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The Power of Being Thankful: 365 Devotions for Discovering the Strength of Gratitude
New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer believes that giving thanks to God daily will positively impact our lives. When we pause to acknowledge His blessings it restores us to a state of spiritual peace.
In this 365 day devotional, Joyce offers an inspiring message that will spark an attitude of gratitude in our hearts. Through uplifting Scripture, she illustrates God's never-ending love, inexhaustible grace, and always-accessible presence in our lives. As we develop a renewed outlook, we will better recognize and be further blessed by God's abundant goodness.
Each devotion will also include a prayer of thanks, so that we may begin every day ready to receive the transforming power of a thankful heart.
752 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2014
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About the author
Joyce Meyer
1,624 books3,919 followersJoyce Meyer is a New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's leading Bible teachers. Through Joyce Meyer Ministries, she teaches practically and candidly, openly sharing her experiences and helping millions of people to apply biblical principles to their situations and ultimately find hope and restoration through Jesus Christ. Her book Battlefield of the Mind has been a perennial bestseller, teaching people how to win the war in their minds and “think about what they think about.”
Joyce’s Enjoying Everyday Life program is broadcast to millions worldwide in 114 languages. She has also authored over 150 books, which have been translated into over 170 combined languages, including Battlefield of the Mind, which has sold over 7 million copies across the globe. We’ve also distributed over 43.5 million books around the world.
A survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Joyce discovered how to overcome the emotional pain of her troubled past and experience true joy, hope, and healing by applying God’s Word to her life. Her passion is to help others do the same. For more than 40 years, Joyce has held conferences across the United States and around the world, teaching God’s Word and sharing the message of Christ with millions. Joyce also encourages millions each day through social media and online efforts and resources at joycemeyer.org
Joyce’s passion to help people who are hurting is the foundation of Hand of Hope, the missions arm of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Each year, Hand of Hope provides millions of meals for the hungry and malnourished, installs freshwater wells in poor and remote areas, provides critical relief after natural disasters, and offers free medical and dental care to thousands through their hospitals and clinics worldwide. Through their Project GRL initiative, they rescue women and children from human trafficking, provide safe places where they can receive an education and nutritious meals, and seek to let all girls everywhere know they are loved and valued by God.
In 2023, Joyce founded Hope Mountain Ranch, an 800-acre refuge in Mount Pleasant, Utah. Inspired by her own personal journey, Hope Mountain Ranch is a place where people can experience the transformative power of God and find hope and healing. It also serves as the hub for Joyce Meyer Ministries’ outreaches across the United States.
Joyce’s Enjoying Everyday Life program is broadcast to millions worldwide in 114 languages. She has also authored over 150 books, which have been translated into over 170 combined languages, including Battlefield of the Mind, which has sold over 7 million copies across the globe. We’ve also distributed over 43.5 million books around the world.
A survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Joyce discovered how to overcome the emotional pain of her troubled past and experience true joy, hope, and healing by applying God’s Word to her life. Her passion is to help others do the same. For more than 40 years, Joyce has held conferences across the United States and around the world, teaching God’s Word and sharing the message of Christ with millions. Joyce also encourages millions each day through social media and online efforts and resources at joycemeyer.org
Joyce’s passion to help people who are hurting is the foundation of Hand of Hope, the missions arm of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Each year, Hand of Hope provides millions of meals for the hungry and malnourished, installs freshwater wells in poor and remote areas, provides critical relief after natural disasters, and offers free medical and dental care to thousands through their hospitals and clinics worldwide. Through their Project GRL initiative, they rescue women and children from human trafficking, provide safe places where they can receive an education and nutritious meals, and seek to let all girls everywhere know they are loved and valued by God.
In 2023, Joyce founded Hope Mountain Ranch, an 800-acre refuge in Mount Pleasant, Utah. Inspired by her own personal journey, Hope Mountain Ranch is a place where people can experience the transformative power of God and find hope and healing. It also serves as the hub for Joyce Meyer Ministries’ outreaches across the United States.
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November 28, 2014
New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer believes that giving thanks to God daily will positively impact our lives. When we pause to acknowledge His blessings it restores us to a state of spiritual peace.
