What if you don't feel like praising God? ILLUS - There once was a king who went hunting game with his friend. Let's talk about how faith works, because this is really an issue of faith. Psalm 95 depicts the progress into worship, turn with me there for a moment please, Psalm 95. The God who created the heavens and the earth, and paid the ultimate price for our souls - that's something to get excited about. This is where I really need to listen up here, because I preach often on the subject of revival, but sometimes revival preaching can fall short - because if we continually criticise what is wrong, and fail to affirm what is great with God, we don't realise it but we actually sap the lifeblood out of the praise of the saints. The Christian - that's right, the New Covenant, New Testament believer - is not to come before the Lord empty handed. Of course, the great crescendo to the whole piece is the Hallelujah Chorus, and you know that that means 'Praise the Lord'. That's an interesting one! 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. Now, if you look at the progress of praise, you see that it is depicted in Psalm 95 as beginning with loud jubilant praise. Beauty is to characterize all that is involved in worship. Now, if you ask any midwife, they will tell you it's a bad sign when a new-born babe fails to cry. We go through God's gate and then into His courts. Worship, Praise Topical Sermon Ideas, Bible Verses and Quotations - Faithlife Sermons Features Pricing Upload Sermon Get … Now let me turn the tables a little bit and, if I could, cause you to consider how God thinks about this whole matter. Is that what He gets from us? By Lorene Troyer. You know I've found that sometimes biblical convictions, as people talk about them, are nothing more than tastes and preferences. So, not all traditions are unbiblical or bad, but we must beware of non-biblical traditions - do you know what that means? www.preachtheword.com. Lift up my hands to the King of Kings, Well, ask yourself how your praise is - is it blossoming? If there is too much self-centredness we'll not get through to the power of praise. But there are three things that I want to give to you today that are major obstacles to praise. 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'. We offer 30,000+ outlines and 10,000+ free sermon illustrations from top Christian pastors and communicators. It reminds me of the story of the man who was in a church, and he shouted out 'Praise the Lord! Do you know what had to happen? 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. That's discrimination ..." "How much did you invest?" 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. We're told that he wrote approximately 6500 hymns the rest of his days. It was transcribed from the recording titled "The Power Of Praise" - Transcribed by Preach The Word. 'O, for a thousand tongues to sing my Great Redeemer's praise' - three days old, and that was his first hymn. Have you a broken heart, is your spirit wounded? There are many prayers of the Lord Jesus recorded in the New Testament, but there is only one time that He was asked the question: 'Teach us to pray', and He said these words, 'After this manner pray ye...'. A good guiding principle for that might be that praise should add to the sense of God's presence and reverence God's presence - but this is a conviction I have: that every generation has had a way of praising God in music and song that is particular to that generation. The Bible puts it this way: What you sow is what you reap. Thomas Watson, the puritan, said: 'In praying we act like men, in praising we act like angels' - it's true, isn't it? - 'the fruit of our lips'. ST. MATTHEW LUTHERAN CHURCH. This is the second message in our series on Accessing God's Power. The Warfare of Praise and Worship Text: Ps. In Acts chapter 16 - and there are other examples of this, we don't have the time - but in Acts chapter 16 you remember Paul and Silas were in jail for the faith of Jesus. Let me show you why: the Lord Jesus Himself in the Sermon on the Mount, did He not say that our almsgiving, our fasting, and our praying can be done hypocritically? Well, ask yourself how your praise is - is it blossoming? 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, It was praise that brought them into God's presence. When our plants are withering, when growth is waning, when our souls are in winter - by that I mean they are icy cold, they are chilled and dead - then we must discover, rediscover, the power of praise. This sermon outline on The Power of Praise and Worship encourages Christians to make praise and worship an important part of their lives. 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. The way into God's presence is through praise and thanksgiving. Please ensure that you read the Copyright notice before accessing this site. We read that in Scripture, where the Holy Spirit came in, and the presence of God came in. Praise, that's right, drives the devil away! One of the greatest ways to realise joy is to praise. The casual chatter that occasionally drowns out the organ? It speaks about building a lifestyle of praise and worship. Has the blossom of praise died in your heart? "Well then, the answer's pretty obvious, isn't it? Many-a-time I start in prayer: 'Lord, I'm sorry for doing that there, I shouldn't have done that, I knew it was wrong but I did it, forgive me, cleanse me. Why do you think that is? First of all: self-centredness. 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. I've seen it, they are trapped because they can't express their praise to God because they don't know these things. BOTH PRAISE AND WORSHIP ARE ACTION WORDS, AND WHENEVER OUR ACTIONS ARE IMPROPER, SO IS OUR WORSHIP. 