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• PSA L M 9 :1 1 | Sing praises to the Lord who reigns. . . . Tell the world about his unforgettable
deeds.
• PSA L M 3 5 :1 8 | Then I will thank you in front of the great assembly. I will praise you before
all the people.
• H E B R E W S 1 3 :1 5 | Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to
God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name.
Your worship should include praise and thanks to God for what he has done.
• PSA L M 1 5 0 :3 -5 | Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn; praise him with the lyre
and harp!
• 1 C H R O NI C L E S 1 3 :8 | David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their
might, singing songs and playing all kinds of musical instruments—lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
Worship can take the form of a joyous celebration with musical instruments.
• 1 C H R O NI C L E S 1 5 :1 6 | David also ordered the Levite leaders to appoint a choir of Levites
who were singers and musicians to sing joyful songs to the accompaniment of harps, lyres,
and cymbals.
Singing is an important part of your worship to God.
• PSA L M 9 5 :6 | Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our
maker.
• 2 C H R O NI C L E S 2 0 :1 9 | Then the Levites from the clans of Kohath and Korah stood to
praise the Lord, the God of Israel, with a very loud shout.
There are many appropriate postures for worship, including kneeling, bowing, and standing. Whatever your posture, the important point is that your actions are showing honor and
reverence to God.
• H E B R E W S 1 2 :2 8 | Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful
and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe.
Holy respect and awe should accompany thanksgiving as appropriate attitudes in
worship.
• A MO S 5 :2 1 -2 4 | “I hate all your show and pretense—the hypocrisy of your religious
festivals and solemn assemblies. . . . Away with your noisy hymns of praise! I will not listen
to the music of your harps. Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless river
of righteous living.” (See note on page 807.)
Public worship is useless if done without sincerity and the desire to live wholeheartedly
for God.
• 1 T I MOT H Y 2 :8 | In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up
to God, free from anger and controversy.
• 1 C H R O NI C L E S 2 9 :1 0 | Then David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole
assembly.
Public prayer is an important part of corporate worship.
• DE U T E R O NO MY 3 1 :1 2 -1 3 | “Call them all together—men, women, children, and the
foreigners living in your towns—so they may hear this Book of Instruction and learn to fear
the Lord your God and carefully obey all the terms of these instructions. Do this so that
your children who have not known these instructions will hear them and will learn to fear
the Lord your God.”
• 2 C H R O NI C L E S 2 0 :1 3 | As all the men of Judah stood before the Lord with their little ones,
wives, and children . . .
It is good to worship as a family.
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• E PH E SI A NS 5 :1 8 -1 9 | Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, singing psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts.
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• PSA L M 1 4 7 :1 | Praise the Lord! How good to sing praises to our God! How delightful and
how fitting!