Day 20 - 21st March: Blessed be Your name

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Luke 61:22-23
Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.

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​I think this is probably my second or third earliest ‘favourite’ song (behind My Jesus, My Saviour and the riff from Touching Heaven, Changing Earth) and is certainly one that stuck with me for ages. 
At uni, I heard about a Christian festival called Greenbelt that was based at Cheltenham racecourse.  When I went, there’d recently been some quite bad flooding nearby that had affected the local area.  We were worshipping at the main stage where Matt Redman (the author) was signing the song, and as we get to the second verse where it says ‘when the sun’s shining down on me’ for the first time that weekend the sun comes out from the clouds and lights up the whole area.  We all sang that verse a couple of times in response to God. 
No matter whether you’re going through a desert place (like Jesus was), or the world’s all as it should be – take the time to praise God today for who He is.