 This breakout is called, I'm called to sing and I did something crazy and in 2020 in the middle of COVID with my kids at home I decided that was the perfect time to try to write a book on prophetic singing and I just had a really really special moment just literally right now and I got to meet the editor of my book and I started crying up here she's in the back today and she is just a mighty woman of God just woman of the faith and I'm just kind of an emotional wreck right now and so anyways she edited the book she's in the room Edie I'm just honored that you're here you're just incredible so anyway yay let's just honor her for being here with us so anyways I'm just gonna get this out of the way I'm gonna teach this session out of this book that I wrote and there are gonna be copies in the bookstore and in the back and I just highly encourage you like I'm not super great at talking in front of people but I wrote everything that I want to say today in this book so grab it and worship how many of you guys are worship leaders in the room yeah so I want to encourage you to I've been getting kind of some testimonies from different churches in the area and and just all all throughout really the nation just different worship leaders saying hey we've been resourcing our singers with this book we've been taking them through your book and kind of doing the Q&A together and that's kind of kind of my heart was was to see that we need to resource our vocalists how many of you know that a lot of times we focus on our musicians because they kind of like make the train wrecks happen if they're gonna happen and so we kind of focus on that and sometimes we kind of just forget about our vocalists our singers and we kind of like just just show up sometimes we don't make them come to the rehearsals right they just kind of show up and do their thing but I want to encourage you part of what I want to share is the importance of of our singers the importance of using our voices obviously in worship but also resourcing our singers and so um so anyways I created this book there you go I did it um okay so let's just jump in who here in this room can sing show of hands yay it's a trick question though I saw a few of you drummers not raise your hand I saw it you know who you are uh so kind of what we have we've got some singers on worship teams that you're like yes I am a singer and then you've got some singers that are super like humble and they're like yeah I guess I can sing right and then we've got like our electric guitar players they're like I'm not raising my hands like I don't do that I saw you Tom in the back um but here's here's what's interesting about that question is when I asked that question we all kind of associate a certain measure of skill required for you to say yes or no to that question right but the question was who can sing and the answer is it is it's everyone we are all called to sing um and yeah we either measure up to our fake amount of skill that we decided we needed or or or we didn't um but you guys you guys mostly in this room you know you can sing you're a singer and some of us in this room need to be liberated and set free from some lies from our childhood that person that spoke that thing over your life when you were 10 and they were like maybe you should learn an instrument or maybe you should play sports yeah some well-meaning individuals but you know what that did it locked up your sound and we're all called to sing we're all called to offer our own sound but I just I'm gonna just jump right in right away and and and say like I'll tell you my own story when I was in fourth grade I I joined pioneer clubs I don't know if you know what pioneer clubs are but it's kind of like Girl Scouts for Christians and uh so you like earn badges and that's it was a blast but um I I remember one day I went to our the pioneer club leaders house where there was like a group of 10 of us girls I'm in fourth grade and we're like we're making candles and like dipping wax like the wax and the thing and making candles and I don't know I'm getting badges for making candles it's so great but then what happens is us girls are kind of all left to ourselves I don't know what the leaders are doing something with the candles I'm sure and someone has like a karaoke mic and we're like passing the mic around singing and just like high-five in each other just kind of having this fun this fun time and the most beautiful most popular fifth grade girl she was a year older than me it was my turn to have the microphone and I don't remember what I do I sing something and she she kind of just looks at me takes the microphone and says you need to stop before you hurt our ears that's painful right I mean that was just you know one moment that I had it in fourth grade and I just I remember I do I remember it because it was like it's and you know what she was pretty and popular and probably knew what she was talking about and so I kind of made this little inner vow as a 12 year old okay good to know I shouldn't sing in public good to know like I need to kind of I love singing and I you know I feel happy and alive when I do but okay like that word curse kind of like started to sink in and started to do some damage in my heart and I just I just I'm gonna guess today