"David's Psalm of Praise"

PSALMS 145 [David's Psalm of Praise.]

  To the point of what praise actually is, it is something that takes our minds off of the process and the doings of life, and we focus upon and show our admiration to the Giver of life, on every sort of level. The last five Psalms were about prayer; even the one we just finished, as giving thanks to God, as it should be, is also a prayer and saying thanks for that which we know God is doing, just because He is faithful and never lies; so we can pretty much just believe it is going to happen: which brings us into praise, praise, and more praise! As a matter of fact, all six of these last Psalms are all about praising God and all of His wonderful works; works that are not only towards us and for us, but works that are done despite our actions and our unfaithfulness to Him. We have been studying the Fruits of the Spirit at our Men's Breakfast, Men at the Cross, and the most important thing we must understand about the Fruit of the Spirit, is that it is of the Spirit; it is not of us, but of Him that lives within us! God does not just save us and then leave us to live out this salvation on our own: He gives us His Spirit to help us and guide us through this redemption process, called, Sanctification. If you will, these are the praise times of our twilight years; the times of realizing that He is going to get us to the other side, no matter what it takes, or no matter how intense the winds might blow and the waves might roar; we have come to the understanding that He just must be praised, no matter, because we matter to Him! We have a upcoming Men's Conference of March 7th, which is an event called, The Greet RACE, and it is based upon Hebrews 12. The general idea is that of The Baton; which represents a race that is not of one winner, but one that consist of many that run as a team. God's Word is the Baton! We not only need to grab hold of it, but we must also run hard with it; but then, we must also give it! The race is really not completed without giving, or passing the Baton! Praise Him with all you've got, because He has given His very Best for you...

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2:8-10)