Although gratitude and thanksgiving are often used interchangeably, they are actually different.
Thanksgiving is a response to getting what we want while gratitude is the condition of delight in what we have.
As our soul comes alive with God's presence and we begin a personal relationship with Him, we begin to delight in everything in our life; gratitude, then, becomes an ever-present condition of our heart.
1 John 3:1 "See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him."
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