A Rainy Palm Sunday

How is your Sunday going?  

We have enjoyed a great Sunday even though it has been raining most of the day.

We had a wonderful church service.  The sermon was very powerful.

Today is Palm Sunday.

Our pastor preached from Luke 19 this morning.


37When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:


38"Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!"

"Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"

39Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"


40"I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."

As our pastor pointed out the Pharisees were amongst the cheering crowd trying to stop the people from loudly praising God.

It applies to us today.   Satan tries to do anything and everything to stop our praise.

When going through hard times it is hard to praise God.  Those are times to praise God even more. The enemy is hoping we won't praise God at all but especially during hard and trying times.

Praise honors God.  God is worthy of ALL praise.   To borrow a line from Facing the Giants,  "We will praise Him when we win and praise Him if we don't." 

I love verse 40,  Jesus tells the Pharisees that even if no one praised Him the rocks would cry out!

The enemy cannot silence the praises of God.  

"Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; and to him who orders his conduct aright I will show the salvation of God." Ps. 50:23

"Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb , forever and ever!

Speaking of praise,  as I was typing this it was raining..a steady rain, tornado warnings in neighboring counties and yet as I finished the first sentence in this post, God brought the sun out, and I laid the laptop down and grabbed my camera and headed outside. 

I praise God for the break in the storm clouds

I praise God for the Spring flowers :)

I praise God for the blooms on the trees.

I Praise God for the rain that is making the grass green. :)

I pray Jesus for loving us and for dying on the Cross for us.

I praise God that he can bring a little sunshine on a rainy day and for His beautiful creation!!