Daily life with Jesus by Grahame Howard: While you have breath

Sunday 8 March 2020

While you have breath - Praise Him!

Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness.' V2
Psalm 150. NKJV/ NLT

Praise should always be a major part of our Christian life. This should never stop. However, there are times when God has done something so wonderful and exciting, that you just can't contain it. And this is what I want to address today.

Look at verse 2 again. Two phrases stick out above the others; 'Mighty acts,' and 'Excellent greatness.' The Amplified Bible puts it this way, 'Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to the abundance of His greatness.' This abundance means He is our excessive God; the God of too much; Jesus the joy bringer; giving to the full, giving till it overflows. The New Living Translation says, 'My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying Life (John 10:10).

Allow your spirit to absorb this and focus on what God has done for you recently. It was something that no one could have worked out. Something that was beyond human intervention. It required divine intervention and God turned up and did just that. Where man's help was impossible, Your Mighty God - El Shaddai, sorted it all for you. This was a mighty act according to the abundance of His greatness - His excellent greatness.

Verse 6 says, 'Let everything that has breath, praise the LORD.' At times, He takes our breath away so much so, that it is difficult to get beyond, 'Thank You Lord, we bless and praise You.' Really, that is all we need to pray because that is showing God our gratefulness. However, our spirit wants to give Him more but we don't know how. This is where our Heavenly language - speaking in tongues - can come into being. Our spirit meets with the Holy Spirit within us and we praise Him in tongues.
As you begin to do this, you feel much more satisfied as the words that you wanted to say but couldn't, are now translated to Heaven for us.

Today, you have something to praise Him for - you know you do! Get alone with Jesus and allow your Heavenly language to reach into the very Throne room of Your Father. Let Him really know how blessed and thankful you are!

Copyright 2020 Grahame Howard