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Praise for sermon

I am thankful for what the sermon is teaching me about exercising praise. I need to keep in mind there is a praise overflow in creation, reminding me of victory beyond my wildest dreams. I can sing praise to God and know others can hear.
I have found a job and a church. I have see a large debt disappear and vacation is around the corner to spend with people I love. It is praise with David to know God has my back. My battles have been fought at the cross and I am not afraid to call the cross home. I have been anointed by the waters if baptism. God is available to me as water itself. I am called by Jesus in my 3:17 to hear I am the one God is well pleased with.
I praise God who raises us from the dead at any given moment. The praises are from the earth, a place that reminds us of our mortality. I am reminded of times people left me for dead. I called out to God and God heard my cry and lifted me out of the miry clay. I have seen how God helps me lift up others, as if lazurus could be brought back to life. David serves as a reminder none of us is meant to dwell in shame. God walks with us so that after a time we get our life back as we read in the story of Bathsheba and various persons in the gospel.
We see that we rule when we let praise of God be our guide. David learned to love Saul who chased after him. We rediscover praise as we cling on to faithfulness of God's word that says God will always be with us. We long to sing with creation so that others can sing with us.
Young men and maidens, old men and children, princes and rulers, Kings of earth and nation's. The name of Jesus the Christ is prophesied as the ruler of all creation in revelation 4 to 5. There is eternal hope at knowing potential for Christ to come back at any moment.
Thank you God for the medicine of praise that creation speaks before and after us. In that symphonic moment we ask others to cry out with us for the stones cry out.
We see praise as a key to open doors in place we thought we were trapped and stuck. Every knee shall bow and tongue confess Jesus is Lord. Independence day is arriving let us experience what it mean to praise God I ways the others can want to join in with us. Sing alleluia to the Lord.