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BENEFITS & BLESSINGS OF PRAISE & WORSHIPWhy is praise and worship such a blessing to the members of WOOMC?Praise releases joy. …for the joy of the Lord is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10b).Praise releases strength (Psalm 8:2; Matthew 21:16). Matthew repeats the Psalm 8 scripture. In one place it is called “strength” and in another it is called “praise.” When we praise God, it gives us strength.Praise stills (or causes the enemy to cease) (Psalm 8:2). Praise will cause Satan to desist from his maneuver against us. Praising God is the last thing the devil wants us to do. Satan will bring circumstances in our lives to solicit a negative response. He desires worry, depression, fear, discouragement, despair, and hopelessness. That’s how Satan receives his praise. Those types of responses say to Satan that we believe in what he can do more than we believe in what God can do. Praising God in the midst of a battle stills the enemy because he did not get the response he needed to continue the trial. Rejoicing is the key to overcoming the evil one.Praise brings victory.I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies (Psalm 18:3).And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten (2 Chronicles 20:22). Praise brings more of God’s presence.But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel (Psalm 22:3). We can surround ourselves with the presence of God by surrounding ourselves with praise.Praise magnifies God above your circumstances (Psalm 69:30; Acts 10:46). The word “magnify” means to make large, grow up, to become strong, to become great. When we praise God, it begins to magnify God inside of our spirits. God’s power, ability and what He can do becomes greater in our consciousness than our circumstances.Praise brings blessings and causes increase.Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us (Psalm 67:5-6).Do you need increase in your finances? Begin to praise the Lord!Praise releases and demonstrates faith.In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you (1 Thessalonians 5:18). When we thank or praise God before we see the victory, it demonstrates our faith in God. We know that by virtue of God’s ability and His promises, what we desire is already done so we praise Him and thank Him before time. That’s faith. Faith believes before it sees.Praise releases God to act. 25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God; and the prisoners heard them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed (Acts 16:25-26). Praise brings fulfillment or the desires of His heart.Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart (Psalm 37:4). As we delight ourselves in the Lord through praising Him, we are fulfilled and receive the desires of our heart. Many people say, “If only God would grant me the desires of my heart, how I would praise Him for it.” The order is the reverse of that. We praise and delight in Him first, and then He gives us the desires of our heart. Praise will deliver us from our enemies.I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies (2 Samuel 22:4). That means employers, former friends, credit institutions, people who want to sue us, people who want to hurt us, people who are working against us, etc. Praise and worship will lift a sad and grief-stricken countenance.Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God (Psalm 42:11). After David lost his child, to conquer his grief, he went into the house of the Lord and worshipped the Lord.Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat (2 Samuel 12:20). Many people have attended WOOMC worship services when they were hurting, grieving, sad and downtrodden. After praising and worshipping the Lord, they left edified or built up with joy in their spirit.Praise and worship will cause our hearts and lives to change. We will find ourselves being conformed more to the image of Christ. We are changed into the same glory as the God we worship.For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Corinthians 3:11, 18).We become like whatever we worship. Israel changed their glory into the ox that they erected and worshipped.They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt (Psalm 106:19-21). When we corporately praise and worship God, it brings the presence of God in a service to bless the people. 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 musick, 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 (2 Chronicles 5:13-14). Sometimes the praise and worship can bring the glory of God so strong until the Pastor does not have to preach.Praise and worship prepares our hearts for the Word of God. 7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments…11-16 - Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.92 - Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.162 - I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.164 - Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.169-Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord: give me understanding according to thy word.171 - My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.(Psalm 119:7, 11-16, 92, 162, 164, 169, 171) When we praise God and order our lifestyles aright, God will demonstrate His salvation. Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversations aright will I shew the salvation of God (Psalm 50:23). 17. Praise will cause the angels to bring to pass our benefits and inheritance as believers.But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? (Hebrews 1:13-14)The word “salvation” in Greek is pronounced soteria. It means temporal and material deliverance from danger. It means to rescue, safety, health. Anything we need to be rescued or delivered from is a part of our inheritance of salvation. It’s not just the forgiveness of sin and going to Heaven. But it involves being rescued from sin, Satan, demons, enemies, trouble, trials, crisis, problems, debt, sickness, disease and danger. Praise will cause God to send His angels to carry out the benefits of our salvation. ................
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