Exodus 15:11, Psalm 22:3, Psalm 114:1-9, 2 Kings 3:15-18, 2 Chronicles 20:22-24, John 6:5-11, Psalm 16:11

Men and brethren, always start the day with prayer and praise! When you complain you remain stagnated but when you praise, you’ll be raised. Praise is the medium through which our battles are handed over to God and we know that God cannot take over what we do not hand over. It is the spiritual habitat of God, the cloud- ten where miracles happen. When we engage in praise, God shows up on our behalf and when God shows up, signs and wonder becomes evident. Therefore, spiritual praise is superior to prayer because when we pray God answers and when we praise, He comes down and when God comes down, our obstacles are turn into miracles Exodus 15:11. And whatever will take God to come into our situation will require praise because it takes praise to provoke divine presence Psalm 22:3, Psalm 114:1-9.  I declare, your trouble is in trouble after your today praise.

Let me share the scriptural values of the wonders of Praise and how you can be connected.

Number One: Praise, among others; provoke the flow of revelation 2 Kings 3:15-18, Isaiah 30:29-30, Isaiah 60:1-22

Number Two: Praise Provoke Gods Intervention- 2 Chronicles 20:22-24, Psalm 47:5-7

Number Three: Praise Provokes Divine Multiplication -Jeremiah 30:19-20, John 6:5-11

Number Four: Praise Provokes Divine Guidance- Isaiah 30:19-21, Psalm 100:4, Psalm 16:11

Number Five: Praise Releases Supernatural Promotion- Habakkuk 3:17-19

Number Seven: Praise Provokes Divine Health- Psalm 100:4, Psalm 84:7

Number Eight: Praise Provokes Divine Favour- Psalm 119:164, Psalm 30:5-7

Number Nine: Praise Provokes Supernatural Blessings- Psalm 67:5-7, Joel 1:11-12

Number Ten: Praise Provokes Divine Vengeance- Psalm 149:3-7, 2 Samuel 6:14-23

Number Eleven: Praise empowers our access to realms of Signs and Wonders- Exodus 15:11

Number Twelve: Praise Facilitate the fulfilment of the Prophecies- 2 Corinthians 20:14-24, 1Timothy 1:18. I declare, as you join us to praise God, the mountain standing before you shall now become pain ground. Your obstacle shall become a miracle and your Haman shall fall into his own trap in Jesus name.

When we speak of praise, it is not the same thing as thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is you celebrating God for what He is doing and what He has done. But praise is you expressing your thanks in the word of God, celebrating what God has written concerning you. Psalm 56:4, 10. Amazingly and surprisingly, God has promised every believer that you will not go through life empty handed. 2 Corinthians 8:9 Because of you, he became poor that you may be rich. When we celebrate his words, that is what is called Praise but when He has already healed you, we can thank Him; that is what is called thanksgiving.

Any man who knows how to Praise shall not be a noise maker but a wonder maker. He shall become the creator of his circumstances. Sometimes people have all night prayers that’s all noise night to God because the people’s heart are far from God. In all the night activities, there is no tangible amount of time spent in praising God. ‘The fruit of our lips’ will not just pop out, it has to come from a source. So lips service without a source means absolutely nothing at all. The fact that you say Hallelujah or Amen to every post because something is written or said to you is not the fruit on your lips. It is just you echoing something that was said. You can go to a mountain and shout I love you and the rocks will echo I love you back because the rock has an echo and really have no feeling about whether you are loved or not. A lot of times in the church we have people echoing what they hear other people saying without it being the fruits of their lips released from the confinement of their heart with deep and abiding relationship with the Lord. To praise God without ceasing is often times about consecration; a consecration with sensitivity to the presence of God; that you walk in an aura to the presence of God and that you can access God whenever you need. How do we get connected to praising God daily?

Number One: Praise is action because you must praise God with the fruits of your lips. Men and brethren, Praise is also attitude. If you have action without attitude, you will get the same thing as an echo from the rocks. Your lip is saying something but it is not really in your heart, so it is not the fruit of your lips but just your lips echoing something. Attitude deals with your heart while action deals with your lips. Don’t let your action be opposite to your attitude. I have seen people walking around saying thank you Jesus, Oh Glory but they are not really thankful; they don’t have an attitude of Gratitude. They don’t have a consecration and Gods awareness because they are doing something out of ritual of religious duty. They work real hard on religious duties and fail miserably because they are doing the outer things that the bible says do but no inner covenant connection with God that they really ought to have.

Number Two: Praise is an attitude of thankfulness. It is just appreciating the goodness of God in your life; appreciating every day. You will be surprise how our generation is producing many people who are not appreciative. You can have children that are not appreciative, they could have said thank you after eating your meal but may not be appreciative because it is more than lip service, it is an attitude that you have in your heart of appreciation. Appreciation will make a child wash some dishes and tidy the kitchen and sweep the floor after eating, and ask what more can I do. Brethren, your lips can write a cheque that your heart can’t cash.

There should be in your attitude that appreciates the blessings that God has given you. Sometimes people are not appreciative and thereby not thankful because they look at things in their life that are broken, that are not fixed, and that are not together. And the thing you must realize in this life is that everybody has things in their lives that are not the way things should be. Don’t walk around as if you are the only one passing through problems and looking as if the whole world is mounted on your shoulder to carry. And if you wait until everything is fixed before you are thankful; you are never going to be thankful. Don’t put your price tag to be too much that you cannot thank God for the little things He has given you. For example, we have witness many testimonies but how many people have come with a testimony seed to thank God for what he has done. What will get are people asking pray for my needs and this and that, they come back, pray again for my family and this and that. How many of us are thankful for little things.

Are you thankful that the woman you accuse everyday who is your wife agreed to marry you? Are you thankful that your husband no matter how stupid he looks is your husband? Are you thankful for your parents even if they did not send you to school? Your attitude comes out of your heart. When you start thanking God and appreciating God, it is your lips speaking what your heart is leaking. The bible says “out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks” Matthew 12:34. And when the heart is full of thankfulness, it will be reflected in your lips. Luke 6:45, Proverb 4:23. There were many things that King David needed to work on, to put together but when God found David in Acts 13:22 He said, “After removing Saul, he made David their king. He testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do” What have you been asking God to do for you and it has not been answered? You must approach that close door with a song because song is an invitation that God cannot refuse. In singing to God; you must sound like a commander because your problem shall become a promotion. You can praise your way out of penury into plenty, out of sickness into strong health, and out of smallness into greatness!