Today is Wednesday, August 13th, 2008; Karen's Korner #1378
From my Bible Commentary, it tells about praise and its positive affects. It doesn't mention about praises only when things go our way or we 'like' what is happening to us. Maybe praise is the antidote for fear, worry, concern, and negative thoughts or emotions.
The last five psalms (146 - 150) overflow with praise. Each begins with 'hallelujah' or 'praise the Lord'. They show us where, why, and how to praise God. What does praise do:
* Praise takes our minds off our problems and shortcomings, and focuses them on God;
* Prasie takes us from individual meditation to corporate worship;
* Praise causes us to consider and appreciate God's character;
* Praise takes our perspective from the earthly to the heavenly.
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Praise the Lord!
Yes, really praise him!
I will praise him as long as I live,
yes, even with my dying breath.
Don't look to men for help;
their greatest leaders fail;
for every man must die.
His breathing stops, life ends,
and in a moment all he planned for himself is ended.
But happy is the man who has the God of Jacob as his helper,
whose hope is in the Lord his God---
the God who made both earth and heaven,
the seas and everything in them.
He is God who keeps every promise,
and gives justice to the poor and oppressed,
and food to the hungry.
He frees the prisoners, and opens the eyes of the blind;
he lifts the burdens from those bent down beneath their loads.
For the Lord loves good men.
He protects the immigrants,
and cares for the orphans and widows.
But he turns topsy-turvy the plans of the wicked.
The Lord will reign forever.
O Jerusalem, your God is King in every generation!
Hellelujah!
Praise the Lord!
~~ Psalm 146 (Living Bible)
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