May 26

Daily Devotional

Be sure to Praise the Lord Every Day!

Psalms 145-150 – I Read these last 6 Chapters of Psalms after creating & distributing my Blog (OurDailyBread101.com) every night!

Let me tell you why I do this:

Psalms 145–150 in the TLB (The Living Bible) form a soaring crescendo of praise to our all-powerful God, culminating the Book of Psalms in joyful worship.

These chapters call believers to exalt the Lord continually for His greatness, goodness, creative power, and sovereign rule over heaven and earth.

Psalm 145 opens with personal, lifelong commitment:

“I will praise you, my God and King, and bless your name each day and forever.” It highlights God’s unsearchable greatness, glorious deeds, and kindness. Each generation should tell of His miracles. The Lord is merciful, slow to anger, full of love, and good to all. He is near to those who call on Him sincerely, fulfills desires of the reverent, protects lovers of God, and destroys the wicked. The psalmist urges all people to bless His holy name forever.

Psalm 146 warns against trusting in mortal leaders, who die and see their plans end.

True happiness comes from hoping in the God of Jacob—the Creator of heaven, earth, and seas, who keeps promises. He brings justice to the oppressed, feeds the hungry, frees prisoners, opens blind eyes, lifts burdens, loves the righteous, and cares for immigrants, orphans, and widows while frustrating the wicked. The Lord reigns forever.

Psalm 147 celebrates God’s delight in praise.

He rebuilds Jerusalem, gathers exiles, heals the brokenhearted, binds wounds, names the stars, and shows absolute power and unlimited understanding. He supports the humble and humbles the wicked. God sends rain, grows grass, feeds animals, and controls weather—from snow and hail to spring winds. He uniquely gave His laws to Israel. His joy rests on those who fear and hope in His kindness.

Psalm 148 issues a universal call to praise:

From heavens, angels, sun, moon, stars, skies, and clouds, to earth’s oceans, weather, mountains, trees, animals, and all people—kings, rulers, young and old. Everything exists by His command and obeys His orders. His glory surpasses earth and heaven; He strengthens His people, especially Israel.

Psalm 149 invites Israel to sing a new song, rejoice in their Maker and King, and praise with dancing, drums, and lyres.

The Lord delights in and honors His humble people. His faithful ones should praise even on their beds while wielding a “double-edged sword” to execute judgment on nations—binding kings in chains. God is the glory of His people.

Psalm 150 is the grand finale:

“Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!” Praise Him in His Temple and mighty heavens for His powerful works and unequaled greatness. Use trumpets, lutes, harps, drums, dancing, strings, horns, and loud cymbals. “Let everything alive give praises to the Lord! You praise him!”

These psalms teach us to praise our all-powerful God with wholehearted devotion, daily declaration, communal singing, instruments, dance, and lives aligned with His justice and care AND to teach our children how to Praise Him.

Praise flows from recognizing His creative might, compassionate rule, and eternal kingdom. It involves personal commitment, generational testimony, rejection of false trusts, and universal participation—from nature to humanity. In heaven and on earth, with every breath and tool, we exalt the King whose power, love, and glory demand unending “Hallelujah!”

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Let us Praise Him Daily!

A good way to learn to Praise God is to memorize the first 6 Verses of Psalms 148:

1 Praise the Lord, O heavens! Praise Him from the skies!

²Praise Him, all His angels, all the armies of heaven.

³Praise Him, sun and moon and all you twinkling stars.

⁴Praise Him, skies above. Praise Him, vapors high above the clouds.

⁵Let everything He has made give praise to Him. For He issued His command, and they came into being;

^{6 H}e established them forever and forever. His orders will never be revoked.

PLEASE read the last 6 Chapters of Psalms: 145-150 so that you will learn how to Praise God like David did!

