S6 Episode 71: DLG K Day 9: Part 9 – Why praise Him: Praise and intimacy with God?

Welcome to Victory Podcast. It's just a great honor to bring you these and

courage and words today. Let's pray. Father, I thank you that you speak to us

through your words. I thank you that today healing takes place. I thank you

that today through your word, revelations of your truth that bring to

our freedom takes place. I thank you that Father through the power of your

word. There is a lifting up where there have been a cast in down in the name of

Jesus. And our steps have been ordered from glory to glory, from praise to

praise, from testimony to testimony to the honor and the praise and the glory of

your holy name. Amen. You know, we've been looking at why praise God. Why should

we praise Him? Because praises is part of the things that draws us closer to

God. And so it is praises and intimacy with God. And the more we know why we are

doing the more I pray will be inspired even to praise God the more no matter

what shows up in our lives. We've looked at eight points already and today I

want to add another point. Praise blesses God. Praise blesses God. We first

published the fact that when we look at praise, it's as presses itself in

different ways. And one of the simplest ways just being thankful to God, being

thankful for who He is, being thankful for what He does, being thankful because of

all He's doing in the life of others also. So just being thankful to God. And when

you go to the book of Psalms chapter number 50, the verse 50 and 23 says the one

who offers transgiving as His sacrifice glorifies me. And the word glorifies me. You

can replace with blesses me, brings me joy, hallelujah. And that is it. When you

bring tongues giving to God, you glorify God. You honor God. You bless God, hallelujah.

And that should encourage us. This offering of tongues giving the worst is the same

word that can be translated in other places as praise. So praise is not just for

our benefit. It blesses God. It honors Him. When you come and you say, God, I know

you are faithful. I know you are good. And you really believe it. And you say it with

a depth of appreciation for the fact that He is really good, that He's a just God.

He's really a just God. And if you have not seen your justice yet, don't give up. Hold

on to God. Hold on to His word, believe in Him, trusting Him, because He is just, you

know what He said in the verse 14 and 15 of the same chapter, some 50. You say, offer

to God a sacrifice of tongues giving sometimes, tongues giving is like bringing sacrifice

to God. Because the situation you find yourself in the challenges you are dealing with may

not just be generating thankfulness, but you are thanking God, not because of the circumstances

you are thanking God because of who He is, because of your trust in His word, because

of your trust in His promises, because of your trust in His name, hallelujah. So you

come to Him and it is sometimes really a sacrifice of tongues giving, a sacrifice of praise

that we bring to God. And the verse 15 says, and call upon me in the day of trouble and

I will deliver you and you shall glorify me or you shall praise me. So tongues giving

is very important and the more we bless God, the more we have access to seeing divine

answers in our life, because God is blessed, we are blessed. So just as a father delights

when a child says, you are a good dad. Now they say, where God is when we come to and

say, you are a good dad. God delight when we express gratitude and love to Him. So what

is it going to be? Is the circumstances and challenges going to move you, irritate you,

make you get into just offensive and all that or attacking or is going to bring you to

a movement of reflecting on the goodness of God, on the power of God, on the presence of

God, on all that God is able to do. Make the decision today to bless God. Make the decision

today to just bring glory to God by being thankful for the things He has done and He will

continue to do. Let's pray for that. Thank you that you reveal yourself in your glory,

in your power, in your strength, in your wisdom, in the life of your children today. And

through that, testimonies will continue to follow all of our lives. Amen.