Unconditional Trust 3/26/17

 UNCONDITIONAL TRUST

 March 26, 2010

By Pastor Kim Hickcox

We often hear of God’s agape love, that unconditional love that is there NO MATTER WHAT! We know that His love is unconditional because:

1.     1 John 4:19, “We love Him, because He first loved us.” (NKJV) So He doesn’t love us through reciprocation.

2.     1 John 4:8, “…God is love.” (NKJV) It’s His very nature therefore it’s neither circumstantial nor emotional.

3.     Romans 8:35 & 37-39, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...³⁷Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. ³⁸For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹nor height, nor depth, not any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (NKJV)

Love has a partner, and that is TRUST! His unconditional love toward us needs to generate our unconditional trust toward Him.

·        Would you marry someone you didn’t trust?

·        Would you go into business with someone you didn’t trust?

·        Would you let someone stay in your home you didn’t trust?

·        Would you let someone watch your children you didn’t trust?

If it’s so necessary for us to be able to trust another person before we join with them, how can we not trust the omnipotent [all powerful], omniscient [all knowing], omnipresent [ever present] God? The One Who knows absolutely EVERYTHING – past, present, future and theoretical?

Proverb 3:5 tells us to, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.” (NKJV) And why does Proverb 3:5 tell us not to trust our own understanding? Because of what Jeremiah tells us in 51:17, “Everyone is stupid and ignorant…”. A bit harsh in the translation, but just know that our knowledge can’t even fill a thimble compared to God’s.

All the more reason as to how awesome it is to have a personal, loving relationship of unconditional acceptance with THE Creator of the universe, THE author/inspiration of the Bible, the One whose very power holds absolutely every molecule to every thing together – the One without Whom anything would even exist! How can we NOT trust Him?

He made the world. He made us. He gave us a book full of truth. He gave us a foolproof way to be with Him all the time so He can help us with everything whenever we need or want it! How can we not trust Jesus?

Trust is actually another word for faith. Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen.” (CSB) When you have faith in someone to do something – you are trusting them to do it before it’s done. Trust is faith.

All of us have trusted in the truth that when we accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Savior, He:

1)    Now lives inside us as does the Father according to John 14:11, as does the Holy Spirit (John 16:7).

2)    Forgave us of every single sin or wrong we have ever committed or will ever commit (Colossians 3:13-14).

3)    Changed our spiritual lineage and heritage from Adam’s family to God’s family, so that we are now co-heirs with Him throughout eternity (Romans 8:14-17).

4)    Changed our eternity from one of never-ending punishment and separation from Him to one of a never-ending paradise with Him (Colossians 1:9-14).

Now if we can trust Him to do all that, just by believing and accepting Him personally as our Savior, how can we not trust Him for anything else? What’s too hard for Him to do? Nothing!

Trust is faith and Hebrews 11:6 says that without faith it is impossible to please God. But you’re not out to please someone you don’t trust, are you?

Trust can keep us out of the grip of uncontrollable fear. Fear not is written 78 times in the Bible! He is not speaking of not getting scared, but He is speaking of the paralyzing fear that is so powerful that it stops you cold. Your thinking is controlled by it; you can’t sleep or function because it is controlling you.

The Lord assures us that this is not necessary 78 times in His Word. Now, being God, He really only has to say something once don’t you think? Why do you suppose He has emphasized this so much? Because it’s so powerful and we are so prone to subdue ourselves to it.

There is a healthy fear, which is just an alarm that goes off in us telling us that caution should be used, but that’s not what the Lord is addressing here. He is talking about the spirit of fear that can control us. Romans 8:31 says, “…If God is for us, who can be against us?” (NKJV) The PKV – Pastor Kim Version – translation of the Bible, reads like this: If God is for us, who can be against us, and who cares if they are?

