{"id":19757,"date":"2014-05-19T00:20:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=19757"},"modified":"2014-05-18T23:54:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T03:54:44","slug":"radical-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/19\/radical-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"A Radical Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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May they erupt with praise and give thanks to the Eternal Lord
\nin honor of His loyal love
\nAnd all the wonders He has performed for humankind!
\nHe has quenched their thirst,
\nand He has satisfied their hunger with what is good.
\nPsalms 107:8-9 The Voice<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIf we complained less and praised more,
\nwe would be happier
\nand God would be more glorified.\u201d
\nCharles Spurgeon<\/h4>\n

*<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n

Do we erupt with praise? When we escape from difficult situations, trials, and troubles it is easy to praise God for His grace and mercy and proclaim His goodness. We are aware of His deliverance. Yet as time goes on, and the memory fades, do we continue to praise God for the common, everyday mercies? Do we even recognize them? Are we aware of His hand upon us?<\/p>\n

Hebrews 13:15 (AMP) says:
\n\u2026therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise,
\nwhich is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name.<\/p>\n

We should constantl<\/em>y and continually<\/em> be offering up praise. Why?<\/p>\n

Ephesians 1:6 (The Voice)
\nUltimately God is the one worthy of praise for showing us His grace;
\nHe is merciful and marvelous, freely giving us these gifts in His Beloved.<\/p>\n

Psalm 103:2 \u00a0(Amplified)
\nBless (affectionately, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul,
\nand forget not [one of] all His benefits.<\/p>\n

What would happen if we praised God when irritations arose\u2014when we are exasperated, and down to our \u201cvery last nerve\u201d\u2014instead of complaining and bemoaning our fate? Oh, I am not saying there isn\u2019t a valid reason for complaint. But imagine the difference if we brushed that irritation away using praise as our flyswatter, lifting our hearts up in praise of Him. Praise that He is in control, that He loves us. Praise that He has provided everything we need. Praise calms us. Praise quiets us. Praise feeds our soul. Not only would irritation and exasperation vanish, but our souls…our spirits would be filled. We would be refreshed. Like a tall glass of ice water physically refreshes us, praise spiritually refreshes us as we are reminded of His mercy and grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May they erupt with praise and give thanks to the Eternal Lord in honor of His loyal love And all the wonders He has performed for humankind! He has quenched their thirst, and He has satisfied their hunger with what is good. Psalms 107:8-9 The Voice \u201cIf we complained less and praised more, we would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[6353,5889,3367,6351,1287,425,4518,3735,6352,6336,3174],"class_list":["post-19757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-a-radical-reaction","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-ephesians-16","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-hebrews-1315","tag-psalm-1032","tag-psalm-107-praises","tag-psalms-1078-9","tag-seeking-him-devotional","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-58F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19757"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19762,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions\/19762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}