O LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ago—in perfect faithfulness.Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth.
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… But during this time of trusting and waiting, God led me to a verse in the Bible, as he often does, about praising God and being grateful for the good things that God had already given to us. Isaiah 25, verse 1, is a bold statement, both of gratitude and faith, and it's where the Lord directed us. It says, This verse really is the exact opposite of complaining and worrying and being frustrated about the things that you don't have. Instead, it taps into the power of gratitude. Well, this verse became our anchor. We would be grateful for all the good things God had already given to us. And in faith, we would express our gratitude in advance for the good things that we believed God would provide for us in the future. In other words, we would trust the goodness of God and we would keep telling God how grateful and how thankful we were. It was our faith in the goodness of God that gave us the courage to put up our house on the market. …
Would you pray with me now? Oh, Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you. I will praise your name because you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful, and sure. Frustrate any and all plans that would lead us away from you and bring to completion your good plans that you have for us, plans for our welfare, not for evil, to give us a future and a hope in Jesus, who lives and reigns with you in the Holy Spirit, one God now and forever. Amen. program, author of the book, The Quiet Ambition. Thanks for coming back to chat, Ryan. Good to be back. Thanks. So Ryan, today's message, which we heard was on Psalm 146. Great praise from the end of the book of Psalms. And it was this insight from verses three and four that really stayed with me. The Psalm says, don't put your trust in princes or another translation might be, don't put your trust in the ambitious or the go-getters. It's this word for like volunteering to stepping forward. So don't trust in them. Or if you're one of them, don't trust in yourself because the psalmist says they're going to die one day. And on that day, all your plans, all your ambitions are going to come to nothing. And it's just a fact. So you've got this book titled The Quiet Ambition. …
… where he says, Oh Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old faithful and sure That's a verse we would just pass by, and I've done it many times. It doesn't seem like a lot, but I don't know. It just hit me so much when I was reading it this morning. Oh Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you. I will praise your name. Why? Because you have done wonderful things. Plans formed of old. Faithful and sure. why is he lifting up God? Why is he exalting his name, praising his name? He says, because God, you've done, past tense, wonderful things, and they were plans formed of old, faithful, and sure. You just did some things. Things that you said you would do from a long time ago. Things you planned. and when you say something's going to happen, it's going to happen. That's what the book of Isaiah is all about. …