Billy Graham is said to pray five psalms a day so he can pray the entire book in a month's time. That practice is truly laudable and is a great discipline for anyone to undertake. Moreover, it is a wonderful way to delve into the divine prayer book. If you have never prayed through the Psalms consider giving it a try, as it will change your life. One author once wrote, “Prayer is more than a tool for self-expression, a means to get God to give us what we want. It is a means he uses to give us what he wants, and to teach us what he wants.” Psalm 8 is a great passage that speaks to praising God.

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¹O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 

 ²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

 ³When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 

 ⁴What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

 ⁵For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.  

 ⁶Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 

 ⁷All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

 ⁸The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

 ⁹O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!