The final five Psalms, Psalm 146 through Psalm 150, all open with the same powerful call.

Praise ye the Lord. As we step into this season of Thanksgiving and praise, Scott invites us to journey through this

magnificent crescendo of worship, a study he's calling the Hallelujah Course. In the rush of everyday life,

it's easy to forget to pause and praise, not just for what God has done, but for who he is.

And when our hearts are filled with praise, our spirits are prepared for

true worship. Be sure to stay tuned to the end of the episode to learn about Scott's study of the

Psalms entitled Roadmap for Life. Let's join Scott now for today's message in the hallelujah course.

Someone once wrote two men behind prison bars, one looked at the mud, the other

the stars.

I want to tell you today, where you put your attention makes a difference.

Where your affections are set, it's the secret to the whole thing.

And the beautiful thing about learning to praise God is that it helps you live a Godward life.

It gets your eyes up out of yourself, off of others, and it fixes them on the Lord.

We return today to Psalm 147, this Hallelujah Witness Psalm,

a reminder that our praise is to be a testimony,

that our thanks is the greatest witness of all.

Look, witnessing is not just reciting verses.

Witnessing is not just rehearsing something you memorized. Witnessing is speaking

out of the overflow of your own heart about what Jesus Christ means to you. In fact, we try to

teach people how to give their testimony. And there really are three parts to a good testimony.

There's your life before receiving Christ. There's how you came to know Christ.

And then the third part is there's what Christ means to you now that you're saved. I think that

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