that some of you may have some similar stories two weeks ago I was at church here and this man approached me just tears in his eye I mean he was he was visibly crying and he said he just was like thank you I just finished that chapter where you shared about the pioneer clubs and he goes I was I think he was 12 because I was 12 and I was in this boys choir and had all these opportunities to kind of like do singing and and and my dad suggested that I I kind of stop him and do sports and he's like you know we're from 30 years later and I'm realizing I have something to offer the Lord with my voice and so I believe that it's time even for some of us in this room to be set free from some of those word curses when we were kids when we were adults you know maybe you failed an audition at one point you know maybe you didn't make the choir you didn't get the solo and it just kind of right it it did something and it it what it did is it locked up your sound and it locked up some of your worship and I just want to encourage you right from the beginning of this breakout that it's time to sing it's time to unlock that sound it's time to to get free from from those lies that have been spoken over you you're called to sing your song right did you know that the most commanded thing in the Bible is to sing do you know that over 400 times it says sing to the Lord make melody in your heart praise the Lord was singing right when God asked me to do something one time I'm usually hopefully like obedient right when God speaks we're like yes okay thank you for speaking amen like I'm doing it right when God says it twice we're like okay I get it I'll do it right but God's commanding us 400 times to sing like there's something powerful about your voice about unlocking that sound and so I want us to encourage and train our singers our vocalists at our home churches like you can do this you need to sing we need to begin to even train like our congregations like with your own voice sing like I feel like I've kind of got like as a worship leader I have like a running list of like five to ten different ways to like encourage my the room to sing with me like I love the worship leader that's coming tonight to lead Vincent I love one of his things he says is give him the fruit of your lips he's kind of got the South African accent and is so beautiful um he's he's he's like you know what he's got a bunch of really fun ones I love it um but encouraging our congregation right because we live in a celebrity culture western celebrity culture American Idol right our culture has trained us to not sing but it's actually trained us to listen right we love showing up at concerts and listening to the music and don't get me wrong I love doing that um but we brought that to the church we love to sit and listen to the beautiful voices we're like oh we're worshiping together well yes but there's something about lifting up your own voice offering that worship to the Lord and so I think we got to be um consistently and constantly encouraging our congregation to sing I'm consistently encouraging some of our like BGVs at Radiant hey there's a mic in front of you like please sing like I don't want to do this alone right we kind of even even like in the midst of our like worship team sometimes it's like oh let's just all listen to this person saying and then we'll listen to this part like unity and singing together like let's let's do this together um and worship is supposed to be different there's a really big word on this piece of paper and I'm nervous to say it out participatory there it is worship is participatory it's it's not listening to the you know the one beautiful voice we have a room full of people trained to listen to pretty voices instead of singing along with the voices and adding your own sound to the mix I want to share with you a bible story that you already know it's my favorite it's Mary of Bethany she's my girl and you know the story I'm just going to tell it a little bit differently she walks into a room Jesus is sitting there having dinner with the disciples some worship leaders in the room some Pharisees and she comes in she what does she do she breaks open that alabaster jar of worship of fragrance it it rises up and what is she doing she is leading a room and inviting a room into worship right what are the what do the disciples do what are the worship leaders the leaders of the church do do they participate do they sing along do they give to the Lord what they have in that moment we end up getting a lot of spectators in that moment right a lot of people watching and we even have some critics too I think sometimes when we show up to church and somebody breaks open their jar of worship whether they're on a microphone or in the room sometimes what do we do we kind of take a step back and we watch and sometimes we maybe criticize right that's too extravagant that's too much and I think a lot of times though we leave a worship time and we leave smelling like the fragrance of Mary at Bethany's worship and we we think that it was us who gave that and it's the truth is we didn't actually break our own jar of worship we watched somebody else we smelled the fragrance of somebody else's worship and we called it our own and we're like I I did that oh I want to every