THE POWER OF THANKSGIVING

The POWER OF THANKSGIVING - Mark 08/06-

"And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people."

Jesus came face to face with the dilemma of feeding 4000 men in the wilderness-"And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?" Mark 08/04

But Jesus explored the power of thanksgiving to multiply 7 loaves of bread and satisfy 4000 men-"So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets. And they that had eaten were about four thousand" Mark 8:8,9

Thanksgiving is your super catalyst to overturn all your miseries into miracles-:

1. Jehoshaphat explored the awesome power of thanksgiving to defeat his enemies and cart away incredible spoil- 2Chron.20:25

WHAT WOULD BE YOUR TESTIMONIAL?

"Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was. ...Greet Apelles, tested and approved in Christ?" (Romans 16:7, 10 NIV).

As Paul concluded his epistle to the Christians in the imperial city of Rome, he listed, in Romans 16, a catalogue of people that had influenced his life and ministry in one way or the other. 

As he was listing them, he mentioned specifically what some of them had done for him and the Christian faith. Among them were Priscilla and Aquila who risked their lives for him (verses 3-4); Epenetus who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia (verse 5); Mary who worked very hard for other Christians (verse 6); Andronicus and Junias who have been in prison with him and were outstanding among the apostles (verse 7); Urbanus who was a fellow-worker in Christ (verse 9); Apelles who was tested and approved in Christ (verse 10); Tryphena and Tryphosa, women who work hard in the Lord (verse 12a); Persis, another woman who has worked VERY hard in the Lord (verse 12b); and Rufus' mother who had been a mother to Paul (verse 13). Paul also made mention of some other people in passing. These included Asyncritus, Ampliatus, Phlegon, Herodion, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, Philologus, Julia, Nereus and Olympas and other unnamed saints.