Hallelujah. Someone, lift up your hands and give God thanks, lift up your hands, give God thanks, magnify Him this morning, gon't be silent, don't be quiet, give Him praise, give Him praise, give Him thanks. Celebrate the God of Shiloh who has given you encounters that you're already testifying about. Give Him praise. Give God all the glory and magnify Him. Thank you. faithful God. Blessed be your name forever. Be thou exalted. Thank you and thank you mighty God. Thank Him for your own encounters at Shiloh 2024. Thank Him for the deposit of wisdom. Give Him praise for that ever-winning wisdom someone contacted. Thank you, my father. Blessed be your name forever, in the name of Jesus. Thank Him for that healing, for the deliverance, open doors, breakthroughs. Give Him praise. Thank you, Father. Blessed be your name forever. To you alone, be all the praise. Thank you and thank you mighty God. In Jesus' precious name, we have given thanks. In Jesus mighty name, we have given thanks. Glory to God.
How many are excited of what God did at Shiloh 2024? Glory. Glory to God. Now, you heard several testimonies already coming. New jobs, healing, deliverances, burden's being lifted already. That is prove your own testimony will be delivered, in the precious name of Jesus Christ. So, we are going to God, we are here to give Him thanks. The thanks that emanate from the heart, not the one from the mouth. Thanksgiving from the heart. Glory to God. And as your thanking Him, everything that remains to be done will be perfected in the precious name of Jesus Christ. You know that song? I praise you. I praise you. In my life, I see what you're doing. I want us to sing the song. I praise you. I praise you. Oh Lord. So, you are telling God in my life, I can see what you're doing. From Shiloh 2024, I can already see what you're doing. Glory to God. So, you are giving Him thanks. Lift up your hands and worship God. Give Him thanks as we sing that song.
In your own voice, in your own word tell Him something He has done for you. Tell Him something sweet. In your voice, in your own words, tell Him something else done for you. Give Him praise. Thank Him for what you've contacted from Shiloh 2024. Give Him praise for it. None else like you. Thank you for the visitation. Blessed be your name forever. Thank you. And thank you Lord. We give you praise. We give you all glory. In Jesus precious name we have given thanks. In Jesus mighty name we have given thanks.
Father, we are here with a heart of gratitude to say thank you. Thank you for your hand and your outstretched hand that we saw at Shiloh 2024. And thank you for the at attendant testimony. We give you all the praise in the name of Jesus. This hour, speak to us again. Send your word with power. Increase our faith, increase our zeal, increase, and accept our joy. Let everyone return here fulfilled. All of you, none of me reach each one of us and satisfy us today. Thank you, faithful God for in Jesus glorious name we have prayed.
Someone excited about what God is doing, shout a believing amen. Someone, you are confident that your own testimony from Shiloh 2024 is being delivered, shout a loud amen. Now you are confident that your testimony will qualify for global reference. Let your amen show it. Go ahead and give the Lord a big clap of praise. Make it loud for Jesus. Louder, yet for Jesus. Louder, yet for Jesus and give Him a shout of Hallelujah.
Please get seated in the presence of God. And if you can help me welcome someone. Welcome, welcome to Shiloh Thanksgiving service. Welcome to Shiloh Thanksgiving service. Glory to God. Ask someone, where were you at Shiloh? Where were you during Shiloh? What did the person say? He was working? I can hear someone saying he was working. You were at work. Tell that person, the Lord have mercy on you. Glory to God. But you are here for the Thanksgiving service. So, the same blessing is locating you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. It was a wonderful time in God's presence at Shiloh 2024. And I can say, you and I, we have contacted ever winning wisdom. Meaning that you are changing level in winning in victories. If you won before, you'll be winning more this time in the precious name of Jesus Christ. Welcome and welcome, welcome. The Lord bless you richly in Jesus precious name.
Before I get into the word, I would like to appreciate everyone who was part of making Shiloh 2024 a huge, huge success. Glory to God. You want to clap, make it loud for Jesus. Glory to God. Our Shiloh Planning Committee, they work very tirelessly to make sure it was grand. All of our pastors, the ordain workers, all service units were involved. The rushers, the protocols, sanctuary keeper, cleaning, security, the drivers driving in, technical. Glory to God. And all the other units, everyone who was here. Choir, were you part of …? What did you do? You were part of the partakers. Glory to God. Everyone who contributed to make Shiloh 2024 a great success, you'll be first partaker of the ever-winning wisdom, meaning you'll testify in the precious name of Jesus. The Lord bless you and reward you all in Jesus precious name. Glory to God.
