At the 4pm service the youth and college-aged adults led an unrehearsed Christmas pageant featuring angels, shepherds and their sheep, and a real, live baby Jesus. In fact, at the close of this great book of Job, the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before (42:10). The devil is a liar? As blood bought believers in God, we are not always going to hear God’s voice, but from Job we can learn a few practical things to do when God seems silent, and that is to keep on praising Him! The late great Dr. E. K. Bailey used to say, “Faith is acting like it is so, even if it ain’t so, in order for it to be so” –praise & thanksgiving in the midst of adversity. Some of the things just in the last year, other people going through the same thing has lost their mind and some even tried to take their own lives—but you’re here this morning with less than what you used to have, but you still have your praise! Just ask King David, in the Psalms he says that he prayed to God three times a day, but also in the Psalms he said that he praised God seven times a day. 21 And he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return there. my loving husband of almost 19yrs told me after she left this world ,”everything your mama was lives on inside of you, for she poured her life out into you, and everyone her life ever touched, and i know today this is what i long to do, i want to touch the world with the love of god, not that they would remember me but, that they would remember they would loved….. Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?” (Jeremiah 20: 14-18). Their accusations never let up: "You have no right to praise a holy God. Job had everything a man could ever want, he was successful, but he didn’t let his success go to his head. In thanks to God we will echo the praise of Job, who having lost everything—his wealth and his health, his children and his wife and his friends, still understood that "we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it," (1 Timothy 6:7) and declared, "Naked I … One of his most powerful weapons is the weapon of discouragement. We Have the Victory 12. Losing something or someone has caused many people to go into what is known as clinical depression. They have addictions. God used my pastor at the time to ask me to preach, He used my delivery of this sermon, and really He used this entire Christmas eve service as a whole to affirm this call to the pastoral role. Under the heading of “Offering”, we have an offering invitation, we give our tithes and our offerings, and then we have something called a “Song of Praise”. I just believe [deep down in my heart this morning] there’s somebody here that can say although I’ve lost some people and some things. We’ve lost some serious love connections like our fathers, our mothers, a wife or a husband, a child, a sister or a brother—a very close relative or friend, through the years we’ve lost them one by one. He Will Do It For You 4. He was a man who tried his best to avoid evil, Job was a family man; he was blessed with seven sons and three daughters. And the song of praise we sing, you know, the one that begins, “Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow,” it is a doxology. As bad as things can get, I really don’t think any of us will ever go through what Job had to go through. He’s an expert when it comes to discouragement. Let me move on now from what praise is and how praise is expressed, to what praise can do. 2 0 obj Amen. (1 Kings 19: 4) He was there to assist Jeremiah with his momentary bout of discouragement, “Cursed be the day on which I was born; let not the day on which my mother bore me be blessed. Your joy is phony. The devil loves to make us think that we are worthless, he wanted to Job to feel worthless. Put Your Trust In God 10. 6 O my God, my soul despairs within me. Now let me tell you something about the devil if you don’t know already. stream It has made us wonder, does He really care? And why art thou disquieted within me? INTRODUCTION:. He ignited in me an even greater passion for the ministry into which I’m called and gave me a whole new perspective and understanding of Jesus’ birthday. Could it be that even when we become discouraged with our own self it shouldn’t diminish our praise of the Most High? Didn’t say be happy about it, but consider it joy—why? contending for our souls. %PDF-1.5 But here in the text, the devil actually bargains with God to allow him to take away all of these blessings in order to cause Job to become discouraged. God Is A Right Now God: 3. Discouragement comes most often when we do the right things but experience poor results. Our God Strong And Mighty 9. The Lord Himself gave me all that I have acquired throughout this life’s journey, and the Lord Himself can take it away so therefore it is my concern or my purpose because my purpose is to praise to the Lord. He will steal your job (livelihood), try his level best to shame you, and destroy your children. Here’s a fact that you probably are already aware of, but in case you aren’t let me give you a personal newsbreak… life is painful! He will use those people who you are around or close to be insensitive towards you, with words that will wound and leave you bleeding in your heart. Now I wasn't happy about it, but I got to thinking, praise God. Our God Strong And Mighty 9. Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him; Therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him," declares the LORD. David says my head be lifted up with mine enemies around me. The lost of anything can be painful, overwhelming, and overbearing. He knew that whatever he had and whatever he achieved was only because of God’s grace and mercy. Georgia Mass Choir - I Still Have a Praise Album Lyrics; 1. New Day 8. I Still Have A Praise Inside Of Me: 5. Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” (Psalm 43: 5) However, I notice one thing here in the words of David; let’s look at it again, “…for I shall yet praise Him…” Here he is questioning his own soul, and he wants to know why he feels so desponded and so discouraged. And then we need to realize that God’s throne is the highest point in the entire universe, and so the praises that we lift to Him actually reaches up to the highest point possible—the throne of God. text: habkakkuk 3:17-19 subj. 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Africa Command once said, “Discouragement is dissatisfaction with the past, distaste for the present, and distrust of the future. Despite intense unexplained suffering Job refused to curse God and he continued to worship and praise Him. It is interesting to note that Mrs. Job acted in a fashion similar to that of Eve, who encouraged Adam to sin against God. Please listen to “THE SECRET PLACE” by Attorney David Gibbs Sr. about his mother's health ordeal and I guarantee that God will break your heart. %���� Some people, when they lose something or somebody—their faith is challenged. 2 9. AMEN!!!! We must remember that we live here as citizens of heaven. Now, who told them that? Anyone who says otherwise is selling something to you that you really cannot afford to buy! We Have the Victory 12. Despite all of that, I’ve never lost my faith. (Ill. Standing Firm in the Struggle Philippians 1:21-30 NIV 21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. I believe that Lloyd Cory was right when he said, "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken!" That the Father has something on the inside of me that’s Good … There’s somebody here this morning that has lost something, maybe a job that you’ve worked on for many years—you’ve gotten so used to that big paycheck every other Friday. Praise regardless of your circumstances. endobj 1 8. I’ve been up and I’ve been down, I’ve gained and I’ve lost, but I didn’t lose everything because I still have my praise. <>>> We’ve not only lost some things, we’ve lost some people through death, divorce, division, distance, decision to discontinue, or desertion we’ve lost some people too haven’t we? It was a really great Christmas Eve here at the church this year. But, I hate to think of what would have happened to Job had he followed her advice. When Praises Go Up At the 8pm service the choir sang and the hand bells played and I … It's a badly worn tool, because I use it on almost everyone since few people know it belongs to me." A lot of other kids would have gotten scared and ran into their room and hid or when confronted about it, lie about it, etc. Look at the text in verse one: “I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.” The psalmist reminds us, just in case you may not know it – that in this life you will not only collect family members, not only collect friends and acquaintances – but because you are a child of God, you have the potential to acquire enemies or foes. The lying spirits try everything to sabotage your worship. Used to be a time when the only thing you downsized was soda and an order fries. 20 Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshipped. Psalm 27:6b says … I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. Because “Knowing that the testing of our faith produces endurance. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed (or Praise) be the name of the Lord.”. Sometimes we do get discouraged, discouragement is a part of life. It seemed as if Job had sinned greatly answered God, don’t think that the devil won’t elevate this belief by whispering to you that God’s delay is solely because of your sins. And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” Somebody here can say, “I’ve lost some things, but I never lost my joy! If he can get you to believe this lie it will be much easier for him to get you to become very discouraged with God. And let that man be like the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide, because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. He had a hand in discouraging Elijah, “But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. You're putting it on -- it's all an act! The New year 21. Look at you, singing and praising God, acting so … Even worst, he wants you to believe that God’s delay in your life or silence is directly due to His lack of love for you. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. Look what he says (and I’m paraphrasing), I came into this world without anything, and I was naked! Now, could it be that King David and Job knows something that we all should learn? When Praises Go Up Some of us (especially nowadays) have lost homes, cars, money & relationships. You see all he really wants to do is to get you to the point of exhaustion until you doubt almost everything you’ve heard concerning the love of God for you. But how many will stand with me today and say I am going to be like David and say, (Psalms 34:2) I will bless the Lord at all times and his praise shall continually be in my mouth.- How many will stand and say I refuse to let the devil take my Joy away Don’t allow your prayer life to just be a laundry list of needs and wants. [��%B�)q��T%+� It is unawareness of the presence of beauty, unconcern for the needs of our fellowman, and unbelief in the promises of old. God still uses damaged goods like me. But if you walk completely away from God, you didn’t have any faith in the first place. 