July 28 / Thursday
Summer Training, 7:30p, Ministry Center
John 15:9-17
12 When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. "Do you understand what I have done for you?" he asked them. 13 "You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. 15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16 Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
Let us continue to experience what it is to be a community that is formed by God's love. We can do this by living out together everything we have learned throughout Summer Training - worship, prayer, and biblical living - as a community that has been touched and washed by Jesus.
Just as Jesus was intentional in loving us in this way, we can be intentional in washing one another's feet by laying down our own needs and wants in order to care for another person. We begin this experience in prayer - that in addition to praying about our own needs, that we also begin praying for others and for our campus ministries. There is so much blessing and joy when we begin to receive God's heart for others and to see God move in our lives together. Spend time journaling as you pray for your campus ministry. Write down the things that come to your heart as you pray for the community, whether they be Scripture, images, blessing, etc.
The natural overflow of our prayers for the community is our intentional love for others that is tangible and real. This is how we can live out the prayers we have for one another. As you receive this heart for others, let's be kind and caring for the community in practical ways - like helping out, listening to others, offering to do something, even thinking about ways they can be an encouragement to others, etc. Let's share in the wonderful blessing of what Christ has done in us and for us!
CALLED
Day 1 - Continuing to Breath...and live!
Day 2 - Always Loving It!
Day 3 - Living It...The U-turn Life (confession/repentance)
Day 4 - Living It...All In (adoration)
Day 5 - Expectation
Day 6 - Desperation
As we are learning to live by God's word, let's open our hearts wide to hear God's voice and to be filled with His breath of life. We can do this as we come believing in the Holy Spirit who is with us and by trusting in God's abundant love for us. As we get started with the devotions, it would be helpful if you could be at a quiet place (preferably without the distractions of cell phones, internet, and whatever else that might pull you away :) ) and begin with a simple prayer to invite and welcome the Holy Spirit to fill you and to speak to you through God's word.
As you begin reading, let's take time to delight and meditate on what the passage is saying. Delighting and meditating on God's word is to sit, to dwell, to chew, to think deeply about, and to consider what God is speaking to us through His word. Let's breathe deeply God's breath of life and agree by saying "yes" to the ways He is shaping us, changing us, and calling us.
A few practical pointers in reading the devotionals:
- Read the passage once through to get a general picture of what's going on, then read the passage a second time through to notice the specifics of structure (words, phrases, rhythms), main content (ideas, themes, encouragements, rebukes, teachings), and characters (author, Jesus, main characters).
- What is the main point of the passage in light of what we're going through? What is the author trying to tell us? What is Jesus trying to tell the characters, and/or us? What kinds of things does the passage teach us or speak into our lives?
- Spend some time praying and receiving as the Spirit speaks into your life through the Word. Take enough time to really 'get it' and let everything sink in. Don't leave until you say, 'Wow!' All Scripture is God-breathed; let God breathe into you!
Day 5 - Expectation
Psalm 130
1 Out of the depths I cry to you, LORD;
2 Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.
3 If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you.
5 I wait for the LORD, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.
6 I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.
7 Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.
8 He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.
Study Questions:
- What is the tone and mood of the psalm? How do you think the psalmist was saying these words (i.e. passively, confidently, quiet, loud, doubtful, desperate, hopeful)?
- In v.5 and 6, the psalmist says "I wait for the LORD." What do you think it means for the psalmist to "wait"? How do you think the psalmist was "waiting"? What does "waiting" look like for us today?
- From v.6-8, what do you think the psalmist was waiting for?
The words that the psalmist used to describe his situation are pretty intense. As we read this psalm, you could sense that the psalmist was wrought with emotion and anguish. This psalm is filled with passion, trust, expectation, and hope. As the psalmist was real and raw before God, this is how we can be before Him as well.
Waiting is a funny word. We don't really like to wait -whether we are standing in a line, hourglass flipping online, or just hoping something would happen in our lives. But in the psalm, waiting is faith, waiting is trust, waiting is dependence on God. In the psalm, waiting isn't about sitting back and being passive. Instead, the psalmist is actively and passionately crying out to God, hoping in God's word, and trusting in His unfailing love. For the psalmist, to wait is to eagerly anticipate "more than watchmen wait for the morning" the things that God will do. God invites us to put our hope and trust in Him, that He will deliver on His promises to us. In this way, let's learn to wait, let's learn to eagerly anticipate God's move in our lives.