Now, we're looking at this topic today, “We owe God thanks.” Somebody say, I owe God thanks. Say it like you're actually owing Him thanks. God glory to God. Now, let’s begin by saying that no one can truly become a friend of God without a heart of gratitude. No person can be called a friend of God without a heart of gratitude. Mind you, it is one thing for you to say you are a friend of God, it's another thing when God calls you my friend. Being a friend of God is not by singing that song. “I am a friend of God. I am a friend of God.” You can sing the song, but does God accept or recognize you as His friend? It takes a heart of gratitude, a heart of thanksgiving to qualify as a friend of God. Friendship with God is closeness to Him. You can't get close to Him without thanksgiving.
Now, God called David a man after my heart. That is this one is my friend. I connect with him. But you see that man said in Psalm 92:1, that it is what? “A good thing, to do what? To give thanks unto the Lord. It's a good thing to give thanks to the Lord.” It said, “And to sing praises unto thy name, oh most high.” Look at verse 2, it said, “To chew forth thy loving kindness, when? And thy faithfulness, when? So, morning, night, he's faithful. He's glorious. So, you have something to say, that’s David. He said in Psalm 95:2, He says, “Let us come before His presence with what? With Thanksgiving. And joyful noise unto Him with Psalms. Come to His presence with what?” Meaning that without thanksgiving you have no access to His presence. That collaborated in Psalm 100:4. It says, “Enter into his gate with what?” Gates, we're talking about gate, not door. Gate is far away Before you get to the door. “Enter into his gate with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. Be thankful unto him and bless his name.” So, everyone you see who is close to God, who has a relationship with God including you, if you're close to God, you are a person of gratitude; deep gratitude for God's hand upon your life. Murmurers and complainants are not close to God. They don't hear when God is speaking.
Now, God called Abraham my friend. Abraham, my friend by Himself, by His words. Isaiah 41:8, he said, “But thou oh Israel are my servant Jacob, whom I have chosen. The seed of Abraham, my friend, the seed of Abraham, my friend.” But you see, Abraham was a man of deep gratitude to God. Abraham will always see what God has done, judging him faithful. God said it; I'll believe it. I'll hold onto it to see it come to pass and given praise to God. He staggered not of the promise of God, strong belief, but was strong in faith given thanks to God. Even when Isaac was not in the picture, giving thanks to God, celebrating God. And God said, “This one is my friend.” Hear this, as a friend of God, you can't lack any good thing. I didn't hear your loud amen. You see, if you're close to Joe Biden, we'll know. You don't need to tell us that you're close to Biden. Somehow, it'll leak out by the kind of things you'll be benefiting from him. Hear this, I said some time ago, if you're close to the President, you don't even need to act. All you need is for people to see you with Biden. They sight you with Biden. They'll do you good without you asking them. True or false? Glory to God.
So, you’re a friend of God means that God is particular about you. It means that he beat down your foes before your face. I didn’t hear your loud amen. That's what you enjoy as a friend of God. But how do you get to be a friend of God? Have a heart of gratitude. Always find what to thank God for. Always find what to appreciate God for, and then see Him multiply the rest of the things you are seeking Him for. Glory to God. Now, Genesis 22:14, Abraham was such a man with deep gratitude to God that he gave God a name. He called him Jehovah Jireh. Genesis 22:14. You know, after God provided a ram for him instead of his son for the sacrifice, Abraham called the name of that place. Jehovah Jireh, as it's said to this day, in the Mount of the Lord, it shall be seen. Seen there means provided. It shall be provided. Glory to God. Question is, what do you call God? What name have you given God? That can only come from deep rooted gratitude. That is, you so appreciate God that you sit down and you think, what do I call this God? And you come up with a name for Him. By your Thanksgiving, God will do things that will make you give Him a name. I mean your own name. You'll give God a name that people will reckon with. Glory to God.
