SATURDAY - 9TH AUGUST, 2025
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Psalms 100:4, KJV
"Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name."
I said in my last teaching that, "entering cannot be sharp and abrupt. There's an order or process to it". We really need to see that. The curtain needs to be drawn for us to have insight and in-road into what is hidden till now from our faces.
One time, something of worth that was ours was stolen. I was alarmed to it and of course I began to pray for its restoration as soon as possible. I prayed for a repentant heart for the person and also assigned a stirring angel to the fellow or fellows as the case may be. I knew without the conviction of the person, nothing would happen.
So, as I was bringing the matter to God the second day, I was overwhelmed by the sorrow at hand and consumed by the zeal to tell God my sorrows. I therefore left thanksgiving and praise but rather stepped into decrees and declarations. Just then, I experienced a restraint in my spirit. It was sharp. It's like a pull or bridle on a horse. It held me and called me back to the observance of these verses under our view.
You can be carried away by what is not into defying the order or process God Himself recognizes and put solidly on ground for us to follow. When I experienced that, I knew what God was calling me to was to go back to thanksgiving and enter His presence appropriately even in praise. So, I went back to observe the process.
What you must know is that God's standard stands sure over matters. He has said some things over certain matters and it'll be good if you're found in observance of them.
One of them is what we'll be looking into now. The Bible says, "enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise..."
God is teaching us process and structure by having a verse like this written here. You can't just enter anyhow. You can't enter by how you think things should be structured. To enter and have access, you have to enter through the gates with thanksgiving to start with. That's when you're not breaking the order of things.
We all know what the gate is. It is the entrance to a building. Another way, it could mean "the door". It still signifies "access". For you to have access, the echo you must enter with is thanksgiving. As you do this and proceed in prayer, you can then change into praise because you have achieved some smooth mobility in the spirit and you've now progressed towards the court. What's the court? The court is where the King is seated. We can also call it the royal court. For you to move, to stir and appease yourself to the king, it has to be by praise. We all know what praise or eulogy of someone does. It makes them want to act. It'll put them in a state of willingness to do even the unexpected or the unthinkable for you. Thanksgiving is our expression of gratitude to God for all that He has done. Praise is our expression of approval or admiration for God Himself.
When you leave this process and do away with this order because of sorrow or distraction, you're not doing well. How will your prayers have wings in the midst of having observed other prayer prerequisites? So in entering, enter by putting these two in place. If it's access to the king or royal court you're looking for, you just received one amidst the keys to gain access. That verse says, "enter into his gates (outer court) with thanksgiving and into his courts (inner chambers where He actually resides) with praise: be thankful unto him and bless his name." When our lips confess all He has afore done in the midst of acknowledging who He is, we carefully set ourselves up for more. We definitely make a show of being grateful and we present ourselves to Him as ready for more. Observe this!
PRAYER: Bow in thanksgiving and rendering of praise to God. Thank Him and bless His name.
BIBLE IN A YEAR
I Cor. 11; Psalms 76-78
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