time I show up to worship I want to offer you something I don't want to watch my friend worship and and and be confused and think I did it um and and I think it's it's our culture I think that kind of trips us up because we again we love just listening to the beautiful we're just we're trained we're trained to do that we're just trained to listen and love it and be like wow that was amazing I was a part of that and it there again you don't have to just only there are some you know the seven ways the Hebrew words for for worship for praise right lifting the hands bowing but one of them is singing and so I just I just feel this really strong I don't usually stick on this so long but it's so important that we are singing ourselves that we are obviously worshiping ourselves but calling the room don't just listen to me like I can't do this for you like I'm in I invite I invite I set the table I invite I invite and then you've got to break it open yourself you've got to lift your voice yourself don't be fooled that you're worshiping it in a room full of worshipers if if you're not and you know Jesus on the cross that spikenard would have lasted months that that incense that she offered and so you know she uh Jesus is on the cross still being able to smell that worship I wonder too the disciples kind of still having that lingering sense that lingering smell of of that offering and that worship and like oh man I missed it I'm not going to miss it today though I'm going to worship I'm going to praise all right just I felt heavy to me okay guys we're called to sing do you believe me yes we can do this we can call our people to sing we're all called to sing I love okay so Ephesians 519 one of my favorite verses Paul is talking to the church and he's training the church this is how you do it this is how you worship and it says it says that we're all called to bring psalms hymns and spiritual songs and what's interesting about this is I want to kind of define those for you but it wasn't just hey one person come with this set list and that's what we'll do but worship is everyone having something to bring and something to offer whether it's a micro it's microphoned it's amplified or not I want to bring a song to the Lord and so psalms let's talk about the Bible sing the Bible I love doing this when I was like 15 I used to open my Bible and play a little chord progression I try to play the piano and you know just would sing straight through like a psalm and it was one of my favorite things to do and it's developed into other things throughout the years but sing the Bible just sing the Bible sing the word of God to hymns so when Paul is talking about hymns he's talking about songs crafted by man so hymns that we when we think of hymns that would be included in that but also just songs that are crafted by man we have professional songwriters that are writing these worship songs and they're such a gift to the body of Christ the language in these songs is such a gift so songs hymns and then spiritual songs these are the songs of your heart right what kind of wells up on the inside of you when you're not singing the Bible or singing a known song a known worship song and to kind of just jump into spiritual singing because I want to talk about our spiritual songs I want to talk about prophetic singing a little bit too have a fun story I like to tell so it is February 13th does anybody know where you can find me February 13th I'll just tell you I'm in Meyer on Gull Road in the hallmark card section and I procrastinate and so I am there every February 13th sometimes the morning of every 14th if I'm honest and I'm thumbing through the cards where is the card that is going to say everything that's in my heart to say to my husband right and I never find that card by the way have you guys found that card no doesn't exist but for my analogy to work let's just say I find there it is it's like glowing I find the card I like look at it I read it yep this is it this is exactly what I want to say and I sign it stick in an envelope February 14th comes around and I'm like okay Caleb happy valentine's day like I have this card for you and I just a heap on the romance I like open it myself and I'm just gonna read this for you roses are red violets are blue baby I love you and he's like oh so sweet babe thanks and that's four to week to the next Sunday and he's hey what are you what are your thoughts towards me how do you how do you feel about me today or you know we had quite a week you know and what what's kind of going on in your mind share with me I go oh yeah hang on one second I run to the bedroom nightstand fumble through I don't fumble through I'm just kidding it's clean there's nothing there and I get the card roses are red violets are blue baby I love and he's like thank you I love I love hearing that but I actually want to hear like we had a week we had shared history together I you know I did some things I spoke some things what how do you feel about me and I'm like the hallmark card it's right here like let me tell you and no and this so this is just fast forward another week to another Sunday right and the Lord is saying what do you what do you want to say and what do you how do you feel about me and what have I done in your life how do you want to