That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving and declare all Your wonders. Psalm 26:7 Thanksgiving – Prayer is designed by God. Does that surprise you? Everything that works according to His purposes is designed by Him, so why should prayer be any different? Did you think that just because prayers come from your…
With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit Ephesians 6:18 Pray – All of the ideas associated with prayer in the Old Testament are captured in the New Testament with a single word. That word is proseuchomai. It covers thanksgiving, confession, adoration, intercession and supplication. Notice that it is not the…
By faith, Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff. Hebrews 11:21 Worshipped – Jacob certainly wasn’t Jimmy Hendrix, but you would be on the right track if you thought of this word with the lyrics “kiss the sky.” Proskuneo literally describes…
Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.” Genesis 22:5 Worship – How unfortunate it is that we are confined with this English translation of the verb hishtahavah. Yes, it’s true that Abraham took Isaac…
so that I may declare all Your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion Psalm 9:14 Declare – When David declares the praises of God, he uses the Hebrew verb saphar. It implies a great deal more than a simple announcement. Saphar is the verb for “to count.” To declare all God’s praises…
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your doing; I muse on the work of Your hands Psalm 143:5 Muse – If you want to see the primary meaning of this word, you’ll have to look at the Bible’s longest complaint – the book of Job. Job 7:11 says, “Therefore, I will…
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your doing; I muse on the work of Your hands Psalm 143:5 Declare – Prayer proclaims. In praise, in cries, in pleas, in exultation, we have discovered that most prayer in the Hebrew world is vocalized. Prayer is the personal, announced testimony of the grace…
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord! Psalm 150:6 Praise – In the end, it’s haleluyah. If my life amounts to nothing more than praise for God, it will have reached its zenith. In fact, David tells us that the purpose of all creation is to praise Him. The Hebrew is…
O give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; for His lovingkindness is everlasting. 1 Chronicles 16:34 O Give Thanks – David knew what he was doing when he assigned Asaph the task of giving thanks to God. Asaph’s prayer, recorded in 1 Chronicles 16:8 to 36 is a powerful example all of us. …
A psalm of praise, of David (notation before Psalm 145:1) Psalm – Our title, “Psalms,” comes from the title found in the Greek translation of the Old Testament (the Septuagint). In fact, it is a transliteration of the Greek word psalmoi. That means the Greek word is not translated. It is simply phonetically moved…
