Tozer, A.W. Was David self-conscious when he danced naked before the ark of God? But it's not about the feeling, it's about faith in the facts, and when we put faith in the fact of who God is and we start to praise Him and extol Him, the feelings come and the joy comes! Handel, who wrote that great piece, 'The Messiah', when he was composing it he barricaded himself into his room and practically neither ate nor slept as he wrote. Praise can be abused, and there are people who get carried away and abuse praise, and they cast off all restraints and self-control. For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful. The first 10 words are praise, and the last words are praise. Tell them to whisht, to keep quiet' - listen to the Lord Jesus' retort: 'And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out'. It was the musicians and singers, the praisers of God - they led the way. ', and one of these battle-axe women came down the aisle and said to him, 'Excuse me, we don't do that here'. And people - including Christians - get excited about that, but they can't get excited about worshiping the Lord. Self-centredness is a great obstacle, but secondly: fear of man is a monumental barrier to the power of praise. Praise gets our focus off ourselves and back on God. What I mean by that is - and this is what I get from reading Scripture and studying it - that the praise that God expects and indeed requires of us as saints is to be unrestrained, enthusiastic, we could put the word 'exuberant' on it. With the whole man. There's no connection - do you think maybe Jesus has that problem with us sometimes? It heals the soul, it calms the troubled spirit. We don't just praise God for God's benefit - primarily that's what it's for - but we also, as a secondary benefit, we drive the devil away, and as a selfish benefit we are blessed ourselves and can be delivered. It drives the devil away! To praise God means to prize God. You're trapped. If you want an Old Testament example of this, I'll give it to you now, which also illustrates that not only does praise encourage the miraculous, but praise wins battles. The first 10 words are praise, and the last words are praise. In the Old Testament, several times it was said that God's people were not to appear before Him empty. I'm sure you've heard many-a-year here, if you sat about waiting until you felt like praying, you would never do it. Many-a-morning I don't feel like going! Are you with me? What does it say about our sense of the reality of God's presence, if we say that He's here, but we act like He's not? It's good to be with you today all day. It wasn't the 'SAS' of their time that led them into the battlefield, do you know who it was? Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand". So really, to sum it all up, praising is bringing glory to God: 'Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me', the Psalmist says. If they've had a good week, they praise and worship God with all their heart. The soul, therefore, will express worship to God. So I invest $10,000. He went back to his friend and apologised. Do you have big spiritual muscles or little ones? Then maybe I'll get inspired and I'll plant some corn." It was praise that brought them into God's presence. But do you know what I find? I’m still seeking more clarification on this. ST. MATTHEW LUTHERAN CHURCH. Far from it, it's a reason to expose the counterfeit by the genuine. I don't praise God because I feel like it, I praise Him because He said to, because it's good for me, because when I do He does great things. 2040 S. Commerce Road. It doesn't require much faith to worship when you feel like it. Maybe He's there, saying to us, "Hello, anybody home?". I don't know how long you are converted, but when Charles Wesley was only three days saved he wrote his first hymn - do you know what it was? The way into God's presence is through praise and thanksgiving. 'Praise and thanksgiving' - what did Hebrews say? Others, if they've had a bad week - they stop using their rocket launcher. "No perfect, no cookie," said the chief, and they let him go. Does Jesus Christ, the Son of God, want excited, exuberant, enthusiastic praise? SermonSearch.com is an online resource for sermon outlines and preaching ideas. I'm sure you don't know that the expression 'adoration' derives from an ancient expression that means 'to kiss the hand'. But there are three things that I want to give to you today that are major obstacles to praise. It is an expression of humbling ourselves and centering our attention upon the Lord with heart-felt expressions of love, adoration and thanksgiving. The soul is made up of the mind, the emotion, and the will - and therefore our thoughts will be of God, and express praise to God. Now I ask you, and I'm only asking you from Scripture: how can you let the new song break forth if you have a mindset like that? An obstacle to praise is self-centredness, fear of man, but also pessimism and negativism. First of all praise accelerates answers to prayer, do you know that? Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 15 says as much: 'By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name'. Spiritually speaking, every church has some who look like Arnold Schwarzenegger - their faith is strong. 'Preach The Word' is a not-for-profit Christian ministry which exists to provide sound Bible teaching to all. What needs to be broken in your life to let the spirit of praise out? In our last study, we looked at The Power of the Name of Jesus. I've seen it, they are trapped because they can't express their praise to God because they don't know these things. "Well then, the answer's pretty obvious, isn't it? Oh, there's plenty for yourself there in the middle, and the Lord started with it in the petitions: 'Give us this day our daily bread' - He's not against that. Do you know what had to happen? Here's a challenge: some have tradition's grip on them so much that they only believe you ought to sing things that are old. 4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. See more ideas about praise and worship, sermon, praise. Negativism, pessimism? Not having a thumb saved my life." We go through God's gate and then into His courts. Now, it has to be said that this is a noise that wouldn't be tolerated in a lot of churches, would not be permitted: loud, exuberant praise. Let me read it to you, you know what happened, the great manifestation of the Shekinah glory of God in the cloud - but listen: 'It came to pass', it says, 'as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then' - that then - 'the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD; So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God'. Where has your joy gone? Now I'm saying to you: if you want to experience that in any shape or form in your private life, or corporately as a capacity here in the Lifeboat, we're going to have to learn how to thank and praise God as He ought to be; for then He will come in in mighty power, in His presence, for God manifests His living presence in a praise-saturated place. We can abuse those three things: giving to the poor, fasting and making people know that we are doing it, and praying to God on the street corner and wanting people to think that we are very holy - but that was not used by the Lord to say that you shouldn't give to people who are poor, and you shouldn't fast, and you shouldn't pray; of course not! By sincerely worshipping Him on a regular basis, you will begin to experience victory in every area of your life (2 Corinthians 2:14). It was George Mueller, that great man of faith, that said when you need God to answer a prayer you ask God for a promise; and when God gives you a promise, having prayed for the promise, then you start to praise from the promise - pray for the promise, and then praise from the promise. Do you have victory in your life? Psalm 22:3 (King James Version) 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. "But sergeant, you don't understand. I made $25,000." Why is that? I'm not talking about flowery terminology and expressions that make newborn believers, lambs in Christ, feel that they can't pray because they can't get the dictionary out the way some people do! By Dr. Carol J Miller Let’s see if anyone can say what the word “Praise” PRAISE IS THE VERBAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF A PERSON, PLACE, OR THING. Now, if you ask any midwife, they will tell you it's a bad sign when a new-born babe fails to cry. We say we believe that He turns up at church every week. It is expressed through the body. Praise is simply expressing esteem for a person, we know that when we praise one another - we are praising their virtues or their accomplishments. If it's not 500 years old, it's too new. Didn't the Psalmist echo this in Psalm 103 verse 1, you know it well: 'Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name'. Now I think if you look at church history you'll find out that that's true: every generation has a way of praising God in music and song that is particular to that generation - but here's the punchline, if they can't express it they will feel frustrated and they will feel cheated. We were both dysfunctional - especially her. Beauty is to characterize all that is involved in worship. In other words, if I could put it this way: it is impossible to exaggerate when you're praising God! You see, and let me make this personal, praise dispels despair and engenders joy. Let me tell you: conservative evangelicalism in Ulster - and I know - it's full of that type of mindset, and it's unbiblical. One of the first thing the enemy does when … That's right: praise brings an entrance into God's presence. There is a new song, and praise God many are expressing it, and there are some lovely new choruses - and I know in our new chorus book coming out soon that many of them will be in it. 12) are immensely important to preach. Jesus is standing in front of us while we're "worshiping" and He sees our hands raised and hears our singing, but when He looks into our minds we're thinking about honey chicken, or something else. www.preachtheword.com. Now watch this please, verse 39: 'And some of the