Sharon Sharing God: ALL PRAISE TO OUR LORD!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

ALL PRAISE TO OUR LORD!

O LORD…may you be praised forever and ever!

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty.

Everything in the heavens and on the earth is yours, O LORD, and this is your kingdom.

We adore you as the one who is over all things.

Wealth and honor come from you alone, for you rule over everything.

Power and might are in your hand, and at your discretion people are made great and given strength.

O our God, we thank you and praise your glorious name!

But, who am I, and who are my people, that we could give you anything?

Everything we have comes from you, and we give you only what you first gave us!

We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land…

Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so soon without a trace.

I know, my God, that you examine our hearts and rejoice when you find integrity there.

O LORD…make your people always want to obey you.

See to it that their love for you never changes.

Give [us] the wholehearted desire to obey all your commands, laws, and decrees…

Give praise to the LORD your God!

And the entire assembly praised the LORD…and bowed low and knelt before the LORD and the king.

(1 Chronicles 29:10-20)

Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, c. 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation.

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7 comments:

Chatty CroneMarch 30, 2011 at 6:46 AM
We read a daily children's devotion - well we try almost every day. This was yesterdays - the will to follow God's will. Interesting - I call it a God Wink.
sandie
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bettyMarch 30, 2011 at 12:51 PM
This is such a great worship type of prayer for God giving him praise and glory and honor for who he is!! so very nice!!

sunny and so warm here!!

betty
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DebbieMarch 30, 2011 at 2:19 PM
... and the entire assembly praised the LORD and bowed low and knelt before the LORD and the King.

Can you imagine how that picture looked to God? It must have been beautiful!

I was struck by this part, too:

"O LORD…make your people always want to obey you."
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KenMarch 31, 2011 at 10:31 AM
The Lord is worthy of all praise, honor and glory forever and ever, Amen!
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SharonMarch 31, 2011 at 1:36 PM
Sandie - I love God winks! Yes, asking God to give me the will to do His will. I was reminded of the verse in Philippians 2 - "For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him."

Betty - Sometimes the Word just says it best! All glory and honor to our King. (LOVING the warm, warm weather!)

Debbie - I got goosebumps when I read that line. I tried to picture the sight, and the sound, of thousands of people going to their knees at one time! A little taste of heaven...

Ken - Amen! He is the ONLY One worthy of our praise, our honor - and He will be glorified forever! We're so lucky to be His children.

GOD BLESS!
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lioneagleApril 5, 2011 at 6:23 AM
Hi Sharon -

Glory Hallelujah! Thank you for this great precious praise message.

You expressed, "I know, my God, that you examine our hearts and rejoice when you find integrity there."

May we steadfastly come before His throne with pure hearts and clean hands.

Glory to His awesome name.
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SharonApril 5, 2011 at 11:52 PM
Sandra - Yes, I also pray for a clean heart and a clear conscience. I can only accomplish it with His help! Glory to His awesome name - I couldn't have said it better!!

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.

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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.

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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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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

ALL PRAISE TO OUR LORD!

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