Jehovah Jireh, God the Lord, my provider. There are some who call God Persia. There are some who have called God the name they call God is unjust. He left me and blessed that sister, when I'm holier than that sister. He bypassed me and blessed that brother. Jehovah, Jireh. I pray that for you, God will become a strange and particular name coined by you. You know, there are some who have given God some names in their local dialect, right? I've heard some in songs. They call God some names, some I can't pronounce them very well. But it is based on what they have seen, the encounters that they have had with their God. Glory to God. So, what do you call God? Between now and the end of the year, you'll come up with a name for your God in the precious name of Jesus Christ.
Now, we are here basically to give God thanks to celebrate him. But we need to define exactly what are we thankful for? What are we thankful for? Now, we are thankful to God for diverse fulfillment of prophecies by his raw hands. He said it and he brought it to pass by his hands. I king 8:15. He said, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which spoke with His mouth on David, my father, and had with his hand, whose hand? His hand fulfilled it with his hand. He speaks with his mouth; He brought it to pass with His hand.” Glory to God. Now, this is a prophetic ministry. There are some are old enough in the ministry to know a number of things where the ministry has come from. Hear this, it was not always glorious. Some came in the glory days. There are some who started from the days where there's nothing that looked like glory around the church. There are some who joined the church when they used to pity papa. You know, there were some who used to pity your father, Bishop. They look at him, they'll say, ah, he reflects poverty. Someone in the church went to him and said, “Don't be saying. I will be rich. I will be rich or I'm rich or I cannot be poor. Don't say it anymore.” And she was actually weeping saying it. Why? Because her friends kept mocking her. What did your pastor say again this time? That he cannot be poor. He was a reflection of poverty, so to speak.
He had maybe two coats, like we're told, two coats. Not suit, coats, but he kept saying it. Why He could see it. Hear this, thanks givers are focused on what is in God's hand, not what is in their own hand. You are seeing the things God is holding. You know, there are ways you can have some things in your hand. When you are around your children, around you, they begin to behave very well. They behave, they're unusually nice. Why? Because of what you're holding. Maybe toys. You have toys that they like. They say, is there anything you want? You want me to do anything right now? Why? There's something. So, everyone who is a thanks giver is not just thanking God for what he has. You are thanking God for what God has in his hands because you know he's ready to release it for you. Glory to God.
Now, God said, in this commission, he said, “We shall soon see million gathering to hear the word.” He said it back in the days, not now. We shall soon see million gathering and that was fulfilled when he spoke about gathering of millions there was no internet technology for you to know is going to be, people will be connecting online. Glory to God. Now, we have Shiloh event, millions, and millions across the globe, connecting like you and I did from last week. Glory to God. But God said it. He brought it to pass. Someone says amen to that. They connect by social media, Facebook, all of the platforms connecting to be blessed. Glory to God. The attendance shows massive increase over last year Shiloh. Give the Lord a big clap of praise. Glory to God. We also have stronger waves of sign, wonders and miracles that were recorded this year. And the testimonies have been documented. You'll be hearing them. And from this church, you'll be hearing testimonies as well. You have started hearing from those several testimonies already. Many more will be listed. Yours will be included. I said, yours will be included.
The impact not limited to the international headquarters. When God said it, there was no Atlanta church in view. Glory to God. Now we are here in Georgia. Do you know that your nation, your church here, is supervising multiple nations outside of this country? Glory to God. Many of those were connected to this Shiloh to bless. I believe God, by next year, we'll be seeing some of them on the collaboration as well. By the prophetic word, hear this, don't let your heart fail concerning the prophetic word coming from the mouth of God. It's not your hand that will deliver it. He said, “Is there anything too hard for me to do?” God asked him, nothing too hard. He will bring it to pass in the precious name of Jesus Christ. Now, God also said, by prophetic word, he said that a printing press that will operate at an industrial scale will be set up; that is the Dominion publishing house. Now, many of those who know about Dominion Publishing House, it has state of the art printing equipment, first class. Glory to God. But when God said that the printing press would be operating at an industrial scale, there was no typewriter. You know typewriter? Some of you're not old enough to know typewriter. You need strong fingers to operate it. You hit it hard, it's noisy. The ministry had none of that. But he said, at an industrial scale. Hear this, don’t focus on what you have, focus on what God has said. Don't mind what or where you are, mind what God has said and he will bring his word to pass. Glory to God.