Here, the psalmist was waiting for redemption and deliverance to come...ultimately hoping in eager expectation for the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Similarly, our hope and expectation is for Jesus Christ in our lives. Whether at Summer Training or at the Agape Conference, our hope and expectation is to meet with and encounter Jesus, who redeems us and delivers us. In eager expectation, let's pray for Summer Training and the Agape Conference that God's redemption, deliverance, and calling would fill our lives.
Day 4 - Living It...All In (Adoration)
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
Study Questions:
- In v.4, why does the writer declare that the LORD our God, the LORD is one? What significance and relevance does this have?
- In v.5, we are to give ourselves exclusively to God and to love him with all of our being. All of our minds. All of our hearts. All of our souls. All of our strength. What does this mean? How do we go "all in"? Spend time 'chewing on' this passage, and consider in our lives how we are to love God with all of who we are?
- In v.6-9, it talks practically about how the Israelites were to do this. They were to teach their children, they were to remember this at home or on the road, when they lie down or when they get up. What are some practical ways we can do this in our every day lives?
For the Israelites who were following the LORD into the Promised Land, this was a very familiar passage. The passage declares to them that they belong to God and that they are to worship Him alone. It taught them about the holiness and awesomeness of God...that God is one and there is no one else who compares or is worthy. In the midst of all other 'gods' during their day, the Israelites were saying that our LORD, He alone is God. Let's throw off all other idols in our lives and let's be caught up in this greatness and wonder of God! Who else can rescue us, deliver us, and set us free...only the LORD our God!
We are called to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. We go "all in" as we bring all of ourselves, all of our thoughts, emotions, and decisions to God. This is true worship. Worship is when we come to God with all of who we are - our doubts, our worries, our hopes -and we trust in Him. Consider in our lives how we can worship God with every part of who we are. Let's love and worship God by bringing all of who we are to Him today.
In v.6, the writer encourages us to keep this command in our hearts. In a way, the writer was saying to 'chew on' this. The thought is that we are to write this command on our hearts, think about this, meditate on this, ponder this throughout our days and lives. If we put v.7-9 in our context, it might be something like...encourage and talk about loving God with those around you when you are at home, when you are on your way to work or class, when you lie down for bed, when you get up for the next day. Write this on your hands, on your forehead, on the walls in your house, and on the walls of buildings. Let's put this into practice in our lives. Where you live, with those you live, let's remind ourselves and encourage one another that we are the people of God and we are to love Him alone with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength!
Day 3 - Living It...The U-turn Life (confession/repentance)
2 Chronicles 7:11-16
11 When Solomon had finished the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace, 12 the LORD appeared to him at night and said:
"I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.
13 "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 16 I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
Study Questions:
- Spend some time doing some reading on the context of this passage (see 2 Chronicles chapter 6-7). What happened before the Lord spoke to Solomon?
- When did the Lord appear to Solomon? What do you think the significance of this moment is?
- Compare Solomon's prayer of chapter 6 with the Lord's answer of 7:11-16. What are some of the common elements? How did the Lord directly answer Solomon's prayer? What elements of confession and repentance (turning from sinful ways to following God's way - literally, a spiritual U-turn) are present in the Lord's response?
This passage is the culmination of hundreds of years of Israel's history in walking with the Lord into the Promised Land. Now the Temple was built, the place where God promised he would dwell forever. God had given the privilege of building the Temple to King Solomon, and Solomon was now finally dedicating the most holy place before all the people and before the Lord. What a moment!
Let's take a moment to examine the attitude of Solomon's prayer and the Lord's answer. This is perhaps one of the most important prayers and answers that we can see in Scripture in how we can come before the Lord. In chapter 6, Solomon repeatedly focuses on the failure of man to follow God's ways faithfully, but he knows that only God alone knows the heart of a man and that every man will sin (see 6:30 and 6:36). Therefore, Solomon offers a prayer of mercy and repentance, seeking God's forgiveness for the shortcomings of the people. God's answer is fascinating, because God almost answers Solomon's prayer word-for-word (e.g., 'shut up the heavens', 'called by my Name', 'forgive their sin and heal their land', etc.)! We see that the Lord's heart is to forgive his people when they come in confession and repentance of their sins. When they take a u-turn in their lives from sin into following the Lord's ways, God heals, forgives, and blesses them to live abundantly.
