THE GREATNESS AND VICTORY OF GOD

Psalm 48:1/9-10 NLT 

1 How great is the Lord,

How deserving of praise, …

9 O God, we meditate on your unfailing love

as we worship in your Temple.

10 As your name deserves, O God,

you will be praised to the ends of the earth.

Your strong right hand is filled with victory.

Have you noticed how much the subject of victory pops up where our God is concerned?

Isaiah 41:10 reminds us it’s His victorious right hand that upholds us. God is never defeated and never will be, and He wants us to walk in faith and victory as well. He never intended us to walk in defeat or fear or despair because we have the Greater One on the inside of us to help and strengthen us.😊

Our verses today also talk about praising the Lord for His greatness, because He deserves all our praise. In Isaiah 61:3 we read how we can put on a garment of praise to get rid of a spirit of heaviness, because it’s our defence against the enemy, but it also defeats him at every turn because he can’t stand hearing us praise our God, so he leaves!

The Psalmist encourages us to meditate on God’s love for each one of us which means of course to really stop and spend a bit of time thinking about what it means to us personally, and when we do, our praise will just bubble up and pour out. A friend sent me a text yesterday reminding me that God’s love for all of us is Immeasurable, Unmistakable and Unending! What a lovely reminder.😊

So let’s do as the Psalmist says and give our Great and Victorious God, who loves us so much, all our praise today. In Jesus name. Amen.

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