SACRIFICE OF PRAISE - by Sierra Breon

Worship is a gateway to encountering God’s presence and I believe that God wants to encounter us through worship corporately, in the mundane day to day tasks, and in the messiness of life. 

God has reminded me of the beauty of bringing forth a “sacrifice of praise” when I am confronted with challenges in my life. A few weeks ago, I was feeling disappointed about a situation that I have been believing for breakthrough in but have not seen yet. I was struggling to believe that God is faithful, but I felt God pull me to the piano to worship Him and sing songs of thanksgiving. As I sang to Him, I heard God tell me that His faithfulness does not always look like the fulfilled promise or the breakthrough, but that His faithfulness often looks like Him holding my hand and choosing to stay committed to me through the pain and in the waiting. I cried and started truly believing that God is faithful as I continued to sing praises to Him. When we choose to worship Jesus in the middle of the storm, He is so faithful to remind us of His unchanging character and nature and brings us to a place of hope.

Psalm 51:16-17:
“ You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.” 

Jesus is not looking for perfection in our worship, but is looking for a heart that is willing to be vulnerable before Him. He fully embraces our “messy worship” to Him, when we show up just as we are before Him. Our choice to come to Jesus in worship is a beautiful, costly sacrifice. 

On Saturday night, I shared about the 7 Hebrew words for praise to remind us that our physical posture in worship can affect our heart posture towards God in worship. Below are the 7 Hebrew words for praise that you can express in both corporate and personal worship:

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