1. Gets focus off of ourselves and back onto the Lord.
• We're prone to selfishness but we have to actively turn our attention back to Him.
Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness!
Psalms 150:2 NKJV
I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Psalms 34:1 NKJV
2. Praise brings us to a place of humility.
• We admit that God has all control.
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the Lord is the great God, And the great King above all gods.
Psalms 95:2-3 NKJV
I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people.
Psalms 35:18 NKJV
to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of Adonai , that He may be glorified.
Isaiah 61:3 TLV
3. Praise makes the enemy flee.
• Pushes back the darkness.
• Light and darkness cannot coexist
• Jehoshaphat: As they began singing and praising, Adonai set ambushes against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated. For the Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to exterminate and annihilate them. When they had exterminated the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another. When Judah came to the lookout in the wilderness and looked for the multitude, behold, only corpses were lying on the ground—no one had escaped. When Jehoshaphat and his people went to take the plunder, they found an abundance of goods, clothing and precious articles, which they pillaged, more than they could carry away. For three days they were taking the plunder because there was so much.
2 Chronicles 20:22-25 TLV
• Confuses the enemy
4. Praise leaves no room for complaining.
• The power of life and death are in the toung.
5. Praise makes room for God's blessings for our lives.
6. Praise invites his presence.
Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises.
Psalms 22:3 NIV
Bless Adonai , O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: He forgives all your iniquity. He heals all your diseases.
Psalms 103:2-3 TLV
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
1 Peter 2:9-10 NIV
7. Our spirits are refreshed and renewed.
You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Psalms 16:11 NKJV
8. Paves the way for miracles to happen
Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise You. Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
Psalms 63:3-4 NKJV
But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 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. And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, "Do yourself no harm, for we are all here." Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. And he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
Acts 16:25-30 NKJV
• Praise breaks chains
• You don't see the opportunity if you aren't praising.
-Jeniro on the go!
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