{"id":1427,"date":"2020-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:42:34","slug":"be-sure-to-praise-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/be-sure-to-praise-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Sure To Praise God!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The psalmist said, <i>\u2018I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth\u2026 magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a034:1\u20133<sup>\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>)  Observe three things in this Scripture: <\/p>\n<p>(1) <i>Praise comes from an act of your will.  \u2018I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.\u2019<\/i> It\u2019s not an impulse; it\u2019s a decision you make regardless of your feelings. The word <i>hallelujah<\/i> is a command form of the word \u2018praise\u2019. It\u2019s an expression of worship, but it\u2019s also an order to start praising the Lord. <\/p>\n<p>(2) <i>Praise stirs your emotions. \u2018My soul [emotions] shall make its boast in the Lord.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a034:2<sup>\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) First, David praised the Lord because he was commanded to. Second, he praised Him because he wanted to. That\u2019s the order of things. If you want to change your feelings\u2014change your focus. Before it was over, David was singing, <i>\u2018The Lord redeems the soul of His servants\u2026 none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a034:22<sup>\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) <\/p>\n<p>(3) <i>Praise rubs off on others. \u2018Magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.<\/i>\u2019 Praise is contagious; it changes the atmosphere around you. When you get together with people of praise, decorum gives way to delight, and you find yourself lifted to a realm of joy you never knew. And praise has many forms of expressions. Psalm 150 outlines nine different ways to praise God. You can speak, shout, sing, clap your hands or raise them. You can play musical instruments, you can stand, kneel, or dance. The point is\u2014be sure to praise God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The psalmist said, \u2018I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth\u2026 magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.\u2019 (Psalm\u00a034:1\u20133\u00a0NKJV) Observe three things in this Scripture: (1) Praise comes from an act of your will. \u2018I will bless the Lord at all times; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}