Speaker: Bishop David Oyedepo
Praise is not for entertainment; it is a weapon of war ordained to win your battles. Praise is not an expression of your feelings but a weapon of war. Hence you should stop being entertained by praise; and start engaging with it as a weapon of war.
It would help if you understood every weapon to maximize its effect; therefore, sing praises with understanding.
“For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.” Psalms 47:7.
“But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” Matthew 13:23.
“For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;” Colossians 1:9.
Thanksgiving is one of the most neglected weapons of war but it is one of the most potent weapons of war at your disposal. Thanksgiving is so powerful that it can bring the dead back to life.
Don’t let any devil despise the weapon you carry!
Praise your way out of stagnation, delay, joblessness, barrenness, frustration, and depression; praise your way into the realms of celebration. Praise is a divine platform for continuous and unending change of levels. Have a song that celebrates God every day of your life. When you keep praising God, you won’t lose any battle again in life.
Praise is a mountain-moving force that moves barriers off your path.
“For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.” 1 Corinthians 16:9.
The more praiseful you are, the more fruitful your life becomes. It will require high praises to bring down the wall of Jericho standing between you and your promised land. Praise invokes divine presence which causes all obstacles before you to melt like wax.
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs.
What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Psalms 114:3 – 5.
High praises will always clear the barriers on the path to your glorious destiny.
“And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.” Acts 16:25.
What is in Praise?
1. It secures divine presence.
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31.
“But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.” Psalms 22:3.
“Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.” Psalms 114:2.
– Divine presence is your greatest asset in life as a believer.
2. It provokes divine intervention.
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.
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another. 2 Chronicles 20:22 – 23.
– No battle can resist the authority of praise because God inhabits the praises of His people.
3. A heart-rooted praise stimulates health and vitality.
“The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?” Proverbs 18:14.
You can’t be merry and not evolve into praise!
4. It engenders access to fresh oil.
“But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.” Psalms 92:10.
– Praise qualifies you as a believer in fresh oil which culminates in conquest.
5. Praise facilitates access to revelation.
“Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.” Isaiah 12:3.
– Revelation is key to rising and shining.
6. It gives you access to divine guidance.
Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Psalms 60:10 – 11.
7. It provokes access to realms of signs and wonders.
“Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?” Exodus 15:11.
8. It facilitates the fulfillment of prophecies.
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; Romans 4:18 – 20.