Fear is one of those facets in our emotional make up that can cripple us:

A few years ago, when I was a professional Guardian in Pinellas County, I was summoned before a judge to submit my annual paperwork. The problem was that the attorney I was working with dropped me and it was a legal necessity to have an attorney sign off on my annual reports.

Well, as the time to appear got closer and closer, I went into a full-blown panic! I didn’t have an attorney, and as I was looking for pro-bono work, couldn’t find anyone to sign off with me. This meant that when I went in to the judge and presented my report without an attorney I would be in contempt of court! This carried a minimum $1000 fine and/or 30 days in jail.

Can you understand my panic? JAIL? That’s where they keep criminals! I’m not a criminal! I can’t go to jail! I didn’t have $1000 either! The whole reason I was trying to find a pro-bono attorney is because I didn’t have the $500 they charged just for a signature either!

When I shared my dilemma with others in the field, they just shook their head in remorse, telling me how merciless this particular judge was. So needless to say, I stopped talking to anyone about it.

By the time the night before my appearance got here, all I could do was lie on my bed and quote “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”, hoping it would give me peace. It didn’t.

So as I sat in the waiting room, wondering how much stiffer the penalty would be if I just bolted, I just kept telling the Lord that it was just Him and me. I had no one else. I was scared to death, but I knew I was walking in with Him. As I walked in I was shaking.

The judge looked up and asked me if I was alright. No, I wasn’t. I handed him the list of attorneys I had called during the past 2 months, trying to get one to work with me, and explained that no one came to my aide. I apologized for not filing my reports on time, but without an attorney, I didn’t know what to do.

He looked at the list, which was over 2 pages long and covered 3 counties, and instantly became very angry – at them! He went on and on about how terrible it was that no one would help me! Then he dictated a letter for me to type up and sign with a place for his signature also. This letter gave me his personal permission to file all present and future reports to the State with my signature alone!

I danced out of that office! “If God is for us, who can be against us?” “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.”

I prayed and prayed for Him to lead me to an attorney who would help me. And all I know is: when God did it His way – He received LOT & LOTS of glory and for years! Had He done things the way I asked for, He would have received just a little glory. I would still have been very grateful, but I doubt if I would be repeating this story 20 years later.

Trust means that you have confidence that God can do things His way even when they don’t line up with your ideas:

·        Parting the Red Sea was probably not how Moses visualized crossing it and escaping from the Egyptians. (Exodus 14:10-31)

·        Nor was hitting a rock probably his first idea as to how to get water for everyone in the dessert. (Exodus 17:1-7)

·        Marching around Jericho and then yelling at it was probably not how the Hebrews envisioned taking down their first city in the Promised Land. (Joshua 6)

·        The Disciples were pretty baffled when Jesus fed 5000 families with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish too. (Luke 9:12-17)

Our God is a creator let Him be creative in your life too! It’s the most thrilling roller coaster ride you’ll ever get on!! And the landing is always safe!

[Speaking of being creative…]

Know that when God has decreed something – it will happen! You can put you trust in that too.

In 1^st Kings 20, Israel was going to war. In vss 13 & 28, a prophet of God told King Ahab that He was going to win this war against the Syrians for them, so everyone would know that He is God. So the army killed 120,000 in one day, but 27,000 escaped. So in verse 30, we read, “…the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon 27,000 of the men that were left…” (NKJV) God said the Syrian army was going to lose that day and Israel would win! Syria tried to run and hide so they could regroup and come back – God said no.

And just so you know – Ahab was an extremely evil king. But God was proving that He existed because lots of people (lots of Israelites) were doubting Him at the time.

Trusting in God takes time and experience. Experience means that things are going to happen that you either can’t fix or can’t control at all. But we have another promise from Him that we can hold on to – Romans 8:25-30, “But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with patience. ²⁶In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groaning. ²⁷And He Who searches the hearts knows the Spirits’ mind-set, because He intercedes for the saints {all believers are saints} according to the will of God. ²⁸We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose. ²⁹For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰And those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified.” (SCB)

Unconditional trust MUST be the life that we aspire to, because:

1.     Trust is love’s partner.

2.     Trust is faith.

3.     Trust keeps us from living in fear.

4.     And because when God says something is going to happen – IT WILL. For there’s no one or no thing powerful enough to stop it!

