 All right, good morning once again all doing well Yes, yeah, did you all sleep well? Hey Rohit. Good morning. Thanks for joining online. Yeah Why don't we just go ahead and stand up just feel like it's take like a couple of minutes sometimes and Just feel like we need to Acknowledge his presence with us this morning Holy Spirit. We welcome you into our midst We want to pause we want to Acknowledge your presence in our midst God. Thank you Jesus. Thank you. Love. Thank you God So come father come and have your way We are here to honor you. We are here to love on you. We are here to worship you So even as we learn from your word Holy Spirit, let there be revelation on revelation of who you are God Let there be a fresh outpouring of your spirit as we learn from your word Jesus I pray that our hearts will be tender even as we learn I pray that that The seeds of your word will go deep into our hearts and bear fruits Jesus Well, I pray that even as we learn from your word There will be a longing that there will be that there will be no Satisfaction Jesus. I pray that that we will just become more hungry and more desperate For more of you Lord in Jesus name I pray I'm Man go ahead and be seated. Thank you. Hi Viku Rohit once again. Thanks for joining us online So in the last chapter we Chapter 4 we were talking about the power of praise. Yeah, you remember that story, right? The power of praise how many of you remember? Yeah Hi, Surya, thanks for joining good to see you Judge and good morning Welcome. Yeah Right Krisha welcome. Good to see you right so Last class we discussed about the power of praise right from the story of King Jehoshaphat Has to be one of my favorite stories There's so many things that you can learn about it. You can learn about the power of praise You can learn about praise and warfare in that story How God is inviting us and also about very briefly The of the power of praise from the life of Paul and Silas. Yeah it sometimes can The story of Paul and Silas is so familiar so popular That we tend to lose the significance of it like Especially if if you're born and raised in a Christian family like me You've heard that story of Paul and Silas and David and Goliath from It's reduced to what we call it as a Sunday school story Not disrespectful to Sunday school stories, but then It's just so much more powerful, right So one of the things that we discussed Is that there is power in praise. There is power in your praise, right? And another thing as I was reading that passage again, I just realized that praise changes the atmosphere, right? Praise Changes the atmosphere. You know what an atmosphere is right? The earth has an atmosphere if you go outside of the atmosphere you die Right when you're within that atmosphere of the earth, you're able to breathe and move and whatnot But so praise changes the atmosphere, right? So if you're in a dark like Paul and Silas were they were in prison and whatnot But when they begin to praise the situations and the circumstances around them Began to change right. So that's what praise does right. So that's where we were We discussed and I really hope that you were able to Read other scriptures that's mentioned in your notes Because I know you all are all very studious and I'm sure you all did it The story of Jericho and Gideon those are all powerful powerful narratives of the power of praise Okay, just continuing on with this chapter in page 17 as a conclusion The next section is talking about expressions of praise, right? What is the expressions of praise? What is an expression? What is an expression? You're giving me different expressions right now Laughing is an expression smiling is an expression sleepy is an expression Don't care there's an expression Anger is an expression Yeah, happiness joy is an expression, right? So when you're happy, how do you express? You smile you hi-fi you give a hug or you know tears of joy Right tears of happiness Anand Kanyur, I don't know how do you say it in Hindi? Yeah, it's not Okay, so when you're happy you are much more louder than you usually are. All right, right. Yeah, okay. Yeah, thank you Sorry Can you be a little louder? The sign of in inner feeling. Yeah, okay. Cool. Thanks. Um, when when you're filled with joy, how do you express? When you're filled with joy, how do you express? What are the different expressions of joy? That's a jump. Okay. So So you feel sleepy when you're When when you're filled with joy anybody No, right. I mean you're excited you're like Very exuberant, uh, and whatnot, right? Um, and when you're angry, what do you how do you express? How do you how do some of you express anger? See rather it's like no, sir. I'm always calm and smiling. I don't Uh Sean, how do you express anger? It's like no, I'm a christian, sir. I don't get angry So you You shout and you get over with okay, um anybody uh face changes immediately. Okay, judge and says All right, what else? Eyes become red now Yeah, and what else guys prince can you get break things? Right, well, you don't get angry also you do of course you do, huh? How do you express sorry come on guys, let's let's talk you sorry the word You won't speak. Okay. You go silent. Okay. So that's another expression of uh, and yeah, that's good. Yeah So viku says when I am angry I express it by stop talking with anyone like it's like what francis said Yeah, thanks for sharing that viku. Uh, so here says showing bad expressions and raise our voice Yeah, I mean there are a lot of ways to expression our anger, right? I mean we break things. Uh, we shout Some punch walls Kick stuff What