Learning to Live the Lifestyle of Praise and Worship

I. All the Days of My Life - Cutting the covenenant of the lifestyle of praise and worship

Isaiah 38:18-20 - "For Sheol cannot thank Thee, death cannot praise thee; those who go down the the pit cannot hope for Thy faithfulness. It is the living who give thanks to Thee, as I do today; a father tells his sons about Thy faithfulness. The Lord will surely save me; so we will play my songs on stringed instruments all the days of our life at the house of the Lord."

• Verse 18 -

  • "For hades" [Rhm].
    
  • "the grave" [KJV].
    
  • "Sheol" [Jer].
    
  • "Death" [NEB].
    
  • "dead men" [Tay].
    
  • "...cannot praise nor death celebrate Thee" [Rhm and KJV].
    
  • "They cannot be filled with hope and joy" [Tay].
• Verse 19 -
  • "the living, the living he can praise Thee" [Rhm].
    
  • "The living, the living are the ones who praise You" [Jer].
    
  • "The living, only the living, can praise You" [Tay].
• Verse 20 -
  • "The Lord was ready to save me" [KJV].
    
  • "Yahweh (was willing) to save me" [Rhm].
    
  • "the Lord is at hand to save me" [NEB].
• "So let us sound the music of our praises all our life long in the house of the Lord" [NEB].
  
• Every day of my life from now on I will sing my songs of praise in the Temple, accompanied by the orchestra" [Tay].

II. Creating a Watercourse -- There is a River

Psalm 46:4-5 -- "There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy dwelling places of the Most High. God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved; God will help her when the morning dawns."

• "There is a river whose tributaries bring joy to the divine city" [Har].
  

• Jubal - (Genesis 4:21) the first man who created instruments.

III. In This House of My Pilgrimage (Your precepts will be my songs)

Psalm 119:54 - "Thy statutes are my songs in the house of my pilgrimage."

• "Your statutes are the theme of my song in the place of my exile" [NEB]...
  

• "...wherever I make my home" [NEB].
  
• "Your rules have been melodies to me while I have been living in strange lands" [Bas].
  
• "Thy statutes are my songs as I wander through the world" [Mof].
  
• "For these laws of yours have been my source of joy and singing through all these years of my earthly pilgrimage" [Tay].

IV. Seven Times a Day Do I Give You Praise

Psalm 119:164 - "Seven times a day I praise Thee, because of Thy righteous ordinances."

• First thing in the morning - start the day with your favorite scripture song, singing until the spiritual river is flowing.
  

• Mid-Morning - take time out for a praise vacation.
  
• Lunch Time - spend ten minutes alone praising His name.
  
• Mid-Afternoon - this is a great time for a praise vacation.
  
• Dinner Time - sing thanks over the meal some night.
  
• Mid-Evening - turn off the TV and worship together as a family.
  
• Bedtime - kneeling, pacing, sitting, or lying down, sing your thanksgiving to the Lord before or while falling asleep.
  
• Did I say seven? There can be eight: Songs in the Night.
  • Jer 35:10 - "But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night?'"
    
  • "No one thinks to ask, 'Where is God, my Maker, who makes glad songs ring out in the dead of night?'" [Jer].

V. Don't Go Down Into Silence

Psalm 115:17-18 - "The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence; but as for us, we will bless the lord from this time forth and forever. Praise the Lord!"

• "...nor any who go down to the mansion of the dead" [Sept].
  

• "...the Eternal, nor any who sink into the silent land" [Mof].

VI. Praising Continually

Psalm 34:1 - "I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth."

Hebrews 13:15 - "By Him therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name."

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