Worship Works: This Time it's Personal

Sermon Text: Hebrews 13: 15 Through Jesus, therefore let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name.
Sermon Title: Worship Works: This Time it’s Personal
Point 1: Find Your Praise Quotient Ps 150: 3 – 5 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, praise him with tambourines and dancing praise him with the strings and flute, praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals…
(a) You are built to uniquely praise him…singers shouldn’t dance and dancers shouldn’t play instruments…clappers shouldn’t sing, etc.
(b) God accepts all sacrifice of praise one is not better than the other
(c) Your praise quotient is a formulae that should produce Personal Praise/Worship + Authenticity = godly Results
a. Glory to his name
b. Renewing/refreshing of your spirit
c. Power for living
Point 2: Praise Him with Your Whole Heart Ps 9: 1 I will praise you , O Lord with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders
2 Tim 1: 3 Every time I say your name in prayer—which is practically all the time—I thank God for you, the God I worship with my whole life in the tradition of my ancestors.

James 3: 9 – 12 put it this way. With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness. (10) Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. (11) Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? (12) My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
So make sure your heart is:
(a) Washed by the blood of the Jesus
(b) Forgiven by the Jesus
(c) Through Jesus
Point 3: Praise Him: Visible not Audible Ps 22: 25 Msg Here in this great gathering for worship I have discovered this praise-life. And I’ll do what I promised right here in front of the God-worshipers.
Ps 42: 4 These are the things I go over and over, emptying out the pockets of my life. I was always at the head of the worshiping crowd, right out in front, Leading them all, eager to arrive and worship, Shouting praises, singing thanksgiving— celebrating, all of us, God’s feast!
Matt 6: 25 “If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don’t fuss about what’s on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body.