Word for today

Word for today, 30/09/2016

TOPIC : THE POWER OF THANKSGIVING
NATURE : CHALLENGE
TEXT : PSALM 150

"Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord."

Many Christians are stranded today because they take God's grace for granted. Being on earth today and seeing the last day of the 9th month in 2016 is never by your power. God deserves to be appreciated and praised. The scriptures says, 'let everything that has breath praise God.' Most of us are ingrate; we thought it's by right that we are here on earth today, healthy and sound.

I tell you a mystery, if not for the grace of God that has found us, many of us would have been burning endlessly in hell today. Why not appreciate God for that!

Even David, a man after God's heart never took his sleeping and waking for granted. He did not attributed it to his fasting and prayers as many of us does these days. You hear believer saying, 'if not because I prayed and fasted'. If I may ask, who gave you the strength to fast and pray? Several of your age mates are there underneath the grave, many are in the hospital, wishing they had the kind of good health you're enjoying.

David said, 'I slept and I woke up because The Lord sustained me'. Not because my fasting and prayers sustained me. Psm3:5.

I tell you a mystery,

- Your degree of gratitude is what determines the greatness of your journey.
- Gratitude determines your altitude.
- The more grateful you are, the more colourful your destiny becomes.
- Thanksgiving is far more potent than prayers. It provokes God to act on your behalf, because He inhabit the praises of His people. Pastor E.A Adeboye said, 'when you pray, you do the fight; but when you praise, God does the fight.
- Praise is an open cheque to any smart believer.
- Thank you is what qualifies you for the next act of favour. **The parable of the ten lepers**
- God's presence envelops you when you praise. And God's presence is all you need to have the most triumphant ride in life. ROM 8:31
- Show me a man who's addicted to thanksgiving, and I will show you a man after God's heart.
- When God goes with you, everything goes great for you.
- When you pray, God hears; but when you praise, He comes down.
- Prayer has technicalities, but you don't need to quote scriptures to thank Him for what He has done, and to praise Him for who He is.
- Is any happy? Let him sing. James 5:13
- David praised his way into God's heart.
- People of Ammon, Moan and Mount Seir gathered to war against Judah in 2Chro 20. Praises was what made God to act on their behalf. The enemies helped in destroying themselves.
- Thank God for His act, praise Him for His personality. PSM 136
- Jesus, our Master gave thanks to God before the inexhaustible multiplicity came down on the loaves and fishes. John 6:11
- Thanksgiving is a catalyst that boost miracle.
- God reacts violently to people that appropriate His glory to themselves.
- You become a living wonder when you're lost in Thanksgiving.
- Gratitude provokes the release of fresh oil. Psm92
- Ingratitude is an expression of pride.
- We celebrate engracement in the kingdom of God, not achievement. Paul said, 'I am what I am by the grace of God.' 1Cor15:10
- God defines you as a FOOL when you cannot see Him at the events of your life.
- The humbler you are, the higher you fly; the meeker you are, the greater the journey becomes.

I challenge you today, be addicted to Thanksgiving and praise, and you'll see God's hands the more in your life. You can't run dry of inspiration when you always acknowledge that every good and perfect gift come from above (God).

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

1. What role did you play to be born?
2. You're nothing but GRASS without God's grace. And grass is to be trampled under foot by everyone.

ACTION POINT

Spend at least ten minutes to thank and praise God before you sleep tonight. Sing psalms, spiritual songs and hymns to Him. Not only today, but all the days of your life. Be addicted to praising and thanking Him for everything; food, breathe, health, grace, wisdom, rhemas, and so on....

Shalom! HAPPY NEW MONTH IN ADVANCE!

#NGAT

Hymn: Fanny Crosby

Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!
Sing, O Earth, His wonderful love proclaim!
Hail Him! hail Him! highest archangels in glory;
Strength and honor give to His holy Name!
Like a shepherd, Jesus will guard His children,
In His arms He carries them all day long:

Praise Him! Praise Him!
Tell of His excellent greatness.
Praise Him! Praise Him!
Ever in joyful song!

Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!
For our sins He suffered, and bled, and died.
He our Rock, our hope of eternal salvation,
Hail Him! hail Him! Jesus the Crucified.
Sound His praises! Jesus who bore our sorrows,
Love unbounded, wonderful, deep and strong.

Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!
Heav'nly portals loud with hosannas ring!
Jesus, Savior, reigneth forever and ever.
Crown Him! Crown Him! Prophet, and Priest, and King!
Christ is coming! over the world victorious,
Pow'r and glory unto the Lord belong.