The Road Map To God's Heart: Praise

THE ROAD MAP TO THE HEART OF GOD. PRAISE!.

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes) This is a several part lesson!

GOD STOOPED DOWN IN THE DUST AND BREATH THE BREATH OF LIFE IN HIS CREATION OF MAN AND WOMAN. MAN WAS DESIGNED TO PRAISE GOD!

Psalm 150:6 Let everything that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

OUR ETERNAL ENEMY USES TH SAME OLD TRICKS OVER AND OVER.

HE IS NOT CREATIVE AND SEEMS HUMANS FALL FOR THE SAME TACTICS OVER AND OVER. SIN’S TRAIL THAT LEADS TO HELL. WILL WE EVER LEARN?

*From bondage to spiritual faith. From spiritual faith to great courage.

*From great courage to liberty. From liberty to abundance.

*From abundance to selfishness. From selfishness to complacency.

*From complacency to apathy. From apathy to dependency.

*From dependency back again into bondage.

DO WE KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IN ORDINARY PEOPLE AND EXTRA-ORDINARY PEOPLE? PEOPLE THAT WEAR THE GARMENT OF PRAISE! GOD REFUSES TO INHABIT DEPRESSION, STRESS AND ANXIETY. PRAISE IS UNINHABITABLE WHILE LIVING IN COMPLAINING AND NEGATIVE ATTITUDES. DO WE WEAR PRAISE? Would your life look different if you lived praising more?

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

PRAISE IS A BRIDGE --- GOD HAS BEEN SO GOOD TO US. IT SEEMS WE ARE TRAPPED IN THE HABITUAL HABIT OF COMPLAINING, FAULT-FINDING, DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY?

Why don’t people praise God? Praise and negative attitudes cannot CO-EXIST. They don’t have faith? They don’t trust God?

*SACRIFICE: offering something to God, the act of giving up something that is valuable, the act of surrendering to God, voluntary offering.

*INHABITS: reside in, live in, to be situated within, to be present, to live or dwell in a particular place,

*PRAISE: appreciate, acknowledge, celebrate, who God is, boast on God, warm approval, admiration, relief, joy, gratitude, applaud, extol, glory, hallelujah, to surrender, thankfulness, adore, praise magnifies God, expresses approval.

PRAISE IS MENTION 155 TIMES IN THE KJV BOOK OF PSALM. Praise is mentioned 248 times in the KJV. Add to that HALLELUJAH in Psalms 24 times. HALLELUJAH is a word of high praise. Average people blame others and seldom praise and encourage.

THERE IS A SURE BIBLICAL FOUNDATION AND CONCEPT: THE SUREST AND QUICKEST WAY TO THE HEART OF GOD IS BY DAILY PRACTICING PRAISE.

Praise gives strength or fortifies our personal relationship with God. Hear me: the more you celebrate and praise in life, the more you will have to celebrate. GOD’S THRONE REST UPON THE PRAISE OF HIS PEOPLE. GOD TAKES CARE OF THOSE THAT PRAISE HIM. BY PRAISING WE ARE PUTTING OUR TRUST IN THE GOD OF DELIVERANCE.

Psalm 22:3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

Psalm 22:3 (NLT2) Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. 4 Our ancestors trusted in you, and you rescued them.

During seasons of praise God’s very presence abides over those that worship and praise him.

Psalm 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

THERE IS A CYCLE OF SIN --- A TRAP THAT WE MUST BREAK.

From Bondage to spiritual faith, From spiritual faith to great courage,

From great courage to liberty, From liberty to abundance,

From abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency.

From complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency

From dependency back again into bondage.

SOMETIMES LIFE IS HEAVY AND IT SEEMS GOD IS A GREAT DISTANCE AWAY. WE MUST TRUST GOD DURING OUR STORMS AND BY FAITH PRAISE GOD. THERE MUST BE A SACRIFICE OF PRAISE. A SACRIFICE IS AN OFFERING,

Psalm 51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE MUST BE COUPLED WIITH OBEDIENCE.

1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.