Date: Tuesday, 1st April, 2025
Text: 1 Thessalonians 5:18
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
Happy New month! Welcome to the month of April and the second quarter of the year. I enjoin you to always give thanks to God for everything both great and small.
Those things you consider to be little are actually big in the lives of so many other people. For example, you find it so easy to fall asleep whenever you hit the bed and so you take it for granted. But for millions of people all over the world they find that same thing difficult; some of them have to constantly swallow sleeping pills before they can get some sleep. Be thankful!
At your age your body parts are still intact. That can only be by the grace of God. Earlier this year, I heard the testimony of an old woman who recently clocked a hundred years old. Her set of teeth were still complete; she could read the Bible without glasses; she could still move around without any form of aid. She spoke very clearly without her voice fading or shaking.
When last did you thank God for your sanity? Did you know that there are so many well educated, well connected people that are patients of psychiatric hospitals? Be thankful for your mental health!
Someone was crying that he has no shoes and then as he was going along the road he met someone that has no legs but was very happy and grateful to God. He immediately realized his error and began thanking God for his legs and he forgot about his lack of shoes.
Be thankful to God for those things you consider to be little. What you take for granted and call ‘little’ is a big deal in the lives of millions of other people on the planet Earth. Therefore, think deeply and be thankful.
Prayer Nuggets
- Thank you Father for bringing me into a brand new month and quarter of the year.
- Father, thank you for everything you have done and not done in my life.
- Please Lord, show me mercy and forgive me of every act of ingratitude in Jesus name.
- Father, please go ahead of me this new month and quarter, making every crooked place smooth in Jesus name.
- This season, father, please cause me to blossom and be fruitful all-round in Jesus name.
- Father, this season, please, grant me uncommon favour that will swallow every previous shame and reproach in my life in Jesus name.
- Father please, fight for me while I hold my peace in Jesus name.
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