Some of us wait until church on Sunday before we praise God, and even then we don't come with praise and thanksgiving in our heart. Instead we come with our bad feelings and wait for someone to make us feel better.
Maybe you were up all night with the baby, you had a fight with your husband over breakfast, or your kids acted up in the car on the way to church. Whatever the reason, you come to church in a bad mood.
The apostle Paul instructs us to have a quite different attitude and disposition:
Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 5:19–20).
This means that before you get to church, you're supposed to be praising God. Even before you get into the car, you are supposed to have had your own private praise service So that when you get with the rest of God's family, you are ready to ascend into God's presence with everybody else.
In essence, when you prepare in private for public praise, you don't need a worship leader to make you feel like praising God. Yes, there is a place for worship leaders in our corporate worship, but is not their job to make you feel good enough to tell your Daddy how great he is. If you have been talking to your own soul throughout the week the way you are supposed to be, you won't need anyone to get your attention and stir you up. You'll already be eager and ready to go. In fact, you will be like David, who said, "I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord (Psalm 122:1). David rejoiced when the doors of God's house were open and he could go in. He was excited to worship with God's people. The same should be true for you. Your worship in private throughout the week should prepare you for Sunday worship with your brothers and sisters in Christ.
In essence, all of us are worship leaders because we are temples of the Lord. What we do it our own house affects what we do with everyone else. When we sanctify our house through righteous praise at home, we are then ready to sanctify the whole place when we come together!
Let's praise Him everyday all day!
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