Pharisees', miserable lot they were, 'from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples'. They tied him up and were ready to cook him when they saw the hand with no thumb. It depicts the progress into worship, verse 1: 'O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation'. But suppose that you want to preach about the worship service, the liturgy, the event of gathering in Jesus’ name (for more on these three meanings of the term worship see p. 46). If there is too much self-centredness we'll not get through to the power of praise. Lift up my hands to the King of Kings, Worship, Praise Topical Sermon Ideas, Bible Verses and Quotations - Faithlife Sermons Features Pricing Upload Sermon Get … Find out more about us, ourministry and how to use our site, David Legge ministers in theUnited Kingdom and Ireland, Send us an email or leave a comment via our Guestbook. Now this is where conservative, reserved, Ulster evangelicals have a few lessons to learn! One translation put it like this, I think it's in chapter 5, Paul comes to them and asks them a question that was diagnostic, he said: 'Where has your joy gone? Go is praise the lord and stop is amen." 'O, for a thousand tongues to sing my Great Redeemer's praise' - three days old, and that was his first hymn. ILLUS - Can you believe that once upon a time, when she was a teenager, my wife used to sit in church every week, she had long hair, and instead of listening to the sermon, she used to have a little radio connected to an earpiece which was plaited up through her hair? I say He does, but is that what He gets? The Preparation of Worship - Ecclesiastes 5 3. It's something that is characteristic of a praiseful heart, and indeed, let me say, it is characteristic of every revival I think there has ever been - a new song. Matthew 2:1-12. Obedience precedes results - first obedience, then results. Worship is all about praise, confession, and forgiveness, and from worship there flows the desire and the call to reflect God’s glory beyond the temple, outside the sanctuary into the world, and so there is the invitation: “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then there is … This sermon outline on The Power of Praise and Worship encourages Christians to make praise and worship an important part of their lives. Secondly there is also, in the fear of man, not only the trap of tradition but the trap of taste. Why do you think, if there's somebody duff singing, or the congregation isn't singing too well, that for the preacher it's an uphill struggle - and if you've ever preached, you'll know what I'm talking about is true. Someone is telling you something that's really important to them, your brain is a million miles away, and they say (eagerly), "So what do you think?" It is meant to be a celebration, it is meant to be an extolling of God in His greatness and in His attributes, it's meant to be a boasting of God - and when we boast, we do it in an exuberant, unrestrained manner. Have you a broken heart, is your spirit wounded? Now I don't have time to show you this tonight, but the Tabernacle is a wonderful model of approach to God, and we could see how you actually can get into the holiest place of all in your spirit by the blood of Jesus, but if you're ever going to get there into that intimate fellowship with God, you've got to enter through the gate and into the courts - and if you don't know how to thank God, if you don't know how to praise Him, you'll never do it! Now listen carefully: you cannot have access without it! The people of Judah didn't have to lift a hand, and the Bible says that when Judah arrived at the battlefield all they had to do was collect the spoil - and it took them three days doing it - and it says that with unbounded joy they went home and praised the Lord, singing on their return to Jerusalem. Download this sermon with PRO 1.VICTORY When we praise and worship the Lord, we will experience victory in our battles.God inhabits the praises of His people. How did Arnold Schwarzenegger get those humungous muscles? Let me finish on this note: what hinders praise? And my mind just wanders off into outer space. First of all: self-centredness. Walled Lake, MI 48390. Your sergeant comes to you and says, "Don't worry son. Where on earth did the worship leader get his fashion sense from? Verse 5 and verse 6 alone: "Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. The Bible story tells us that God heard the praises of His people, God heard the songs of their faith, and the enemy was destroyed. I don't praise God because I feel like it, I praise Him because He said to, because it's good for me, because when I do He does great things, and because He's worthy to be praised whether I feel like it or not. Let me tease this out a little bit more for you, because I want to be specific - the Lord has laid this on my heart to bring to you today. ", Ps 135:3 "Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing praises to His name, for it is pleasant.". The Lord Jesus said to the Samaritan woman at the well, "Ye worship ye know not what." It speaks about building a lifestyle of praise and worship. Praising and worshiping God is sowing to the Spirit. Satan will flee when we praise, because at the sound of heartfelt praises, God is on the scene! © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. 