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Thursday August 20, 2020
PILLARS OF KINGDOM PROSPERITY (7): THANKING
5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. 6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.Psalms 67:5-6 (KJV)
Thanking is the seventh unshakeable strategy for unlimited prosperity. Giving glory to God is your final step into the realm of unlimited prosperity. In Isaiah 51:1-2, God said, “look at Abraham. Watch and follow in his footsteps, then I will convert your wilderness into a garden of Eden.” Still talking about Abraham, Romans 4:18-20 says that Abraham was strong in faith, giving glory to God. It was his giving of glory that opened him up for his miracle. Nothing had happened, but he kept on giving glory to God, he considered not the deadness of his situation. Friend, you’re either thanking and giving glory to God or you are murmuring against Him. And the cheapest way out of murmuring is to be thankful. There’s no way you will not murmur if you’re not thankful. Abraham did not stagger at the promise of God. He was strong in faith, giving glory to God. He was thankful to God even before he saw what he was believing God for. He was able to do so by refusing to consider any contrary thing other than God who is faithful. To be thankful is to be fruitful, and to be thankless is to be fruitless! Until you become thankful, you don’t become fruitful. You don’t praise after the increase has come, but before; it is the praise that provokes the increase. Abraham gave glory to God and then God responded.
Every time you sit in the corner of your room wondering if God is still there, wondering if His Word can still be relied upon, wondering whether He is Who He says He is, or whether the preachers are just playing smart on you, you remain on the same spot. Everytime you’re cast down, you can’t go up. Those who look up to the sun don’t see the shadows. My help is alive, my help is alert! Awake thou that sleepeth! All these stylish murmurings, grumblings, and grudgings are the reason your life is not shining. You are never fruitful until you’re thankful. You don’t give thanks after the fruits, because you don’t see fruits without thanks. Thanking comes before the fruits and continues after it. Until you give thanks, nothing multiplies. Jesus gave thanks over the five loaves and two fishes, and they multiplied and fed 5,000 people, with twelve baskets left over! There was no multiplication until Jesus gave thanks. You have complained enough about that business of yours, give Him thanks!
In 1 Corinthians 3:6, ‘I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.’ I regard giving, working, thinking, trusting and waiting as seed planting, while I consider talking and thanking as watering. Paul planted, Apollos watered. So we do both the planting and the watering first; then, and only then can God give the increase. Until we have planted and watered, God is not committed to bring increases our way. When you put a mirror before your mouth, and you speak or sing, what do you see? Moisture on the mirror. So when we’re talking or singing, we produce moisture, a form of watering. So many have planted, but very few have successfully watered, so there’s no increase. Talking and thanking is the watering dimension in the school of prosperity.
REMEMBER: Until you thank God, you never see any fruit.
CONFESSION: Lord Jesus, you have done me well. You have been so good to me. Thank you for your blessing on my life and family. I am forever grateful. Hallelujah!!!
PROPHETIC RELEASE: Receive the garment of praise and the oil of gladness now to fuel your thanksgiving and praise in the name of Christ Jesus Amen!
FURTHER READING
Psalms 67
ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Esther 8:1-10:3; 1 Corinthians 12:27-13:13; Psalm 37:1-11; Proverbs 21:23-24
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