Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise You.let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you.Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.Let the peoples praise thee, O God; Let all the peoples praise thee.
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… And if you'll notice the verse, it's Psalm 67, verse 3. Maybe the peoples praise you, oh God. God, may all the people praise you. And I just want to put before you today with this picture in God's word, this picture from the world, you were made. for this. You were made for more than a nice, casual, comfortable Christian spent on the American dream. You were made to enjoy God and all of His grace in relationship with Him, and you were made to spread the glory of God among all the nations. Don't settle for anything less than this. Will you bow your heads with me? All across this room, on other campuses, online. just your heads bowed, eyes closed, just you before God. I just ask every person within the sound of my voice, are you enjoying God's grace in relationship with him? Have you put your faith in Jesus in such a way that you are in relationship with God? If the answer to that question is not a resounding yes in your heart, I invite you right now just to pray. …
here's the burden, burden not in a sense of heaviness, but a burden that I have carried into this series that I have been anticipating this opportunity to talk to you for at least six or eight months just preparing for this day. The weightiness of heart that I carry is that I know that we cannot fulfill the commission of the Lord to disciple nations without prosperity. I know the danger of prosperity I know what Israel did with the gold they got from Egypt they turned it into a golden calf and began to trust it began to pray that I understand the danger but that's the way of the Lord as he calls us into dangerous positions where we can only do what we need to do by hearing his voice and doing what he says and I feel like he's calling us as a church body and honestly as the body of Christ to illustrate the blessing of the Lord in such a way that people around us can see the Father's nature through the blessing that's in our life. …
"I will praise thee for ever and ever." The one occupation of a Christian is to praise his God. Now, in order to do this, we must maintain by God's grace a grateful, happy, praiseful frame of mind; and we must endeavour to express that condition of mind by songs of gratitude. This should be our morning's work. Should there not be the morning song? This should be the evening's work. Let it be our vespers to bless and praise God. Israel had the morning lamb and the evening lamb. Let us make both ends of the day bright with his praise, and during the day. We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind. Depend upon it, there is something wrong with you if you cannot praise God. "Oh!" says one, "what, in trouble?" Yes, in every bitter trouble too, for Job could say, "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." "But are we never to be sorrowful?" Yes, yet always rejoicing. How can that be? Ah! the Lord teach you it! It is a work of grace. Cast down, but yet, for all that, rejoicing in the Lord! He lifts up the light of his countenance upon us, even when heart and flesh are failing us. I say again, there is something amiss with us when our heart does not praise God. Do as much as you can also. When your heart is glad, try to. praise him with your lip. Do you work alone? Sing. Perhaps, if you work in company, you cannot; but sing with the heart. Men of the world, I am afraid, sing more than we do. I do not admire the most of their songs. They do not seem to have much sense about them—at least the modern ones. But let us sing some of the songs of Zion. You do not want to put your harps on the willows, but if they are there, take them down and praise the Lord, who leadeth you with benefits in life and in death. Therefore, habitually praise him. And, brethren and sisters, all our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should tend to, the praise of him who always blesses us. You may stop praising God when he stops having mercy upon you—not till then; and as there is always a new mercy coming to your doors let new praise be going up out of your hearts." But how can I praise God by my actions? saith one. "Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks unto God and the Father by him." I try to praise God by preaching to-night. Some of you will go to your trades. Well, praise God at your trades. Any work, any lawful calling may be to the Christian priest—(and all Christians are priests)—the exercise of his sacred functions. You may make your smock-frock, if you will, a vestment; you shall make your meal a sacrament; you shall make everything in the house like the pots that were before the altar; the bells upon the horses shall be "holiness unto the Lord." …