- Thanksgiving is a gateway to the high places of destiny
- People only change levels when they return to give back the Glory to whom glory is due = God
- When we thank God for things good he has done, God turns good things into a better greater, and bigger.
- Psalms 92:1 |James 1:17 - thanksgiving works in conjunction with praise
- Thanksgiving and praise are vital for successful and triumph Christian living
Reading: Romans 4:17-21 KJV | Habakkuk 3:17-19
Thanksgiving and Praise
- Thanksgiving and praise breaks down barriers – Psalms 107:15-16
- Thanksgiving and praise move God to step into your life battles and take them over – Psalms 33:10
- Thanksgiving and praise is a spiritual climate changer - the climate around your life determines what comes out of life - 2 Chronicle 5:13-14|Isaiah 51:3 NLT
- Thanksgiving and praise introduces confusion in the camp of the enemies, bringing deliverance into your own camp - Acts 16:25-26. The devil can’t understand two languages - the language of praise and speaking in tongues.
- I Samuel 16:23 | Numbers 23:19
- Thanksgiving and praise unveil your potentials - what you carry from inside - Psalm 119:1. Scriptural example is King David
- Thanksgiving and praise brings down the hand of God on the life of a believer - 2 Kings 3:15
- Thanksgiving and praise put system and persons under pressure to release what is your yours - Psalm 67:5-7 NKJV | Jonah 2:9-10
Why is downloading of potential necessary
- Your potential is a vehicle to your destiny, your potential gives direction to your life
- Your potential opens up your opportunities (Daniel 18:16, Joseph, David played instruments to the king: 1 Samuel 16:18 NLT)
- Your potential destroys adversity
How to thank and praise God effectively
- Ecclesiastes 9:10a - anything worth doing has to be done well
- Focus on the Lord not on people - 2 Samuel 6:13-16, 6:20-22 |Isaiah 61:10
- Don't forget the good things that God has done in your life - Psalm 103:1:2 | Deuteronomy 8:17-18
- Resist the temptation to murmuring, complaining and grumbling
- Resist the temptation to murmuring, complaining and grumbling
The hand of God will Show you what to God in order to escape the traps of the enemy - Ezra 8:31