I challenge each of you to not try to figure out everything for yourself nor to put all of your trust in other people – but to put your trust in God, the only One who is truly worthy of it! The only One who will never let you down!!

Genesis 3/11/17

GENESIS

March 11, 2017
By Pastor Kim Hickcox

(All Scripture taken from One New Man Bible unless otherwise noted)

THE COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION

Genesis 17: 9-14

“And God said to Avraham, ‘Therefore you shall keep My covenant, you, and your seed after you in their generations. ¹⁰This is My covenant, which you will keep, between Me and you and your seed after you. Every man child among you will be circumcised. ¹¹And you will circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and it will be a token of the covenant between Me and you. ¹²And he that is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male in your generations, he that is born in the house or bought from any stranger who is not of your seed. ¹³He that is born in your house and he that is bought with your money must definitely be circumcised. And My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. ¹⁴And the uncircumcised male whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.’”

The covenant of circumcision was an outer sign of an inner condition:

As far as being a physical sign goes, it served to tell who was Hebrew and who was not to both the heathen and fellow Hebrew, should proof ever be needed. But more than that, it showed who was a follower or believer in Yah Weh, whether they were of the Hebrew tribes or not.

As far as being symbolic goes, we see this meaning in:

Jeremiah 4:4 “Circumcise yourselves to the LORD and take away the foreskins of your heart…” which is a sign of a follower/believer in Yah Weh.

Deuteronomy 10:16-18 “Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and no longer be stiff necked,” as in living stubbornly against God. And why should we not be like that? “For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, a great, a mighty, and an awesome God, Who does not show favoritism or take a bribe, ¹⁸executing judgment for the fatherless and widow, and loving the stranger, in giving him food and clothing.”

Romans 2:28-29 “For the Jewish person is not the one to be plainly recognized by what he wears, his prayer shawl or kippah, and neither is circumcision  just openly in the flesh,²⁹but the one is Jewish inwardly, and circumcised in his heart in spirit not letter, whose praise is not from people but from God.” In ‘spirit not letter’ refers to being born-again as opposed to just following the Teaching [Law] or Torah, which many do but do not believe in Messiah, both then and today.

It is also mentioned by Stephen during his speech encapsulating Hebrew history (Acts 7:8) just before he was stoned for his faith in Y’shua.

Why was it ordained to be done in the eighth day (verse 12)? Because this is the day, scientists discovered just a few short years ago, when the blood flow to that area is the least that it will ever be. (Why they don’t wait and do it then just on that discovery alone, I will never know, but unfortunately they don’t.)

Speaking as delicately as possible, I believe the Holy Spirit has given me a couple of points of insight as to why this particular covenant was given (making it unconditional). The physical and spiritual signs of circumcision are incredible!

The foreskin taken away during a physical circumcision covers and therefore protects or shields what we commonly refer to as the head of that particular organ. And while this can be a good thing, it also needs to be kept immaculately clean and dry as it is in an excellent atmosphere in which to become infected or even moldy, not allowing proper air circulation.

When our hearts (and minds) are covered by their foreskin, the same thing happens. We become infected by the worldly influences and actually are protected or shielded against the fresh air or calling of the Holy Spirit on our hearts.

The aforementioned physical foreskin is also the covering for that which produces future generations. The foreskin of our hearts will also taint future generations in perpetuating generational curses as well as misconceptions of the One True God and Savior, until it is stripped away, because Truth is what we are really shielded from and the enemy of our soul is the one who really wants us to stay protected from knowing the Truth. “I AM the Way and the Truth and the Life: no one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)

THE CHANGING OF SARAI’S NAME

Genesis 17:15-16

“And God said to Abraham, ‘As for Sarai your wife, you will not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah. ¹⁶And I will bless her and give you a son also from her. Yes, I will bless her and she will be a mother of nations; king of peoples will be of her.’”

