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  SING PRAISE TO THE LORD!
  by Charles E. Cowman
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of praise and singing in
our lives, highlighting their power to bring joy, freedom, and victory.

Topics: "Worship Music", "Joyful Praise"
Scripture References: 2 Chronicles 20:22, Psalm 34:1, Psalm 147:1, Ephesians 5:19

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Charles E. Cowman emphasizes the power of singing and praising in the
midst of troubles, encouraging a shift from overthinking to joyful
worship. He illustrates how singing can release us from burdens and
worries, comparing it to the carefree nature of birds. Cowman urges
believers to incorporate singing into their daily routines, both in the
morning and evening, as a continuous expression of gratitude and praise.

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"When they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushments...and they
were smitten" (2 Chron. 20:22).

Oh, that we could reason less about our troubles, and sing and praise
more! There are thousands of things that we wear as shackles which we
might use as instruments with music in them, if we only knew how.

Those men that ponder, and meditate, and weigh the affairs of life, and
study the mysterious developments of God's providence, and wonder why
they should be burdened and thwarted and hampered--how different and how
much more joyful would be their lives, if, instead of forever indulging
in self-revolving and inward thinking, they would take their
experiences, day by day, and lift them up, and praise God for them.

We can sing our cares away easier than we can reason them away. Sing in
the morning. The birds are the earliest to sing, and birds are more
without care than anything else that I know of.

Sing at evening. Singing is the last thing that robins do. When they
have done their daily work; when they have flown their last flight, and
picked up their last morsel of food, then on a topmost twig, they sing
one song of praise.

Oh, that we might sing morning and evening, and let song touch song all
the way through. --Selected

"Don't let the song go out of your life

Though it chance sometimes to flow

In a minor strain; it will blend again

With the major tone you know.

"What though shadows rise to obscure life's skies,

And hide for a time the sun,

The sooner they'll lift and reveal the rift,

If you let the melody run.

"Don't let the song go out of your life;

Though the voice may have lost its trill,

Though the tremulous note may die in your throat,

Let it sing in your spirit still.

"Don't let the song go out of your life;

Let it ring in the soul while here;

And when you go hence, 'twill follow you thence,

And live on in another sphere."

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/charles-e-cowman/sing-praise-to-the-lord/
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