Tuesday... It is a great way to really express how we feel.

Psalm 150:6 (AMP), "Let everything that has breath and every brerath of life praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah)"

Tuesday... It is a great way to really express how we feel.

And it really does make a difference in lifting up how we feel and it is also a great way to acknowledge who He is.

The last verse of the 150 Psalms says this, Psalm 150:6 (AMP) says, "Let everything that has breath and every breath of life praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah)" In these 6 verses in the Amplified Version of this Psalm the writer says, "Praise" thirteen times.

Yes, praise really does make a difference in lifting up how we feel but there is more to it than our emotions. Praise lifts our focus from our feelings to God and to what He is like and what He has done and what He can do and we really do need a change in focus.

So what is it? Well, Biblical praise is an act of expressing admiration, honor, and worship to God for who He is and what He has done. It is more than singing - it is a response of the heart that can be expressed through words, music, prayer, obedience, and daily living.

So how are you feeling today?

Look at this verse. See how it helps with what you are going through today. Verse 2 says, "Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to [the abundance of] His greatness."

Moses says in Deuteronomy 3:24 (NLT), "O Sovereign LORD, you have only begun to show your greatness and the strength of your hand to me, your servant. Is their any god in heaven or on earth who can perform such great and mighty deeds as you do?"

I also read Acts 17 (NIV) this morning. Paul was having trouble with these Jews who were out to kill him for what he was sharing of the good news of Jesus and he found himself in Athens where some of the great thinkers were. Verse 21 says, "All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spend time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas" so they wanted Paul to come and tell them of this new teaching that he was presenting. This was a great opportunity for Paul.

And he started by saying in verse 23, "For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD, so you are ignorant of the very thing you worship - and this is what I am going to proclaim to you." So he went on and shared about this God that we serve.

Yes, we need to stop and get out eyes on our known God and a great way to do that is to praise Him. Let's not live as if we serve an unknown God. So let's "Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to [the abundance of] His greatness." And share who He is to others who don't know.

Now Paul in verse 30 says, "In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent." We need to change our direction, our focus.

So, let's spend time in really getting to know this God we serve. So let's praise Him for who He is and what He has done and then see the difference He makes in our life. So, "Let everything that has breath and every breath of life praise the LORD!" Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Thursday... Maybe we need this word today.

Psalm 57:1b (NIRV), "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Thursday... Maybe we need this word today. There are words in life that give us confidence no matter what we are facing. Now we have to believe them in order for them to have an impact. David wrote Psalm 57 while he was in a cave hiding from Saul who wanted to kill him and he says in the last part of verse 1, "There I will stay." It was a safe place and Saul didn't know that he was there. But he doesn't stop there. With confidence he said, "There I will stay until." And until is definitely a word of faith and confidence. "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Do we need that today? Let me give you the whole verse. In verse 1 David says, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." And that is a great place to start in times of trouble. Maybe that is what we need to pray today, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." It is so great to have someone...

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...

Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute.

Proverbs 19:2 (NLT), "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes." Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute. This time of the year is so exciting. We get our paycheck from work and then we head to the store or Amazon and buy and buy and buy all those presents and then our check is gone Proverbs 19:2 (NLT) says, "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes." But buying gifts can be so much fun and seeing how happy they are when opening those presents makes us feel so good. But then verse 3 says, "People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then they are angry at the Lord." Now for some that is their life. They get money and they spend it on their wants with no thought of what needs to be paid. An important lesson that we have learned is just because you have money in the bank doesn't mean you must spend it. But our enthusiasm takes over. But the problem is when it is gone and there is no money to pay th...

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