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. What is keeping you back? And he says, "Why no, Lurlene, I ain't gonna plant no corn seeds this year. To make an appraisal of something, well, you need to make an appraisal of God to praise God, so you have to appraise to praise. 2 Serve the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful singing. We were both dysfunctional - especially her. Oct 25, 2015 - Sermons from the pulpit. I don't really like this modern style music.". He was all embarrassed, and he says, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I had just been filled by the Holy Spirit and I couldn't help it'; and she says, 'Well, you didn't get that here!'. In our last study, we looked at The Power of the Name of Jesus. Now don't misunderstand what I'm saying here today: sometimes tradition gets a bad press, but not all traditions are bad. His friend said, "Praise God that I have been in gaol for so long." The worn cliches and the tired phrases? Listen to this: (John 4:23) But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. Because what is praise? For the Christian, praise to God is an expression of worship, lifting-up and glorifying the Lord. But if you make the effort to praise and worship; that's sowing to the Spirit. Gal 6:7-8 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. THE SACRIFICE OF BIBLICAL WORSHIP – PART 2. That's your preference. Worship is About the Lord. Yes, things are bad, very, very, very bad, but God is good! 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. That's right: praise brings an entrance into God's presence. Check out these helpful resources Biblical Commentary Sermons Children's Sermons Hymn Lists Psalm 148 Everybody Praise God! 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? The power of praise is great, and I think - I hope you agree with me - that we need to really analyse if praise is not as it should be, if we're not blossoming in our soul toward God or in fellowship, we need to find out why. The heartless mumbling of prayers, or the miming of hymns? We, as Christians, are to bring the fruit of our lips, praise and thanksgiving, to the Lord. 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'. They've either got to hit it, throw it, run with it, bat it, or something. Isn't that a little bit like what happens in church? The English word 'praise' has a French origin, 'preisier', and 'preisier' means 'to prize' - and that gives us a little bit of a glimpse of what the word 'praise' really means. "But sergeant, you don't understand. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. But sometimes when we do get down to prayer, all we pray about is ourselves. Praise can be abused, and there are people who get carried away and abuse praise, and they cast off all restraints and self-control. This sermon outline on The Power of Praise and Worship encourages Christians to make praise and worship an important part of their lives. 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 GIVE GLORY AND HONOR TO HIS HOLY NAME. I'm not going to take time dealing with the most obvious cause of a hindrance to praise, which is overt sin - that's a given. 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. Listen carefully to what I'm saying: let us not be pessimistic or negative, but appraise the great God that we have, and heaven will come down and glory fill our souls. Church: 248-624-7676 School: 248-624-7677 Fax: 248-624-0685 Wixom Campus / … Do you have victory in your life? How did Arnold Schwarzenegger get those humungous muscles? The Preparation of Worship - Ecclesiastes 5 3. Now notice please, let the Bible speak and say what it says, it doesn't say 'loud, jubilant singing', it says 'make a joyful noise' - and as I've said, it really means 'shout joyfully', this is not loud singing but loud shouting in the house of God! An hour of praise is worth a day of fasting and mourning'. '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'. Besides the steroids, there were years of hard work. An obstacle to praise is self-centredness, fear of man, but also pessimism and negativism. Yeah, all that fighting. Many-a-morning I don't feel like going! (and then Jesus said) This is the first commandment. The spiritual Arnies of the church just go through life, "Outta my way devil, I'm coming through.". In this study, we're talking about the Power of Praise and Worship. Children's Sermon Psalm 148 Everybody Praise God! 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! You can't go up to someone, as I've seen done - not here - and say: 'We don't do that here. 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! But the Steve Urkels of the church: If they have a great week, they have great worship. WHEN IT COMES TO GOD, WE ARE VERBALLY PROFESSING THAT HE IS GOD. Allison's made honey chicken. My mind doesn't always do what I want it to do. Whether they're praising God with a new enthusiasm with the old songs, but many-a-time there are new songs written in revival, and indeed more than that: new hymn books, whole hymn books coming out of revival! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful. 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! So when we praise God we are valuing Him, we are esteeming Him, we are estimating His worth. So there we see two degrees of access to God: first through God's gates, and then into God's courts. By Dr. Carol J Miller Let’s see if anyone can say what the word “Praise” Of praise in every part!'