Hello, today I'll be talking about praise at that open stores. There are times in my life where I'm a bit low, or other times I'm very energetic and all I want to do is listen to songs and dance. And today I just want to talk about praise at open stores. What is praise? Praise is a duration to a higher deity, it is worship. It is offering songs and dance to the one in whom you believe in, to the one in whom you worship, according to the Bible in Colossians 316, and it says Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through sounds, hymns, songs from the Spirit singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. So what are some of these doors that then you ought to sing and to praise and to dance to the one, through God, that he might open? Doors are defined as openings or entrances or barriers to either a building or place, and when it comes to spiritual matters, it could be an opportunity, a life journey, process that you're going through beat a workplace, beat marriage, transitioning from one place to another. There are draws that are then presented before you that, even after much help, prayer and working towards it, they do, then present themselves as opportunities that you are able to walk in through. And these doors we are to choose either to walk in them, be it that they are good doors or bad doors. But today we shall be focusing on praise. That opens doors. So why is praise important? Why should I praise that a certain door may be opened? You may be undergoing so much anxiety and stress and you just need to pray and praise God so that in the midst of your praise, then your heart settles down, then your mind is at peace, that the one through God is working all things out for your good.
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The Word of God in Matthew 7, verse 11. It says if you then though you are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask of Him? So if we are given praise, if somebody comes to me and tells me I must say thank you for what you've done, I must say thank you for everything that you have done for me, how much more will I be able to extend the goodness towards them? Now think about God. When you go back to God and, with a grateful heart, you're able to say God, thank you for what you have done. God, thank you for what you continue to do, and God, thank you that I have put my whole hope and trust in you. How much more is God able to give you?
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So today, I will tell you why I praise. I praise when I'm at peace, when I don't even need to ask God for anything. I do praise God why he is the author and the finisher of my faith. He is the one who deserves all my adoration and my worship, and so I give it to Him. And when also, do I praise? I praise when I'm at rest, when I know that the battle at hand, the situation that I'm trusting Him for that he got them. And then I also praise because I know God has all these things sorted out for me. And then I also praise when my moods are low and I need to be uplifted. I put on some praise and I begin to sing songs of praise and my mood gets lifted up.
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So why is praise important? It is important to praise the one in whom we worship, because a heart of gratitude is a heart that is able to give thanks to God. And, secondly, a heart of honor is a heart that acknowledges, not by might, not by my power, but by your spirit, o God, that you're able to do all things for me, and a heart of submission, a heart that is able to be teachable before the presence of the Lord. Where he tells you, you go, you go. When he tells you to stop, you stop. And when he tells you you know, you do know that he is doing all these things for your good.
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So let us read through Psalms 95 and verse 1 to 3. Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, let us shout aloud to the rock of our salvation, let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song, for the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. So I urge you today praise God with all that you have, with all that is within you, because he created you to praise Him, and indeed, you will begin to see that the various doors that you're trusting Him for will begin to open. So let us pray. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ. We thank you, we glorify you because you are good and you are God. We praise your holy name because you are the one who is the lifter of our heads.
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And, father, we praise you because we know that praise opens doors. And so, father, we want to say give us lips of praise and to put in our hearts songs that we may sing back to you. Oh God, melodies, oh God and Father, we thank you for that which you have done for us in the past and you continue to do for us even today and in the future. Father, we thank you because we know that praise does open things, open doors for us. Indeed, oh God, we give you praise and we give you adoration because you are the one who was and is and is to come, and you are the one we choose to praise on this day. And so, father, receive our praises and our songs and our love for you, for we pray all this, believing and trusting in Jesus' name. Amen, thank you.