Make a joyful noise all ye lands
Worship the Lord with gladness
Come before Him with joyful songs
Know that the Lord is God
It is He who made us and we are His
We are His people, the sheep of His pasture
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise
Give thanks to Him and praise His name
For the Lord is good and His love endures forever
His faithfulness continues through all generations
I cannot recite from memory any quote from the Bible
I am amazed at the people who can.
My middle son,Paul, learned this psalm when he was 5 and it has always stuck with me
Aside from him being as cute as ever trying to pronounce the words,(& yes we have it on video!), he didn't really understand the meaning....but to me it was a clear instruction of what we are to do -
and that is to obey God. This is a blueprint to teach us how to worship God joyfully and be thankful.
Singing is a way to make a joyful noise. It can provide unity in the hearts of people involved.
I have always enjoyed music and singing - even though I don't have a show voice! God doesn't care how good our voice is!
It brings joy to my heart and singing with others can give me a feeling of fellowship. God truly wants us to be happy and enjoy all he has given us!
Also if we listen to His voice - it is only a result of the training provided by Him and His continuous loving kindness towards us that we are able to change our behaviors and become better people
We must continue to obey, worship and praise God throughout our lives - even in the most challenging times.
That is when he hears our prayers even more! Why? Because he knows that we have faith in Him and that we will trust Him to help us get through our hard times
Keep your eyes and your heart on God - always!
Make a joyful noise all the earth! God made us all - He is not prejudiced to one group on people
Just as a son is his mother's...we are God's own. Therefore give thanks!!
Author Dennis Prager writes in his book "Happiness is a serious problem" that there is a secret to happiness and it is gratitude.
All happy people are grateful and ungrateful people cannot be happy.
We tend to think that is is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person!"
Enter God's gates with thanksgiving...it is good to give thanks to the Lord but not because God needs it - but because WE need it.
It was a very inspiring meeting today at Outpost and the speaker we had spoke of Gods grace - how it is free to only those who are weak. I tend to believe that for the most part but I believe that God's grace is there for the taking for us all - whether we even realize it or not! He is constantly present in our lives and wants what's best for us but we have to be cognizant of his presence to get the full benefit from it. We need to be aware of the "religion" of God and not the "religion" of our agenda for being a mom, wife or an employee or whatever. And in that respect we need to "weaken" ourselves or empty ourselves of our control of things and let his grace shower us with to love He feels for us. Life is precious and goes by so fast that we all need to take time to reflect on the goodness and be grateful for all that we have....then we can be truly happy! God bless!
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