If you don’t want to get your Bible, Here they all are, just click on each Chapter and I will read them to you:

PSALMS 145 PSALMS 146 PSALMS 147 PSALMS148 PSALMS 149 PSALMS 150

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JESUS IS:

THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH,

THE LEADER,

THE ORIGINATOR,

THE LORD & MASTER,

THE SUPREME LEADER,

OUR HOPE,

1ST BORN FROM THE DEAD WITH AN IMMORTAL BODY TO NEVER DIE AGAIN,

THE 1ST FRUITS OF THE RESURRECTION,

HE IS OUR FESTIVAL OF HOPE,

OUR PARDON,

GIVEN 1ST PLACE IN EVERYTHING,

HAS BEEN EXALTED AS SUPREME OVER EVERYTHING,

IS ENOUGH,

THE FULLNESS OF GOD DWELLS IN US THROUGH JESUS,

JESUS HAS BROUGHT US INTO HARMONY WITH GOD,

HE HAS BROKERED A PEACE TREATY BETWEEN GOD & MAN,

YOU WERE BORN ON THE WRONG SIDE, BUT BY ACCEPTING JESUS

YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE NOW,

YOU ARE BEYOND REPROACH,

JESUS WAS THE SOLUTION BEFORE YOU HAD A SIN PROBLEM,

NEVER GET OVER WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR YOU!

NOW:

THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH:

TO TEACH US TO LEAD OTHERS TO CHRIST!

AMEN!

(You might want to copy those down and memorize them!)

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DAILY BIBLE READING:

>1. Chapter for the DAY in Proverbs;

>2. PLUS: 1 NEW Chapter from the Old Testament AND

>3. PLUS: 1 NEW Chapter from the New Testament Daily:

Chapter 26 in Proverbs for today: (MAY 26 (MT) (ESV)

26 Like snow in summer or rain in harvest,
    so honor is not fitting for a fool.
²Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
    a curse that is causeless does not alight.
³A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,
    and a rod for the back of fools.
⁴Answer not a fool according to his folly,
    lest you be like him yourself.
⁵Answer a fool according to his folly,
    lest he be wise in his own eyes.
⁶Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool
    cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.
⁷Like a lame man’s legs, which hang useless,
    is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
⁸Like one who binds the stone in the sling
    is one who gives honor to a fool.
⁹Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard
    is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
¹⁰Like an archer who wounds everyone
    is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.^[a]
¹¹Like a dog that returns to his vomit
    is a fool who repeats his folly.
¹²Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes?
    There is more hope for a fool than for him.
¹³The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
    There is a lion in the streets!”
¹⁴As a door turns on its hinges,
    so does a sluggard on his bed.
¹⁵The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
    it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.
¹⁶The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
    than seven men who can answer sensibly.
¹⁷Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own
    is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.
¹⁸Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death
¹⁹is the man who deceives his neighbor
    and says, “I am only joking!”
²⁰For lack of wood the fire goes out,
    and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.
²¹As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,
    so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
²²The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
    they go down into the inner parts of the body.
²³Like the glaze^[b] covering an earthen vessel
    are fervent lips with an evil heart.
²⁴Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips
    and harbors deceit in his heart;
²⁵when he speaks graciously, believe him not,
    for there are seven abominations in his heart;
²⁶though his hatred be covered with deception,
    his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
²⁷Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,
    and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.
²⁸A lying tongue hates its victims,
    and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Footnotes

Proverbs 26:10 Or hires a fool or passersby
Proverbs 26:23 By revocalization; Hebrew silver of dross

CHAPTER 02 ISAIAH for today: (MAY 26 (JJ) (ESV)

2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²It shall come to pass in the latter days
    that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and all the nations shall flow to it,
³    and many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,^[a]
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴He shall judge between the nations,
    and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore.

⁵O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in the light of the Lord.

