100 Reasons to be thankful to God

Jide Otoki
9 min readAug 6, 2020

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Only you will I praise!

01. I thank God for the gift of life — let every living soul praise the Lord.

02. I thank God for the miracle of sleeping and waking up everyday.

03. I thank God for not leaving me to my devices or the ways of perdition.

04. Thank God for his inspiration and ideas that leads to success

05. Thank God for the many opportunities of education and development

06. I thank God for the many career choices and business opportunities

07. Thank you God for my sight, voice and breath. Without which I will be nothing but dust.

08. I thank God for you have come to show me that I can do anything and everything. This I mean literally!

09. I am alive not because I do everything right, it is God who makes me right. Thank you God!

10. Nobody can ever say they are more concerned about than you O Lord! You carry my matter for head, My Champion!

He is more than sufficient!

11. Lord, I thank you for divine provision. all things belong to you Lord!

12. Lord, thank you the food I have to eat. You have made fasting optional.

13. I once knew someone who was mocked as wearing a sack. Lord, I thank you for the clothes I have to wear.

14. Until you are thrown out of your house, you wont know it is possible. Lord thank you for the roof I have over my head.

15. Lord, I thank you for money in my pocket. No matter how small, it will never finish.

16. The storehouse of heaven have been opened to me. Lord, I thank for money in the bank.

17. Lord, I thank you for the vehicles move around with. My chariot of fire is around the corner.

18. Lord, thank you for the water I have to drink and that I can drink it. It was water that made Moses miss the promise land.

19. Lord, I thank you for giving strength to carry my responsibilities of life.

20. Lord I give praises to your name for I lacked you ended up giving me double.

He’s got you!

21. I thank God for his protection over my life — Physically and Spiritually.

22. I thank God for all the battles he has fought and won in my name.

23. I thank God for the many journey mercies — There is no small journey!

24. I thank God for safe keeping from all forms of domestic accidents

25. I thank God for protecting even when I was careless with my life!

26. I thank the Lord for protecting me from natural disasters.

27. Thank you God for protecting me from the excesses of law enforcement officers.

28. Thank you God for keeping from the activities of armed robbers and wicked people of this world.

29. For me and my family, you have always been returning back to sender all ill wishes, prayers and spoken words. Thank you God!

30. Thank you God for using me as a vessel unto others for their protection and needs.

Meditate on his word day and night!

31. I thank God for the salvation of my soul and the liberation of Mankind. Without any price from me, He gave His life.

32. I thank God I do not have to pay for my sins — where would I have started from?

33. I thank God for not giving up on me, even when I wasn’t yielding, you waited on me.

34. I thank God for his word that gives me direction and guidance.

35. Thank God for the many answered prayers, He is not a deaf God.

36. I thank God for the many unanswered prayers, now I know all things work together for good.

37. I thank God for gift of the Holy Spirit, my teacher and guide in the many days past and ones yet to come.

38. Thank God for many revelations spoken out through the mouths of his chosen ones upon my life.

39. How great are you Lord, reigning down upon my thoughts, keeping me right in your sight.

40. Thinking about how exposure can make you begin to pick up weird views about the word of God, I thank God for keeping me grounded.

41. Thank you God for your Grace abounds upon my life.

42. If not for your grace, how would I have made it to Ghana? Thank you God.

43. Many times I was praised as being far more intelligent than my comperes. They didn’t know it was your Grace. Thank you God.

44. Grace brought me jobs with ease. Where other struggled, I breezed through. Thank you God.

45. Studying and remembering the weirdest facts is one of the many things I do that amazes even me. I thank you God.

46. In the midst of confusion and panic, you have always being my light!

47. The diverse professional skills I carry that I didn’t learning from any school or any expert, to God be the Glory!

48. It was grace that helped me grow and think far beyond my age. Thank you God!

49. I have dropped many bad habits, not because of discipline but you God perfected your works in my life.

50. Grace helped me live through the scar of things I don’t even remember. Thank God!

His Grace abounds

51. Thank God for his mercies, his faithfulness endures forever more.

52. Mercy spoke for me after I confronted a cult leader unknowingly. Thank you God.

53. It was your mercy that saved me from that cultist that was looking to make trouble with me back then. Thank you God!

54. Thank God for his mercy that saved me so many times when I confused foolishness for bravery.

55. If not for mercy, the devil would have led me into occultism. Thank you God for always looking out for me.

56. Mercy is the only reason I have to say God is not a man. Many times man has promised and failed. But, you always show up in grand style, like you are, Their Father!

