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


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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