By Andrew Williams – December 29, 2021
I will praise You in the great congregation; I will exalt You among many people.
Psalms 35:18 HCSB
Good morning fellow disciples.
As we continue to worship God in Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with dance, speech, or with whatever expression we can show forth praises with. Today we look at praising and worshipping God amongst other persons.
Have you ever found yourself to be in the situation where in private your prayers to God and your worship of God is marvelous, it is mind boggling, it is life changing, it is encounter generating, but when you’re in public with others, your praise is just bland?
Is it because, like me at certain times, you’re afraid of worshipping God in the way that you do privately whilst among others, so you hold back? What does this do?
1. It keeps you from achieving that fellowship and relationship with God that you need.
2. It keeps you from fellowshipping wholeheartedly with others, and
3. It might dampen the praise and worship of others because they are watching you and if they don’t see you worshipping God in a way that is wholehearted, then they also feel shortchanged.
As we go out this year, and as we go out next year, may we praise and worship God in our congregations. May we praise and worship God out on the streets and may we praise and worship God everywhere we go, so that others will know that our God is worthy to be praised and that we love Him so much that we don’t care what other people think.
We will praise Him anytime, anywhere, in a manner that is befitting of His honor, glory, and majesty.
Prayer:
My heart, O God, is focused and determined. Now I can sing my song with passionate praises! Awake, O my soul, with the music of his splendor. Arise, my soul, and sing his praises!
I will awaken the dawn with my worship, greeting the daybreak with my songs of light. Wherever I go, I will thank you. All the nations will hear my praise songs to you.
Your love is so extravagant, it reaches higher than the heavens! Your faithfulness is so astonishing, it stretches to the skies! Lord God, be exalted as you soar throughout the heavens. May your shining glory be seen high above all the earth!
Come to your beloved ones and gently draw us out. Answer our prayer for your saving help. Come with your might and strength, for we need you, Lord!
Psalms 108:1-6 TPT
God, keep us near your mercy-fountain and bless us! And when you look down on us, may your face beam with joy!
Send us out all over the world so that everyone everywhere will discover your ways and know who you are and see your power to save. Let all the nations burst forth with praise; let everyone everywhere love and enjoy you!
Then how glad the nations will be when you are their King. They will sing, they will shout, for you give true justice to the people. Yes! You, Lord, are the shepherd of the nations!
No wonder the peoples praise you! Let all the people praise you more! The harvest of the earth is here! God, the very God we worship, keeps us satisfied at his banquet of blessings. And the blessings keep coming! All the ends of the earth will give him the honor he deserves and be in awe of him!
Psalms 67:1-7 TPT
AMEN !