5. The fifth reason that requires us to come before God with thanksgiving and with a grateful heart is that thanksgiving is healing!

Thanksgiving is a code meant for your inner man!

It is only your inner man who understands why you are actively thanking God despite the situation that you have just lost your source of income and have no idea on how your household will survive next.

It is only your inner man who understands why you sing thank you hymns to God even after receiving the devastating report from your doctor about your health conditions!

It is only your inner man who understands why you are actively thanking God for your ministry despite the situation that you have been struggling to pastor the same congregation of forty five members for the last decade! It is only your inner man who understands why!

Thanksgiving brings HEALING.
Thanksgiving brings salvation.
Thanksgiving makes room for more. provisions where there is lack.
Thanksgiving brings deliverance to them that are bound.
Thanksgiving brings joy where there is sorrow.
Thanksgiving brings restoration.
Thanksgiving brings revival.
Thanksgiving strengthens.

When you feed your inner man with the code of thanksgiving, the carnal mortal body is weakened.
It is only your inner man who understands how to offer thanksgiving unto God because God Is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.

Remember when Jesus fed the multitude!
Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?”….So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitude. So they all ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets full of the fragments that were left.”

In the above incident, thanksgiving brought provisions for more fish and bread enough for the multitude, because thanksgiving brings healing!)

Again we read Jesus teaching us to give thanks to God when He was instituting the Holy Communion…When the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him…Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

Lessons.

1. Jesus was teaching us to use the code of thanksgiving to feed our inner man.
   Remember, Jesus is just hours aware to His crucifixion. The INNER MAN Who IS also the SPIRIT OF GOD needed to be fed. The only code that our inner man understands in order to conquer the carnal mortal body HARDSHIPS is thanksgiving. See, in HARDSHIPS, the carnal mortal body will always yield to complaining, murmuring, ungratefulness, etc..because the carnal mortal body sees the HARDSHIPS literally with carnal mortal eyes and will always echo, “aah things are not going well..” But when your inner man gets to hear your CODE for thanksgiving, he moves into action for your good!

So, another reason to come before God with thanksgiving and a grateful heart is that thanksgiving Brings you Healing in wholeness!

Thank You Lord!