1 Timothy 2:1 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone. First, you can sit there, refuse to do anything, and teach God a lesson. I've helped her so much.". 3 Know that the Lord Himself is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture. The worn cliches and the tired phrases? All rights reserved. Most of them are centred some kind of ball. Use the rocket launcher.". (6) Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand, (7) to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; (8) to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; (9) to execute on them the written judgment; this honour have all His saints. In this study, we're talking about the Power of Praise and Worship. I'll tell you this: because God has been invited by their praise, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom and liberty. Ps 149:5-9 Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud on their beds. ILLUS - When you think about it, sporting events are amazing. Now, how is praise expressed? We offer 30,000+ outlines and 10,000+ free sermon illustrations from top Christian pastors and communicators. (the head). They've either got to hit it, throw it, run with it, bat it, or something. Yeah, all that fighting. There's no use my complaining that I've got teeny-weeny little muscles if the heaviest thing I ever lift is a pen. Jesus could do the ball thing in His sleep! You ain't gonna get no corn unless you plant the seeds.". They had appraised the miracles of the Lord Jesus Christ, and they mentally had that journey of about 16 inches from their mind down to their heart, and then the heart came out in their extremities - their hands, and their feet, and their voice - in praise to God. So there we see two degrees of access to God: first through God's gates, and then into God's courts. Yes, praise and worship is a powerful weapon. Another example of it is found in 2 Kings chapter 3, where Elisha the prophet got so frustrated and annoyed and angry with the King of Israel, and Jehoshaphat the King of Judah joining in cahoots with him, that he needed his spirit calmed and his soul healed. The more you praise the greater will be your happiness, your blessedness! Subscribe to our email updates to receive bi-monthly notifications of new content. We must differentiate between biblical principles, and we must have them and hold onto them, and personal preferences, that's your tastes and prejudices. Let me ask you this question: how do you think He views half-hearted praise? The heartless mumbling of prayers, or the miming of hymns? So, not all traditions are unbiblical or bad, but we must beware of non-biblical traditions - do you know what that means? I can't wait for lunch. The Warfare of Praise and Worship Text: Ps. How many of you felt like coming to church this morning? I'm just gonna wait till them there little corns start a-growing. So the man on the horse says " Praise the lord," and the horse starts to trot. Why is it, if you get a wonderful - I'm not talking about performance now, I'm talking about person filled with the Holy Spirit, and who has a sweet voice of praise to God, or a congregation who are truly entering into what I'm saying here - an exuberant, excited praise - why is it that it's easy for the preacher? Now what kind of traps can there be? Now if the Psalms teach us anything, surely they teach us that we are to acknowledge the greatness of God by loud, jubilant and excited praise. Besides the steroids, there were years of hard work. Copyright © 2018 - All Rights Reserved - HotSermons. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying, I also preach in places where all you get is the new, and that's not right either, because there are some older people in the congregation and in their spirit they only know how to praise God through the older hymns, and they are trapped. You can't go up to someone, as I've seen done - not here - and say: 'We don't do that here. 'David took an harp, and played with his hand', and we read, 'so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him'. Now don't misunderstand me again, I'm not saying that all music and all lyrics are suitable to praising God, they're not. The casual chatter that occasionally drowns out the organ? Understand what I mean, and analyse your own prayers: it's a battle even to get on your knees at times to pray to God, isn't it? Was the sinner woman in Simon the Pharisee's house self-conscious when she anointed the feet of the Lord Jesus with that precious ointment, when she washed His feet with her tears, when she kissed them and dried them with her hair - was she self-conscious? They've learned that no matter how bad their week was, the Lord never changes - He is always worthy. Have you ever considered the logic of this? How come my friend made $25,000 and I only made $2,500? Trials come their way, obstacles