5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Blessed is He who Cares for the Poor … 4 These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise. If we were to take a moment this morning and conduct a brief inventory of our lives I know that we would come to the conclusion that we have experienced possibly some great lost in our lives. endobj <> He Will Do It For You 4. Here is devil’s strategy, if he could just convince you that God doesn’t really love because He didn’t bless in the time you thought you should have been blessed he will in turn cause you to believe that you are not worthy of a blessing from God at all. But inspite of his despondency and his discourage he concludes that he will continue to praise God. I can hear Job say, “I never lost my praise” remember that whatever is happening in your life, no matter how gloomy or discouraged you may feel, even when you’re faced with what feels like the silenced of God—God is always aware of and concerned about what you’re going through. Why the unease within me? 7. All of the Glory 2. And this is the devil’s primary objective, to get us to concede to ever living our life for God and in short to become disenchanted with God and the things of God. Curse God, and die.” Now let’s not become too angry with Mrs. Job because her counsel to her dear husband might have been born out of her deep feelings of pity and compassion. If you have your Bibles with you, turn to the book of Habakkuk in the Old Testament. In Job 2: 9 we read, “Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? I was just telling my husband that I feel God is up to something! And praise is just faith turned inside out…in other words, show me how much you praise God and I’ll tell you how much faith you have. Job went from riches to poverty all at once. I believe that all of us, primarily those of us that have reached the age of adulthood have lost some things. Many times we are discouraged with our own selves, I’ve had many people come to me and say that they’ve sin so greatly that God would never forgive them and they even gave in to the thought that they were automatically headed for the eternal fires of hell because of all their indiscretions. And he prayed that he might die, and said, "It is enough! 22 If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor… What? I'm Holding On 7. Take a look at your bulletin. The devil took away his children, his livelihood, and his health simultaneously. It is ingratitude for the blessings of yesterday, indifference to the opportunities of today, and insecurity regarding strength for tomorrow. He was blessed with land, and cattle, and servants. You have to get to a place where you respond properly in a negative situation. The devil will steal, kill, and destroy your blessings just to discourage your heart. They must have loved Lazarus a whole lot to have been willing to endure all it took to remove his grave-clothes. He will use all these circumstances in order to get you to condemn your own self. 1 0 obj I was once told by a lady named Bea Shirk, who was one of the most effective first grade teachers I have ever had the experience to pastor, that praise … And so prayer time should always begin and end with praise. 1. Shall we receive only pleasant things from the hand of God and never anything unpleasant?” (The Living Bible) Job had a few friends who gave their unneeded advice as well but Job still maintained his faith in God. I Still Have A Praise Inside Of Me: 5. I realized that I was called by God to preach and not by them. Life is a struggle, not just a struggle but let me add it is a daily struggle. But you still have your joy—the Word says consider it joy when you’re going various trials. here in the third chapter we find habakkuk's prayer of praise! I was made to praise Him it is in my DNA. You don't have to look back over your life, just look at the last 9 months of your life. Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!" "i still owe god praise" the name of habkakkuk means: one who embraces: or to cling to! A discussion between Satan and God ensued concerning Job and it is interesting to note that Satan didn’t bring Job’s name up, God brought Job’s name up! Someone has well said, "You can take off the "H" and you still have "abit! It is God, who brings Job to Satan’s attention, but apparently Satan already knew about Job, and he reasoned that Job was only faithful towards God because he had a hedge of protection placed around him and if He would only remove this hedge Job would in affect curse Him to His face. I believe that this blasphemy would have resulted in the immediate death of Job and at the same time it would have given the devil some bragging rights. There are people around us wearing grave-clothes. Georgia Mass Choir - I Still Have a Praise Album Lyrics; 1. Have you ever been discouraged by people? It was nobody but the devil himself who geared their thoughts to that end. He didn’t understand it, it confused him, it baffled him, but after he wrestled ha, with his thoughts uh huh, for 3 chapters, ha, he comes to the conclusion, ha, in verse 17, and prays to god, and he says basically, even though I’ve lost everything, I might not understand what in the world’s going on, and I might be confused, about ready to lose my mind, I’ll still praise him! But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." 3 0 obj 22 In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong. I Want To Say Thank You 6. All of the Glory 2. Job was a man who actually lived on this earth (he was not a mythical character), he was a man of great devotion to God; he was also a very rich man. God has done something on the inside, he's breathed life into them, given them purpose, but they're still bound on the outside. He wanted Job and he wants us to deny God, and there is no extent to how far he will go to accomplish his devilish mission. Now you may not be happy, because to happy depends on what’s happening. The redeemed still have their old natures and that old nature is still controlled by its old desires and lusts. How important is praise? The subject of my message this evening is praise. endobj You do not have to front for me because I am a living witness I know the Devil will throw you for a loop! You can take off the "Ha" and you still have "bit." This is what he is trying do with Job here in out text. He is a busy creature; who is also known as a thief, and what he loves to steal from us the most, is our joy and our praise towards God. 4 0 obj 2 Cor. In fact, for the first 37 chapters of the book of Job, his cries for God’s help went totally unanswered. Job was very familiar with God’s silence, as we read this great book of Job we will see that Job in all his pain, suffering, and agony, cried out to God continuously. I love the Word of God, and I truly love to preach but I’ve had some horrible things said to me and about me behind my back by a few preachers most of whom I dearly respect. At least he had the courage to come to me and be honest about it. Losing something or someone has even caused some of us to question God. "WORTHY OF PRAISE" First Corinthians 16.15-18. You still don't have total victory, even after all these years. (Won’t he throw you for a loop?) EM he has used all of you to bring me too this moment of “self discovery”. The devil’s efforts to discourage us often involve the ones we really care for and/or respect. the first part of this four part prayer deals with god's mercy!