{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Faith","title":"Gratitude Week 4 // Gratitude is a Choice //. Tim Lovell // November 23, 2025","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2363,"description":"Gratitude Week 4 // Gratitude is a Choice Gratitude is a Choice Gratitude is a Disposition Romans 1:20-22 (NIV)“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.” 2 Corinthians 4:4, 6-11, 16-18 (NIV)“The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God… For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted but not abandoned; struck down but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body… Therefore, we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So, we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” Gratitude Doesn’t Depend on Circumstances, but it Determines How We See Circumstances… Psalm 136 (NIV)Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.His love endures forever.Give thanks to the God of gods.His love endures forever.Give thanks to the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xe5ZmqsbRK_eg3Aa1aaHkwMagjXYQWPYjJYhv8jTcBI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMDUw/MGUwMDE1NzNlYTc4/ZWM2Y2YzZWJjMjQy/MmQ2Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}