244. Let us praise the Lord: He is our God through our lifetime, He will carry us along and be our Savior.

24 January 2022
I will praise the Lord.

“Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers!
    I, even I, will sing to the Lord;
    I will praise the Lord, the God of Israel, in song.” Judges 5:3

“I will be your God through all your lifetime, yes, even when your hair is white with age. I made you and I will care for you. I will carry you along and be your Savior.” Isaiah 46:4 Living Bible (TLB)

A psalm of praise. 
Of David.
I will exalt you, my God the King;
    I will praise your name for ever and ever.
Every day I will praise you
    and extol your name for ever and ever. Psalm 145:1-2


Charles Haddon Spurgeon May 30, 1886
Scripture: Psalm 145:1-2
From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit 
Volume 32

If I were to put to you the question, “Do you pray?” the answer would be very quickly given by every Christian person, “Of course I do.” Suppose I then added, “And do you pray every day?” the prompt reply would be, “Yes; many times in the day. I could not live without prayer.” This is no more than I expect, and I will not put the question. But let me change the enquiry, and say, “Do you bless God every day? Is praise as certain and constant a practice with you as prayer?” I am not sure that the answer would be quite so certain, so general, or so prompt you would have to stop a little while before you gave the reply; and I fear, in some cases, when the reply did come, it would be, “I am afraid I have been negligent in praise.” Well, then, dear friend, have you not been wrong? Should we omit praise any more than we omit prayer? And should not praise come daily and as many times in the day as prayer does? It strikes me that to fail in praise is as unjustifiable as to fail in prayer. I shall leave it with your own heart and conscience, when you have asked and answered the question, to see to it in the future that far more of the sweet frankincense of praise is mingled with your daily oblation of devotion.

One morning you awoke after a refreshing night’s rest, and you praised God for it: but on another occasion you had tossed about through a sleepless night, and then you thanked God that the weary night was over. You smile, dear friends, but there is always some reason for praising God. Certain fruits and meats are in season at special times, but the praise of God is always in season.

Besides, brethren, unless we praise God here, are we preparing for our eternal home? There all is praise; how can we hope to enter there if we are strangers to that exercise? This life is a preparatory school and in it we are preparing for the high engagements of the perfected. Are you not eager to rehearse the everlasting hallelujahs?"

Praise.

Hallelujah. Praise Yahweh. Praise the Lord.

Hallelujah. Two Hebrew words put together, "Hallelu", to praise, and "Yah" for Yahweh; "Alleluia" in Greek.

One would say it comes easy to say "Hallelujah" when life is good. It should follow.

Although at times, comfort in life is more attributed to one's ability. Success comes with one's ability.

I was tested with the praise of self that I was little by little craving for, feeling accomplished.

Then disaster struck, I had no stable income in the next 5 years when my children were starting college.

The Lord heard the cry of my heart. Family and friends are God-sent in my long hour of affliction.

The Lord put His praise in the lips of my heart. Praise for family and friends. I had a change of heart, Jesus is my Lord and Savior. Hallelujah. Amen.


"The Lord lives! Praise be to my Rock!
    Exalted be God my Savior!
Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,
    who daily bears our burdens.
Our God is a God who saves;
    from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death" (Psalm 18:46; 68:19-20). Lord, my God, my Savior, I give You praise, in Jesus' name. Amen.

15 March 2018"

May you be blessed with God's Word.

Maraming salamat.

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