Outline for a sermon preached on July 3, 2016, entitled “Difficult Praise.”

INTRODUCTION

  1. We love the mountaintops!
  2. We live in the valleys.
  3. TEXT: 2 Chronicles 20:1-30.
  4. We need to learn to raise our hands in the valleys!

OUTLINE

  1. The warfare of the valley – 2 Chronicles 20:1.
    1. It comes in three’s!
    2. Satan believes in “piling on.”
    3. Sometimes the fight is cumulative.
  2. The way we fight in the valley – 2 Chronicles 20:3-4.
    1. Seek.
    2. Fast.
    3. Unite.
    4. Praise.
  3. We worship in the valley – 2 Chronicles 20:21.
    1. Praise is an appointment you cannot miss.
    2. I praise God because He loves me!
    3. I can make it through any valley if God loves me!
  4. We wait in the valley.
    1. Serving God is not always easy in the moment!
    2. We must learn how to live in the “Valley of Until.”
  5. We win in the valley – 2 Chronicles 20:25.
    1. Our greatest blessings will be in the Valley of Beracah!

CONCLUSION

  1. PRAYER.