A Thankful Heart: The Best Evidence of the Holy Spirit

In this special Thanksgiving episode of Fostering Faith, Tracie shares how the fruit of the Spirit comes together in one unmistakable evidence of a Spirit-filled life: a thankful, grateful heart. Using Scripture as the foundation, she explores what the Bible says about gratitude in passages such as Ephesians 5:18–20, where Paul teaches that being filled with the Spirit results in “always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

She also highlights 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18, where believers are commanded to “rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and in everything give thanks, for this is God’s will,” and Colossians 3:15–17, where Paul teaches that the peace of Christ should rule in our hearts and that followers of Jesus should “be thankful” and do everything “giving thanks through Him to God the Father.”

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