The Power of Praise

The Power of Praise

Psalms 100:4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.

Anytime we come before the Lord we come to Him praising him.

Psalm 150
1 Praise the LORD! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty firmament!
2 Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness!
3 Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; Praise Him with the lute and harp!
4 Praise Him with the timbrel (drums) and dance;
Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes!
5 Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him with clashing cymbals!
6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD!

Hebrews 13:15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

We may not always feel like praising God. It is a sacrifice, a putting under of the flesh. Putting aside pride. Not caring what others think. Football fans will shout, praise and get all excited for their team. How much more should we be praising the God who gave us eternal life.

Psalms 22:22 I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.

Psalms 34:1-3 1 I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul shall make its boast in the LORD; The humble shall hear of it and be glad. 3 Oh, magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His name together.

Whenever we hear people praising God we, as humble servants of God, should be glad. Only the prideful resist praise. Below we see as we praise Him he will save and heal us!

Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise.

Psalm 113:3 From the rising of the sun to its going down, The Lord’s name is to be praised.

Psalm 22:3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

God inhabits the praises of his people!

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

We should praise Him in song. We can learn and remember scripture with the songs we sing.

1 Cor. 14:15 What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.

Psalm 33:3 Sing to Him a new song; Play skillfully with a shout of joy.

Revelation 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:

Be joyful in your singing of His praises! They will be rocking for Jesus in heaven!

2 Samuel 22:4 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.

Psalm 8:1-2 1 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.

Praise will deliver you from your enemies, including depression and other attacks of the devil.

Acts 16:23-26 And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely. 24 Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.

In the above verse we see that Paul and Silas were suffering some terrible circumstances yet still they began to worship and sing to God. God delivered them from their when he heard the praises come forth. We need to do the same even when we are at our lowest points.