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POWER OF PRAISE

A DYNAMIC WAY TO WIN BATTLES

FRANCIS JONAH

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

PRAISE; WHAT IS IT?

CHAPTER TWO

WHY PRAISE?

CHAPTER THREE

THE POWER OF PRAISE

CHAPTER FOUR:

HOW TO PRAISE GOD

CHAPTER FIVE

ENTER YOUR BATTLES WITH PRAISE

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INTRODUCTION

There are many testimonies about the great

victories that praise has brought into the lives of

believers. I am also a living testimony to the power

of praise.

Praise is a powerful tool God gave us and the more

knowledge and understanding we have of it, the

better our lives will be.

Praise has seen me through some really tough

times and brought me victory every time. Others

have had major breakthroughs by using praise

rightfully.

It is a liberating thought to know that God has

made wonderful things available for us to use to

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serve Him and also gain victory in our daily live

situations.

It is the reason it is important to gain knowledge on

such important things as praise. We cannot be

ignorant about praise.

The new understanding that you will take away

after reading this book will give you the keys to

your victory today and forevermore.

Have an impactful read.

You are blessed.

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CHAPTER ONE

PRAISE: WHAT IS IT?

Every Christian can boldly say that they have

praised God in their lives, one way or the other

before. In fact, church services always have times

for praises as part of the spiritual activities we

undertake.

As humans, we give praise to most of the people or

things that hold value to us and make our life more

meaningful. We praise our bosses, our children, our

favourite soccer or basketball teams, our friends

and many others who have impacted us greatly.

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This gives us an indication that the concept of

praise has been in our make up as humans for as

long as we have lived.

There are several instances the psalmist asks us to

praise God. In one interesting circumstance that led

to a life being spared, praise was used as a

bargaining tool. See how beautifully the words were

put:

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not

celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit

cannot hope for thy truth. Isaiah 38:18

To really understand the concept of praise, we

need to look at how it is used in the Hebrew and

Greek renditions of the bible.

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Few words were used to represent praise in the

Greek and Hebrew bibles.

These words include Halal, Yadah, Tehilah, Todah.

They are explained properly below:

Halal

Halal simply means to boast in God. One uses Halal

to express their utmost faith in God. It is to clamour

almost foolishly in praising God. In expressing Halal,

we talk about the might and power of God.

I will be expressing Halal to God if I tell God is He

amazing, that he is awesome and that there is none

like Him.

Halal is used in the following verses.

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Halal is italicized to depict how it is used in the

verses.

The psalmist declares it like this;

Sing unto God, sing praises (halal) to his name:

extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his

name JAH, and rejoice before him. Psalm 68:4

In Revelations, it comes out powerfully;

And after these things I heard a great voice of

much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia (halal);

Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto

the Lord our God. Revelations 19:1

The same is observed here too;

And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose

up for ever and ever.

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4 And the four and twenty elders and the four

beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on

the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.

5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying,

Praise (Halal) our God, all ye his servants, and ye

that fear him, both small and great.

6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great

multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and

as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying,

Alleluia (Halal): for the Lord God omnipotent

reigneth. Revelations 3-6

Yadah

Yaddah means appreciating God for something He

has done. Yadah can be found in these scriptures

too.

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I will be expressing Yaddah if I sing praises to God

in appreciation for what he has done for me.

In Genesis, Yadah was sang to praise God for the

birth of Judah;

And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she

said, Now will I praise (Yadah) the LORD:

therefore she called his name Judah; and left

bearing. Genesis 29 : 35

David masterfully used it when he said;

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down

to the pit? Shall the dust praise (Yadah) thee?

Shall it declare thy truth? Psalm 30:9

Tehilah

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Tehilah is used to extol God. It is synonymous to

Halal in its use.

I will be expressing when I praise God for His might

and power.

Tehilah is used in instances such as this;

He is thy praise (tehilah), and he is thy God, that

hath done for thee these great and terrible things,

which thine eyes have seen. Deuteronomy 10:21

The prophet Isaiah invokes Tehilah in Israel by

saying;

And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he

make Jerusalem a praise (Tehilah) in the earth.