There are some under some of my voice, God has told certain things; they sound too big. Maybe He has told you the dimension where your business is going to and it sounds too big. Look, you better believe it. Glory to God. I start to celebrate Him for it because you are getting there. I said you are getting there. That's your local business will soon become international with branches across different nations in the precious name of Jesus. That is, if you hold onto what God has said. Another prophetic word came back in the days, he said that a tent will be belt that will seat 50,000. How many were they then? Sixty-eight. Do the math. 68 to 50,000, someone would've said, eh, let's reach 500 first. No, 50,000. But is that where we are right now? We are talking about 100,000. Give the Lord a big clap of praise. Someone who is doubtful would've said, no, it's impossible. You know, the prophet said, “By this time tomorrow…” And someone said, “No, it's impossible.” Hear this, don't use your senses to analyze what God is saying. You lack the capacity to analyze. You know, when you analyze what God is saying, you become paralyzed because you are not going to be moved. You’ll be how can this be? But believing.
Luke 1:45, “Blessed is she that what?” Believe, for there shall be what? A performance of the things which were told of the Lord.” Just believing. You see, the manifestation of the hand of God is for those who are stupid enough to believe him. There are many whose problem is their intellect. They're too smart, very, very intelligent and the intelligence is impacting on them negatively. When God speaks, they begin to calculate it. How is it going to happen? The doctor said no, zero sperm count. The wife has blocked fallopian tube coupled with fibroids, so, it is impossible medically. Just believe what God said and everything he can change. He's the one who has spare parts for damaged part of the body. Glory to God. Every manufacturer has spare parts. True or false? Good parts. So, anyone under the sun of my voice, God has given you your miracle at Shiloh 2024. It'll manifest in 2025. Anyone called barren, come 2025, you're returning with your baby. Glory to God.
God also spokes about aircraft. God servant said he saw the plane, he saw something and he was inside. He said, “That's the airplane and that's you inside carrying the everlasting gospel.” You know there are things God will show to you, if your faith is not in place, you are attribute it to the devil. Some of us would've said it’s witchcraft, I'm flying in the night. Why am I seeing myself flying? That's witchcraft. I shouldn't be flying. No. Somebody said, “I dreamt that I was eating?” I said, “And so what? “Maybe you were hungry before you went to bed. Stop ascribing everything about your life to Satan. Somebody told me, “I was chewing gum in the dream.” I said, “Spit it. Why didn't you spit the gum out?” Don't let the devil suggest things to you and begin to terrify you. Shut him down. Say amen to that.
We had aircraft, just that God’s servant has not been traveling. He said God told him sit in one place. I think it's 6-years now. Don’t until I tell you otherwise. That takes discipline. Sit down. Don't go out of this country until I tell you so. But I think we have about, by the time I checked, we have three or four in the commission. Glory to God, God will surprise you. God will embarrass you. That come from a commission worldwide that had a Beetle, talked about that Beetle, Volkswagen. Not the new one we have, those old one. You know, I saw one recently and I had to stand back to look at it. Glory to God. But see where the commission is right now. God servant gives out cars every year. God is taking you and I there. I didn’t hear your loud amen. I know someone is saying, I want to have my own first, I want to have it for myself. I said, God will make you give out cars in Jesus precious name. So, don't mind what you have, mind what God is saying. Don't mind what you have; mind what God is saying.
BENEFIT OF THANKIG GOD
Now, quickly, why must we give God thanks? Number one, it is a debt we owe God. It's what? That's why we said we owe God thanks. Somebody say, I owe God thanks. Say it louder, I owe God thanks. The debt of thanksgiving cannot be paid for you. You know the way you owe something and someone has paid for you. The debt of thanksgiving is personal. You must pay yourself. I owe God thanks. Now, we saw in Luke 17:17, Jesus was asking, he said, “Were there not 10 cleansed? One return to give thanks. And Jesus asked, where are the nine? But where are the nine?” There were 10 of you. So, He was expecting everyone to return; one return. Thank God today, you and I, we represent that one. Glory to God. People can join you to give thanks to God, but you must be in the front. You must be the one leading the thanks for yourself. Glory to God. Job 12:10, he said, “In whose hand is the soul of every living thing?” In whose hand? In God's hand. He said, “I’m the breath of all mankind.” Are you part of mankind? So, if you carry that breath upon you, then you’re a debtor to God. He created man from the beginning and the Bible said, “He breatheth into man the breath of life.” Man became a living soul, a living soul. Glory to God. So, it's breath, it's His breath that you and I were carrying about. That's why Samuel 150:6 says, “Let everything that had what? Breath praise the Lord. Not those who have new cars. Not everything that has new jobs. Not those who just got married or those that have found a husband or wife. No. Everything that had breathe, give Him praise. Glory to God. So, you owe God thanks. Say I owe God thanks. Say it louder, I owe God thanks. And you are paying that debt, part of the debt today. Glory to God.