testify of my goodness and my greatness and we kind of run to the hallmark card and like I don't have the language inside of me and so those hallmark cards right or those those songs crafted by man are such a gift because they bring unity and they get us all on board and it's corporate and they help us develop our language and how we sing to the Lord but then there's this other idea of these spiritual songs this that Paul talks about singing the song of your heart and that kind of begins to scratch the surface of prophetic singing of singing the now right and when when God does a new thing the people of God sing a new song and it's time to sing a new song God is moving I just I just even to give the obvious example 2020 God's doing a new thing like things have changed we have new language we have new language to even develop and give the church in our songwriting because God's doing a new thing we have new language I think about so Exodus 15 right the song of Moses this is the first prophetic song that's documented in scripture Exodus 15 right so the people of Israel they have been enslaved in Egypt for 400 plus years and their worship songs that they sing every week they sound something like praise the Lord we remember your goodness would you bring it back would you save us would you deliver us we love you Jesus praise you maybe not Jesus God that's what they would have sung and they were singing these worship songs for 400 years but then something happens God does a new thing he steps into time and he saves them he delivers them from slavery in a matter of weeks they cross the Red Sea they see all of the plagues they're at the other side of the Red Sea they they see with their own eyes the horse and the rider thrown into the sea and they realize in a moment we're we're saved we're delivered God did a new thing he broke in after 400 years and what do they want to do they want to worship right but do they sing some of those songs from 400 those past 400 years maybe they sung one or two but here's what we know that they sang they sang a new song they had new language all of a sudden to sing God had done something in their recent history and they were like we just need to sing what's on our hearts and so Moses goes for 1819 verses singing and it's it's literally like you did this and then you did this right in the hook of Moses's prophetic song is the horse and the rider thrown into the sea I will sing unto the Lord for he is triumphed gloriously the horse and the rider thrown into the sea and they'd never sung that before that never happened but all of a sudden they had new language and this prophetic declaration came forth and what started as a prophetic song ended up probably being one of their worship songs that they ended up singing on and on because right you've got Miriam who's in the corner and they they kind of did this thing back then where the guys would sing first and then the girls would sing kind of like what we did in the 90s is anybody remember some of those songs shout to the north and the south you remember that one rise up women of the truth and the men are something I don't I never sung that one I don't know what their verse was um what else there's there's a couple other good ones help me out yes yes there it is okay okay so that thing that cool thing we did in the 90s it was just because what Moses and Miriam were doing before so anyways Miriam is in the corner she's the guys are singing their thing and she's just she heard the hook of Moses's prophetic song she hears it and she's like that's it she's like eyeing her little timbrel that's like a couple feet away she's like just come on guys and then she grabs the grabs the tambourine and they sing that prophetic chorus well into the night I will sing into the Lord for he is triumph gloriously the horse and the rider thrown into the sea and there was so much life on it right because when God does a new thing it's time for the people of God to sing a new song and so it's time for us as the people of God to sing new songs it's time to write new songs for the church but it's also time to sing those spiritual songs as we develop languages we develop our own history with God relationship as we develop that there needs there's an overflow that comes out of that and the church needs to hear some of our overflow and that it will encourage them to start developing their own languages they develop relationship with Jesus yeah so we're called to sing yeah we're all called to do it some of us just have to do it on a platform and so for the ones that have to sing on a platform there's some added responsibility I haven't talked about so Psalm 33 3 go ahead and write that verse down Psalm 33 verse 3 it says make a joyful noise to the Lord and we'll stop there for a second that's the call to all that's the call to sing make a joyful noise to the Lord this next part of this verse is for the ones that have to do it on a platform play skillfully sing skillfully I'm gonna I'm I'm adding this because this is kind of the room that I'm talking to is we we need obviously to sing encourage the room to sing but then to the leaders of singing sing skillfully I think I think when we tell musicians that we don't even tell musicians that we're like hey if you're a musician we expect you