Isaiah 62:7;

God Himself demanded for Tehilah in this case;

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For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so

have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house

of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the

LORD; that they might be unto me for a people,

and for a name, and for a praise (Tehilah), and for

a glory: but they would not hear Psalm 22: 22, 25.

Todah

Todah is used to express the giving of thanks to

God. When one is overwhelmed by the things God

has done for them or remembers what God did

sometime for them, they tend to offer Him Todah.

King David employs Todah here by declaring;

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul

in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went

with them to the house of God, with the voice of

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joy and praise (Todah), with a multitude that kept

holyday. Psalm 42:4

The Israelites were directed on how to offer their

sacrifices as Todah;

If he offer it for a thanksgiving (Todah), then he

shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving

unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and

unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes

mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried. Leviticus 7:12

From the above renditions, we can say Praise is

expressing joy, giving thanks, celebrating and giving

glory to God for his might, power and for all He has

done for us.

Praise is A Sacrifice

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Praise can be offered as a sacrifice unto God. We

are advised on how to offer our praise in the book

of Hebrews unto God;

Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer

to God a sacrifice of praise — the fruit of lips that

confess his name. Hebrews 13 : 5

Praise is a fruit of our lips. It is a sacrifice. When we

go to offer a sacrifice, normally, the success of our

sacrifice is dependent on the receiver of the

sacrifice. Thus, God may choose to reject or accept

our sacrifice dependent on its quality.

This shifts the focus from us to being about God.

The receiver of the gifts determines how pleasing

the gift is to Him.

Praise is Our Duty

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Psalm 150:6 - Let everything that has breath praise

the Lord. Praise the Lord (NIV)

The bible makes us understand that God created us

for his good pleasure and to worship and praise

him. It is the duty of man to praise God. Praising

God in all our situations is basically living as God

wants us to live – to his glory.

Praise is the will of God

A lot of people are looking for the will of God. Well,

thanksgiving which is a form of praise is the will of

God.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 - Give thanks in all

circumstances, for this is God's will for you in

Christ Jesus (NIV)

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The above verse admonishes us to thank God in all

things; the good, the best, the bad and the ugly

because thanksgiving is the will of God concerning

us. God requires that we praise him and

thanksgiving is a great way to praise Him.

Praise is a lifestyle

Praises to God is a lifestyle. It is not a one-off thing

that happens every Sunday when we assemble as

believers to sing and dance unto God. Praise goes

beyond that. The Psalmist puts it in a very profound

way by saying “I will extol the Lord at all times; his

praise will always be on my lips” – Psalm 34:1

(NIV)

ABSOLUTE PRAISE

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We appreciate his interventions in our life and

bless his awesome wonders through our Worship,

our Thanksgiving through prayers and by our Praise

to Him.

In our Worship, we glorify God for who He is. He

uphold his majesty and lift his name. We say things

like He is the Great I Am, Omnipotent, the Most

High and that there is none like Him. In our

Thanksgiving, we offer our gratitude for what He

has done. We basically say thank you Lord for

giving me this miracle, for keeping me alive, for this

job, for healing me of my disease etc.

In our Praise, we similarly thank God for what he

has done for us but then we bless His name for

things we have not received yet also.

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Thus, while Thanksgiving expresses our gratitude to

God, Praise expresses our faith in God.

As indicated, we can offer praises and thanks to

anyone or creature of God however, worship is

reserved for God only. According to Luke 4:8, only

God is worthy of our worship.

Luke 4:8 - Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship

the Lord your God and serve him only” (NIV)

Praise is intertwined with Thanksgiving whilst

Worship is interrelated with Surrender. In our

praise, we give thanks to God for what He has and

has not done while in our Worship, we come to a

point of surrender where we lose ourselves in

adoration of who God is.

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Thanksgiving can be a part of Praise, Praise can be

a part of Worship.

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CHAPTER TWO

WHY PRAISE?

A wise man once said “when the purpose of a thing

is not known, abuse is inevitable”. Praise goes

beyond the fast-paced songs we sing in church. It

goes beyond the dancing, clapping and shouting.

Praise is our duty

As discussed earlier in the previous chapter, it is

the duty of man to praise God. However, this is not

the sole privilege of man because all creation is

supposed to reveal the might of God and to give

him praise. The bible talks about the angels and the

24 elders giving God praise and worship.

