The Mandate of Praise and Worship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODNZdgq53A

Mandate: an official order or commission

- Given the authority to carry out a course of action

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Praise and Worship.

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Presence Driven Church!  

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In His presence – everything changes! 

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Begin with praise.

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Choose to Praise.

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Psalm 100

1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

2 Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.

3 Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Psalm 150 ESV 

150 Praise the Lord!Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens!

2 Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!

3 Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!

4 Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!

5 Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!

6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!Praise the Lord!

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Jehosophat Praised

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David Praised

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Paul and Silas praised!

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Worship is – at it’s core, intimacy with God 

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Worship is the only thing we can give to God 

that He didn’t first give to us.

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Isaiah 29

13 The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth    and honor me with their lips,    but their hearts are far from me.Their worship of me    is based on merely human rules they have been taught.

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Luke 8

43 Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, 44 came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped. 45And Jesus said, “Who touched Me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You,  and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ” 46 But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.” 47 Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately. 48 And He said to her, “Daughter,  be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”