How are YOU praising the Lord???
This is a question I ask myself a lot. I know some of us go to church and get our praise on there but are we praising our Lord Jesus Christ any other time??NO just not going to church, isn't the only time you should be praising God. We should be praising him daily, from the little things to the big things as well. I mean God let you wake up this morning didn't he? I know I say "thank you lord" for when things go right or we get a blessing but what about the other times. You don't have to just say the words you need to have an outward appearance as well. As the saying goes. " you can talk the talk but can you walk the walk???"Are you praising the Lord by showing others thru honest and true Love?? telling the ones you love them? Are you telling the ones you love about how much God loves them? I know the second one is hard to do, but it is a form of praising God & showing his Love to others by talking about God to our love ones. WE can't truly love one another with out 1st having God's love in us. By not telling your loved ones about God & his love, do you truly love them?
Thru Kindness, your Praising God. Did you know God wants us to be kind not just to our loved ones or friends but to other people you meet. The word Kindness appears 48 times and lovingkindnesses appears 4 times and lovingkindness appears 26 times. That is a lot of times. We should be kind to others it shows our love for Christ by doing so. Read Luke 6:35, Colossains 3:12 Be nice to one another, lend a helping hand, smile at the cashier, saying thank you & mean it, help by showing compassion, understanding, and love, Just give a hug to someone,which can go a long way to another person. Sometime showing kindness is all that person may need to get through their day, & who knows it may be contagious!!!
Letting your Light Shine! Are you going thru your day frowning, looking like you just lost your pet, making snide remarks, being sarcastic, saying hateful things, putting someone down ( even to those you don't know) , telling or saying someone is stupid, always being negative, gossiping about another person & you are repeating things you don't know the full truth, trying to get a person in trouble, just plain being mean because you can be do it and the list goes on. You know that ISN'T letting God's light shine thru you. You are to let God's love, compassion, understanding, mercy,being humble out thru your words and your actions to others,not just the ones you love either. To everyone~~ if you proclaim to be a christian ( which is being Christ like, not just a religious word ) then be one!!! Pray to God to take those bad actions away from you, make you aware of what your doing that brings God shame & disappointment, and fill you up with the good things so you can share with others. Let others see your light & it screams JESUS!!!
This world is so filled up with hate, being politically correctness ( not Jesus Correct), selfishness, who cares what that person is going thru, well I'm not helping them attitude, that we have lost our true love & compassion for one another. Human life has became expendable.
Show others Jesus's love and all the while your praising Godt. You will get a blessing just as much as the person you show it to, and who knows when your having a bad day, need a pick me up, someone in return will show Jesus's love back to you when you least expect it.
So what are you going to do today to Praise Jesus????