DATE: – SUNDAY 27TH DECEMBER, 2020
TOPIC: – BELIEVING GOD FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE (Part 5)
BIBLE PASSAGE: – Acts 16:25
MEMORY VERSE: – “And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them (Acts 16:25)
INTRODUCTION: – Have you ever noticed how God multiplies your faith when you begin to praise Him? There are times when it is more important to praise God than to pray to Him a prayer of intercession. Praise lifts your eyes from your circumstances – to your Almighty Father who is Ruler over all. Not one circumstance can come in your life without His permission, and that means that He has a way of causing it to work together with other things for His glory and your good.
LESSON OUTLINES
1) Praise Is Worship
If you want a new fountain of joy to spring up in your soul, start praising God. God’s Word tells us that He places a song in our hearts. If we are not singing Christians, we are disappointing God. God wants His people to “enter His gates with thanksgiving …. (Ps.100:4).
All the graces of the Holy Spirit grow much better in a happy heart bathing in the ocean of praises.
In each crisis when God meets the soul in a new way; He brings unspeakable joy, new peace, a touch of His glory, and praise is as inevitable as for water to flow from a fountain. Whenever the clouds of darkness begin to hide god’s loving face, praise is the quickest way through to His glorious light again. Is your spiritual life lacking in joy? Be sure that there is no hidden sin, and then just start praising God. Praise the Lord!
Have you ever realized that God’s answers to your prayers are at times delayed by your lack of praise to God? Have you seen God remove insurmountable difficulties and obstructions in answer to praise? Did you know that you can often rout Satan faster by praise than in any other way? Have you experienced the effectiveness of praise and fasting? Did you know that bodies have been healed, demons have been cast out, and peace restored to troubled hearts by simply praising the Lord?
Have you ever deliberately gone into an impossible situation with the weapon of praise to God and watched Him perform miracle? O hungry – hearted struggling child of God, O saint of god battling with the forces of darkness, O interceding prayer-warrior, this may be God’s message to you! Look up just now and begin to praise God, Praise the Lord!
2) Praise Is The Language Of Heaven
Praise will sweeten and hallow all that it touched. Praise will kindle a new faith. Praise will fan the sparks of your smoldering love into a flaming love for God. Praise will start the joybells ringing in your soul; you will soon have all heaven joining in on the chorus and will have a little of heaven in your heart. Praise will pierce through the darkness, will dynamite away long-standing obstructions and will strike terror in the heart of Satan.
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
Praise lifts your eyes from the battle to the victory for Christ is already a Victor, ant though we do not see all things under His feet, they are there in a divine reality (Heb.2:8; Eph.1:22). When you need faith, there are no steps to take: go to God’s Word and begin praising Him.
These two go together as naturally as hydrogen and oxygen together make water. Stop worrying, fearing, try praising.
We have praised God a little and occasionally, let us praise Him more. We have praise God in the past; come, let us praise Him just now! Look up heaven just now and praise your Mighty Redeemer. Praise Him for his love and faithfulness, praise Him for His power and goodness. He is worthy of all praise. Do you need faith? Praise the Lord! Let us praise Him now!
QUESTIONS
- What are the steps to take to get faith?
- Praise is practical, Discuss.