Thanksgiving is a topic few people talk about, but it is extremely important where it concerns the Father and receiving revelation. With every prayer mentally one should say thanks mentally in spirit, as if you have already received, because that is the power of faith, and not some mystical mumbo jumbo. The Father gives his revelations to one that truly seeks, his grace, and you say thanks, daily, because of the good food, that bread from Heaven that is renewing your mind.

Psalm 26:6-8 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord: That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

It declares ones humility, and is a constant reminder to oneself that this cannot be done alone, and that only the Father can gift you a righteous mind, which his revelations slowly renew, until you are fully righteous and are ready to be raised upon on your last day. First you must seek him, and enter into his court, which is the spirit within, where we can receive the true crown of our glory.

Psalm 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

You cannot develop spiritual things with the ways of the flesh, of the things of this world, no matter how hard you try. You may improve your earthly condition, but the spirit is still blind within. To add to the confusion, all people believing thinking about spiritual things makes them spiritual, believing as I think, so am I. Fact is, all thought is from the heart, that wicked tree of knowledge of both good and evil. It cannot be in whole pure unless the Father creates within you a clean heart, full of his knowledge.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Again, take someone like Alan Watts for example, a so-called spiritual man, with a lot of books and videos of his teachings, largely appropriated from so-called eastern wisdom and mysticism, and yet this man died of alcoholism, not only that he had a smug and superior attitude somewhat common with earthly Guru's (Make no mistake, they are all taken down by their own craft, God is not mocked). No amount of wishy washy spirituality will save you, it may improve your life in the flesh, but make no mistake if it is not of the Father it is of the flesh, and the knowledge from the Father isn't remotely about improving people's earthly life.

Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

No man is righteous, not a one without the help of God. Even Jesus' flesh wasn't saved on Satan's cross by him, and image man worships as being holy, giving even more power to the beast, so keep that in mind. The flesh profits nothing, and I mean nothing when it comes to spiritual matters. That is the harsh purpose of the crucifixion, a lesson to us all, God is no respecter of persons. A lesson ignored since people worship the very act of the devil (through men) upon Jesus' flesh, even to wearing the instrument of his physical death and torture around their necks, that yoke that contributes into destroying the message Jesus brought, and instead, these enemies of Jesus, who come in his name, have turned the knowledge of the spirit from the Father's house into a den of thieves, where people congregate and worship the very image of the beast, in a building made with hand.

Deuteronomy 28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

To have any understanding of these things, one must seek the Father within in spirit, and receive his understanding, his word, which will then slowly awaken your mind to understanding these things, and the Gospel that Jesus brought, not to mention open your understanding of the scriptures. If you seek to read the Bible like a book, especially the Old Testament, you will err, and follow after the one of the earthly religious, those plagues (those unclean frogs) upon the earth that is added to anyone who adds to the book, or takes away from the book.

Revelation 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

And guess which part most people take away? The knowledge of the Father bit, and instead people assume he is also the Lord God of the Old Testament, he who was crooked in his ways, until his way was made straight by coming into the flesh as Jesus Christ himself. The plague is ignorance, and ignorance keeps you here. In damnation, which means to pay a penalty. Or as Jesus said;

Matthew 5:26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

Remember, the wages of sin, is to face death, and the last enemy to be defeated is death, but all in their own time, the first until the last all people will come out of hell, using the keys that Jesus brought into the world.

2 Samuel 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means,(Reincarnation, you have to become another person) that his banished be not expelled from him.

None are expelled from the Kingdom ever, and as promised, all flesh shall see salvation.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

If you want to be free of this evil world, and are wary of its works, then the path is laid out for you on in the very pages of the Bible. Granted many tribulations are to be suffered here, for that is the way of these world, but if you desire peace, and ask for it, the Father's peace will quieten your active hearts, and keep your minds in righteousness.

Philippians 4:6-8 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Teachings)

The Father's peace which passes all understanding, does just that. It gives one a righteous mind, clothed in peace, overcoming the unrighteous thoughts, the wiles and lusts of the soul, whose focus is this world, and this world only. Meaning as time goes along and your mind is slowly renewed and transformed, you'll have fewer thoughts about the things of the flesh plaguing your mind, and instead you'll have the literal peace of God pouring out his spirit unto your spirit, making it more like God's. After all were made in his image that is spirit. So be as perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect, and of course, only God can aid in that task.

John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

The Father reveals the truth to the spirit, enabling one to recognise the language of the spirit, and thus we now have the ability to see and follow the truth, and see through all falsehoods, burning up the tares that had previously mislead us, and gather the wheat into the barn, that land of uprightness.

