Turn your Bibles, please, to Psalm 103. If you'd like to stand together as we read God's Word together. I don't believe they took the youth offering, so if you'd like to put your money in the door as you go out for the children to go into youth camp, just feel free to do that on the way out this morning. There's no certain way we have to have an offering anyway, does it? It's as unto the Lord. Psalm 103 is a tremendous passage, as all God's Word is. Just an introductory remark before we begin. Pastor Allen, as you know, kind of felt led last week to, I guess, exhort us, rebuke us, whatever you want to call it. We got the picture of those that were here. And he said, maybe we need to examine our bubblers. And if you understand what we're saying is, sometimes the well gets stopped up. And sometimes we don't praise the Lord like we need to. Let's just be honest, sometimes we hold back, do we not? And I understand maybe every Sunday may not be the same, or every week, every day, we all have struggles. Our sister sang about some of those trials that we go through and problems. But we still need to praise the Lord. We still need to bless the Lord. And I ran across this precious psalm. This is on the heels of that stirring in my own heart, and I'm sure many of you last week. And if the Lord didn't stir you, I pray that He will begin the work, because we certainly all need it on a regular basis. So let's look at God's Word together. Psalm 103, David says, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases, who redeemeth thy life from destruction, who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies, who satisfieth thy mouth with good things, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles. The Lord executed His righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. He made known His ways unto Moses, His acts unto the children of Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide, neither will He keep His anger forever. He hath not dealt with us after our sin, Sins, plural, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. Say amen right there. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame, He remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children. So much as Keep his covenant to those that remember his commandments to do them. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all. Bless the Lord, ye his angels that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts, ye ministers of his that do his pleasure. Bless the Lord all his works in the places of his dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul. Let's go to God in prayer. Father, we bless you and we give you praise this morning as the psalmist has done. Lord, we want to give you glory and honor today. Father, we will be sinning. if we do not give you glory and honor and praise. Father, we do want to not be sinning in this behalf. Lord, forgive us of our shortcomings of blessing you and praising you. Father, we bless you now, Lord, for the time together. We pray that you'll take these thoughts this morning, encourage the saints this morning. We pray, O God, that you'd open hearts of the believers to desire to hear what you have to say to us from this precious and yet simple passage for us that you've given to us in God's Word. Thank you for David, God, his candidness to just deliver his heart from time to time through the Psalms. This precious book has been given to us to remember and to read and to instruct us and to rebuke us and to guide us. and lead us in the paths of righteousness. We pray you'd bless the saints this morning. Oh God, encourage them today. We pray for the unbelieving ones that you'll open their heart to the gospel this morning. Help them to see their utter dependence upon thee and they have no way to go to heaven except through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. We ask you to open their hearts this morning. Lord, I pray for those who are hurting and struggling. We pray for Franco and Susanna. We pray, God, that You would comfort their hearts and encourage them, Father. I know they've been rattled and stirred and maybe shaken this morning. Pray You'd do for them. Pray for Pastor David as he's traveling. Pray You'd bless Pastor Allen and his family as he's visiting with his family in Texas. Oh, Lord, we pray You'd do for them, Father. We pray that the Holy Ghost might do a mighty thing for us this morning. How we need Thee. Due for our fellowship, we ask in Jesus' lovely name, Amen. You may be seated. Last week, as we mentioned, Pastor Allen, he don't do that. I don't think I've seen him do that maybe once or twice, so we know God. was in that, do we not? Just to step outside the box and follow God, as little by little as he did that, and I watched him, and I'm grateful for that. But along with that, how we have been blessed as a people, we need to let that be known. And I understand, and please understand me when I say this, there are a lot of churches If you don't pump it up, if you don't get things going, they haven't been to church. And I'm not being critical if that's the way they want to do it, but I don't think personally that's the best way to do it. I pray that God will do something in your soul. And as God does do something in your soul, it's okay to say, praise God. Worship God. Hallelujah. Say, thank