PRAISE

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Key Verse

  • You are holy, O You who are enthroned in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel [are offered]. Psalm 22:3 NKJV
Other versions

  • thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Psalm 22:3 KJV

What happens with praise?

1. Silences the enemy

  • From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger. Psalm 8:2 BSB

See also 

  • I am restless in my complaint and am surely distracted, Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the pressure of the wicked; For they bring down trouble upon me And in anger they bear a grudge against me. My heart is in anguish within me Psalm 55:2-4 NASB

2. Defeats the enemy

  • The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated. 2 Chronicles 20:22 BSB

Other versions

  • Now when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated. 2 Chronicles 20:22 NKJV
See also

  • “Judah, you are the one whom your brothers shall praise; Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; Your father’s sons shall bow down to you. Genesis 49:8 AMP

3. Binds the enemy

  • Let the saints be joyful in glory; Let them sing aloud on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand, To execute vengeance on the nations, And punishments on the peoples; To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute on them the written judgment— This honor have all His saints. Psalm 149:5-9 NKJV

See also

  • “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Matthew 18:18 NKJV
When you praise, evil spirits (referred to as kings and nobles in Psalm 149) get bound. See below
 
  • For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12 NKJV
Other versions
 
  • For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with
    physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers,
    against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present
    darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly
    (supernatural) sphere. Ephesians 6:12 AMPC
Read: BIND

4. Breakthroughs happen

  • Now about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them; and 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 unfastened. Acts 16:25-26 NASB

5. Become filled with the Holy Spirit

  • And do not get drunk with wine, in which there is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord Ephesians 5:18-19 NASB

6. GOD's glory comes down

  • The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory1 of the LORD filled the house of God2 Chronicles 5:13 BSB

Glory = properly weightcopiousness
Read: GLORY

Insights

1. Way to approach God

  • Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Psalm 100:4 ESV
Other versions

  • Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Psalm 100:4 NKJV

2. Learn to Praise

  • Blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Psalm 84:4 NASB

3. Continually Praise

  • I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psalm 34:1 AMP

4. Listening to Praise

  • But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the [other] prisoners were listening to them Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the very foundations of the prison were shaken; and at once all the doors were opened and everyone’s shackles were unfastenedActs 16:25-26 AMPC

Even listening to others singing can bring you breakthroughs!

5. Sacrifice of Praise

  • Through Him, therefore, let us at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name. Hebrews 13:15 AMP
We are encouraged to offer praise even when we don’t feel like it.

Songs

Footnotes

  1. 3519 כּבד כּבוד [kâbôd kâbôd] \{kaw-bode'} kaw-bode'\ From 3513; properly weight; but only figuratively in a good {sense} splendor or copiousness: - glorious ({-ly}) {glory} honour (-able).
    3513 כּבד כּבד [kâbad kâbêd] \{kaw-bad} kaw-bade'\ A primitive root; to be {heavy} that {is} in a bad sense ({burdensome} severe6 dull) or in a good sense ({numerous} rich6 honorable); causatively to make weighty (in the same two senses): - abounding {with} more grievously {afflict} {boast} be {chargeable} X be {dim} {glorify} be (make) glorious ({things}) {glory} (very) {great} be {grievous} {harden} be (make) {heavy} be {heavier} lay {heavily} (bring {to} come {to} {do} {get} be had in) honour ({self}) (be) honourable ({man}) {lade} X more be {laid} make self {many} {nobles} {prevail} promote (to {honour}) be {rich} be (go) {sore} stop.