"O Lord My God, I Will Give Thanks To You Forever."

‘I will exalt You, O Lord’(Psalm 30:1). God is not exalted because we exalt Him. We exalt Him because He is exalted: ‘He is exalted, for ever exalted, and I will praise His Name’(Mission Praise,217). How do we come to the point where we say, ‘I will exalt You, O Lord’? We realize our need of Him - ‘when You hid Your face, I was dismayed’(Psalm 30:7). We look to Him for mercy - ‘To You, O Lord, I called; to the Lord, I cried for mercy’(Psalm 30:8). God hears and answers our prayer - ‘You turned my wailing into dancing; You removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy’(11). God calls us to worship Him - ‘Sing praises to the Lord, O you His saints, and give thanks to His holy Name’(Psalm 30:4). ‘The joy of the Lord’, His ‘unutterable and exalted joy’, gives us ‘strength’(Nehemiah 8:10; 1 Peter 1:8). We worship God: ‘O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever’(Psalm 30:12).

"I Will Give Thanks To The Lord ... " (Psalm 7:17).

What a wonderful privilege it is to bring God's Word of life to so many people!
In ourselves, we are never anything more than *unworthy servants" (Luke 17:10).
We have "received this ministry through God's mercy" - "We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us".
Our ministry is simply this: "We do not preach ourselves , but Jesus Christ as Lord."
Let us pray that God's grace will be "reaching more and more people" and that the sharing of the Good News of Jesus Christ will "cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God" (2 Corinthians 4:1, 7, 5, 15).