Praise

 

 * Tune into God’s enriching Presence: God inhabits the Praise of His
People. He is seated on the throne of our praise.

   * Activate God’s Power: Praise is that slender nerve that moves
God’s mighty hand. Consider the King Jehoshaphat’s battle, how the
Lord had delivered him through Praise and Worship.

   * Profit more from your trials: Praise can turn Trials into
Triumphs. Praise will help us identify that ‘Distressing circumstances
are God’s blessings in disguise’. Praise so that you’re faith
Strengthens and quality of endurance is produced in you. Praise is a
catalyst that speeds up God’s maturing process in your life.

   * Help you experience Christ ‘as’ your life: Any born again
Christian is “dead to sin, but alive to Christ”. Death does not
necessarily means being annihilated but being separated. It means our
innermost being is separated from sin, it is no longer our nature and
we no longer need to let it be our master. Our sin springs from our
old sinful tendencies that are no longer our true identity.

   * Demonstrate God’s reality in a Secular & Materialistic society:
Refer Romans 11:33-34. Secularism means God and his will has no part
in our lives.

   * Overcome Satan and His Crafty Strategies: Even the highly
Educated have turned to Spiritism, to the occult and Satan worship. He
gets us preoccupied with him in ways that seem to be strategic to our
spiritual warfare. It’s a serious mistake to underestimate Satan’s
power, but a tragedy to overestimate it. Any Praise thwarts Satan.
Make your praise more powerful by coupling it with God’s word, which
is a double-edged sword.

   * Bring Glory & Pleasure to God: This is something no one but you
on this earth or in heaven can give: “the love and adoration of your
Heart”. Sometimes people try to attach praise unto an indifferent or
self willed life, hoping for an emotional lift or special visible
Rewards. And sometimes, even a disobedient Christian can get into a
Mood of worship or experience high while listening to Praise music CDs
And cassettes. After all, pagans worshiping false gods also experience
Times of ecstasy. But neither a disobedient Christian nor the pagan
honor the true Living God. So how can their praise be a joy to God?

Worship is more than emotional turn on. It includes offering ourselves
to God, to be His servants, to do His will – nothing more, nothing
less, nothing else. It means we radically change our goals. We chose
basic life goals that are centered in Cod: to know Him better, to love
Him with all our being, to do His will at any cost, to Glorify Him and
to please Him.

“O Lord Jesus, my beloved, may I be a joy to thee”. Out of such
Surrender & worship flows the kind of Praise that fully honors and
Glorifies and delights God

“It is not what we eat, but what we digest that makes us strong;
Not what we gain, but what we save that make us rich;
Not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned;
And not what we profess, but what we practice that makes us Christians.”