Song: Popcorn Praise
Praising The Lord No Matter What Pops Up
Introduction
There’s all kinds of things that happen to us in life. Sometimes good things and sometimes bad
things, sometimes happy things, sometimes disappointing things, sometimes
joyful things, sometimes scary things and on we could go. Each day is a day of choices and almost like
popcorn they pop up to surprise us. Then
comes the choice of how to react to the surprises along life’s way. Some people
wake up to a tragedy that comes along.
Like their house burning down or someone they love dies. We all will face some kind of hardship in our
life. The most important thing through
these hard times is knowing how to get through it without them changing us in a
bad way. God talks about hard times
throughout the bible continuously. Each
bible story tells us something about facing life’s troubles. Daniel facing the lions, David facing a
giant, Moses facing angry Pharaoh, Ester, taken from her home. Joseph being hated by His brothers. Paul and
Silas in prison – God has given us non- stop examples of hardship and He shares
with us the examples of others and their choices.
Some of us may be joyful today because of some great
accomplishment, or a prayer that’s been answered. Some of us may be angered inside over
something someone did or didn’t do.
Everyday will be a new adventure of feelings and choices. What are some of the problems you are facing
today? Are you very happy over
anything? Name some things God has given
us in which we should be thanking him. (short time Of discussion.)
God does not want us to be controlled by our feelings, but
wants us to react to our feelings – by following Godly choices based on
Truth. The truths we learn from God’s
Word. Praise is one of the choices the
bible teaches us to do through both good and bad circumstances in life.
I’m not talking about the kind of
praise and worship services some churches have today, but a time of personal
praise spent between you and God or praise during a difficult time.
God answers the prayers of
praising Christians. God draws close to
a person with a genuine heart of praise.
God uplifts the grieving through a personal time of praise. God gives songs to those who long to praise
Him. God gives joy in the place of tears
to those who will praise Him. If one
praises the feeling of joy soon follow.
Praising the Lord encourages our heart to go on in the faith. Miracles happen in the life of a person who
praises the Lord with a true heart. The
devil will flee in the presence of real praise especially praises that include
the shedding of Christ blood at Calvary.
David gives us many examples of
praise in the Psalms. David was a man of
praise and praised in both good times and bad times. He praised through His problems. Paul and Silas sang and praised the Lord
after being thrown in prison for the cause of Christ. Both Old and New Testament stories have
taught that God reacts to praise.
We need to learn to praise the
Lord no matter what pops up in life. We
can always tell God when we are angry, tell him when we are sad, tell him when
we’ve been hurt, tell him when we’re happy, pray about things that need
changed, but to be a Christian
Survivor, we need to place our burden on
Him and praise through life’s difficulties and by His leading take action as
the Lord leads.
Coming Soon:
Puppet Show Skit: Humorous
3 Popcorn Puppets - Pattern
October 8th,
2013
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