. (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. Spiritually speaking, every church has some who look like Arnold Schwarzenegger - their faith is strong. Our offensive weapon against the enemy is not to fight, but to Praise! In other words, in praise what we actually do, whether you realise it or not, is that mentally we gather together all the facts that we know about God, and we put these into words, words of praise and words of thanksgiving. What hinders praise? Verse 38, this is what they said: 'Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest'. The flower praises God by being beautiful, and we praise Him by beautiful sounds. They were all hammering themselves into the ground trying to serve the Lord to 'get tick' with God. This then is worship in its largest sense: petition as well as praise, preaching as well as prayer, hearing as well as speaking, actions as well as words, obeying as well as … Hello, anybody home!?! Beauty, worship, and salvation are all linked in the Bible, and we add to the beauty with voices of praise. In the Old Testament, several times it was said that God's people were not to appear before Him empty. 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. When I talk of exuberant, excited, unrestrained praise of God, I'm not talking about hot air and verbiage - there's a great deal of that in our churches. So I jump on the internet, check my account, and can you believe it, I've only made $2,500? Trials come their way, obstacles come their way, suffering comes their way, but they just keep going. Subscribe to our email updates to receive bi-monthly notifications of new content. Praise gets our focus off ourselves and back on God. You'll write powerful and fresh messages every week with our preparation tools on a number of sermon topics, including expository preaching. And people - including Christians - get excited about that, but they can't get excited about worshiping the Lord. When we live a life of prayer, praise and worship….we can have rest on every side. Jesus could do the ball thing in His sleep! A soldier desires the best state-of-the-art weaponry possible when called upon to engage the enemy. Well, first of all I want to say to you that praise is expressed by the whole man, by our whole being - body, soul and spirit. We wouldn't dream of ceasing almsgiving, fasting and praying because it can be abused. Luke chapter 19 verse 37: 'And when he was come near, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice', they were shouting loudly and jubilantly, 'for all the mighty works that they had seen'. That prayer, that we know as the Lord's prayer, better called the disciple's prayer, begins with praise: 'Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name'; and then it ends with praise, 'Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven'. First of all praise accelerates answers to prayer, do you know that? That Psalms 29:2 verse … Maybe we're singing the words, but thinking something like, "Oh, man, how long are they going keep doing this song? You know that bank investment? Let me tell you: conservative evangelicalism in Ulster - and I know - it's full of that type of mindset, and it's unbiblical. Let's take a look at some important truths about praise and worship. There is a power in praise in that it encourages the miraculous. 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. Far from it, it's a reason to expose the counterfeit by the genuine. I begin with every intention of completely focusing on Jesus. Our feelings and our emotions will be toward God in praise, and even our actions will glorify God. The wise man in Proverbs 29 said: 'Fear of man brings a snare', it is an entrapment. In this study, we're talking about the Power of Praise and Worship. Verse 2: 'Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms'. One of the most powerful principles a person could ever learn is that of sowing and reaping. But you can't tell other people not to! 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'. My wife yelled at me." 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. Well, listen carefully to what I'm saying: more and more as we come closer to the second return of the Lord Jesus Christ, I believe we're going to see an increase in Satanic activity. Listen carefully: Satan is allergic to praise! Choose to lift your hands to Him and begin to rejoice in the outer man. For that act of praise and worship, that very expensive alabaster box had to be broken - and I believe in the life of many believers, including myself, there are restraints and restrictions to exuberant worship, we feel the spirit of worship welling up within our souls, but something is confining it in, and that thing, that vase, needs to be shattered that the perfume might arise. He is required to bring spiritual gifts, offerings, and sacrifices. There should be that healthy mix of heritage and new songs, but we must never let the trap of tradition keep our praise in. First, you can sit there, refuse to do anything, and teach God a lesson. Let me move on now from what praise is and how praise is expressed, to what praise can do. This is not psychology, there's more to it than that: praise brings us entrance into God's presence. 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? Worship is all about a person - Jesus Christ. We do this through our words, through prayer, through songs of praise, and even through acts of adoration before God. PRAISE IS THE VERBAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF A PERSON, PLACE, OR THING. ILLUS - Here I am lifting up my hands to the Lord, worshiping Him, singing, "Worthy is the Lamb...", being very spiritual (on the outside). Use the rocket launcher.". All the problems people have with raising their hands, shouting praise to God, dancing will eventually disappear when they really connect with God. It heals the soul, it calms the troubled spirit. The whole life of the Christian is to be a psalm of praise to God. 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. The spirit is the part of us that enters into true worship of God in His holiness, and that will have a knock-on effect on our mind and emotion, our will, our thoughts, our feelings and our actions - but it is expressed, praise is expressed through the body. [Read guidelines...]