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GIVING THANKS AND PRAISES UNTO GOD. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10
TEXT: EPHESIANS 5: 20-27
Key verse: “In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” 1Thessalonians 5:18.
In everything give thanks and praise to God. This is what God desires from His children. Our thanks and praise should ascend to God in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in everything, good or evil; in pleasure or in pain, in the joy of life or in the dread of death. God requires this from every believer. It is good for the Christian. However praise and thanksgiving to God is often forgotten by men in times of peace, prosperity and pleasure. The scripture warns every child of God against this transgression and costly forgetfulness, Deuteronomy 7:6-25. To forget to give God praise and thanks in your good times deprives your soul of humility and fills it instead with pride of self. The heart of the one who forgets God in his achievements claims that he got it by his inherent powers, wisdom, ability, and connections. Or he may ascribe the glory to other human beings, or even to demons; Daniel 4:30; Esther 5:11-12. Never fail to give God praise and thanks for all the good things in your life; they come from Him and He wants you to realize this and appreciate Him. James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Thank Him for the knowledge, wisdom, understanding, connections, human helps, open doors, favours, and grace He has given you. Praise and thanksgiving to God is a scriptural command, instruction and counsel. God wants us to praise Him when things are hard, unpleasant, and ugly, whether imagined or real. “Why should God be praised for what Satan has done?” as in the case of Job. The wisest thing is to heed the command and instruction of scripture, at your hard and difficult times: praise God; thank God; worship God. Job demonstrated this truth to us according to the account of the scripture concerning him. He praised and worshiped God in the worst situation of his life. His wife wondered at such attitude. The Lord wants us to learn this from the life of Job, Romans 15:4. Our situation may not be as terrible as Job's. If he praised and worshipped God when the days were dark to him, we too can praise God in our dark days. Job 1:20-22: Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped… blessed be the name of the LORD. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. By this he gave Satan a great blow, frustration and defeat.
Thought for the day: Job's wife wandered at his attitude of worshipping God at his worst time
Song for the day: Praise God Alleluia, Praise God Amen....
Bible Reading for the day: Lamentations 1-2; Hebrews 7


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