home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Bible Heaven
/
Bible Heaven.iso
/
alphon_2
/
7649
/
effect.p02
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1992-10-30
|
6KB
|
115 lines
Effects of Praise
EFFECTS OF PRAISE.
1. PRAISE PREPARES A WAY FOR GOD to show forth His victory.
Psalm 50:23 - "He who brings an offering of praise and
thanksgiving honours and glorifies Me; and he who orders his
way aright - who prepares the way that I may shown him - to
him I will demonstrate the salvation of God." Amp.
2. PRAISE CAUSES US TO TRIUMPH over all our enemies,
circumstances and difficulties. Psa.106:47 - "Deliver us, 0
Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we
may give thanks to Your holy name and glory in praising
You." Amp.
3. PRAISE GIVES THE ABILITY AND STRENGTH to perform our vows
daily. Psalm 61:81 "So will I sing praise to Your name
forever, paying my vows day by day." Amp. Many people are
living with broken vows, promises they once made to the
Lord, now broken because the way became too difficult. But
praise enables us to maintain our dedication, vows,
promises, in spite of what we go through.
4. GOD LIVES IN AND INHABITS THE PRAISES OF HIS PEOPLE.
Psalm 22:3 - "But You are holy, 0 You Who dwell in (the holy
place where) the praises of Israel (are offered)." Amp.
Praise brings God's divine presence into our circumstances
and surroundings - Isa.64:1 - "That thou mightest come down
that the mountains might flow down at thy presence." All
mountains of doubt, despair, fear etc, are dispelled through
His presence which comes through praise.
5. PRAISE REFINES A MAN as a refining pot for silver and the
furnace for gold. Prov. 27:21 - "As the refining pot for
silver and the furnace for gold (bring forth all the
impurities of the metal), so let a man be in his trial of
praise (ridding it of all that is base or insincere) - for a
man is judged by what he praises and of what he boasts."
Amp. Praise brings out the impurities and exposes hypocrisy
and brings to light the trash. See also 2 Chron. 23:12-13.
6. PRAISE CAUSES THE EARTH TO YIELD HER INCREASE. Read
Psalm 67:5-6. Here we see that praise will be an attracting
force to outsiders both church people, sinners and
backsliders. Also it will cause fruitfulness in God's
people.
7. PRAISE WILL PLAY A MAJOR PART IN THE OUTPOURING OF THE FORMER
AND LATTER RAIN IN THESE LAST DAYS.
Note these three verses:
(a) Job.36:27 - "They pour down rain according to the vapour
there of." Our praise is like the vapour ascending up
and causing the rain.
(b) Eccl. 11:3 - "If the clouds be full of rain they empty
themselves upon the earth." Praise causes the full
clouds to empty themselves of the blessing of God onto
this earth.
(c) Hos. 6:3 - "He (Jesus) shall come unto us as the former
and latter rain." This then is a picture of praise
ascending up and releasing the latter rain who is Jesus,
speaking of His appearing to those who love and seek
Him, the Day of Atonement.
8. PRAISE CHANGES A PERSON'S LIFE to the extent that only
Christ is seen and many shall see it and fear, and trust in
the Lord. Psalm 40:3.
EXAMPLES OF THE RESULTS OF PRAISE:
1. ISRAEL was surrounded by death. Jehoshaphat appointed
singers to praise the Lord, then God set ambushments against
the enemy. God smote them to death. They overcame death by
praise. This is a picture of what God is going to do today
as He reveals the final Truth. See 2 Chron. 20:21.
2. Death surrounded JUDAH (which means praise) before and behind
- then they gave a shout and God smote the enemy.
See 2 Chron.13:14-15.
3. PAUL AND SILAS were chained in prison. At midnight they sang
praises (we are in the midnight hour), a great earthquake
shook the foundations of the prison. (Praise is shaking our
fetters and getting at the foundation - root of all our
bondages etc..), the doors were opened and every one's chains
were loosed. Praise is setting men free and will deliver
them from the last enemy which is death. See Acts 16:25.
4. JONAH surrounded by death - in the belly of the whale. He
was delivered when he offered a sacrifice of praise unto the
Lord with the voice of thanksgiving. See Jonah 2:9.
5. DAVID sung the evil spirit away from Saul (1 Sam.16:14-23),
by showing the power in praise to dispel evil and tormenting
spirits. They fear praise and cannot abide there.
6. AT THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE (which was on the tenth day
of the seventh month - the Day of Atonement). The 120
Trumpeters were at one with the singers in praise and worship
(on that day the people of praise will fully experience being
at one with the 120 - end of all flesh - no more fleshly
works etc.) THEN the house was filled with a cloud ... the
cloud of His Presence ... the Glory of the Lord. This is all
prophetical of the Day of Atonement which is ahead of us when
the Bride (the church) and the Groom (Jesus) will be joined
together (at-one-ment) in an atmosphere of great praise, the
high praises of God.
THE END