Sept 14 - Praising God

The people I formed for myself will declare my praise. (Isaiah 43:21) 

We praise God because he is worthy of praise and we were created to praise him. The prayer below is from the Book of Common Prayer, prayed by countless Christians over the centuries, all over the world. Adapted from Psalm 95, the prayer exhorts us to praise God by reminding us of his greatness and goodness. 

Meditate on the words of the prayer, and use it as a guide to praise God today. And as we praise God together as a church today, let’s also take heart that we are joining a chorus of praise that has been sung from the very beginning and will continue into eternity.  

O come, let us sing unto the Lord;   
let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.   
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving   
and show ourselves glad in him with psalms.   
For the Lord is a great God   
and a great King above all gods.   
In his hand are all the depths of the earth   
and the heights of the hills are his also.   
The sea is his, for he made it,   
and his hands prepared the dry land.   
O come, let us worship and fall down,   
and kneel before the Lord our Maker.   
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture,   
and the sheep of his hand.  
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.   
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.  

Amen.  

If you would like more guidance on praising God in prayer, we have written an article that you can find here.