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However, God loves the praise of man above all

else. This is because though he can cause all of His

creation (even stones) to give him praise, He

expects man to praise him.

One day as Jesus was being praised, the Pharisees

asked him to rebuke his disciples, listen to the

conversation that ensued between them:

Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the

name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in

the highest.

And some of the Pharisees from among the

multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy

disciples.

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And he answered and said unto them, I tell you

that, if these should hold their peace, the stones

would immediately cry out. Luke 19:38-40

Praise shows our gratitude to God and faith in God

When we praise God, we show our gratitude to

Him. Why won’t we? He has been so good to us for

the gift of life and the realities of the new creation

man who is born again and made a citizen of

heaven. We also show our faith and trust in Him.

Psalm 147 : 12 - Extol the LORD, O Jerusalem;

praise your God, O Zion, 13 for he strengthens the

bars of your gates and blesses your people within

you. 14 He grants peace to your borders and

satisfies you with the finest of wheat (NIV)

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Through praise, we are able to show our gratitude

to God. Through praise, we show God that that we

have faith in Him – that we trust him.

The bible admonishes us to give thanks to God in all

circumstances. This is because thanksgiving is God’s

will for our lives.

A lot of people think it means that the

circumstance is the will of God. But no, the

circumstance is not the will of God, it is

thanksgiving that is the will of God. Do not accept

every negative circumstance as the will of God

using this scripture.

The first step to destroy the works of the devil is to

recognize it for what it is. As long as you keep

thinking it is God who is causing your negative

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fortunes, you will never enforce victory over the

devil and the negative circumstances He brings

circumstances.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 - Give thanks in all

circumstances, for this is God's will for you in

Christ Jesus (NIV)

What this does is tell God that we still love and

trust him regardless of our circumstances and that

everything is working together for our good.

And that evil circumstance will change to the glory

of God.

Praise brings down the presence of God

When the heart goes out in genuine praise the

power and presence of God is felt mightily.

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Psalm 22:3 - But You are holy, Enthroned in the

praises of Israel (NKJV)

The verse explains that God will dwell where He is

praised – He is enthroned in the praises of his

people. The man who praise God continually

carries the tangible presence of God with him

wherever he goes. This makes him a success and

makes him overcome every obstacle he faces

because God is with him.

Dearly beloved, if you want to carry the presence

of God in your life tangibly, then you have to be a

man or woman of praise.

David realised this at an early stage. Even as a

rejected son of Jesse, he praised God with his harp

in the wilderness always and because of that God

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was with him always. He knew praise will always

help him carry the tangible presence of God.

Let’s see what he told Goliath when he went down

to fight him in 1 Sam 17:45

David said to the Philistine, "You come against me

with sword and spear and javelin, but I come

against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the

God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied

(NIV).

The rest is history, Goliath suffered a bad defeat in

the hands of the “praiser”. The man after God’s

own heart.

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CHAPTER THREE

THE POWER OF PRAISE

The man who praises God is one of the most

powerful men on earth. This is simply because he

carries the presence of God with him. If nothing is

too hard for God, then believe that nothing will be

too hard for that man also.

Praise breaks our shackles and sets us free

What will you answer when you are confronted

with a question of how to break out of every

prison? Whether the prison of debt, sickness or a

physical prison. Paul and Silas had a simple

formula. Pray and Praise.

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Acts 16:25-26 - About midnight Paul and Silas

were praying and singing hymns to God, and the

other prisoners were listening to them. 26

Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that

the foundations of the prison were shaken. At

once all the prison doors flew open, and

everybody's chains came loose (NIV)

I decree that every shackle of depression, suicidal

thoughts and confusion is being loose right now as

you praise God now. No shackle will hold you if you

develop an attitude of praise. Praise will break

every bond of the enemy against you. In Jesus

name.

The right way to approach the presence of your

Father.

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You may have problems and pains and burdens you

will want to present but always start with praise in

approaching the father.

Ps 100:4 - Enter his gates with thanksgiving and

his courts with praise; give thanks to him and

praise his name (NIV)

This approach helps you leave with mighty

solutions to any issues that befall you. Winners are

always praising. There is a key in it.

Praise wins our wars and makes the enemy flee

Renowned Gospel Musician Marvin Sapp in his

song Praise Him In Advance, had a profound line in

his lyrics that said Praise will confuse the enemy.

