Thessalonians 5:18, ‘’In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.’
DAILY READING – – Acts 16:16-40; Judges 4-5; Job 35
Conrad Hilton was born on Christmas day of 1887. His father was a trader and the owner of a general store. At the age of 21, Conrad Hilton started working in his father’s store.. Following his father’s death in a car accident, he took charge of his father’s businesses, he made a successful career as an hotelier. But when the Great Depression of 1929 that destroyed many businesses came, he was affected. Hilton was bankrupted and lost his hotels. He was in debt and had to sell many of his properties. He lost his hotels but was retained as manager. Imagining becoming an employee in the very hotel which you once owned, but he didn’t give up hope. He resorted to praising God despite his situation. Eventually Hilton bought back his hotels and paid off his debts. And 1946, he formed the Hilton Hotels Corporation. In 1947, his company became the first hotel chain to be enlisted in the New York Stock Exchange. His business empire continued to grow as Hilton Hotels bought and built a number of hotels around in the world. At the time of his death, the Hilton Hotels chain had about 185 hotels in the United States and 75 in foreign countries.
Psalm 30: 5 says ‘For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.’
Life is a learning process. No one ever succeeded who didn’t fail at one time or the other, But the key to rising and going higher is praise. No matter what you may be confronted with, always give God thanks in everything. When thanksgiving becomes your way of life, signs and wonders become your natural experience.
Thessalonians 5:18, says ’In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.’
Giving thanks to God in everything means constantly locating issues of thanksgiving in all events of your life. And when thanksgiving becomes your way of life, you create a conducive atmosphere for His glory and Presence to constantly abide with you.
Psalm 22:3 says ‘For God inhibitest the praises of His people’
Praise is God’s natural habitat … so, when praise becomes your way of life, you carry divine presence naturally and His glory will constantly surround you. If it is our desire to see God’s glory in our lives this year, we must commit to constantly praising Him.
Psalms 150:6 says ‘Let everything that has breath praise the LORD”. It is a command not an appeal. Many people are grounded because they take God for granted. Imagine if you are made to pay for each breath you take, do you think you can pay? Yet God gives breath freely to us. We have every cause to constantly praise God, because of His marvelous doings in our lives. We are alive today only because of His grace. No matter how rough you may think things have been, if God allowed the devil, your story could have been worst, not forgetting the mission of the devil is to kill, steal and destroy. So, your being alive today, is because God kept you, this is why we give Him thanks in all things. Indeed God deserves our praise for He had indeed done all things well. It is the same flight you travel with that others fly and crash.It is the same sleep you sleep that so many sleep and never woke up. Indeed it is because of The Lord’s doing that we have not been consumed. This is why we owe Him praise. And for us to see His glory manifest in our lives we must commit to praise Him at all times. When you are addicted to giving God thanks, destiny opens to you on its own accord, His glory will surround you and signs and wonder will become natural to you.
PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for all You have been doing in my life. Please grant me the grace to always thank and praise You at all times, because You have indeed done all things well for me. May Your Name be glorified always in my life in Jesus Name.
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When you obey God’s instruction you are delivered from destruction [WORDBITE 222].