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The Prayer of Praise · CCC West Covina

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To the giver of all, give thanks. 15 weeks ago today, we
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began a journey, and that journey is called the Pathway to
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Praise. And while our teaching on this
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subject is going to come to a close, your testimony about this
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subject is going to continue on all throughout eternity.
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If you've learned anything, I would trust that you have
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learned this one thing over the last 15 weeks.
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Number one is that praise will always bolster your condition to
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praise will always beautify your complexion, and praise will
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always brighten your situation. If you remember anything,
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remember that praise will bolster my condition.
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Why? Isaiah 61 verse #3 says that the
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Spirit of God will clothe you with the garments of God so that
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you no longer have a spirit of fainting.
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That's important. So when you are clothed with
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this garment of praise, it bolsters your condition and #2
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praise will always beautify your complexion.
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Because the Bible says in Psalm 33 verse #1 that praise is
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beautiful. Psalm 147 verse #1 says praise
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is pleasing and is beautiful. There is nothing that beautifies
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the complexion of an individual. Then praise and thirdly praise
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will always brighten every situation because the Bible says
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in Psalm 34 verse #5 that those who look to Him will be radiant.
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So when you walk into a situation, whether it be good or
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bad, praise brightens the situation.
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So if you don't remember anything at all, at least
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remember that because that will move you along the pathway to
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praise. But let me say it to you this
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way, there are 1189 chapters in the Bible Now.
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The chapters are not inspired. The words are, but the chapter
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breakdowns are not. The verses and their numbers are
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not. Those are given to us by the
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translators. The words themselves are all
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verbally inspired by God, but there are 1189 chapters in the
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Bible. So even even when the
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translators are putting together the scriptures and they begin to
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number them and to give them chapters and chapter headings,
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God in his Providence was even at work in that.
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For if there's 1189 chapters in the Bible, that means that there
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was 1 chapter that is smack dab in the middle of all the
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chapters, right? That means there's 594 on one
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end and 594 on the other end. So there's something exactly
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smack dab in the middle and it's in the middle of your Bible.
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And even even God in his Providence had everything mapped
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out to perfection because in the middle chapter of the Bible is
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the core and the center of everything.
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Even God orchestrated that. And even though that chapter is
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the smallest chapter in the Bible, consisting of 2 verses,
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he 13, I'm sorry, 17 Hebrew words in 2 verses.
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Even though it's the smallest chapter in the Bible, it is the
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most potent chapter in the Bible because it's the core of all
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that we believe and hold dear. And that is Psalm #117 So turn
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in your Bible to Psalm 117, Psalm 117.
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Listen to what it says. It says simply praise the Lord.
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All nations, laud Him, all peoples, for His loving kindness
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is great toward us and the truth of the Lord is everlasting.
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Praise the Lord. So right smack dab in the middle
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of the Bible. God says praise me.
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He gives the scope of His command.
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I want all people and all nations to praise me.
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I want everybody in creation to lift my name on high.
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I want everybody in creation to give thanks to me.
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The scope is never ending. All nations, all people in
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Romans 5, I'm sorry, Revelation 5 verse #9 tells us that there
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will be one day people from every tribe, every tongue, and
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every nation lifting praise to God and glory.
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But that doesn't mean that everybody on earth is going to
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go to glory. But the command is given, and
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the scope of that command is all people, all nations.
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And then he gives the specifics of the command.
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Number one, His loving kindness is great #2 His truthfulness is
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forever. Why do all people, all nations
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praise Him? Simply because He is a merciful,
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compassionate, loving God who only gives truth to people.
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He is the God of truth. And so the specifics of the
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command for all people everywhere are to praise him
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because he's merciful, and to praise Him simply because he is
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truthful and everything he says is absolute and that lasts
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forever. And the summation of the command
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simply is praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Hallelujah,
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praise him. Right smack dab in the middle of
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the Bible is the essence of our existence to praise the living
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God. And those of us who are
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believers can do that because the Bible says which is our
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theme verse Isaiah 4321. You can remember by saying
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IS4321 Isaiah 4321, it's our key verse.
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The people that I have formed for myself, they will declare my
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praise. And so we as believers, because
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we've been formed by God, we declare the praise of God.
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That's what we do. We praise his glorious name, but
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the unbeliever cannot more so the unbeliever will not, they
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won't listen to what the Bible says in the book of Romans verse
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21, chapter 1. For even though they knew God,
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they did not honor him as God. Even though the Pagan people
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know God, they refuse to honor him, to praise him, to glorify
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him as God, and then next phrase and give him thanks or give him
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praise. Everybody in the world knows
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that there's a God. Agnostics do not exists.
