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Psalm 98:4 Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth; Break forth in song, rejoice, and sing praises.
Making a noise in church may well be frowned upon in many circles, but doing so because you are celebrating your worship before God is different!
Not making the noise so other people can hear you, but making a noise because you want others to know your love for God.
The human voice is incredible and beyond any single instrument; the versatility of God’s creation goes far beyond that of man’s creation.
Use what God has given you to praise and worship Him to your fullest!
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Psalm 47:1 Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
How many churches have you been to where it is frowned upon for various things to go on such as applauding what someone says or voicing your approval?
There is always a time where such things may well be out of order, but we should be able to express our support for our victorious Lord and God!
Think about whether you are giving glory to God because it is He who should have all the glory and not we ourselves.
I don’t charge for devotions, nor do I advertise or seek a return. This is my way of giving God the glory.
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Isaiah 55:12 “For you shall go out with joy, And be led out with peace; The mountains and the hills Shall break forth into singing before you, And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Although the people of Israel had great joy out of being led out of Egypt in peace, these words are more focused on the joy and peace we have from living with God.
Not the joy and peace we will have when we get to heaven but the joy and peace we see, feel and touch when we are saved from sin, bonds, slavery, whatever.
There is no more joy than knowing you have eternity ahead of you!
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Psalm 105:43 He brought out His people with joy, His chosen ones with gladness.
When we see just how much God does for us at the right time and the right place we can celebrate with joy and partying!
No matter how much life gets us down we can always look forward to the joy and life God brings us and be able to celebrate this life with Him.
God has chosen us and set us aside from the bad and evil side of life. He has done this for a reason – we may not see the reason as we try to make sense of our lives, but we know it is God who is in control!
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Amos 2:10 Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, And led you forty years through the wilderness, To possess the land of the Amorite.
You may be asking questions like “why should I continue to uphold my praise and worship if God is going to allow bad stuff and people into my life?”
It is not all about consequences where we have to pay for the bad things in our lives either!
God does not want all these bad things to happen to us, but we do live in a world where there are a lot of bad people doing bad stuff; we are just some of the targets for those bad people. That is life.
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Amos 2:12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, And commanded the prophets saying, ‘Do not prophesy!’
People working against God’s people is not new. Mankind has been trying to knock Christians down for a very long time; and yet we continue to show just how powerful and supportive our God can be!
What we have to remember is we are not alone; we have God with us and we continue to have His support.
Don’t try to make a world for yourself but rather continue to try and work in God’s world and in His will. That is where we are going to be safest of all.
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Acts 5:40 And they agreed with him, and when they had called for the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Do you get upset when many people turn out to support someone who is doing something wrong or even against the law?
I know I do get very upset when I see people getting carried away with their feelings and following the wrong path; but that is part of being human and emotional.
God has given us the ability to choose between right and wrong and He warns us we may well face a lot of opposition when we stand up for what is right. That should not stop us from standing up for the truth!
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Matthew 23:34 Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,
What would you think of a group of people if you sent a person to help them and they turned round and killed that person? Not much!
Thankfully we do not have to deal with things like that in our “normal” lives, but we often do get our help rejected by people just because they don’t want to trust us.
God has faced this issue of people not wanting to trust Him far longer than we have and He does not turn His back on us!
Show some love and compassion on this special day to the people around you and don’t expect anything back!
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Acts 11:27 And in these days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Does it surprise you to see things written down like this? I was kind of brought up in such a way as to believe the prophets were people who lived a long time before Christ and that was it.
God allowed people, even during these times when this was written, to be able to tell about things which were still to come.
God knows some of us need a lot of guidance and that we cannot get everything from just reading His Word. He gives us special people in our lives to guide us.
Trust in Him and trust in His power to be able to do so much more than we can think about!
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Ephesians 4:11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
Is it really any real surprise we are all different from each other? You may be forgiven for thinking we should be more alike because we all come from each other as it were.
Even though we all have the same roots, we all live on the same planet and we all are exposed to pretty much the same things, we are all very different.
We have choice. We have the ability to think for ourselves.
