A beautiful Tuesday to you in the name of Jesus. We thank God for today and we thank God as we’re gradually drawing to the end of the year.

We’re still saying thank you though we’re appreciating God we still want to say thank you to you, to the people around us who have made life so different, who have made life wonderful and worth living, who have been with us through thick and thin we want to say a big thank you to them. Yesterday we spoke on how God loves to be appreciated, God loves us to thank Him and we created in His image and likeness and since God loves to be appreciated it’s just natural that human beings would love to be appreciated too. We also read in 1 John 4:20 and it spoke about if we claimed that we love God who we don’t hear and we don’t see people would say we’re lying; so if we’re claiming to appreciate and thank a God we don’t see and we don’t love people that we see then we’re lying.

It is important we learn to say thank you and sometimes in this culture saying thank you is one of the most difficult things to do but it is important to say thank you and it is important to appreciate people.

We’re going to read 1 Corinthians 16: 18(amplified)

They have refreshed my spirit as well as yours. So fully acknowledge such men and deeply appreciate them. (New Century Version )

They have refreshed my spirit and yours. You should recognize the value of people like these. Sometimes these people aren’t the high and mighty they’re just normal, simple people, but no matter what it is important to appreciate that have brought refreshing into our souls, joy to our lives, that have stood by us.

It’s in the bible that God shows us it’s important to appreciate people and Paul in his letters wrote so many people’s names that were blessings to him and he appreciated them. Other things I feel we should practice for the next few days is to write it down or keep a mental note of people you need to call up, send messages or meet and say thank you.

Thank you for standing with me, thank you for making this year different, thank you for all you’ve done this gear 2020.

Jesus was talking in Matthew 25 from verse 35 and He talked about how He was sick and no one checked on Him, He was hungry and no one fed Him, He was naked and no one clothed Him. Then the people asked when this happened and in verse 40 He said if you’ve done these things to the least if these my brothers and sisters then you’ve done it to me and the lesson I learnt there was that the way we treat people is the way you treat God. So if you express love and show kids to people Jesus says you’re doing that to Him.

Let us go out today and appreciate people, let us tell them thank you and they add value to our lives, people that have brought rest to our soul, people that have stood by us through thick and thin. Even Jesus at the last supper He told His disciples in Luke 22 that you’re the ones who have stood with me in my time of challenges and because of this just as my Father has appointed me a kingdom I appreciate you by appointing you a kingdom also.

So let’s go out and say thank you to people, appreciate them, thank you for their service, let them know you appreciate and love them.

God bless you.

Have a lovely day.