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Mar 10, 2023 · 1. Biblical Precedent. I lift my hands when I pray and praise because I have explicit biblical precedent for doing so. I don’t know if I’ve found all biblical instances of it, but consider this smattering of texts. “So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands” (Psalm 63:4).
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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” (Psalm 28:1). “Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you” (Psalm 88:9). “I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes” (Psalm 119:48).
Nov 14, 2019 · What we do know is that the Bible affirms the lifting of hands in worship. David was a song-writer and worshiper, and he writes, “I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands” (Psalm 63:4). From the time of Moses to the early church, it was common to lift up your hands in prayer to God (Exodus 9:29; 1 ...
Feb 28, 2022 · As you may have noticed, raising our hands in worship can carry some of the very same meanings as it does at other times. God created us in such a way that what we do reflects what we believe and what we love. That is why the author of Lamentations wrote: "We lift up our heart and hands toward God in heaven" (Lamentations 3:41, ESV).
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I can remember a specific chapel service in the late 1970s, when I was a college teacher, in which I was sitting beside a fellow faculty member who during a prayer simply laid his hands, palms up, on his lap. I remember the almost disgust that I felt seeing him do that. I don’t remember what was going on in my soul at that time, but what I feel now...
My approach toward lifting up of hands in worship since that time has been to simply try to create an atmosphere in which people felt free from the heart to lift their hands or not. The reason I say “or not” is because coerced or constrained demonstrations of heart worship are self-contradictory. Either it comes from the heart and is valuable as an...
Depending on the kind of service and who was present and the nature of the music, I would guess that over time at Bethlehem you might have ten to thirty percent of the people lifting their hands in worship. We never try to cultivate an atmosphere where it was expected — that you’re supposed to do this if you’re spiritual. Although, Psalm 63:4 says,...
Let me mention one other cultural factor and a closing word. I was talking to a church leader outside America once who tried to explain to me that lifting the hands in worship in his city was a badge of bad theology. It was associated with certain churches that taught wrong things. He felt it would be a compromise in faithful churches if the people...
Perhaps one word to those who are finding the lifting of hands in worship to be artificial for themselves, rather than real. Let’s just all agree that whether we are very formal or more charismatic, we are all equally vulnerable to hypocrisy and artificiality and judgmentalism. Hymns can be sung with just as much inauthenticity as worship songs. Or...
Feb 24, 2021 · So often, when we face a hardship, we’re quick to feel alone, defeated, misunderstood, targeted, etc. These are the schemes the enemy uses to keep us from seeing God in the midst of our worries. If we’re going to face the world, we need to know the power of lifting our hands in prayer. Unless God is present and with us, we cannot win ...
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Sep 21, 2023 · Whether you lift your hands high on Sunday mornings or keep them below your waistline, God gives us at least three reasons why it’s important to display the worth of Christ with our bodies. 1. It Matters to God. Think about it. God created us as embodied souls, not bodiless spirits (Genesis 2:7).
