Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Psalms 63:3-4 KJV
What is better than life?
Because Thy Lovingkindness Is Better Than life!
What is missing in this world?
Knowing and believing in the love God has for us will lift our hands in Jesus Name!
What kind of Lovingkindness is this that is better than life?
Knowing is why we Praise our God!
Blessing God is why we live?
Lifting up our hands in Jesus Name is what we do, because Thy Lovingkindness is better than life.
Hope in Today Ministries, Inc.
Daily Devotion to God’s Holy Word.
By, Karen Rowe
HOW do we PRAISE the Lord?
HOW do we BLESS His Holy Name?
We know WHY; BECAUSE God’s Lovingkindness is BETTER THAN LIFE! WOW!!
But How?
What looks dim in your life? Yes! There is Hope in Jesus!
On a difficult day, facing difficult things that you would change / avoid (if at all possible), don’t tell the devil what He can use to poke you with all day! Don’t overspeak about how you feel in the moment …
INSTEAD Lift your hands UP in Jesus Name & LET the Lord lift your head up!
We begin with thanking God for all we can think of that God has already done! Praise Him as HIS Spirit lifts your spirits up…in JESUS Name!
What spirits up? The bad ones! The complaining ones! The negative ones! The doubting ones! & Praise God until the bad thoughts fall away from you! Like this:
1ST OUR soul & spiritual life NEEDs JESUS! God made us Righteousness by HIS OWN Grace & through our faith in His Perfect Son, Christ Jesus!
Believe!
Painting a Picture: By Grace & through faith in Christ Jesus, our spirit gets new life & our soul is like a cup of milk; we all have some floating “sin eos”, as my son called it this morning on our drive-time to school. He said, I ruined cherrios for him forever lol… But Like cheerios float on MILK! Praising GOD lifts all & all UP to HIM!
Lovingkindness comes under the human weakness(es) and lifts our soul & spirit up to Him, whom is LIFE; and as a result, the negatives float up and fall off of our spirit (life) / (like “chips’ fall off of our shoulders to gain a better attitude) & like pouring milk into a cup, the cherrios rise & rise until they fall off;
…Praise and Blessing God And lifting our hands In Jesus Name rises our soul and spirit up & up to where all that is left, when our time is up, is made pure & ready to go meet God; all the while here and now, God’s lovingkindness is better than life & leading us to LIFE!
I don’t know if I am saying all this right, but I can pray that the Holy Spirit does a mighty work here, because all I can say is “When we receive this, we will never be the same!”
In His Presence, the negatives fall off our attitude (Perhaps? Are attitudes a choice we make to have on our spirit?) like when we pour milk in a cup full of cheerios; as the milk rises, the cheerios fall off! Are we pouring Praise to God? Are we Blessing God? Are we willing to lift our hands in Jesus Name to God?
Will you lift your hands & Praise God! Or would you argue that you don’t feel like it? Like I do sometimes. OK. How long do you want the trouble to last? This helps me get my life into perspective. And thanking God for all good and righteous things brings me in a position of strength, because of God’s Lovingkindness!
Actually, it is God’s Lovingkindness to me that helps me praise Him!!!
God saved us and He helps us. Isn’t God Loving Kind to us from ALL time to ALL time! ?
Even before we can see what God already knows, God is helping steer us toward Him! Why? Because it is in our best interest to be with God and in His Lovingkindness, which is better than life!
Do yourself the best favor you can do for you & listen to God speak to your soul through hearing His Word in His Spirit!
Will you take time to listen to the Book(s) of Psalms Before and After Psalms 63? Do yourself the best favor you can do for you & listen to God speak to your soul through hearing His Word in His Spirit! Praise & Blessing God is experiencing God lift us up, because of His Lovingkindness to experience what life is; and how to live life to the full, knowing that this life is only a prelude to the next chapter of these forever Today’s we gain through Christ Jesus, Our Savior and Lord.
Don’t blow this life away with negativity! Rise up in Christ and Bless God in the circle of Blessings and experience life in His Lovingkindness that is better than life! Wow! Can you even absorb that God’s Lovingkindess is better than life!? I am obviously still taking that in!
Now As we BLESS God’s Holy Name; we BLESS God by obeying His lovingkindness toward us, by also being an extension of Jesus to others in this same lovingkindness; as God extended His love to us; how much should we show this lovingkindness to others?
Did we deserve God’s Lovingkindness?
How do we honor the dishonorable?
We remember that other people are human too! All people are flawed, including me, but with different weaknesses and different strengths. Why can’t we honor God by our response to His lovingkindness!
WE praise God & Bless God in the fullness of our capability, BECAUSE HIS LOVINGKINDNESS is ___ ____ ____ (BETTER THAN LIFE)!
- Did God give you a sunrise or sunset?
- Did he set something colorful before your eyes for you to appreciate?
- Did God give you an opportunity to enjoy something in your life?
- Did God forgive you of a mistake?
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Psalms 63:3-4 KJV
TILL NEXT TIME!
Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
“Writing the Story of my life with every choice Jesus helps me to make and learning how to be blessed and live life large, happy and free. I care.”
Hope in Today Ministries, Inc.
The Train Whistle, Sounding the call of God’s Love, by Karen Rowe
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- Personal Motto: “I don’t have it all figured out, BUT GOD DOES … Follow JESUS!”
Personal Revelation Life Verse: 1 John 4:16
16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. (HCSB)
Holy Spirit you are welcome here!
Thank you Jesus!
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“GRACE AND PEACE TO YOU FROM GOD OUR FATHER AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST (2 Corinthians 1:2, NIV).”
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Karen