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Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, ‘Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen’” Revelation 7:11-12   Look at the amazing company that thanksgiving keeps in this great verse from the book of Revelation.   As this verse s

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me” Psalm 50:23   How do we, as Christians, offer to God “a sacrifice of thanksgiving” in this day and why would it be a sacrifice at all to offer God thanksgiving?   If we are distressed and downcast, and don’t even feel worthy to enter God’s presence, and yet we sacrifice our feelings about ourselves and our state of mind, to praise our God anyway, this is a sacrifice of thanksgiving

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7   Which would you prefer; to be anxious while you pray or to be in the peace of God while you pray? Thanksgiving is the difference between these two states of awareness.   Prayer

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving.” Colossians 4:2   Here is a great piece of advice and encouragement for us, from the apostle Paul, concerning how we may experience a more enlivened and effectual prayer life.   Let us keep alert with an attitude of thanksgiving.   Giving thanks to God keeps us most blessedly aware of our Lord. Whereas praying without thanksgiving can lock us up in com

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “I will praise the name of God with song and magnify Him with thanksgiving” Psalm 69:30   Bless your loving Lord, O child of God, for this Scripture is telling us that when we come before our God with thanksgiving, He becomes magnified!   God is enlarged in our presence when we praise Him in His presence! What a most amazing and gracious blessing this is for our lives.   Don’t let God be small to you, especially when you could be prai

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, let us shout joyfully to Him with Psalms.” Psalm 95:2   What a sweet word of encouragement this is. Yes, our Lord is inviting us to “come before His presence with thanksgiving.”   Right now, beloved child of Abba Father, give thanks to God for His indwelling presence abiding within you, as pr

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name. For the Lord is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting” Psalm 100:4-5   When we “enter His gates with thanksgiving,” this indicates that we know Whom we are approaching, our great God, Who has loved us with an everlasting love, and this explains why we are in such a blessed state of thanksgiving as we enter.   Approaching God and His pr

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His lovingkindness is everlasting” Psalm 136:1   Let us praise our God today, “for His lovingkindness” is with us always.   God’s lovingkindness is everlasting. This means that God’s lovingkindness is ever-present, living and abiding within us through the Holy Spirit, of Whom the Apostle Paul wrote, “the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was give

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His lovingkindness is everlasting.” Psalm 136:1   Here is a great reason for you and I to live in a state of perpetual thanksgiving to God.   “He is good.”   Amen. God is good... all of the time. So, let us “give thanks” all of the time.   Let us allow the Holy Spirit to so fill our hearts with the presence of our God, Who “is good,” that our spiritual mind set will always be to “give than

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever.” Revelation 4:9   For the past two days we have been appreciating the value of our being with our Lord and saying in His presence, “Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57), and “Thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ” (2 Corinthians 2:14), for it is through our b