THURSDAY, March 13th, 2008

Katie and Pastor Lee's First Son, Will
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I Chronicles 16: 23-29

Pastor Lee:
This is that song from yesterday still going on. I am not sure whether or not this is the 24th verse or if this is part of the chorus or a bridge, :) Just kidding, It is none of those, it is just a simple outpouring from the heart of David to the people and to the heart of God.
I color coordinated it again for you today. The blue is talking about what a great God we have and the orange is talking about How we need to tell the world about our great God! So, More specific, David tells us to Proclaim, or tell, the whole world about His salvation every single day! We are to declare it. I think of a declaration as a strong, confident, and clear statement about a fact. Well Salvation is a fact, so we need to share it confidently.

The rest of the passage is talking about our Great God, and the most impacting part for me, is where is says, "Give the Lord the Glory Due His Name! When I was growing up, I made a club and everyone who wanted to be a member had to pay me "Dues". It was like a quarter or something, but if they were a part of my club, then their money was due to me. In the same way, God created us, sustains us, and saved us. He is due of EVERYTHING we have!


23 Sing to the LORD, all the earth; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.
24 Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.
25 For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is also to be feared above all gods.
26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the LORD made the heavens.
27 Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and gladness are in His place.
28 Give to the LORD, O families of the peoples, Give to the LORD glory and strength.
29 Give to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness!

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Such an amazing God is worth every cent of our money and every word of our praise. Being faithful in giving back to god is something I know I can definitely work on. Even when money is tight, God will bless a thankful giver.

Amy said...

God has been good and gracious to us and we should praise Him with our lives in everything. He has given us great salvation. He is worthy of all of the praise we give Him. The whole world should know that we love God. We should respect God and remember how powerful God is.Our hearts should always be showing forth His praise. We should always have a song like I Chronicles 16: 23-29 in our hearts all the time.

Rachel☺; said...

I think this is a reminder if how we should acknowledge and offer our praises to God who deserves them. I looked in the dictionary for the definition of 'glory' just to see what all it really was about and its not a simple term. It refers to praise, honor, admiration, renowning, recognition of magnificence, the divine presence, and to give rejoice, and its truly the prefect word of all we should be offering to the Lord; almost the prefect word. When you are given something, or recieve a 'gift', you usually thank someone, and to think of how much greater the gift of salvation is; shouldnt we give thanks 'much greater' as well? In exchange for a perfect life, we should at least give back our imperfect ones and use them to glorify God. Usually i always under think the word glorify, but its really a much bigger word and a sign of reverence that i can really work on.

Rachel☺; said...

awww! :]
no devotions today cause of the babyy right?
:]]
congratss<3

HADOKEN!!! said...

I like this one it's very happy. It's simple too just like me. Basically it says God is amazing so give Him the praise for it. He is the one that saved you from hell so you should be singing till your lungs EXPLODE and then re assimalate and EXPLODE again. We sould all work on that. I havent gotten the second EXPLOSION yet but I'm workin on it.

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