… It is impatience with time, immaturity of thought, and impoliteness to God.” And he is right; it is indeed impolite for us to be discouraged with the One who knows all about us. This is what God has called us to do. We’ve lost some things, we lost some people, some possessions, some positions, and some of us have lost our pride. Turn It Around: 11. Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence. When we work hard, without any progress, when we give it our all but still lose every game, discouragement eats a hole in heart and makes us want to quit. I much rather him call me … Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. You can see below where I still have a bone spur compressing my spinal cord at C5-C6. But you ought be able this morning while you’re sitting here in God’s house to say that I may have lost some people, some possessions, a position, or a privilege, but through it all—I never lost my praise! <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Some people have a knack for hurting others with their words even when they are not actually trying to hurt you. I have never heard of this before, I’m in total AWE! Now once I get inside, I can make him do what I choose. However, words can often be quite an effective weapon in bringing others down. Verse 1: Choir I been through the fire I been through the flood Broken in pieces and left all alone (Chorus 1) But through it all God blessed me through it all God kept me and I still have a praise inside of me (CHORUS 2) There is a praise … He praised God twiced as much as he prayed to God. And, you can take off the "Hab" and you still have "it." 12:7-10 To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Turn It Around: 11. Put Your Trust In God 10. Now don’t you think that’s enough to damage anyone’s self-esteem? Before just entering into that, let me say this: the Bible says, 'In the multitude of words, there wanteth not sin', 'Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few'. There is still a hunger within the flesh for “ the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life. The devil's price for Discouragement was so high, he never sold it. His attack upon Job was designed to cause him to question the goodness of God. All this occurred because Satan appeared in the presence of God on Earth, although many commentaries infer that he met with Him at His throne, but I happen to believe that Satan is well aware of our strengths and vulnerabilities and he had already been thrown out of heaven with the rest of his followers turned demons. and I still have a praise inside of me; Yes, I still have a praise inside of me. But if their words are allowed by you to discourage you from serving God the devil could not be more pleased with them and you and I don’t know about you but I don’t want to ever please the devil by giving in to his schemes and lies. I'm Holding On 7. He hopes that you will come to the conclusion that I didn’t get that job because I did not work hard enough or I’m too old to do the work effectively. I still worry way too much and pray too little, but I do truly look forward to the times that I spend with him by myself and at worship each week and my love … New Day 8. Think about it, Job had everything he needed and then lost everything in a moment’s notice. Some of things they’ve said could have caused me to give up the pulpit all together, until I placed it in my heart that I am not preaching for their approval nor am I preaching for them to embrace me. Even when life itself just doesn’t make any sense. And now you have to settle for that measly unemployment check from the state. <> Here's the sermon I'm preaching on Sunday, September 21, 2008. But now you have downsize everything the car, the house or apartment you live, the clothes you wear, the food you eat almost everything has to be down-sized because you lost some things. There is a praise in my spirit a praise down in my soul a glory hallelujah that cannot be controlled and I still have a praise inside of me It's still his major tool, and he still uses it on God's people today. It’s not because you’ve anything wrong, it’s just that life can throw a curve at us sometimes. Jeremiah 31:35 Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar ; The LORD of hosts is His name: We have all heard the expression, “If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.” But this is not about luck and few things really are; neither is this a coincidence. We must remember we have an unseen adversary. Sometimes God appears to be silent while you’re going through a trial. He will constantly remind you of the things you’ve done, the things you’ve said; and the places you’ve been that was against God’s will. habkakkuk who serves as the 4th out of gods 11 minor prophets. He will use what you care about in order to break you down. And that’s normal [believe it or not] it is normal. The devil is very crafty because he will use your very own family or your most dearest of friends to crush your faith, your trust, and your praise for the most High God. 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