With thanksgiving you get into the gate, but with praise you get - TopicsExpress



          

With thanksgiving you get into the gate, but with praise you get into the court. God wants you to come into His presence and when you do,before you ask Him for anything thank Him for what He has done and praise Him for who He is. You may know that the Hebrew word for “praise” is the word “halal.” It literally means, “to be excited with great joy.” The single half of this verse totally changed my view even about music. I know there are some people who criticize praise choruses and kind of talk down about praise choruses, but I believe our entire life ought to be a praise chorus. When you think about a God who created you when He didn’t have to, who loves you even though you don’t deserve it, who sent His son to die for your sins and who even now is creating an eternal home in heaven for those who want to go there, how can you not be filled with praise every time you come into His presence? That is why the last part of this verse says, “Give thanks to him; bless his name!” (Psalm 100:4) Now there is a revolutionary thought. Are you ready for this? When we get up close and personal with God and we worship God it is not just so He will bless us, but it is so that we can bless Him. Why are we to praise Him? Why are we to thank Him? Why are we to be shouting and serving and singing? Why should we be so enthusiastic in our worship? Why should we make it a point in our life to carry God with us everywhere we go and to always live in His presence? The answer is in verse 5. “For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations. (Psalm 100:5, ESV) God is good all the time and all the time God is good. He loves us with an everlasting love that will never quit. He is faithful to us at all times and all places and never fails to keep His promises. No wonder we ought to want to be up close and personal with this unbelievable, magnificent God. We connect when we respect. Any time we want to we can not only enter into God’s presence, but we can stay there. We can live there. We cantake him with us everywhere we go as long as we go with Him everywhere He wants to take us.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 08:15:29 +0000

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