else or the silent treatment we give the person the silent treatment Yeah, so Expression is just an emotion. I mean you're expressing what you're feeling isn't it? Uh, everything so be it for worship and also similarly for praise Uh, so this section is talking about expressions of praise Uh, and once again, I even before we start going through this list Uh, I want to say this not an exhaustive list. It's like whatever you see what how many points are there? Okay, you know nine points are there in your notes. So I'm not going to say there are only nine expressions of praise Right. It's just an exhaustive list. Uh When we decide to write a book on expressions of praise we can have how many of our pages and how many of our points We want but then we'll go through some of them. Okay. Is that all right guys? Uh, once you keep your Bibles ready because I want us to read a few scriptures Um, Surya says breaking mobiles and surrounding items sometimes by some people. Yeah Anybody broken mobile phones in anger? Yeah confession Only one Many many years ago. So don't judge me It was uh Nokia 33 10, you know one of those old phones. I mean, okay, you guys will not know that but It was the phone of all phones. It was the best phone Uh, you could kill a person with that phone. It was that heavy and solid. But it's the best phone ever Uh, Nokia 33 10. Okay. Anyways, um Great. So one of the expressions of praise. Okay is singing Okay, uh, let's go to some of the scriptures that's mentioned there In the notes someone can someone read Psalm 47 verse 6 please loud and clear please Thank you. Um, so how many times is sing mentioned? I'm just that one verse Four times and just that one verse just one verse sing praises to our god sing praises sing praises to our king sing praises, okay So, uh, singing is one of the expressions of praise. Uh, some hundred verse four anybody You can even paste it on the chat section if you have the verse, uh, so Right, I will enter his gauge with thanksgiving his courts with praise. You all know the very famous one. So, uh, we cannot So we can At least conclude uh, that singing is a huge part of our lives. We sing, uh, when you're happy we sing when you're filled with joy Um, I don't know if anyone sings when they are angry And Yeah, maybe you know, you never know, right, uh, but but singing is an expression of praise Okay, can anyone remember does anyone remember what is uh, the initial definition of praise that we learned an expression of It's an expression of Adoration and an expression of What is it? You're applauding someone, isn't it? You're like your approval. You're giving you're showing your approval You're acknowledging someone their greatness their kindness their goodness or whoever they are, right? So praise is what is an expression of your adoration Okay, adoration adore. I mean, it's a simple image that I can't define adoration Uh, I mean you can get a dictionary meaning and whatnot But then adoration for me simply is like you are adoring, you know It's like both their hands your hands in their face and like, you know, it's so beautiful and if someone gifts you something is like Oh, my gosh, you know, so beautiful. You turn it keep turning it, you know, it's like, whoa iPhone 14 It's like, oh Wow You know, so your accounts you're giving your 100 attention only to that one thing Right, so you're expressing your love you're expressing your affection Your devotion and your adoration, right? What is devotion? We have devotion times, right? But what is what is devotion? devotion in any other language Time spent dedicated to something or someone. Okay. Yeah devotion. I in other any other language hindi or something sorry Time spent with god. Okay, but just devotion before we make it very spiritual but just I'm giving you my devotion when you say that to someone. What does that mean? Meditating with god bakthi. Okay. Nina says, all right Sorry Full attention. Okay. I am so you must have heard this phrase. I am this person's devotee You've heard of that I'm a devotee of so and so person like, you know, like we have these followers, right? Summer pit, okay Yes, Sean you're saying To like a time being oh, yeah, so it's almost like discipleship like you're you're someone's disciple, right? in In the jewish context, there's a saying called in the dust of the rabbi Okay, everybody say in the dust of the rabbi Okay, so what it really means is it's a jewish thing. So When a rabbi is walking the disciple will walk so close with the rabbi That the dust that comes off his sandals will fall off on theirs I mean, that's how close they are And they want to do everything that the rabbi does and the end goal is to become like the rabbi And like you said, so they are giving their devotion to a certain period of time only to the rabbi Get what I'm saying and so when we say Praise is an expression of our adoration and a devotion. We're saying, okay, my focus It's like, you know that horse thing a horse has that one thing, you know, so it doesn't get distracted It's just you So many things can be happening when we are worshiping and praise it can be distracting um But no matter what happens you are saying My eyes are only for you Right. So that is also an expression of adoration, right? And so that's also what's the notes are singing. So That is and and so singing is an expression of that one of the expressions and the other thing is shouting what's the hebrew word for shout hebrew word for shout shouts of praise shouts Shabbah I'm sure it woke up a few people. So yeah Shabbah, right? So that's shouting shouting is another expression