PRAYER & PRAISE & THE WORD

PRAYER & PRAISE & THE WORD Good Morning to everyone this morning: Did you have a wonderful day yesterday being in the lord and talking with Him throughout your day or did you have an answer to your prayers? How's the family of God this morning ? Have you had your breakfast this morning? I truly hope so and have had your coffee or cocoa and enjoyed this morning with your loved ones too! Did you pray for one another before departing from each other ? I pray that you did in keeping everyone safe unto everyone returns back home. Come on in and let's get to our Bible study this morning and let's get our hearts upon the Lord this morning and have our day started out right before our Lord Jesus Christ in having our eyes and hearts upon him first of all in our prayers in coing before Him in laying down self unto our God. Then have your bible opened up and we are having it taken from (Psalms 146-147 ) is what my daily reading has suggested to me today.
GETTING DRESSED: Putting on God's Armor :Eph. 6: 10-20

I'm (we're) strong in You Lord, empowered through my (our) union
with You; I (we) draw strength from You, that strength which Your
boundless might provides I (we) put on the whole armor which You
supply, God, that I (we) may be able successfully to stand up
against all the strategies and deceits of the devil. For I (we)
wrestle not with flesh and blood, but against the principalities,
against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world
rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of
wickedness in the heavenly spirit sphere.
Therefore, I (we) put on your complete armor, God, that I
(we) may be able to resist and stand my (our) ground. I (we) stand,
I (we) hold my (our) ground, having tightened the girdle of truth
around my (our) loins, having put on the breastplate of
righteousness (integrity. moral rectitude, right-standing with
God); and having shod my (our) feet in preparation, promptness, and
readiness with the Gospel of Peace. I (we) lift up over all the
covering shield of faith, upon which I (we) can quench all the
flaming missiles of the wicked one I (we) take the helmet of
salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
I (we) pray at all times, on every' occasion, in every
season, in the spirit, with all manner of prayer and entreaty. I
(we) keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance,
interceding in behalf of all the saints I (we) pray that freedom of
utterance may be given me (us), that I (we) may speak boldly the
mystery of the Gospel for which I am (we are) an ambassador. I (we)
pray I (we) may declare it boldly and courageously as I (we) ought
to do GOING TO WORK. In Jesus name, Amen!"

1Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

2While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

5Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

7Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

8The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:

9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

10The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.

Why we should not trust in men.

If it is our delight to praise the Lord while we live, we shall certainly praise him to all eternity. With this glorious prospect before us, how low do worldly pursuits seem! There is a Son of man in whom there is help, even him who is also the Son of God, who will not fail those that trust in him. But all other sons of men are like the man from whom they sprung, who, being in honour, did not abide. God has given the earth to the children of men, but there is great striving about it.

Yet, after a while, no part of the earth will be their own, except that in which their dead bodies are laid. And when man returns to his earth, in that very day all his plans and designs vanish and are gone: what then comes of expectations from him? (Ps 146:5-10)

Why we should trust in God.

The psalmist encourages us to put confidence in God. We must hope in the providence of God for all we need as to this life, and in the grace of God for that which is to come. The God of heaven became a man that he might become our salvation. Though he died on the cross for our sins, and was laid in the grave, yet his thoughts of love to us did not perish; he rose again to fulfil them. When on earth, his miracles were examples of what he is still doing every day. He grants deliverance

to captives bound in the chains of sin and Satan. He opens the eyes of the understanding. He feeds with the bread of life those who hunger for salvation; and he is the constant Friend of the poor in spirit, the helpless: with him poor sinners, that are as fatherless, find mercy; and his kingdom shall continue for ever. Then let sinners flee to him, and believers rejoice in him. And as the Lord shall reign for ever, let us stir up each other to praise his holy name.

1Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.

2The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

3He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

4He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

5Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

6The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

7Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:

8Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

9He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

10He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

11The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

12Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

13For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

14He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.

15He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.

16He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

17He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

18He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

19He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

20He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.

The people of God are exhorted to praise him for his mercies and care.

Praising God is work that is its own wages. It is comely; it becomes us as reasonable creatures, much more as people in covenant with God. He gathers outcast sinners by his grace, and will bring them into his holy habitation. To those whom God heals with the consolations of his Spirit, he speaks peace, assures them their sins are pardoned. And for this, let others praise him also. Man's knowledge is soon ended; but God's knowledge is a dept that can never be fathomed. And while he

telleth the number of the stars, he condescends to hear the broken-hearted sinner. While he feeds the young ravens, he will not leave his praying people destitute. Clouds look dull and melancholy, yet without them we could have no rain, therefore no fruit. Thus afflictions look black and unpleasant; but from clouds of affliction come showers that make the soul to yield the peaceable fruits of righteousness. The psalmist delights not in things wherein sinners trust and glory; but a serious and

suitable regard to God is, in his sight, of very great price. We are not to be in doubt between hope and fear, but to act under the gracious influences of hope and fear united. (Ps 147:12-20)

For the salvation and prosperity of the church.

The church, like Jerusalem of old, built up and preserved by the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, is exhorted to praise him for all the benefits and blessings vouchsafed to her; and these are represented by his favours in the course of nature. The thawing word may represent the gospel of Christ, and the thawing wind the Spirit of Christ; for the Spirit is compared to the wind, Joh 3:8. Converting grace softens the heart that was hard frozen,

and melts it into tears of repentance, and makes good reflections to flow, which before were chilled and stopped up. The change which the thaw makes is very evident, yet how it is done no one can say. Such is the change wrought in the conversion of a soul, when God's word and Spirit are sent to melt it and restore it to itself.

Let's give the Lord God a hand of praise for his truths of His word and thank Him for all that he is and every will be till he comes for us all and providing all provisions that has come and that will come before us ! He's the man of all of his sword of truths that unfallable unto all nations that shines before us today. catcmo2006
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