to like know how to play your instrument right play it you learn and you practice if I if I was honest or if you guys were honest how much how much do we practice singing right as a piano player if I'm gonna have to you know play the piano in front of someone I'm gonna practice with singing we kind of approach it differently we kind of all approach it as like I have like some raw talent and I don't do anything with it I don't steward it maybe I hate saying hard things I'm not good at it but I just got a year older yesterday was my birthday thank you and I kind of hit a scary like mile marker in my own head and it's just I think I get to say mean and hard things now because I got older I'm more of like a mother than a sister so I'm gonna say hard things singers it is so important worship leaders like develop your singing voice you know we all kind of just again we show up and we're like this is this is the gift that God has given me and unlike the other gifts like instruments and musicianship I am not going to try to get better at singing right but it's important like take some singing lessons take you know like oh this is a great idea do a singer only rehearsal every once in a while I grew so much I had a worship leader back like 15 years ago and we did singer only rehearsals just like once a month but man I felt so valued and honored as one of the background singers on his team because I was like oh like you care about what I'm sounding like and what I'm you know when I'm singing a harmony and we kind of like singers just do whatever um but like what if we honored the bgvs we valued who they were what they brought to the table and we um encourage them to grow encourage them to bring a song to the Lord bring that spiritual song encourage them like hey like sing this harmony then and then all of a sudden they sing it with a ton of boldness because they have confidence because you called them out yeah um so sing skillfully is that okay yeah it's so basic oh gosh I'm gonna I'll jump on the soapbox one more time and then we'll move on I just I know I'm not going to that was good enough that's good enough okay you all get it though right so I loved I loved what pastor Lee just shared in the last um main session it was so good and just talking about the tabernacle of David and we have a big part of that tabernacle of David being the Levites and so I want to I want to bring our attention I'm kind of shifting from place skillfully um and I want to share with you when David set up the tabernacle of David he he said some things to the Levites and those are some things that I want to I want to share with you guys so this is in first Chronicles 16 so like pastor Lee shared the Ark of the Covenant right kind of finally makes its way safely to Jerusalem where King David has set up a tent for it it's first Chronicles 16 for I want to share it says he appointed some of the Levites to minister before the Lord to commemorate to thank and to praise so first the Levites they were appointed David appointed them you guys are appointed by God for your role in the church I want to just you didn't just accidentally get to volunteer and be one of the singers at your church you've been appointed there is real value on what you bring and just even the sovereignty of God to place you where you're at as a worship leader in that church you've been appointed don't quit God appoints his leaders one other thing when David sets up the tabernacle of David he sets up a leadership structure right he's got the chief musician named Asaph he's got Haman and Jed you thin and then their sons and different people right if you guys ever seen like the the rogue worship team do you know what I'm talking about they just kind of like show up or the you know your drummer is MIA and whatever or or the the the I'm not talking about my drummer um um I guess I because I have a microphone I want to encourage us to be submitted to authority we feel like maybe we don't have to sometimes or we're like I'm the worship leader I'm gonna take it where I want to or whatever but but just being submitted to to your pastor to what to to what God is doing in your church come under that but I love I love the detail of the um of the authority structure it's just so cool somebody wrote snackies on my notes I don't know that's weird oh Jesus singers in the room musicians on the worship team it's important that you're submitted to the worship pastor the worship leader you're serving you're not meant to be a rogue talent doing your own thing you are however a valuable part of the team I think some of some of you this morning need to hear that you are a valuable part of the team maybe got dragged here by somebody and you need to hear that you're you're a valued member of the team Jesus right now I just asked that you would come into this room Holy Spirit would you speak to the hearts that need to hear their worth and their value the ones that have been serving for years and have just felt maybe overlooked and kind of just felt like you're doing it and here you are and it doesn't matter if I show up and does my does my voice count should I should I keep doing this God I asked right now that you would break in that you would speak value to these singers to these worship leaders to these leaders father