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To the giver of all, give 
thanks. 15 weeks ago today, we 

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began a journey, and that 
journey is called the Pathway to

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Praise. 
And while our teaching on this 

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subject is going to come to a 
close, your testimony about this

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subject is going to continue on 
all throughout eternity. 

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If you've learned anything, I 
would trust that you have 

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learned this one thing over the 
last 15 weeks. 

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Number one is that praise will 
always bolster your condition to

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praise will always beautify your
complexion, and praise will 

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always brighten your situation. 
If you remember anything, 

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remember that praise will 
bolster my condition. 

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Why? 
Isaiah 61 verse #3 says that the

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Spirit of God will clothe you 
with the garments of God so that

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you no longer have a spirit of 
fainting. 

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That's important. 
So when you are clothed with 

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this garment of praise, it 
bolsters your condition and #2 

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praise will always beautify your
complexion. 

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Because the Bible says in Psalm 
33 verse #1 that praise is 

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beautiful. 
Psalm 147 verse #1 says praise 

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is pleasing and is beautiful. 
There is nothing that beautifies

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the complexion of an individual.
Then praise and thirdly praise 

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will always brighten every 
situation because the Bible says

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in Psalm 34 verse #5 that those 
who look to Him will be radiant.

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So when you walk into a 
situation, whether it be good or

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bad, praise brightens the 
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So if you don't remember 
anything at all, at least 

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remember that because that will 
move you along the pathway to 

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praise. 
But let me say it to you this 

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way, there are 1189 chapters in 
the Bible Now. 

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The chapters are not inspired. 
The words are, but the chapter 

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breakdowns are not. 
The verses and their numbers are

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not. 
Those are given to us by the 

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translators. 
The words themselves are all 

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verbally inspired by God, but 
there are 1189 chapters in the 

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Bible. 
So even even when the 

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translators are putting together
the scriptures and they begin to

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number them and to give them 
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God in his Providence was even 
at work in that. 

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For if there's 1189 chapters in 
the Bible, that means that there

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was 1 chapter that is smack dab 
in the middle of all the 

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chapters, right? 
That means there's 594 on one 

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end and 594 on the other end. 
So there's something exactly 

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smack dab in the middle and it's
in the middle of your Bible. 

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And even even God in his 
Providence had everything mapped

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out to perfection because in the
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the core and the center of 
everything. 

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Even God orchestrated that. 
And even though that chapter is 

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the smallest chapter in the 
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he 13, I'm sorry, 17 Hebrew 
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Even though it's the smallest 
chapter in the Bible, it is the 

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most potent chapter in the Bible
because it's the core of all 

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that we believe and hold dear. 
And that is Psalm #117 So turn 

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in your Bible to Psalm 117, 
Psalm 117. 

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Listen to what it says. 
It says simply praise the Lord. 

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All nations, laud Him, all 
peoples, for His loving kindness

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is great toward us and the truth
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Praise the Lord. 
So right smack dab in the middle

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of the Bible. 
God says praise me. 

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He gives the scope of His 
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I want all people and all 
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I want everybody in creation to 
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I want everybody in creation to 
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The scope is never ending. 
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Romans 5, I'm sorry, Revelation 
5 verse #9 tells us that there 

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will be one day people from 
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every nation lifting praise to 
God and glory. 

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But that doesn't mean that 
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go to glory. 
But the command is given, and 

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the scope of that command is all
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And then he gives the specifics 
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Number one, His loving kindness 
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forever. 
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praise Him? 
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compassionate, loving God who 
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He is the God of truth. 
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command for all people 
everywhere are to praise him 

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because he's merciful, and to 
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truthful and everything he says 
is absolute and that lasts 

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forever. 
And the summation of the command

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simply is praise the Lord, 
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praise him. 
Right smack dab in the middle of

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the Bible is the essence of our 
existence to praise the living 

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God. 
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believers can do that because 
the Bible says which is our 

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theme verse Isaiah 4321. 
You can remember by saying 

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IS4321 Isaiah 4321, it's our key
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The people that I have formed 
for myself, they will declare my

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praise. 
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we've been formed by God, we 
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That's what we do. 
We praise his glorious name, but

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the unbeliever cannot more so 
the unbeliever will not, they 

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won't listen to what the Bible 
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21, chapter 1. 
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they did not honor him as God. 
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know God, they refuse to honor 
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him as God, and then next phrase
and give him thanks or give him 

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praise. 
Everybody in the world knows 

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that there's a God. 
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Atheists do not exist. 
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in their own mind. 
They think they do, but they do 

