Tilling the Soil of the Heart: Thankfulness
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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
As we continue this week focusing on tilling the soil of our hearts, today we’re going to look at the role of thankfulness in opening our hearts to receive all that God longs to give. While Scripture is filled with encouragements to be thankful, I think our own lived experience tells us that being thankful is essential in the pursuit of an abundant life. So may God remind us of all we have to be thankful for today as we make space to meet with him. And may our days be better as the result of taking just a few moments to be thankful for who we are, what we have, and all God has done for us as his beloved children.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue this week, focusing on tilling the soil of our hearts. |
| 0:09.0 | Today we're going to look at the role of thankfulness in opening our hearts to receive all that God longs to give. |
| 0:17.0 | While Scripture is filled with encouragement to be thankful, I think our own lived experience |
| 0:24.0 | tells us that being thankful is essential in the pursuit of an abundant life. So may God remind us of |
| 0:31.5 | all we have to be thankful for today as we make space to meet with him. And may our days be better as the result of taking just a few |
| 0:41.0 | moments to be thankful for who we are, what we have, and all God has done for us as his beloved |
| 0:48.4 | children. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our verse for today comes from Psalm 107 verse 1, Scripture says, |
| 1:20.6 | Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. |
| 1:30.3 | Thankfulness is one of the most powerful tools |
| 1:36.3 | in making our hearts both soft to the seed of God's Word |
| 1:40.3 | and filled with abundant joy. |
| 1:51.7 | Thanksgiving aligns our thoughts and emotions with the reality of God's goodness in a world wrought with lies about the character of God. |
| 1:55.8 | It breeds joy and trust rather than entitlement and negativity. |
| 2:02.3 | With each declaration of thankfulness, |
| 2:05.0 | you dig a shovel into the hard, rocky soil of your heart |
| 2:09.5 | and churn it over until it becomes receptive to the fullness of God |
| 2:14.8 | and filled with the fruit of the Spirit. |
| 2:19.8 | The Bible is laden with commands to be thankful. |
| 2:24.2 | Ephesians 520 tells us to be giving thanks always and for everything |
| 2:30.1 | to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 2:35.0 | Philippians 4-6 tells us, |
| 2:38.0 | Do not be anxious about anything, |
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