Giving Thanks Excellently

GIVING THANKS EXCELLENTLY 

🎯 When you live a life of excellent Thanksgiving, you recognize that every day is a gift and wake up each day determined to see a reason to give thanks - 2:29
🎯 You may not be able to change the situation you find yourself in, but very often, your attitude will be the difference maker in navigating the challenges that life brings - 3:13
🎯 Serenity Prayer: God grants me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference - 3:32
🎯 Serenity is a state of mental calm and clarity when you feel at peace in the present moment, able to focus on what truly matters - 4:29
🎯 Being in a state of serenity is the opposite of anxiety - 4:40
🎯 Acceptance means letting go of things outside your control. Worrying about things outside your power does not help to solve the problem. Instead, it can further compound the situation by putting you in a state of anxiety rather than serenity - 5:00
🎯 Courage means strength and determination to do what is within your control - 5:21
🎯 Wisdom means knowing what is within your power and what is not within your control - 5:41
🎯 For Thanksgiving to be meaningful, excellent, and acceptable, it must be communicated with the right attitude and can not just be lip service- 6:18
🎯Your Thanksgiving can not be complete if the recipient does not know the depth of your gratitude and your appreciation - 6:36 
🎯 It is well pleasing to give thanks - 6:57
🎯 Genuine Thanksgiving and appreciation are not only pleasing to the one receiving it but also motivate that person to do more - 7:19
🎯 A lack of gratitude and appreciation leaves you feeling unappreciated and provides little motivation to want to do more - 7:43
🎯 Thanksgiving is the Will of God, and when you give Him thanks, you please Him- 8:59
🎯 Training your heart to give thanks does many good things - 9:54
🎯 Thanksgiving gives the proper perspective; it allows you to look beyond your present circumstances, puts you in God’s Will for your life, and positions you to receive all God has in store for you - 10:12
🎯 When you understand that God controls your life, your first and natural impulse would always be thanksgiving even when things do not go the way you want them to - 11:11
🎯Thanksgiving gives peace of mind - 12:22
🎯 Thanksgiving is the voice of faith - 13:42
🎯 A grateful heart is a faith-filled heart - 14:00
🎯 Peace comes after thanksgiving and not before - 14:49
🎯 Thanksgiving deepens your faith - 15:22
🎯 Keeping a record of God’s past faithfulness is a faith boost when you face new difficulties -15:36
🎯 Thanksgiving has significant power to bring joy and to break the enemy’s strength - 16:12
🎯 Don’t compare yourself to others; comparison is a trap that you must avoid at all costs; it can only lead down the road of unhappiness and discontentment - 17:11
🎯 Thankfulness is a key that turns situations around because it changes us, our outlook, and our attitude - 17:37
🎯 Thanksgiving brings contentment - 17:48
🎯 Contentment does not come from getting more; it comes from being happy with what you already have - 18:57