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INGRATITUDE

Text : 2Timothy 3:2 

People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

 *Doesn't it marvel you to know that ingratitude is one of the signs of end time? Just ask yourself, how many times have you been ungrateful in the past?* 
I know you know the meaning of gratitude, but permit me to spell out what the dictionary meaning is nonetheless.
Gratitude is the state of being thankful or appreciative. That is, ingratitude is the absence of gratitude and thankfulness. 

 *No known human culture or religion teaches people to be ungrateful. So the question is, where is ingratitude coming from,* and why is it on the increase? 

Well, the answer is straight and simple,  ingratitude is one of the features of the end time.

Human behaviors are fashioned and regulated by spirits. *If you are not being influenced by the Holy Spirit, you are being influenced by the evil spirits, no middle ground.* 

Anyone who is not in Christ is being governed by spirit of the prince of the air. 
 _Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:_ Ephesians 2:2.

This spirit is responsible for the lusts in man, it is also responsible for the desires, thought patterns, behaviors, trends and fashion of a natural man. 

No one can escape the the operations of this end time spirit except through Christ Jesus. 

Note that this warning is going out to those who are in Christ Jesus 
 (those outside Christ are already captured, the only way out is to run to Jesus). This is because if you are not watchful, you can easily be overtaken by the end time spirit. 
That's why Jesus told us to _Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak._ Mat 26:41.

Don't flow with the trend. Don't mix with the multitude. *COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM AND BE YE SEPARATE, SAYS THE LORD.* 
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,Eph 4:17.

Remember, that where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: Rom. 5:20. You can receive the Grace to be thankful always. 

When you are thankful, your tank will be full of blessings.

Bible Reading:

2 Timothy 3:1-17.
 
PRAYER FOCUS

Father God, I receive the Grace to be thankful and appreciative at all times.


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