That line struck me hard. It made so much sense

and I have tested it to be true. Praise indeed

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confuses the enemy. The enemy doesn’t

understand why you will praise God when he is

throwing obstacles and negative circumstances

your way. He doesn’t understand why you should

be joyful and happy despite all the things you are

going through. Keep confusing him more, he will

find another persona and leave you alone.

Ps 8:2 puts this in better perspective.

From the lips of children and infants you have

ordained praise because of your enemies, to

silence the foe and the avenger (NIV).

Praise is not only meant to glorify God but as a

weapon against our enemies. Praise is to silence

and defeat our enemies.

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The Jericho Experience

Perhaps one of the most common of stories where

enemies of the children of God was defeated with

Praise is the story of the tumbling down of the

walls of Jericho.

Joshua 6:2 - Then the Lord said to Joshua, "See, I

have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with

its king and its fighting men. 3 March around the

city once with all the armed men. Do this for six

days. 4 Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams'

horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day,

march around the city seven times, with the

priests blowing the trumpets. 5 When you hear

them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all

the people give a loud shout; then the wall of the

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city will collapse and the people will go up, every

man straight in (NIV)

In the above verse, we get to understand that

armies and weapons were not what God

recommended as arsenals to be used to take the

city of Jericho. The Ark of the Covenant (signifying

the presence of God) and praise was. A shout of

praise was the killer blow that broke the mighty

walls of Jericho.

Today if you will shout to the glory of God despite

that problem that has been torturing you for all this

while, believing that the Lord has given you victory

over that problem, that problem is going to flee.

You will get renewed strength and confidence to

tell it to move and it will move. Glory to God.

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The Davidic Experience

David had one of the most vivid praise experiences.

He danced so hard unto the Lord that his critics

were out in full force and God had to intervene

Himself. When you praise God, He takes matters

into His own hands.

2 Samuel 6:12-23 – “Now King David was told,

"The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-

Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of

God." So David went down and brought up the ark

of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of

David with rejoicing. 13 When those who were

carrying the ark of the Lord had taken six steps, he

sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. 14 David,

wearing a linen ephod, danced before the Lord

with all his might, 15 while he and the entire

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house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with

shouts and the sound of trumpets. 16 As the ark of

the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal

daughter of Saul watched from a window. And

when she saw King David leaping and dancing

before the Lord, she despised him in her heart. 17

They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its

place inside the tent that David had pitched for it,

and David sacrificed burnt offerings and

fellowship offerings before the Lord. 18 After he

had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and

fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the

name of the Lord Almighty. 19 Then he gave a loaf

of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to

each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both

men and women. And all the people went to their

homes. 20 When David returned home to bless his

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household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to

meet him and said, "How the king of Israel has

distinguished himself today, disrobing in the sight

of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar

fellow would!" 21 David said to Michal, "It was

before the Lord, who chose me rather than your

father or anyone from his house when he

appointed me ruler over the Lord's people Israel —

I will celebrate before the Lord. 22 I will become

even more undignified than this, and I will be

humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave

girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor." 23 And

Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day

of her death. (NIV)

The verses above tells us of a story that happened

after the Israelites had retrieved the Ark of the

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Covenant. David the King was so excited he danced

heavily to praise the lord. Now his wife Michal who

was given unto him by Saul did not understand

David’s sacrifice of praise and despised him for it.

She again rebuked him for that when he got home.

The bible says that her womb was shut and she

became barren because she spoke against David

and his sacrifice of praise. Are you ready to dance

now unto the Lord? The evil comments about you,

the enchantments and negative plans will all fall by

the way if you do.

A man of praise has a spiritual firewall around him.

Nothing inimical gets through it. No weapon

fashioned against such a man shall prosper because

God himself is with him and is fighting for Him in

praise.

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CHAPTER FOUR:

HOW TO PRAISE GOD

Praise of God has a lot of benefits for us as

believers. But praising the lord like any other

spiritual exercise will not yield the blessings it is

supposed to give when it is not done well.

So how do we go about praising the lord one may

ask?

