Because it's Friday or Just Because He's Been So Good

Psalm 92:1-5 NLV: 1 It is good to give thanks to the Lord, and sing praises to Your name, O Most High. 2 It is good to tell of Your loving-kindness in the morning, and of how faithful You are at night, 3 with harps, and with music of praise. 4 For You have made me glad by what You have done, O Lord. I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.
5 How great are Your works, O Lord! How deep are Your thoughts!
So....here we are FRIDAY!!!!!!! YAAY......and for many people we have a 3 day weekend due to the holiday, but is your celebration just because of that?  Would it have been any different if there wasn't a holiday on Monday?  The psalmist began this division telling us it is GOOD to give THANKS, and I want you to stop reading for just a few moments to THANK GOD for as much as you can remember concerning this week.    Here's a song for you I WILL BLESS THE LORD (upbeat) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR1UzUhPknc
So maybe that doesn't strike you....but the psalmist mentions YOU, GOD, have made me glad by what you've done.....have you taken time out to appreciate the beauty of creation.  I included this pic of the Dezda Mountains in Africa, and how beautiful this picutre is, but so incomparable to being there and seeing and feeling God's beauty.   STOP, and look at GOD's work....maybe you need to look at yourself, and love you!  He created you....WOW!  When He looks at you He smiles....no matter how you view yourself...GOD the CREATOR of the UNIVERSE looks upon you and SMILES!  If you aint blushing.....I can't help you.  Here's a song for you WONDERFUL MAKER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_XQ7aWtypY
May your praise continue this day, beyond, and may your JOY be made full in Him, so that those who are starving for such JOY, may experience His JOY because of it being overflowing in you!  LGLP..........  I LOVE YOU GUYS!

Will You: ALLOW YOUR WHOLE BEING TO SING?

Psalm 108:1: My heart is confident, God; I will sing; I will sing praises with the whole of my being. 
So David knows that Saul and his men are closing in on him, and instead of getting into the fetal position and waiting for them to delivering the blow that will end his life, He remembers the mightiness of GOD.  He actually reflects on the strength of GOD and his inability to fail, and says to himself...." my heart is confident, God,....." he literally encourages himself into praising GOD and not just with his lips but he said with my whole being (soul included).   As a worship leader I am always amazed, encouraged, and sometimes brokenhearted by the response of the congregation.  What is it that keeps people from lifting their hands, raising their voices, standing to their feet and taking full participation in the opportunity to proclaim the name of JESUS in worship service?  It's super encouraging when you see men, women, and children giving themselves in worshipping GOD, especially considering that if you have any intentions on going to heaven, this is GREAT PRACTICE, cause you don't read that the Angels are doing anything less than praising Him in all eternity!  
SO will you....allow your mind to reflect on GOD's promises to (never leave you, resuce you, to love you) you, not your problems so that you can give yourself away in praise?  P.S.  you don't have to wait til Sunday/Saturday either.....I drive past and alongside people that just don't care....and it's a blessing to me!
My song selections today are " I Give Myself Away" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld1cXry5nyM
and "Encourage Yourself" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbEaftzaFWA&ob=av3e
Here's my warning if you have no intentions in losing yourself.......don't click onto I Give Myself Away.....it's a medley with Here I Am to Worship too, which makes it long.....and...well I don't anyone stopping their praise because of time.....

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY,Why Are you Celebrating?

Psalm 9:1-3 : 1 I will thank the LORD with all my heart; I will declare all Your wonderful works. 2 I will rejoice and boast about You; I will sing about Your name, Most High. .
So here we are Wednesay, hump day, and how will you approach it?  Is there anything worth you singing about today?  Is God worth your praises because it was Him who carried you through Monday/Tuesday?  The psalmist mentioned that I will rejoice and boast about you so do people even know about how good, or how great your God is? Pictured above is a snapshot of me in Memphis 2010, after a long, hot day in the sun spreading the Gospel to the kids of Memphis.   I had showered and decided to go outside to hangout with not just my Calvary family members, but there was another church there doing God's work.   Someone mentioned that I could sing, and that was all HE WROTE......God wasn't surprised about my praise, He knew that when given the opportunity I will lift my hands, I will raise my voice, I will rejoice over what He's done and is doing, and all I want to know......is Four things:
1) Will you thank the Lord with your whole heart?  Not just your lips....but from the depths of your heart?
2)  How will you declare His wonderful works?
3) Will you rejoice & boast about HIM?
4)  Will this reflection, lead you to singing about Him?

My Song Selections today are My God Is Good (Fred Hammond -upbeat)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax6CInkUcJQ&feature=fvsr

and He's Been Just That Good (Kirk Whalum with Lalah Hathaway - slower reflective) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IeFsRAs2iA&feature=related

If you truly LGLP (Love God and Love People) this should be easy for you

In Despair (Will You Still Sing?)

Psalm 13:1-6 NIV - : 5 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. 6 I will sing the LORD’s praise, for he has been good to me.

David felt that God had hid his face from him, and just wondered how long will this last, God. I don't know what all of you are going through (school, finances, marital, maybe just down right relational issues with God or man) but at somepoint in the downward spiral you have to extend your arms and feet to stop your descent and do as David did, and said....BUT I trust (not in me, or my abilities) BUT I trust in G0d's unfailing (His great everlasting, immeasureable) love for me. Second, when have you just allowed your heart to rejoice in this knowlege? I mean when have you allowed your heart to be overtaken with Christ's death for you, that you loss yourself in worshipping Him? You know in doing so, you put your issues in proper perspective, beneath you & your Father. So lastly, will you make it a point today that you sing God's praises through you life just because, He's been good to you? Don't wait til Sunday, or small group.....why not make your car, or desk space, or home your personal sanctuary that whoever is on the outside......is blessed by what is going on, in the inside.

Here are my song selections today: Unfailing Love (Johnathan Stockstill) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfuRhnvqLSU

and Thank You (Mary Mary) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaYWFdMk3nl

I pray these songs bless you, as they have me......LGLP