Bible Men: Ezra

The Great God!

And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. Neh 8:6 

Who is Like unto Thee O God?

Drop it. God is great.

Shout it. God is great.

Whisper it. God is great.

Who is a God like our God?

“Bless the Lord O my soul”!

“How great art thou!”

And God can’t be any other way but great.

It is a thought that lingers in the head like the ancient perfume.

It is a thought that stirs like a flame of fire in the heart.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. 

Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. Son 1:2-4  

I open my Bible and the words arrest me.

O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. 

Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Psa 139:1-6 

Really God? 

“O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.” 

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 

Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. 

But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Jer 1:5-7

And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. Eze 16:6 

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Job 38:4-7 

Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. Jer 20:9 

The God Who Stands Above the Whole Earth

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised. 

The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. 

Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high, 

Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth! Psa 113:3-6

For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods. Psa 97:9  

The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people. Psa 99:2  

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: Isa 40:15,22 

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Psa 8:3-9

I will Sing!

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. 

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. 

And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. Psa 27:1

O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. 

For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. Psa 47:1-2 

Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. Psa 21:13  

O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. 

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. 

For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. 

In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. 

The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. 

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. Psa 95:1-6

Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. 

Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Psa 113:1-2