Dear BAGBR Church,  

Psalm 145: 4, "One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts."

This is the last Psalm specifically attributed to David.  It is a Psalm of high praise to God.  If our worship and praise to God are focused solely on our weekly worship and it is not passed on to the next generation, we have fallen short in worship. What happens in church SHOULD NOT stay there but MUST be expressed through every area of our life.   How do we "pass the faith along?"  Praise is not simply what we do at a gathered worship but revealed in the content of our life in each and every situation.  If we only declare the greatness of our God in the context of corporate gatherings, then,  are we worshipping or performing?  David noted two ways that we ought to express our faith and "pass it along" to the next generation.  We first do so by declaring His works.  His works are those daily provisions for our daily needs and for help with decisions as we live out our faith.  We see the hand of God constantly working in all areas of our life, and we readily and consistently express that in conversations.  We also give witness of those mighty acts of God that have been so impactful in our life.  We tell our testimony of when we were saved; we talk about God's call on our life and when this occurred.  We are quick to share about the times and situations that God intervened in our life to provide, deliver, direct, and show Himself strong in our life (2 Chronicles 16: 9a). 

When our lives are full of testimonies about His works and mighty acts this will be a blessing to the next generation, and also a living example for them.  A life so blessed by God and acknowledged regularly will stir within the next generation the desire for the same and will prompt them to want to seek the Lord to live a life of obedience.  Passing the faith along to the next generation is more "caught than taught."  We are to be living examples of obedience indeed and truth (1 John 3: 18).  May the next generation know our stories. And may they daily be writing their own stories and telling them to their next generation(s) (2 Corinthians 3: 2-3).