S6 Episode 72: DLG K Day 10: Part 10 – Why Praise Him: Worship and Intimacy with God?

Welcome to Victory Podcast.

It's just a great honor for me to bring you these encouraging words today.

And we are still on the topic of looking at praises and intimacy with God.

And so we are asking ourselves, why praise, why praise God?

We've looked at nine points and today.

Just want to encourage you by adding another thought to why it's important to praise God.

Let's pray.

For I thank you that you speak to us today.

You encourage us.

You lift us up and we experience the impact and the effect of what you've ordained for

us.

Thank you, Jesus.

Amen.

You know, when you look at the word to praise God, one of the common expressions that

go with the distanced giving, expressing your appreciation or your gratitude to God for

who he is and for all he does, one of the wonderful reasons why it's a blessing just to be

appreciative and be thankful to God is praising God can be an instrument of being appreciative

of what God does in the life of others.

So praising God is an expression of an unselfish appreciation of what God is doing or he

has done in the life of others.

He takes the focus from you and he said the focus on seeing the faithfulness of God in the

life of others, seeing the goodness of God in the life of others, appreciating, enjoying,

celebrating what the Lord has done.

And when you know that for us to advance in our relationship with God, it is wonderful

to have our focus on him and not on us.

And when your focus is on him, it becomes easier to see what he is doing in the life of

others.

So if you read scriptures like Ephesians, let me start with, thank you Jesus.

Ephesians chapter number five, yes, let's go then, Ephesians chapter number five and

we are going to look at the verse twenty, it says, giving thanks always and for everything

to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

What are we to do, give thanks always.

Now let me back up to the verse nineteen and it says, address one another in Psalms and

hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, with

your heart.

Hallelujah.

And that is a blessing having others, others in focus, seeing the goodness of God and giving

thanks to the Lord for everything and always without exception, Hallelujah.

So it becomes a constant in your relationship with the Lord, appreciation, praising the

Lord, obscene that maybe you may not be seeing things that you are praying for happening

the way you are praying for them, but praise is helps you to look beyond what you are

not seeing in your own life and it brings you to a place where you can truly enjoy who

the Lord is and what is doing in others and the more you enjoy what is doing in the life

of others from your heart, the easier it becomes for God to rally your life to become a testimony.

So that others will see His goodness and His mess is true.

In Colossians chapter 3 verse 70s and whatsoever you do, in word or they do everything in the

name of the Lord Jesus and then look at the last body, say, giving funds to God the Father

through.

So everything that you do, you are doing it in the name of the Lord Jesus, whether you

are saving others, you are praying with others, you are encouraging others, you are washing

and clothing, whatever you do.

You do it, giving funds to God the Father through Jesus Christ, Hallelujah.

So that should become a lifestyle, becomes an attitude, it becomes the way you look beyond

yourself and you look to God.

That is what praised us with us.

In 1st Thessalonians chapter 1, the verse number 2, He said, we give funds to God always

for all of you, for all of you, Hallelujah.

So you can praise God for others, Paul was practicing it, he was praising God, give

him funds, for all of you and he is speaking to an entire church, may God bring you to

the place where you will be so full with praises on behalf of others.

Look at them, 2nd Thessalonians chapter 1, the verse number 3, He said, we ought always

to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right because your faith is growing abundantly

in the love of everyone of you, for one another is increasing, Hallelujah.

So you see what the Lord is doing, you see how the life of people are changing and that

you move you to praise, Hallelujah.

It's my prayer that you will be so inspired from today that you begin to look, look and

see, Hallelujah, listing with an open heart and when you hear and you see what the Lord

is doing, I pray that it will trigger and change your heart of praising you and as you

become dead to the flesh and live in the fullness of appreciating and praising the Lord,

pray that may you receive speedily your own encounters of divine testimonies and transformations.

Thank you Jesus, Amen.