Ps 47 1 Clap your hands all you

Ps. 47: 1 Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy. Ps. 32: 11 Rejoice in the Lord and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart! 2� Ps. 66: 1 -2 Shout with joy to God, all the earth! � Sing the glory of his name; make his praise glorious! 1� Psalm 150 � Praise the Lord, Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his 2� mighty heavens. � Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his 3� surpassing greatness. � Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise 4� him with the harp and lyre, � praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise 5� him with the strings and flute, � praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise 6� him with resounding cymbals. � Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord

Eph 5: 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord Col 3: 16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 1 Cor. 14: 15 What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also James 5: 13 Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises.

REASONS FOR JOYFUL WORSHIP Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. 2� � Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. 3� � Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. 4� � Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. 5� � For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Shout joyfully Worship with gladness Come with joyful songs Know that He is God Enter His gates with Thanksgiving Give Thanks Praise His name

Serve the Lord with gladness, � ” this is a point to which the mere carnal mind never did attain, and never will. Any connection between religion and gladness seems to the most of men to be very remote indeed. Many people attend to their “� religion, � ” as they call it, but it is downright slavery. They go up to their place of worship because it is a terrible necessity of custom that respectable people should meet in certain fixed places on the Sabbath; but they are glad when the service is short-exceedingly glad if it could be made so short as to be omitted altogether. They look upon their religious exercises as a tax which they pay to God, or rather, as a tax which they pay to respectability, for living in a country where so many think it right to profess the Christian faith. The worldly religionists’ service has no gladness in it. “� Serve the Lord with gladness� ” seems to the carnal mind to be a perfect monstrosity; and yet, mark you, this is the test between the genuine and the hypocritical professor-by this one thing shall you know who it is that fears God, and who it is that does but offer him the empty tribute of his lips. “�

First, What God has done for all of us should make us rejoice He has promised that nothing will separate us from His love; He has promised He would never leave us. He has promised that all things will work for good in our lives. 2. The Character of God should make us rejoice!

I am convinced that the most profound reason why worship has declined goes beyond the often identified problems of archaic language and adjusting to unfamiliar rituals. I am persuaded that worship has become irrelevant to multitudes of people because people are bored by a God they really don� ’t know; therefore they consider him irrelevant. [2] The Lord is Good (v. 5). His love endures forever (5 b). He is faithful through all generations (5 c).

JOYFUL WORSHIP MUST BE OUR PURSUIT First, we must not confuse Joyfulness with Activity. Second, we must make time to recount our blessings and remember the greatness of God.