Why must we give God thanks? Number two, to preserve our blessings. To preserve our blessings. Hear this, blessings can be reversed, not necessarily by Satan. God can reverse. He is the one who brings the blessing; he can take his blessing back. Malachi 2:1, “Now, oh ye priest, this commandment is for you. If you'll not lay to heart, if you'll not hear, if you'll not lay into heart to give glory or thanks onto my name,” said the Lord of host. I will even send what? I can't hear you church. I'll send what? Who is saying he'll send? God. “I will even send a curse upon you and I will curse your blessing.” Say God forbid. He says, yeah, I've cursed it already because you do not lay it to heart. Somebody say, I lay it to heart. Say it louder, I lay it to heart. And of course, I believe you. That's why you're here this morning to give him thanks, to preserve the blessing, to keep the blessing. Glory to God.
Thanksgiving, make sure that the blessing God has added to you, they add no sorrow and they're preserved for you. Hear this, there are blessing God gives to you and generations after you, they come to meet. That's what we call generational blessings. Hear this, don't expect the blessing of God upon your life to end with you. Say amen to that. The blessing of God upon your life must reach your children, reach your grandchildren. That's generational blessing. The same way you have generational curses, you have generational blessing. So, it’s by thanksgiving you preserve blessing and you see that blessing kept. You know there are some people they say, you hear people say, “he used to be a wealthy man.” Have you heard sort before? Used to be wealthy. There's someone, a celebrity that used to have 90, 9-0, 90, very posh cars. 90. He file for bankruptcy, earning 50 million at a time, 40 million at a time, 90 million at a time. It is not what is coming into your hand that determines your wealth, it is your heart towards God. Glory to God
Of the world, the Bible said that there are riches, they grow wings and what? And fly. Matter of fact, He says, “That the riches, the wealth of the ungodly are what? Are kept preserved for the righteous, for you and I. Glory to God. Very soon, some people under the sound of my voice will be buying businesses. I didn’t hear your loud amen. By the attitude of gratitude, by a heart of thanksgiving, you'll be buying businesses and you buy them for very cheap. They'll tell you, I just need money. I need money. Give me money. Take the business. They'll say the business is not doing very well, but you know, because of your blessed hands, once you take over the business, it will begin to explode in profit in the precious name of Jesus Christ.
Why must we give God thanks? Number three, to multiply our blessings. To what? To multiply our blessings. You want to see the blessing of God upon your life multiply? Give Him thanks, give Him praise. Whatever it is you see right now as a blessing, God has more. No matter how high he has lifted you, there are higher places. Glory to God. With God, there's no limit to how far you can go in life. It's all about your heart. So, when you give Him thanks, you see those blessings are multiply, increase you. Now, when the commission started, there were a few people, from 68 was church growth. Sixty-eight, the church had already grown. There was a time where they were 16. I'm sure you have heard of those days. They used benches. One person is entitled to two or three benches. You know bench? One person has two, one in front of you. right on that one, one at your back. You put something there. Glory to God. Is that where we are right now? Just look at your own church. Look at your church here. Glory to God. And see the hand of God, the beauty of God. Your future is colorful. I said, “Your future is colorful.” Glory to God.
John 6:5, “Jesus lifted up his eyes. He saw a great company of people come unto to him and said, on to Philip, when shall we buy bread that this may eat?” Where are we going to buy bread? The Bible said this, “He said to prove him himself knew what he'll do. Himself knew what he would do. And what is it that Jesus knew that he will do? Verse 11. ‘He said that when Jesus took the loaves and when he had given tanks, when he had what? Given tanks, He distributed. And five loaves and two fishes were more than enough to feed about 10,000 people. He said, “5,000 men, minus women, and children. If you add women and children, it should be about double of that or more. Now, just imagine this dimension. I was just studying and the Holy Spirit was directing my attention. Now, do you know to prepare food? That's five loaves, two fishes multiplied not as raw food, but cooked food, bake bread, and what? Baked or fried fish depending on which one you like. Not raw fish.
