We must understand that OUR PRAISE is an EFFECTIVE WEAPON FOR WARFARE!!! David understood that PRAISE was very effective against the enemy. He stated in Psalm 8:2" "Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants YOU have ordained strength, because of Your enemies." (Warfare Bible).
Each day, incorporate PRAISE into your daily routine and watch the enemy flee. There are many scriptures that refer to our PRAISE. We should take the time to research and apply these scriptures to our very lives and those we care for (and govern over).
A few scriptures as food for thought, meditation and to take action:
Psalm 150 [Full Chapter][ Psalm 150 ] Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in the heavens of His power! Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him according to the abundance of His greatness! Praise Him with trumpet sound; praise Him with lute and harp! ...
And blessed, praised, and glorified be God Most High, Who has given your foes into your hand! And [Abram] gave him a tenth of all [he had taken].
Again she conceived and bore a son, and she said, Now will I praise the Lord! So she called his name Judah [praise]; then [for a time] she ceased bearing.
Judah, you are the one whom your brothers shall praise; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
The Lord is my Strength and my Song, and He has become my Salvation; this is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
In the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy for giving praise to the Lord.
And the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him and put It upon the seventy elders; and when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied [sounding forth the praises of God and declaring His will]. Then they did so no more.
And a young man ran to Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying [sounding forth the praises of God and declaring His will] in the camp.
[God] has not beheld iniquity in Jacob [for he is forgiven], neither has He seen mischief or perverseness in Israel [for the same reason]. The Lord their God is with Israel, and the shout of praise to their King is among the people.
He is your praise; He is your God, Who has done for you these great and terrible things which your eyes have seen.
And He will make you high above all nations which He has made, in praise and in fame and in honor, and that you shall be a holy people to the Lord your God, as He has spoken.
Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; I will sing to the Lord. I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel.
And when the people saw Samson, they praised their god, for they said, Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy, the ravager of our country, who has slain many of us.
But in all Israel there was none so much to be praised for his beauty as Absalom; from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
I call on the Lord, Who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
For this I will give thanks and extol You, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.
Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; meditate on and talk of all His wondrous works and devoutly praise them!
For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised; He also is to be [reverently] feared above all so-called gods.
And say, Save us, O God of our salvation; gather us together and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name and glory in Your praise.
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, forever and ever! And all the people said Amen! and praised the Lord.
And, said David, 4,000 shall be gatekeepers and 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments which I made for praise.
They are also to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord, and likewise at evening,
Of the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six in all, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who witnessed and prophesied under divine inspiration with the lyre in thanksgiving and praise to the Lord.
Therefore David blessed the Lord before all the assembly and said, Be praised, adored, and thanked, O Lord, the God of Israel our [forefather], forever and ever.
Now therefore, our God, we thank You and praise Your glorious name and those attributes which that name denotes.
And David said to all the assembly, Now adore (praise and thank) the Lord your God! And all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers, and bowed down and did obeisance to the Lord and to the king [as His earthly representative].
Blessings to each of you! To God be the Glory! I pray that this BLOG will INCREASE & ELEVATE YOUR LEVEL OF PRAISE!!!!!
~Pastor Marsha "Firestarter" Jones
