PRAISE BREAK!
Written by FAVORED1 on October 29, 2008 – 10:36 am -
Friday, October 24, 2008
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with psalms.
(“Joyful, Joyful” Sister Act 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_c_MHkba5c
Good Morning Beloved,
HAPPY FRIDAY!!! YOU MADE IT! Good for you!
. I realized this morning that the phrase “make a joyful noise” is mentioned 7 times in the book of Psalms. Everybody can’t sing, but everyone can make a joyful noise… if not from their vocal cords… they use whatever works… isn’t that great. My church gets very ‘lively’. I know that there are some who don’t believe “it takes all that”. People get excited over what is exciting to them (I know… thats deep huh?
). Those who attend sporting events (probably not golf though), can teach us how to make a joyful noise… just let their team score! They get happy! They dance, shout, fall out, hit each other, throw things…they just have a fit. I think it’s cute. What puzzles me is when these same people (the Christian ones), go to church with little or no emotion, and look disdainfully at those who are ‘raising the roof’. Just think… the team that they are so excited about, one day, they are going to lose… but God… He never loses. Their favorite player will retire… God is the Ancient of Days, He was before time even existed… and He forever will Be. God is creator of all. The earth is His footstool (Matthew 5:35). Ha!.. I find it funny that those who refuse to honor and serve God, don’t know that no matter how they feel about Him… they are at His feet, and that fact will never change… Ummm… I need a minute to think about that one… whew! OH YEAH!!!….
. I realized this morning that the phrase “make a joyful noise” is mentioned 7 times in the book of Psalms. Everybody can’t sing, but everyone can make a joyful noise… if not from their vocal cords… they use whatever works… isn’t that great. My church gets very ‘lively’. I know that there are some who don’t believe “it takes all that”. People get excited over what is exciting to them (I know… thats deep huh?). Those who attend sporting events (probably not golf though), can teach us how to make a joyful noise… just let their team score! They get happy! They dance, shout, fall out, hit each other, throw things…they just have a fit. I think it’s cute. What puzzles me is when these same people (the Christian ones), go to church with little or no emotion, and look disdainfully at those who are ‘raising the roof’. Just think… the team that they are so excited about, one day, they are going to lose… but God… He never loses. Their favorite player will retire… God is the Ancient of Days, He was before time even existed… and He forever will Be. God is creator of all. The earth is His footstool (Matthew 5:35). Ha!.. I find it funny that those who refuse to honor and serve God, don’t know that no matter how they feel about Him… they are at His feet, and that fact will never change… Ummm… I need a minute to think about that one… whew! OH YEAH!!!….Child of God… that is Good News!
U Blessed
Have a Fabulous Day and a Wonderful Weekend!
Regina
Cartoonist’s Comment:
This verse makes a correlation between praising God and receiving a harvest. Whatever it is that you are believing God for, don’t forget to praise Him and thank Him for it in advance.
Regina,
Thank you for sharing the cartoons on your blog. I am glad to know my cartoons are being put to good use.
Sincerely,
Mike Waters
Life Lesson as told by Rex Barker (RexBarker@Joke-Of-The-Day.com)
If you put a buzzard in a pen six or eight feet square and entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of his ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of ten or twelve feet. Without space to run, as is his habit, he will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.
The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkable nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.
A Bumblebee if dropped into an open tumbler will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.
In many ways, there are lots of people like the buzzard, the bat and the bee. They are struggling about with all their problems and frustrations, not realizing that the answer is right there above them.
This is Rex Barker reminding you to step back, look at your situation as though you were in a helicopter looking down. If you feel like you are in the trees, step back and look at the forest – then you will realize that your problems have solutions.
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