God has blessed us with so much. God has blessed us with our life, our health, and strength.

The praise we owe God goes beyond our feelings and/or situation. When we’re in the mindset where we don’t feel like praising God whether in church or elsewhere, we should…

  1. Think of Jesus.

-I’m sure Jesus didn’t feel like separating Himself from the Father and dying on the cross for us. But, He moved beyond His feelings and obeyed the Father.

2.   Think of the goodness of God.

-We hear this time and time again but, when we think about all the wonderful things God has done for us, I’m confident we can find at least one thing to give God praise for.

3.   Force the Praise.

-Some people feel like our praise is not honorable to God if we have to force ourselves to praise God. They have the mindset where if you’re not going to praise God with gladness and joy, we shouldn’t do it at all. That’s not true. God commands and deserves our praise. He doesn’t care how He gets it. As soon as we start forcing ourselves to praise God, God is pleased. Even if our emotions are not involved with our praise, God is pleased. The funny thing is, as we continue in our forceful praise, our emotions attach themselves to the goodness of God. Eventually, our praise becomes “real” where our emotions are involved and we can praise God with gladness and joy.

Move beyond your feelings and praise God.

Psalm 145:21 My mouth will speak in praise of the LORD. Let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever.