How often do you praise the LORD? During family devotion in the morning? On the assembly ground at school? Sunday school?
“I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever. Everyday I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever.”
Psalm 145:1
You must have a personal time where you praise God.
There are so many ways to do this. Some ways are:
1. Reading psalms of praise from the bible. 2. Play and sing along to praise songs. 3. Sing from your heart praise songs. 4. Write love letters to God telling Him how much You love Him. 5. Write poems of praise.
When you praise God, you are exalting Him over everything and everyone in all the earth and heaven. You are acknowledging Him as your Lord. God enjoys our praises. He delights in them, and he wants us to continually praise Him.
Only God deserves your praise. Make it a daily habit of praising God. You don’t have to spend long hours at it unless you are led to do so. And ensure that the time you have put aside for praising God is used for that. Don’t allow distractions.
Focus on God and His mightiness and splendor. He wants to hear you praise Him always.
What do you do when you are confused? Do you praise God? What do you do when you don’t know what to do? What do you do when things seem to have gone out of place?
See what the psalmist said
Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Ps 150:2
Just as the psalmist said, we should learn to praise God. We can focus on one of his deeds and thank him for it.
Praise him for his mighty acts. The formation of your child is a mighty act on its own. The intricate intertwining of the bones, intestines, different systems in the body et cetera, should spur you to praise God on their behalf.
Praise him for his acts of power, praise him for his magnificent greatness;
Psalm 150:2
Let’s not only praise God but encourage our children to praise as well. No child is too small to do that.
This morning, do you have a song in your heart? Sing unto Him and praise Him for His goodness.
PRAYER: Help my children to praise you always oh Lord; Amen
ACTION PLAN: Go ahead and sing a song unto God.
DECLARATION: I will praise God. My children will praise God. My family will praise God.
Today is Oil For Today – Day 119. Let’s lift up our voice one more time as we pray to God! Watch Video on Youtube HERE. Check other days HERE.
Scriptures For Today
Oil For Today – Day 119
Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. [6] Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
Psa 67:5-6 (KJV)
Prayer Points For Today
Oil For Today – Day 119
Begin to thank God for today.
Pray for God to baptize you with the Spirit of praise.
Prophesy to your spirit to stay in joy today
Being to command the earth to yield her increase to you.
Pray that every seed you have sown will bring forth abundant harvest.
Pray for your local assembly; that the blessing of the LORD would rest upon her.
Bind every locust, caterpillar, and palmer worm that is devouring your increase.
Declare God’s blessing over you and your family, and pray for restoration of things you’ve lost.
Go ahead and make your personal requests for the day known to the Lord.
Begin to thank the Lord for answered prayers.
Confession For Today
Oil For Today – Day 119
As I praise you, Lord, the increase comes unto me. My bank account receives divine touch. My finances experience a quantum leap. My business blooms. The blessing of the Lord is overshadowing me. My God is increasing me more and more. This month, I enter into a covenant of praise. Praise shall be my lot. No more depression and despondency. No more crying and languishing. In my relationship/marriage, I choose to praise God. In all I do, praise shall not depart from my mouth in Jesus’ name, amen.
My children learn to praise God; that should be your disposition. Children are meant to render praise to God. Dear child, learn to praise.
From the mouths of children and nursing babies you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries, so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy.
Psalms 8:2 (NET)
God is telling us that children have been chosen to sing praise unto His name. We should therefore learn to encourage them in all they do.
The aim of children singing praise unto God is to put an end to the activities of the evil one, can you imagine? Therefore, my children learn to praise God!
So children, keep singing unto God. Daily lift up your voice and give God praise. God is setting up the enemy as you do so. Amen
Declaration:
My children give God praise and thanks daily. They are not tired or discouraged. Praise is a weapon of victory in their mouth. My children learn to praise God!
How songs Can make or mar you. Your ears are wonderful organs given by God for listening and also for balance. What you listen to can affect you. Songs, words, instrumentals, poetry, and so on all have the power of touching you.
When you hear a great Christian song, you either pause to soak it in or sing along just because you can identify with the words. So, also when you listen to songs that don’t glorify God or cause you to feel or do what you are not supposed to do.
Songs that use vulgar or harmful words aren’t good for you. They are songs that glorify evil and immorality. Listening to songs like that only teaches you bad words and how to use them. Over time you become well versed in them till they become part of you.
Apart from songs, people can also use bad and foul words around you. Are your friends or mates at school using vulgar words around you? Speak to them about using such words, and if they don’t listen, stay away from them, because they will only teach you to be like them.
Listening to Godly and inspiring songs helps to lift your spirit and connects you with the Holy Spirit which leads you into worship, praise, petition, exaltation, revelation, and more.
Also, people can pass influence with their words either to do good or bad. Watch out for the elderly people around you. What are they saying? Are they speaking hateful words to others? Words that inspire you to hate others? Do not listen to such words for they are ungodly.
Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding.
Prov. 2:2 NLT
Listen to wisdom (good, life-giving, helpful, loving, et cetera words) so that you will concentrate on who God has made you to be, should be, and can be. In other words, listening to wisdom will help stay holy before God.
