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God alone is worthy of our praise, he created us then sent His Son to rescue us and know continually cares for us. Our continual praise brings attacks from satan as the righteous man has many troubles, but God rescues him from all of them. I am now doing my devotions every morning instead of at night which I find is setting up each day with God in forefront of what happens during the day, which helps with training to praise continually.

Our savour Jesus is the capstone the builders rejected the rock of our salvation. Jesus was rejected by the people of the time, due to sin of people putting themselves first (jealousy, envy, hate, afraid of the unknown, lead astray by others etc) Jesus was thrown aside and hung on the cross. Jesus is the light given to us sent to us from our Father in heaven to be our salvation and save us.

The predominant emotion is joy and happiness. I have this same joy because I am His and one day I will be with the Father in heaven. This is part of the reason for praise mentioned in in verse 3 that we are His and under His care and in verse 5 we have the promise that His mercy and faithfulness will last forever. We are commanded to tell others about the Lord and to serve cheerfully. We also need come into His presence and sing joyfully, praise and worship Him.

A broken and contrite heart comes from being guilty of sin, knowing you have done something you can not take back that will have been displeasing to God. A sin that consumes your thoughts because of the guilt and hurt to God and Christ our savour. One you are heart felt sorry for and not just saying it. Humility brings you in front of God in repentance, knowing he is the one to turn to ask for true forgiveness.

To become washed and have a pure heart we need to go to God and ask sincerely with faith for clensing. We need to be united in God's ways by putting Him first and the things he loves first (people) and do things that will please God out of love. We need to keep away from sin, as our sin effects others that God loves (so in this, we hurt God). We ask God to purify our hearts, by His Spirit through Jesus our savour.

Sin is sin and when we sin we end up hurting someone, somewhere, sometime. God is love and sin (hurting people), is against Gods ways and we will be accountable to Him. We are sinful from the fall of man, but we need to be aware of this and hand it over to God for His help and His salvation bringing victory over sin. David knows God is merciful and coming to God with a truely repentive heart he will be forgiven, before reaching heaven and being to late.

As people we can fall into sin, we try to justify it, we fall into self-deceit and say its not that bad, no one will know or we say its too late, it wont matter or we say we are only human, thats the way I am. Sometimes we can think it is easier to sin. satan uses these lies intentionally to bring us down. The fact is we have sinned and satan has power over the situation and he will push it as far as he can a little more each time. By confessing our sin, we give the power of the the situation over to God, he washes it away. We need to pray for God to show us the truth and also pray against any further situations and ask God to keep satan far away. God does not put us in a situation we can not handle, especially with God on our side.

Gods own son is prophesised in His coming, how the leaders plotted to kill Jesus, but God knew what was to happen before time, He sent His own annointed Son to be King. God sent His Son into the world and who ever believes in Him will not die but will have eternal life and be blessed. Who ever does not believe would be beter off not being born. These things the apostles saw in the passage about Jesus were coming to pass, and only Jesus could bring down the rulers of all the world and be true ruler. If we do not submit to Jesus we will truely die

God loved his people that he continually provided for them ways to come back to Him through many acts of love and reasons to put their full trust in God. In the new testament, we see the ultimate show of love, where He gives His one and only son Jesus. For God so loved the world He gave His only son and anyone who believes in Him will live with Him in eternity. Once again giving a way to come back to God. God wants us to take on these characteristics give up everything in love and trust Him in all we do.

God is a great provider, He provides our gifts and talents to praise, He provides people and scripture to lift our head when we are down (vs 14), He provides His protection against evil (vs 20). We can not fathom Gods plan, He is greater than we can imagine and He is creator of all, therefore only He is worthy of praise. God wants to see His children grow, so I am slowly learning His ways, reading the word, lifting God and others up in prayer, being an active part in the body of the church and hopefully people I have contact with everyday are seeing a little of God shining through from me.

Gods mercy and the way he forgives our errors of our ways, that as unworthy of forgiveness, we are loved so much that upon asking with a humble heart we are forgiven. God wants to see the best for us and even though we stumble, He wants to bless us with His love, supply our needs and be a part of His plan expanding His kingdom. God wanted to reveal Himself to His people, bring deliverance and salvation to them. He wanted them to form a community of Godly people and learn His truth, the knowledge of God. God has no limits in anything as He is God, creator of all. His is not interested in payback or the likes, He wants us to be His people, His children, learn His loving ways and have a heart for people. God will have mercy on those that ask. Amen for that

The Lord God created us and everything around us and for that fact alone He is above all and King, let alone all the other things He has done for us and freely given His son so we might live. Because the love shown in this act, we can put all our trust in God. God wants people who put others before them, who are role models for the kingdom, who are not hypocrites and live to the law and people that are driven by love. God is bigger than any person and any plan we may have, we need to lift our heads to God and invite Him to be sovereign. Only with God can the enemy be scattered and His kingdom be expanded.

They knew God was (and is) capable of anything and that God looks out for their every need (providing it is in the His plan) they have seen it in the past and given praise. They ask in faith that this will once again happen. They want ask that it may happen quickly as the river rise during a desert storm. It could even be a time of waiting for the full harvest to come, that it all happen in Gods time. In things are happening in my life I need to lift them up in prayer, praise Him for the things He has done in the past for me, and wait for Gods perfect timing, while I keep labouring on for Him.

God has given us everything, including His precious son, all that we may live. He deserves all the glory and more. We need to be mindful of God in all we do and thank Him as he has provided and created everything. If we start to neglect doing this we become more selfcentred and more easily tempted by satan. It is all part of our relationship with our Father in heaven. God alone is worthy.

We are selfcentred humans with emotions, we get brought down easily, stress and happenings wear us down and then praise is hard to do. When we get down, we need to be like David a bring it to the Lord, we need to praise Him for all He has done already and remember He is there through it all. Praise to God helps lift my spirit, helps me remember that our loving God is in control and everything happens for a reason, even trying times are there to build me up, for other things to come and helps to me remember its not all about me me me.