We can also trail the truth of Sarah’s Promise with the genealogy listed in Matthew as we did Abraham’s last week, as it all sprang from Isaac, which we will see in verse 19 will be Sarah’s son from Abraham.

The Lord changed her name from Sarai, meaning My Princess, to Sarah, meaning Princess. This elevated Sarah from Abraham’s possession to his equal, as her name was no longer possessive. She was now his equal by virtue of her new name. This is, of course, the way the Lord originally created us and marriage to be.

Eve did not come from Adam’s head so as to lord over him. Neither did she come from his foot so as to be trampled over by him. She was created from his rib, to be a completing equal and helper for and to him. A partner to go through life side-by-side, as every marriage should be.

ABRAHAM’S SURPRISING RESPONSE

Genesis 17:17-21

“Then Abraham fell upon his face and laughed, and said in his heart, ‘Will a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?’ ¹⁸And Abraham said to God, ‘Oh! That Ishmael might live before You!’ ¹⁹And God said, ‘Sarah your wife will indeed bear a son for you; and you will call his name Isaac. And I shall establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. ²⁰And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He will beget twelve princes and I shall make him a great nation.²¹But I shall ratify My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year.’”

See? Verse 17 tells me that we ALL have times when we just can’t grasp what God is trying to tell us! (Be it in His Word or by personal revelation.) What we have to remember is that we are loved and adopted by a supernatural God, Who does NOT have to act within the realm of the natural if it doesn’t fit His plan! He is MORE THAN able to go above and beyond the natural to bring whatever He has ordained come to pass.

Look at Y’shua! 100% man and 100% God. How can anything be 200% of anything?! The only way I can even begin to wrap my head around that is to think that He is 100% God on the inside wrapped up in a human suit complete with skin, blood, etc. It ain’t exactly theologically correct, but it works for me. Sometimes.

And I do believe that verse 19, “And God said, ‘Sarah your wife will indeed bear a son for you; and you will call his name Isaac. And I shall establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him’’’ is where the Koran and the Bible split ways.

Although there are those who will insist that Jehovah and Allah are one in the same, and use Abraham and Creation as their proofing ground, please refer to Genesis 17:19-21. There IS a difference.

It is true that Ishmael was loved, blessed and honored by the One True God. His everlasting covenant however, which includes the land that is even now being fought over, was clearly given to Isaac’s descendants. And although we see no real animosity between the two people in Abraham’s day, they, like Jacob and Esau (Isaac’s two grandsons, which we will learn about a bit later), did not remain family such as we know it.

Ishmael became the patriarch of the Arabic people. And although Allah is the word for God in Arabic, when a Muslim uses it, it is not the same God we love.  However, up until the Islamic religion came along, all was relatively peaceful between the peoples of Abraham’s (first two) sons. But then the tide turned, and will never revert back until Y’shua returns.

When a Muslim shouts Allah Akhbar they will tell you that they are saying God is Great. Who can argue with that? However, they are not referring to the King of the Universe. And they are not saying God is Great, but Allah is the Greatest. The greatest means that there are others in the list. You cannot be the greatest if you are in a category of one.

Allah is actually the god of war and chosen out of the 360 or so Canaanite gods. So when you worship a god of war, nothing would be too cruel or too inhuman to do would it? Like recruiting children and training them to be suicide bombers. This does NOT come from the God of Love. The God Who died for the forgiveness of our sin.

