Open Your Big Fat Mouth and Praise God!

Today’s Passages – Psalm 146 – 150; Proverbs 14

(Second Milers also read – Matthew 27 – 28; Memorize John 10:30)

“Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.” – (Psalm 150:1-6)

I remember visiting Solid Rock Baptist Church years ago, and Pastor Clark had noticed some teenagers that weren’t singing, and he rebuked them saying, “open your big fat mouth and praise God”. I will never forget that and I often want to shout the same thing at our church.

It amazed me this morning how many times the word praise is used in the Psalms. In fact, every Psalm hat we have read this morning mentions the word “praise” several times. The Lord deserves our praise. We should praise him first because of who He is; and then because of all that He’s done for us. We should praise God all the time, but it is especially important to praise the Lord in the church house. We can praise Him through our singing, and in our prayrs and testimonies. We serve on awesome God so “open your big fat mouth and praise God”!