{"id":22986,"date":"2014-11-24T00:20:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T05:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=22986"},"modified":"2014-11-23T17:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T22:50:03","slug":"22986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/24\/22986\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise At All Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"seekingHimthanksgivinggraphic\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Through Jesus, therefore
\nlet us continually offer to God
\na sacrifice of praise\u2013the fruit of lips that confess His name.
\nHebrews 13:15<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A believer who is in fellowship with God has to be full of praise…for that\u2019s the calling we have. \u00a0Believers who cannot praise and worship the Lord are not true disciples of Jesus. \u00a0When you are in good fellowship with Christ, you are always mesmerized with the Lord\u2019s deeds and naturally a spirit of praising comes from your heart and your mouth lets it out.<\/p>\n

Why<\/em> do we praise God?<\/span><\/h3>\n

For what He has done:<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>In everything we have to praise the Lord and the Lord is always pleased with our praises.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sing praises to the Lord enthroned in Zion,
\nproclaim among the nations what He has done.
\nPsalm 9:11<\/p>\n

The Lord does a lot in our lives—His protection, providing, shepherding, etc. \u00a0We need to thank God for all of those! \u00a0Whether we face adversity\u2014or even challenges that make us wonder whether God is seeing us\u2014we have to praise God for we are commanded to praise the Lord at all times.<\/p>\n

Fourfold Reason:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

But you are a chosen people, a loyal priesthood, a holy nation,
\na people belonging to God that you may declare the praises of Him
\nWho called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.
\n1 Peter 2:9<\/p>\n

And we need to celebrate this fact that He took us out of darkness, what a wonderful God that He is so mindful of man. He is indeed good and compassionate. We have to praise God for all this.<\/p>\n

As a commandment:<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0Perpetually we are to praise the Lord and universally do so (as Psalm 63:7 stipulates),<\/p>\n

May the peoples praise You, O God, may all peoples praise You.<\/p>\n

Let them give glory to the Lord and proclaim His praise in the islands.
\nIsaiah 42:12<\/p>\n

So we are all to praise God; let us make a choice of doing so in the morning…in the afternoon…and in the evening time! \u00a0As children at Sunday School we used to sing this song (many times, repeatedly, we would sing this).<\/p>\n

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Praise Him<\/span>
\nPraise Him<\/span>
\nPraise Him in the morning<\/span>
\nPraise Him in the noon time<\/span>
\nPraise Him<\/span>
\nPraise Him <\/span>
\nPraise Him when the sun goes down<\/span>
\nHalleluia!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

Lord, we thank You for who You are, what You have done and what You are yet to do in our lives. \u00a0We praise You for this unfailing love and the good deeds we testify about day in and out. \u00a0May Your name be praised at all times. \u00a0Help us, Lord, to praise You more and more as this pleases You the most. \u00a0Let the praises come from deep within our heart. \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, we pray. \u00a0Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through Jesus, therefore let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise\u2013the fruit of lips that confess His name. Hebrews 13:15 A believer who is in fellowship with God has to be full of praise…for that\u2019s the calling we have. \u00a0Believers who cannot praise and worship the Lord are not true disciples of Jesus. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":22736,"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":[2574,3188,3367,1287,425,1999,4518,7850,7852,7851,7760,3174,1058,7796],"class_list":["post-22986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-1-peter-29","tag-ann-mwafulirwa","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-gratitude","tag-hebrews-1315","tag-isaiah-4212","tag-praise-him-all-the-time","tag-psalm-637","tag-sacrifice-of-praise","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-thankfulness","tag-thanks-giving","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/seekingHimthanksgivinggraphic.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-22986","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22986","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\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22994,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22986\/revisions\/22994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}