FAITH CAPSULE: Thanking and praising God should be a lifeline to retain living.

Psalm 104

Adopt the habit of giving thanks to God for His visitation.
Thanking God should be continuous.
Waiting to be convenient before thanking God is not enough.
Make it a way of like thanking God at all times for all things.
Thanking for all things is what makes all things work together for the glory of God.
Thank God continuously, not on a particular day of the year.
Thanking God should be a way of life for all created by God.
God creates all.
Thanking God is praising God.
Thanking and praising God should be a lifeline to retain living.
Psalm 150:6 records, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
The word of God that calls for praising God at breath also demands thanking God at breath.
To praise at breath is to thank God at every moment.
Thanking God, praising God, the way of seeking God.
Psalm 47:7, recorded, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
As praising God is with understanding, giving thanks to God should be with understanding.
Give Him thanks with understanding.
One who gives thanks to God with understanding will gain access to God.
Psalm 100:4 buttresses the meaning of giving thanks to God with understanding, stating, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.”
With the understanding of thanking God, Jesus thanks God for raising Lazarus from the dead after four days in the grave.
John 11:41-42 records, “Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me…”
A meaningful, heartfelt thanksgiving to God, with understanding, will provoke the presence of God.
The word of God does not lie; only the world is full of lies.
To be alive is a privilege of God; it is not a right; to be alive is of mercy, and it is not of merit.
Think of it, to be alive, able to see the light of a new day, eyes functioning, legs not stagnant, mind in the right condition, all the above demands thanking God every moment.
To be alive is not the right of anyone but a privilege of God.
Think, whatever keeps you from opening your mouth wide to thank God has to cease.
From today, make it a pattern of life to thank God with understanding.  
Seek God, appreciating Him for the grace of being alive.
Do not plan for the season outside God; it is an error that will reduce one before God.
God alone is more than worthy of all praise and adoration.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you with strength and understanding, and keep thanking God unceasingly.