22/01/2024
Message Title: *Understanding the Wonders of Thanksgiving (Pt. 2)*
Ministering: *Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr.*
As long as you still have life, God demands praise from you.
Thanksgiving is a divine commandment.
- Ps. 150:6
The more you engage with God’s commandments, the more He furnishes you.
Furnishing is for comfort, convenience, and enjoyment.
Understanding is not a product of intellectual exertion, rather God opens the eyes of our understanding.
There is a demand for understanding in the midst of praise.
Thanksgiving is a continuous debt that we owe.
Both as an individual and as a church, we owe God the debt of thanks.
If it is a good thing, then it is from God.
Give God thanks for every good thing in your life.
Any day you were not consumed in tears or sorrow was a day of mercy. - Lam. 3:22,
Ps. 127:2; 23:6
Therefore, God deserves your thanks every day.
Satan planned for you to eat the bread of sorrow daily but God showed you mercy.
Any day you are not consumed is a day of mercy.
No matter what has happened at any point in time, God is good!
The preservation of your blessing is at the mercy of thanksgiving.
Whatever blessing God gives will take God to keep.
For your blessings to be preserved, you must maintain an attitude of gratitude.
Whatever you are continuously thankful for, God preserves.
If you do not have God as your defense, then you lack defense.
If God takes His hands off your life, you are left defenseless.
No strategy can keep the blessings of God upon your life; it takes God to preserve your blessings. -Job. 1:10
To keep the blessing, you must keep the blesser and to keep the blesser, you must keep giving thanks.
*Why Do We Give God Thanks?*
1. It is a debt that we owe. - 2 Thess. 2:13
2. We owe God thanks for every good thing He has done for us.
- Eph. 5:20, Jam. 1:17
3. We owe God timely thanks to have our blessings preserved. - Job 1:8-10
4. It provokes supernatural multiplication.
- Deut. 1:11, Jer. 30:19