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Atheists do not exist. In their minds, they're a legend
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in their own mind. They think they do, but they do
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not because the Bible is contrary to that.
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All pagans know that there is a God, but they refuse to honor
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him as God, and they refuse to give him thanks.
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So verse 22 says they became fools.
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Pagans are fools. Unbelievers are, as the Bible
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says, morons. Why?
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Because they're foolish. They refuse to believe the truth
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and obey the truth of God. So it says in verse 28 they did
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not see fit to acknowledge God any longer.
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So unbelievers refuse to acknowledge God.
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They turn their back on God and then it says in verse #30 they
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are haters of God. How can you hate something that
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you don't think exists? How can you hate something that
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you believe is not anywhere around but they're haters of God
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and then it says there are unloving and merciful.
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Verse 32 and although they know the ordinances of God stop right
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there. Even though the unbeliever, the
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Pagan man, knows the ordinances of God, the commands of God, the
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the precepts of God, even though they know that.
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And what do they know? They know that all nations are
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to praise Him and that all nations are to laud Him, to
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glorify His name because of His mercy and because of His loving
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kindness, because of His truthfulness.
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They know that. Don't think that the unbeliever
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doesn't know that. They do know that.
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How do we know verse 18 of chapter 1?
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The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
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ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in
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unrighteousness. So now we know that the
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unbeliever knows the truth. They just push it down.
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They suppress the truth. They don't want to honor God.
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They don't want to give thanks to God.
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So God turns them over to their foolishness, and when he does
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that, they refuse to acknowledge him as God any longer, and they
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hate God. They hate him because they know
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the ordinances of God. And this is this, that those who
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practice such things are worthy of death.
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Every unbeliever. Now note this, every Pagan,
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every unbeliever knows the ordinances of God, the commands
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of God, because the Bible says back in Romans one, verse 19,
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that which is known about God is evident within them, for God
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made it evident to them, verse 20 for a sense of creation of
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the world, His invisible attributes and his eternal power
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and divine nature have been clearly seen, not vaguely seen,
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but clearly seen. And so they know the ordinances
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of God, which says the wages of sin is death.
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How do they know that? Because God has written His law
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upon their hearts, and what they see is clearly evident to them.
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But they hate God. They love their sin, but they
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hate God. And they will not praise Him.
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They will not give Him thanks. They will not honor His name.
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And they know that even though they will not do that, they will
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not obey the command. They know that because they will
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not do that, they're going to die.
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They're worthy of death. And it goes on and says that
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they and they give hearty approval.
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And they said that not only do they do the same, but also give
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hearty approval to those who practice the same.
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Wow, unbelievable. Simply because God in the middle
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of the book gives us the core value of our existence, that we
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are to praise our God, laud Him loudly, because he's a merciful,
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kind and loving God who speaks nothing but truth.
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But the unbeliever hates that, so he will not praise God.
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But we can, so we do. We continue to praise Him, not
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just for the moment of our conversion, but all throughout
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eternity, because we've been cloaked in a robe, a garment of
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praise, and we've been formed by God to declare his praise.
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And that's what we do. So that brings us to our
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conclusion. And the conclusion is the prayer
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of praise, having looked at the priority of praise and the
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prerequisite of praise and the prayer and the, excuse me, the
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perpetuity of praise and, and everything surrounding that, the
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priority and purpose of praise. We've done all of that through
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the last 15 weeks. We come to the end and we
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conclude with the prayer of praise.
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And the prayer of praise teaches us how when we pray to praise
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the Lord, because every prayer should consist of the components
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which we will share with you today in the conclusion of every
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prayer you pray. So if you got your Bible, turn
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to me. Turn with me to the most
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familiar prayer in the Bible, Matthew chapter 6.
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Matthew chapter 6. It's commonly called the Lord's
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Prayer, but that's the wrong name.
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It is not the Lord's Prayer, it is the disciples prayer.
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In John 17 you have the Lord's Prayer, but in Matthew 6 and
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Luke 11 you have the disciples Prayer for the disciples said in
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Luke 11. Lord teach us how to pray and He
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would give him what He says on the Sermon on the Mount in
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Matthew chapter 6 about the disciples prayer.
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This is how you are to pray, and I want you to notice something
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about the prayer. It consists of two major
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components. 1 is God and His glory, and the second is man and
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his need. And you cannot reverse the two.
