Episode 406 - Show Notes
- Psalm 150:6 says “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.” Doctors tell us that on average you take 20.000 breaths each day. Your lungs are working all day and all night. By the time you are 50 years old, you will have taken around 400 million breaths. When was the light time you thanked God for your lungs and the breath he has given you. Our lives depend on our ability to breath.
- What will you do with the breath God has given you? Did you know it”s the will of God that you praise him? That may sound self-serving and egotistical to some, but we must recognize that there is no one like God. There never has been anyone like him and there never will be. He is praised because he alone is worthy.
- Praise is directed to God, but it also does something for us. Praise and worship of God keeps our focus on the Lord, and off of ourselves. Praising God fills our hearts with joy and gratitude for all God has done for us. Praise and worship will lift you out of discouragement and despair.
- The enemy of our soul will always attempt to keep us from praising God. He hates God and does all he can do to steal away God’s glory. So, he’ll attempt to keep you from joining with other believer for corporate worship. He’ll try to make you so busy that you don’t have time for personal worship.
- But, Jesus is worthy of our praise. He alone is deserving of our worship. We cannot keep silent. We cannot stifle our praise. We must lift our voices in individual worship. We must raise our voices in worship with other believers. We must praise the one whose name is above every other name.
Luke 19:37-40 - When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
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