For us today, we can live in this 'u-turn' lifestyle. Whether it's the most important moment of our lives (like Solomon at the Temple) or even the most everyday moment (walking to class, eating lunch, hanging out in our room), we can encounter God's healing and forgiveness as we bring everything before him and turn to follow his ways. Spend some time praying as Solomon prayed. Bring the struggles you face before the Lord, because he knows your heart! Turn from the old ways of thinking and living into the new ways as God's Word forms them in your mind. As Solomon experience, be ready for the Lord to answer you in a very specific and individual way!
Day 2 - Always Loving It!
Luke 19:1-10
1 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today." 6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, "He has gone to be the guest of a sinner."
8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount."
9 Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."
Study Questions:
- 1. Who is Zacchaeus? What was his occupation, and how did this relate to the rest of society?
- 2. In reading this story, how do we see Zacchaeus change? Contrast the before and after pictures of Zacchaeus. What is so striking about this change in this story?
- 3. What does this story say about Jesus? What is Jesus saying at the end about Zacchaeus being a 'son of Abraham'? How does this speak into our lives?
This narrative is an amazing moment in the Gospels. Imagine that you had a short, mean boss at work. He would always yell at coworkers to belittle them and make a scene out of the littlest mistakes people made. You could tell that he just cared about getting his way controlling other people. This is similar to how people looked at Zacchaeus. He was a tax collector, and not only that, a chief tax collector! Many tax collectors were known for taking advantage of people by taking extra money for themselves. You can get the idea the people didn't particularly like tax collectors, much less the chief among them!
But we see something particularly interesting in this passage. When Jesus came through the town of Jericho, Zacchaeus was desperate to see him - so much so that he climbed a tree to get a better view! Imagine your boss climbing a tree to see something - it must be good! There must have been something that changed in Zacchaeus' heart for him to now treasure Jesus so much instead of power and money. The things that once meant so much now meant nothing in comparison to his interest in knowing who Jesus was. When Jesus saw Zacchaeus in the tree, he and invited himself over for a party! Imagine how excited Zacchaeus was to host a pool party for Jesus! Not only that, but Zacchaeus allowed this new passion for Jesus affect his relationships with those around him. He was now willing to give instead of take, to see the needs of others instead of just his own. Jesus had changed his identity, and Zacchaeus loved it!
In the same way that Zacchaeus was willing to even climb a tree to see Jesus, spend some time with Jesus today, just enjoying, worshiping, praying, and receiving. 'Climb a tree' to get that glimpse of the One who loves you! The beautiful thing is that Jesus loves to see our expressions of 'loving this life', and he meets us in those moments. As you spend time soaking in this passage today, love God generously. As God touches your life and ministers to you, let your life overflow in passionate ways to God and toward others - you are a child of God!
Day 1 - Continuing to Breath...and live!
John 15:1-11
1"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
9"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in his love. 11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
Study questions:
- What kind of 'fruit' is Jesus talking about? What does 'pruning' mean? How do these 'agricultural' things relate to us?
- Jesus uses the word 'remain' a lot in this passage. How do we 'remain' in Him? What does this look like in our daily life?
- Jesus ends with saying that our 'joy may be complete'. How does this joy come about in our lives?
One definition of 'abide' in the dictionary is, 'to remain; continue; stay'. Jesus was pouring out his heart with the disciples before he went to the cross. Imagine the intensity and power of this moment! We get a glimpse of how Jesus encouraged the disciples to live when he would be apart from them. If they remained/abided in him, they would bear the fruit showing that the Father was involved in their lives. They would see the Spirit poured out on them, supernatural love shared with one another, powerful moments of healing and restoration. This is all part of the remaining in Jesus.
How do we abide/remain? Part of abiding in Jesus occurs when we spend time in God's Word and in prayer. God gives us his Word to feed and nurture us, and he also speaks over circumstances we face each day. As we remain in the Word, we can abide in Jesus in our daily life, whether at work, in class, with friends, or with the community. What we receive as we remain in Jesus is more important than what we try to do or accomplish. God will bear the fruit as we spend those moments 'living' in Him.
Jesus invites us to remain in him to bear much fruit in all circumstances, not just in certain moments. As you spend time praying and meditating on Jesus' words, ask how you can remain in him today. With the help of the Spirit, how can you obey Jesus' commands in your life today? Full obedience to Jesus leads to full joy in our lives!
Raw, Real, Reverence. Continue to "put into practice" prayer by praying through the Lord's Prayer. We pray by praying! Spend time reflecting, writing things down in our journal - maybe write a song, or draw a picture.