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For if you reverse the two, you diminish God's glory in your
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mind and you accentuate your glory on your behalf.
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So you cannot reverse them. It's all about God's glory, and
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then it's about man's needs. And you know the prayer, it
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simply states it this way. Pray then this way.
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How well you pray. Our Father who is in heaven.
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Those who pray listen carefully, are captivated by His paternity,
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that He is their Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
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Those who pray properly are not just captivated by His
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paternity, they are consumed with His purity, that His name
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be made holy in their lives. And then He says your Kingdom
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come. Those who pray properly are
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concerned with God's program, not their program.
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And then he says your will be done on earth as it is in
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heaven. In other words, they are
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committed to God's plan. That's how you know you pray
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about God and His glory, you are captivated by His fraternity,
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you are consumed with His purity, you are concerned with
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His program, His Kingdom, and you are committed to His plan.
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Once you understand that, then you tackle man and His needs.
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Give us, forgive us, and deliver us.
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And those who pray that way, pray.
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Give us this day Our Daily Bread.
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You always rejoiced in his provision.
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And then you pray and forgive us our debts as we have forgiven
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our debtors. You recognize his pardon.
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And then it says, And do not lead us into temptation, but
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deliver us from evil. You rest in his protection.
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And then it says, For yours is the Kingdom, and the power, and
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the glory forever. Amen.
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You rejoice with all praise. The the doxology is what I want
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to talk to you about this morning.
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For yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
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Amen. A doxology is simply a praise
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that's offered to God. It's simply the prayer of
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praise. And the prayer of praise will
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consist of five major components.
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Now you'll notice that in your Bible, that last phrase, the
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doxology, is in brackets. And the reason that is, is
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because there are some manuscripts, excuse me, they do
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not include it, and others that do.
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So the question comes, why is it in brackets?
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Did the Lord really say it? Because in Luke 11 it's not
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recorded, but in Matthew 6 that is recorded.
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So did the Lord really say these words?
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Well, I believe He did, and I believe it based on 2 major
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issues. 1 is that no Jew would ever conclude a prayer on the
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negative, always on the positive.
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That's number one. All you got to do is research
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Jewish prayers and talk to Jewish people.
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But #2 everything that's stated is absolutely true.
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In fact, it sounds a lot like David's prayer in First
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Chronicles 29 when it says in verse #9 Then the people rejoice
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because they had offered so willingly, for they made their
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offering to the Lord with a whole heart.
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I love that because I wonder if when you gave today, you gave
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willingly and fully. They were collecting for the
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temple and they were going to build this structure.
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Solomon was for the glory of God, so they gave willingly.
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They gave fully with all of their hearts.
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They did it joyfully because they wanted to honor their God.
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I read that and I wonder how many of us today, when we gave
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to the Lord, we did it willingly, we did it joyfully,
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we did it energetically, we did it fully because we wanted to
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honor God with the first fruits of our increase.
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That's what they did. Listen to David's prayer.
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So David, bless the Lord in the sight of all the assembly.
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And David said, blessed are you, O Lord God of Israel, our Father
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forever and ever, our Father who art in heaven.
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Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and
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the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the
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heaven and the earth. Yours is the dominion, for yours
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is the Kingdom. Yours is the dominion, Yours is
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the glory, forever and ever. Verse 13.
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Now, therefore our God, we thank you and praise your glorious
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name. That's just one example.
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Let me give you one more Book of Revelation, 5th chapter, 13th
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verse. To him who sits on the throne
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into the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and dominion
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forever and ever, Same thing. And the four living creatures
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kept saying Amen and the elders fell down and worshipped.
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Those are just two examples, one of the old and one of the new
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that that really point to the fact that as you pray the prayer
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praise a doxology, you pray specifically for yours is the
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Kingdom, yours is the power, yours is the glory forever.
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Amen. So what are the five components
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of the prayer of praise #1? The prayer of praise consists of
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this, that you always affirm His preeminence with the phrase.
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For yours is the Kingdom. The word is Vasilia, which means
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to rule. It means terrain.
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It means that yours is the dominion.
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Same thing said in Revelation 5 and First Chronicles 29.
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For yours is the rulership, for yours is the Kingdom.
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Lord, I want to affirm the fact that you are preeminent.
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You are the king of all, and you're the only one who can give
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us a Kingdom. In fact, the Kingdom of God is a
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is a endless, changeless, priceless Kingdom.
