A Reverent Reflection (Psalm 66:3)

Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!”
– Psalm 66:3

Exclamation point. I’m just going to stop right there. There’s actually more in this verse and there’s so much in this Psalm that we could pray according to, but I love just this line.

Psalm 66:3 Shows the Psalmist Celebrating God’s Mejesty

Psalm 66:3, “Say to God,” This is a command in scripture. “Say to God, how awesome are your deeds!” And I just want to encourage you to do this, to periodically stop and just praise God for how awesome his deeds are and let your mind just wander in prayer as you praise him for all kinds of different deeds.

So I’ll lead us to do that now. I want to encourage you to make this a periodic practice in your life, whether it’s in your time alone with God, or when you’re just riding down the road or walking somewhere. Just have a free moment. Just stop for a minute and say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!”

Let’s do that right now. Oh God, your deeds are awesome. I praise you for your deeds. Throughout history, you split a sea in half and sent hundreds of thousands of people through on dry land as you saved them from slavery in Egypt. That was awesome, God. And after that, you provided food from the sky every day for your people. You provided water from rocks. God, that was awesome. You ledger people with a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night and directed where they went. You led them to Mount Sinai and you revealed yourself in a consuming fire and you gave them your word. That was awesome, oh God.

Psalm 66:3 Is a Testimony of God’s Awesome Works

And if we just think about all the other stories, there’s so many of them, God. You delivered Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego from a fiery furnace. That was awesome. You delivered Daniel from a den of lions. That was awesome. You delivered your people from Goliath and the Philistines through a shepherd boy. That was awesome. And Jesus, you came to us. I have no words to describe how awesome that was. And you fed over 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish and there were leftovers afterward. You walked on water. And you spoke and the wind and the waves totally calmed down. You spoke and people were healed. Lord, you spoke and people were delivered of demons. You spoke and dead people came to life. That was awesome. All of that was awesome.

We haven’t even gotten into what you did in the church in the New Testament as the gospel spread signs and wonders and thousands of people coming to know you in a day. That was awesome. And that was only the beginning, the day. There are hundreds of millions followers of Jesus that you’ve saved and you’ve saved more than that over history. All the awesome things you’ve done in 2,000 years in the church. And we haven’t even gotten to all the awesome things we’ve personally seen you do in our lives, the ways you’ve provided and cared for us and led us and guided us and protected us, and well, you saved us.

All your deeds are awesome, God, and we praise you for them. We praise you as the author of awesome deeds.

Praying for the Agariya People

And God, we pray that you would help us just like this Psalm, the next Psalm says, to make your awesome deeds known among all the nations. Oh God, so many people who’ve not heard of these awesome deeds have not heard of you, Jesus, and all the awesome deeds you did ultimately dying on a cross and rising from the dead, the most awesome deed in all of history. God, we pray that the Agariya people of India would hear of your awesome deeds and believe. We intercede for them right now and for thousands of other people groups like them. God, we pray that you would use us as your people to make your awesome deeds known among all the nations. As we say continually to you, oh God, in light of Psalm 66:3, “How awesome are your deeds!” In Jesus name, amen.

Praising God for His Awesome Deeds

And real quick, this came to my mind, right so as finishing praying. I want to encourage you to do this in your own life. Stop and say, “God, how awesome your deeds!” and just list them out. But not just in your own life. Do this with your family. Sit around the table for dinner and just talk about awesome deeds God’s done. Or before you go to bed at night, just praise God for awesome deeds. Or do this with your church.

It is so good when we’ve done this in our church family and our prayer gatherings. We just start listing out awesome deeds. And we could go on and on and on. And that’s kind of the point, because for all of eternity, God will be doing more and more awesome deeds. So we will never lack awesome deeds to praise him for. I just want to encourage you to do this, yes, alone with God, but also do this with others before God. Pray Psalm 66:3 together.