Now, let's talk about the provision. If you could find fish for 10,000 people and they’re even raw, think about preparing that fish. Do you know cooking for 100 people is a project? Women, do I have witness here? In fact, some women will tell me now that cooking for their family is also a project. Planning, calculating… 100. In church here, they want to prepare certain things. They begin to plan; people put their heads for 100 people. They're talking about thousands, eight to 10,000 people. Glory to God. The provision was there, but it came ready to go, ready to eat. Glory to God. Lift up your right hand. In the midst of your attitude of thanksgiving, the greatest project of your life will be stress free in the precious name of Jesus. So, thanksgiving kind of like streamlines the processes, cuts off a lot of things you're supposed to be doing. No need to cook. Give Him thanks and the food were ready to go. Glory to God. When you thank Him, you see multiplication? When you murmur, you see reduction. When you complain, you see complications. That not your portion. I said, that's not your portion, in the precious name of Jesus Christ. Acts 2:47. He says, “Praising God and having favor with all the people and the Lord added to the church daily, such as should be saved.” Praising God, having favor; he added to them daily. God will add to you. I said, God will add to you. God will multiply your blessings in the precious name of Jesus Christ.
There's this story told by one of our pastors when we're in in Canada. The pastor said when he got admission to study in college, he had no sponsor. He needed someone to sponsor him. So, he went to one of his affluent uncles and he said, “Sir, I have this admission.” He showed him the letter. I have this admission. I need your help to pay tuition. The man accepted on one condition. He said, “When you finish school, you pay me back. I'll sponsor you, no doubt. But when you finish school, you start to work, you pay me back.” He said, “Yes, I'll do that.” So, the man sponsored him through school. He said when he graduated, he went back to the man. He went with a very good bottle of wine. He said he took the money he had, all the money he had. Then just buy one bottle of wine. Somebody says wine. I don't know what your wine is this morning. It could be the offering you are bringing to give God praise. Glory to God. He said he took it to the uncle and said, “Sir, I came to thank you for accepting to sponsor me through school. I have graduated. Thank you, sir.” Said the uncle looked at him, said, “Wow. Okay, so the money you are supposed to pay back, I wiped out one-third. Did you see that? “I wipe off one-third; you only paid two-third” and he left. So, I told him, I said, “Why didn't you go back with another bottle of wine?” Come on. You gave him one bottle of wine. Can you compare wine and tuition? No, there's no comparison. I would've carried carton of wine. But I have an idea. I know why. He didn't tell me, but I know why he didn't go back. He got a job in an oil company. So, he earned very well. He could afford to pay back. Glory to God. So that's wisdom for someone under the sound of my voice. Maybe you were sponsored through school and you are owning, carry wine. Take wine there. You go the second time, he said, “okay, now that you came, I have wiped off the second part. It's remaining one third, pay back one third.” You say, okay. Go back. After 2- years, you show up. Sir, you remember that tuition you pray for me while I’m…? I'm still very grateful. In fact, I'm more grateful now at that time. Glory to God. Wisdom for someone. There are things God did for you, probably you say that 10-years ago, 15- years ago or maybe 5-years ago or last year, go back in Thanksgiving. Father, you did this for me 10-years ago, I am grateful. You had someone sharing testimony about 30-years ago, right? 30- years. I'm still grateful. I give you the praise. Thank you for taking care of me. And God say, wow, you, after 10-years, 15-years, you're still thanking? Now watch what I'll do with your life. That becomes someone's testimony. I said, that becomes your own testimony.
Next point. Why must we give God thanks? To perfect our blessings. To what? To perfect our blessings. Luke 17:19, that one leper was made whole. One leper return. One was made whole. He said, “Go thy way. Thy faith had made thee whole. Thy faith had made thee whole.” As you’re thanking Him today, I see wholeness coming upon someone in the precious name of Jesus Christ. There are things in your life you didn't think you even need, but he already knows. He knows the things you need. He knows things you will need in 10 -ears time. God will add them to your life in the precious name of Jesus Christ.
