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Archive for 25. June 2008
The Power of Praise
25. June 2008 by Bernice Davis.
Hello:
I told you it’s going to be one of those weeks, I just can’t stop praising him. This psalm that I’m listing today is so familiar in the life of the church, but I heard an elder at the church I attend this past Sunday quote it. This same elder is currently in the hospital and according to the doctors the report doesn’t look good but we know our God is able and we shall believe the report of the Lord. They showed a video of her quoting this psalm shortly before she collapsed in church and when I thought about that moment this morning, I thought about how powerful that psalm is.
Psalm 34:1 “I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. 4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.”
Historically, this psalm was written when David was on the run from Saul. Let’s go to Samuel and look at the scenario.
1 Samuel 21: 10 That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath. 11 But the servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one they sing about in their dances: “‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?” 12 David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of
After this experience, David penned this psalm. Ohhhhhhh, How powerful. David said my soul doth make her boast in the Lord. That word for boast there means to “be hilariously foolish.” David was saying that his very insides went crazy for God. He was so appreciative that God had spared him from the hand of his enemy. I think most people have memorized this Psalm and sometimes it can become a “cliché” in the church. Revisit it again, and see the power of these words.
God Bless
Don’t forget to pray and read God’s word daily .
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