you, Lord. Some of you lift your hands while you're singing. Some of you just do it like me. You can't help it. It just comes out of your eyes. It seems like you can't control it. As our sister was singing, I just remembered just some of the heartaches, the trials, and yet we see God still being good. Amen? We are reminded of the goodness of God. We need to let Him know. We need to tell Him we love Him. We don't need to shirk our responsibility. We have been given such wondrous grace. And speaking of, Please get a hold of the series Pastor Bob is bringing to us on Wednesday night, Through the Doctrines of Grace. Please hear those. Sam's putting those up online. Jolene, I think Sam's helping with that, or somebody is. And we're grateful for that. So please get a hold of those and listen to them. We have been chosen by God to salvation this morning. If that's not enough to get our motivation, get our will stopped, our spring contaminated, whatever, get it out so we can worship God. Please think about how much God has done for you. God has chosen you to salvation. God has brought conviction to you of sin. He's opened your blinded eyes. Isn't it a good day When we see that we are sinner, we've come short of the glory of God. Read Romans chapter three. Be reminded where our hearts are open sepulchers. It's not a pretty picture, is it? We're dreadfully wicked. Despite we just are wicked in our hearts, we have to be redeemed. We change. You say, well, I'm not so bad. Well, we really are. We're just worse than we really think. We're totally dead in sin and we need to be quickened to go to heaven. And those of us who've been born again, we recognize that. We have been forgiven of our sin. But we need to be reminded, we need to be shaken sometime to get our attention, to be reminded of where God has brought us from and to show us and to be where we need to be as a praising people. We're not just to be coming or leaving and just going through the rat race. And I'll just confess to you this morning, Pastor Allen asked me to speak on last week and I said, man, I got so much to do. But you know, sometimes we need to just say, you need to get right with God. Amen. I've been doing some of that. And sometimes we do need to be put in our place, and the Lord certainly has done that for me this week, even up to this morning. And I bless Him for that. We've been delivered from not just sin, but we've been delivered from death and hell. But on the flip side, we've been given eternal life. Amen. We've been given a home in heaven, if you will. We've been given a place of redemption. We've been washed in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. We've been changed by the grace of God. We've been given daily provisions. And these first five verses deal with that. Before we talk about that just for a moment, sometimes we need to be reminded of where God's brought us from. And the Jewish Shema is given to us in Deuteronomy 6. I want to read just a few verses to say we're not Jewish here. I understand that, but it's still God's Word. And if you'd like to turn with me to Deuteronomy 6, I was looking that up and I just wanted just a little bit of information. I looked it up on Wikipedia. It is a Jewish prayer that is prayed, I think, at least three times a day. Pastor David mentions he's had Jewish weddings before and it's always read at weddings and special times this Jewish Shema is given, this Jewish prayer. But I want you to notice with me in Deuteronomy chapter 6, the importance that they were taught them to remember the Lord their God and also to teach it unto their children. Look with me in verse 4. We'll read down through verse 12. "'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words which I command thee unto this day shall be in thine heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and thou shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and thou shalt They shall be as frontlint between thine eyes, and thou shalt write them upon the post of thy house, and on thy gates. And it shall be that when the Lord thy God hath brought thee unto this land, which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, and to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildest not, Notice here again, he's talking about the blessings of God. And the house is full of all good things which thou fillest not, and wells digged which thou diggest not, vineyards and all the trees which thou plantest not, when thou shalt have eaten and be full. Notice very carefully what I'm going to read. Then beware lest thou forget the Lord which brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage. I'm going to stop there. If you'd like to continue reading the rest of that, it's really good. For time's sake, we won't read the rest of these verses. But particularly, those of you or us who need to remember the Lord this morning, where have you been brought from? God has been good to us as a people. God's changed your life this morning. There's no excuse for us being in sin. There's no excuse for our bubbler not working. Amen? There's no excuse for us. And God even gives us a reminder in the book of Deuteronomy. They were told to share this with their children over and over. And you see the memorials in the Scriptures where they came across to Jordan. They piled up 12 