HOW TO GIVE ACCEPABLE THANKS TO GOD
But take note that there's a way to give God thanks to make it acceptable. There's how to give God thanks to make it acceptable. Number one, you must thank him quickly. Somebody says quickly. You don't waste time. Jeremiah 13: 15-17. He says, “Here and give here. Be not proud, for the Lord has spoken. Give glory to the Lord your God before.” Somebody says before. Before signifies there's some issue with time before he caused darkness and before your feet stumble. Your feet will not stumble. So, you must do it quickly. You are giving glory quickly. That's why we are not waiting till the end of the month, till the end of the month Thanksgiving. No, we are not waiting for that. We have returned. Shiloh ended yesterday; we are here already to give God thanks. That's why the blessing will be perfected. That's why your blessing will be perfected in the precious name of Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving is able to bring anything dead, back alive. That's perfection. Glory to God. Also, take note when you are thanking Him, you must do it cheerfully. Somebody says cheerfully. How do you say thank you and you are frowning? You are telling someone thank you and you're frowning. The person will not accept the thanks. I'm very, very grateful. I'm very grateful, you are frowning. You're just saying I'm very, very ungrateful. I'm very angry. So, do it cheerfully. It's cheerful thanksgiving that is acceptable to God. He said in Deuteronomy 28:47, he said, “Because thou Servest not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things, for the things he has added to you.” He says, “Therefore, shall thou serve thy enemies.” Say, God forbid. Do it with joy. So, when it's time to give God thanks, it is time to give praise to God. We're going to enter into that very soon. Do it with joy, do it with excitement, do it smiling, do it laugh. Glory to God. You'll not serve your enemies. I said, you'll not serve your enemies in the precious name of Jesus Christ.
So, have it that when you give God thanks, he perfects the blessing. That leper from him was removed every trace of leprosy. I think it was maybe Covenant Hour of Prayer, one of the days I mentioned, anyone who is a leper, you'll see the trace of leprosy. True or false/ If you have seen anyone who has suffered from leprosy, it discolors the skin, it eats up the phalanges, some of the hands will become shorten. It means for this man, everything was restored to normal. So, you couldn't trace leprosy to him anymore. Glory to God. For someone under the sound of my voice, your blessing will be perfected. I said, your blessing will be perfected. Hear this, this same year 2024, the year is not over. Shiloh is over; the year is not over. Before 2024 comes to an end, I see you return with your own testimony. I see you come back here with your own testimony. Rise to your feet, lift up your hands and give God thanks, magnify Him from the heart.
PRAYER
Thank you, faithful God. Blessed to be your name. Someone is thanking Him right now. Give Him all the praise. Celebrate this faithful God, the one who is too faithful to fail. Magnify His name. Thank you, my father. Blessed be on Him forever in the precious name of Jesus. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Magnify Him, celebrate Him. Blessed be your name forever in Jesus precious name, we have given thanks. In Jesus' precious name we have given thanks.
ALTAR CALL
All eyes closed, all heads bow. Before we get into the session of praise, I like to give someone an opportunity to make these thanksgivings meaningful. The only way it can be meaningful is if you identify with Jesus first. You are thanking Him; He's able to hear you. You're not yet born again. You've not received Him into your heart as your Lord and your Savior that can change in this service. So, I give you that opportunity this morning to say yes to Jesus, to accept Him as your Lord and your Savior. If that is your desire, I'd like to pray with you wherever you are, to receive Jesus into your heart as your Lord and your savior, to see the blessing of God come upon you, to see the blessing multiply upon you, to see the blessing perfected concerning you and preserved. If that is your desire, lift up your hand above your head as I pray with you. Someone who wants to say yes to Jesus, you can do so right now. What a joy there is right now. The Lord bless you. The Lord bless you.
You want to receive Jesus into your heart as your Lord and your savior, lift up your head above your head as I pray with you. Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed. You are here in the house, you are not yet born again. You have not received Jesus into your heart as your Lord and your Savior, that should change in this service. I give you the privilege to do that. Lift up your head above your head as I pray with you, lifts up your hand as we pray together. I see your hand over there. God bless you. God bless you. You want to say yes to Jesus? Don't be shy about it. Don't be ashamed. Everyone who is born again took a chance someday. I see your hand over there. The Lord bless you. It's a mark of sincerity. I see your hand there.
REDEDICATION
For someone else, you were born again, but right now, there's a disconnect; you're no longer in Christ. If Jesus were to come, you know you have no part with Him; that should change in this service. What do you need to do? Rededicate your life to Christ by saying, “Father, I am sorry I walked away from you. I'm coming back to you.” The Lord bless you.
