FAITH CAPSULE: Be one who is thankful to God as a way of life.

Psalm 119:1-48

To be standing from the beginning of the year until this moment is a great privilege of God.
To be alive at this time of the year is not to complain but to give thanks to God.
Are you complaining or complimenting God for His goodness and mercy?
One who counts the blessings of God from January to December is short of counting.
The blessings of God every day, week, month, and year are uncountable.
In this particular season of the year, there is no time for complaining before God. 
Are you looking around enough?
Give more thanks to God more than ever. 
Acts of complaining are evidence of a rebellious spirit.
The children of Israel, due to their never-ending complaining against gracious God, provoked a painful response from God over their lives. Numbers 14:22-23 records, “Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.”
Activate to see more of what God has done.
A failure to see is an act not to give regard to the doing of God.
Complaining will give rise to a rebellious heart.
Remember, God has brought you this far, but will not accommodate the spirit of complaining before Him.
Just like the Israelites, make sure that the spirit of complaining will not have a place in your life against God.
Great and mighty testimonies of God are everywhere. 
Be one who is thankful to God as a way of life.
The testimonies of God are more than enough to lead and take believers into the promises of God. 
The Israelites did not get to the promise of God.
The Psalmist praised God with the whole heart!” (Psalm 119:2), 
Also testifies, “Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.” (Psalm 119:24), 
“I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.” (Psalm 119:46)
The testimonies of God are worthy of mediation. 
Do you have testimonies to lift to God in thanksgiving instead of complaining before God?
Giving oneself to testifying the goodness of God is seeking God faithfully to please God. 
Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Thanksgiving is the right to engage, not complain.
In the place of complaining, the journey of eleven days turned out to be a journey of forty years. 
Are you thanking God to gain and retain the hand of God over your life?
Do not deceive yourself; be thankful to God. 

Prayer for today: Ask that the heart of thanksgiving be your portion, not a place for complaints.