of praise other bible says so some 147 of us Sorry some 47 verse one and some 66 verse one somebody please Very quickly we'll go through this section. So Some 47 verse one anybody. All right. Thank you Shout for joy with voice of triumph. Okay another example of what also happens in the wall of jericho Right, uh, god commands them to lift up a shout And that is an expression, right? We can't say okay shout. Yeah, sure I shout I'm shouting on the inside You don't see it. My heart is actually screaming You know, it's an outward expression of praise is also a shouting, right? How many of you like to do that? In praise in the context of praise. How many of you think it's scary how It's not scary It's very intimidating. Isn't it what some of the things that the bible asks us to do a shout for joy all the earth and You know and something like that happens It's like what happened is everybody okay, uh, you know Are they are they possessed and whatnot? But then remember when we do it in the context of worship when you know the one you are worshiping Uh, you will erupt In shouts of praise right you guys with me. Okay. Um, the third one third expression is clapping of hands Um How many of you clapped your hands before tal tala Correct. No, tala bazao And correct Um, so it can look like uh some Yeah, it's just clapping of hands, you know, everybody does it and someone gives a nice speech This morning. Also, I heard I don't know who spoke but uh, you know, there was a round of applause makes uh, we clap right usually when someone When someone important comes or someone has done something amazing you you clap and whatnot and when someone has done something wrong Uh, there is a sarcastic clap. You know what that is Thanks, Nina. Sorry my Hindi is not good. So yeah when At least recently with my friends what I what we do is when someone does a flop show, you know, what a flop show is uh We say slow claps You know When my wife drops something is like, you know, she's known for dropping things That's why we call her butterfingers So it's like wow slow claps guys you know But clapping can look like such a thing that such a common thing, but you know one of the I heard one of the People share this thing when you clap, right? There's a sound. That's a minute. Can you clap? Right. So there's a sound that is released Isn't it uh to to speak scientifically there's a sound wave Right a sound travels in wave, right? It's really so It says that although you can stop hearing the wave the sound It goes on for eternity. It goes on for a long time That wave that's that it the frequency of the note. You can't hear it, but it keeps going on and on So when you clap and when you praise God you're not just doing is like, okay. I don't have an instrument is like, okay I'm not clapping because my worship leader said clap your hands when you realize that The sound that is emitted from just clapping and it's going on it's going to go on forever Your praise is mingled with that clap Understand what I'm saying your praise Is mixed with that clap and your praise is going on forever and your praise is praising god Isn't that a beautiful expression? None of you will ever clap the same again Yes or no I hope so right so singing shouting clapping of hands lifting of our hands. We've studied that right? What's the two Hebrew words? The hands of praise and the thanks of praise. What is it? Ladakh What I heard it as a ladakh Yadah And no, that's uh, that's the songs of praise tahila songs of praise yadah and poda Hey, france is going just bump Like yadah and todah the hands of praise and the thanks of praise Okay, so from that we've learned the importance and the significance of lifting our hands and praising isn't it? Right again, even that we we do it every time every day we worship There's if you go to google images and shirts and search for The postures of worship right that it's funny. They've given different names for You know like even you put your hands out like this When you put your hands out like this when you put your hands out like this they've given some funny names I mean you can look at it, but um what is What is that posture? Showing or expressing when you lift your hands and praise it could be like this it could be like this it could be like that So lifting up your of your hands Is a symbol or is a posture of surrender? Okay. What else? What else? There's no right or wrong answer. I'm just openness. Okay. Yeah Surrender openness thanksgiving Nina says thanksgiving. Yeah Reducing ourselves before God. Yeah. Thanks. So yeah Reducing yourself. Yeah, Sean Okay, you allow God to enter you or work through you. Yeah, thanks Sorry guys the acoustics in this room are really bad. So Yeah, you're open. Okay. Yeah your arms wide open. Okay It could be so many things, isn't it? Like you're open. You're allowing God to work through you. You're surrendering Um, right Absolute surrender is like saying okay, you do whatever you want to do with me. I'm giving my all to you We go back to the definition of praise Once again, isn't it like I'm giving you my adoration my expression of adoration. You are my one thing So I'm giving you my all Yes, um, so that's a beautiful expression of lifting off our hands This these points like singing shouting clapping, you know lifting off our hands is like Like Russian really why you know, why why are these in this notes guy? I've been a Christian for 25 years of my life I've been doing this for all my life. I know what it is Uh, but somewhere in the journey it is possible for us to lose um What is what do I say? The meaning the wonder