Analysis Of Thessalonians 5: 18

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“In everything give thanks ……” 1 Thessalonians 5:18
All men have the attitude of asking. Most men have the attitude of complaining, grumbling and murmuring. But a few men have the attitude of gratitude. A little seed of gratitude from appreciative and willing heart yields baskets of bumper harvest.
A grateful heart is a graceful heart. An ungrateful heart is a natural heart that dries up the well of God’s abundance. God commands us to be thankful at all times and in all things. Being thankful is placing credit to where it belongs. Remembering what good others have done for you no matter how little creates in you a golden heart of gratefulness.
Gratefulness opens to you the mercy courts and decorates you with favour. If you are such that fail
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The words ‘thank you’ are so powerful to unlock doors for greater visitations. It is always appreciated when said. Be thankful of where you are now and you shall receive the speed to move to where you want to be. Be thankful of the little you have at the moment, great door of abundance shall be opened to you.
In the book of Matthew Chapter 8 was a story of a mad man healed by Jesus. While the man was appreciative and wanted Jesus to remain with him, the entire community of Gergesenes who preferred to have the man remain mad than loss the three thousand sheep that were taken over by the demons exorcised from the mad man were utterly ungrateful and demanded that Jesus leave their country. Jesus left and it was not recorded anywhere that he went back to these ungrateful hearts and land.
When Jesus healed the ten lepers, it was an unlikely Samaritan that returned to give thanks to God. Jesus pronounced him whole because he demonstrated an act of gratitude (Luke 17:22-29). Nine were healed but only one out of the ten was totally restored. This was because he was
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It is a place of total surrender, where man’s vulnerability gives way for God’s invincibility. Altar is a meeting place between the natural and the supernatural, where sons of men become the sons of God and where the path of man is lost and the path of God is revealed.
I know no other place that is for consecrated sacrifice and thanksgiving other than the altar; where man wholeheartedly becomes dead to self, sin and Satan to be alive unto God.
Altar is a place of offering. It is a place of divine encounter and revelations where future is shaped and destinies crafted and given wings. Jacob used his stones of distress as pillars to build his first altar of appreciation to God after the lonely night in the open desert in his sojourn to Haran.
Jacob had an attitude of worship. This again was typified by the altars built by him. He began his life journey by giving God the first in everything he did. He kept faith in constant fellowship with God.
“And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again

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