✝ Daily Encouragement (11/24/23) "This Our Hymn Of Grateful Praise"
Published: Fri, 11/24/23
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Friday, November 24, 2023
 "This Our Hymn Of
Grateful Praise"
Note: Due to being very busy Wednesday and Thanksgiving yesterday we did not post messages Message summary:
Let us, as God's children, offer up our praise
and thanksgiving to Him today and every day!
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“When you sacrifice a thank offering to the Lord sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf” (Leviticus 22:29). “I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord” (Psalm 116:17). “Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name” (Hebrews 13:15).
Christ,
our God, to Thee we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise.
Yesterday morning we attended our Thanksgiving service at church. We pulled out the white Celebration hymnals from the hymn racks (very unusual in the age of PowerPoint) and sang several Thanksgiving-themed songs, and the rest of the hour was filled with those who came forward to give testimonies of thankfulness for God's goodness. Children, young adults, middle aged and those in their golden years blessed the congregation with
their words and stories of God's goodness.
The
first who went forward to the microphone
was a little boy about nine years old. His homemade pilgrim's hat caught our attention right away. He was very articulate for a young
child, lowered the microphone right down to his mouth, gave his name, and then stated, "I thank God that I was adopted". He told us he didn't think he would be here today if his parents had not loved him enough to adopt him. Though we don't know his fuller story we do consider those saved from being aborted through adoption. He was very thankful that he had a family to call his
own.
Being
spiritually adopted is a tremendous blessing we all have. "But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!'" (Galatians
4:4-6).
That
spiritual reality should always prompt a sacrifice of thanksgiving and praise!
Scripture teaches that our praise glorifies God and, really, aren’t we also expressing our contentedness and thankfulness when we earnestly enter into praise. When we praise the Lord we enter into His presence, acknowledge Him as Lord, and give thanks for His steadfast love and care.
Many have wondered, “What is the distinction between worship and praise?” Though they are often used interchangeably, there is some distinction. Worship is properly acknowledging who God is by recognizing His many attributes (characteristics). Praise, on the other hand, is based upon the ways in which God’s attributes impact our lives. In other words I praise God for His mercy because He saved me when I was lost and without hope. In our Scripture texts we repeatedly see the words; sacrifice, thanksgiving, and praise. A sacrifice is something not forced upon us, but we offer it instead by our own free will. The Dictionary.com defines sacrifice as “surrendering something of value as a means of gaining something even more desirable”. How does that definition fit into your sacrifice of praise? The writer of Hebrews ended his letter with a call to praise the Lord. “Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name". I encourage you to rest in the arms of our loving God and express your love to Him as you recall the ancient words of the Psalmist, "I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord". Let us, as His children, offer up our praise and thanksgiving to Him today and every day!
Be encouraged
today,
Hebrews
3:13
Stephen & Brooksyne
Weber
Daily
prayer: Father, as we give praise to You we are offering our heartfelt thanks for who You are and all that You do on our behalf. As we mature in our Christian walk we realize that there are many occasions when we must offer a sacrifice of praise since it doesn’t always come easily nor often enough. It is in those circumstances that we willfully choose to praise You out of obedient hearts desirous of pleasing and
glorifying Your name. May our words be fruitful and our thoughts praiseworthy in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
Brooksyne's note:
I have played
this repeatedly over the past week after hearing it on our local Christian radio station, WDAC 94.5. We've enjoyed Selah's music over the past twenty+ years, but this one is a standout of a classic hymn written in 1864 by Folliot Sandford Pierpoint.
"For the Beauty of the Earth" is one
of only a few songs devoted purely to giving thanks. One of the strange things about the "attitude of gratitude" is that we tend to exhibit it in reverse proportion to the number of blessings received. The more we have, the less thankful we are. Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that if the constellations appeared only once in a thousand years, imagine what an exciting event it would be. But because they're there every night, we barely give them a
look.
One of the evidences of the Holy Spirit's
work in our lives is a gradual reversal of that twisted pattern. God wants to make us people who exhibit a thankfulness in proper proportion to the gifts and blessings we've received.
"Then Sings My Soul" by Robert J.
Morgan
"Psalm 42 (I Will Praise Him
Again)" Watch on YouTube
CityAlight
"Give Thanks With a Thankful
Heart" Watch on YouTube Don Moen
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