would you remind us the beauty and the dignity of this role to just sing before you to sing in your presence God I thank you for the the joy and the opportunity just to lift my voice and worship you father would you just stir thankfulness in our hearts would you remind us who we are would you remind us the the value of what we do when we lead others into your presence what an honor what a beautiful joy to get to do this we just right now is a room of worship leaders and musicians and singers we just say thank you God for this opportunity to be in your house and to sing Jesus thank you we're so humbled and and honored and and just moved that you love to partner with weak voices and you receive worship when we make these joyful noises to you we thank you God and would you call us again would you call the ones in this room again to sing the ones that have really felt shut down from years ago of lies and word curses the ones that have been getting off the stage and feeling so discouraged even in recent past maybe I should just quit maybe I should just give up this isn't for me those little kind of cheap shots of the enemy after we get off a stage that traffic that hits us father I asked that you would call us again remind us what you've called us to would you give us vision to do this to sing to worship thank you Lord so we have back to David asaf jedi thin heman along with their sons right God set them up to to prophesy on their instruments they probably played multiple instruments they were really really skillful I think heman had he had 14 sons and three daughters and all of them were under the direction of their father for the music in the house of the Lord symbols stringed instruments harps for the service of the house of God asaf jedi thin they're all there under the authority of the king so the number of them with their brother and who were instructed in the songs of the Lord all who were skillful was 288 and then there was like over a thousand others as well that were jumping in with us it says king David wrote some of his songs right with like jedi thin in mind to lead the vocal choirs and the singing because of his skill and anointing to do so he was also a skilled harpist skill skill skill interesting heman was called a seer in the words of God a seer is someone who sees by the spirit in the spiritual realm it's a specific it's a specific prophetic gift but these three men are leading the charge with a ton of young people under them and what's really cool about this is these guys weren't looking for a platform they to be that skilled they had been doing that for years on and off a platform like who knows I don't know what other you know what other kind of like worship was happening when you know when the ark was um before it got to obed edam's house it was an enemy territory and then they have the the tabernacle Moses I just want I just kind of like I like to think about like what were the Levites doing during this time and it's it's I mean it's obvious they were they were learning in their skill they were practicing the prophetic it's I mean it says a dozen times that they were prophetic that heman was a seer they were they were doing this in secret kind of like David on the back hills of Bethlehem before he was a king before he played that harp before Saul he was growing in skill growing in the prophetic practicing hearing the voice of God doing all those things these musicians singers and worship leaders just said yes to the calling on their lives to minister and song to the Lord and they served faithfully for years becoming excellent and skilled singers and musicians they studied the word of God and when the time came they were ready and they became leaders in the house of God before the job was glamorous they were ready for it before the job even existed they had never done anything like the tabernacle of David before like their job that they were training for wasn't a real thing yet but they were doing it they were doing the hard work and then when that moment came they were ready I loved I love to think about too um the revival of of worship music that happened during this time think about all like most of the of the psalms can you imagine showing up to your worship set and King David is like okay I wrote Psalm 23 here it is here's the melody let's go like can you imagine like okay like Psalm whatever that he wrote here we go one thing have I desired of the I can't imagine when he introduced that song to the worship team and is like okay we're gonna sing this this new language God is doing a new thing his presence is literally in a tent now we all have access it's not hidden behind that curtain and here's the songs that are coming forth one thing if I desired of the Lord that will I seek to dwell in the house of God forever and they're like this is what we're doing this is awesome and they're they're singing it but um we're in another revival of worship music we're we're seeing musicians and singers from across the globe being raised up and being like I want to be a Levi it doesn't make any sense um except that God's doing it he's doing a new thing and so I think it's so good for us to be aware one to do the things ourselves but we're leaders in this room and to recognize God's God's training up the Levites