Psalm 22:3
Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel.
The Almighty God delight to dwell on the Praises of His people.
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Psalm 35:28
My tongue will speak of your righteousness and of your praises all day long.
Psalm 51:15
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
We are to declare the Praises of God on our lips all day long.
The more we cultivate a praising heart, the more we will feel the presence of God.
Think to give thanks, ponder to give praise.
Praises a choice. Praise unlike thanksgiving, originates of so much in the feelings as in the will. We can choose to praise God whether we feel like it or not. Whenever we are down, sad or depressed, aknowledge your feelings and then decide by an act of your will to focus your thoughts upon the goodness of God.
Psalm 43
1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; rescue me from deceitful and wicked men.
2 You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
3 Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.
5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God.
Hebrews 13:10-15
10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. 12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. 13 Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. 14 For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise-the fruit of lips that confess his name.
The altar.
Psalm 147:1
Praise the LORD. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him!
Physical health can be attributed to a thankful heart.
C.S. Lewis said Praise is inner health made audible.
There is a connection because we are made in our innermost beings for praise. Westminster shorter Catechism : 'Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.'
When I go through my day praising God, my blood flows better in my veins. Making praise a habit.
God is the only one who can truly satisfies us. Psalm 63:3 His love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. As we dwell on His goodness, our soul will become thirstier for Him.
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