desire to hijack God’s plan because we trust and believe in God’s character. Kingdom perspective will change everything even when nothing around you has changed. We recognize God is moving even when we don’t understand. A kingdom perspective reminds us to keep our eyes on doing eternal work instead of reacting to temporary inconveniences. Keeping a kingdom perspective is vital to thriving in a challenging season. Cultivate a grateful heart by keeping a kingdom perspective. Thank you for the amazing ways you continuously show up in my life. Prayer: Lord, thank you for the wonderful things (name them individually) you have done in my life. Remember the wonderful things which He has done, His amazing deeds and the judgements uttered by His mouth. Friend, it’s hard to be ungrateful when you take the time to see what God has already done in your life. Focus your conversation on sharing His wondrous deeds in your life, and you will find you don’t have room for complaints. Talk about the wonderful things He has done in your life and those around you. Take time to reflect on your testimonies of the times God has protected, provided, and restored you in other seasons. We can cultivate a grateful heart during challenging seasons by taking the time to remember all God has already done. Cultivate a grateful heart by remembering what God has already done. You know my heart and hear me in my distress. Give me the strength to cultivate a grateful heart in my challenging seasons. Prayer: Lord, reveal yourself to me and fill me with your presence. And the God of peace will be with you.” Philippians 4: 8-9 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me-put it into practice. “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-think about such things. When we know who God is, we can have peace, even in life is hard. We strengthen our faith when we spend time in His word learning about His will and His character. His word is a guide aligning us with His will and purging those behaviors in us that separate us from an intimate relationship with Christ. We can use these five scriptures to plant the seed of God’s word in our hearts so we can begin to cultivate a grateful heart.Ĭultivate a grateful heart by spending time in the Bible.įor God’s word to take root in our hearts, we must spend intentional time reading, studying, and meditating on His word. We can choose to be led by the truth of God’s word, or we can be overwhelmed by the circumstances.Ĭhoosing to cultivate a grateful heart in challenging seasons requires a series of daily decisions to see and seek God in our daily lives through His word. In scripture, God has provided us a blueprint explaining how we can walk through even the most difficult seasons with gratitude, hope, and praise. To change our words, we must begin cultivating a grateful heart for God even in our challenging seasons. We talk more about what we are going through instead of speaking God’s truth over our situations. When we place our focus on our difficulties, our words become full of complaints, sarcasm, and pain. It’s easy to fall into the trap of focusing on our problems in challenging seasons instead of focusing on God. When will things finally start to change? How many times do I have to go through this? I’ve sat on the side of my bed, crying, full of questions. I was often frustrated, disappointed, and, at times, just angry. There have been several seasons when life wasn’t going the way I planned. Sometimes life is hard and keeping the right perspective can seem just out of reach. When you are in a challenging season, being able to cultivate a grateful heart can seem almost impossible.
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