So please, pray for the Islamic people. Pray for Ishmael’s people. Pray for those who have adopted this religion. The God of Love still love them! “This is good and acceptable before God our Savior, ⁴Who wants all mankind to be saved and to come to true and precise and correct knowledge. ⁵For there is one God and one Mediator between God and mankind, the man Messiah Y’shua, ⁶the One Who gave Himself, a ransom on behalf of all, His testimony at a suitable time.” 1^st Timothy 2:3-6

“You are the light of the world. A city laid out on a mountain is not able to be hidden: ¹⁵and they do not light a lamp and place it under a peck measure but upon the lamp stand, and it gives light for all those in the house. ¹⁶Your light must now shine like this before all mankind, so that they would see your good deeds and they would glorify your Father, the One in the heavens.”Matthew 5:14-16

Genesis 3/4/17

GENESIS

March 4, 2017
By Pastor Kim Hickcox

(All Scripture taken from One New Man Bible unless otherwise noted.)

“And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, ‘I AM the Almighty God [El-Shaddai]! Walk before Me and be perfect. ²And I will give My covenant between Me and you and will multiply you exceedingly.’ ³And Abram fell on his face and God talked with him saying, ⁴‘As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you will be a father of many nations.’” Genesis 17:1-4

Notice when the Lord came to Abram to give him a covenant, He used His name: I AM, which we learned earlier is the very powerful name Anokhi, and is used when the Lord needs to express an incredibly deliberate and intense purpose or action. Then He substantiates it with El-Shaddai, Almighty God!

Three more items of note said in these first 4 verses:

a.      ‘Walk before Me and be perfect.’ (verse 1b) The word translated as perfecthere, means maturely. The Lord by no means expected nor expects any of us to ever be perfect! He’s omniscient, after all. But He does want us to walk in Spiritual maturity. Which is, doing what know is right simply because it is right and wanting to please our God Whom we love. And this of course applies when we are alone also, as it is a heart condition – which should NOT be a wanting-to-impress-people condition.

b.     ²And I will give My covenant between Me and you and will multiply you exceedingly.’ (verse 2) As we discussed two weeks ago, when God gives a covenant, it is unconditional. Which should then reinforce the last part of verse 1, in that Abram’s walking in perfection or even in total maturity is neither a condition for the covenant nor an expectation.

AND may I note: neither is it a condition for our covenant! He knows just what He was getting when He got us! This is recorded many times in Scripture, probably because He knew that we would have to be reassured of this many, many times:

“…He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world…” Ephesians 1:4

“…I know whom I selected…” John 13:18

“And we must give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers, as you have been loved by the Lord, because God chose you, First Fruits in salvation by means of sanctification of spirit and faith in the truth, ¹⁴to which He called youthrough our gospel in obtaining the glory of our Lord Y’shua Messiah.” 2^ndThessalonians 2:13-14 (bold mine for emphasis)

“…but I have called you friends, because everything which I heard from My Father I made known to you. ¹⁶You did not chose Me, but I chose you and I placed you so you would go and you would bear fruit and your fruit would remain, so that whatever you would ask the Father in My Name He would do for you.” John 15:15-16

So when we say This is when we found the Lord, it’s not that He was playing hide-and-seek and we finally found His hiding place. It’s more like He had been chasing us our whole lives, and when we finally allow Him to tackle us, He turns us to face Him and we say, in all astonishment, There You are!!

c.      ‘As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you will be a father of many nations.’ (verse 4) After Sarah died (see Genesis 23:1-2), Abraham married again. And although we know that Isaac was God’s chosen one for the line of His Hebrew people, the covenant we read today stating that ‘you will be a father of many nations’ was at least partially fulfilled with his second marriage as seen in Genesis 25:1-6, “Then Abraham went and took a wife and her name was Keturah.²And she bore him Zimran, Yokshan, Medan, Midian, Yishbak, and Shuakh. ³And Yokshan begot Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. ⁴And the sons of Midian; Ephah, Efer, Hanoch, Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. ⁵And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. ⁶But to the sons of the concubines that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts and sent them away, eastward, to the east country from Isaac his son while he yet lived.”