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And so when you pray the prayer praise, you are affirming the
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fact that God himself, because he's the king, is preeminent
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over all. That's why Christ is in Matthew
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633. Seek ye first my Kingdom and my
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glory, and all these things should be added unto you.
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See, our problem is we have another Kingdom, ours.
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We're building our own Kingdom. We think we're the ruler, we're
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in charge, but he is the king. And yes, there is a universal
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Kingdom where God is the king over heaven and earth.
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There's a spiritual Kingdom where he sets up his throne in
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your heart and mind. And one day there will be a
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literal Kingdom. Zechariah 612 and 13 will where
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the branch, the son of David will rule and reign as priest
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and king from Mount Zion. But you affirm his preeminence,
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for yours is the Kingdom. The Bible says that Psalm 2910
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the Lord sits as king forever. The Bible says in First Timothy
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117 that he is the King eternal. The Bible says in Revelation One
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that he is the ruler of the kings of the earth.
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In Daniel 4 he is the king, the king of heaven.
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In Matthew 2 he's the king of the Jews.
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In John One he's the king of Israel.
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In First Timothy One, he's the King of the ages.
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In Psalm 24, he's the king of glory.
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Revelation 15, he is the king of nations.
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In Revelation 19, he is king of all kings and Lord of all Lords.
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The prayer of praise affirms his preeminence.
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You're the king, and yours is the Kingdom, and I'm going to
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seek your Kingdom of my Kingdom. I'm going to submit to you as my
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king because you're in charge. That's the prayer of praise.
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It affirms his preeminence. He is king of all, and that
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Kingdom is priceless. That's why Matthew 13 gives us
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the parable about the treasure and the parable of the great
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Pearl. For the man who finds the
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Kingdom is willing to give up everything to obtain the Kingdom
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because of the value of the Kingdom.
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It's priceless. So the prayer praise consists
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number one of the fact that it affirms His preeminence #2 it
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consists of the fact that you always acknowledge God's power
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for years is the Kingdom and the power power.
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How do you acknowledge His power?
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This is how Paul did in the book of Colossians.
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The first chapter we said this. We proclaim him, verse 28,
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admonishing every man, teaching every man with all wisdom, so
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that we may present every man completing Christ.
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For this purpose also I labor striving according to his power,
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which mightily works in me. Paul acknowledged God's power.
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Paul acknowledged the fact that the reason I teach and the
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reason I admonish every man, that I might present every man
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completing Christ because of the power of God within me to allow
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me to accomplish that purpose. So I acknowledge His power.
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I love what the book of Nahum says when it says the Lord is
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great in power. 56 times in the Old Testament is called
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almighty. 10 times in the New Testament is called Almighty,
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nine of those 10 times in the Book of Revelation.
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He is the Pantocrator, the almighty one who rules over all
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the nations and is powerful enough to do whatever he wants.
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The Old Testament calls him El Shaddai calls him El Gabor, El
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Shaddai God Almighty, El Gabor, the mighty God.
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What's the difference between El Shaddai and El Gabor?
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Glad you asked El Shaddai from a Hebrew word which means breast
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because God is the sufficient nurturer of his people, so He is
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great in power because of His provision.
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El Gabor comes from a word that stems from the fact that he is a
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hero, a warrior, a soldier. Therefore he is powerful enough
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to protect you. El Shaddai.
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He's powerful enough to provide for all that you have.
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El Gabor, he is powerful enough to protect you from whatever
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comes your way. So when you give the prayer of
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praise, you say for yours is the Kingdom, I'm going to affirm
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your preeminence, and yours is the power.
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I'm going to acknowledge that you had the power to accomplish
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anything and everything. And then #3 yours is the power
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and the glory. I'm going to accentuate your
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person. That's the prayer of praise, for
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yours is the power, the Kingdom, and the glory.
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Glory speaks of who He is. In the Old Testament, the root
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for glory is, is the word heavy. So a person was heavy because of
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the amount of possessions that he had.
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That was His glory. And the heavier, heavier He was
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in possessions, the greater glory he received.
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Or he was heavy in terms of his position.
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He climbed the ladder of success.
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And the more powerful power he had because of his position, the
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more glory that individual had. So therefore a man was glorious
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by the number of possessions that he had, the amount of power
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that he possessed because of the position he was in.
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They were weighed down, they were heavy in those things.
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That was a man's glory. There's nobody more heavier than
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the Lord Jesus because He owns everything.
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He receives all the glory, all the praise.
