Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the wonderful,

amazing closest friend, John, by the way. And if you've been following Follow Him Favorites this year,

you know that we take a single question from this week's lesson. Well, John, I wanted to ask you a

question. The title of this week's lesson is let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. And

it's all about the book of Psalms. My question for you, which I've received before from students,

is, why does God need to be praised so much? Is there something about him where he says, if you have

breath, you should be praising me. Wow. John, what do you say to someone who says, why does God need

to be praised so much? Or even that, why does he need to be praised too so much? Why does he need

to be glorified so much? What do you say to that? Boy, that's such a good question because I think,

I think when we think of why we might want to hear someone praise us is a different reason. I think

for God and boy, you can help me with your thoughts, Hank, but it tells us where our hearts and where

our minds are. If our hearts are on gratitude, on devotion, on our covenants, I think that our praise

is not helping him as much as it's helping us and it reveals kind of what's going on with us

and what's going on in our hearts. Some of these Psalms are like that just and they're so different

that way because it's not God's words through a prophet, but it's our words about God and the Lord

is my shepherd. I shall not want. He leads me beside still waters. It's not like God's going,

okay, I need more of that, but look how it changed the writer of that to be thinking and pondering

how it filled him with gratitude and can fill us with gratitude. That's where I would go with that.

What do you think? Yeah, I think when we say let everything have breath, praise the Lord. I think

the Lord knows that the praising changes the praise ur, not the praisee, right? Where you and I,

we love to be praised because people say, oh, John, Hank, you're so great. Thanks for doing this. We

think, oh, thank you. Please don't stop, right? Like, yeah, I don't stop. Don't stop. Yeah. But for

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