PURPOSEFUL LIVING. PURPOSEFUL PRAISE!

Introduction:

7 Hebrew words for Praise

• Halal – extravagant celebration (Ps. 150:1; 113:1; 149:3

• Yadah – extension of the hand in gratitude, thanksgiving and surrender. Ps. 107:15; 63:4

• Shabach – shout the praise of God confidently. Ps. 47:1; 145:4; Isa. 12:6

• Barak – humbly kneel. Ps. 95:6; 34:1; 1Chro. 29:20

• Zamar – praise using musical instruments. Ps. 57:8 & 9; 21:13

• Tehillah – pastoral music to encourage and instruct. Ps. 22:3; 33:1; Isa. 61:3

Note This!!!
A Purposeful Life  is Purposeful in Praise

I. PURPOSEFUL PRAISE IS CONSEQUENT UPON PURPOSEFUL FAITH-WALK (vs. 4-6)

• Seeking the LORD in your difficulty (vs. 4)

• Looking to Him (vs. 5)

• Crying to Him with your needs (vs. 6)

II. PURPOSEFUL PRAISE ACKNOWLEDGES DIVINE INTERVENTION (vs.7)
The Angel of the LORD (servants, ministers, His vessels)

• Super human interventions of God

• Ministers: your spiritual leaders

• Other people

• Situations made favourable

III. PURPOSEFUL PRAISE IS PURPOSEFUL RESPONSE (vs. 1 – 3)

I (me, myself) WILL (a thoughtful resolve)

• Bless (bawrak) in vs. 1: kneel (humbly) in adoration of God as your maker and King.

• Boast (hawlal) as in vs. 2: make a show clearly, celebrate exuberantly, commend your God, demean yourself to exalt your God.

• Magnify (gawdal) as in vs. 3: make large, advance, bring up to notice, promote and proudly speak of as in testifying of the goodness of the LORD!

CONCLUSION
A purposeful life is a life of faith expressed in the acknowledgement of the grace of God that keeps us going through the thick and the thin. “Faith will sing through tribulation” because victory is assured in Christ. A purposeful life acknowledges God practically. That is Purposeful Praise!