One reason why giving thanks is so important, is that it helps us to elevate God over our circumstances. I Thessalonians 5:18 “In everything give thanks for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”Īnd these are just the tip of the iceberg there are dozens of verses which tell us to worship God by giving thanks. Ephesians 5:20 “Always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father.” Philippians 4:6 “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
Psalm 136:1 “Give thanks to the LORD for He is good For His lovingkindness is everlasting.” Psalm 100:4 “Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Thanking God as a means of worship is commanded over and over again in scripture: The KJV uses the word “praise” most other translations say “give thanks.” The Hebrew word means to “acknowledge God” for what He has done thus many translations render it “give thanks.” This same word is used in Psalm 100:4, where the KJV translates it “be thankful unto Him.” So it means to acknowledge God to be thankful to Him for who He is and what He has done for us. Here we find four distinctive ways that God’s people can worship Him: I will be glad and exult in You I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.” (Psalm 9:1-2) “I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart I will tell of all Your wonders. But if you DO know Jesus as your Savior, then you can learn from this passage today, several ways to worship God: You can’t begin to worship God until you do - your sin is still in the way. If you don’t know Jesus as your Savior, that’s the first thing you’ve got to do, in order to be able to worship. And then in a number of places in His word He shows us just HOW we should worship Him once we are reconciled to Him in Christ. So God gave us His word, to show us the way back to Him - first, by having our sins forgiven through Christ, so that we CAN come back to Him.
You’d like to think that we just all instinctively know how to worship but the problem is, our sin has distorted our relationship with God, and we have to a great extent lost our ability to worship the way we should. We saw that when you really come to know the Lord, you worship Him.īut someone might ask: “But HOW do I worship Him?” And that’s not a bad question. And we saw that when he did, he showed it in a couple of ways: he made a commitment to give God back a tenth of all that He gave him. Last Sunday we saw how Jacob made a real, personal, commitment of his life to Yahweh, the God of the Bible, as his God. Which shows that Man’s heart was made to worship something, even when it’s misguided, or when we don’t know what or how to worship we know we are supposed to be worshiping something. They have never found a civilization in which the people didn’t worship someone or something. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).From the remotest jungle in Africa or the Amazon, to the most isolated island in the Pacific, every culture that has ever been discovered has worshiped.
Get the embed code Esther Mui - Scripture Songs for Worship Album Lyrics1.Isaiah 40:25-31 (Those Who Wait on the Lord)2.Isaiah 43:1b-3a (Fear Not, For I Have Redeemed You)3.Psalm 103:1-6 (Bless the Lord, O My Soul)4.Psalm 61:1-4 (Hear My Cry, O God)5.Psalm 91 (My God, In Him I Will Trust)Esther Mui Lyrics provided by Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling ġ1 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways.ġ2 In their hands they shall bear you up,ġ3 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.ġ4 "Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him ġ5 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him
His truth shall be your shield and buckler.ĥ You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day,Ħ Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.ģ Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowlerĪnd under His wings you shall take refuge 1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High