Friday Writing...3/29/19..."Praise The Lord!"

Good Morning,

Today the theme is the many reasons we have to praise the Lord and to rejoice in Him. Karen Bennett wrote, "We rejoice in His promise of salvation as well as all His other promises. They were made to guide us through our lives as well as give us hope and peace for our future."

It is good to pray praises and rejoice about all He does.
Karen Bennett
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Today's Devotional

"Praise The Lord!"
Written by
 Karen Bennett

Don’t you just love church services, as we worship our Almighty God through word and music? Lifting our hearts and voices in praise, we invite and welcome the Spirit in to strengthen our faith, to demonstrate our faith, and to share our faith. It’s also obviously something God wants of us. We are to acknowledge all the wonders of His love. We know we are always heard and never ignored, and we know we sound beautiful to Him, because He looks at us with His deep unending love!

Over the last few weeks we’ve heard the word rejoice repeatedly. We rejoiced in the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Rejoicing is prevalent throughout Scripture. In some Psalms and the book of Isaiah, we even read about nature rejoicing in the Lord and His works.  In Isaiah, God says His word won’t come back to Him empty. His promises are true.

“So is my word that goes out from my mouth: 
It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish
what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I  sent it.
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; 
the mountains and the hills will burst into song before you 
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.”  
Isaiah 55:11-12.

We rejoice in His promise of salvation as well as all His other promises. They were made to guide us through our lives as well as give us hope and peace for our future. As the Israelites left Babylon, so will we leave our  captive world of sin to live in heaven with God! The language of nature rejoicing is figurative, but it won’t be so for us. We will be genuinely celebrating in Paradise with our Savior, all the heavenly host, and each other. Perfection!

“Let the rivers clap their hands, 

let the mountains sing together for joy; 

let them sing before the Lord, 

for He comes to judge the earth. 

He will judge the world in righteousness 

and the peoples with equity.” 

Psalm 97:8-9. 

From then on the bliss is eternal. God’s promises will have come to fruition to never end!

Eternal God, thank you for promising us an eternity without blemish, won for us by Your only Son, the Lamb without blemish! While Your continued, loving presence helps us each day of our earthly sojourn, we wait with great anticipation for Your perfect world which lies ahead. We rejoice now and will rejoice without end then. Thank You for always forgiving our repentant hearts. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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image 

Matt Redman 

singing

"10,000 REASONS"

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