The Two Most Important Tools In Our Tool Box: Praise & Worship! Alcohol Drugs You Say Yet Scripture Tells Us The Wages Of Sin Is Death & No One Is Perfect, No Not Even One, Yet I Am Told God Loves Me Unconditionally. How Can It Be To Meet Our God, To Be Able To Come Boldly To The Throne Room To Receive His Grace, His Mercy, His Provisions, One Needs Access. Behold The Lamb Romans 10:9-10 (NASB) 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. Do you know that it is a privilege to praise the Lord. • One of the ways we praise the Lord is by saying or singing the word hallelujah. Hallelujah is written as one word. • Hillel means to praise. • The question remains, praise what? • Praise Jah, shorten form of Hebrew name for Lord YHWH. • Which is pronounced Yahweh. • Hallelujah means to praise the Lord. Angels and heavenly host are commanded to praise the Lord. Psalm 89:5 (NASB) 5 The heavens will praise Your wonders, O LORD; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. All inhabitants of earth are instructed to praise the Lord. Psalm 138:4 (NASB) 4 All the kings of the earth will give thanks to You, O LORD, When they have heard the words of Your mouth. We can praise the Lord with singing. Isaiah 12:5 (NASB) 5 Praise the LORD in song, for He has done excellent things; Let this be known throughout the earth. We can praise the Lord with shouting. Psalm 98:4 (NASB) 4 Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth; Break forth and sing for joy and sing praises. We can praise the Lord with dancing & musical instruments. Psalm 150:4 (NASB) 4 Praise Him with timbrel and dancing; Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe. Praise is the joyful recounting of all the Lord has done for us, yet when doubt & unbelief flood our minds we can use a God given tool. Raise A Hallelujah When the Bible mentions worship the tone changes. Psalm 96:9 (NASB) 9 Worship the LORD in holy attire; Tremble before Him, all the earth. • What is worship? • It is the art of losing your self in the adoration of another: the Lord. • Praise can be a part of worship but worship goes beyond praise. • Praise is easy, worship is not. It is through true worship that we invite the Holy Spirit to speak to us, convict us, and comfort us. Who You Say I Am John 4:23-24 (NASB) 23 "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." Every Praise .