Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, November 26, 2010

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Praise

Welcome to "Fan the Flame" Friday.

This is a weekly post that will be "short and sweet" (kinda like me...)

Just a word and a phrase, a sentence or a question...just a little something to "fan the flame" of your creativity!

Today's word: praise

What does the word praise mean to you?

What is one thing you want to praise God for today?

Let me know what you think!!

“This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you…For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.” (2 Timothy 1:6-7)

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5 comments:

DebbieNovember 26, 2010 at 4:30 AM
Good morning, Sharon, and happy day after Thanksgiving!

To me, praise is boasting about God for all the universe to hear. Sometimes, I boast of what He does in a circumstance, but mainly, I boast of what He IS in all circumstances.

To me, it's different from thanksgiving. While gratitude and thanksgiving are arrows of praise that I shoot directly TO HIM, Praise is more a fireworks display that I shoot for all creation to see, hear, and shout "Amen".
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bettyNovember 26, 2010 at 6:48 AM
One thing to praise God? That would be hard to come up with. I'm thinking, for Jesus, but then I'm thinking for creating the world and then I'm thinking of all his qualities, mighty, awesome eternal, everlasting, loving, forgiving, kind, merciful. That would be hard to limit it to just one thing :)

Praise, to give glory to God for who he is. He doesn't need our glory but it is good to praise him, to acknowledge his greatness and might and so much more.

I wrote down the last time I was in the Psalms most of the verses that had said something about praising God and sometimes before I start praying, I read those aloud to praise him (I usually start prayer time with a bit of praise, but I always think it is soooo neat to pray/praise God through his word :)

I hope you are enjoying your time :)

betty
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SharonNovember 29, 2010 at 7:15 PM
Debbie - What a lovely way of putting it! I'm "oohing" and "aahing" at the fireworks of praise! May the whole world hear it - He is worthy of it all!!

Betty - Wonderful words! You have captured the essence of praise, and its importance. It really is an act of worship, isn't it? I also love the Psalms, and how they express in words the inner feelings of the heart.

Had a great time in the mountains, but it's fun to be back, too!

GOD BLESS!
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lioneagleNovember 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM
Hi Sharon -

Utmost praise to me means to "break out the band" in holy melodic celebration to our Lord.

Praise on other more quiet levels means to me to commune with our Lord in adoration with thanksgiving for His presence - for who He is and for what He does.

Praise can be in an assortment of forms. The main ingredient is love. Our Lord so appreciates when we love Him, and praise Him in sincerity with pure hearts and clean hands.

I praise GOD today that we breathe His air and that it is in Him that we live and move and have our being. Thank you, Lord.
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SharonNovember 30, 2010 at 9:18 PM
Sandra - This was a lovely comment. I really liked how you brought out two kinds of praise. Vocal, out loud praise, and inner, personal, quiet praise. Both are integral parts of our total worship of the Lord. (In song and spirit comes to mind). A loving heart is the sacrifice that pleases Him the most! Pure hearts and clean hands - that was a great way of putting it.

GOD BLESS!
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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Anonymous

When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

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Friday, November 26, 2010

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Praise

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