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not because the Bible is 
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All pagans know that there is a 
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him as God, and they refuse to 
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So verse 22 says they became 
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Pagans are fools. 
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says, morons. 
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Because they're foolish. 
They refuse to believe the truth

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and obey the truth of God. 
So it says in verse 28 they did 

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not see fit to acknowledge God 
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So unbelievers refuse to 
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They turn their back on God and 
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are haters of God. 
How can you hate something that 

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you don't think exists? 
How can you hate something that 

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you believe is not anywhere 
around but they're haters of God

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and then it says there are 
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Verse 32 and although they know 
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there. 
Even though the unbeliever, the 

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Pagan man, knows the ordinances 
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the precepts of God, even though
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And what do they know? 
They know that all nations are 

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to praise Him and that all 
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glorify His name because of His 
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kindness, because of His 
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They know that. 
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The wrath of God is revealed 
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ungodliness and unrighteousness 
of men who suppress the truth in

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unrighteousness. 
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unbeliever knows the truth. 
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They suppress the truth. 
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They don't want to give thanks 
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So God turns them over to their 
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that, they refuse to acknowledge
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hate God. 
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the ordinances of God. 
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practice such things are worthy 
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Every unbeliever. 
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every unbeliever knows the 
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of God, because the Bible says 
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that which is known about God is
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made it evident to them, verse 
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the world, His invisible 
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and divine nature have been 
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but clearly seen. 
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of God, which says the wages of 
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How do they know that? 
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upon their hearts, and what they
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But they hate God. 
They love their sin, but they 

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hate God. 
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They will not give Him thanks. 
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And they know that even though 
they will not do that, they will

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not obey the command. 
They know that because they will

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not do that, they're going to 
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They're worthy of death. 
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they and they give hearty 
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And they said that not only do 
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hearty approval to those who 
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Wow, unbelievable. 
Simply because God in the middle

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of the book gives us the core 
value of our existence, that we 

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are to praise our God, laud Him 
loudly, because he's a merciful,

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kind and loving God who speaks 
nothing but truth. 

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But the unbeliever hates that, 
so he will not praise God. 

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But we can, so we do. 
We continue to praise Him, not 

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just for the moment of our 
conversion, but all throughout 

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eternity, because we've been 
cloaked in a robe, a garment of 

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praise, and we've been formed by
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And that's what we do. 
So that brings us to our 

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conclusion. 
And the conclusion is the prayer

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of praise, having looked at the 
priority of praise and the 

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prerequisite of praise and the 
prayer and the, excuse me, the 

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perpetuity of praise and, and 
everything surrounding that, the

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priority and purpose of praise. 
We've done all of that through 

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the last 15 weeks. 
We come to the end and we 

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conclude with the prayer of 
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And the prayer of praise teaches
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the Lord, because every prayer 
should consist of the components

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which we will share with you 
today in the conclusion of every

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prayer you pray. 
So if you got your Bible, turn 

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to me. 
Turn with me to the most 

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familiar prayer in the Bible, 
Matthew chapter 6. 

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Matthew chapter 6. 
It's commonly called the Lord's 

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Prayer, but that's the wrong 
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It is not the Lord's Prayer, it 
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In John 17 you have the Lord's 
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Luke 11 you have the disciples 
Prayer for the disciples said in

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Luke 11. 
Lord teach us how to pray and He

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would give him what He says on 
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Matthew chapter 6 about the 
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This is how you are to pray, and
I want you to notice something 

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about the prayer. 
It consists of two major 

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components. 1 is God and His 
glory, and the second is man and

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his need. 
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For if you reverse the two, you 
diminish God's glory in your 

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mind and you accentuate your 
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So you cannot reverse them. 
It's all about God's glory, and 

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then it's about man's needs. 
And you know the prayer, it 

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simply states it this way. 
Pray then this way. 

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How well you pray. 
Our Father who is in heaven. 

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Those who pray listen carefully,
are captivated by His paternity,

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that He is their Father in 
heaven, hallowed be your name. 

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Those who pray properly are not 
just captivated by His 

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paternity, they are consumed 
with His purity, that His name 

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be made holy in their lives. 
And then He says your Kingdom 

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come. 
Those who pray properly are 

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concerned with God's program, 
not their program. 

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And then he says your will be 
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heaven. 
In other words, they are 

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committed to God's plan. 
That's how you know you pray 

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about God and His glory, you are
captivated by His fraternity, 

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you are consumed with His 
purity, you are concerned with 

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His program, His Kingdom, and 
you are committed to His plan. 

