May 25, 2015 – Monday

Start Time:   6:05 AM

End Time:     6:23 AM

Title: Psalm 118

Scripture: Psalm 118:1 – 29

God’s Message / God’s Promise / God’s Commands:

→ Hallelujah!  What a great day to give thanks to God!  Psalm 118 illustrate the logic of why giving thanks to the Lord is a must!  The author started by encouraging everyone to give thanks to the Lord for His love endures forever.  Check your life and ask yourself, does God's love endures forever in you?  Can you say and truly attest that His love endures forever in your life as you ponder and remember everything that has happened in your life since your existence?  Well, I can!  Just like this author, to urge and motivate the people to give thanks, he went back to the past...the amazing experiences they went thru showing God's amazing love.  He spoke of being hard pressed yet the moment he cried tot he Lord, He brought him our into a spacious place.  How many times did God do the same for you and me?  I know God has brought me in many cities and i lived new lives each time, like living a new chapter every time I move into another city but when I felt lonely or pressured or as the author said it, "hard pressed", and I called upon God, He comes almost immediately and swoop in the day to save me.  Hallelujah!  Truly, what can we do?  What can man do against the Lord?  Truly nothing!  They are nothing in compare to God so if we are oppressed or going through difficult times from other people, do not worry or be afraid for we have God with us who is more powerful than any man inflicting us.

In verse 8, the author emphasized on the value of taking refuge in the Lord than in humans or princes.  Because no matter how powerful and big our oppressors in this world, God is always bigger!  No matter how surrounded we are or trap, God can find a way out for us to deliver us!  Let God be our strength and our defense...let Him be our salvation!  Put your trust in no one but the Lord no matter what it is that you're going thru right now.

In verse 15, the author urged to shout of joy and victory, claiming the win in Jesus' Name! Rejoice and give thanks for God's right hand has done mighty things!  Use your words, your hands, your lips, your feet, everything in you to give thanksgiving to the Lord for He has answered us all and became our salvation!  Hallelujah!

Jesus the one rejected by men became the only Savior of us all.  So let us rejoice for seeing this truth more than what the physical views of the world shows.  Let us be glad for the Lord is our God and Saviour.  Cry upon God for mercy, for grace, for deliverance!  Those who call upon the Name of the Lord are blessed.  He is God and made His light shine on us.  Declare with your lips that God is your God and you will praise Him, exalt Him...Give thanks to Him for He is good and His love endures forever!  Amen!

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, there are millions of reasons available to give thanks to You!  Thank you for today, You reminded me the importance of thanksgiving!  Give me the heart to always be thankful Lord.  A heart that sees Your hand working each day that my lips will utter nothing but thanksgiving despite of the oppression or troubles.  Thank You Lord because Your word is true and it is unbroken.  I can rely in them and know that it will come to pass in my life too.  Truly Your love endures forever and You are indeed good!  I am amazed and grateful that You are my God.  What a great privilege it is really to be Your child.  Thank You from the bottom of my heart, to the deepest of my bones. Everything in me Lord say thank You.  In Jesus' Name, Amen!