"Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!"
—Psalm 100:4
"It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to sing praises to your name, O Most High."
—Psalm 92:1
"I will sing of steadfast love and justice;
to you, O Lord, I will make music."
—Psalm 101:1
"Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name;
make known his deeds among the peoples!
Sing to him, sing praises to him;
tell of all his wondrous works!
—Psalm 105:1-2
"Praise the Lord!
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heavens!
Praise him for his mighty deeds;
praise him according to his excellent greatness!
Praise him with trumpet sound;
praise him with lute and harp!
Praise him with tambourine and dance;
praise him with strings and pipe!
Praise him with sounding cymbals;
praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!"
—Psalm 150:1-6
For the born-again (regenerated) Christian, who is made new in Christ, transformed and reborn, made into a new creature, God the Holy Spirit lives inside that person and, when that person spends intimate time with their Lord and walks in obedience to God, the Holy Spirit can fill up every part of that person's being, empowering that person to do only what is the will of God, and filling that person with an otherworldly joy that no unbeliever has ever experienced. Though sin will immediately quench the filling of the Holy Spirit, there is forgiveness (1 John 1:9), and that intimacy can once again be achieved by spending time with God. Though each and every one of us has sinned countless times against a perfectly pure, holy, righteous, awesome and fearful God, and though each and every one of us fully deserves to be punished terribly in hellfire and damnation for all eternity (for God's creation has rebelled and turned against Him), in His love, and for His glory, the Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus the Messiah, God the Son, has come down to be born as one of the lowly creatures He created, and has suffered torture and even death for us, legally taking our place by dying in our place, the Son satisfying the wrath of the Father and drinking fully of the cup of the wrath of the Father, so that those whose names were chosen before the beginning of time will turn to Him and be trophies of His grace, mercy and love; while those who continue to rebel and mutiny against a holy, righteous God, and never accept the offered forgiveness of God, will nevertheless still bring glory to God by being examples of God's justice, and being instruments of God's wrath.
To Yahweh God we give praise, honor and thanksgiving. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, the three in one.
(I drew this in Adobe Illustrator. When I first uploaded it as a JPEG, it had a white bar on the left side. So now I have re-saved it as a JPEG from Photoshop, after cropping out the white vertical bar in Photoshop.
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