The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. Psalm 33
God said, “Open your hands wide and I will fill them with good things.” Are your hands open this morning to receive the blessings of the Lord? My brothers and sisters in Christ, God cannot fill your hands if they are closed, he cannot fill your mouth with good things if it’s closed. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord, but too many of us are missing out, because we fail to follow and honor God. “Be thankful to the Lord and bless him, for his mercy endures forever.”
But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 2 Peter 3:5
Because of pride, arrogance, and foolishness, too many of us forget the goodness of the Lord; we deliberately overlook God’s goodness. But, at every turn in our lives, there is evidence of His goodness. And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so. Give thanks to Him who placed the earth among the waters. His faithful love endures forever. We serve a good God, God is good!
“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.” Oh glory be to God!
Lord, what is it that I have that you did not give to me? Please show me how to give back to you some of what you have so freely given to me. I am so full of praise for you every day. When I go to sleep at night, you make me lie down in safety, and when I arise to see the new day, you refresh me; therefore, I will praise you from the rising of the sun, to the going down of the same. The Lord’s name be praised!
Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O Lord, how a foolish people have dishonored your name. Psalm 74:18
“Is this how you repay the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you? Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.” Our God’s name is to be praised and not dishonored.
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun. You set the boundaries of the earth, and You made both summer and winter. Psalm 74:16-17
God has created the beauty of the earth for us to enjoy and he has promised, that, “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.” Could anyone else give us this promise and keep it? “All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above, now thank the Lord, O thank the Lord, for all his love.”
We have so much to praise God for. “Ascribe the power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose strength is in the skies.” Psalm 68: 34
Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years, and there was evening, and there was morning the third day.” My brothers and sisters in Christ, we awake in the morning and go to bed at evening time, we experience another day and another year another season, is that not enough to give God praise for? “Ascribe the power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose strength is in the skies.” Praise him!
Let Everything That Has Breath Praise the Lord! Psalm 150
Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heaven! Praise him for his mighty works; praise his unequaled greatness! Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; praise Him with the harp and lyre. Praise him with the tambourine and dancing; praise him with strings and flutes! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Psalm 150
Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever. Psalm 106:1
“For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You. For Your loving devotion is higher than the heavens, and Your truth reaches to the skies. Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens, may your glory shine over all the earth, that Your beloved may be delivered. O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.”
Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His footstool; He is holy! Psalm 99:5
“Magnify the Lord with me; let us exalt His name together. Let us exalt Him in the assembly of the people and praise Him in the council of the elders. Let us praise His great and awesome name, He is holy! O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.”
The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him. Exodus 15:2
Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth! Worship the Lord with gladness! Come before Him, singing with joy! Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture. Therefore, let us enter His gates with thanksgiving; and go into His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him and praise His name. For the Lord is good. His unfailing love continues forever, and His faithfulness continues to all generations. Psalm 100