GRATITUDE FORGIVES
In true gratitude, there is an element of forgiveness. We cannot claim to be truly grateful to God without expressing the same character that He expressed to us towards others.
Author: About Isaiah Macwealth
DON’T CRY, PRAISE!
The natural response to being rejected or being in pain is to cry out or struggle to find respite. When in tight situations, praising God might be the last thing that comes to mind, but in the case of Paul and Silas, their response did not correlate to their circumstance at all. They chose to pray and sing praises to the Lord. How amazing!
PREPARE AN OFFERING
One of the ways we have learnt to appreciate our loved ones is by presenting them with gifts. This is an attempt to express how much they mean to us. With those gifts, we create a memorial of our love and commitment to them.
SHOW GRATITUDE TO OTHERS
Gratitude does not only end with God. It is important to learn to appreciate specific people who have played a vital role in your life. This group of persons, according to our opening text today, are referred to as ‘fathers and mothers’.
EXPRESS YOUR GRATITUDE WITH JOY
God desires to establish joy as the foundation of your walk with him. The Bible says we are to approach His presence with singing and rejoicing and serve Him with gladness , underlining how important joy is to our walk with Him. In fact, every time you are joyful, you take another step into the tabernacles of God.
DO NOT FORGET
Thanksgiving is not a one-off thing; true appreciation never ends. However, many persons find it difficult to remember, not to talk of thanking the LORD for a blessing received in the past.
SANCTIFY THROUGH THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving separates us and the object of our thanksgiving unto God. It is a declaration that the one being ‘thanked’ is the source of the object of your thanksgiving.
ENROLL FOR GOD’S REMEMBRANCE
To magnify means to make something big; like a magnifying glass in a laboratory. When a thing is magnified, it does not become big in an actual sense; rather it becomes big to our sight.
MAGNIFY GOD
To magnify means to make something big; like a magnifying glass in a laboratory. When a thing is magnified, it does not become big in an actual sense; rather it becomes big to our sight.
THANKSGIVING PERFECTS
The be made “perfect” is to be made “complete, whole and lacking nothing”. It also means “excellent, flawless, finished and entire”. The prayer of thanksgiving perfects what God has begun to do in our lives.