Sing Praise to God’s Power and Love

Verses: Psalms 21 : 1 - 13

Song inspired by the chapter:  Song has been uploaded from YouTube.com and is not my original.

My thoughts about the verses:

There are times in our life that we need to step back and thank God for all that has been done in our life.  God loves us and because of this love we are blessed.  God also has great power this power protects us dally.  No matter what comes in our life we are to life up praises to God for the greatness of the Creator.

God gives us many blessings every day.  We are given life and multiple gifts.  Think about this a moment God sends many gifts our way.  We are given the needs for daily living.  We are blessed with extra things in our life that make us happy and fulfilled.

You might be saying how can you say all our blessed.  Easy even when Christians are struggling in life there are things that they have things that bless their life.  We are blessed with people in our life that care for us (these people may be our friends, birth family or our chosen family).  We are blessed with a new morning when we have woken up.  We have days of great sunshine.  We have nights of brilliant star light.  The thing is we miss the things that are right in front of us.  We think we are not blessed because we do not have the things we want.  Even we have what we we need want more sometimes to the point that we do not believe God is blessing us.

I watched a documentary about a man suffering from ALS.  ALS is a dreadful disease.  It attacks your body and leaves a person incapable of doing simple task.  Many suffer and eventually die because their lungs stop working and they cannot breathe.  Yet, in this story this young man had things that we often take for granted.  He had a brother that was devoting his life to find a way to help his brother.  He had parents that were spending time with him and helping him live as normal a life as he could.  He had a wife that totally supported him.  He had a son that looked up to him and was growing up with a father that adored him. 

He also had the gifts that others had created.  Gifts that were created through the talents God had shared with these inventors.  He had a wheelchair that he could operate on his own even when his arms quit working.  He had the ability to communicate through a computer when he started losing his voice. 

The most important thing he had was a positive attitude.  Through this support he found a way of going to his limitations. He realized how much that he had to do in a very short time period.  So instead of worrying about what he couldn’t do he concentrated on what he had.  His family and friends supported him.  They did all they could to make sure that he had all he needed to make his life as successful as it could be.

Think of the power that God used in this story to help him overcome his limitations.  How many times in our life do we miss the strength that comes from God?  We worry so much about our limitations that we do not see what God is doing for us.  We stress over the things that we cannot accomplish and miss the things God gets us through.

God is our strength and our protector.  God will carry us through our obstacles.  It is up to us if we want to put our total trust in God.  If we choose this path we will see the things that God does each day to protect us and make us stronger.  Think about how life would be if we just turned over today to God.

When people come against us, God is there protecting us.  There are people that will fight us.  They will be against us because of who we are.  The fact that we are Christian opens the door to people that will be against us.  If you start thinking about our multiple diversities you can just add on our abuse.  Yet, if we turn it over to God the strength will carry us through.

We need to offer praises to God for the love that is given to us each day.  We need to thank God for the strength that we are given.  We need to remember that we could not do it alone.  Pray for those that haven’t found God.  Just imagine how the world would be if all trusted in a God of love and power.

Prayer:

Dear God we thank you for multiple blessings.  We thank you for loving us when we didn’t deserve it.  We thank you for carrying us when we need your help.  We thank you for answering our prayers and giving us what we need.  In the name of the Protector and Savior of our life we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Have you thanked God for all that has happened in your life?  Have you asked God to come into your life and save you?  Have you praised God for the times that you are carried?  Is there anything that you need to turn over to God?  How would your life be without God?  Think on this a moment.  Do you not have a reason to praise God today?