Ministering: Pastor Shola Awobajo.
Text: 1 Thess. 5:16-18.
” 16 Rejoice evermore. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” KJV.
We are still in the season of Thanksgiving in North America. Thanksgiving is symbolic of Harvest. Psalm 67:5-6 says “Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You. 6 Then the earth shall yield her increase; God, our own God, shall bless us. Hab. 3:16-18 enjoins us to be thankful even if the Year has not gone has planned.
What is Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is a call to Worship and show appreciation to God in recognition of all He has done. Thanksgiving is adoring God as the Giver and Preserver of life. Psalm 150 enjoins everything that has breath to Praise The LORD.
Ingredients of Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving must be expressed to God – Ps. 100:1
- Thanksgiving comes with service (serving The Lord with gladness) – Ps. 100:2
- Acknowledge Him as the Living God Who made you. Ps. 100:3
Results of Ingratitude
- An ungrateful heart is capable of evil imagination and works. Cain is a sorrowful example.
- An ungrateful heart breeds envy, jealousy and covetousness – 1 John 3:12
- An ungrateful heart brings harm to itself. Malachi 2:1-2. Recognize your life is borrowed one from your Maker.
- An ungrateful heart leads to dryness – Matt. 25:28
- An ungrateful attitude will forestall your progress. Gen. 4:11-13
What a Grateful Heart Does?
- A grateful heart will ever return to show gratitude – Luke 17:15-16
- It is easy for a grateful heart to always submit to God. The one grateful Leper came to submit to the Lord
In closing, Habakkuk 3 says “Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food; though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls— 18 Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
God Bless You!
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