This is what God has given to us. He has given us the ability to grow as our own people and He wants us to be able to do so. Make Him proud by growing as best you can!
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Acts 21:8 On the next day we who were Paul’s companions departed and came to Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
How do you think you would be described by a bunch of Christians? Would they describe you as a good person or as someone who did things out of the ordinary?
Would you be just another Christians or would you stand out as one of a group who were making a difference?
God wants each of us to go out there and make a difference. That sometimes means doing things you are not comfortable with because they are stretching you further than you want to go.
Listen to God and expand on what you normally do for Him.
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2 Timothy 4:5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry.
Work for a Christian can mean many things; but all of those things should be focused on Christ.
Sometimes we have to ensure stuff which we think we should not have to, not because we are getting punished for stuff but simply because the world and the people around us may not care for us like we care for them.
God is just and will enable us to do His work if we are willing to listen to His guidance. It is His will that we should obey Him and worship Him with our lives.
Trust Him!
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2 Timothy 2:3 You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
I wonder how many times you have been told you have to endure things just because you are a Christian; well it is not just because you are a Christian!
Why do soldiers go through so much grief in their training? They do that to best prepare them for the job ahead!
Christ may allow various things into our lives which we really do not like; but they may well be what we need in order to prepare us for what lies ahead of us.
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2 Timothy 1:8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God,
It is easy to listen to someone telling you how you must not be afraid, and then find it so very difficult to actually not be afraid when faced with danger!
God’s protection for us is very real and you may not get to experience that if you are lucky. I would not wish anything bad on anyone who does not know that protection.
I know I used to be sceptical when people first started telling me of this great protection God had to offer; I mean, how can someone invisible do anything for me?
Trust God and believe in Him. Don’t wait until it all goes wrong before believing…
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Matthew 10:18 You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
Who do you think God will use to reach to the people who are in charge of countries and kingdoms?
Will He try and find a bigger and more important king or leader than them or will He use people who are available?
God can use us to reach even the most important people in the world. Even they can look at us and be inspired if we are willing to be more like Christ!
Change a little. Shine a little. Let God use you properly!
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Luke 21:13 But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony.
We may well go through trials in our lives and wonder how they happen or why they happen because we think God should be looking after us all the time…
Well, God is watching us always and is always with us, but we still live in a broken world where things go wrong.
Sometimes things can be used for good even though they appear so bad on the surface. We can always try to find a positive side to things going wrong in our lives – even if it is only to show people we have to trust God no matter what happens in our lives!
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Matthew 8:4 And Jesus said to him, “See that you tell no one; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
Even though Jesus healed the lepers completely from leprosy He still told them to go through the proper channels to get themselves “signed off” as being well.
Jesus may well do miracles and go against what the world knows is possible, but He will not go against God’s Word.
We can be sure Christ is in it if we know what is happening is happening within the bounds of God’s Word.
Believe Christ can do anything but make sure you stick to God’s Word whilst doing that!
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Matthew 5:23 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,
What is your attitude toward doing things for God? Or for giving things to God?
We may well straighten out our prayer life and start praying with the right attitude, but unless we are doing the same in our lives we are fooling ourselves only.
God wants us to be good examples for Him; people who can give a good account of Christ through their actions as well as through their words.
If you have anything against anyone, try straighten it out before it brings you down as well.
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1 Timothy 2:8 I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;
Have you ever thought about how people pray around the world? Not the way they stand, bow down, kneel or lay down but their attitude.
The first thing which caught me in this verse when I read it today was the words “without wrath and doubting”.
Often when we do not get our own way we tend to be very vocal about things and say things we may not mean.
Are we doing the same toward God in our prayer life? Are we arguing with God instead of praising and pleading?
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Psalm 141:2 Let my prayer be set before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Can you imagine what it must have been like in the days of regular offerings of incense and sacrifices? You would be able to smell the incense every morning and the sacrifices at the appropriate times.
They would be a very visible and tangible mark of respect for God; something that may well seem like it is lost in modern society.
The psalmist wants his prayers to have the same perceived importance as the age old sacrificial offerings; not because he wants others to see his prayers but that God should look upon them with the same importance.
He does!