Praise & Worship for 8th November 2019
“Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?”
Then He said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”
Luke 17:18-19
As the ten lepers in Luke 17, in times of trouble we scream and shout for help to the Heavens. We fast, pray, and raise a cry, that can be heard from here on earth to the Heavens. These lepers call out loudly to Jesus, from afar off, as they were forbidden by law and custom to near society. They are outcasts, a group of Jews and foreigners, Samaritans.
A wonderful thing we see here, is that Jesus hears their cry and commands them to go show themselves to the priests. And while they were still lepers, they stepped out in faith, with the Living Word of Jesus. They put on the new man, even when they still looked and felt like the old man. They were cleansed on the way, as they faithfully obeyed Jesus’ instruction.
This is a powerful attitude of obedience and faith that these lepers show. But only one leper, the Samaritan, returns to Jesus to express his thankfulness. And Jesus’ inquiry on his nine companions who did not show this gratitude indicates the importance that our God places on an attitude, and a heart, that harbors praise and thanksgiving. Through this question to the Samaritan, Jesus proves the values he places on the service of praise.
At every incident of need we are quick to cry out to our God, but at every incident of lack of any, or the fulfillment of needs, can we be ever ready to cry out our praise to Him as well?
We have a privilege to serve in the office of praise and thanksgiving, that Jesus Himself sets in such high regard. Let us make it a lifestyle choice to live with gratitude to the King, not just at the 30mins we get at the pulpit. Let our attitude spread out into the people we minister to and raise up a mighty thanksgiving that our God would know that we have not forgotten all that He has done for us, that we are a grateful generation, living in the goodness of God in the land of the Living, and that we are not going to hold back this thanksgiving.
Jesus not just has healed, but blesses the Samaritan who returned and fell at the feet of the Healer. How wonderful that the Creator accounted faithfulness to this attitude of gratitude in a foreigner!
Remember each other in prayers and come this Friday 8th of November 2019. We start at 5:30pm onwards. Be there .God Bless you all.
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