Monday... Ok, Sunday is over and it's now Monday.

Look at this, Psalm 150:1 (MSG) says, "Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy house of worship, praise him under the open skies." We tend to dictate how others do stuff dependent on our own ways of doing them. Yes, Church is a great place to praise God but so is being out in nature. Yes Sunday is a great time to praise him but it is not the only time. We each are uniquely created by God. Yes we praise him on the weekend in a building but we also can and need to praise him the rest of the week in other places besides a church building. Praise isn't based on where or when.

Verse 3 says, "Praise him with a blast on the trumpet, praise by strumming soft strings." God loves it when we praise him. Do you realize he created trumpets and he created soft strongs? Maybe you were created for loud or maybe you were created for soft.

Now he doesn't limit us in how we praise him, he just wants us to praise him. Verse 6 (NLT) says, "Let everything that breathes sing praises to the Lord! Praise the Lord." It looks like it is not the fact that we are a great singer, but it is based upon the fact that we are alive, that we are breathing and that takes in all of us. Praise isn't based on singing but breathing. It isn't based on how.

Look at verse 2, "Praise him for his acts of power, praise him for his magnificent greatness." We need to notice and praise him for what he does for us but also praise him for who he is and what he is like. But it is based on what and who.

Listen, God wants us to praise him through our uniqueness. Verse 6 in the Amplified Bible says, "Let everything that has breath and every breath of life praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!) And that means all of us! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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Monday... He did it by Himself

Isaiah 44:24b (AMP), "I am the Lord, Maker of all things. Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself." Monday... He did it by Himself. Many have a tendency to think very highly of themselves and what they can do. Oh we do have great ability but we are not the source. Yes it is important to have self-confidence but we are limited. The prophet Isaiah in 44:9-10 (NLT) says, "How foolish are those who manufacture idols. These prized objects are really worthless. The people who worship idols don't know this, so they are all put to shame. Who but a fool would make his own god - an idol that cannot help him one bit?" Now later in verse 24 (AMP) he writes, "For the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb says, 'I am the Lord, Maker of all things, Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself.'" I love that. "By Myself." Now we do need confidence but we are foolish to ma...

Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

Psalm 5:3 (NLT), "Listen to my voice in the morning Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly." Friday... We have this hope of expectancy. Now David found a great way to start his day. He says in Psalm 5:1-3 (NLT), "O LORD, hear me as I pray." And that is a great place to start. It really is. Morning sunrise He goes on, "Listen to my cry for help, my King, my God, for I pray to no one but you." And that is so important. We don't try to pump ourselves up by ourself. No, we pray to no one but you, God, my LORD, my King. Now this relationship with God is so, so very important. And then David says, "Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you" And that is so great. And then he says, "and wait expectantly." Yes, we have this hope of expectancy. We are experienced. That is what a relationship with God and a moment by moment connection does. It makes a difference in our daily wa...

Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true.

Psalm 12:6 (NLT), "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true. Maybe this is what you want to say in this day in which we live. Psalm 12:1-2 (MSG) says, "Quick, I need your helping hand! The last decent person just went down, all the friends I depend on gone. Everyone talks in lie language; lies slide off their oily lips. They doubletalk with forked tongues." Do you ever feel that way?" Have you found that to be true? Well David the writer of this Psalm continues and says in verse 6 something to encourage us, to lift us up, to give us hope. Psalm 12:6 (NLT) says, "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." The Message Paraphrase says verses 6-8 this way, "God's words are pure words, pure silver words refined seven times in the fires of his word-kiln, pure on earth as well as in heaven, God, keep ...

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