FAITH CAPSULE: Give God the sacrifice of thanks.
Psalm 92, 100
Give God the sacrifice of thanksgiving continually to seek God diligently. Giving thanks is not a thinking engagement.
Giving thanks is rooted in faith, appreciating God for what He has done, what He is doing, and all He will do.
Giving God thanksgiving, praising God continually lines together and cannot be separated. Psalm 100:4 recorded, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise…”
God is a God of jealousy. It is giving Him attention that pleases Him as He gives back His attention.
Giving thanks to God is getting attention from God, the evidence of returning to God with appreciation.
King David successfully brought the ark of God to his city with thanksgiving to God. The thanksgiving of King David states, “Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples! Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; Talk of all His wondrous works!” (1Chronicles 16:8-9) King David returned with thanksgiving to God for His deeds among the peoples.
The encounter of Jesus with ten lepers points out that God awaits all thanksgiving at all times. When Jesus healed ten lepers, only one of the lepers returned with thanks to Jesus. The reaction of Jesus to only one of the ten lepers records, “And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. So, Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.” (Luke 17:15-19)
Giving thanks to God is a reasonable sacrifice that is acceptable as doing good before God.
Psalm 92:1-2 states, “It is good to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High” Thanking and praising God is an act of declaring His goodness at all times.
When understanding backs up conviction, it delivers an undeniable miracle. Volumes and pages of a book will never be enough to identify what thanking and praising God is doing.
Giving God the sacrifice of praise and thanks is seeking God diligently to find God to retain His presence.
Are you one that can count the number of thanks rendered to God on a timely basis? If your answer is yes, then you are short of giving God worth praise and thanks.
At every breath of life that God has given you, give Him thanks and praise. (Psalm 150:6)
Prayer for today: Ask that thanking and praising God for His goodness will be your way of life continually.