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Intro:
Today we will begin a series entitle, [Praise in Progress], the subject of today’s message is, [Proactive Praise].
What I am about to say may shock many of you, but I am an inquisitive person.
I am prone to ask questions, to think things through, and many times there will be follow-up questions.
I have been this way since I was a child.
I always asked a lot of questions and for twenty-eight years, not much as changed.
Sometimes my questions are deep other times they are insignificant.
For instance, last Christmas I laid in bed wondering, who invented wrapping paper?
Why I needed to know, I can’t say, but I couldn’t get to sleep until I got up and looked on my phone only to discover it started thousands of years ago in China.
Throughout my life, I have heard people make passing remarks, jokes, and even get annoyed with me.
Truthfully, it used to bother me that I had so many questions.
Then one day, in prayer it finally clicked:
It used to
Psalms 119
Now, it doesn’t bother me that I am as curious as I am, it is the way God made me!
My inquisitive nature spills into ever area of my life, including my relationship with the Lord.
When I read the Bible, something will catch my attention, a question will fill my mind, and I will want to search, seek, and study to find an answer.
As question I had recently, what was the secret of success for many of the heroes of scripture?
What separated them from their contemporaries?
What helped them weather the storms and survive the most difficult situations?
As I prayed about these questions, I went to the book of Psalms.
David wrote at least 74 of them, forty-eight of them are anonymous, a leader named Asaph wrote 12 of them, Solomon wrote two of them, Moses even wrote one of them.
As I read through the Psalms, I noticed something about the Psalmist, they were open and honest with the Lord.
They did not hide their feelings or shy away from their hearts.
They were full of praise, admiration, worship, and honor to God.
However, what stuck out to me is this: they learned the value and importance of PRAISE IN PROGRESS.
When they wrote their Psalm of praise, it was either while they faced something terrible, after it was over and how they praised through the problem, or in preparation for what God had for them.
As I thought about this, I felt I found part of the answer to my questions.
Their secret to success, their ability to weather to storms of life is this, THEY LEARNED TO PRAISE IN PROGRESS.
They learned how to praise God BEFORE the miracle, the healing, the answer, or the victory.
A month or two ago I told Bekah, I do not know where I am going when I am finished preaching on Joseph.
Be in prayer with me that He will lay something on my heart for our church.
Less than a week later, I drove down the road, and I praised the Lord.
I sang songs, I worshipped in the Spirit, and I felt the presence of the Lord fill my car.
As I worshipped, I felt the Lord speak to me: this is what I want my people to get.
This is what my people need to understand to go deeper in their walk with me!
So for the next few weeks, I want to go through a few different Psalms.
These Psalms are underlined in my Bible.
There have been many times I have needed something from the Lord, maybe I was discouraged, maybe I needed an answer to prayer, maybe I just wanted to be closer to Him, but I would praise in progress.
I didn’t see the answer immediately, but I praised God in the meantime.
Today, we will see how David, the passive father, became proactive in his praise when everything crashed around him.
I want to look at Psalms three and divide into three parts, [Proactive in Problems], [Proactive in Proclamation], and [Proactive in Praise].
Let’s begin
1.
Proactive in Problems
We began this story last week, but I will give a brief overview.
After David sinned with Bathsheba, he entered a season being a passive, king, father, and friend.
The once attentive, prayerful, and wise King David seemed to do nothing as he watched his son manipulate the Kingdom of Israel to turn their backs on their king.
Absalom stole the hearts of the people who were once fiercely loyal to David.
He listened to their problems while putting down the king.
Slowly but surely, he not only stole the hearts of the citizens, he worked to gain the trust of the King David’s governmental officials.
Absalom made the decision to move forward in his devious plans.
He left Jerusalem, the capitol city, and went to Hebron.
While in Hebron, he had a priest anoint him as king.
He placed trumpeters and people throughout the land.
When they heard the trumpet, the people were to call out: “Absalom reigns in Hebron.”
No wonder David cried out to God, there are so many people around me who have risen up against me.
The people that were once fiercely loyal to David now rose against him.
No longer where people singing his praises in the streets, they had turned their attention to his son Absalom.
The people who he thought would never leave him had deserted him.
The next thing David did seems passive, but in reality, it was a proactive decision.
He knew he could not stay in the palace, it was time to leave.
2 Samuel 15:13
David left, that doesn’t seem to proactive, but it was.
It was an action of faith.
By leaving Jerusalem, he determined not to lower himself to Absalom’s tactics.
He knew God had delivered him in the past:
from a lion and a bear
from Goliath
from a crazed King Saul
from many of his enemies
Therefore, he trusted God to deliver him.
He did not want to stay and have to be the one to physically harm his son, who he desperately loved.
Instead, he was proactive, he chose to trust the Lord to work on his behalf.
2. Proactive in Proclamation
Upon hearing that Absalom had stole the hearts of the people and was in the process of stealing the Kingdom, David something extraordinary.
Where most people would have been upset at the Lord because of their difficult situation, David did the opposite.
He did not spend all of his time sulking because of the bad, instead, he praised in progress.
He did not proclaim the negative, he proclaimed to all who could hear him, God is my shield, He protect me, He is my glory, He lifts up my head.
Therefore, I will call out to Him, and I will trust that He can hear me.
2 Samuel
I want us to notice this, WHEN did David choose to proclaim God’s greatness?
Notice where he was when he proclaimed God’s greatness.
He was not sitting back in the palace, with his enemies subdued.
Instead, he was on the run because of his enemies.
His son was cursing his father’s name.
Those who once loved him had turned their backs on him, and it didn’t look like it was going to get much better in the near future.
A passive person would have said, well, nothing will happen, it is what it is, I have served God all these years, and look where it has gotten me.
If God was big enough, this could work better.
But that is NOT what David did.
He understood:
David understood, IT MATTERS WHAT WE SAY!
Sure he was surrounded by enemies, sure he was on the run for his life, sure he was unsure if he would ever make it home again, but he PROCLAIMED God’s greatness before the miracle happened, before the victory took place, and before the battle was over.
He was proactive in problems, proclamation, and...
3. Proactive in Praise
Psalms
Though David went through a season of being passive, he renewed his faith in the Lord and became proactive.
But notice, he did not issue these strong statements in the face of his enemies.
Instead, he declared it to the Lord.
He praised God BEFORE the Lord came through for him.
David understood when we praise the Lord, His presence is soon to follow.
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