Enter His gates with thanksgiving
and His courts with praise.
Give thanks to Him, bless His name.
For the Lord is good;
His lovingkindness is everlasting
and His faithfulness to all generations.
Psalm 100:4-5
and His courts with praise.
Give thanks to Him, bless His name.
For the Lord is good;
His lovingkindness is everlasting
and His faithfulness to all generations.
Psalm 100:4-5
Welcome to "Praise"!
There are five blog pages here...
The following excerpts, slightly adapted from the first two posts, will help explain what and Who this site is all about.
There are five blog pages here...
- "Praise reflections" (self-explanatory :) )
- "Blog," some thoughts from my own journey with the Lord Jesus
- "To soak in" (ambiguity intentional), sermons and other resources
- "Passages," favourite passages from books and Scripture
- "Words," reflections about words in Scripture
The following excerpts, slightly adapted from the first two posts, will help explain what and Who this site is all about.
My reason for starting this site is quite simple. I've discovered something wonderful, and I want to share it.
I'm a Christian whose life was broken. I was lost in the wilderness, and the Lord came and found me. In a very dark moment, when my world was a breath away from coming undone, someone advised me that the best way to keep going was through praise. I began to praise the Lord, mostly in song, even when I felt more like weeping than singing.
Soon the most amazing thing began to happen. The praise seemed to open up a conduit to God's very heart; His presence grew increasingly tangible, and my relationship with Him began to grow deeper.
I am now head over heels in love with my God. I live to praise Him and to know Him. I've been a Christian for over 40 years, and until fairly recently I had never realized what the Christian life was meant to be.
In John 15, Jesus tells us that we are to depend upon Him as our life source: He is the vine, we are the branches. So just as He, in His life as a man, lived in complete dependence upon and submission to the Father, we are to live in complete dependence upon and submission to Him. We do this by living in deep and constant communion with God, just as Jesus did here on earth.
Prayer is a love song. As we live in prayer and praise, we begin to realize that it's designed to be a duet.
Begin singing, keep singing!
I'm a Christian whose life was broken. I was lost in the wilderness, and the Lord came and found me. In a very dark moment, when my world was a breath away from coming undone, someone advised me that the best way to keep going was through praise. I began to praise the Lord, mostly in song, even when I felt more like weeping than singing.
Soon the most amazing thing began to happen. The praise seemed to open up a conduit to God's very heart; His presence grew increasingly tangible, and my relationship with Him began to grow deeper.
I am now head over heels in love with my God. I live to praise Him and to know Him. I've been a Christian for over 40 years, and until fairly recently I had never realized what the Christian life was meant to be.
In John 15, Jesus tells us that we are to depend upon Him as our life source: He is the vine, we are the branches. So just as He, in His life as a man, lived in complete dependence upon and submission to the Father, we are to live in complete dependence upon and submission to Him. We do this by living in deep and constant communion with God, just as Jesus did here on earth.
Prayer is a love song. As we live in prayer and praise, we begin to realize that it's designed to be a duet.
Begin singing, keep singing!