TOPIC: THANKSGIVING
TEXT: Malachi 2:1
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. 2:2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Memory Verse: Psalms 67:5
Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
FOCUS
Today, we are looking at Thanksgiving as another way God prospers people. What is thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is acknowledging what God has done. Anytime you refuse to thank God, you have sign in for a life of waste. God doesn’t joke with thanksgiving because everything He bless you with, He is aware.
You remember the parable of the talent, He gave five, two and one and when He came back, there was no mix up. So, God will not ask you to thank Him for what He has not done, He will ask you to thank Him for what He has done. A song writer says; for what the Lord has done, I will sing halleluyah.
God wants you to thank Him for what He has done in your life from the day you were born till now. We have so many things to thank God for; we have to thank Him for provision, protection, preservation and so many other things. Thanksgiving is not a joke, it must be taken as a business, a serious matter.
God doesn’t want us to thank Him shabbily but with the whole of our heart. He doesn’t want us to play hypocrisy but to thank Him with all our heart, to return all the glory back to Him especially when He has done you well. He doesn’t want you to look at Him and ask what has He done. Thanksgiving is one way God prospers us.
LESSON
Mark 6:40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. 6:41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all. 6:42 And they did all eat, and were filled. 6:43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes. 6:44 And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
The more we thank Him, the more He will bless us. The more we give Him praise, the more blesses. Thanksgiving increases your blessing. You remember when Jesus was confronted with feeding give thousand men, He gave thanks and the Lord multiplied the loaves and fishes to the extent they has twelve baskets left.
Thanksgiving is not a joke. God does not want us to live in penury, He wants us to be grateful for His blessings upon our life. If we are not grateful, then we are great fools. Gratitude takes you to an altitude you cannot imagine. When they were faced with the challenge of food in the desert, He asked them to sit down, took the bread and fish gave thanks and everything became surplus. That is what thanksgiving can do. Stay Blessed!
PERSONAL CONFESSION
I receive grace to keep thanking God in all things.
PRAYER FOCUS
Father deliver me from ingratitude in the Name of Jesus Christ.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Only a fool will not be grateful.
Nothing brings multiplication like Thanksgiving.