Thankfulness [Gratitude] Is the Lynchpin To Happiness/Joy

This is a short excerpt from a Dennis Prager "Fireside Chat" (Ep. 239 — Essential Lessons: Gratitude: https://youtu.be/NlMWqEW43vE?si=lusLZd1md2UpYVp7) as an addition to my turn at teaching a section for an early AM (weekly) book study at church. The book is John MacArthur’s “1 and 2 Thessalonians and Titus: Living Faithfully in View of Christ's Coming,” my portion was chapter six.

The previous guys have always tried to get through all the questions in order, but we all bloviate a bit -- I mean, it is a bunch of guys hanging together. So, I decided to -- instead of going sequentially through the questions in the study book -- camp out on a couple verses/topics. I made notes of where my thoughts were going from the text, which was 1st Thessalonians 5:12-28 (PDF: https://tinyurl.com/ysny9szk)

But this audio served as an excellent addition to a point I was making, which is in verses:

16 𝑅𝑒𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠,
17 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦,
18 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔.

I see these verses in similar fashion to the audio. The unthankful are not happy. And in the Christian faith, we have an awful lot to be thankful of. See my SEDERS post: "Keeping Our Christian Identity Through 'Seders'" (https://tinyurl.com/z22ncum9), especially points 4 and 5.

AS WELL AS my post for this audio:

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐒 𝐈 𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒 (some more often than others):

𝑀𝑌 𝑂𝐿𝐷 𝑌𝑂𝑈𝑇𝑈𝐵𝐸: https://www.youtube.com/@PapaGiorgio200/videos
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