In this 365 day devotional, Joyce offers an inspiring message that will spark an attitude of gratitude in our hearts. Through uplifting Scripture, she illustrates God's never-ending love, inexhaustible grace, and always-accessible presence in our lives. As we develop a renewed outlook, we will better recognize and be further blessed by God's abundant goodness.
Each devotion will also include a prayer of thanks, so that we may begin every day ready to receive the transforming power of a thankful heart.
-- My thoughts. We all need this EVERY day. Not just on Thanksgiving. If we focused every single day on what we were thankful for, instead of the negative, what positivity would come from your life! Your choice! You make it every single day. Today's devotion, confidence and negativity do not mix, like oil and water. She is so right. Every day, the devotions are not long. Just 5 minutes people. That is just something to chew on all day long, great way to start your day off.
Like she says, whether you want to look at things through God's eyes, or Satan's, you make the choice. Gratitude. Choose it. Every. Single. Day.
I received this book in the from the publisher from the Goodreads first reads program.
In this 365 day devotional, Joyce offers an inspiring message that will spark an attitude of gratitude in our hearts. Through uplifting Scripture, she illustrates God's never-ending love, inexhaustible grace, and always-accessible presence in our lives. As we develop a renewed outlook, we will better recognize and be further blessed by God's abundant goodness.
Each devotion will also include a prayer of thanks, so that we may begin every day ready to receive the transforming power of a thankful heart.
-- My thoughts. We all need this EVERY day. Not just on Thanksgiving. If we focused every single day on what we were thankful for, instead of the negative, what positivity would come from your life! Your choice! You make it every single day. Today's devotion, confidence and negativity do not mix, like oil and water. She is so right. Every day, the devotions are not long. Just 5 minutes people. That is just something to chew on all day long, great way to start your day off.
Like she says, whether you want to look at things through God's eyes, or Satan's, you make the choice. Gratitude. Choose it. Every. Single. Day.
I received this book in the from the publisher from the Goodreads first reads program.
April 19, 2016
I loved this book. I am going to buy it for my digital collection. It had so many good ideas for being thankful.
December 31, 2017
I've never used a devotional before, but I chose Joyce Meyer as I tend to like how she explains things.
I have been reading this every day for a year and although there is obviously some repetition, on the whole there is something though provoking each day.
I have been reading this every day for a year and although there is obviously some repetition, on the whole there is something though provoking each day.
December 29, 2014
I have been a fan of Joyce Meyer for quite some time because her down to earth practical teaching methods really resonate with me. I always like to start the new year with a new devotional and this year I plan on using The Power of Being Thankful, after all we should be thankful every day of the year! The Power of Being Thankful is one year's worth of thankful thoughts that will hopefully give the user a new perspective on life, focusing on what God has blessed us with. Each day's devotional starts out with a scripture verse, a devotion and then closes with a prayer. I have sampled several of the devotions and each one makes me feel like Ms. Meyer is actually talking to me. A beautiful cover caught my eye with this one, but it is the life changing devotionals that make this a wonderful addition to my daily devotional time. I will say this sturdy little book would make a wonderful gift for anyone who might need a little spiritual boost daily. A new attitude of gratitude is what I hope to achieve in the New Year and I think The Power of Being Thankful will help me achieve that goal!
December 31, 2015
I very much enjoyed this devotional. It really reminded me how to be thankful all year long, not just at thanksgiving. It showed me how to find reasons to be thankful in the every day, not just for the big things. This devotion was verybuplifting and I honestly found myself sad it was over even though I have mine lined up for next year already!
February 2, 2022
Insightful and some of the devotionals were very thought provoking. I tagged my favorite ones to go back and read again for a quick bit of inspiration on days I seem to feel more like complaining than being thankful.
June 15, 2016
I couldn't finish this book, because I expected much more. to me prayers were very similar to each other
July 12, 2015
Typical Joyce Meyer. Daily devotional thought and scripture revolving around the theme of gratitude. A great way to start or end each day.
August 27, 2015
really great inspirational. ..I listened to it...want to buy the book for daily use.
November 28, 2015
It is a book that you will read every day. I will be re-reading it starting again in the new year.
