Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Chris Tomlin singing Is He Worthy? … poignantly singing in chorus and asking us to praise the worthiness and greatness of our God and then USING ANOTHER LINK to see/hear Chris Tomlin again singing of God’s Greatness in the song, How Great is Our God!!.
Oh how WORTHY is our God !!!
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Highlight Verse[s]: Psalm 96:4 [NLT] ... 4 Great is the Lord! He is most worthy of praise! …
… A song of praise to our God, Who is most worthy of our praises.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Psalm 96:1-4 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… The Psalmist sings of our worthy God, Whom we should praise and give thanks continually.
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Reference Passage : … 2 Samuel 22:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Young David sang of God’s worthiness and greatness after the Lord delivered him from King Saul’s deadly pursuits.
Reference Passage : … Psalm 145:3 [NLT] … 3 Great is the Lord! He is most worthy of praise! No one can measure His greatness.
… King David sings of our God’s worthiness of all of our praises.
Reference Passage : … John 14:6 [NLT] … 6 Jesus told him [Thomas], “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
… Jesus declares to a questioning Thomas of Whom He truly is and how His disciples should recognize His worthiness being one with God, the Father.
Reference Passage : … Revelation 4:11 [NLT] … 11 “You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For You created all things, and they exist because You created what You pleased.”
… The Apostle John given revelation of the Lion of Judah sitting on His throne and worshipped by the Elders in Heaven.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Dave Branson, uses a story about a man who was incapable of speech due to a stroke who could sing His praises to God. … The ODB author wrote: Sitting in his wheelchair at a senior citizens home in Belize, a man joyfully listened as a group of American high school teenagers sang about Jesus. Later, as some of the teens tried to communicate with him, they discovered he couldn’t talk. A stroke had robbed him of his ability to speak.
Since they couldn’t carry on a conversation with the man, the teens decided to sing to him. As they began to sing, something amazing happened. The man who couldn’t talk began to sing. With enthusiasm, he belted out “How Great Thou Art” right along with his new friends.
It was a remarkable moment for everyone. This man’s love for God broke through the barriers and poured out in audible worship—heartfelt, joyous worship.
The situation in the ODB story may have been amazing to the teens; but in my many years as a speech pathologist working with stroke victims, I encountered many such victims of stroke in the left hemisphere of the brain who could not speak in conversation but could joyfully sing songs they knew since childhood. And often these stroke victims with a right hemisphere in tact, where melody and song are controlled in the brain, could - and would - sing praises to God. It was wonderful to see the joy in their faces when they did. And then we speech therapists, using a technique called “melodic intonation therapy,” would use their ability to sing to help them regain some degree of conversational speech.
But today, I think we all should just stop and take in the songs linked and the truths in the Scriptures above; and then just imagine ourselves {as one in the attached photo}, taking in the wonder of our God’s creation, and singing our praises to our God, … our God Who is most worthy of our praise.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for giving us so much to praise in the glory all around us.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here are will join me to sing our praises our God Who created all we see around us. Amen
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