~Let’s Just Praise the Lord

       Bill and I received a letter not long ago that said, I don’t understand your song ‘Let’s Just Praise the Lord.’ Why do you say ‘just’? That doesn’t make any sense to me—just praise the Lord.

       That same week there was a letter from a young mother who had buried their nine-year-old daughter a few days before. She said, “Our daughter was with us at your concert a year ago, and we sang together as a family with you, ‘Let’s Just Praise the Lord.’ I didn’t fully realize then why you say ‘Just’, but I do now. Sometimes we just go on praising the Lord, when there’s nothing else to do.”

—Gloria Gaither

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Let's Just Praise the Lord

(1) Let's just praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

Let's just lift our hearts to heaven and praise the Lord;

Let's just praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

Let's just lift our hearts to heaven and praise the Lord!

(2) O we thank You for Your kindness, we thank You for Your love,

We have been in heavenly places, felt blessings from above;

We've been sharing all the good things, the family can afford,

Let's just turn our praise toward heaven and praise the Lord.

(3) Just the precious name of Jesus is worthy of our praise,

Let us bow our knees before Him, our hands to heaven raise;

When He comes in clouds of glory, with Him to ever reign,

Let's just lift our happy voices, and praise His name.