When it's time to praise, do you actually praise?

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

If you go to church and you just sit and stand and watch the choir and listen to the preacher and go through the motions of watching the people on the platform,

you may leave that service and never have really praised the Lord yourself.

Worship is not for spectating.

It's for participating.

It's Tuesday, November 28th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss. Over the last several sessions, Nancy's been in a teaching series called The Power and Practice of Praise.

And there's a danger when we hear a series like this. You can listen and understand, but then not do anything about it.

Here's Nancy to remind us that praise is an activity that we need to put into practice.

We're trying to learn during these days how to praise the Lord in a way that is biblical and that is pleasing to the Lord. And there's a lot of

talk about praise and worship today. I think a lot less practice of true biblical praise and worship

than there is talk. And I don't mean that to be critical in any way. I mean it to say that we all need to evaluate our own practice before the Lord and our own

hearts and say, Lord, am I praising you in a way that is pleasing to you?

I mentioned earlier in the series that I had taken over the last several days, time to, in a

concentrated way, read through the entire book of Psalms.

150 Psalms, and I do read through the Psalms on a regular basis, but I've never read them

through in an intentional way to get through that quickly.

And what a blessing that was.

You start to see some themes emerging.

First of all, you realize that praise often comes

out of a heart that is heavy and sad and in trouble. That praise is a supernatural, not a natural

response to things going wrong, and that it's a learned and disciplined response. And we see that illustrated

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