OFFER SACRIFICE OF THANKSGIVING UNTO GOD

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE for Thursday, 1ST SEPTEMBER, 2022.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE - General Overseer

Topic: OFFER SACRIFICE OF THANKSGIVING UNTO GOD

MEMORIZE: "I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works." Psalms 9:1.

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 50:14-15

¹⁴ Offer to God thanksgiving, And pay your vows to the Most High. ¹⁵ Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me."

EXPOSITION:

Appreciating is supplicating. When you thank God, you will get more. Many people today found it uneasy to thank God but easy to pray, expressing their expectations before God. Why? They are fond of comparing themselves with others who are more successful than them. They always forget to think otherwise, examine countless others that they are better than. Since the year began, many healthy people have died without notice. Many smart guys have been implicated. Many sources of income have become dried, thereby exposing the owners to starvation/hardship. You may be crying you don't have money, house, dream-car, beautiful or wealthy spouse or family background,... etc, but have think of grace to sleep easily without routine medication? Have you think of NOT BEING a victim of rubbery, kidnapping, accident, lose of children, fire outbreak, sea storm, plane crash, etc. Even despite you don't know the source of the food stuff we are buying in the market, yet God in faithfulness has been protecting us. He that watches over us is neither slumber nor sleep - Psalm 121. If you can think deep, you will know that though we are not where we should be, we are not stagnant. God is moving us gradually to the land of fruitfulness and fulfillment. We shall get to our promised land easier and faster through our heart of thanksgiving. 

We should learn to praise God unconditionally and at all times; not only when things are going on smoothly. Even over what you called "your failure", praise God. Sometimes, what we called failure might be God's way of preserving us for a glorious future. Don't forget that it will take the grace of God for a premature child to survive, unlike any mature baby that grow without stress. The dream released prematurely may not survive persecution in the hand of the sworn enemy of destiny. Stop blaming God or someone else over your fallure, instead, praise God for everything and pray for divine guidance unto greatness and honor in life. Instead of concentrating on what God is yet to do, thank God. He will then do what you cannot do.  

PRAYER POINT: Praise God for your journey since January 1st till today 1st of September. It is never by your power or righteousness, it has been by God's intervention. 

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Lamentation 1-3

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