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Once you understand that, then 
you tackle man and His needs. 

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Give us, forgive us, and deliver
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And those who pray that way, 
pray. 

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Give us this day Our Daily 
Bread. 

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You always rejoiced in his 
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And then you pray and forgive us
our debts as we have forgiven 

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our debtors. 
You recognize his pardon. 

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And then it says, And do not 
lead us into temptation, but 

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deliver us from evil. 
You rest in his protection. 

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And then it says, For yours is 
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the glory forever. 
Amen. 

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You rejoice with all praise. 
The the doxology is what I want 

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to talk to you about this 
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For yours is the Kingdom and the
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Amen. 
A doxology is simply a praise 

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that's offered to God. 
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praise. 
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consist of five major 
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Now you'll notice that in your 
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doxology, is in brackets. 
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because there are some 
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not include it, and others that 
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So the question comes, why is it
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Did the Lord really say it? 
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recorded, but in Matthew 6 that 
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Well, I believe He did, and I 
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issues. 1 is that no Jew would 
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negative, always on the 
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That's number one. 
All you got to do is research 

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Jewish prayers and talk to 
Jewish people. 

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But #2 everything that's stated 
is absolutely true. 

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In fact, it sounds a lot like 
David's prayer in First 

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Chronicles 29 when it says in 
verse #9 Then the people rejoice

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because they had offered so 
willingly, for they made their 

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offering to the Lord with a 
whole heart. 

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I love that because I wonder if 
when you gave today, you gave 

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willingly and fully. 
They were collecting for the 

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temple and they were going to 
build this structure. 

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Solomon was for the glory of 
God, so they gave willingly. 

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They gave fully with all of 
their hearts. 

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They did it joyfully because 
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I read that and I wonder how 
many of us today, when we gave 

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to the Lord, we did it 
willingly, we did it joyfully, 

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we did it energetically, we did 
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honor God with the first fruits 
of our increase. 

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That's what they did. 
Listen to David's prayer. 

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So David, bless the Lord in the 
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And David said, blessed are you,
O Lord God of Israel, our Father

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forever and ever, our Father who
art in heaven. 

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Yours, O Lord, is the greatness 
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the victory and the majesty, 
indeed everything that is in the

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heaven and the earth. 
Yours is the dominion, for yours

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is the Kingdom. 
Yours is the dominion, Yours is 

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the glory, forever and ever. 
Verse 13. 

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Now, therefore our God, we thank
you and praise your glorious 

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name. 
That's just one example. 

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Let me give you one more Book of
Revelation, 5th chapter, 13th 

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verse. 
To him who sits on the throne 

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into the Lamb be blessing and 
honor and glory and dominion 

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forever and ever, Same thing. 
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kept saying Amen and the elders 
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Those are just two examples, one
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that that really point to the 
fact that as you pray the prayer

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praise a doxology, you pray 
specifically for yours is the 

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Kingdom, yours is the power, 
yours is the glory forever. 

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Amen. 
So what are the five components 

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of the prayer of praise #1? 
The prayer of praise consists of

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this, that you always affirm His
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For yours is the Kingdom. 
The word is Vasilia, which means

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to rule. 
It means terrain. 

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It means that yours is the 
dominion. 

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Same thing said in Revelation 5 
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For yours is the rulership, for 
yours is the Kingdom. 

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Lord, I want to affirm the fact 
that you are preeminent. 

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You are the king of all, and 
you're the only one who can give

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us a Kingdom. 
In fact, the Kingdom of God is a

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is a endless, changeless, 
priceless Kingdom. 

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And so when you pray the prayer 
praise, you are affirming the 

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fact that God himself, because 
he's the king, is preeminent 

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over all. 
That's why Christ is in Matthew 

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633. 
Seek ye first my Kingdom and my 

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glory, and all these things 
should be added unto you. 

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See, our problem is we have 
another Kingdom, ours. 

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We're building our own Kingdom. 
We think we're the ruler, we're 

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in charge, but he is the king. 
And yes, there is a universal 

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Kingdom where God is the king 
over heaven and earth. 

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There's a spiritual Kingdom 
where he sets up his throne in 

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your heart and mind. 
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literal Kingdom. 
Zechariah 612 and 13 will where 

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the branch, the son of David 
will rule and reign as priest 

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and king from Mount Zion. 
But you affirm his preeminence, 

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for yours is the Kingdom. 
The Bible says that Psalm 2910 

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the Lord sits as king forever. 
The Bible says in First Timothy 

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117 that he is the King eternal.
The Bible says in Revelation One

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that he is the ruler of the 
kings of the earth. 

