GCF’s Psalm of Praise
We praise God
because God is faithful
because God has infinite love for us
because God forgives.
We praise God because God is faithful
and steadfast
because God will not let go of us.
because death could not hold him down
because God is king.
Because God rescued us from despair.
We praise God because God is sovereign,
because God is love that never leaves
because God saved.
Because in God there is truth.
We praise God because God is trustworthy.
We praise God because God has provided.
We praise God because God always cares,
is always gracious, always there,
always faithful.
We praise God because God protects, is never-changing, and trustworthy.
We praise God because God is actually for us when others are against us.
We praise God because God has given us hope and a future.
We praise God because God is love and
because God accepts us.
We praise because God is worthy, always there, trustworthy, and faithful.
We praise because God has created us and redeemed us.
Because God offers hope and a home.
We praise because God sacrificed his very self
to save us.
Because God protects us like a hen
protects her chicks.
Because God’s love
is deeper than the sea.
We praise because God is just
and because God is merciful.
We praise God because God doesn’t suck,
because God isn’t fake,
because God deals with our shit.
We praise God because God sees us.
Because God takes down the walls we build around ourselves
because God delights in us, is for us.
We praise because the sun shined today
and God made that.
We praise because mystery exists.
Because God has blessed.
Because we don’t live with sea monsters.
We praise because God rescues, all of us, all the time, every day.
We praise because even when we don’t praise, God is still God and we’re not.
We praise because music exists and God made that.
We praise because God isn’t going to let it all go to hell in a handbag.
Because God creates and sustains.
We praise God because God is the maker of each of us,
crazy, broken and beloved people.
Because God is good.
And God is God.