Psalms 107:1-3
1 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever!
2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so,
whom he has redeemed from trouble
3 and gathered in from the lands,
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.

Gratitude! Thankfulness! Is there a difference? yes!
Over the last few days and the month, I have had to adjust my mentality regarding the word “thanks” or thank you because of the overwhelming gratitude that wells up in me for the love, support, encouragement, and blessings I received on my jubilee birthday.
The bible talks a lot about having a thankful heart but sadly few habitually do so, we leave in a generation with a deep sense of entitlement and no spirit of appreciation.
No one has a right to expect anything from another, especially when they don’t appreciate anything done for them or accord others what they expect.
If you can’t appreciate the person the Lord uses to bless you and if it’s too much to say thank you to a human being, how would you appreciate and thank the God you don’t see for all He does for you?
According to Psalm 50:23, the Lord says the one who shows gratitude glorifies Him. Do you? How? Some only appreciate big gestures, extravagant sentiments, and expensive gifts, how about saying thank you to the bus driver who drove you to your destination. What about the colleague who made your job a little easier or quicker? Do you say thank you to the market seller or cashier for doing an excellent job of serving you?
Give thanks instructs 1 Thessalonians 5:18, there should be a difference of a high standard of gratitude from believers, not mere lip services.
I was overwhelmed by love, blessings, and gifts for my birthday. A surprise planned by a select few wonderful children of God, including my children, just to bless me without my knowledge, completely changed my mind set about thank you.
Thanks! A very important and much-needed word but so often an inadequate word.
A six-letter word that is insufficient to express gratitude for the actions.
My experience gave me a new understanding of Paul’s action in Ephesians 1:16. When you are bursting with gratitude and have no way of expressing it to your satisfaction, you find yourself praying for the parties concerned.
Why was Jesus so interested in the one returning leper in Luke 17:15-17? After all, one came back! Jesus, through this, made us aware of how important gratitude is to him.
Gratitude is an attitude!
Thanksgiving is the Action of that attitude.
Gratitude is the divine gracious influence upon the heart and its reflection in life.
Are you a grateful person? Do you have an attitude of gratitude?
This was what the one leper had, which is why he was made whole-gratitude.
Our psalm is a call to give thanks to God and the repeated theme of His mercy endures forever tells us plainly that it is the Lord’s mercy speaking in, for and over us.
I have said so many thank you that I’ve been told to stop but I can’t stop, just as I can’t stop asking the Lord to bless all concerned and keep thanking Him for their lives.
Gratitude is a key, it is whatever you want it to be and whatever the recipient wants it to be. The more you show gratitude, the more Father opens doors and blesses you, according to Acts 24:3, accept things with gratitude, not an entitlement.
Shalom