SING!: When to Praise
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Praise and Prayer are connected, and we were created to do both!
Praise and Prayer are connected, and we were created to do both!
Our singing is not like prayer - it IS prayer! Saint Augustine said that when we Sing - when we Praise God, when we sing to God and about God - that we are praying twice!
All of Creation sings our Father’s song: Jesus Himself said that if the disciples hadn’t sang at the triumphal entry, then the rocks would have burst out in song! SO if all of creation sing’s the father’s song, then then when we join in on singing, we are joining in with all of creation to praise our Father in heaven!
Let the whole earth shout to the Lord;
be jubilant, shout for joy, and sing.
Sing to the Lord with the lyre,
with the lyre and melodious song.
With trumpets and the blast of the trumpet
shout triumphantly
in the presence of the Lord, our King.
Let the sea and all that fills it,
the world and those who live in it, resound.
Let the rivers clap their hands;
let the mountains shout together for joy
before the Lord,
for he is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world righteously
and the peoples fairly.
The amazing thing is this: Man was made for relationship with the Lord. When we PRAY, we speak to the one with whom we have this beautiful relationship.
So if we were made with a purpose - relationship with God, then we were also made with a chief end. This is the largest part of our life really, more then what we do vocationally, more than what we do hobbily, more than what we do socially - our chief end of life is this: To Glorify God and enjoy Him forever! To praise Yahway is the original desire sewn into the fabic of our God-designed soul!
Paul Tripp wrote:
God is the ultimate muscian. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgivness, grace, reconciliation, truth, hope, soverginty, and love give you back your humanity and restore your identity.
Our singing should sould like Him, look like Him, and lead our hearts to Him!
WHen the psalmist wrote
I lift my eyes toward the mountains.
Where will my help come from?
He was not worshipping the hills, his help does not come from the hills!
My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
He was singing about the Creator of the Hills.
Prayer and praise are connected: don’t sing because you love to sing, and don’t hold back because you do not. Sing because you love who made you and formed you, and enabled you to sing!
We are commanded to Sing!
We are commanded to Sing!
Hallelujah!
Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the faithful.
There are over 400 references to singing in the Bible; and 50 direct commands!
Brothers and sisters, we are not to diregard a command from the Lord sinly because we do not like the song, the band, or are not in the mood to sing!
Now I know what some of you are thinking: Brother Jacob, I sing LOUD when no one is around! I sing in the Car, I sing in the shower - and man I get down! All good things! Great - pray without ceasing - praise without ceasing - AMEN!
But go back to the Scripture there: Sing to the Lord a new song, HIS Praise in the assembly of the faithful.
That right there means in the company of other believers - aka: church.
This means that it is important, precious, part of what we call our sunday gathering. It is not to be looked at as just singing - or something that can be skipped!
It is something that we need to see value in, something we take seriously, something that prepares our hearts for the message about to be received!
Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
One of the ways that the word of Christ can dwell richly among us, is for us to sing it - as Paul writes. We sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs - with gratitude in our hearts!
We sing the Word of God - that’s why those songs are so special! We sing the TRUTH revelaed in Scripture! We sing the story of redemption! We sing about God, revelaed in Christ, and of His suffering and HIS glory - because that is what the Word of GOD is all about! Luke 24:26-27
Wasn’t it necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and enter into his glory?” Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted for them the things concerning himself in all the Scriptures.
If we are truly grateful for what the Messiah did for us, for the salvation that He gave to us - then we must sing with Gratitude in our hearts!
Colossians 3:16 (CSB)
Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
The Ultimate example of singing: Jesus
The Ultimate example of singing: Jesus
Since we are to be Imitators of Christ, then surley Christ would provide us an example of singing!
After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Right after the Lord supper, while walking to the Garden - to the place of his arrest - knowing what was coming: Jesus sang!
Was this a mountain top moment or a valley moment? Was it an up the mountain journey or a down the mountain journey? The beautiful thing about this walk to Mount of Olives is that it was all of these things at once, emotionally, spiritually, missionaly! It was everything! And Jesus SANG!
Pause for a moment and ponder this: Jesus is singing just a few hours before his agony on the cross! Truly humbling!
And even on that cross - Jesus quoted a song - Psalm 22:1-3
My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
Why are you so far from my deliverance
and from my words of groaning?
My God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
by night, yet I have no rest.
But you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.
If Jesus could sing - we can sing! Always!
I love saying:
Reached people Reach people.
Saved people save people.
My Favorite - Saved people are singing people!
Have you ever seen someone go from the sidelines of faith to all in? There is a tell - they sing with arms wide and heart abaonded! Eyes full and engaged in song! Because encountering Christ means PRAISE!
Worship Matters - Bob Kauflin
Listen, worship and Singing are connected - but worship is a lifestyle - it not about the music, techniques, songs or metholodies - it is about the hearts! It is about what and who we love more than anything.
When you have a life or worship - as Christ did - then you are all about the Father. On the cross - the Father. ON the jourey - the Father.
We are to be the same way!
Where is your heart?
YahWay’s love for us inspires our response of lvoe for Him. God moved and we respond. We are compelled to sing! When you see GOd working, you are compelled to sing.
Proof: have you ever seen God work and then you smile? - That is compelling! WHen you enouncter the Lord you will be compelled to sing!
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear. Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”
When you encountered Christ you were brought into His family and adopted into the Family of God! We can cry out ABBA FATHER - intimate knowldge of the one who saves! CRY OUT - SING PRAISE!
Songs of Scripture
Songs of Scripture
1st song - exodus 15
On the Eastern shore of the Red Sea
The Lord is my strength and my song;
he has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise him,
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Another Song - David bringing the ark back home found in 2 Sam and 2 Chonicles - He DANCED and SANG - with reckless abandon as to what people thought!
Songs of Ezra - returning exiles
Songs of Nehamiah -
Songs of Isaiah who promised a Savior!
Jeremiah
Zaphaniah
Pauls songs in Corinthians
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Singing in PRISON!
OH AND THE NEW SONG!
They sang the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the Lamb:
Great and awe-inspiring are your works,
Lord God, the Almighty;
just and true are your ways,
King of the nations.
Lord, who will not fear
and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
All the nations will come
and worship before you
because your righteous acts
have been revealed.
When to sing? ALWAYS! We will spend an eternity singing! THe GOSPEL compels us to Sing!
TOday will you surrender your voice to the RISEN SAVIOR? WHo was and is and is to come?
Pray without ceasing - Praise always