Pastor David Ibiyeomie at Salvation Ministries Home of Success on “Thanksgiving”.
(Special Thanksgiving Service)
Thank you is an application for more. For every act of love, He expects you and I to come back to Him and say thank you. 5 Nights of Glory started as Nights of Glory. Nights of Glory started in 2010, we had 2 editions, 2010 and 2011 and from 2012 we started having 5 Nights of Glory.
The Nights of Glory happened to be the largest crowd to ever gather in this part of the country. Till tomorrow, till today, there’s never been any gathering, whether political, social, religious that has ever gathered such crowd. We ended the program to 4pm and by 10pm people were still finding their way out. It has been the largest crowd ever gathered, so we decided that we will not do the program again in one night because there wouldn’t have been anywhere to contain the crowd. The then governor’s wife couldn’t get to the place till midnight even with siren, that was how it was massive.
I had to move through the back road to be able to come for the program. It was that explosive, then we started the 5 Nights of Glory and each year it was progression, it was going from one level to another and not because any man has been responsible but because God has been the doer and to Him we have come to say thank you. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Ecclesiastes 7:8.
Psalm 103:1-2. If you take anything for granted, you will be grounded. We are here to say thank you, you have done it beyond any act of mankind.
REASONS FOR THANKSGIVING
- It is commanded. 1st Thessalonians 2:2.
- It is the will of God. 1st Thessalonians 5:18.
- It shows God as our source. Psalm 72:18.
It shows we are receivers and not achievers. 1st Corinthians 4:7.
- It shows how much we value God’s goodness.
REASONS PEOPLE DO NOT THANK GOD
- Overestimation of self (pride). 1st Corinthians 15:10.
- Covetousness.
- Murmuring. 1st Corinthians 10:10.
- Comparing their blessings with others’ 2nd Corinthians 10:12.
DANGERS OF NOT THANKING GOD
Some people don’t know that not thanking God is very dangerous.
- When you don’t thank God you give room for the enemy to attack. Deuteronomy 28: 47-48. When people are attacked, the first thing they look at is the devil. Satan has no power except the room you gave to him.
People complain to compound their problems. While you are waiting for what you have not gotten, thank God for the one you have gotten.
Psalm 2:4. There are Christians who never laugh, they think that when they laugh heaven will come down. Learn to be grateful to God.
God is not a task master, He doesn’t put burdens on people. There’s one language you don’t use, “I have a strong burden…” It is a religious language, it is not right. You don’t have a burden, you want to pray, burden is a yoke, “I have a burden to win souls” you don’t have a burden, you have a passion for souls. God can’t give you burden, burden is of the devil.
- It attracts curses and corrupts blessings. Malachi 2:1-3. God loves a cheerful giver. Any giving you give mumu-mumu, God will destroy. You can’t give something to God and everytime you complain.
Let me use colloquial, your face will ‘wowor’when you don’t thank God. You will suffer from ‘woworism’ and the cure is thanksgiving.
- Not thanking God leads to destruction. Acts 12:21-23.
When people clap for you, go inside and sit down. Praise singers are killers, they’ll say “the way you sang today ehn…” say thank God for Him who did it.
Sani Abacha, he is a Nigerian leader, every 7am they’d sing on radio “Everybody testify you are good, you are good Abacha, you are good” that’s a song for God and they sang it for him. I tapped my wife and said, see this man will soon die. I said mark it. They sang him to death.
Even in your office, you gave a speech and the speech moved everybody and they clap for you, don’t hit your chest and say “You know I made a first class, even my masters, I went to cambridge”.
I am conscious of thanksgiving, the people around me know it. Even after the general thanksgiving, I go into my room and say thank you. It is a habit.
You must know where you are coming from, it is a man who does not know where he is coming from that will be arrogant.
Be conscious of thanksgiving, always acknowledge God as the source.
If you thank God, it appreciates, if you don’t thank God, it depreciates. Make your choice.
- The danger of not thanking God is that you toil. Mark 6:48-52.
Everytime you see challenges, watch, not always you look at the devil, look at yourself.
When anything is acknowledged, you say, Lord I thank you, God says “You thank me for this one trouser, now ten trousers, you thank me for one thousand, now ten thousand, you thank me for ten thousand, now hundred thousand”.
Even if you are not yet married, you tell him thank you that somebody came to tell me I love you. God will bring the real one for thanking Him. Never despise anything from God.
Don’t take God’s goodness for granted. Lack of appreciation is the reason many Christians are going through difficulties in life. A heart of gratitude to God is recipe for God to release greater things and favour. Now watch out for Glory Reign 2022 and see God manifest His awesomeness and glory.
Luke 17:17. Ten lepers were healed, only one one leper came back to Jesus to say thank you. He was a Samaritan, a stranger, the Jews felt it was their right. Immediately he thanked God, God said your faith has made thee whole. He was the only one God made perfect.
Everytime you thank God, your miracle is made perfect, so whatever is remaining in your life in 5 Nights of Glory, God will perfect all in Jesus Name. That’s how powerful Thanksgiving is. That’s why you hear people say I came to thank God and He made me whole.
Praise always accompany thanksgiving for maximum delivery.
Psalm 138:8a
A combination of thanksgiving and praise gives your access to the inner chambers of God.
I have never asked God questions, saying “God why did you call me to be a minister and I am suffering like this, never!”. Do you want to see God in action, thank Him at every phase.
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