Let the one who is wise heed these things and ponder the loving deeds of the Lord.

Good and WOW. I woke up this morning (already a praise) and layered on top of my brain was an important thought – a needed, really simply overlooked until now, but needed thought – REALLY needed as advice for a work project that I am consulting on. Whew! I didn’t put the thought there, I DIDN’T, the Lord DID. HE DID THAT! He bridged a mental gap while I was resting my body and brain. He found the bandwidth when I had played all mine out. When people say “rest on it” – we should also say “Rest with the Lord taking over”…  Gratefully, when we give back to the Lord what is His anyway (especially His Healing time with us even when we are sleeping), He will use it for the good of Him and the good of us. Even if the idea is not novel, Him putting it there IS, right time right place… PROVISIONS and PRAISE! SWEET!

Likewise, when thoughts in our brains “gel” where we had not been focused on them before, or we see the EXACT person we needed to see or the Lord needed us to resolve an issue with (and repair a fray in His Net), or when time appears out of nowhere for us to get something done (and make His Net deeper), or we get an opportunity to help someone or ourselves, we MUST PRAISE and say: God did that. He did that!!! 

As for any of our work, it’s an important aspect of experience to be able to add some personal touch of project management from the ground floor. AH! That’s ALSO like the Lord coming to us, God with us, project management from the ground floor. Achieving the Plan. YES, let us praise, He came to us, then lifts us all up!

Psalm 107 speaks of the BIG saves, including our redemption, even if these words, a song, were written hundreds of years before Jesus came to redeem, the relate! Isn’t that fitting of the Word, it relates. The Lord’s people redeemed their sins by sacrifice and rejoiced in their fortune by praise.  So should we so should we… We have the GIFT of Jesus’s sacrifice for us, “He sent out his word and healed them” – LET US keep up our PRAISE is powerful and needed. Remember, God did all this for us. HE DID THAT!

AMEN! HE DID THAT!

HE REDEEMED 

HE GATHERED 

HE DELIVERED 

HE SAVED 

HE RESCUED 

HE BROUGHT 

HE BLESSED 

HE LIFTED

Give Thanks! HE is Good, His Love Endures Forever!

HE SATISFIES,

HE BREAKS CHAINS,

HE SENDS OUT HIS WORD.

HIS WONDERFUL DEEDS,

HIS WORKS,

HIS LOVE ENDURES FOREVER.

AMEN!!!

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Psalm 107 (PLEASE PONDER AND PRAISE)

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story – those HE REDEEMED from the hand of the foe, those HE GATHERED from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.

Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle. They were hungry and thirsty  and their lives ebbed away. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and HE DELIVERED THEM from their distress. He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle. Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for HE SATISFIES the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains, because they rebelled against God’s commands and despised the plans of the Most High. So HE SUBJECTED them to bitter labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and HE SAVED THEM from their distress. He brought them out of darkness, the utter darkness, and broke away their chains. Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron.

Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities. They loathed all food and drew near the gates of death. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and HE SAVED them from their distress. He sent out his word and healed them; HE RESCUED THEM from the grave. Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind. Let them sacrifice thank offerings and tell of his works with songs of joy.

Some went out on the sea in ships; they were merchants on the mighty waters. They saw the works of the Lord, his wonderful deeds in the deep. For he spoke and stirred up a tempest that lifted high the waves. They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths; in their peril their courage melted away. They reeled and staggered like drunkards; they were at their wits’ end. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and HE BROUGHT THEM out of their distress. He stilled the storm to a whisper; the waves of the sea were hushed. They were glad when it grew calm, and he guided them to their desired haven. Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind. Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the council of the elders.

He turned rivers into a desert, flowing springs into thirsty ground, and fruitful land into a salt waste because of the wickedness of those who lived there. He turned the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs; there he brought the hungry to live, and they founded a city where they could settle. They sowed fields and planted vineyards that yielded a fruitful harvest; HE BLESSED THEM, and their numbers greatly increased, and he did not let their herds diminish. Then their numbers decreased, and they were humbled by oppression, calamity and sorrow; he who pours contempt on nobles made them wander in a trackless waste. But HE LIFTED the needy out of their affliction and increased their families like flocks. The upright see and rejoice, but all the wicked shut their mouths.

Let the one who is wise heed these things and ponder the loving deeds of the Lord.