The Day of the Lord

⁶For you have rejected your people,
    the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things from the east
    and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines,
    and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
⁷Their land is filled with silver and gold,
    and there is no end to their treasures;
their land is filled with horses,
    and there is no end to their chariots.
⁸Their land is filled with idols;
    they bow down to the work of their hands,
    to what their own fingers have made.
⁹So man is humbled,
    and each one is brought low—
    do not forgive them!
¹⁰Enter into the rock
    and hide in the dust
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty.
¹¹The haughty looks of man shall be brought low,
    and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

¹²For the Lord of hosts has a day
    against all that is proud and lofty,
    against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
¹³against all the cedars of Lebanon,
    lofty and lifted up;
    and against all the oaks of Bashan;
¹⁴against all the lofty mountains,
    and against all the uplifted hills;
¹⁵against every high tower,
    and against every fortified wall;
¹⁶against all the ships of Tarshish,
    and against all the beautiful craft.
¹⁷And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
    and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
    and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
¹⁸And the idols shall utterly pass away.
¹⁹And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
    and the holes of the ground,^[b]
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    when he rises to terrify the earth.

²⁰In that day mankind will cast away
    their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
    to the moles and to the bats,
²¹to enter the caverns of the rocks
    and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    when he rises to terrify the earth.
²²Stop regarding man
    in whose nostrils is breath,
    for of what account is he?

Footnotes

Isaiah 2:3 Or teaching
Isaiah 2:19 Hebrew dust

Revelation 18

for today: (MAY 26

(NN) ESV)

18 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory. ²And he called out with a mighty voice,

“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
    She has become a dwelling place for demons,
a haunt for every unclean spirit,
    a haunt for every unclean bird,
    a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
³For all nations have drunk^[a]
    the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality,
and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her,
    and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”

⁴Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,

“Come out of her, my people,
    lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues;
⁵for her sins are heaped high as heaven,
    and God has remembered her iniquities.
⁶Pay her back as she herself has paid back others,
    and repay her double for her deeds;
    mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed.
⁷As she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
    so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,
since in her heart she says,
    ‘I sit as a queen,
I am no widow,
    and mourning I shall never see.’
⁸For this reason her plagues will come in a single day,
    death and mourning and famine,
and she will be burned up with fire;
    for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”

⁹And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning. ¹⁰They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,

“Alas! Alas! You great city,
you mighty city, Babylon!
For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

¹¹And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, ¹²cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, ¹³cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.^[b]

¹⁴“The fruit for which your soul longed
    has gone from you,
and all your delicacies and your splendors
    are lost to you,
    never to be found again!”

¹⁵The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,

¹⁶“Alas, alas, for the great city
    that was clothed in fine linen,
        in purple and scarlet,
    adorned with gold,
        with jewels, and with pearls!
¹⁷For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste.”

And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off ¹⁸and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning,

“What city was like the great city?”

¹⁹And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,

“Alas, alas, for the great city
    where all who had ships at sea
    grew rich by her wealth!
For in a single hour she has been laid waste.
²⁰Rejoice over her, O heaven,
    and you saints and apostles and prophets,
for God has given judgment for you against her!”

²¹Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,

“So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence,
    and will be found no more;
²²and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters,
    will be heard in you no more,
and a craftsman of any craft
    will be found in you no more,
and the sound of the mill
    will be heard in you no more,
²³and the light of a lamp
    will shine in you no more,
and the voice of bridegroom and bride
    will be heard in you no more,
for your merchants were the great ones of the earth,
    and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.
²⁴And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints,
    and of all who have been slain on earth.”

Footnotes

Revelation 18:3 Some manuscripts fallen by
Revelation 18:13 Or and slaves, and human lives

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Please Remember:

“CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS

AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD!”

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The Steps to Salvation:

> Repent: Repentance means that you are turning away from sin to turn to Christ. It does NOT mean that you will be perfect.

> Believe/Receive: Salvation is through Faith in Jesus and by the Grace of God. Believing means putting your Faith in Jesus and receiving forgiveness of sin.

>Walk in the Newness of Life: Jesus died so that we might live. We walk in the Newness of Life being Born Again by His Blood.

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GOD THE FATHER IS THE SOVEREIGN KING
AND CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE
UNIVERSE AND BEYOND!

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