{"id":197,"date":"2021-09-10T07:33:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T07:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/2021\/09\/10\/tom-goka-praise-and-worship-as-instructed-by-psalms-105\/"},"modified":"2021-09-10T07:33:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T07:33:42","slug":"tom-goka-praise-and-worship-as-instructed-by-psalms-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/city-refuge.org\/housechurch\/2021\/09\/10\/tom-goka-praise-and-worship-as-instructed-by-psalms-105\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Goka Praise and Worship as Instructed by Psalms 105"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_64517\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/spJ3yvfywrU?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=1&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure>\n<p>I. Psalms 105: 1-5<br \/>\nA. These are imperative sentences<br \/>\n1. Commands, demands, directive<br \/>\n2. Unless identifed, the commands are directed at the reader\/hearer &#8211; that be us<br \/>\n3. As we shall see, each of these are givings ways to worship and praise our GOD<br \/>\nB. Psalms = Praise<br \/>\n1. Lyrical and melodic<br \/>\n2. Expressions of emotions; actions of body<br \/>\n3. Hebrew &#8216;mizmor&#8217; means with pluck of string is translated psalms<br \/>\nC. Beneficial commands<br \/>\n1. When you don&#8217;t feel like praising<br \/>\n2. When your environment is difficult<br \/>\n3. When alone and distracted<br \/>\n4. When emotioally or mentally distracted<br \/>\n5. When you want to focus on God and His presence<br \/>\nD. A way we can give our Father the glory for His wisdom, power, goodness, and faithfulness,<\/p>\n<p>II. Dissecting the commands &#8211; since these are commands, perhaps we should look more closely at each with the intent to understand so that we can obey the command<br \/>\nA. OH &#8211; many ways to speak this word with feeling and emotion.<br \/>\n1. Speak it aloud as you would state it with the statement &#8216;Give thanks to the LORD&#8217;<br \/>\n2. Sometimes to worship, you merely need to remember how you stated the &#8216;Oh&#8217;<br \/>\n3 Give Him thanks for where you are at this moment<br \/>\nB. Call<br \/>\n1. upon His Name<br \/>\n2. What Name for God comes to your mind at this moment.<br \/>\n3. Speak out that name, calling Him by that name, trying to understand what that name means to you right now<br \/>\nC. Make Known to others<br \/>\n1. Recall something God has done and tell someone.<br \/>\n2. What a neat way to praise someone when you tell others what that someone has done, especially for your benefit.<br \/>\nD. Sing<br \/>\n1. to Him&#8230;.not for us&#8230;not the song we want to hear but one we want Him to hear<br \/>\n2. Sing psalms (praises)<br \/>\nE. Talk<br \/>\n1. to other, though this works well to talk to ourselves.<br \/>\n2. Implication here is that this is vocal, aloud, not merely think about it<br \/>\n3. Talk not about what you want or what is wrong, but talk about things He has done that makes you wonder&#8230;like how he turned back the shadow on sundial for Hezekiah or met a need you didn&#8217;t even realize you had.<br \/>\nF. Glory &#8211; exult, feel and show jubilation<br \/>\n1. Get your body involved with a leap, a skip, a whoop with arm raised<br \/>\n2. This is in response to you knowing His identity revealed in His name<br \/>\n3. Imagine the lame begger healed by Jesus as he leaped giving praise to God<br \/>\nG. Those of you who seek the LORD, Let your hearts rejoice<br \/>\n1. Often we don&#8217;t realize that we must let our hearts rejoice<br \/>\n2. Understand we don&#8217;t let our hearts rejoice because of fear, unforgiveness in our heart, jealousy, lust and many other wickedness of heart<br \/>\n3. If we are seekers of the LORD, we need to learn to Let our Hearts Rejoice<br \/>\nH. And speaking of seekers, we need to Seek<br \/>\n1. Picture a young child who suddenly desires a parent.<br \/>\na. Child&#8217;s heart (emotion, desire) is for parent<br \/>\nb. Child&#8217;s mind is focused on single task, find parent<br \/>\nc. Child&#8217;s body is put into motion to move to find parent<br \/>\nd. Child uses eyes and hears to search for parent<br \/>\ne. Generally, Child will try to return to last place that the Child remembers being with parent<br \/>\n2. To seek, we need to<br \/>\na. know whom it is we seek<br \/>\nb. desire and focus<br \/>\nc. put our flesh in motion<br \/>\nd. use our senses to aid us<br \/>\ne. recall last place we were aware of God (prayer, worship, Scripture, fellowship)<br \/>\n3. Seek the Lord and His strength (Eph 3: 16)<br \/>\n4. Seek His face<br \/>\na. Here face represents both His presence and His attentiveness<br \/>\nb. Like a child that cups your face to be sure you are looking at her<br \/>\nc. Evermore, implies a continued action, rather than a one time event.<br \/>\nI. Remember<br \/>\n1. This is a deliberate choice &#8211; decide to remember and then do it<br \/>\n2. Three things to remember<br \/>\na. His Marvelous Works which He has done &#8211; for you directly or indirectly; many things recorded in the bible are marvelous indeed. You can tie this back to making it know among people (verse 1)<br \/>\nb. His Wonders &#8211; try to remember the things about Him or His actions that make you wonder. Talk about them aloud (even if only to yourself) verse 2<br \/>\nc.Judgement of His mouth &#8211; while we often think of judgements as being against us, He has much more judgements in our favor. He counts our faith in Him unto righteousness; He gives rest to those who labor and come to Him; He gives peace and abundant life. Don&#8217;t you remember?<\/p>\n<p>III. Doing these commands places our worship and praise on our Father, our LORD, our Savior, our Redeemer, our Healer, our Righteousness, our Peace, our Strength, our Hope and Comfort&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>IV We do this because we are the offspring of Abraham, we are the manipulative sinner whose debts were paid by Jesus before we knew Him, we are the chosen (verse 5)<\/p>\n<p>V. Having done all these steps, how now would you say OH?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I. Psalms 105: 1-5 A. These are imperative sentences 1. Commands, demands, directive 2. 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