PRAISE THE LORD FOR HE IS GOOD

God is soooooooooo good!  He is good all the time!  All the time He is good!

Today I did a study on the goodness of God, and when I finished my study, I was singing and shouting praises to God because I realized what all He has done for me and continues to do for me personally every day.  I started my day feeling a bit overwhelmed with all that I had to do and four hours later I finished praying.  I thought I understood goodness before but I did not have a clue of what His goodness really means to us.

He is kind and loving all the time toward all people.  That is what His goodness is.  He is good.  There are so many scriptures on goodness but I am going to focus on Psalm 145, which is labeled in my Bible:  The Goodness of the Lord.

Psalm 145:1-3, Amplified Bible

I will extol You, my God, O King; and I will bless Your name forever and ever [with grateful, affectionate praise].  Every day [with its new reasons] will I bless You [affectionately and gratefully praise You]; yes, I will praise Your name forever and ever.  Great is the Lord and highly to be praised; and His greatness is [so vast and deep as to be] unsearchable.

Romans 11:36, Amplified Bible

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.  [For all things originate with Him and come from Him; all things live through Him, and all things center in and tend to consummate and to end in Him.]  To Him be glory forever!  Amen (so be it).

One generation praises His works to another and declares His mighty acts.  I am speaking of and meditating on the glorious honor of His majesty and of His wonderful works (things, words).  I am speaking of the might of His tremendous acts and I am declaring His greatness.  I pour forth like a fountain the fame of His great and abundant goodness and am singing aloud of His rightness.

The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in mercy and loving-kindness.  The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works, the entirety of things created.  O Lord, all Your works are praising you, and I as Your loving one bless You, confess Your goodness and Your name and praise You.  I continue to speak of the glory of Your Kingdom and talk of Your awesome power, a power which makes known to the sons of men Your mighty deeds and the glorious majesty of Your Kingdom.

Lord, I thank You that You hold up all Your children who are falling and that you raise up all those who are bowed down.  The eyes of all of us are waiting for You, looking and watching and expecting You, to give us good in due season.  You open Your hand and satisfy every living thing with favor.

Lord, You are righteous and gracious and merciful to all.  You are near to all who call upon You in truth, with sincerity.  You are fulfilling the desires of those who reverence You and hearing their cry and saving them.  You preserve all those who love You.

My mouth shall speak praises to You my Lord continually, and let all my flesh bless Your holy name forever.

I MAGNIFY THE LORD

Psalm 34:1,3, Amplified Bible

I will bless the LORD at all times:  his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Psalm 69:30

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

If we look up the word “magnify” in the dictionary, it means “to make great or greater, to increase, to enlarge.”  In Cruden’s Concordance the word “magnify” means “to declare and show forth one’s greatness and glory, to increase one’s esteem, reputation, and authority.”

Blessing the Lord and praising Him magnifies Him in our lives.  It causes Him to become greater than our problems.  It elevates Him to level of priority in our lives.  It causes us to see beyond our small earthly world to the great, immense supernatural realm of God’s Kingdom.  It changes us from small thinking to possibility thinking.

When we magnify the Lord, He hears us and delivers us from all our fears.  We do not want for any good thing.  He redeems our soul from destruction.  We are blessed to see His goodness in the land of the living.  His eyes are ever upon us and His ears are ever open to our voice.  He hears His beloved children and He sees us and He delivers us.

In 2 Samuel 7:26 we read:  And let thy name be magnified for ever….

We are to magnify the name of the Lord.  We are to show forth His greatness and His glory and His authority.  It is all in His name.

But now look at this passage of scripture in Psalm 138:1,2:  “I will praise you with my whole heart; before the gods will I sing praise unto you.  I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your loving-kindness and for your truth:  for you have magnified your word above all your name.”

God says this:  Yes, let My name be magnified; praise Me.  Praise My name for My loving-kindness and for My Truth.  For I have magnified My Word (My Truth) above all My name.  This passage of scripture tells me that He holds His Word as His Truth in the highest place of honor and respect and authority.  You and I must do the same.

We are to SAY CONTINUALLY:  LET THE LORD GOD BE MAGNIFIED (in me, in my family, in my body, in my marriage, in my job, in my country, in my home, in my children).  I say continually:  Let God be magnified as my victory, as my deliverance, as my prosperity, as my health, as my help, as my success, as my overcomer, as my LORD.  Amen, So Be It!

Psalm 35:27

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause:  yes, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

Psalm 40:16

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:  let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

Psalm 70:4

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:  and let such as love thy salvation (victory, deliverance, aid, prosperity, health, help, welfare) say continually, Let God be magnified.