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a life of blessing God

 


Psalm 145:2-3  NLT  

I will praise you every day; yes, I will praise you forever. 3 Great is the Lord! He is most worthy of praise! No one can measure his greatness.


In those verses David declared and promised that he would choose to praise God every day and no matter what.  There is something about praising God that changes us.


His life was not only changed by God by recharged, refreshed and renewed as David made time for the presence of God.  Go to those times of celebration, like when the Ark of the Covenant returned home and he danced in the streets, and on to the times of deepest hurt, like in the death of a son or of falling in to sin.  David chose to remember and bless the Lord or praise the Lord.


When we choose to bless God at all times we set ourselves up to be blessed.  Literally the results of blessing God and praising God show up in our lives.  That happens for many reasons but the biggest one is we have realigned ourselves to God.  We begin to look at Him more, think of Him more and change our pattern of how we deal with God.


We concluded our message series from Psalm 103 yesterday.  These verses have carried me big time over the last 6 weeks.  There are a mantra that I want to proclaim through my life and from the depths of my soul.


Psalm 103:1-3  CSB  

My soul, bless the Lord, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2 My soul, bless the Lord, and do not forget all his benefits. 3 He forgives all your iniquity; he heals all your diseases.


Let’s not forget what God has done for us and choose to praise Him!


Colossians 2:6-7  NLT  

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. 7 Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.

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