WORTHY
OF PRAISE
BREAD
“Blessed
be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise. 6 You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, even the
highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it,
the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the
multitudes of heaven worship you.” Nehemiah
9:5-6 (NIV)
16 “O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, enthroned
between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You
have made heaven and earth.” Isaiah
37:16 (NIV)
25 “To
whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One. 26 Lift your eyes and look to the
heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one,
and calls them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing. 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, “My
way is hidden from the Lord; my
cause is disregarded by my God”? 28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator
of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his
understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power
of the weak. 30 Even
youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They
will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will
walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:25-31
(NIV)
12 It is
I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out
the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts. Isaiah 45:12 (NIV)
1 Come,
let us sing for joy to the Lord;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before him with
thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. 3 For the Lord is the great God, the great King
above all gods. 4 In his
hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. 5 The sea is his, for he made
it, and his hands formed the dry land. 6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before
the Lord our Maker; 7 for he is our God and we are
the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if you hear his
voice, 8 do not
harden your hearts. Psalms 95:1-8 (NIV)
1 Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord, O my soul. 2 I will praise the
Lord all my life; I will sing
praise to my God as long as I live. 3 Do not put your
trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save. 4 When their
spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to
nothing. 5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose
hope is in the Lord his God, 6 the Maker of
heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them-- the Lord, who remains faithful forever. 7 He upholds the
cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free, 8 the Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
the Lord loves the righteous. 9 The Lord watches over the alien and sustains
the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked. 10 The Lord reigns forever, your God, O Zion,
for all generations. Praise the Lord.
Psalms 146:1-10 (NIV)
BUTTER
“You
awaken us to delight in Your praise.” Augustine
“Be
not afraid of saying too much in the praises of God; all the danger is of
saying too little.” Matthew Henry
“When God would quicken my affections,
he gives me a glance of heaven, that so I may be in love with what I see. When I begin to bless myself, and rest in my
happy privileges, he draws a veil over the bright vision, that I may rest in
nothing but himself, nor loathe what I so greatly love. He suffers my happiness here to be imperfect, that so I may be pressing on to that place where I shall be perfectly
happy forever. Lord, when thou showest thyself, let me love thee; when my mountain
stands strong, let me praise thee; when thou withdrawest thyself, let me follow
thee; when thy countenance is hid, let me still believe that thou lovest
me: under all my changes here, let my
soul be always breathing, panting, longing, and reaching after thee, till I shall
so perfectly enjoy thee, that I may never lose thee more Amen. Lord, guide me
in this Christian race, and keep my
mind intent on thee; rejoicing when I see thy face, and trusting when I cannot see.” K. H. Bogatzky
“The
pulse of prayer is praise.” William Arthur Ward
“Men in general
praise God in such a manner that He scarcely obtains the tenth part of His
due.” John
Calvin
“Praise
as hard as you pray.” Laura Black
“Man’s
chief work is the praise of God.” St. Augustine
“Whenever you
react with praise and thanksgiving for an opportunity to grow more like Jesus
in your way of reacting to things, instead of grumbling or feeling self-pity,
you will find that that whole situation will be changed into a great blessing.” Hannah Hurnard
“In prayer we act
like men; in praise we act like angels.”
Thomas Watson
“Praise is about what God desires us to do, not about the power of your circumstances. When you get your eyes off your immediate problem and put your focus on God, you are redirecting yourself toward what God will do for you, not what man has done to you. At that point, God can work in your life to produce real growth.” Michael Youssef
HEART SAVOR
·
I am to praise
God from Whom all blessings flow.
· All of life can turn into a blessing in God’s
omnipotent hands for the child of the King. 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love
him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 (NIV)
·
Praise and
thanksgiving are to be my natural response to everything in my life. 20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and
shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said: “Naked I came from my mother's
womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord
gave and the Lord has taken away;
may the name of the Lord be
praised.” 22 In all this,
Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing. Job 1:20-22 (NIV)