I’m sure you recognize a few [patriarchal] names in the list, and considering verse 5, it’s no wonder they all eventually became enemies of Israel.

Now as I have already used the names of both Abram and Sarai when the Lord changed them, we will end with that, as it is part of the same covenant proclamation:

After the Lord tells Abram he will be the father of many nations, He says, “Neither will your name any more be called Avram^*, but your name shall be Avraham^*; for I have made you a father of many nations. ⁶And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you. ⁷And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you, and your seed after you. ⁸And I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” Genesis 17:5-8

Now forgetting all the future heathen nations that will actually be related to, and yet come against God’s chosen people, let us turn to Matthew 1:2-16, where we see that not only was Avraham blessed with kings in his lineage, but also the King of kings!

“Abraham begat Isaac, Isaac begat Jacob, Jacob begat Judah and his brothers^**. ³And Judah begat Perez and Zerach by Tamar, and Perez begat Hezron, and Hezron begat Ram, ⁴and Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nashon, and Nashon begat Salmon, ⁵and Salmon begat Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz begat Obed by Ruth and Obed begat Jesse, ⁶and Jesse begat David the king.

“And David begat Solomon by the wife of Urriah, ⁷and Solomon begat Rehoboam, and Rehoboam begat Abijah, and Abijah begat Asa, ⁸and Asa begat Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begat Joram, and Joram begat Uzziah, ⁹and Uzziah begat Jotham, and Jotham begat Ahaz, and Ahaz begat Hezekiah, ¹⁰and Hezekiah begat Manasseh, and Manasseh begat Ammon, and Ammon begat Josiah, ¹¹and Josiah begat Jeconiah and his brothers in the time of the Babylonian captivity.

“¹²After the Babylonian captivity Jeconiah begat Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begat Zerubbabel,¹³and Zerubbabel begat Abiud, and Abiud begat Azor, ¹⁴and Azor begat Sadok, and Sadok begat Achim, and Achim begat Elihud, ¹⁵and Elihud begat Eliakim, and Eliakim begat Matthan, and Matthan begat Jacob, ¹⁶and  Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Miriam, of whom was born Y’shua, the One called Messiah.”

WHEW! I had forgotten how long that was! But it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that when the Lord blesses – He pulls out all the stops!

The kings of Judah run from David through Eliakim, which makes 23! There was some interruption there and partial kingships due to Nebuchadnezzar, but the Word of the Lord was indeed fulfilled and as always, in abundance! And WE are heirs in this covenant also and more! Not only can we claim all the Lord’s blessings He promised to His people, because we are now one of His people too, but above and beyond that, “because He predestined us into adoption through Y’shua Messiah into Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will” (Ephesians 1:5) Did you catch that?  He chose us, past, present and future warts and all “according to the good pleasure of His will”!! Does it get any better than that?!? “Praise the LORD, for His loving kindness endures forever.” (2^nd Chronicles 20:21)

Let us close with Aaron’s Priestly Blessing, (as WE are also now a royal priesthood to Him according to what He told Peter, who wrote to the congregation and told us in 1^st Peter 2:9) followed by Psalm 150.

Numbers 6:24-26, “The LORD will bless you and He will keep you. ²⁵The LORD will make His face to shine upon you and He will be gracious to you. ²⁶The LORD will lift His countenance to you and He will establish Shalom for you.” Which means that on good thing will be withheld from you.

Therefore –

“Hallelu Yah! Praise God in His Sanctuary! Praise Him in the firmament of His power! ²Praise Him for His mighty acts! Praise Him according to His excellent greatness! ³Praise Him with the sound of the shofar! Praise Him with the lute and harp! ⁴Praise Him with the tambourine and dance! ⁵Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes! ⁵Praise Him upon the loud cymbals! Praise Him upon the high sounding cymbals! ⁶Everyone who has breath will praise the LORD! Hallelu Yah!” Psalm 150

SHALOM!!!