Psalm 104 Notes
October 29, 2023

of Praise


of Praise were worship Psalms meant to be in a congregation or read as a prayer .

The purpose of praise hymns is to invite God’s people to or worship God through a guided .

The purpose of Psalm 104 is to give us new and a new to worship God as we look at .

If Psalm 104 is teaching us anything, it is how to stand and before our creator in .

In verses 1-4 we are being invited to humble ourselves before the God who is altogether .

You need to regularly put yourself in positions where you are brutally reminded of how infinitely you are in comparison to the God of all creation.

In verses 5-9 we are being invited to take in the God who calmed the specifically to make a way for life to exist.

If God can calm the chaotic waters in creation, there is no in your life beyond his power to tame such that your life can flourish.

In verses 10-13, as we see the nature of God’s creation is and , we are being invited to worship the Creator in light of his .

I believe we see an invitation to view the wild, complex, and synergistic world around us with as we worship the creator who makes it all possible.

In verses 14-15 we are invited to worship God through His provision of the .

We need to learn how to find God in the because then becomes an opportunity for worship.

In verses 16-18 we see that God is our and place of .

How can you worship God in light of the home, both and , that he has created for you?

In verses 19-23 we see a and design to creation that we are invited to live within for our benefit.

God has created the world to operate on a and when we learn to keep in step with that tempo, life flourishes.

1. Learn to see and worship God in the .

2. Faithfully follow God into the season .

In verses 24-26 we are invited to see the and of God’s creation as an invitation to humble worship.

In verses 27-30 we see a summary of all that has come before with the conclusion being that: itself is on God.

In verses 31-35 we see our to this view of God as creator and sustainer.

From verse 35 we see that we should long for the day when all of creation is finally with the presence of God as is vanquished.

From verses 33-34 we see that our way of thinking needs to so that we can worship God as we see him at work all around us.