WHY MUST WE GIVE GOD THANKS -Dr. ENITIOLORUNDA ABIOLA-IDRIS

WHY MUST WE GIVE GOD THANKS

1.     It is pleasing to God(It is his will for us to give thanks to him in every situation)(1^st Thessalonians 5:18)

2.     Faith and thanksgiving work together (When Jesus healed the ten lepers, only one of them came back and thankedhim. Jesus told the man, his faith had made him whole) Remember without faith it is impossible to please God.(Luke 17 13:19)

3.     Avoid Curses(In the old testament ,God cursed those who would not glorify him with a thankful heart)(Malachi 2 1:2)

4.     Blessings of multiplication(Jesus gave thanks before he fed the multitudes, there were plenty of food left over)(John 6 11:14)

5.     Deliverance and Spiritual Power(When he raised Lazarus from the dead, he began by thanking God for always hearing him)(John 11 41:42)

6.     Heaven’s Attention (When you give God praises and thanks, he always shows up that’s the truth. When peter and john were released after been arrested and warned not to preach the gospel, they lifted their voices to God and praised him. After that, the place was shaken, they were filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke boldly. Acts 4 24:31)

When Paul and Silas were in prison,they sang and praised him, suddenly an earthquake shook the prison, the cell doors were open and their bonds were loosed. (Acts 16 25:26)

7.     God loves to be praised (He promises that when we praise him and thank him ,he would answer us before we call him, he would hear while we are still speaking)

8.     It’s the only thing he cannot do for himself; hitherto anyone who does it for him attracts generational blessings. Have you ever seen anyone that ever said thank me? It is way of showing gratitude when a hand of favour is offered.

9.     It is an instruction to praise him, if we do, he promises to bless us (psalm 67 5:6)

Many Christians today are grounded because they take praises and thanksgiving for granted. They do not know how to be thankful.

Remember ignorance is no excuse in law.

When the law of life is broken, there is no excuse.

They are his people, yes but they are suffering because they do not know what they need to know, while some know it but they do not practice it.

Remember anyone you do a favour to, and does not know how to show gratitude and appreciation, you are constrained on doing another favour to him/her. It’s only normal.

Thank you qualifies you for the next line of favour.

Consider this,when you pray, you give him a job to do ,when you fast, you give him a powerful work to do for you, but when you exalt and praise  his name and thank him , you are not asking him for anything, he does everything for you naturally.

Your degree of gratitude determines your altitude in life.

Gratitude determines your level of greatness in life.

The more grateful you are, the more colourful your destiny would be (Mark 6 21:26)

Thanksgiving is the currency of destiny.

Do you know what it means to envelope something or someone? It means to keep that thing or person. It means to preserve that thing. It means to protect that thing. It means to keep that thing. Now,I would like to tell you for free that God envelopes those who thank and praise him.

You can pray and miss but you cannot thank him and miss.

There is no spiritual force that is greater than the force of thanksgiving.

I see thanksgiving as a tool to employ in every situation.

He said let all the people praise thee,not some of the people, but all the people.

Someone sang this to him” I would enter his gates with thanksgiving in my heart, I would enter his courts with praise, I would say this is the day that the lord hath made, I would rejoice that he has made me glad”

     Have you praised and thanked him today?