Psalm 143:10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

That is the true sacrifice of the flesh, forsaking it and instead offering your spirit in thanks to his revelations and knowledge of him.

Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And what do people do? Offer their prayers in front of a man of the cloth following man's instructions and not God, repeating and spreading falsehoods about God. It is tantamount to listening to an audio book, that is all religion is. Listening to other men speak and believing in what they're say. You may call each other brother and sister, but you're no child of God in that state.

Proverbs 28:21 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

Loving your own lives, and loving the knowledge that comes from the soul and the souls of others around you.

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Again, respect not persons, and do not eat the bread of man, which comes from his own knowledge and his own understanding, his own understanding that is the fruit of the wicked heart, a heart that doesn't want to be understood, and so by its very crooked nature deceives all of those who dwell on the earth. Not one word of the law and the prophets will pass until all has been fulfilled, and grasp it and grasp it good.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

The heart is deceitful above ALL THINGS, and it is wicked, few know it, because that wicked has yet to be revealed. Now if the law of sin is within all men, who is the man of sin, other than the man who serves the lusts of his own heart.

James 1:22-25 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

In short look in the mirror, and see the person God is no respecter of, the man who knows not what manner of spirit he is. And people wonder why it has yet to be revealed, that man of sin. Expecting some Antichrist, when we ourselves are it, believing ourselves to be good, all the while our thoughts and intentions are evil, and our reward for that, the fruit of our thoughts. That is the law here, and as we can all see around us, it isn't pleasant for most. Just walk through your local hospital to see a good example for loving the flesh, decay, disease and death is the reward for most. So seek the Father in spirit, within thy closet if you seek to be chosen out of this lake of fire.

Isaiah 48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

The reward for loving the Father in the spirit, eternal life in the spirit, and freedom from this furnace of affliction.

Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

Half the jobs we do are about coercing, manipulating, and outright lying to people just to feed ourselves. So if you are harming people in anyway, even indirectly, don't be fooled as to what you are. If you're not of God, you're evil to be blunt, which is why its all important to seek the Father's righteousness so that it blots out the very thing people choose to sin with.

Psalm 14:3-5  They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord. There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Again, if you're not learning from the Father within, in the spirit, then you should know what time it is. So seek him. His apostles needed to receive the holy spirit to be taught these things, having their understanding opened, the same people who walked with Jesus in the flesh. Why those who have come afterwards believe by just believing in a name means they're saved says enough about the state of man's mind. It is blind, lazy and destitute of the word. The word which is not the words in the Bible, but the word that is the revelations from the Father, which will open your mind to understand the scriptures in the spirit.

Proverbs 23:6-8 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

To be clear, revelations are not your thoughts or ideas, nor those of others. God is no respecter of persons, and that includes their thoughts, because thoughts are what makes a person, that man of sin.

2 Timothy 3:12-14 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. (Of the soul, since the soul is in enmity with the spirit) But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. (By their own evil thoughts and intentions of the heart, and those of others) But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

Which is from the Father, and no one else. Remember that the Old Testament was about the flesh, a memorial of things to come, hence why it is called the Law and the Prophets who spoke of the things to come, which are a shadow of good things to come, but not the very image of.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Incidentally, those yearly sacrifices, which follow after the traditions and doctrines of men are again worthless, they're not done by ones own will, but by the will of men. Even worse they're sacrifices of the flesh and not the spirit.

Leviticus 22:29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the Lord, offer it at your own will.

Your own will being your own spirit and your desire. No one is forced into these things, and God is no fundamentalist, neither are his children. We belong to no religion, and follow no doctrine, other than the word that the Father gives.

Matthew 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Consider what is said here about entering in THY closet, the Father's house of prayer, your body in spirit. Within, you'll receive revelation, his grace, and with his will being, all shall see salvation, one must do his will and preach that good news, that one will receive from his altar of the spirit, in THY Holy Temple. The longer you can dwell in his honour, the more knowledge that is revealed to the mind, and the more you publish to the world, the greater your understand becomes. So give thanks daily, it is key.

Acts 2:47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church (those called out, ecclesia, church is a corruption of the word) daily such as should be saved.

Because those who are called out of this world, are added to daily. Remember what Jesus said about seeking the Father's kingdom AND his righteousness.

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

And what is added to you, go out and preach. Not to men directly like the religious do, but to their spirits, discreetly, since this isn't about being religious, it is about preparing people to be called out themselves by the Father. He gives you the seeds to sow, so hide them in the field, so that when one seeks, they will find, and sell all they have and buy that field. That field is the mind, the spirit, where the Father's honour dwells.

