Praise Can Revolutionize Your Life | Tony Evans Highlight

when your your team scores a touchdown folk are jumping up and shouting and waving their hands in the air like they just don't care they say to other folk did you see what he did why cuz it was so awesome you couldn't keep it to yourself even if they lose they will decide it's worthy I know somebody that doesn't lose and therefore is always worthy of our praise praise is adoration expressed praise means to give adoration to boast to express superlatives with regard to something or someone when we praise we're extoling we are we are advertising we are promoting the goodness and the greatness of this person or this thing that we adore and adorn with our Expressions praise is worship expressed you can worship silently in your heart yeah yeah and say nothing but still have a Heart of Worship yeah but you can't pra silently yes praise is the expression yes it is of worship it is saying I want you to know publicly how I feel privately praise God I want you to I want you to hear me talk about it speak about it sing about it advertise about it brag about it declare about it cuz it's so good and so much I just can't keep it to myself praise is worship that is expressed it is the visible and vocal Declaration of the value of who God is what God has done and what we are trusting him to do God praise is the vocal and visible expression yes of the value of God for who he is for what he has already done and for what we are trusting him yet to do right right and because we know who he is we got to talk about it because of what he's already done I can't keep it to myself and because of the uncertainty of tomorrow and the needs I know that are yet to be addressed I still have to talk about him because I needed him to go in front of me do some stuff so when I arrive there is already been taken care of Praise is the visible and verbal expression of the value of who God is for what he has done and for what we are trusting him to do amen we all have an address we can give the address of where we live live yeah we can say I live on this number on this street and that is my home that's where I live God has an address because according to Psalm chapter 22 verse three it says the Lord dwells in the Praises of his people so if you want to know where you can locate God it's at a street called Praise And if you want to visit him you got to hang out in the environment of praise cuz that is where he dwells in the midst of his people I call it Kingdom praise because Psalm 146 puts it this way the psalmist and the Psalms are where we find the most concentrated expressions of Praise some some 145 rather says this it says I will extol you my God O King I will bless your name Forever and Ever every day I will bless you and I will praise your name forever and ever great is the Lord and highly to be praised and his greatness is unsociable but Psalm 145 continues by making it a kingdom issue yeah because he says in verse 12 to make known to the sons of men your Mighty acts and the glory of the M Majesty of your kingdom your kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and your Dominion endures throughout all generations he calls him a king who runs the kingdom and he says and you ought to be praised he said not only says that you are be praised he says you ought to be praised every day that there should not be one day out of 365 that you don't get praised so that means he not talking about Sunday in church if you're doing it every day in other words praise is supposed to be a lifestyle and not an event it's not a place you go it's an attitude that you possess in fact if you just roll just from that chapter forward look at the beginning of each chapter Psalm 146 praise the Lord praise the Lord oh my soul I will praise the Lord while I live I will sing praises to my God while I have my being he then says in Psalm 147 what praise the Lord for it is good to sing praises to our God for it is pleasant and Praises is becoming he says in 148 praise the Lord praise the Lord from the heavens Praise Him in the Heights Praise Him among his angels Praise Him in the host Praise Him sun and moon Praise Him stars of light Praise Him Heaven uh highest Heavens he comes to Psalm 149 praise the Lord sing to the Lord a new Psalm and his Praises in the congregation of The Godly one and then of course we all know Psalm 150 praise the Lord Praise Him in the sanctuary Praise Him in the mighty expense praise his mighty Deeds praise His excellent goodness praise with the trumpet praise with the harp praise with the liar praise with the temple praise with dancing praise with string instruments pra with loud symbols pra with resounding symbols let everything that have breath praise the Lord so if you can do this you got a reason to praise him because you got breath to declare your praise so as you can see just from a just from a small template of the Psalms why David is called a man after God's Own Heart cuz he when you ran into him you ran into praise he was forever praising God who is worthy to be praised so praise is an emphasis of scripture it is where God lives yes indeed yes indeed limited prayer praise means you possess a limited relationship if praise only comes now and then or in church on Sunday it's cuz you got a now and then relationship because people who know their God make praise a lifestyle they make praise a way of being praise is like a thermometer it gives you the reading of your spiritual temperature and if your thermometer is set on low is because you have a cold relationship but if your praise is high and mighty it's because you're hot for God so I want to you to look at your thermometer now and tell me what the thermostat is reading on your praise because God lives in the environment of Praise amen and you know when a person is in the environment of Praise Psalm 100 says Shout yeah he says shout joyfully to the Lord he says you can't you you can't hold it in when when when when when your your team scores a touchdown you don't sit there and say that's nice you don't sit that said that's all right I'm glad we finally got over folk are jumping up and shouting and waving their hands in the air like they just don't care they say the other folk did you see that yeah did you see we did why cuz it was so awesome so great you couldn't keep it to yourself praise is a adoration expressed now when it comes to what people will do today they'll go before the altar of the television yeah yeah yeah they'll sit in the sanctuary of the den and they'll set in the Pew of their easy chair and for 3 hours they will get their worship on they will celebrate their team whether they're winning or losing and then they may go another 3 hours for a second game okay because praise for one game wasn't enough then they may keep it on for a night game cuz they want some praise in the evening 3 hours for game one 3 hours for game two 3 hours for game three and they won't say Church went too long they won't say the service was too long because they will have decided it's worthy of my undivided attention even if they lose they will decide it's worthy I know somebody that doesn't lose and therefore is always worthy of our praise praise is adoration expressed he say shall Joy joyfully to the Lord the higher your praise goes the more value you are giving to our great king and our great God so there is a expectation of Praise there is a request of Praise And Then There is a requirement of Praise if you want to stay connected to God on the highest possible level now let's don't get it twisted God is not asking for pray because he needs it let don't get it twisted long before there was ever a creation he was operating in Praise because when the father needed praise the Son and the spirit would give it to him when the son needed praise or wanted praise the father and the spirit would give it to him when the spirit wanted praise the father and the son would give it to them cuz they be praising each other all the time then God said well why don't we create some other folks to give us praise and he created angels and the Bible says 24 hours a day they do praise it says with six wings in Isaiah chapter 6 they do praise it says that his train filled the temple and they said holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts and the Earth is full of his glory so he created an archangel called Lucifer and Ezekiel 28 says and Lucifer had pipes cuz he was the choir leader by the way that's why he can't handle praise it reminds him of his old job he was fired from because praise is what God created us for Revelation 4:1 says you and I were created for his pleasure Ephesians 1:6 says we were created for the praise of his glory of his grace so the reason why he wants praise was he created you for praise so whenever you're not praising you're not fulfilling why you were made in the first place now we want people to praise us because we like the feeling of being recognized well God is giving you a little bit of what he automatically deserves and that is adoration and exclamation for who he is what he is done and what you and I are trusting him to do not because he needs it he enjoys it he enjoys the Praises of his people it gets him excited it gets him Juiced it gets him amped not because of a need but because of a joy and the joy of the Lord in other words that's why the Bible says the joy of the Lord gives you strength cuz you making him so Juiced at the excitement you have over him that he wants to react to it so what I'm trying to tell you today is that praise is why you're here and therefore the more you give the more you are experiencing the reason for your existence cuz now you're connecting with the one who put you here for that very purpose

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Length: 14min 22sec (862 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 01 2023