. All rights reserved. Criticism, boredom, impatience - these are the enemies of true worship. Not for the lip of praise alone, Is it with the whole person, spirit, soul, and body? And look: two thumbs. Will you say to the Lord today, as your head is bowed: 'Let my mouth be filled with Your praise, and with Your glory all the day'? In other words, the more conscious you are of God's presence, the more blind you will be to the presence of those around you - that means blind to embarrassment before them, and blind to impressing them if you're prone to self-centredness. (the head). The Power of Worship - Psalm 40, John 12 4. Now the reason why the Lord Jesus taught us to pray that way is that praise is a means to accelerate answers to prayer. Was David self-conscious when he danced naked before the ark of God? Not everyone listens to the sermon; and not everyone focuses on the Lord during worship. 1. A negative feeling or opinion based on ignorance - and there's an awful lot of ignorance about! 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. 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. Thy being and Thy ways. 'Preach The Word' is a not-for-profit Christian ministry which exists to provide sound Bible teaching to all. How can we unlock its power? "How can you praise God?" Now, I preached on this on the opening night of this building, the dedication of the Temple of Solomon - but I want to refer back to it again, in 2 Chronicles 5. Prayer is to get things, 'Ask, and ye shall receive' - but not prayer without praise. There's no connection - do you think maybe Jesus has that problem with us sometimes? Mark 12:30 "And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart (that's in here), with all your soul (that's in here somewhere too), with all your mind (that's here), and with all your strength (that's your body)." Walled Lake, MI 48390. Not having a thumb saved my life." Because they make a decision not to let their circumstances or their feelings determine their behaviour. "Use it son, it works." Preach The Word. 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. Self-centredness is a great obstacle, but secondly: fear of man is a monumental barrier to the power of praise. ILLUS - So what happens if you've had a terrible week; an argument with the boss; the washing machine chewed your favourite outfit; the cat scratched you; you got a flat tyre on the way to church; you're tired, you're miserable and you're angry. If there is sin in your life, you're not going to really want to praise God, are you? But I don't want to tie up a lot of money." Showing reverence and respect to a dignitary, even today some people still kiss the hand - what we're doing when we praising God is, think of this for a moment, we are kissing the hand of God, that's what praise is! Praise is like an antidote to the poison of Satanic oppression. Turn with me to Luke 19 for a moment, and here is evidence from the Lord Jesus Himself that He desires this excited, enthusiastic, exuberant praise. One of the quickest ways to see a sea change in revival and in circumstances within the church, is to start praising God again for His character and His promises. They've learned that no matter how bad their week was, the Lord never changes - He is always worthy. Well, I know that, there is the omnipresence of God, and there is a special sense where God is in the midst of His own people, the temple which is the New Testament church today - but you're not going to tell me that there isn't an immediate power of God that comes, and can come, that can be sensible, felt, known, we can be conscious of it. 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'. This is the second message in our series on Accessing God's Power. Your first response is: "Aaugh!" It's alright talking about getting nearer to God, but the way we enter into His gates is through thanksgiving, and into His courts through praise. It's good to be with you today all day. But I'm going to ask you to do something crazy: When you worship, act like it's true that Jesus is here. Now listen carefully: you cannot have access without it! 'This is unbecoming, this is unseemly, rebuke Your disciples. And it works like this: What we put in determines what we get out. He was telling us to do it righteously and honourably. Father, we pray that the spiritual, surgical work that You have desired to do today in all our hearts will be done, and it will be evidenced not in a contrived, nor a man-inspired volume of praise; but in a heavenly song motivated by the breath of the Spirit in all our hearts, and indeed in this fellowship. The reason is: this enthusiastic praise is meant to reflect that 'great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised'. The Spirit of God spoke through the prophet and told the people: 'The battle belongs to the Lord', and dispelled their fears. I don't have time to give you an exposition of the book of Galatians, but I'll tell you this much: they were laden down with legalism, and rules and regulations, and traditions, and Judaisers all around and telling them 'You do this, you don't do that' - that's what Galatians is all about - and what they should do for the Lord, the works. And my mind just wanders off into outer space. That my whole being may proclaim Later, after writing it, he told a friend what his experience was in that cloistered room and I'm quoting him: 'It seemed as if heaven came down and filled my soul' - that is the power of praise. Did not Paul command us to 'rejoice always in the Lord, again I say rejoice'? When you start praising God that He has promised you something, He's given you a cast-iron guarantee of it in His word, you will accelerate that answer. 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