{"id":198,"date":"2010-10-12T18:40:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T02:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upstreamteens.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/12\/discussion-praise\/"},"modified":"2013-04-12T15:07:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T22:07:53","slug":"discussion-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/upstreamteens.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/discussion-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion: Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is praise?<\/p>\n<p>Do you have difficulty recognizing what you have been blessed with?<\/p>\n<p>How can you praise God? What sorts of situations make you think of thanking God?<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 25:1 (NIV)<br \/>\nO Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago.<\/p>\n<p>David wrote a lot of songs about God and how awesome he is. 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