stones. And they piled some up in the river as well. And they had memorials and said, what does this mean? When the children come to you and say, what does this mean? You're to tell them what this is about. When you recognize and remember what the Lord has done, it causes a repenting of your own heart. You remember the scripture, I forgot the reference now, but it says, even the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance. You say, well, I don't know about that. Well, it does. If you think about it long enough, you start thinking, man, where did those blessings come from? And we know the Scripture says every good and perfect gift comes from above. You see, it's not just our hands that do the work, that we have obtained this wealth that we have. It's not our keenness, our minds that are sharp to be clever, to figure out a pathway to just a fortune, if you will. No, it's God pouring out His blessing upon us. Please don't forget that. And if you need remembering this morning, I pray that you will remember. But if you are being a good steward of God's blessings and reminding Him, and we trust that most of you are not, that we're walking with God, but we need to be reminded as well many times, do we not? I remind you that this table down here, look on the front, it says, this do in remembrance of me. The Lord's table is to remind us of the cross work, to cause us to stop what we're doing and we know that the elements, the fruit of the vine and the bread remind us of the broken body and the blood that the Lord Jesus shed for us. It preaches the cross. Amen? We've had that just a couple, two or three services just of late, so we're reminded of the cross work. I come to you this morning on the heels of our pastor giving us encouragement and rebuke to further remind you to read the Word of God if you're having struggles with being thankful. You say, man, things have just been rough. Things have been rough. And every time I go to the gas pump, and I didn't have to say that, did I? And I know it just Gets on my nerves too. Amen. I have to think now. Just be reminded it was about $10 a gallon in Great Britain. That was 10 years ago. I don't know what it is now. So, thank you Lord. Amen. Be grateful that we have opportunity to have the funds to pay for it. And I know, and I want to talk about that in just a moment. There's a problem, we know there's sin, and there's just a whole lot of mess going on, but we still need to be thankful. We still need to be thankful. We need to be grateful to God. This psalm should help us encourage us to help our bubblers, if you will, to encourage us, to exhort us, to exalt our blessed Lord. First of all, before I go much further, I want to just give you just a definition of the word bless. You say, well, I know what that means. What does it mean? It means to, by implication, to, the primitive root means to kneel. to bless God as an act of adoration is for men's benefit. We want to exalt and praise the Lord. But it also means, it can mean to curse. You've heard people blessing somebody out. Now that's probably not being used these days, but it used to say, I'm going to bless you out. That means cursing. So we don't want to be guilty of that. But it's used a great number of times in the Scriptures, about 330 times according to the record that I have. But it is for us to give praise to God, in short, or adoration and glory to God. And I have fond memories of listening, hearing Pastor Troy pray. And he would say over and over, he'd say, I bless His name, I bless His name. We need to be blessing the name of our God. King David, I remind you, is the author of this psalm under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, of course. Notice in these verses, he is personally praising God. Now, I've said before, wouldn't it be good if our leaders would bless the Lord? I think about Solomon, on the day that they dedicated the temple, man, he's on his knees praising God in prayer. We need leaders that love God, but we don't have them, do we? But that shouldn't stop us from serving God. Amen? And we probably are going to be put to the test more and more as time goes on before the Lord comes. Just because our leaders are ungodly, does that negate our responsibility? Absolutely not. Even if we have to go in persecution, we don't want to think about that. We cringe and we shudder at the thought of it. But are we going to serve God? Are we going to love Him? Are we going to give Him praise just because we've had it easy for 70 odd years, all of our life? We've been blessed so much in America. It's been accepted to be a Christian, I guess, or tolerated, if you will. We've been blessed so very much. We certainly don't want to quit now, do we? We want to continue on, even if it costs us more than we've ever known before. May God help us to give praise to our God. And David did that. Notice with me, he said, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Bless His holy name. Now, David recognizes the importance of this wonderful psalm and he does do that. I want to give you just, I forgot to give you one thought about what Brother Spurgeon said about this. Let me back up just a moment. Spurgeon said, blessing the Lord on my soul, now I'm not trying to be funny, but this, you've got to think, now he's way back yonder, so this doesn't