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September 6
Sunday


PRELUDE
OF PRAISE

READ:
Psalm 150
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I will sing praise to
Your name forever, that
I may daily perform my
vows. __Psalm 61:8
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We enter a concert hall, find our seats, and listen with anticipation as the members of the orchestra tune their instruments. the sound is discordant, not melodic. But the tuning is simply a prelude to the symphony.

C. S. Lewis suggested that's how it is with our devotional practices and even our worship services. Sometimes they sound discordant, but God hears our prayers and praises with fatherly delight. We are really preparing for participation in the glorious symphony of heaven. Now we are making a minuscule contribution to the harmonies of angelic and redeemed hosts. But our adoration, though feeble, pleases the heart of the Divine Listener more than the finest rendition of earth's greatest orchestra.

Are we eagerly awaiting our participation in heaven's symphony of praise? Are we joyfully participating the adoration that delights the heart of God? Or do we regard devotion as more of a discipline than a delight?

Our attitudes will be transformed when we realize that praise delights God's heart. Praise helps us to tune our lives to heavenly harmonies.

Praise is an indispensable preparation for the worship that will be our eternal joy. "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord" (Ps. 150.6). __Vernon Grounds
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````````````````````Joyfully, heartily resounding,`````````````````
```````````````````Let every instrument and voice````````````````
````````````````Peal out the praise of grace abounding,````````````
`````````````Calling the whole world to rejoice. __Routley```````````
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The heart filled with praise brings pleasure to god.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Psalm 150****************

1 Praise the LORD! Praise
God in His sanctuary;
praise Him in His mighty
firmament!

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 lute and harp!

4 Praise Him with the
timbrel and dance; praise
Him with stringed
instruments and flutes!

5 Praise Him with loud
cymbals; praise Him with
clashing cymbals!

6 Let everything that has
breath praise the LORD.

Praise the LORD!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Charles Haddon Spurgeon wrote of this wonderful song of worship:
"We have now reached the last summit of the mountain chain of
Psalms. It rises high into the clear azure, and its brow is bathed
in the sunlight of the eternal world of worship. It is a rapture. The
poet-prophet is full of inspiration and enthusiasm. He stays not to
argue, to teach, to explain: but cries with burning words, 'Praise
Him, praise Him. Praise ye the LORD.'" __BILL CROWDER