• Only when a man decides to think in the light of what God has done will he become truly thankful.
• Thanksgiving requires thinking and reflecting.
• If you do not think through to list the things that God has done for you, your thanksgiving will be limited.
• If you truly think about what He has done and what He has said, you will prevent yourself from grumbling and complaining.
• What is coming ahead or what you think you have not achieved will not bother you so much if you think of what He has done before.
• When you see people are offended with God, it is because they have become ungrateful and they begin to find fault with Him.
• A truly grateful person will not find room to complain.
• Your way upward and through that barrier is actually thanksgiving.
• When you are not thankful to God, you are actually telling Him that you need to be removed from where you are.
• When you are not thankful to God, you don’t trust Him to take you to where you want to go.

WHY DO WE GIVE GOD THANKS?
1. WE OWE GOD THANKS (Luke 17:17-19, Psa 150:6)
• We have a debt of thanksgiving to God for every good thing that He has done for us.
• If you don’t thank God for what you have right now, you will never have more.
• Every human being has a debt to God, including those who don’t know Him.
• Having breath is the qualification to praise God.
• Your faith in God is expressed by you giving Him thanks.

2. THANKSGIVING FACILITATES MULTIPLICATION OF EVERYTHING (Jer 33:22, 30:19, 1 Cor 3:6)
• The way to increase things is not to complain that they are little but to give thanks for the little so that it becomes more.
• Only God gives increase.
• Start from where you, with what you have.
• The answer is with what we have but our eyes are looking at what we don’t have so as a result our hearts grow cold towards God.
• When satan wants to distract a man from his vision, he will give him another vision to focus on.
• If you are going to be copying another man, you will never rise to anything.
• Your own thing is what will make you great, not what you are copying.
• Looking at what other people have is a major reason why some people are ungrateful.
• Comparison is dangerous.
• Many will arrive in heaven not having achieved anything that was ordained for them because they were in stiff competition with others.

3. THANKSGIVING OPENS DOORS (Acts 16:25-26)