apply. He says soul music is the very soul of music. We're not talking about, obviously, on an ethnic idea, but he says soul music is the very soul of music. And you write that down and think on it. I think I like that. Chillin' a little while. The idea, obviously, is the music should come from our intermost being. Amen. We don't just sing. We shouldn't just sing. You notice I said that. Because even the song leader, I'm not talking about Chester, sometimes we'll just be going through the motion. And that's, by the way, is me, if you're not here first time. We go through the motion. We sing songs that don't make much impact on our life. But it should affect us as we sing those hymns. Be reminded that singing from our hearts is very important. And I recognize we've got to be prepared for the Lord's Day and the Lord's coming to the house of God, but we still ought to do it. We should be singing from our hearts unto the Lord, all that is within me. How many times have we opened the hymn book and just half-heartedly mouthed the words? It's easy to do, isn't it? May God help us to glorify Him. and worship Him in song. But we need to be encouraged that we would bless the Lord from our innermost being. Love Him and give Him glory and praise and worship. Notice as well, he said in verse 2, he almost duplicates it, he says, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not. His benefits. Hence the meaning or the reason for blessing the Lord or reminding us this morning by reading the Jewish Shema. Sometimes we need to stop and take inventory or be reminded of what God has done for us. And we certainly need to do that. One writer made this comment about the earthly benefits of the blessings that we have begin with the forgiveness of sin, verse 3. who forgiveth all thine iniquities and healeth all thy diseases." Just the forgiveness of sin is enough to give God praise for, isn't it? To be reminded of where God's brought you from, that you're not just a church member, but God has opened your heart to the Gospel. He's opened your mind to receive the precious Word of God. He's quickened you by His Spirit to be redeemed this morning. I was... I grew up... in a Baptist church in West Georgia, almost in Alabama. Don't hold that against me. Until I was 12 years old, I did not know Christ. Well, 17 actually. I was baptized when I was 12, but I didn't know the Lord Jesus till 17, till God started stirring, opening my eyes to the gospel. I give Him praise for that. One night, God says, you're going to hell. Open your eyes. In fact, there was a movie, Estes Perkle. This is old. This goes way back. So I'm old, gray-headed. Look it up sometime. The burning hell. Never forget it. God quickened my heart that night. Showed me I was lost. I was going to hell. And I bless Him for quickening me that night, redeeming me. not only the redemption and saved us from sickness and a lot of heartaches. Now, David does say in verse 2, 3 as well, he's recovered from sickness. We don't believe that every sickness is going to be healed. But David here is giving a word of testimony to us. And we're seeing some people healed. I'll never forget the night Elizabeth stood in that other church on Highway 16 and said, the Lord has healed me. That's what we prayed for. I thought, wow. That's faith. God's healed me. And praise the Lord, He has. We've seen God do that, haven't we? But God doesn't always do that, does He? Well, we've got to trust Him, and we've got to move on. God is on the throne. He's in charge. But the great and loving kindness, verse 4. God's been good to us. Just the kind mercies of the Lord. God has been so good to us. Food to sustain us. that should give us strength and grace and hope and blessing as we go through this life, this Christian life. Notice as well in the latter part of verse 5 says, so as thy youth is renewed like the eagles. God gives us renewal sometimes and we think we're young again. And God blesses us and encourages us. Sometimes I'm looking for that fountain of youth. I do get blessed, but it kind of runs out. I have to get it again, amen? Get encouraged, get strengthened. We bless Him for His goodness to us. But these are personal blessings that David is sharing with us and reminds us of the good grace of God to us. But notice, we're going to just look at kind of an overview because my time is going away. I'll not give his name. He said, we're going to be out by 11.30 tomorrow? And no, I'm not going to. I'm going to be good. Hey, by that clock, I could do it. I could do it. He's in the nursery, by the way. Notice now the personal blessings and then the corporate blessings. Now this is the good part about coming together to God's house. If we're getting in on the personal blessings from day to day, how much better it ought to be when we come to the house of God. Amen? Hebrews 10, 25, still in the Bible. Amen? Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another. And so much the more as you see the day approaching. Folks, we cannot do this again. Stop services. I still feel like we've missed it. I'm personal. I mean, I was involved by stopping services. We got it. We got to stay together, folks. We got it. We got to stay together. We got to keep coming to the house of God, whatever it takes. Let's be faithful to God. Let's don't quit. And we thought we were doing the right thing by just having small groups in our family. And we had the word of God. I shared the word of God for five or six weeks, six, seven weeks, whatever it was. But I still feel like, man, I missed it. So I confess to you this morning again, we need to be here. There's something precious and special about coming to the Lord's house. There's a corporate worship, and I'm not going to have time to read all this, but just think about it for a moment. Verse 6 says, the Lord executed judgment upon all that are oppressed. Just a word here, as our brother prayed this morning about the injustices of the world, and we have wars going on right now, Folks, this is not always going to be. The Lord's going to put things right. Amen? There's troubles and there's sickness and there's problems on every corner. There's injustices, there's people that get out of things that they shouldn't, and they do things they shouldn't do, and they get away with it. Yet God knows what's going on, and He will sort it out. Amen? Our God is on the throne. And verse 19, I think, says, yes, the Lord is in the heavens. He's prepared His throne in the heavens, and His kingdom ruleth over all. You say, well, I don't know. He doesn't look like He's doing a very good job. Well, just hang on. He's going to take care of things. He's going to sort it all out. There's nothing that's out of control. Amen. Our God is on His throne and He's going to do right. And there's so much that can be said about that. See Pastor Bob. He'll fill you in on the details. But we need to bless the Lord for His Word. Verse 7 talks about the blessing that came through Moses and the Israel and the Scriptures and the ways of God. We Gentiles especially need to be thankful that we have been grafted into the vine. We've been blessed by coming into God's family. We are part of the family of God. We've been chosen into it. And I marvel and I bless Him for that. We have the Word of God. We have the Scriptures, Old Testament and New Testament, which show us Christ and Him coming. We need to be thankful. We need to be blessing Him. Verse 8 talks about just the mercy, mercifulness and the graciousness of our God. He is slow to anger and plenteous in mercy. Saying to God this morning, We are right in the middle of blessing. And sometimes we think, oh, we've got it so bad. It's so awful. And it's not nice sometimes, I understand that. Yet God is still King of Kings. Amen. He's still Lord of Lords. He knows what He's doing. He's not forsaken us. It tells us in these passages, He will not forget about us. He's going to keep us. He's going to watch over us. And notice verse 9 says, Following up on the slowness to anger, but yet there's the day of accountability coming for those who don't know the Lord. Luke chapter 16 talks about the rich man. And he's going, verses 19-31, there's a hell that is prepared for the devil and his angels, and unbelieving ones will go there. I ask you this morning, consider, call upon the Lord this morning. Revelation chapter 20 verses 11-15 talks about the great white throne judgment. God's mercy will have an end. And we pray that if you know the Lord Jesus this morning, you'll give Him praise for your salvation. If you're not saved, call upon His name while He may be near, because God's judgment is final. It's coming. The Genesis flood should be a gripping reminder to us that God's judgment will come. Genesis 6-3 says, My spirit shall not always strive with man. Again, we as believers in Christ Jesus should give Him glory. What a treasure we have in knowing the Lord Jesus Christ is our personal Savior. Amen? We have been given eternal life. We need to bless Him. We need to praise Him. We need to glorify Him. We need to adore Him for what He's done for us. Notice in continuation of that thought, "'And He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens is high above the earth, and so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him, as far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.'" Isn't that a blessing to be reminded this morning, our sins are gone. Song says, you ask me why I'm happy. I'll just tell you why. My sins are gone. My sins have been washed away. What a blessing this morning. And just as the Father, verse 13, says, He pitieth His children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. And we give Him praise this morning for that. Notice the brevity of life. You say, well, I've got plenty of time to call on the Lord. Verse 15 tells the otherwise. As for man, his days are as grass, and as a flower of the field, so he flourished. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone. The place thereof shall know it no more. It's quickly, just like mown grass, grew up farming, You cut hay and it doesn't take it long to wilt and this dry, hot weather we have in Georgia sometimes, you can bale hay really quickly. And it's gone. It quickly dries up. Your life is just like that. James says it's like a vapor. Here today and gone. And my friend, don't put your trust in, well, my family lived until they were in their 70s, 80s, 90s. I've got plenty of time. No, we don't know that. We need to call on the Lord today while you have opportunity. But notice that the Lord is not like man. His time is not short. Notice what he said in verse 17. