Question:
It's from my daily devotional yesterday and the words are still ministering to me today.
I hope you're blessed and encouraged by the following:
"Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy."
Isaiah 66:5

Praise is not intended to compliment God. Some people
have confessed quite candidly that praise seems like
an effort to curry God's favor by soothing or
massaging His heavenly ego.
But praise is not the blind pursuit of heavenly
intervention. It is an instrument of violence.
It upsets the climate that furthers life's suffering,
confusion, turmoil, and strife.
Praise destroys the atmosphere in which sickness,
disease, discouragement, and futility flourish.
Praise beats out hell's brush fires and breathes
heaven's life into death's vacuum.
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Wow, that's quite insightful. It's so easy to slip into a thought pattern of praise as just-- I like the wording -- massaging God's ego. It's spiritual warfare. It's powerful.
Thanks for that, Dave .
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That is wonderful! Thanks for sharing.
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This is excellent! Thanks so much for sharing this.
If you don't mind, what resource do you use for your daily devotional? Is it a book or website? If you wouldn't mind sharing your source, I'd be interested.
Thanks!
Rick <><
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Thanks, that was cool.
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Originally Posted by Ricky C This is excellent! Thanks so much for sharing this.
If you don't mind, what resource do you use for your daily devotional? Is it a book or website? If you wouldn't mind sharing your source, I'd be interested.
Thanks!
Rick <><
The above came from a desktop calendar I received from our youth pastor titled "Praise in the presence of God - A Daily Celebration, by Jack Hayford".
Not an in-depth devotional, I know, but it is another way to be in God's word and in His will.
I recently got a software Bible for my Palm Z22 pda and it's got what looks to be a deeper daily devo so I'll be able to get more 'meat' out of that but this desktop calendar does have some gems.