Ever have your pen “catch fire”? Mine did, on March 3.

That’s when I began to list 10,000 reasons to worship Him.

I thought I would just list ten for the day. So in my journal I wrote…

1- He is the Creator Who made all this wondrous creation (Gen 1:1)

2 – He has been from the beginning (John 1:1)

3 – He is a great Deliverer (Ex 14)

4 – He condescends to lead His people on earth (Ex 13:17,21-22; 14:1-2)

5 – He brings them forth out of bondage (Ex 15:13)

6 – He does great wonders (Ex 15:11)

7 – He is a great Warrior more powerful than human armies (Ex 15:3-4)

8 – He is a guide to His people (Ex 15:13)

9 – The LORD is His name — “I AM THAT I AM,” packed with meaning (Ex 3:14-15)

10- He shall reign forever and ever! (Ex 15:18)…

But that’s when my pen started catching fire, and went blazing across the page, speaking my heart…

“Goodness! This is exhilarating! There’s so much here, in just this little piece of scripture (Ex 15) and surrounding chapters. I want to keep going ! And since it’s March 3 today, and I wanted to do this for the month of March, well, I could do two more sets (Yay!)

11 – God fights for His people in ways they cannot, even making it unnecessary for them to fight (Ex 14:14), but simply trust and move forward as He directs.

12 – He can part the waters at will (Ex 14:21-22)

13 – The LORD has saving power (Ex 14:30)

14 – He is people’s salvation (Ex 15:2) (And He has become my salvation!)

15 – He is the God of generations past (Ex 15:2)

16 – His right [strong] hand is glorious in power (Ex 15:3)

17 – He overthrows those who rise against Him (Ex 15:7)

18 – His wrath has power to consume men like straw stubble (Ex 15:7)

19 – He is fearful in praises (Ex 15:11)

20 – He is glorious in holiness (Ex 15:11)

“And still rolling on like a high-speed train…

21 – He is our Provider (Ex 15 -16)

22 – He can make the bitter water sweet (Ex 15:23-25)

23 – He  can rain bread from heaven (Ex 16:4)

24 – He provides bread daily, that we might learn to trust Him one day at a time (Ex 16, Mt 6:11,25-26,31-33)

25 – The LORD has power to protect from disease (15:26)

26 – He heals (Ex 15:26)

27 – And He places disease on people, for His own good reasons (Ex 15:26)

28 – The LORD hears the complaints of His people against Him (Ex 16:7-12)

29 – The LORD tests His people, to reveal whether they’ll walk in His ways (Ex 16:4 – whether they’ll trust Him enough to do so)

30 – He provides rest (Ex 16:23,29-30)

“I still could go on… but I shall restrain my pen till tomorrow.” 

And thus I experienced first hand how His praise can feed on itself and grow and become glorious.

I pray you’ll experience this, too. Starting with just five…? ten… ? twenty? growing, growing, glowing, glowing… and that you’ll link up, or offer your praises in the comments, here:

(Go to the end of the post, and before the comments, to find the link-up for today)

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