of it like the small small things will become like overlooked But when we again just pause and say there's so much of meaning and power in all of these expressions It it just takes a different perspective, right? Thanks guys. So uh playing of musical instruments Is another expression of praise Uh, so playing of a musical instrument if you can't play an instrument Is just one of the expressions that you're not it's it which is fine Right, but then music musical instruments have been there from at least From a very long time. Let me just say it like that. Okay. Um And playing music alone is not an expression of worship I'll say that again Playing music alone is not an expression of worship. It's one of the expressions of worship Right. Um, so if you come play an instrument Yeah, don't be too hard on yourself Okay, uh standing Standing Standing this standing is an expression of praise What does that posture communicate? Yeah Your respect Okay Your respect your honor. Yeah Hi this this morning, right? I was yeah Um, so I went to wish cheera. He stood up from his chair and then I came here to wish them So they stood up like you just sit And so you're saying you know, this is the natural response to respect honor whatever that is but uh It's a beautiful thing, isn't it? It's such a simple thing that we do in our day to day lives right in everyday lives when an elder comes You know, there's a difference between okay So when an elder comes you can either sit and shake their hand or you can stand and shake their hands Um, our culture is a little different. Uh, so But there's there's a difference in when you just stand and when you greet someone right there's Like you are acknowledging their presence. So in the next class, uh, hopefully even if you have time uh want to talk about acknowledge Uh acknowledging someone's presence. Okay acknowledging god's presence. So standing goes a long way and singing in the spirit Singing in the spirit is another beautiful expression of praise. So, um Um, how many of us pray? How many of us pray? Thanks krisha Yeah, so we all pray and have has there been times Uh, where you prayed for five minutes and then you open my your eyes and says look I thought of praying for half an hour, but it's only been five minutes. Have you felt Anybody felt or was it just me? You know, I've been praying praying praying full fire and then open my eyes only five minutes Uh, it's like, okay, how did these guys do it? You know, I was like, what do you pray for one hour, half an hour, two hours and all of that? But then I learned the The the secret thing of praying in the tongues and the spring in the spirit And then you just pray and pray and pray and then that translated into singing in the spirit It was the whole different expression of it. So, um, yeah Yeah, we could we most of us can relate to that experience It's the best experience. I mean in a very funny way You know pray for five minutes and think you're prayed for half an hour But singing in the spirit, I want to encourage you Okay, once again, I want to remind you I want to be very mindful of this class when I say it's okay if you can't play an instrument And it's okay if you can't sing The question the point of a worshipper is not that if you can sing The point of a worshipper is that does your heart have a song? That's the whole point Okay, if your heart has a song You will erupt Right, it could be the songs in the language that you can or in in the spirit as well So when you begin singing once you begin just to pray and sing in the spirit um It is you you are going to be empowered and that's one of the beautiful expressions of praise um And then the last two points is dancing and kneeling Yes dancing is also a beautiful expression of praise kneeling bowing down prostration is also another expression of praise besides these nine points Can you tell me some of the expressions of praise? That you can think of Like I said these nine points are not the only Expressions of praise there's so many but then what according to you Can and is an expression of praise You understood my question, right? Guys you understood my question, right? So what according to you can be Uh, what is your way of expressing your praise? I'm sure you're doing all of this But in addition is there another way how you express your praise The question is for you online as well, sir people How many of you paint? Sorry Reading the word. Yeah, and does anybody paint? So most of those paintings that you see right that one and there's some paintings upstairs. I saw Uh, most of it was done during a worship session Um, so that is another expression of praise What else yeah, sure Writing songs. Yeah writing songs is an expression of praise. Yeah, because your heart is overflowing, isn't it? And so a song is just an overflow of what your heart is feeling. So yeah smile Anybody online, uh, what do you guys think what can be other expressions of praise? Thankfulness. Yeah, thankfulness spending time with god reading the word and whatnot. What else guys? meditating meditating on on meditating on football On what on on god I'm praying. Okay Judge and says talking to god while i'm doing my daily activities. Nice As in expressing my thankfulness from my heart when i'm alone. Yeah yeah Just having a conversation like I said, you know Uh, there's so many things guys I'm just asking you because I want to know if you have your own unique custom made expression of praise You know, it's like the designer series Just one of a kind But just okay I guess That's it So don't let these expressions stop. So find ways to