DCLM Higher Everyday 15 September 2025 — Give Thanks Always To God

Topic: Give Thanks Always To God

Text: Ephesians 5:19-21

19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

20Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Key Verse: “Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 5:20).

Message

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues,” says Cicero. The servants that broke different bad news to Job, one after the other, must have expected him to break down in tears and become emotionally unstable. Surprisingly, Job fell to the ground and worshipped. He blessed the name of the Lord. He praised God even at a bad time. Give thanks always, not just when things are rosy, also at the time of disappointments, difficulties, delays, deprivation, and death of loved ones. Our thankfulness should not be done only on special occasions, church or during morning devotions.

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Give thanks—do not hold it back or keep it just within your heart. It is an activity God commands us to do, which we must do well—wholeheartedly and willingly. Set time apart to thank God in songs, worship, and praises. The list of things we should praise Him for is endless—His greatness, grace, goodness, gifts, guidance etc. Do not take things for granted. The Lord wants to hear your voice of thanksgiving every time and everywhere.

Quote: Set time apart to thank God

Challenge: The Lord wants to hear your voice of thanksgiving

Prayer for today: I will praise you, O my Saviour, for ever more.

GOSPEL REALM: STEPS TO SALVATION
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)