December 30, 2015
Wonderful devotion!
December 31, 2015
I love Joyce's devotionals. I've just downloaded the new one for 2016. Happy new year!
June 21, 2021
I found this devotional to be very helpful. I struggle to have a thankful attitude often, as much as I wish that was not so I seem to be a glass half empty person. I need daily reminders to keep my mind in a place of gratitude because in reality I have much to be thankful for I just seem to have trouble keeping my mind focused on those things. This little devotional was a great tool to help me do just that. Highly recommend.
December 30, 2020
I've been reading this each morning for a few years now. It is a lovely book and a great way to start the day, thinking of things for which I am grateful. Helps me to start off in a positive frame of mind. Even having read this before, I still find something new to ponder each time I go through it.
It sounds to me like Joyce Meyer had a rough life. I have been very blessed in mine. I think folks that had a more challenging childhood than mine might get an extra something from this book.
It sounds to me like Joyce Meyer had a rough life. I have been very blessed in mine. I think folks that had a more challenging childhood than mine might get an extra something from this book.
December 31, 2022
Gratitude opens God’s door and close the enemy’s doors in our lives
It's so easy to find reasons to complain about everyday life, which allows Satan to distract us and take a foot in our lives to try to steal, kill and destroy.
But with this book I enjoyed 365 days of Gratitude, reading scripture, and praying.
It's so easy to find reasons to complain about everyday life, which allows Satan to distract us and take a foot in our lives to try to steal, kill and destroy.
But with this book I enjoyed 365 days of Gratitude, reading scripture, and praying.
December 31, 2024
I appreciated the daily messages and consistency of the focus on gratitude. This was the first devotional I found I stuck with daily cover to cover. I just ordered another devotional by Joyce Meyer for 2025.
January 3, 2020
This is a great devotional. Many days the message was perfectly time for what was happening in my life. I will be using this devotional again in 2020 along with a few others.
December 31, 2021
Very good yearly devotional!! Positive and motivating.
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September 23, 2022365 dated devotions - Begins with a bible verse, very short devotion read, and then a prayer
December 30, 2022
Highly recommend this yearly devotional! Great daily reminders of God's Word and to remember to be thankful in all situations.
December 31, 2022
Excellent Devotional
I throughly enjoyed this devotional. Joyce Meyer shares good thoughts with each scripture and I loved the prayers she had at the end of each day.
I throughly enjoyed this devotional. Joyce Meyer shares good thoughts with each scripture and I loved the prayers she had at the end of each day.
December 31, 2022
One Joyce Meyer's better daily devotional books.
January 1, 2023
Good daily devotionals.
December 26, 2025
This was my book on my desk and all year I would read before beginning work. What a wonderful and peaceful way to begin each day - with Jesus and putting things into perspective.
December 31, 2025
I read this book because it was my mom's. I remember getting it for her YEARS ago because she loved Joyce Meyer. It was a good read in a hard season for me.
January 1, 2026
Joyce's books always inspire in a realistic mode!
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December 27, 2021It's perfectly fine as a regular devotional, but I don't think it serves its purpose of instilling more gratitude in the reader. Most of the devotions are very loosely connected to being thankful, like there wasn't enough content from her other books to fill the book. Each one seemed to boil down to "just be thankful". The most valuable part is probably the prayers at the end, thanking God. I didn't finish it.
February 26, 2017
Spent a helpful year with this devotional. It is not ground breaking, but it is grounding. My advice would be to mark (and mark the index) as to which ones are particularly helpful for future reference. Don't rely on your memory to pluck things out from a year's worth of devotions with a similar theme.
December 31, 2016
Total Attitude Adjustment
I have read this book through two years in a row. It has helped me have a change in heart. A thankful heart is a peaceful, content heart. I love how looking at my life with a thankful attitude has made me a better person. I find myself pondering these little devotionals and related scriptures all day. I will be reading it through again!
I have read this book through two years in a row. It has helped me have a change in heart. A thankful heart is a peaceful, content heart. I love how looking at my life with a thankful attitude has made me a better person. I find myself pondering these little devotionals and related scriptures all day. I will be reading it through again!
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