57. The power I carry is not mine but yours, I thank you Lord. Alaagbara Nla!

58. Thank you God for favor that many have been envious of, even when they still have much more.

59. Walking in your plan and purpose has always proven to be the best path. Thank you God for showing me the beautiful side of your face.

60. How I lived through all the many years of name calling and bullying, it was only mercy. Thank you God.

We are one in Christ

61. That I am not alone in this world, God I give you thanks for family.

62. Thank you Yahweh for my daughter — The joy they have brought into my life.

63. Thank you Yahweh for the vessel you used in delivering me to this world — My mother.

64. Thank you Yahweh for my Father. Even though I desire so much more.

65. Thank you God for my siblings and their various families, you are the only one.

66. For my Sister and her wonderful Family, what a beautiful thing you did. Thank you Jesus!

67. For relatives and extended Family members, thank you God for the role each and every one of them have played so far.

68. The many kind and loving people who I have come across at one time or the other. Dear Lord, I am grateful for meeting them.

69. The ones that have stood by me when others deserted, I thank you God.

70. The ones unborn, thank you Lord for we know you have written about them in your book before they are formed.

By His Stripes

71. Thank God for my good health, walking about without be reliant on any drug or treatment is the work of God.

72. Thank God for my sound mind, many have lost their minds to depression, stress, problems, etc. God has kept these far from me.

73. I have been delivered several times from sickness, Typhoid fever especially. Thank you Jesus.

74. Many have died from taking fake drugs, wrong dosages and drug abuse. Thank God I survived the many experiences.

75. Thank God sickness has been far from me and my family in many years. He has kept his promise.

76. Even when I thought I was about to loose my hearing, I heard you whisper, “I have more to tell you.” Thank you God!

77. I thought having health insurance was the real cover for health, you taught that by your stripes we have been healed! Thank you God!

78. There was a point nothing seemed to worked (drugs, herbs, even prayers), but I was delivered by your mighty hand.Thank you God!

79. Helping others with their health issues is one of the few ways you have used me to be a blessing to others. I thank you God!

80. Whenever I remember the horribly bitter taste of chloroquine, I can only pray that you heal those down with COVID-19. Thank you God for keep it far from me.

May His words be on my lips day and night

81. I thank God I was born into the Christian faith, finding my into it would be almost impossible.

82. Growing up as a Catholic was one of the reasons I was never able to stray to far. Thank you God.

83. Getting baptized and confirmed in St Peters, there you named Israel, my chosen one. Thank you God.

84. Being a member of RCCG was when I experienced a miracle as an adult. Thank you God!

85. From TREM to Covenant Christian centre, all these other churches helped me find my faith. Thank you God!

86. NCCF Nkaliki, I was Drama Director even when I didn’t merit it. Only God!

87. ICGC Yahweh Temple, my home away from home. Thank you God for bring to this glorious assembly.

88. The many men of God that inspire me from afar you are too numerous to mention. I give God the glory for your lives.

89. For the many songs that lift my spirit and inspire soul, I thank you God for those artistes that composed them.

90. It will take years for me to finish counting the number of times you Lord have been my inspiration.

He brought me this far!

91. I am here today not because of what I know how to do, it is only you Jesus. Thank you God.

92. I am eternally grateful for you picking me up many times when I lost hope and no one to turn to. Thank you Jesus!

93. I left CMS with nothing but you by side, today I count those days as making of this very story. Thank you God!

94. When insisted I wanted to study Masscom, they kept saying just go and do something. Holding on to your promise was the best thing I did in those days. Thank you God!

95. Entering LASU, I thought I had lost my admission, I didn’t know Public Relations and Advertising was going to be my specialty. Thank you God!

96. The days of Aluta were filled with so many intimidation. Like a rock you stood by me. Thank you my President you made me President.

97. With that extra year they thought they delayed me, they didn’t know they kept me for better things. Thank you Jesus!

98. When NYSC seemed like it would never happen, you went ahead to make a way. Thank you God!

99. Consistently, you made a leader, severally carrying the burden of others. With way you have been carrying mine, now I know nothing can be compared to your love! Thank you God!

100. Ota ibayomi Oluwa ni oje! Thank you God!

No man can take the glory for anything in my life… It only you God that has brought me this far!

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Jide Otoki
Jide Otoki

Written by Jide Otoki

Past - Marketing @Afrogala.com, CEO @JobbermanGhana | Performance & Result Specialist | audentes Fortuna iuvat

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