THE VALUE OF PRAISE

God created praise just for me

(1) To bring me closer to the Living God

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  2Chr 5:13 (NASU) in unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to glorify the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they praised the Lord [saying], "[He] indeed is good for His lovingkindness is everlasting," then the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,

(2) To give me self esteem

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  Psal 33:1 Sing for joy in the Lord, O you righteous ones; Praise is becoming to the upright.
  Prov 17:22 A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

(3) To overcome the carnal mind

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  Psal 54:6 Willingly I will sacrifice to You; I will give thanks to Your name, O Lord, for it is good.
  Psal 61:8 So I will sing praise to Your name forever, That I may pay my vows day by day.
  Psal 63:5 My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.

(4) To live a victorious life

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  Psal 27:1 Jehovah is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [Even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident. 4 One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple. 5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion: In the covert of his tabernacle will he hide me; He will lift me up upon a rock. 6 And now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto Jehovah.

(5) Destroy the works of the Devil

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  2Chr 20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever. 22 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. 23 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.