Praise the Lord with our hearts

Matthew 15:8 - These people honor me with their

lips, but their hearts are far from me. (NIV)

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The verse above explains to us that we can be

hypocrites when offering praises unto God. Our

praise must come from the deepest parts of our

hearts and must be very sincere. Many Christians

get caught up in the trap of trivializing the praises

and the power that can be obtained from it

because they see praise as a Sunday routine and

thus do it without understanding.

Today I want to urge you to be intentional about

your praise. Purpose to praise God from your heart

and extol him with meaning.

Praise the Lord in faith

Without faith, it is impossible to please God. That is

why faith is important in praise.

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But without faith it is impossible to please him:

for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,

and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently

seek him. Hebrews 11:6

The Lord requires us to praise him in faith. He

requires that we give him praise for things we have

received and the things we are yet to receive.

Praising God for the things we have asked from him

but have not yet received tangibly expresses our

faith in him.

Praise God in understanding

Prov 24:3 - By wisdom a house is built, and through

understanding it is established (NIV)

Wisdom tell us to praise the lord but we need

understanding to continue in praise even when we

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don’t feel like it, on the days when things are not

going as we expected them to go. Understanding

will let us know that one of the easiest way to clean

the mess we have found ourselves in is to praise

the Lord.

Praising the Lord in those times brings the presence

of the lord which is also the spirit of the Lord. The

spirit of the lord builds and makes everything right.

In the book of Genesis, it was the Spirit of the Lord

that brooded on the waters and caused creation to

be effected.

Our lives are transform when the spirit of the lord

comes into it. Praise can make that happen.

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CHAPTER FIVE

ENTER YOUR BATTLES WITH PRAISE

Praise is one of the most powerful weapons in the

arsenal of a believer. Any believer who employs

praise in his battles is bound to win.

A clear example is the story of Jehoshaphat in 2

Chronicles 20:15-25

He (God) said: "Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all

who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the

Lord says to you: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged

because of this vast army. For the battle is not

yours, but God's. 16 Tomorrow march down

against them. They will be climbing up by the Pass

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of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the

gorge in the Desert of Jeruel. 17 You will not have

to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand

firm and see the deliverance the Lord will give

you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do

not be discouraged. Go out to face them

tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.'" 18

Jehoshaphat bowed with his face to the ground,

and all the people of Judah and Jerusalem fell

down in worship before the Lord. 19 Then some

Levites from the Kohathites and Korahites stood

up and praised the Lord, the God of Israel, with

very loud voice. 20 Early in the morning they left

for the Desert of Tekoa. As they set out,

Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Listen to me, Judah

and people of Jerusalem! Have faith in the Lord

your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his

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prophets and you will be successful." 21 After

consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed

men to sing to the Lord and to praise him for the

splendor of his holiness as they went out at the

head of the army, saying: "Give thanks to the

Lord, for his love endures forever." 22 As they

began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes

against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount

Seir who were invading Judah, and they were

defeated. 23 The men of Ammon and Moab rose

up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy

and annihilate them. After they finished

slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to

destroy one another. 24 When the men of Judah

came to the place that overlooks the desert and

looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead

bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped.

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25 So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off

their plunder, and they found among them a great

amount of equipment and clothing and also

articles of value — more than they could take

away. There was so much plunder that it took

three days to collect it (NIV)

King Jehoshaphat is told that a vast army was

coming up against him and they were just unto

him. The king proclaims a fast in all of Judah and

goes to see the face of the lord. The lord tells the

King to not be afraid and know that the battle is

not his.

In the verse 21, we see that the King goes to battle

with the men of Judah singing praises to God. Now

Judah means Praise. They did not go into the battle

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with war cries and chats of war but praise. That’s

unheard off in battle strategy.

Tell that to any army general or military strategist

and they will say you are out of your mind. But that

is the way of God and the potency of praise.

That was God telling them that praise will win this

battle. This battle is not yours. You don’t have to

fight it with your strength, only with your sacrifice

of PRAISE.

And true to Gods word, they were victorious and

won the battle without exerting physical efforts.

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CONCLUSION

Beloved, praise wins battles. Face any battle with

praising God and see victory in your life. Whatever

you are facing, go into war with that and see the

hand of God made strong through your offerings of

praise.

Praise will confuse the enemy, praise will increase

your faith and improve your walk with God.

Get your praise on. It is time for praise.

You are blessed.

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