New Normal – #4 Keep On Praising

What Praise Does

2 Chronicles 20:1-2 (NIV) 1  After this, the Moabites and Ammonites with some of the Meunites came to make war on Jehoshaphat. 2  Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from the other side of the Sea. It is already in Hazazon Tamar” (that is, En Gedi).

2 Chronicles 20:21-23 (NIV) 21  After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the LORD and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying: “Give thanks to the LORD, for his love endures forever.” 22  As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. 23  The men of Ammon and Moab rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

What Praise Is

1. : To rave, boast, celebrate, to be clamorously foolish.

Psalm 35:18 NLT I will thank you in front of the great assembly. I will praise you before all the people.

2. : To acknowledge in public.

Psalm 138:1 I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart.

3. : To bless by kneeling or bowing.

Psalm 103:1 Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.

4. : Making music to God with strings.

Psalm 92:1 It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High.

5. : To address in a loud tone, to shout.

Psalm 63:3-4 Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.

6. : To lift hands in adoration.

Psalm 50:23 He who offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.

7. : Exuberant singing.

Psalm 34:1 I will extol the LORD at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.