Men in Ministry Praise the Lord!

During a recent Wednesday night service, we were continuing in a series on Praise. The Bible endorses Praising the Lord over 300 times in the Bible. At Glad Tidings Church, in San Francisco, we are praise fanatics. In a good way, praise has become the foundation of our lives. The results, which we have seen because of this, is amazing, every day. David in Psalm 34 says: I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips. Then in Psalm 52:9 David says: For what you have down I will always praise you in the presence of your faithful people.

It is necessary to praise God. First and could be only reason God tells us to praise Him. Praise Him for the magnificent things he has done and what He is going to do. Everything he has done is great! Everything he will do is also great. He commands us to love Him with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength. We show this love through praise.

It is not always comfortable to praise Him. As Men in Ministry sometimes we do not feel like it. That does not matter, at all. Praising God affects us in many ways 2 that I think of all the time. First is right now. When I praise God, it changes my outlook on everything. It takes the thoughts I have away from me and puts them on God. All good things come from the God who loves us. When I praise Him, The attention is on the good and the positive rather than anything else. The most worldly psychiatrists will tell us that focusing on the positive, focusing on good, will cause a positive attitude change. Focusing on good changes us physically, reduces stress and will give a more pleasant life if not a longer one. Praising God and focusing on the good He has done is eternal, it will never change. Thinking or meditating on worldly good is temporal. Praising God will produce an extremely beneficial outcome emotionally and physically. It will also have a positive outcome in all relationships. When we are praising the God who loves us, for all the good He has done, it is eternal and never ending, it is hard to be mean, sarcastic or a grump.

The second effect that praise has on us is eternal in the spirit world. The battles, we face, are not of flesh and blood, but they are in the heavenly world. Paul tells us in Ephesians 6:12: 2 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. There is and will never be a better way to fight these battles than by praising the Lord.

A notable example is the Israelites taking the city of Jericho. They had just crossed the Jordan. The river was raging over its banks. They walked through on fry land! Now time to take the first city in the Promised Land. God told Joshua to have the priests walk around the city blowing their horns. We praise God with all kinds of music, In Psalm 150: “Praise Him with the sounding of the trumpet” and we praise Him with obedience. The priests and the soldiers walked around the city each day for 6 days, praising God. On the 7th day, they walked around the city 7 times and when the horns sounded they all shouted. The walls came tumbling down.

The Israelites praised God with obedience, the horns and shouting. God won the battle. God is with us in all battles. Praise Him all the time. The results are immediate and eternal as are praises fight the battles that have eternal consequences.


As Men in Ministry we should be taking a leadership role Praising the Lord.