FAITH CAPSULE: Thanking and praising God gets heaven’s attention.

Psalm 92

Thanking and praising God is not a thinking engagement. You do not think thanks you give thanks. Also, it should be an every moment engagement. Giving thanks and praising God cannot be separated both goes together. Psalm 92:1 confirms, “It is good to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High” When understanding backs up conviction, it delivers an undeniable miracle. When thanking and praising God is without understanding it becomes empty emotion. Thank and praise God with understanding because the Bible declares, “For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with understanding.” (Psalm 47:7)
Thanking and praising God is an act of declaring His goodness at all time. The Psalmist buttress, “To declare Your loving kindness in the morning, And Your faithfulness every night.” (Psalm 92:2) How to thank and praise Him is not relegated to a particular guideline. However, Psalm 92:3 does mention it to be: “On an instrument of ten strings, On the lute, And on the harp, With harmonious sound.” The Psalmist went further by declaring why we should thank and praise Him stating, “For You, LORD, have made me glad through Your work; I will triumph in the works of Your hands. O LORD, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.” (Psalm 92:4-5) God is worthy of thanks giving and praise worship by declaring His work as the Psalmist did. Evidently, volumes and pages of book will never be enough to identify what thanking and praising God has done or could bring forth. Thanking and praising God gets heaven’s attention because God inhabits the praises of His people.
We do not only give thanks for what God has done or what He is doing but we also give thanks for what He can do or what we expect Him to do. Are you expecting God to move concerning your confronting situation? Regardless of the magnitude of your situation, believe and give thanks to God before manifestation of your expectation. Jesus believed that God was going to bring Lazarus back to life and as a result, Jesus did not wait for Lazarus to rise before He thanked God for Lazarus’ rising from dead. It is written, “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.’” (John 11:41) Your Lazarus will rise.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of giving a reasonable sacrifice of thanks giving.