WE MUST PRAISE GOD

 *ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE*  For SUNDAY, 8TH JANUARY, 2023.

 *Topic: WE MUST PRAISE GOD* 

MEMORIZE: *“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.” Psalm 100: 4.*

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 136: 1 - 9.

“ *1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. 2 Oh, give thanks to the God of gods! For His mercy endures forever. 3 Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords! For His mercy endures forever: 4 To Him who alone does great wonders, For His mercy endures forever; 5 To Him who by wisdom made the heavens, For His mercy endures forever; 6 To Him who laid out the earth above the waters, For His mercy endures forever; 7 To Him who made great lights, For His mercy endures forever. 8 The sun to rule by day, For His mercy endures forever; 9 The moon and stars to rule by night, For His mercy endures forever.”* 

 *EXPOSITION* :

The duty we are here again and again called to is to give thanks, to offer the sacrifice of praise continually, not the fruits of our ground or cattle, but the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name, Heb 13:15. We are never so earnestly called upon to pray and repent as to give thanks; for it is the will of God that we should abound most in the most pleasant exercises of religion, in that which is the work of heaven. Now here observe, 

1. Whom we must give thanks to--to him that we receive all good from, to the Lord, Jehovah, Israel's God (Ps 136:1), the God of gods, the God whom angels adore, from whom magistrates derive their power, and by whom all pretended deities are and shall be conquered (Ps 136:2), to the Lord of lords, the Sovereign of all sovereigns, the stay and supporter of all supports; Ps 136:3. In all our adorations we must have an eye to God's excellency as transcendent, and to his power and dominion as incontestably and uncontrollably supreme. 

2. What we must give thanks for, not as the Pharisee that made all his thanksgivings terminate in his own praise (God, I thank thee, that I am so and so), but directing them all to God's glory. 

3. We must give thanks to God for his goodness and mercy (Ps 136:1): Give thanks to the Lord, not only because he does good, but because he is good (all the streams must be traced up to the fountain), not only because he is merciful to us, but because his mercy endures for ever, and will be drawn out to those that shall come after us. We must give thanks to God, not only for that mercy which is now handed out to us here on earth, but for that which shall endure for ever in the glories and joys of heaven. 

4. We must give God thanks for the instances of his power and wisdom. In general (Ps 136:4), he alone does great wonders. The contrivance is wonderful, the design being laid by infinite wisdom; the performance is wonderful, being put in execution by infinite power. He alone does marvellous things; none besides can do such things, and he does them without the assistance or advice of any other. 

PRAYER POINT: Praise God for His manifold blessings beyond human comprehension.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Genesis 23-26.

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 *ANCHOR OF LIFE* is the daily devotional of the *Anchor Of Life & Redemption Ministry* (ALRM) written by *Pastor Dr. Samuel Bayonle Ayorinde* . It is an extraction of God’s Word designed to draw the sincere seeker closer to God on a daily basis through an insightful exposition and analysis of God’s Word. 

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