Praying is about being "near to God." It's about relationship, where we can come to God as we are, with whatever is in our minds and on our hearts. Praying is not something pretty and clean, but messy, sloppy, and raw - a place where we can be naked, whether we are frustrated or content. Not only can we have this kind of conversation with God, but we need it and God invites us into it!
As we read the psalms, listen to testimonies like the one above and from one another in our community, we see that prayer is the default and primary response to all things in life. Through real, genuine experiences and encounters with God, through times where we "enter the sanctuary" of God, we discover that God is great, God is holy and God loves us. We see that it is all about God, and so we can better understand who we are and how he leads us in and through the real and raw moments of our lives - the good and the ugly times and experiences. God knows us, and knowing Him changes everything in prayer and life.
Thus, when we say "Our Father in Heaven, holy is your name...", we are saying that God you are my refuge, you are greater than all things, you are with me, and you are not offended by who I am but you desire to be near me.
Spend time praying the Lord's Prayer from Matthew 6:9-13 this week. Feel free to write reflections or prayers you receive in your journal, or even simply writing out the Lord's prayer as an expression of the new prayer and relationship he's given us in Christ!
Day 1: Our Father In Heaven
These words are the gift of an invitation for Jesus' disciples. It is not "My" or a generic "god" or lower case "father" like our father on Earth. We are in this together (what a relief!).. we are invited to say "Our Father" because we were already part of the family. The distance has been made intimate! This is how Jesus says we should pray.
Today, verbalize your prayer beginning with these words, as an expression of the truth of what Jesus has done and the reality of being a child of God. Meditate on this good news. May this be how we understand this new life together this summer!
Day 2: May Your Name Be Kept Holy
Learning to rightly approach God should be awkward, because God is perfect or holy and we don't act like that very often. It is not "second nature" to us, but when we pray "may your name be kept holy" we also begin to discover our true being. May God be known as holy by the way I live my life today, revealing through my words, thoughts, and action that He truly is holy. It's when we realize that this Name is far greater than our own name, is when we are truly satisfied and living. We can know today He will also be perfect in all His ways toward us.
Before our own concerns today, let's spend a moment to pray that God's name be kept holy among our campus fellowships. May Your Name be kept holy!
Day 3: May Your Kingdom Come Soon
When it is announced that a new burger joint is coming near your campus, there's excitement and anticipation. When we are asking for God's Kingdom to come soon, our lives our full of anticipation,longing, and hope. A Kingdom comes with a King, and each day we are praying for our King Jesus and more of his healing and wholeness to rule over us.. over our broken campuses.. over our broken friends.. and even our own broken lives. Let's spend some time to pray today: Lord Jesus let your Kingdom come soon!
Day 4: May Your Will Be Done On Earth as it is in Heaven
This is a radical prayer to pray, because we are typically used to praying that our own will be done, that our wants and needs be accomplished. We want many things, and we ask God for them, but Jesus teaches his disciples that above all those things, we are to align ourselves to God's will, as Jesus lived for the will of the Father. God's will being accomplished on our campuses is what we need and what our campus needs most.
Today let's pray that His will be done on our campuses as it is in heaven!
Day 5: Give us Today the Food We need
In this society, we are taught to be self-sufficient and independent. Praying this prayer, is against our natural inclinations. We may ask, "Why should God who created the heavens and the Earth be concerned about what we eat today?" However, Jesus teaches his disciples that there is a new way of living which doesn't require self-sufficiency, but rather dependency on the Lord.
Today, let's depend on God for our basic needs and not think that they are too small of concern for the Lord. Let's be humble and present our most basic needs to him today.
Day 6: And Forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us
There is a solid link between how God has forgiven us and how our relationships are to reflect forgiven relationships. It's more than just telling someone who has hurt you that "it's all good." When we are hurt, it's not always all good. And that's why movies with vengeance taken are both satisfying and yet emptying. The solution is God our Father forgiving us and generously mending our broken relationship with Him. Because of this we can also generously forgive others who hurt us and live with forgiven relationships in our fellowships.
Let's pray this prayer that we would live in the overflow of how God has forgiven us, so our relationships with both God and others may flourish.
