UNLIMITED PRAISE

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For MONDAY, 20TH MARCH, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: UNLIMITED PRAISE

MEMORIZE: "Let everything that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.” Psalm 150:6.

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 150:1-6

“1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.  2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let everything that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.”

EXPOSITION:

Since God is everlasting, our praises must also be from generation to generation. Unlimited praise is the quality praise that comes from pure heart to the Lord. God demands that we must praise Him with our whole being. Psalm 150 is a psalm of praise to God. The psalmist had been himself full of the praises of God, and here he would fill all the world with them: again and again he calls, "Praise the Lord, praise him, praise him," no less than thirteen times in this psalm. 

 

I. Where does this tribute of praise arises from? It comes, 

a. From his sanctuary; praise him there. 

Let his priests, let his people, that attend there, attend him with their praises. Where should he be praised, but there where he does, in a special manner, both manifest his glory and communicate his grace? Praise God upon the account of his sanctuary, and the privileges which we enjoy by having that among us, Eze 37:26. Praise God in his holy ones (so some read it); we must take notice of the image of God as it appears on those that are sanctified, and love them for the sake of that image; and when we praise them we must praise God in them. 

b. From the firmament of his power. 

Praise him because of his power and glory which appear in the firmament, its vastness, its brightness, and its splendid furniture; and because of the powerful influences it has upon this earth. Let those that have their dwelling in the firmament of his power, even the holy angels, lead in this good work. Some, by the sanctuary, as well as by the firmament of his power, understand the highest heavens, the residence of his glory; that is indeed his sanctuary, his holy temple, and there he is praised continually, in a far better manner than we can praise him. And it is a comfort to us, when we find we do it so poorly, that it is so well done there. 

 

II. UPON WHAT ACCOUNT SHOULD WE PRAISE GOD, upon many accounts, particularly, 

1. WE SHOULD PRAISE GOD FOR THE WORKS OF HIS POWER (Ps 150:2): 

Praise him for his mighty acts; for his mightinesses (so the word is), for all the instances of his might, the power of his providence, the power of his grace, what he has done in the creation, government, and redemption of the world, for the children of men in general, for his own church and children in particular. 

 

2. WE SHOULD PRAISE GOD FOR THE GLORY AND MAJESTY OF HIS BEING: 

Praise him according to his excellent greatness. 

According to the multitude of his magnificence (so Dr. Hammond reads it); not that our praises can bear any proportion to God's greatness, for it is infinite, but, since he is greater than we can express or conceive, we must raise our conceptions and expressions to the highest degree we can attain to.  Be not afraid of saying too much in the praises of God, as we often do in praising even great and good men. We cannot speak extravagantly of God; all the danger is of saying too little and therefore, when we have done our utmost, we must own that though we have praised him in consideration of, yet not in proportion to, his excellent greatness. 

 

OUR CONCERN IS TO KNOW, 

1. That hereby is intimated how full the psalmist's heart was of the praises of God and how desirous he was that this good work might go on. 

2. That in serving God we should spare no cost nor pains. 

3. That the best music in God's ears is devout and pious affections, not a melodious string, but a melodious heart. Praise God with a strong faith; praise him with holy love and delight; praise him with an entire confidence in Christ; praise him with a believing triumph over the powers of darkness; praise him with an earnest desire towards him and a full satisfaction in him; praise him by a universal respect to all his commands; praise him by a cheerful submission to all his disposals; praise him by rejoicing in his love and solacing yourselves in his great goodness; praise him by promoting the interests of the kingdom of his grace; praise him by a lively hope and expectation of the kingdom of his glory. 

4. That, various instruments being used in praising God, it should yet be done with an exact and perfect harmony; they must not hinder, but help one another. The New-Testament concert, instead of this, is with one mind and one mouth to glorify God, Romans 15:6. 

 

IV. Who Must Praise God: (Ps 150:6) Let every thing that has breath praise the Lord.

He began with a call to those that had a place in his sanctuary and were employed in the temple-service; but he concludes with a call to all the children of men, in prospect of the time when the Gentiles should be taken into the church, and in every place, as acceptably as at Jerusalem, this incense should be offered, Malachi 1:11. Some think that in everything that has breath here we must include the inferior creatures (as Genesis 7:22) , all in whose nostrils was the breath of life. They praise God according to their capacity. The singing of birds is a sort of praising God. The brutes do in effect say to man, "We would praise God if we could; do you do it for us." John in vision heard a song of praise from every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, Revelation 5:13.

ACTION POINT: Give God quality praise for who he is and His wonderful works with the whole of your being.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  1 Samuel 16 - 19.

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