Tuesday, November 24, 2020

 Shalom,

We have been instructed by the Spirit of God to engage in Warrior Praise! Remember that our God inhabits the praises of His people! The warfare that we engage in is in the spiritual realm and with spiritual weapons and the most powerful of those are the high praises of God! A portion of one of the older songs that we sang in church goes like this:

The Victory is mine when the battle is the Lord's - Hosanna, Hosanna!
No enemy can stand when His praise goes forth - Hosanna, Hosanna!

Since the Lord has told us that HE is actively working on our behalf in these very troubling times, WE can praise Him with everything within us, knowing that VICTORY is imminent! HALLELUJAH! SO, here to help us all to remember the great GOODNESS of GOD, is all of today's Psalm from our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan! Psalm 145:

[A Psalm] of praise. Of David.

1 I will extol You, my God, O King; and I will bless Your name forever and ever [with grateful, affectionate praise].
2 Every day [with its new reasons] will I bless You [affectionately and gratefully praise You]; yes, I will praise Your name forever and ever.
3 Great is the Lord and highly to be praised; and His greatness is [so vast and deep as to be] unsearchable.
4 One generation shall laud Your works to another and shall declare Your mighty acts.
5 On the glorious splendor of Your majesty and on Your wondrous works I will meditate.
6 Men shall speak of the might of Your tremendous and terrible acts, and I will declare Your greatness.
7 They shall pour forth [like a fountain] the fame of Your great and abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of Your rightness and justice.
8 The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in mercy and loving-kindness.
9 The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works [the entirety of things created].

10 All Your works shall praise You, O Lord, and Your loving ones shall bless You [affectionately and gratefully shall Your saints confess and praise You]!
11 They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom and talk of Your power,
12 To make known to the sons of men God’s mighty deeds and the glorious majesty of His kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
14 The Lord upholds all those [of His own] who are falling and raises up all those who are bowed down.
15 The eyes of all wait for You [looking, watching, and expecting] and You give them their food in due season.
16 You open Your hand and satisfy every living thing with favor.
17 The Lord is [rigidly] righteous in all His ways and gracious and merciful in all His works.
18 The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him sincerely and in truth.
19 He will fulfill the desires of those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him; He also will hear their cry and will save them.

20 The Lord preserves all those who love Him, but all the wicked will He destroy.
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord; and let all flesh bless (affectionately and gratefully praise) His holy name forever and ever.

Our God is SO GOOD! There is NONE like HIM! Tell Him so! Tell Him in your own words, or in those of the psalmist David! Speak this Psalm to Him! SING this Psalm to Him! And then, after you do that, sing THIS song to Him with your whole heart! Hillsong's "Like Incense":

Shalom  in Him!