Day 7: And don't let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one
For Jesus' disciples, it is not a life of comfort, peace and safety, but of danger, risk and battle. God's reality through Jesus was invading earth, humanity's time and space with power, truth, and love. The disciples were living the best time of their lives. As we live each day, the usual battles we face are not the ones that appear coercive or evil, they are subtle and seemingly harmless until we find that something has hindered our relationship with the Lord, and even with one another. But Evil disrupts and divides the beautiful and wholesome things that God is doing and that is why we pray that God will intervene where we cannot see what is really going on in our lives and the lives around us...and He will.
Let's pray over our campus fellowships that we would not yield to temptation but be rescued from the evil one and the evil ways that so often hinder God's plans and ways as we live this life together.
What is a Prayer Walk?
Luke 11 begins, "One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, 'Lord, teach us to pray...'"
Prayer begins with God. It is God who has the heart for us and for the people on our campus. Like the disciples in Luke 11, it was because they noticed Jesus praying, they began to ask the Lord to teach them to pray. The disciples started to understand that Jesus was involved in God's will and what God was doing on earth, and prayer seemed to be the way Jesus would know how to live and what to do within God's will. It is that desire that we also come to God for our campuses.
"God, You are doing something because I can see it in my life and in the church, so may I join what you are doing in real and tangible ways? Will You teach us together to pray and know our campus? Will You reveal your heart for our peers so we can care and love them? Will you fill us with the Spirit's empowering to do Your will here?"
We pray not because we are trying to generate something new to happen on our campus, although we do want new things as we would see them to happen. We pray because God already has a great burning heart for our campuses and He is looking for those who want to join in prayer with his heart to see God's Kingdom or His ways come on our campus. The exciting part is being a part of the answer to these prayers, being heart, hands, and feet that 'flesh out' the answer to these prayers for the campus.
A "Prayer Walk" is actually setting foot on the campus to pray. It is 'being there.' Jesus did not love us by staying in Heaven, but he came down to where we were to love us and to bring the good news to us. There are times to pray while we are not on campus, but Prayer Walking is a type of prayer where we are right there where the people are. Our eyes, ears, and hearts are attuned to what is going on as we see people and places, hear the 'noise' of life and lostness, and most of all, we 'feel' God's Presence, the Spirit of God moving on the campus.
The prayer walk should be natural and intense; yet, at the same time not of ourselves because we are receiving words, visions and prayers from the Lord. Prayer walks can be done alone or together with others. It involves being attentive to the Spirit who will speak to you about God's heart and His desires for the campus or individuals he is seeking. It is exciting and intense because we are 'walking' with God on our campuses. In the end there is only one goal, to know God and be changed for the campuses. When we 'know' God in this prayer we will also know how to live His kingdom come and His will being done on our campuses. Now that is living, and that is exciting!
Next Sunday on July 3, we will be learning to prayer walk together on a campus. It may not be 'your' campus but that is okay because we are together for each of our campuses. As we learn and experience the wonder and intensity of prayer walking, we will be able to do the same thing with our campus fellowships on our own campuses. The heart for us in prayer walking this time is that we would catch God's heart and join with the Lord in praying for this generation, and becoming living answers to these prayers on our own campuses this Fall!
What do I need to bring?
Practical Points to maximize your prayer walk:
- Bring your Journal and pen to write what you receive in prayer
- Bring your Bible. God may bring up Scripture to bring clarity to prayer
- Stay with your prayer group so you don't get lost ?
- Share what you've received with one another!
As we received during summer training this week, we are always in God's presence because of the Holy Spirit living in our hearts.
God knows what we need at every moment, and our act of worship is to turn in those moments and receive from Him 'what is better' or that 'right portion'. This week, look for those moments in your everyday life to 'practice the presence of God'.
Luke 10:38-42 (NIV)
38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!"
41 "Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed - or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."
Experience an 'awe' moment with God this week by praising God according to Psalm 150 and writing this declaration of praise in your journals.
'Awe' Moment: A Response of Praise
The 'where' of praise: Praise God all you who are on our campuses. Praise the Lord all you who are in my work place.
The 'why' of praise: Praise God for His great love and faithfulness. Praise God for all the wonderful benefits and blessings we have in Christ.
The 'how' of praise: Praise God with our voices, with songs, with clapping, with singing, with working, with all our hearts. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord who alone is worthy. Praise the Lord.
Psalm 150
1 Praise the LORD.Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heavens.
2 Praise him for his acts of power;
praise him for his surpassing greatness.
3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
praise him with the harp and lyre,
4 praise him with timbrel and dancing,
praise him with the strings and pipe,
5 praise him with the clash of cymbals,
praise him with resounding cymbals.
6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD.
