Praising God

Praise is a natural response to God which happens as a result of knowing God.
The Bible is filled with references to praising God. Praise must be expressed with
words. Worship can be expressed by words or actions.

The dictionary says praise originally meant to set a price on or appraise. The dictionary
gives meanings of: to commend the worth of; express approval or admiration of, to laud
the glory of (God, etc.), as in song; glorify; extol.

Praising God gets our eyes off ourselves and our problems and gets our eyes on God.
When you think God is small, then your problems look large. But when you are reminded
that God is mighty, then your problem looks very small for Him to fix. Praise releases faith,
which causes God to move on your behalf.

God inhabits, or lives in, an atmosphere of praise. So, if you desire God to manifest
His presence and blessings, create an atmosphere of praise.

(Psalm 34:1b-8 KJV)
I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
{2} My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
{3} O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
{4} I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
{5} They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
{6} This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
{7} The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
{8} O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

(Psalm 150:6 KJV)
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord!

(Psalm 113:1-6 KJV)
Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
{2} Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
{3} From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.
{4} The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
{5} Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
{6} Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

Why? Because God deserves praise.

(Psalm 48:1,10 KJV)
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised . . .
(10) According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth:
thy right hand is full of righteousness.

(Revelation 4:8-11 KJV)
And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within:
and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is,
and is to come.
{9} And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne,
who liveth for ever and ever,
{10} The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that
liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
{11} Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things,
and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

(Psalm 136:1-9 KJV)
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
{2} O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
{3} O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
{4} To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.
{5} To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.
{6} To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
{7} To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
{8} The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
{9} The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.

(Psalm 107:1-2, 8,9, 15 KJV)
O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
{2} Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
{8} Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
{9} For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
{15} Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

(Psalm 135:1-3 KJV)
Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise him, O ye servants of the LORD.
{2} Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God,
{3} Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.

(2 Chr 5:12-14 KJV)
Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren,
being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them
an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:
{13} It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking
the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD,
saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
{14} So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

(Psalm 22:2-5 KJV)
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
{3} But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
{4} Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
{5} They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

(1 Peter 2:9-10 KJV)
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises
of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
{10} Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have
obtained mercy.

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