While there isn’t a “right” or “wrong” way to praise the Lord, there is a Scriptural way and that is what matters when your heart’s desire is to honor the Lord in anything you do.
Whatever your praise style preferences are—liturgical, traditional, contemporary, fast or slow, acoustic or electric and beyond—the point of praise is the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
In Psalm 50:14-15 the Lord spoke saying, “Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and pay your vows to the Most High, and call on Me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will glorify Me.” (MEV)
Psalm 100 gives a great layout of how believers access the presence of the Lord through praise:
“Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing…Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise; be thankful to Him and bless His name.”
Here is the breakdown:
- “Make a joyful noise…”
- “Serve the Lord with gladness…”
- “Come before His presence with singing…”
- “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving…”
- “[Enter into] His courts with praise…”
- “Be thankful to Him…”
- “Bless His name…”
The desire of every true believer is to have more of God, but to understand how that desire is fulfilled according to the Scriptures, it is important to note that there isn’t “more” of God to be had. He gave you everything, including His own flesh and blood!
But.
There is more of you to give to Him. Giving more of yourself to God is how you experience more of God. Throughout the Bible there is ample evidence to show that people always have a choice in how closely they want to walk in relationship to the Lord.
If you want more of God, daily give Him more of yourself—more of your thoughts, your weaknesses, your fears, your strongholds, your habits, your time, your focus, your burdens and cares—there is always more!
Praise and worship are fueled by the sacrifice of thanksgiving. As you walk through life as a person of faith in the Lord, as a person of the Word, as a person of prayer, and as a person of praise, what you access in the Lord will increase proportionally to what you allow the Lord to access in you.
5 Things Worshippers Access from the Lord through Praise
Praise and worship have a specific role in your life and that is by design from the Lord. The Lord is holy and worthy of praise—that is the only reason why He deserves the sacrifice of thanksgiving in praise.
Because of His great, unfailing faithfulness, the Lord has entwined an endless supply of benefits that come through His presence in praise and worship.
Psalm 22:3 says that the Lord “dwells within” the praises of His people. What an extraordinary promise!
Let’s explore five powerful dynamics you’ll find in God’s Word that He has divinely interwoven into praise:
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