May 28, 2024 … Praising God ALWAYS …

May 28, 2024 …  Praising God ALWAYS  …      

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics with Matt Redmon singing … Praise God … Powerfully singing of how God is worthy to be praised … ALWAYS … no matter what we face.  

Praise to God ... ALWAYS !!! 

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Highlight Passage: … Acts 16:25 [NLT] … 

25 Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening. 26 Suddenly, there was a massive earthquake, and the prison was shaken to its foundations. All the doors immediately flew open, and the chains of every prisoner fell off!          

…  God uses an earthquake to open the doors of the Philippian jail were Paul and Silas were praising God in spite of being unjustly flogged and imprisoned.                                                                    

Highlight Passage (in context): … Acts 16:16-26 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul and Silas were flogged and jailed for casting a demon from a slave girl; … and, even while in jail, praised God, Who released them from the prison with an earthquake.       

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 95:1-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  God’s Psalmist, likely King David, sings of praising God ALWAYS.   

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 25:1 [NLT] … 

1  O Lord, I will honor and praise your name,  for You are my God.  You do such wonderful things!  You planned them long ago, and now You have accomplished them.. 

… God, thru Isiah, calls on all believers to praise God always for all the wondrous things His has done for us.   

Highlight Passage (in context)  … Mark 10:27 [NLT] …  

 27 Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But not with God. Everything is possible with God.”  

… Jesus teaches His followers and Disciples that … with God … everything is possible.          

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:28 [NLT] … 

28 And we know that God causes EVERYTHING to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them.   

… The Apostle Paul assures fellow Christians that we can ALWAYS praise God because He works ALL THINGS together for the good of ALL who believe in Him as Messiah and Lord.   

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:16 [NLT] … 

 16 Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.  

… The Apostle Paul exhorts all believers in Jesus as The Christ to sing songs praising our Lord.

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 13:15 [NLT] … 

15 Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to His name..  

… God, thru the Author of Hebrews, charges God’s people to praise Him with our allegiance ALWAYS.. 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Nancy Gavilanes -  AT THIS LINK  -  writes of being on a short-term mission to Ethiopia and encountering a lovely evening, under a full moon, where one of the locals picked up a guitar and all who were there sang praises to God under the moon-light, reminding the author of what God’s word says (see Scriptures referenced above) about Christians being willing to praise God … ALWAYS!      

And I’m stopping here to praise our Lord, no matter what we face right now, just like Paul and Silas did in that jail in Philippi (see Highlight passage) when God honored their praises by sending an earthquake to open the doors of their jail cells.   And today’s ODB entry asks if we are willing to praise the Lord in that way … no matter what we face in life.   I pray so!!!                                                                         

My THANKFULNESS: .. Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … praising You,Lord, for being our God every day and in every way.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me today, … remembering to praise You, Lord, … ALWAYS … no matter what we face in life.      … Amen

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