Psalm 150: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise the Lord

``So praise doesn't just honor God. It changes the person praising. Right? The depression breaks. The anxiety and fear lifts, and his presence and overwhelming peace begins to take over in your heart. In fact, let me make this other point. You may not always be able to change your situation, but praise will change your spirit. You may not always be able to change your situation, but I'm telling you, praise changes your spirit. It begins to pick you up and lift up your spirits. In fact, I said it another way here. You may not always be able to change your problem, but praise will change your perspective. [00:55:08] (44 seconds)  #PraiseTransforms

Listen. Praise doesn't just honor God. Praise changes the person praising. You know, when we when we praise and worship on a Sunday morning, man, yes, God is honored by that. But our God is not this egomaniac who just wants praises from people so that his head can get puffed up. No. God understands that there is a relationship, there is an exchange, there's an interaction that when praises go up, his presence comes down. And when you and I experience God's presence, it changes everything. [00:52:52] (40 seconds)  #PresenceThroughPraise

And so God is worthy to be praised when the blessing doesn't come, even when the miracle doesn't come. Right? Psalm one fifty says, we're still to praise the lord because of what he's already done for you. Right? The cross, if I've said this before. If Jesus does not do another thing for us, he is still worthy to be praised because of what he did on the cross. And he's still worthy to be praised simply because of who he is, that he is the one son of the holy living God. And let me just say this, praise from one Psalm 150, praise is loud and expressive. [00:46:44] (44 seconds)  #PraiseWhenBlessingLacks

praise is interesting. Praise is just like giving honor and glory. Praise is like giving thanksgiving to someone, giving thanks to someone, having gratitude towards someone. Listen. If someone saved your life, you would thank them. If someone paid off your debt, you would thank them. If someone pulled you out when you were down rock bottom in darkness, you would thank them. And Jesus did all of that and much more for you and I. He saved us. He paid off the debt of sin, and he brought us out of darkness and into his marvelous light. Therefore, he is worthy to be praised. [00:37:52] (46 seconds)  #GratitudeForSalvation

The second reason Psalm one fifty tells us we are to praise to god, praise god is because simply because of who he is, that Jesus is the Messiah, that Jesus is the anointed one, that Jesus is the one and only son of the living god, that Jesus is holy and faithful and merciful and powerful and sovereign and loving and unchanging. And so he's worthy to be praised. Just those two reasons alone, you and I should be people of praise. [00:44:50] (33 seconds)  #PraiseForWhoHeIs

We praise him on the mountaintop. We praise him in the valley. We praise him in the highs, and we praise him in the lows. We praise him in the good times, and we praise him in the bad times. Because he is worthy to be praised. In fact, Psalm 150 gives us two reasons. That's why I say reasonable. Psalm 150 gives us two reasons out of the hundreds and thousands of reasons that we can come up with of why Jesus deserves our praise and worship. Psalm 150 gives us two reasons of why we should praise the Lord. [00:40:44] (34 seconds)  #PraiseInEverySeason

So it's a made up word, but I'm about to make a point about it. Right? Psalm one fifty does not teach us that praise is seasonal. Psalm one fifty does not say only praise God when he's been good to you. Psalm one fifty doesn't teach only praise God when your bank account is full. Psalm one fifty doesn't teach only praise God when the doctor's report comes back clear. No. Psalm 50 teaches praise Let everything that has breath, praise the Lord. Regardless of the season or the circumstance that you and I are in, Psalm one fifty thirteen times tells us that we, as God's people, are to praise him. [00:40:01] (42 seconds)  #PraiseRegardless

In this world, we're gonna have hardships. In this world, we're gonna have tough decisions, and we're gonna have to navigate hard things, and we can't always change those things. But praise will give you a new perspective on all of that. When you compare all of these little issues, they dissolve in comparison to a mighty God. And that's what praise does, and praise is warfare. You know that we're in a spiritual battle. Ephesians six talks about the battle that we're in. Now our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the powers of this dark world, principalities, and praise is warfare. [00:55:52] (41 seconds)  #PraiseIsSpiritualWarfare