Title: Heaven of the Gratitude
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Bible: Revelation 11:15-18 Title: Heaven of those who give thanks
All crimes begin when we forget gratitude and grace. It was proven through Adam and Eve. The first step in all human problems begins with ‘I am not grateful…’. The troubled Paradise Lost began because Adam did not thank God for allowing the Paradise Blessed.
The seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world will be the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever. So the twenty-four elders who were seated on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God. And he said, I give thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who was of old and of the ten directions, for you have seized power and reigned. Heaven is a place where there is only gratitude.
worshiped God and said, Thank you
The 24 elders, the representatives of the Old and New Testament churches, show thanksgiving worship and praise to God in heaven. God uses our gratitude and praise as food. Among the five major sacrifices, the thanksgiving offering is the peace offering, the fragrant offering, and the food offered to the Lord.
'And Mattaniah the son of Micah, the grandson of Zabdi, the son of Asaph. I became a man of thanksgiving when I prayed, and Bakbukiah was second among the brothers, and Abdani son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the great son of Jeduthun 11:17)
Years ago, on an Alaska Airlines flight to Anchorage, I saw a verse of a psalm and a beautiful painting in the meal the flight attendants gave me.
“I will praise God’s name in song and with thanksgiving I will praise God” (Psalm 69:30). “I will praise God's name in song and glorify Him with thanksgiving.” (Psalm 69:30)
I closed my eyes and tried to pray, but I picked up the card and looked at the majestic Rocky Mountains reflected in the window.
All those who live under the rule of God should praise and give thanks to God. Heaven is a place where people who are grateful without a desire for domination or possessiveness enter. Like the Nephilim (Genesis 6:4), Nimrod (Genesis 10:8), and the group of Korah (Numbers 16:32), if you do not give up your desire for domination before God, you will never enter the kingdom of God.
Here, those who give thanks enter the heaven of thanksgiving.
Our stereotype is that thanksgiving is something we do after receiving an answer to our prayers. But Paul exhorts us to ask with thanksgiving from the beginning of our prayers. It means to go to God with thanksgiving even if your prayers are not answered.
If you receive answers to your prayers and give thanks to God, it becomes a transaction. I urge you to plant the seeds of thanksgiving in the spirit of thanksgiving in Christ from the time of prayer, with an attitude of gratitude. ‘I am in Christ. I am a citizen of heaven. I thank you that my name is written in the book of life. should thank you.
20 years ago, Aristotle Onassis, the world's largest conglomerate, a Greek shipping king, said, "The only thing you can trust in the world is money. And the people you can trust are people with money." However, two years after his son died in a plane crash, he lost all his fortune and died exhausted.
The Holy Spirit, the author of the Bible, gave the four Gospels, and the ordinances of thanksgiving were repeatedly recorded in the Pentateuch in the Old Testament as well. God told the people of Israel that they would forget the grace of salvation due to their corrupt sinful nature and would suffer from spiritual dementia and be ungrateful. He told us to repeatedly enact and keep the ordinance of Thanksgiving so that we may never forget the grace of God.