Fifteen Reasons to Praise God from Psalm 107
From The HeartPublish date: 11/17/2013
We have SO many reasons to praise our God and here a just a few:
1. Praise God for He is good.
2. Praise God for His mercy endures forever.
O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever! Psalms 107:1 AMP
3. Praise God for He redeems us from the enemy.
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary. Psalms 107:2 AMP
Let the redeemed say, “I am redeemed!”
4. Praise God for He gathers His people.
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the [Red] Sea in the south. Psalms 107:3 AMP
5. Praise God for He delivers us from distresses.
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses. Psalms 107:6; 19 AMP
6. Praise God for He is leading us to a city – His city.
He led them forth by the straight and right way, that they might go to a city where they could establish their homes. Psalms 107:7 AMP
The Lord promises to provide us with homes – both here on earth and in heaven. Ultimately, He will provide us with a brand new home when He establishes a new heaven and a new earth.
7. Praise God for His goodness and wonderful works.
Oh, that men would praise [and confess to] the Lord for His goodness and loving-kindness and His wonderful works to the children of men! Psalms 107:8; 15; 21; 31 AMP
8. Praise God for His power to satisfy the soul.
For He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with good. Psalms 107:9 AMP
9. Praise God for salvation from distresses.
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. Psalms 107:13 AMP
Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble, and He brings them out of their distresses. Psalms 107:28 AMP
10. Praise God for deliverance from darkness and the shadow of death.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke apart the bonds that held them. Psalms 107:14 AMP
11. Praise God for liberation from bondage.
…and broke apart the bonds that held them. Psalms 107:14b AMP
For He has broken the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron apart. Psalms 107:16 AMP
12. Praise God for physical healing.
He sends forth His word and heals them and rescues them from the pit and destruction. Psalms 107:20 AMP
Who forgives [every one of] all your iniquities, Who heals [each one of] all your diseases. Psalms 103:3 AMP
Saying, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God and will do what is right in His sight, and will listen to and obey His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord Who heals you. Exodus 15:26 AMP
Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:4-5 NKJV
And thus He fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, He Himself took [in order to carry away] our weaknesses and infirmities and bore away our diseases. Matthew 8:17 AMP
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10 NKJV
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. James 5:14-16 NKJV
Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness — by whose stripes you were healed. 1 Peter 2:24 NKJV
13. Praise God for deliverance from destructions.
He sends forth His word and heals them and rescues them from the pit and destruction. Psalms 107:20 AMP
14. Praise God for deliverance from storms.
He hushes the storm to a calm and to a gentle whisper, so that the waves of the sea are still. 30 Then the men are glad because of the calm, and He brings them to their desired haven. Psalms 107:29-30 AMP
And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. Mark 4:39 KJV
15. Praise God for material prosperity.
He turns rivers into a wilderness, water springs into a thirsty ground, 34 A fruitful land into a barren, salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it. 35 He turns a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry ground into water springs; 36 And there He makes the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation, 37 And sow fields, and plant vineyards which yield fruits of increase. 38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and allows not their cattle to decrease. Psalms 107:33-38 AMP