Can you praise god in all your circumstances?
Like most years, this last one had some great moments and some deep lows that tested my faith and if you are a person of faith, most likely it tested yours. While it may be difficult, all of God's people need to recognize He is sovereign over events, kings, and history. He inserts leaders, and He removes them. He is also sovereign over life and death. Here is a Psalm I wrote during a period of heartache and grief.
When people come alongside my life today, what will they see, what will they hear? Words of self-pity, or a song of trust? Will they hear a sigh of sorrow, or a psalm of praise?
O great and mighty God praise and honor be to You. You are my God no matter what happens to me or the people I love. You are sovereign in the day and sovereign in the night. You are sovereign in the calms and sovereign in the storms. You are sovereign in good health and sovereign in sickness. You reign in righteousness and truth. I know I can trust You.
Your loving kindness and Your truth has and will continually surround me throughout my life. Help me to stay strong as a man of God. Help me demonstrate Your love to my wife, family, and friends. Enable me to see those who need comfort and to comfort others with the comfort You are giving me. You are my help and my deliverer, my shield, and my rampart. I know I can trust You.
Open my eyes that I may see You in the land of the living. There are things You reveal and there are things You have hidden that force me to walk by faith. Help me stay strong by never doubting in the darkness what You have revealed in the light. Continue to open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things from Your word and to be filled with Your inward abiding Holy Spirit.
May the Lord bless you mightily as you hear His voice, sense His presence, and obey His word. And may your 2024 bring a greater sense of His power, presence, and purpose for your lives.
In the strength of His grace,
Brad
When people come alongside my life today, what will they see, what will they hear? Words of self-pity, or a song of trust? Will they hear a sigh of sorrow, or a psalm of praise?
O great and mighty God praise and honor be to You. You are my God no matter what happens to me or the people I love. You are sovereign in the day and sovereign in the night. You are sovereign in the calms and sovereign in the storms. You are sovereign in good health and sovereign in sickness. You reign in righteousness and truth. I know I can trust You.
Your loving kindness and Your truth has and will continually surround me throughout my life. Help me to stay strong as a man of God. Help me demonstrate Your love to my wife, family, and friends. Enable me to see those who need comfort and to comfort others with the comfort You are giving me. You are my help and my deliverer, my shield, and my rampart. I know I can trust You.
Open my eyes that I may see You in the land of the living. There are things You reveal and there are things You have hidden that force me to walk by faith. Help me stay strong by never doubting in the darkness what You have revealed in the light. Continue to open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things from Your word and to be filled with Your inward abiding Holy Spirit.
May the Lord bless you mightily as you hear His voice, sense His presence, and obey His word. And may your 2024 bring a greater sense of His power, presence, and purpose for your lives.
In the strength of His grace,
Brad
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