What do you naturally do when your sports team scores or wins a championship? In your excitement, you raise your hands high in celebration. Have you been to a concert or worship service where people raise their hands? Do you feel like raising your hands, but your worship service does not encourage it? The Bible encourages and even commands that we should lift our hands in worship to God. Psalm 134:2 states, “Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the LORD!”
Raising our hands in worship is a natural physical act of worship. King David says in Psalm 63:3-4; “Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. 4 So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name, I will lift up my hands.” Raising your hands is an emotional response when you feel happy. I pray that as you follow my 365 Days of Worship you draw closer to God and lift your hands up as you celebrate who He is and what He does for you.
Sometimes, when we raise our hands, we are begging for mercy or surrendering. For example, King David writes in Psalm 28:2, “Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.” The prophet Jeremiah wrote in Lamentations 2:19, “Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.” And Lamentations 3:4; he writes, “Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven.” Children will often lift their hands up to show they want to be picked up. We too can lift our hands to God and ask Him to pick us up. Try it.
As you worship God this week, raise your hands in worship. Lift your heart in praise and celebration.
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WEEK 13 – March 26 -April 1
Day 85-Mar 26—Worship God because He gives your soul good things.
Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man! 9For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things. –Psalm 107:8-9
Day 86-Mar 27—Worship God and give Him thanks for His wonderful works.
Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation. 2Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them. 3Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever. –Psalm 111:1-3
Day 87-Mar 28—Worship God for His generosity and blessing.
Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD [repent of sin], who greatly delights in his commandments! 2His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. 3Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever. –Psalm 112:1-3
Day 88-Mar 29—Worship God for He hears you, sets you free, and is on your side.
Let those who fear the LORD say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” 5Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free. 6The LORD is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? –Psalm 118:4-6
Day 89-Mar 30—Worship God for giving you strength and salvation.
The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. 15Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD does valiantly, the right hand of the LORD exalts, the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!” –Psalm 118:14-16
Day 90-Mar 31—Worship God who keeps us from all evil and harm.
The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand. 6The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. 7The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. 8The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore. –Psalm 121:5-8
Day 91-Apr 1—Worship God for His wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and sound wisdom.
For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. –Proverbs 2:6-8
All verses are from the English Standard Bible. To review the previous weeks, go to the 365 Days of Worship Page. This post is copyright protected.
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