express Your adoration your affection your devotion To god. Okay. So you guys with me? You're still alive Yes All right. So that's chapter four talks about the power of praise and expressions of praise um Just before we move on. Uh, just read uh Some 119 was 169 and 172 some 119 Was 169 and 172 169 to 172 69 70 71 72. Thank you Right. Uh, so krisha also says, uh, one of the expressions of praise is using our creativity in any way to adore the lord It's a beautiful thing. I think I have to put that in the notes next year. Okay using our creativity Right, everybody say creativity Right, uh in any way to adore the lord. That's such a beautiful thing. Um, so What does that mean creativity? Mean you are creative. Has anyone told you that hey, you're a very creative person Chance is like, yeah, no, no one's called me creative person Yeah, me too Sean in the same group. Okay Uh, but yeah, that's a beautiful thing. Thanks krisha. Right. So some 169 was uh, once, uh, sorry Some 119 was 169 and 72 says may my cry Come before you oh lord Give me understanding According to your word So that means there is understanding when we read his word, right? May my supplication come before you deliver me according to your promise May my lips overflow with praise For because you teach me your decrees May my tongue sing your word For all your commands are righteous It's beautiful, isn't it? Right. Um, I'm not sure if I've mentioned this about some hundred and nineteen. Have I um, have you read some hundred and nineteen? Only one verse Thy word is the lamp into my feet and the light into my path Uh, so some hundred and nineteen has a pro uh, not approximately It has a hundred and seventy six verses and you can you kind of confirm that 176 Some hundred and nineteen has hundred and seventy six Burse. Yeah Every single verse Maybe with an exception of two, uh, but then we'll have these words Word Law Statues Decrees Precepts Ways a different translation of English can something has testimonies um, and whatnot. So Every single verse of some hundred and nineteen will have these words my mentor made me underline all of this in 2007 um, and In all of these words, right ways precepts statues decrease Promise word commands everything simply means The word of god Right. So one of the writers says some hundred and nineteen is a love poetry to the word of god It's an expression. So it's like you said, you know, it's like writing a song like writing a Some for them was an expression Of their adoration. Okay. So, uh, if you haven't already, uh, one of the exercise that you can do It's going to take you like say two minutes is underline all those words ways precepts statues not now later Decrease and whatnot and then read through those. Okay. So beautiful beautiful song. Okay. So that's the song I just read from it says and look at the progression Uh, of the of the words there. Okay. It says may my cry come before you Give me understanding, right? Give me Understanding according to your word So when we read his word like, you know, I said an expression is reading his word We get this understanding. I want you to remember this point very important Uh, you know, because we're going to learn about it in the next chapter understanding the importance of understanding, right His word gives us understanding. May my supplication come before you so now as I read his word I come before him with requests Because you deliver me according to your promise once again word Now may my lips overflow with praise. What is overflow? I keep pouring water into this bottle You can see, you know, so keep pouring water into this bottle. It's going to fill and If I don't stop, it's going to overflow, right overflow. So that's what it says my lips Overflow with praise that means for your lips to overflow There already has to be praise inside of you right, there should be enough and more Praise inside of you for your lips to overflow What is your lips overflowing with these days? Just a question for y'all. Okay. I don't want answers, but what are your lips overflowing with? Answer that to yourself. Okay. So my lips may my lips overflow with praise for because You teach me your decrease And look at the progression of it, right? I want my lips to overflow with praise because you teach me Your decrease decrease again once again means word Right. So when we guys when we allow us to be ourselves as students before him He teaches us How to praise and worship Simple, isn't it? Yes or no? Yes or no? Yes No Right. Bible says the Holy Spirit is our teacher Now I'm your teacher If you don't show up for class, who am I going to teach? No one And so if we don't show up to Holy Spirit's class, who is he going to teach? Right and so you have to make yourself available to say I come before you You teach me and that's exactly what is happening here May my tongue sing your word for all your commands Word are righteous Amen Are you all still awake? Cool. So, uh, let's just stop here for this this class. I know we're stopping a little early But uh an extended time of break for you there, I guess. Um, so um In the next five ten minutes what you can do is go through some hundred and nineteen and Note those words. Okay, if you have to make your bible look a little dirty, or it's fine underline it Okay, if your bible is too clean, uh, it's not just throw it outside. Okay Is whichever pen you get just keep uh do that. Okay, so I'll stop the recording now for those online You know just use the next factor minutes also this break time to just do that exercise for yourself and I'll see I'll see you all in In 20 minutes. Okay