OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH 2017- A SACRIFICE GOD LOVES 

December 10, 2017 Posted by admina In Devotionals No Comments
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Memorise: “I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.” Psalms 116:17
Read: Psalms 116:17-19   
17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.
18 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
19 In the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
Bible in one year: Psalm 142-150, Haggai 1:1-11

AS REVEALED BY PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE IN TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL

1. If you have been washed in the precious Blood of the lamb, thanking God for the salvation of your soul is something you need to do daily for the rest of your life.
2. Some people throw parties to celebrate milestones and achievements in different areas of life, but Jesus said that what should give us the greatest joy is the fact that we are saved and have our names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Luke 10:20). That your name is in the Lamb’s Book of Life is a great testimony that you should regularly thank God for whenever you pray.
3. However, giving thanks to God is not always a very easy thing to do, particularly if you have been through a spate of negative and very sad events of experiences. In such situations, thanking God requires sacrifice.
4. Our God loves sacrifices – particularly a sacrifice of thanksgiving. No wonder the Psalmist says thus in Psalm 116:17: “I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD”
5. When you offer thanksgiving to God at a time when every situation in your life is saying that He doesn’t deserve it or that He has forsaken you, it is sacrificial.
6. Similarly, your thanksgiving is sacrificial when you thank God even when He has not granted your requests. This is an expression of faith.
7. Sacrificial thanksgiving glorifies God and proves to Him that your faith in Christ has spiritual substance.
8. Do you know that most people remember to thank God only when they believe He has ‘earned it’? Such people live by a personal philosophy which says “Whenever God does something for me, only then will I give Him thanks in return”. Such an attitude is simply calculative and myopic.
9. There are so many things God does for us everyday which we take for granted as normal everyday occurrences, but the truth is, nothing is ever really “normal”, and every day comes with its challenges.
10. Those who give God a sacrifice of thanksgiving do so because they choose to. They choose to see things from God’s perspective, which makes them see reasons why they ought to be grateful to God, even when other people cannot see any reason why.

SHORT REFLECTION BY THE LIGHT POINTERS

The Lord dealt with David with so much love and compassion because of his unceasing sacrifice of praise. He made thanking God a daily a lifestyle and this made him a man after God’s heart. God loves it when we worship him in spirit and truth.John 4:23 says “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.” Let’s give Him praise as many times as we can. God bless Pastor E.A Adeboye for blessing us with the word of God through the Holy Spirit and Open Heavens devotional in Jesus name.

Action Point
Apply the lessons learnt in today’s study to offer God a sacrifice of thanksgiving today.
HYMN
Great is Thy faithfulness,
O God my Father,
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not,
Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been
Thou forever wilt be.
Chorus:
“Great is Thy faithfulness!”
“Great is Thy faithfulness!”
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed
Thy hand hath provided,
“Great is Thy faithfulness,”
Lord, unto me!
Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,
Thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

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