Garment of praise

 To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified - Isaiah 61:3. 

               We need to cover us by the garment of praise when there is a spirit of heaviness in us. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength - Nehemiah 8:10. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness - Isaiah 61:10. Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls— Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer’s feet, And He will make me walk on my high hills - Habakkuk 3:17-19. 

                      When our mouth is filled with His praises all the day, it lifts up our soul and shifts our circumstances. We will experience a new hope and joy as we begin praising God. Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name - Hebrews 13:15.  I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth - Psalm 34:1. I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips - Psalm 34:1. Let my mouth be filled with Your praise And with Your glory all the day - Psalm 71:8. Seven times a day I praise You - Psalm 119:164. 

                Let us take off the spirit of heaviness by putting the garment of praise every day. Why, my soul, are you downcast?  Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God - Psalm 42:5. You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever - Psalm 30:11,12.

                                                                                                 

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us remove every spirit of heaviness from us by covering us with the garment of praise every day. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Worship God

 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker - Psalm 95:6.   

Worship God in spirit and truth

God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth - John 4:24.

Worship God with reverence and awe

Let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe - Hebrews 12:28.

Worship God with clean heart

Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully - Psalm 24:3,4.

Worship God with gladness

Worship the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful songs - Psalm 100:2.

Worship God with thanksgiving

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name - Psalm 100:4.

Worship God with your life

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God - Romans 12:1.

All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord; they will bring glory to your name - Psalm 86:9.    

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us worship You with spirit and truth, reverence and awe, clean heart, thanksgiving, gladness and with our life. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 

My God Will Supply Every Need of Yours

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus - Philippians 4:19.

The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing - Psalm 145:15-16.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work - 2 Corinthians 9:8.

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything - Genesis 9:3.

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God - 2 Corinthians 9:10, 11.

You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day - Deuteronomy 8:18.

And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided” - Genesis 22:14.  

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? - Romans 8:31-32.

In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full - John 16:23-24. 

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you - Matthew 7:7.

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! - Matthew 7:11.

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters - Psalm 23:1-2.

The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing - Psalm 34:10.

"I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie down,” says the Lord God - Ezekiel 34:15.

Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! - Luke 12:24.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread - Psalm 37:25.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God - Philippians 4:6.

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence - 2 Peter 1:3.

For he satisfies the longing soul and the hungry soul he fills with good things - Psalm 107:9.

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.  “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. - Matthew 6:25-34. 

                                                                                                     

PRAYER: Dear Lord, You are our Provider. We thank You for supplying every need of ours. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 

You Cannot Understand The Work of God The Maker of All Things

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things - Ecclesiastes 11:5.

                      We will never understand in which way or how God the Maker of all things will do marvelous works in our life just as we do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb.  Then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. For though a man labors to discover it, yet he will not find it; moreover, though a wise man attempts to know it, he will not be able to find it - Ecclesiastes 8:17. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts - Isaiah 55:8,9. 

                      God did great and marvelous works for the Israelites when crossing the Red Sea. The Israelites never know how God made a path for them in the midst of the sea but they just walked on the dryland and saw the great and marvelous works of God. But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. So the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses - Exodus 14:29-31.

                    The works of the Lord in our life are great and marvelous. Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them - Psalm 111:2. Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty - Revelation 15:3. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well - Psalm 139:14. The works of His hands are faithful and just - Psalm 111:7. He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice - Deuteronomy 32:4. 

                   Let us thank and praise God for His great and marvelous works in our life. For You, LORD, have made me glad through Your work; I will triumph in the works of Your hands -  Psalm 92:4. The Lord has done great things for us And we are glad - Psalm 126:3. Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory - Psalm 98:1. Stop and consider the wondrous works of God - Job 37:14. Remember to magnify His work - Job 36:24. 

For thus says the Lord: ‘You shall not see wind, nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with                               water, so that you, your cattle, and your animals may drink' - 2Kings 3:17.            

 Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has                  prepared for those who love Him - 1 Corinthians 2:9.        

Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you,                                                       who acts on behalf of those who wait for him - Isaiah 64:4.                                                                                                         

 PRAYER: Dear Lord, You are the Maker of all things. We thank You for doing great and marvelous works in our life. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 

Declare His Praises

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light -1 Peter 2:9.

Created by God to declare His praises

               We are the people of God created by Him to declare His praises. This people I have formed for Myself; They shall declare My praise - Isaiah 43:21. But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel - Psalm 22:3. Praise the LORD, all nations; Laud Him, all peoples! - Psalms 117:1. Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant - Psalm 135:3.

Declare His praises as living stones 

                  We are like living stones being built into a spiritual house to declare the praises of God. As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ - 1 Peter 2:4–5. Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name - Hebrews 13:15.  

                 Let us declare the praises of God who created us and called us out of darkness into his wonderful light. O Lord, open my lips, that my mouth may declare Your praise - Psalm 51:15. Praise the LORD. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him! - Psalm 147:1. Praise the LORD. Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints - Psalm 149:1. Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You - Psalm 67:3. Let everything that has breath praise the LORD - Psalm 150:6. 

                                                                                                          

PRAYER: Dear Lord, We thank You for calling us out of darkness into Your wonderful light. Let us declare Your praises as we are the chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation and people belonging to You. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Submit To God

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you - James 4:7. 

              Jesus prayed to God who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of His reverent submission. In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission - Hebrews 5:7. O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will - Matthew 26:39. 

                        Paul submitted his life to Christ who loved him and gave Himself for him and he lived by faith. I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me - Galatians 2:19b-20. 

                       Humility has to come before we can submit to God and we need to submit to God before resisting the devil. God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble. Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you - James 4:6,7. As we humble ourselves and submit to the will of God, God will lift us up in His perfect timing. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time - 1 Peter 5:6. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up - James 4:10. 

                Let us humble ourselves and submit to God. Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you - Job 22:21. Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him - Proverbs  3:5,6. Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind - 1 Peter 3:8. 

                                                                                                             

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us humble ourselves and submit to You. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 

I Will Sing of The Mercies of The Lord Forever

                        I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever - Psalm 89:1. 

                  We live everyday by God's mercies that are endless, everlasting and new every morning. It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness - Lamentations 3:22-23. His mercies will never come to an end and they are new every morning. His tender mercies are over all His works - Psalm 145:8. For the Lord is good. His mercy is everlasting - Psalm 100:5. 

          God’s mercies are abundant in our life. For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You - Psalm 86:5. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - 1 Peter 1:3.

                 Let us thank and praise God for His new endless mercies that follow us all the days of our life. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life - Psalm 23:5. Praise the Lord! Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever- Psalm 106:1. But I will sing of Your power; Yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning - Psalm 59:16.                                                                     

PRAYER: Dear Lord, We sing of Your mercies that are new, abundant, endless and everlasting in our life forever. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.