How to Change from Grumbling to Gratitude
A New Season of Gratitude:
Why Should I Develop the Habit of Gratitude?
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Gratitude makes you happier.
Gratitude makes you more likeable.
Gratitude makes you healthier.
Gratitude lets God answer more of your
prayers.
“Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what
you need, and thank him for all he has done.”
Philippians 4:6 (New Living Translation)
God’s Take on Complaining
"How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard
the complaints of these grumbling Israelites. So tell them, 'As surely as I live,
declares the Lord, I will do to you the very things I heard you say: In this
desert your bodies will fall--every one of you twenty years old or more who
was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.”
Numbers 14:27-29 (New International Version)
All grumbling is ultimately against God.
“Don't grumble as some of them did, for that is why God sent his angel of
death to destroy them. All these events happened to them as examples for
us. They were written down to warn us.”
1 Corinthians 10:10-11 (NLT)
“I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation,
whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.”
Philippians 4:12 (NIV)
“Thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you
who belong to Christ Jesus to live.”
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (The Message)
1. Give thanks for every meal.
2. Write ten things today for which you are
grateful.
“This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad [be
grateful] in it.”
Psalm 118:24 (New American Standard Bible)
“Be content with what you have.”
Hebrews 13:5 (NIV)
“Beware! Don't be greedy for what you don't have. Real life is not
measured by how much we own."
Luke 12:15 (NLT)
3. Send three people a thank you note.
4. Sing to the Lord.
“It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to the Most High.”
Psalm 92:1 (NLT)
“Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give
thanks to him and praise his name.”
Psalm 100:4 (NIV)
Why Do You Grumble?
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1. Family habit.
"Some people have no happiness at all; they live and die with a bitter heart."
Job 21:25 (Good News)
"Watch out that no bitterness takes root among you. . . it causes deep
trouble hurting many in their spiritual lives." Hebrews 12:15 (Living Bible)
2. Feeling someone violated your rights.
5. When bad things happen, give thanks for the
good that will come. Romans 8:28
6. Remember: Every problem has a purpose--and
that purpose is a person.