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In Daniel 4 he is the king, the 
king of heaven. 

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In Matthew 2 he's the king of 
the Jews. 

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In John One he's the king of 
Israel. 

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In First Timothy One, he's the 
King of the ages. 

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In Psalm 24, he's the king of 
glory. 

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Revelation 15, he is the king of
nations. 

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In Revelation 19, he is king of 
all kings and Lord of all Lords.

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The prayer of praise affirms his
preeminence. 

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You're the king, and yours is 
the Kingdom, and I'm going to 

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seek your Kingdom of my Kingdom.
I'm going to submit to you as my

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king because you're in charge. 
That's the prayer of praise. 

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It affirms his preeminence. 
He is king of all, and that 

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Kingdom is priceless. 
That's why Matthew 13 gives us 

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the parable about the treasure 
and the parable of the great 

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Pearl. 
For the man who finds the 

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Kingdom is willing to give up 
everything to obtain the Kingdom

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because of the value of the 
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It's priceless. 
So the prayer praise consists 

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number one of the fact that it 
affirms His preeminence #2 it 

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consists of the fact that you 
always acknowledge God's power 

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for years is the Kingdom and the
power power. 

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How do you acknowledge His 
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This is how Paul did in the book
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The first chapter we said this. 
We proclaim him, verse 28, 

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admonishing every man, teaching 
every man with all wisdom, so 

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that we may present every man 
completing Christ. 

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For this purpose also I labor 
striving according to his power,

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which mightily works in me. 
Paul acknowledged God's power. 

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Paul acknowledged the fact that 
the reason I teach and the 

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reason I admonish every man, 
that I might present every man 

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completing Christ because of the
power of God within me to allow 

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me to accomplish that purpose. 
So I acknowledge His power. 

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I love what the book of Nahum 
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great in power. 56 times in the 
Old Testament is called 

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almighty. 10 times in the New 
Testament is called Almighty, 

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nine of those 10 times in the 
Book of Revelation. 

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He is the Pantocrator, the 
almighty one who rules over all 

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the nations and is powerful 
enough to do whatever he wants. 

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The Old Testament calls him El 
Shaddai calls him El Gabor, El 

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Shaddai God Almighty, El Gabor, 
the mighty God. 

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What's the difference between El
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Glad you asked El Shaddai from a
Hebrew word which means breast 

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because God is the sufficient 
nurturer of his people, so He is

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great in power because of His 
provision. 

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El Gabor comes from a word that 
stems from the fact that he is a

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hero, a warrior, a soldier. 
Therefore he is powerful enough 

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to protect you. 
El Shaddai. 

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He's powerful enough to provide 
for all that you have. 

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El Gabor, he is powerful enough 
to protect you from whatever 

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comes your way. 
So when you give the prayer of 

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praise, you say for yours is the
Kingdom, I'm going to affirm 

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your preeminence, and yours is 
the power. 

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I'm going to acknowledge that 
you had the power to accomplish 

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anything and everything. 
And then #3 yours is the power 

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and the glory. 
I'm going to accentuate your 

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person. 
That's the prayer of praise, for

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yours is the power, the Kingdom,
and the glory. 

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Glory speaks of who He is. 
In the Old Testament, the root 

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for glory is, is the word heavy.
So a person was heavy because of

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the amount of possessions that 
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That was His glory. 
And the heavier, heavier He was 

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in possessions, the greater 
glory he received. 

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Or he was heavy in terms of his 
position. 

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He climbed the ladder of 
success. 

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And the more powerful power he 
had because of his position, the

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more glory that individual had. 
So therefore a man was glorious 

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by the number of possessions 
that he had, the amount of power

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that he possessed because of the
position he was in. 

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They were weighed down, they 
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That was a man's glory. 
There's nobody more heavier than

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the Lord Jesus because He owns 
everything. 

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He receives all the glory, all 
the praise. 

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It speaks of of the 
manifestation of His brightness 

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because the glory of the Lord 
would shine all around when the 

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Christ child was born and John 
would say in John one verse #14 

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He would say, and we beheld His 
glory. 

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The glory is that the only 
begotten of the Father, full of 

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grace and full of truth, we 
beheld His person, His presence,

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His manifestation in the flesh. 
We beheld the heaviness of our 

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God by looking in the face of 
Jesus Christ our Lord. 

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And those who pray the prayer 
praise. 

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They not only affirm God's 
preeminence because He's the 

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King of His Kingdom, and not 
only do they acknowledge His 

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power because His is the power, 
but they accentuate His person 

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for His is the glory. 
In other words, they they 

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accentuate the fact that God is 
to be seen in and through me. 

