The Isaac Challenge Day 10

"Praise is a life long love affair .."

Steven Jamison

So on Wednesday(day 8) I wrote this in my journal..

..."I wonder God if I really have to do this praise stuff outloud.. I guess the meaning of the word praise is aloud.. I feel a bit silly to be honest..

David wrote his thoughts down.. I feel like they can be more concrete if I write them down.. hmm..."

As it turns out I didn't have much of a problem praising outloud. I have always felt a bit silly praying outloud and so I told god that. But as I read the steps for praise I had a few ideas..

Praise
Step One

1. Set aside, a period of time specifically to praise God at the beginning of your prayer.
2. Select a specific theme for praise, such as God's righteousness, His Word, or His creation.
3. Drawing on your selective theme, declare vocally all this is God.
4. Expand your theme as much as possible. Allow god to reveal new themes for worship as your time of praise develops.

One was the way that I can just sit and stare at my girlfreind jasmine and tell her how amazing she is, how beautiful she is, how talented and go on for ever about silly little things she does. All of this comes with ease and yet it is from the heart and is I think a part of love. So I tried that with God.
I began just stoking on God, telling him as things came to my head why I love him and how stoked I am to be one of his children.

The second thing came to my mind after reading step 4.. Allow god to reveal new themes for worship.. so I asked God to help me and then into my head pops the idea to focus very closely on some part of creation. I love creation and so it wasn't hard. I used a Husky Puppy that I had photographed the day before and began to describe and thank God for all the minute tiny details, its fur, its eyes, its feet, the pads on its feet, their colour and texture and the amazing creation that such a small dog is..

This really helped me in my quest to try and praise God vocally. Praise is endless. The possibilitys for praise and ways to praise God are countless. If you get stuck you can always ask God for ideas.. or ask a freind how they praise God.. indeed

"Praise is a life long love affair .."