This week on the Best is Yet to Come, Pastor Brad Morgan continues his series on praise and worship. A definition of praise and worship is: express, approval or admiration, wonder mingled with esteem to glorify, to exalt and elevate. We praise God because we are commanded to.
It is a good thing to praise the Lord. Psalms 92:1, Psalms 135:3, Psalms 48:1, Jeremiah 13:11, Ephesians 2:10.
Worship will bring our hearts close to God. 1 Corinthians 14:14-15. Pray and sing in the Spirit and then in the understanding. Relationship with God is a requirement of worship. It is an intimate relationship. Further, sacrifice in worship will be honored by God.
Praise and worship is a lifestyle. When should we praise? We should praise when we feel like it (James 5:13), when we don't feel like it (Psalms 42:5), rising up early, at midnight (Psalms 119:62), day and night (1 Chronicles 9:33), in the hard times (Habakkuk 3:17-19).
Where should we praise? In the congregations (Psalms 26:8-12).
It is a good thing to praise the Lord (Psalms 34) "His praise will continually be in my mouth."
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