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him and His righteousness unto children's children. Aren't we glad? There's blessings upon those who follow the Lord. There's blessings upon those whose families follow the Lord. For instance, your grandparents, your parents. You have blessings from them because they carried you to the house of God. You say, we know that God does not have grandchildren. The idea there is, obviously, is God saves you individually. But yet there's blessings of God passing on. I tell you what, I'm grateful that my mother took me to the house of God. Even when my dad didn't want to go. She said, we're going. And we went. All three of us brothers. And I praise Him for that. Getting me to the house of God at a young age, I'm grateful for that. So there's a good reason you ought to take your children, whether you like it or not. And someday when they want to go their own way, that's fine, they can do that. Take your children to the house of God. There's much blessing in that. And I think as we try to live for God day by day, that'll make a difference as well before them, and they'll see that in our lives. Amen? God keeps His covenant, verse 18, and He's faithful even though we're unfaithful. And a big blessing we've already mentioned as well, verse 19, He's King of kings, and I hate to just kind of throw that in, but He is. But I want to read you a verse to remember about that. Isaiah 57, verse 15. A precious verse that gives glory and great grace and great worship, really, to our God. Notice with me as I read Isaiah 57 verse 15. For thus saith the High and Lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy, I dwell in the high and holy place with Him also that is of a contrite and humble heart. to revive the spirit of the humble, to revive the heart of the contrite one. God doesn't save hearty people, does he? Full of pride. God doesn't revive hearty people. Sometimes he humbles us so we will get there. I'm grateful for that. He knows how to do that too. I bless him for that. But he revives and he is a holy God. He's righteous. As we think of those precious thoughts this morning, as we recognize the importance of corporate worship, all these things are included, just knowing that God's on the throne, He's in charge. He loves to have His people worship Him, singing, glorifying Him. Recognize and remember what He's done for us. Remembering that He's a God of justice. He's a God of holiness. He's a God of love and mercy to us as His people. But there's also a blessing that should come, or David also implores, is through the angels and all of God's creation. Notice he said in verse number 20, Bless the Lord, ye his angels that excel in strength, and this do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. David said just all of you bless the Lord, all God's creation, whether you're a human or not, or whether you're a tree or a blade of grass, give God glory. All you ministers, all you creation, if you will, all His works, verse 22 says, All the places of God's dominion ought to give God praise and glory. In fact, Luke 19, 40, Jesus said, if you don't worship God, He said, I could tell, if you hold your peace, in other words, He says, I could tell the stones, they'd cry out if you don't do it. Now, that's powerful, isn't it? God can call out, praise Him. I've never seen one happen. So maybe we've been doing Halfway good job, but maybe we could improve on it. Amen? Give God praise and give God glory, because He certainly does deserve it. But I want you to notice in closing this morning, the refrain or the chorus of David. He starts out with this precious thought. He says, Bless the Lord, O my soul. And he also concludes with that ending as well, a conclusion. This morning, can you do that this morning? Can you give God praise? Are you doing it? I should ask you, will you do it? Think of God's blessing to you. Say, well, I'm just not a speaker. I'm not a speaker. I'm not much one either sometimes. I was thinking as I was reading the first passage, I was stumbling all over those words. I don't know if I was just nervous or just didn't read them good enough to get my brains working. But God can deliver us and help us to do better. Amen? God can help us and develop us, strengthen us to do better at what we need to do. Personal testimony, just a quick word. When I started school, I could barely read. And I'm grateful that the Lord can help us to develop and learn. And that's amazing. Thick as my head is sometimes. You say, well, I'm not much of praising God. Well, work at it. Amen? Work hard at it. Say, God, you've done something for me. I just got to say something. In fact, the Welsh Revival was started by a teenage lady, or God used this to birth it. If I remember correctly, God was really stirring. I believe she got up and said, I love Jesus with all my heart. In a youth meeting, and God moved in that place. We visited the place of the church where that took place. Pretty amazing. You say, well, I'm just so-and-so. I'm just a young person. You never know what God may use you to do. You may never know just the phrase you say. I love Jesus. That gets folks' attention, doesn't it? I love the Lord. He's been good to us. You say, well, I need boldness. I do too. I get nervous. Do you love Him today? Let him know about it. Amen. Let's stand. Don't be ashamed of him.