So communion with God in thanks and praise. We're still in the prayer section, just coming

at the issue of fellowship with God by our speaking to God in various ways.

And now we're focusing on one of the ways you speak to God is in thanks and in praise. You are my God and I give thanks to you.

You are my God. I extol you. Develop a vocabulary like that.

Thanks and extol are two words there.

Build words like that into your language

so that when you come to him,

you don't have to slip into ruts.

You have lots of language.

So I'm a Christian hedonist.

I'm always trying to build my vocabulary, lest I am stuck with one word like satisfied.

Okay? I want to be satisfied in God and cherish God and delight in God and

be glad in God and rejoice in God and extol God and prize God and

I just keep trying to add I get out my thesaurus sometimes.

Thesaurus for praise. sometimes.

The Sthorus for praise, thesaurus for satisfies, the thethaurus for happy.

Because I want my language to be fresh for people.

They don't want it to sound tired and old, bogged down in same old, same old.

And pastors and anybody who wants their language to be helpful in any relationship needs

to expend a little bit of effort to say thing another way. Say it another way.

You have turned for me my morning into dancing. you have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.

My soul, that my soul may sing praise to you and not be silent.

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