Ep. 44: When Gratitude Feels Hard (Our Actions Must Lead Our Feelings)
M Is for Mama Podcast
Abbie Halberstadt
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt like you have nothing to be grateful for? That your circumstances are too miserable to bear and that any attempt at thankfulness would be faking it?
The Bible makes it clear that it is God’s will for us to practice continual thankfulness, and yet it also gives us lots of room for grief and sadness when life is so hard.
Be encouraged that it is really is possible to honor God with our gratitude, even when we feel too weak to praise Him and even when our emotions feel the opposite of thankful.
In this episode, we talk about a perspective shift that helps us to view gratitude rightly and to view even the most frustrating people in our lives through a lens of thankfulness.
Praise God that He honors even our stumbling toward obedience in this area with the ability to keep going on the narrow path, even when we don’t feel like we have the strength to take another step.
Bible References:
Psalm 127:3
Lamentations 3:22-23
Romans 6:1-2
Ephesians 4:2
2 Corinthians 10:5
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
1 Peter 2:23
Deuteronomy 31:6
2 Corinthians 9:11
Romans 7:19-25
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the MS-Mama podcast I'm your host Abby Halberstadt |
| 0:08.8 | happy wife mama to 10 Bible believing Christian and today's podcast, we're going to talk about |
| 0:14.6 | thankfulness and gratitude and how to do that even when you don't feel like it. But before we get |
| 0:18.9 | started, I want to highlight our brand new podcast sponsor, Milk and Honey Jewelry. |
| 0:24.0 | It's a small family-owned business that is run by two mamas |
| 0:27.7 | and several other Christian women that work with them. |
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| 0:44.1 | want multiple memories to keep and wear and enjoy you can do that. I loved the |
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