Psalm 26:6-8 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord: That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

Saying thank you is simple, and it is the true sacrifice, and a banner of humility that the Father applauds.

Psalm 107:22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

Yes, doing this actually makes you happy, and it turns life into a bad holiday compared to Heaven, you'll end up hating the world because you'll come to know what is to come.

John 13:17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

Not hate as in the woe is me depressing sense, since understanding these things cures depression, but in a way that one might hate school detention and wants to go home, full in the knowledge that things will end.

James 5:11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

We simply have to endure the tribulations here, which aren't the same for everyone, but they're for our redemption, as we one by one eliminate the soul's devices against our spirit.

Psalm 137:8-9 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

And as time passes our love for the world, and the lusts thereof are blotted out and replaced with the righteous knowledge from God. As said, he adds all things to the spirit.

1 John 2:15 -17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

You wouldn't even believe what it is like to know 100% that you are an eternal being, rightfully belonging to Heaven. But that's how it is, you cannot fully believe that and rightfully you should not, because thinking and believing in spiritual things doesn't renew the mind, nor awake it from its slumber. The issue is that people believe that thinking about spiritual things makes the spiritual, it does not. You can't think your way into Heaven, even worse, it is man thoughts that like a flaming sword stops them from reaching out to eat from the tree of life, because they're puffed up with their own knowledge from eating off that tree of knowledge of good and evil. 

Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Turning to the Father yourself is key because then the knowledge becomes yours instead of a belief handed down to you from another man, who exalts himself above measure, and will do if they seek a following from people. Such people are far from the Kingdom.

2 Corinthians 12:6-8 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

That messenger of Satan can come in any form, even down to a physical addiction, which has its base in the soul's lusts, so don't worry about anything supernatural happening to you, the tribulations are largely mental and emotional not physical as the all the people of the world against you, like the Christians like to delude themselves into believing that they're persecuted in the world in the blindness of their minds. They make up a good percentage of the people on the planet. They're far from persecuted.

Ephesians 6:11-13 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Jesus temptations in the wilderness were from his own heart, and the knowledge given to him from the Father helped him overcome them.

Psalm 37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

My thorn incidentally was anger, which is what my first revelation was about. 'Do not be angry with the world, because many terrible things must happen here'. The one and only audible revelation I've had, most revelations are just a simple transference of knowledge, something that wasn't there before is now there, you suddenly know a truth that you didn't know before. It is a tough path to endure and stay on, hence why it is called the straight and narrow path. Broad is that path to destruction, so keep your mind on God, and he'll will guide you in his ways. 

Isaiah 35:8-9 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

It is very important to realise that the Old Testament spoke of physical things as a parable for the spiritual things that are to come, using the very events of the day. If you want to get lost in the letter that kills the truth, then that is up to you. Free choice is yours, whether you want to intellectualise God and the scriptures, forever debating with people with scripture battles, for he is not a respecter of persons, and as written, the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. 

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Beware the leaven of the Pharisees. There's is nothing easier than to convince someone that they're knowledgeable and intelligent, especially if they have read a book. Puffed up with their own earthly knowledge, which ends up taking them down at the end.

Proverbs 3:4-6 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Sad thing is, the more versed and studied one is in the Bible, the harder it is to understand these things, because prior learning and memory are just two of Satan's devices within people preventing them from understanding. After all, it normally takes some tragic event for a person to reconsider their feelings and attitudes about things. They have their reward as Jesus said. Not to mention new wine in old bottles tend to perish. So new wine has to be put in new bottles.

Matthew 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Publish the leaven (knowledge) of the spirit, not the leaven of the flesh, which shall come to nought as it profits nothing.

Amos 4:5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.

The Father's grace comes through thanksgiving, within, you simply get out what you put in. Do the work and receive the wages, and since God helps you with the work, via giving you the knowledge to do it, and it is very little work indeed, for in doing the work, you are receiving knowledge. That will not only help you live, and receive life eternal, but most importantly help your brothers and sisters held captive in this world of the flesh work towards eternal life as well. That is the Fellowship of the Mystery.

2 Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

Remember the parable of the sower. In short Jesus made the fields ready, you plant the seeds, and the Father helps it grow by watering on them. Pouring out his spirit upon all flesh. It really is as easy as 1, 2, 3. The simplicity that is in Christ's teachings. Which is basically, turn to the Father within, and be taught all things, and then doing his will, being doers of the word, preach the Gospel.

Proverbs 1:23 Turn you at my reproof (Corrected (Judged) in righteousness): behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Currently you do not know his words, do not fool yourself into thinking you do, until you have turned to him, and he to you, and remember, give thanks always, for it is he that reveals.