THE WONDERS OF PRAISE

 Psalms 50: 1- 15

What is Praise?

 Praise means:

  >> to give thanks to someone for what is done

 >> to worship someone for who He is

What Does Praise God Mean?

 To praise God means:

  >> to give thanks to God for what is done

 >> to worship God for who He is

Psalms 67:3 - 5 Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You.

 4 Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You shall judge the people righteously, And govern the nations on earth. Selah

 5 Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples (the Igbos, the Ogonis, the Yorubas, etc) praise You.

The Wonders of Praise

1.  To beautify God

 Psa 50:23a Whoever offers praise glorifies (cause to seem more splendid or big or beautiful) Me; And to him who orders his conduct aright I will show the salvation of God."

2. To receive revelation of salvation/deliverance.

Psa 50:23b Whoever offers praise ...  And to him who orders his conduct aright I will show the salvation of God." E.g. Solomon.

3. To provoke elemental forces to cooperate for increase.

Psalms 67:5-6 Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You. 6 Then the earth shall yield her increase; God, our own God, shall bless us.

4. To have sweatless victory.

1Chro 20:22-24 -  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. ²³ For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another. ²⁴ So when Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude; and there were their dead bodies, fallen on the earth. No one had escaped.

5. To possess the labour and wealth of the Gentiles

1 Chro 20:25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.

6. To turn 'not enough' to 'more than enough' (five loaves for five thousand people)

 Matthew 14:15-19 When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, "This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food." ¹⁶ But Jesus said to them, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat." ¹⁷ And they said to Him, "We have here only five loaves and two fish." ¹⁸ He said, "Bring them here to Me." ¹⁹ Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes.²⁰ So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained. ²¹ Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

7. To perfect miracles received

 Lu 17:17-18 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? 18 There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

A Sacrificial Praising

 1Ch 16:29 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.