PRAISE THE LORD WITH JOY AND THANKSGIVING
Psalms 65:1-2, 9-13
PRAISE THE LORD IN HIS HOUSE
V:1. " There will be silence before You, and praise in Zion ,
O God, And to You the vow will be performed."
A. Praise is due God because He is God.
1. God is due our
highest, most sincere praise.
2. God ought to be
praised because of His works.
3. God ought to
praise because of the salvation He made available to man.
B. We ought not praise man the way we praise God.
1. To praise man
is to do dishonor to God.
2. Every thought
and action of man is due to man's dependence on God.
3. Every thought
or action of man, good or bad, is in the control of God.
4. God is due
praise, man is due consideration.
C. God is due praise because I was lost and now found.
1. God is due
praise because I was blind, but now I see.
2. God is due
praise because I was stuck in mud of sin but now I am set free on the
rock of His
righteousness.
3. God is due
praise because I was hell bound, but now my sights are on heaven.
D. The Psalms were designed as hymns of praise to the Lord
in Zion , the
presence of the
Lord.
1. Every baptized
believer is part of Zion 's chorus.
2. God has
authored songs of Praise to Himself to be song by all believers
in worship of
Him.
3. We ought to
praise God in the assembly of the saints.
E. Our praise is but
silence before the voice of God.
1. Consider our
praise against the roaring thunder of God.
2. Consider the
volume of our praise against God's lightening in the sky.
3. Praise ought to
begin in silence in our hearts then burst in sounds
glorifying the
Lord.
F. Any vow we make to the Lord ought to be
performed or carried out.
1. Normally, when
we are in need, we will make promises to the Lord
in prayer.
2. It is God who
hears and answers the prayers of believers.
a. When God
answers our prayer, we ought to make good on our vows.
b. God is
faithful in all His promises setting the example for our faithfulness.
c. When we
realize the goodness of God, we ought to be moved to vows of
service to Him to show our
gratefulness.
THE LORD HEARS OUR PRAYERS
V:2. " O You who hear prayer, To You all men come."
A. Notice the
personal pronoun, you; in the King James its thee or thou.
1. The Psalmist
proclaims God as personal to Him.
2. It is not the
idea of God, but the true and living God
who hears and
answers
prayers.
3. We have a
personal God who expects our prayers.
4. God sits high,
but stoops low to hear our prayer and show compassion
to us.
5. It is the Lord who draws men to Himself.
a. Jesus said,
no one can come to me unless the Father draws him.
b. Jesus elects and calls those He predestined
to himself.
6. According to
Spurgeon, when we heed the call of Christ we ought to
come weeping
in conversion, hoping in supplication, rejoicing in
praise and
delighting in service.
GOD'S PROVISIONS
V:9. " You visit the earth and cause it to overflow;
You greatly enrich it; The stream of God is full of water; You prepare their
grain, for thus You prepare the earth. "
A. We have provisional reasons to praise the awesomeness of
God.
1. God in
creation prepared the earth for man's habitation.
2. The earth
overflows with provisions for man's existence; plants.
fruit trees
and animals.
3. At creation,
the earth was created as fertile ground.
a. God
planted a garden called Eden .
b. In it was every plant and fruit for
man to eat.
c. Every
animal on land and in the water was created in abundance for
man's
pleasure.
4. Oceans, rivers
and streams were created with an endless supply of
water and
fish for man's enjoyment.
B. The atmosphere was
created with an endless supply of ingredients for
the respiratory
system.
1. God didn't
need creation for Himself.
2. God existed
before creation and was perfect in Himself.
2. Maybe He
decided to create man for conversation and worship.
GOD'S PREPARATION OF THE EARTH
V:10 You water its furrows abundantly, You settle its
ridges, You soften it with showers, You bless its growth.
11 You have crowned the year with Your bounty, And Your
paths drip with fatness."
A. Not only did God create the earth for man, but He
continues to maintain
it.
1. God supplies
the earth with plentiful rainfall to keep the ground soft and ready
for the
planting of seed for growth.
2. God created the
four seasons for crop growth and for
mans health.
a. We have the
winter for the rest of the ground.
b. We have the
spring for planting.
c. We have the
summer for growth.
d. We have the
fall for harvest and preparation of the ground for the next planting
season.
B. It is God who
blesses the ground with the necessary nutrients for growth.
1. It is God
who gives the sunlight for growth.
2. It is God
who causes the planted seed to germinate under ground.
3. Without
God's continuous intervention, growth would not be possible.
4. It is God
who causes each plant to produce seeds for the process of
growth to
continue.
C. It is God that
gave each species of animals the ability to reproduce
itself.
1. It is God who
gives man the intellect to use what He created to
continue to
produce more.
2. God's
provisions for man is inexhaustible .
3. Our love and
gratitude for God ought to be inexhaustible.
GOD'S CREATION GLORIFIES HIM WITH IT'S ABUNDANCE
V:12- 13." The pastures of the wilderness drip, And the
hills gird themselves with rejoicing.
13 The meadows are clothed with flocks And the valleys are
covered with grain; They shout for joy, yes, they sing."
A. The tender mercies of God toward man is seen in the abundance of the
harvest in
fields.
1. For those who
trust the Lord and follow His commands, God promises to provide
for them.
2. Believers ought
to rejoice when they see the abundance in the fields.
3. Anytime we go
to the grocery stores and see the shelves filled, we ought to
break out in
songs of joy before the Lord's work.
B. The clothes we are dressed with first clothed the animals
of the field.
1. God provides
food for the animals so that they become food and clothes
for man.
2. The food on
our tables first covered the fields in abundance for our good.
3. We owe God
praise for His constant provisions.
4. We ought to
rejoice in the goodness of the Lord.
PRAISE GOD FOR HIS
GOODNESS
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia
Baptist Church
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