come their way, suffering comes their way, but they just keep going. Traditions that have come into the church that you'll not find in the Bible, but have almost been given scriptural status and authority - especially traditions, now listen to what I'm saying this morning, that hinder praise, that keep in that spirit of praise, trapped in our souls, that hinder it breaking forth! Well, ask yourself how your praise is - is it blossoming? But sometimes when we do get down to prayer, all we pray about is ourselves. Praise, that's right, drives the devil away! They were all hammering themselves into the ground trying to serve the Lord to 'get tick' with God. We read that he asked - I'm reading now from verse 15 of that passage - 'Bring me a minstrel', bring me a musician, 'And it came to pass, when the musician played, that the hand of the LORD came upon Elisha'. Let us all pray. An hour of praise is worth a day of fasting and mourning'. 'Adoration' is another very good word that would sum up what praise really means. Praise and worship is beautiful to God Psalm 147:1 Praise the LORD! It has to be said that often that can be the case, and often people abuse the liberality of their praise and just want people to focus on them and how greatly they can praise the Lord - but that is not an argument against praising God. We heard a wee bit about it last week from the pulpit here, but it's going to be harder to live as a Christian, particularly in the West. He was telling us to do it righteously and honourably. Now it may not be your taste here this morning, I'm not asking you to start lifting up your hands if you don't feel like it, you don't have to! He is good, therefore He is worthy to be praised. - 'the fruit of our lips'. You're in no fit state to worship. If I could put it like this to help you understand, you've heard of the word 'appraise', haven't you? The whole life of the Christian is to be a psalm of praise to God. It was transcribed from the recording titled "The Power Of Praise" - Transcribed by Preach The Word. Mmm, honey chicken. Church: 248-624-7676 School: 248-624-7677 Fax: 248-624-0685 Wixom Campus / … (8) For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. You'll write powerful and fresh messages every week with our preparation tools on a number of sermon topics, including expository preaching. Could Jesus have included that in what He meant when He quoted Isaiah? This was a good reading as I was questioning if a sinner had the right to praise God since the scripture in Psalm 150 says “Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord” in my mind this passage did not exclude sinners. However, these materials may be freely copied and distributed unaltered for the purpose of study and teaching, so long as they are made available to others free of charge, and this copyright is included. Let's take a look at some important truths about praise and worship. This sermon was delivered at The Lifeboat Mission in Moy, N. Ireland, by David Legge. The Presence of Worship - Exodus 33 2. ! I've seen folk, and experienced this myself, compiling chorus books - and you know the little song, 'I want to worship the Lord with all of my heart, Maybe it's my stomach rumbling, and I'm thinking, "Man, I'm starving! (Mat 15:8) These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honour Me with their lips ("Worthy is the Lamb…"), but their heart is far from Me (honey chicken). The Lord did not instruct His disciples to start prayer that way, 'After this manner pray ye: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name' - it started with praise and ended with praise, and that's how you know that there is a God in heaven who can forgive you, and will forgive you, because He's a great God! ...and they change the word, 'Lift up my hands', to 'Lift up my heart', because they don't like that 'lifting up hands' business - but it's biblical. Worship is all about a person - Jesus Christ. This Week at Praise & Worship: Sunday, January 10 @ 9:00 am: Sunday Morning Bible Study entitled: “Growing in God’s Word,” In-Person and on Zoom. Psalm 149, as I've said, I want to preach on 'The Power of Praise'. If she had been self-conscious, she wouldn't have done it! We read in that story, 2 Chronicles 20:22: 'Now when they began to sing', here it is, 'and to praise, the LORD', Jehovah, 'He set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated', when they began to sing praises, because praise sparks victory! Criticism, boredom, impatience - these are the enemies of true worship. Did not Paul command us to 'rejoice always in the Lord, again I say rejoice'? For if you could only get through to God in your praise, I believe you may well have victory! That's discrimination ..." "How much did you invest?" King Jehoshaphat didn't know what to do, so he proclaimed a fast and the people sought the Lord. This is not psychology, there's more to it than that: praise brings us entrance into God's presence. Praise and worship breaks yokes and brings deliverance. But you can't tell other people not to! 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