Praise With a Standard

SCRIPTORIAL TEXT

ISAIAH 62:10-12

  1. Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Cast up, cast up the highway! Gather out the stones. Lift up a standard or ensign over and for the peoples. (Isaiah 62:10 AMP)
  2. Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the Daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes [in the person of the Lord]; behold, His reward is with Him, and His work and recompense before Him.  (Isaiah 62:11 AMP)
  3. And they shall call them the Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought Out, a City Not Forsaken.  (Isaiah 62:12 AMP)

STANDARD

  • a level of quality, achievement, etc., that is considered acceptable or desirable;
  • ideas about morally correct and acceptable behavior;
  • something that is very good and that is used to make judgments about the quality of other things.

Full Definition

  1. a conspicuous object (as a banner) formerly carried at the top of a pole and used to mark a rallying point especially in battle or to serve as an emblem;
  2. a long narrow tapering flag that is personal to an individual or corporation and bears heraldic devices b: the personal flag of the head of a state or of a member of a royal family c: an organization flag carried by a mounted or motorized military unit d: banner 1;
  3. something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example: criterion <quite slow by today’s standards>;
  4. something set up and established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality;
  5. the fineness and legally fixed weight of the metal used in coins.

PRAYER—HAVING AN OPEN LINE OF COMMUNICATION

THOUGHT

  1. SPEAKING THE THINGS I OUGHT SPEAK
  2. USING GOD’S WORD BACK TO HIM — LUKE 11:1-4, THE LORD’S PRAYER
  3. EXPECTING YOUR GREAT RESULTS — 2 CHRONICLES 7:14

POWER—USING THE AUTHORITY GIVEN F0R YOU TO USE — LUKE 10:19

  1. EVERY BELIEVER WAS GIVEN A WEAPON– ACTS 1:8
  2. YOUR WORD’S HAVE POWER- DEATH AND LIFE IS N THE POWER OF YOUR TONGUE
  3. HAVING THE ABILITY TO CREATE

PURPOSE—PRODUCES THE CHARACTER THAT’S IN YOU

  1. NEVER GO INTO DENIAL
  2. DON’T LET PEOPLE DISTRACT YOU FROM YOUR DESIRE
  3. ABOVE ALL GO PASS THE POINT OF EXTREME

CONCLUSION – CLOSE WITH HANNAH

YOU MUST RAISE THE BAR IN YOUR WORSHIP