Reading:
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- Jeremiah 30:19-22
- Psalm 100:1-4 MSG (Enter the year with the password, 'Thank You')
Key Notes: Reference Scripture - Psalm 100:1-4 MSG
- Life is a seed - every actin decision and behavior is a seed that will inevitably produce results
- There’s a connection between start and end - how you begin your activities sets the trajectory of how your activities will end
- Your daily, weekly, monthly and yearly habits matter -your habits and characters you maintain today are preparing you for your destination tomorrow
- There is a law of harvest. You can’t start badly and expect to end successfully
- To end well, you must take the responsibility of starting well
What's the essence of Thanksgiving for shining in 2026?
- To confirm and affirm your total dependency of His help and mercy for this year - Hebrews 13:5
- To confirm our faith in the continuous intervention of God in the affairs of our life in 2026 - Romans 4:20
- To show that you're not taking God for granted in 2026 - Isaiah 45:2-3 TPT
- You can be guaranteed the full attention of God - Leviticus 26:9 - Thanksgiving attracts God - Psalm 22:3
- To show that you have not forgotten where God took you from in 2025 - Psalm 103:1-3
- To show humility - 2 Timothy 3:1-2|Psalm 69:30. How thanksgiving portrays humility:
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- Humility to acknowledge that God is responsible for all the good things that will happen this year
- Humility acknowledges personal limitation
- Humility acknowledge that you will not take glory that belongs to God
- To confirm and affirm the reliability and trustworthiness of God in 2026
- It's a proof that you are not forgetful. It means that:
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- You have not forgotten where you were before God picked you
- You are not suddenly in an arrival mode/mentality
- You are still sane enough to remember how God has helped you to be where you are now
- It is a proof of honesty - It means that: You are still honest and truthful with yourself about the source of your help last year (PSALM 14:1)
- Thanksgiving is proof of your faith in God - Romans 4:20
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- Thanksgiving is a proof that God is still in the business of doing miracles
- It is believing that God who did wonders in 2025 will still do wonders in 2026
- Thanksgiving irrigates our faith
How forceful is Thanksgiving to deliver a shining 2026 (Jeremiah 30:19-22)
- Thanksgiving will provoke the grace for multiplication - Vs 19. Nothing diminishes in the hands of a thanksgiver. In John 6:11, Jesus understood the password of 'thank you'.
- Thanksgiving is the fastest way to glorification - Vs 19 |Isaiah 54:4. King David was established in glory because he was an ardent and unrepentant thanksgiver - Psalm 89:20 |Psalm 34:1|Psalm 119:164|Psalm 138:1-3. God cannot ignore a prayer of thanksgiving.
- Thanksgiving will punish your oppressors - Jeremiah 30:20 | Isaiah 41:11
- Thanksgiving places on you the seal on nobility and greatness - Jeremiah 30:21
- Thanksgiving grants the privilege of intimacy and closeness with God - Jeremiah 30:19
- Thanksgiving will give you access to the goodness of God in 2026 - Psalm 92:1. Enter with the password 'Thank you'
- Thanksgiving will make 2026 to be better, bigger and brighter than 2025
- Thanksgiving will terminate depression and frustration - Jeremiah 30:19
- Thanksgiving puts the earth and systems on pressure to deliver your blessings in 2026 - Psalm 67:3
Our Focus for Thanksgiving this year:
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- The gift of life: Psalm 150:6 - Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
- For frustrating the plans of the enemy this year - Job 5:12 | Isaiah 44:25-26 | Isaiah 8:10