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Do You Have Something to Thank God For?

Text:

Psalm 108:1 (NLT)

1 My heart is confident in you, O God; no wonder I can sing your praises with all my heart!

Observation:

In this Psalm David gives three things in his heart that results in him singing praise to God with his whole heart.

Have you experienced a recent great victory in your life, and you can say with a confident heart that God did it for you? When God does something amazing in your life, why not give Him the praise that He alone deserves?

Psalm 108:3-5 (NLT)

3  I will thank you, LORD, among all the people. I will sing your praises among the nations.

4  For your unfailing love is higher than the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

5  Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens. May your glory shine over all the earth.

Notice that David said, “I will sing your praises among the nations”. Next, David did something we all need to do more of; he listened to God, and heard God’s answer to his prayer.

Psalm 108:6-7 (NLT)

6  Now rescue your beloved people. Answer and save us by your power.

7  God has promised this by his holiness: “I will divide up Shechem with joy. I will measure out the valley of Succoth.

Finally, we find that God leads us to be more than conquerers through His almighty power.

Psalm 108:10 (ESV)

10  Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

Have you experienced a victory in your life that you can say what David said to the Lord?

Psalm 108:13 (ESV)

13  With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.

Prayer:

Father God, I delight to lift my voice in the highest praise my heart can muster. Father, from the depths of my heart I will praise You, I will listen to You, and I will be more than conquerer through Your almighty power that lives in me. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.

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Ephesians 6:10-11 (ESV)
10  Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
11  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

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An Invitation to the Whole World to Sing

Text:

Psalm 66:1-4 (ESV)

1 Shout for joy to God, all the earth;

2  sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise!

3  Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.

4  All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name.” Selah

Observation:

This is an invitation to the whole world to sing joyfully to God. Why should the whole world sing praises to God?

The Psalmist gives the reason.

Psalm 66:3 (ESV)

3  Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.

God has the whole world on His heart, and He loves the people of every nation.

Have you personally benefited from the love of God, and received the gift of eternal life that He offers through Jesus; the only begotten son of God?

John 3:16-18 (ESV)

16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

17  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

18  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Prayer:

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Father, we delight to join our voices with the saints of the ages in joyfully singing the glory of Your name.

Father, we delight to associate ourselves with singing praises to You, who alone deserve all glory, honor, and praise that our heart can conceive, and our mouth repeat.

Psalm 66:4 (ESV)

4  All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name.”

Father, accept our praise, and our prayer in the name of Jesus, Amen.

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Ephesians 6:10-11 (ESV) 
10   Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
11  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

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How to Turn Victory Into Defeat?

Text:

Exodus 15:6 (ESV)

6  Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.

Observation:

Last week I had the privilege of leading a small group discussion on the topic, “Drama in the Desert”. There are lessons we can learn from this recount of God’s people then that has application for us today.

Exodus 15:24-25 (NLT)

24  Then the people complained and turned against Moses. “What are we going to drink?” they demanded.

25  So Moses cried out to the LORD for help, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. Moses threw it into the water, and this made the water good to drink. It was there at Marah that the LORD set before them the following decree as a standard to test their faithfulness to him.

The Lord had delivered the children from many years of slavery in Egypt. He parted the Red Sea, and they arrived safely in the wilderness, where He intended for them to worship Him, and continue to the Promised Land.

They got off to a good start; they begin to worship the Lord for all He had done for them.

Exodus 15:1-2 (NLT)

1  Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; he has hurled both horse and rider into the sea.

2  The LORD is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. This is my God, and I will praise him— my father’s God, and I will exalt him!

However, they went from worshipping to murmuring and whining.

Exodus 15:23-24 (NLT)

23  When they came to the oasis of Marah, the water was too bitter to drink. So they called the place Marah (which means “bitter”).

24  Then the people complained and turned against Moses. “What are we going to drink?” they demanded.

When you face difficulties in your journey toward God’s promises to you, don’t languish in the valley of despair. Rise up, and look up to our Father in heaven. God is willing, ready, and able; He is your hope and help.

Oh, that we can learn from this story, and be encouraged to be better, and do better by the power of Holy Spirit who lives in our heart.

Prayer:

Father, help us to see the realities we face through the eyes of the Holy Spirit, who lives in us. Then, we will see our life, and our circumstances as you see them.

Father, we confess, and turn from whining, and we turn to worshipping the God who saved us, keeps us, and has prepared a home for us in heaven. Father, we trust in You, and know that You will never let us down. In the mighty name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

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Isaiah 55:11 (KJV) 
11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

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