Psalm 92: Extravagant Praise For God Wisdom From God Psalm 92: Extravagant Praise For God

A Sabbath Psalm A song about how much we ought to thank God for all He is to us. A song about the depths of God’s wisdom and giving thanks for His victory over wickedness. A song about our vitality as the children of God. If we abide in God and He abides in us, then we are luxurious trees that are filled with life and fruitfulness.

It Is Good To Give Thanks! Verses 1-4: It is good to give thanks to the Lord and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your faithfulness by night, with the ten-stringed lute and with the harp, with resounding music upon the lyre. For You, O Lord, have made me glad by what You have done, I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.”

The Goodness Of Thanksgiving “It is good to give thanks to the Lord and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High….” Colossians 4:2 – “Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving.”

Thanksgiving and Singing What Paul and Silas did in prison Acts 16:25 – “But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them….” What we do when we are cheerful: James 5:13 – “Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises.”

Singing As Worship Colossians 3:16 – “Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.”

Singing To The Lord In Thanksgiving Ephesians 5:19-20 – “…speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father….”

Extravagant Praise For God Verses 5-9 – “How great are Your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep. A senseless man has no knowledge, nor does a stupid man understand this: That when the wicked sprouted up like grass and all who did iniquity flourished, it was only that they might be destroyed forevermore. But You, O Lord, are on high forever. For, behold, Your enemies, O Lord, for behold, Your enemies will perish; all who do iniquity will be scattered.”

Praise For God’s Works “How great are Your works, O Lord! “Your thoughts are very deep.” Isaiah 55:9 – “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

Praising God For His Greatness “From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” Psalm 61:2 Jeremiah 32:17-18: “Ah Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You, who shows lovingkindness to thousands, but repays the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them, O great and mighty God. The Lord of hosts is His name….”

Praising God For His Goodness Have the wicked today “sprouted up like grass?” Sure seems that way sometimes. What do we do about it? We praise God for His goodness and we strive to be like God. He will take care of His enemies. “For, behold, Your enemies will perish….” v. 9

Songs Of Vitality “But You have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil. And my eye has looked exultantly upon my foes, my ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me. The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green, to declare that the Lord is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.”

Do We Realize… That our horn has been exalted by God? That we have been anointed with fresh oil. That we can flourish like the palm tree and grow like the cedar of Lebanon? That even in old age we can be “full of sap and very green”?

So Praise The Lord! Psalm 146:1-2 – “Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! I will praise the Lord while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.” Psalm 104:35 – “Let sinners be consumed from the earth and let the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul. Praise the Lord!