{"status":200,"userMsg":"Post fetched successfully","devMsg":"Post fetched successfully","data":{"id":480,"uuid":"ee308f16-5137-43ca-b601-71834c27ba55","title":"Week 2: UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF THANKSGIVING – Part 2","excerpts":"What is Thanksgiving?\n A celebration of the acts of GOD in our lives - Psa. 103:1-5 / Psa. 118:23\n\n1. “A celebration”\nThanksgiving is more than simply saying “thank You.” It is a joyful response to what God has done. It involves recognizing, remembering, and openly expressing gratitude for His works.\n2. “of the acts”\nThe word acts points to the things God has done:His interventions, blessings, deliverance, provision, protection, forgiveness, healing, and faithfulness.\nPsalm 103:2 says:\n“Bless th","content":"What is Thanksgiving?\n A celebration of the acts of GOD in our lives - Psa. 103:1-5 / Psa. 118:23\n\n1. “A celebration”\nThanksgiving is more than simply saying “thank You.” It is a joyful response to what God has done. It involves recognizing, remembering, and openly expressing gratitude for His works.\n2. “of the acts”\nThe word acts points to the things God has done:His interventions, blessings, deliverance, provision, protection, forgiveness, healing, and faithfulness.\nPsalm 103:2 says:\n“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.”\nThanksgiving requires us to remember His acts rather than forget them.\n\n3. “of God”\nThanksgiving is ultimately directed toward God, because He is the source behind the blessings and victories we experience.\nPsalm 118:23 declares:\n“This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.”\nWe don't merely celebrate the blessing; we celebrate the God who made it possible.\n\n4. “in our lives”\nGod's acts are not only things we read about in the Bible or hear about from others. Thanksgiving involves recognizing His personal dealings with us—what He has done in our individual lives, families, ministries, careers, and circumstances.\nTherefore:\nThanksgiving is a celebration of the acts of God in our lives.\nIt is remembering what God has done, recognizing that He is the One who did it, and responding with joyful gratitude and praise.\nPsalm 103:1–5 ? Remember His benefits.\nPsalm 118:23 ? Recognize His doing.\nThanksgiving ? Celebrate His acts and give Him the glory.\n\nWhy must we give thanks?\n It is our guarantee for answered prayers - Phil. 4:6 / Matt. 6:6,13\nHow does thanksgiving relate to answered prayer?\n1. Thanksgiving brings us into God's presence with faith.\nPhilippians 4:6 says:\n“In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”\nPrayer + Supplication + Thanksgiving = Making our requests known to God\n\nWe do not come to God only with our needs. We come remembering what He has already done. Thanksgiving strengthens our confidence that the God who answered before is still able to answer now.\nexample i need some urgent assistance. I ask a few buddies around me and no one was able to work, then someone from no where extends help. Having thanked the person, next time if i give thanking the person , if i need help , the confidence to go to same person is high,\n\n\nThanksgiving demonstrates trust before the answer comes.\nWhen I thank God before I see the answer, I am saying:\n“Lord, I trust You with this situation, and I believe You are working even though I cannot see the answer yet.”\n\nSo thanksgiving changes prayer from merely “God, give me this” to “God, I trust You with this.”\n\nThat attitude of faith is important because Scripture says:\n\n“But let him ask in faith...” — James 1:6\n\n\n\n\nWhat are we thanking God for?\n? For His faithfulness in our lives – Ps. 92:1-3/ Ps 89:24\n1. We thank God for His faithfulness in our lives\nPsalm 92:1–3; Psalm 89:24\n\nPsalm 92:1–2 presents thanksgiving as appropriate because God's lovingkindness and faithfulness are continually present. Psalm 89:24 adds that God's faithfulness is with His chosen servant.\n\nWhat does this mean?\nWe thank God because He has remained faithful to us.\nHe has kept His promises even when circumstances changed.\nHe has sustained us through seasons of difficulty.\nHis faithfulness is not dependent on our circumstances.\nKey thought:\n\nWe give thanks because God has been faithful, is faithful, and will remain faithful.\n\n\n? For the victory we look forward to - 2Chr. 20:20-24\n? For keeping the oil fresh on our heads – Ps. 89: 20-24/ Ps 92:1-3,10-11\n\n\n\n\n","encoded_content":null,"username":"jvava","author":"anonymous","visibility":1,"category":"sermon","quiz":null,"communities":null,"view_access":null,"edit_access":null,"state_vector":null,"sync_tracker":"17cfce41-6a82-4e41-ad21-cfe94a62cc68","created_at":"2026-08-19T18:33:33.000Z","updated_at":"2026-08-19T20:14:57.000Z"}}