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It speaks of of the manifestation of His brightness
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because the glory of the Lord would shine all around when the
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Christ child was born and John would say in John one verse #14
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He would say, and we beheld His glory.
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The glory is that the only begotten of the Father, full of
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grace and full of truth, we beheld His person, His presence,
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His manifestation in the flesh. We beheld the heaviness of our
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God by looking in the face of Jesus Christ our Lord.
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And those who pray the prayer praise.
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They not only affirm God's preeminence because He's the
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King of His Kingdom, and not only do they acknowledge His
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power because His is the power, but they accentuate His person
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for His is the glory. In other words, they they
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accentuate the fact that God is to be seen in and through me.
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I am not to be seen by anybody because I don't matter, only God
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does. That's the prayer of praise.
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The prayer of praise says Lord, I want the righteous radiance of
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my Redeemer to be reflected in and through his redeemed.
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That's what it means to give glory to God and accentuate his
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glory. And so that's what we do.
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That's the prayer of praise. And whenever we go to the Lord
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in prayer, it's all about God and his glory.
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Then it's about man and his needs.
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And we have this great crescendo, this great doxology
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that leads us to say, For yours is the Kingdom.
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I affirm that you are preeminent, and yours is the
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power. I acknowledge that you are the
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powerful one and yours is the glory, and I receive none.
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Therefore, I accentuate your person and then forever.
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Yours is the Kingdom and the power of the glory forever.
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In my prayer of praise, I acclaim His permanence.
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He is the eternal God forever and ever, which guarantees his
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reliability and gives me security.
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It guarantees his reliability because he's forever.
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He's the eternal God. No one created him.
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He's always existed. Try to wrap your mind about the
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fact that God has always been. He's always been.
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He always is and was and will be.
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He's the alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, but
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yet God had no beginning. He's the eternal God that's
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always existed and what he does last forever.
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And so I guarantees the fact that I can rely upon my God.
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He is absolutely reliable because he's always there.
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He's never not there and that gives me security knowing that
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my God is my protector because He's the all powerful one.
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So the reason, the reason that I pray this way and the reason
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that I claim His permanence is because I've accentuated his
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person and I've only accentuated his person because I've
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acknowledged his power and I've affirmed his preeminence over my
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life. That's the prayer of praise.
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And then it concludes with Amen. Amen.
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It concludes with accepting. Accepting His Providence, so be
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it, so be it, Lord, I, I, I affirm that you the eternal God.
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In fact, the Bible says in Revelation 3 that He is the
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Amen. In other words, Christ is the
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final and fullest of all that God is and was and will be, and
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therefore He is the finality of everything.
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So I say, so be it. Amen.
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I, I, I agree. I accept your providential
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control over everything in my life and your plan for me.
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I accept that you're my Father in heaven.
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I accept your paternity. I accept that your name is to be
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made holy in my life. I accept your purity.
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I pray thy Kingdom come, I accept your program, I pray thy
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will be done. I accept your Providence and I
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pray. Give us this day Our Daily
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Bread, because I accept your provision and I say and forgive
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us our debts as we forgive those who have sinned against us.
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I accept your pardon and I pray and leave me not a temptation,
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but deliver me from evil. I accept your protection.
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I accept it all because you are King, You are Lord, and I want
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to pray the prayer of praise and all God's people said let me
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pray with you. Father, thank you for today.
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Thank you for your words. So much to cover in such a
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little time, but you are a great God.
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Thank you for allowing us to be here today all by divine
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appointment. I love, I love the fact that
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nobody comes to church by accident.
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They come by divine appointment. Whether they were dragged here
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by their parents, where they were pushed here by a friend,
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where they were invited to come. They just drove by and saw the
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sign, looked us up on the Internet and saw the name of the
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church there. All of that within the realm of
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your Providence. Was it divinely appointed time
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for us to hear how we are to pray the prayer of praise?
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Our discussion on the issue could go so much longer.
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There's so much to say about praise, Thanksgiving, and
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rejoicing. But Lord, you gave us these 15
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weeks to look at what the Bible says concerning the pathway to
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praise. We come through these months
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better people. We come through these months
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recognizing the beauty of praise.
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We come through this knowing that our condition is only
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bolstered by praise, our complexion is only beautified by
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praise. And our situation, no matter
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what it is, we'll only be brightened by praise.
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So we praise you and we thank you that we can be here today to
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lift your name on high and to glorify you as King of kings and
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Lord of Lords in all God's people said.