I never thought I would ever be in a position to say something like this, but I just can’t help myself anymore: I am finding it almost impossible to not praise God! I mean, I find myself at the strangest times and in the weirdest places just bursting forth in words and songs of praise to my God—in English and in tongues! WOW!

I had always known that everyone who ever did that was nuts, and I was just as sure that anyone who witnessed me doing that would know that I too was NUTS! Well, I have reached the point where it simply doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks of me at all—I just can’t help myself! I will to—and I will praise my Lord!

That is what the Psalmist is addressing in 70.4-5: ‘But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation always say, “Let God be exalted!’” I know that feeling! I know what that means! It used to be that I could not exalt God, but now I cannot live without exalting my God!

How praising has changed in me is still a shock to my faith system, but I also know that I am helpless to do well even that. The Psalmist speaks to this: ‘Yet I am poor and needy; come quickly to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay.’ What a joy to realize that my God will even help me to praise him! MY HEART IS SET TO EXALT MY GOD!