he's purifying the Levites he's preparing he's doing a new thing um yeah you guys doing okay I'm just I'm feeling the Lord and I'm just kind of you guys are so great I'm gonna end with this um so back to these Levites back to I think I said chronicles right first chronicles is that where we yeah you guys are doing great they were called they were appointed they were called to minister late pastor Lee already talked about this I want to just remind us again we are called to minister before the Lord first as worship leaders I think we feel pressure to um minister before the people to the people and that always happens as overflow but if we if we get the order wrong and we try to do that first like we fail so minister before the Lord it doesn't say David appointed some of the Levites even to minister before the people nope everybody we're all ministering before the Lord that's what we all get to do so they are called first to minister before the Lord to to commemorate this means to recall to remember I think of that old hymn I surrender all you guys on that one yeah um but that verse here I raise my Ebenezer hither by thy help I come keeps singing and I hope by thy good pleasure safely to arrive at home yeah okay so this idea of commemorating I think about here I raise my Ebenezer right this idea of um they would Israel um as they were traveling they did a lot of traveling when God did something or they wanted to remember his goodness in a specific moment right you guys know they would build an altar they would build an Ebenezer and they would like have a sacrifice and the smoke would rise and then they had to keep traveling and then when something happened they would look back and remember right the smoke would still be off in the distance if you're faithful then you're gonna be faithful now and our our job as as worship leaders is to minister before the Lord but then to commemorate consistently remind our own hearts and remind the people that were leading um of the goodness of God look what he did his faithfulness he's going to be faithful again this is actually like something that we're called to as Levites is to um lead the people lead our own hearts into remembering his goodness like this is this is this is good thus far the the Lord has helped us I feel like so many of my prophetic um songs that I've been singing recently have been remembering the goodness of the Lord you did this so I know you're gonna come through in this like and and we as a people I think um as a body like we're needing to hear that right and whatever right now okay um they are called they were called to to thank thanksgiving right starting with gratitude some 100 right entering through the gates with thanksgiving and then the courts of praise but um we need to invite our own hearts in the rooms into thanksgiving I love David laid this out for us I feel like I discovered this way too late in life oh this is what this is what the Levites are supposed to do oh my gosh it's right there in the bible who would have thought lead yourself into thanksgiving lead the room into thanksgiving I started doing a thanks like a thankfulness journal I was like cool to do like eight years ago or something I started doing that was life changing my perspective shifted um so thanksgiving some 100 uh they were minister come memory thanks praise I think is next um they were to praise this one we know a little bit more about maybe really go yeah I've heard this before so silly people in a praise that's my job um right it's the expression of adoration from our hearts that's declared to others and to the one we're adoring by definition praise cannot be hidden it's not something we do in secret or quietly so we cannot be heard if we want to praise a person for an accolade we do it loud out loud in front of them in front of others so that they can hear us hmm God doesn't need our praise but he absolutely deserves it and we need to offer praise we get unhealthy when we don't recognize what he's done and we get unhealthy when we take him for granted when we don't actually give him the fruit of our lips and say it out loud praise sing praise praise is so simple we forget the power of it we need to remind ourselves that God inhabits our praise he shows up in power when we praise him it's in our praise that he rides in and is glorified so here's what I want us to do because I like to just kind of activate and do something practical I want us to stand up we've got like a couple minutes left I'm just I'm just gonna lead us because I'm a worship leader I'm just gonna lead us into just a moment of just thanksgiving and praise um out loud so I'm just gonna just begin to sing in the spirit I'd love if you guys want to join me and just worshiping and adoring our king so thank you we thank you guys we unlock the sound of our own thank you Jesus we thank you we're gonna keep going if it gets uncomfortable just keep singing sing a melody tell him you love him Jesus for you all the glory thank you Jesus amen guys thank you so much for joining me and just letting me share out of my heart today um I'll be up front to hang and then I think my girl Haley is in the back the the books in the bookstore but if you want to just like cheat the line just go straight back there love you guys so much thank you