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I am not to be seen by anybody 
because I don't matter, only God

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does. 
That's the prayer of praise. 

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The prayer of praise says Lord, 
I want the righteous radiance of

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my Redeemer to be reflected in 
and through his redeemed. 

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That's what it means to give 
glory to God and accentuate his 

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glory. 
And so that's what we do. 

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That's the prayer of praise. 
And whenever we go to the Lord 

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in prayer, it's all about God 
and his glory. 

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Then it's about man and his 
needs. 

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And we have this great 
crescendo, this great doxology 

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that leads us to say, For yours 
is the Kingdom. 

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I affirm that you are 
preeminent, and yours is the 

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power. 
I acknowledge that you are the 

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powerful one and yours is the 
glory, and I receive none. 

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Therefore, I accentuate your 
person and then forever. 

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Yours is the Kingdom and the 
power of the glory forever. 

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In my prayer of praise, I 
acclaim His permanence. 

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He is the eternal God forever 
and ever, which guarantees his 

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reliability and gives me 
security. 

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It guarantees his reliability 
because he's forever. 

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He's the eternal God. 
No one created him. 

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He's always existed. 
Try to wrap your mind about the 

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fact that God has always been. 
He's always been. 

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He always is and was and will 
be. 

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He's the alpha and the Omega, 
the beginning and the end, but 

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yet God had no beginning. 
He's the eternal God that's 

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always existed and what he does 
last forever. 

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And so I guarantees the fact 
that I can rely upon my God. 

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He is absolutely reliable 
because he's always there. 

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He's never not there and that 
gives me security knowing that 

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my God is my protector because 
He's the all powerful one. 

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So the reason, the reason that I
pray this way and the reason 

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that I claim His permanence is 
because I've accentuated his 

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person and I've only accentuated
his person because I've 

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acknowledged his power and I've 
affirmed his preeminence over my

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life. 
That's the prayer of praise. 

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And then it concludes with Amen.
Amen. 

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It concludes with accepting. 
Accepting His Providence, so be 

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it, so be it, Lord, I, I, I 
affirm that you the eternal God.

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In fact, the Bible says in 
Revelation 3 that He is the 

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Amen. 
In other words, Christ is the 

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final and fullest of all that 
God is and was and will be, and 

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therefore He is the finality of 
everything. 

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So I say, so be it. 
Amen. 

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I, I, I agree. 
I accept your providential 

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control over everything in my 
life and your plan for me. 

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I accept that you're my Father 
in heaven. 

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I accept your paternity. 
I accept that your name is to be

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made holy in my life. 
I accept your purity. 

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I pray thy Kingdom come, I 
accept your program, I pray thy 

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will be done. 
I accept your Providence and I 

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pray. 
Give us this day Our Daily 

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Bread, because I accept your 
provision and I say and forgive 

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us our debts as we forgive those
who have sinned against us. 

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I accept your pardon and I pray 
and leave me not a temptation, 

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but deliver me from evil. 
I accept your protection. 

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I accept it all because you are 
King, You are Lord, and I want 

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to pray the prayer of praise and
all God's people said let me 

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pray with you. 
Father, thank you for today. 

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Thank you for your words. 
So much to cover in such a 

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little time, but you are a great
God. 

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Thank you for allowing us to be 
here today all by divine 

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appointment. 
I love, I love the fact that 

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nobody comes to church by 
accident. 

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They come by divine appointment.
Whether they were dragged here 

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by their parents, where they 
were pushed here by a friend, 

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where they were invited to come.
They just drove by and saw the 

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sign, looked us up on the 
Internet and saw the name of the

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church there. 
All of that within the realm of 

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your Providence. 
Was it divinely appointed time 

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for us to hear how we are to 
pray the prayer of praise? 

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Our discussion on the issue 
could go so much longer. 

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There's so much to say about 
praise, Thanksgiving, and 

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rejoicing. 
But Lord, you gave us these 15 

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weeks to look at what the Bible 
says concerning the pathway to 

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praise. 
We come through these months 

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better people. 
We come through these months 

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recognizing the beauty of 
praise. 

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We come through this knowing 
that our condition is only 

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bolstered by praise, our 
complexion is only beautified by

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praise. 
And our situation, no matter 

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what it is, we'll only be 
brightened by praise. 

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So we praise you and we thank 
you that we can be here today to

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lift your name on high and to 
glorify you as King of kings and

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Lord of Lords in all God's 
people said.