GLOBAL THANKSGIVING SUNDAY SERVICE IPPC 2026 NOV 15 2026

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Thanksgiving is a special event 
It's not just a prayer and it's not just an offering. 
If you understand the scripture and God's plan, you will see that thanksgiving is not a prayer of thanksgiving or an offering of thanksgiving. It's actually an event. Special and well planned. 
you see it in the scriptures. 
God's people actually gather together for that event. 
They have in mind all the good things that God has done for them.
They come with a heart full of praise to offer their sacrifices in remembrance of his goodness. In commemoration of his works on their lives and on their behalf. 
They come together to celebrate him
 It's an event organized for that purpose. 
To them, they are rendering service back to him in that process. 
And it is to be done according to his instructions and guidance. He told them wat he wanted and how it should be done. 
That is supposed to continue throughout the ages.
That's the way God wants it. 

The Kind of things God wants in your heart scanning through all the things God has done for you and your heart full of appreciation. Knowing the goodness of God in your life. 
Has God been good to you? are you sure?
Then we sing songs to his praise because God has been good to us. 
If it had not been for the Lord who had been on my side where would I be?
If God didn't act or intervene on your behalf where would you be? Some of you would have been dead in a bad way. 
Some of you would have been so poverty stricken and no one would recognize 
But God has been with you. 
God has been good to us. God has been kind. 
It does not matter where you've been or how difficult things have been, He told us I am with you even until the end of the age. That's the most important thing.
He is with us and nothing can separate us from his love. 


So during Thanksgiving, our hearts are full of appreciation and gratitude. 


1 Chronicles 29:12
David made a statement so profound.
When I was about 16 years old I was meditating on this scripture and how true and important it was, and looking into the distant future. I said "the words that I'm reading here will be my pilot into the future" 
It's a prayer of David.
 

1Chr.29.12 - Both riches and honor come from You, And You reign over all. In Your hand is power and might; In Your hand it is to make great And to give strength to all.


It is in his hand to make someone great. 
If God decides to make you great, you will become great no matter what the circumstance or what comes your way. 

I was talking to the Lord about destiny... and He made a profound statement to me. "I CREATE DESTINIES".
in other words, Even if a man was given a destiny, He reserves the right to change that destiny and give the man another destiny. 
He has the power and ability to completely alter a destiny and set a man on another course. 
This place is a place of destiny. .Here a man's destiny can be completely altered. 
Imagine that you were destined for a certain level in life. Maybe not low or high but just there... He has the power and ability. 
In this place, it's God's choice to make you great. You are chosen for greatness. 

You look at your life .  Where you are coming from...
Your mother or Father could have never been able to make you great
No human out there could give you the kind of guidance to make you Great
But God knows how to order your steps. 
The Bible says the steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord. My life is ordered. 
Thank you for where you are in time and eternity. 
Thank him for the work you are doing for the Lord right now, the position you are at right now.
Except the Lord had been with you you would not be where you are right now..
So Thank Him
Why should you even be someone leading other people? Why should anyone be listening to you except God has positioned you. Thank God for positioning you and giving you wisdom to serve him.