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by OLUFEMI IDOWU - Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 3:31 AM
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I define praise as a medium whereby we hand over our battles directly to God. It is the HOTLINE that provokes divine intervention. Knowing fully well from that book of Luke chapter one verse thirty seven that: "for with God nothing shall be made impossible”. Praise I define as a spiritual exercise that must be frequently put in place by believers in our journey of this earth. Putting this to your remembrance that praise is the only thing that God cannot do for himself, rather we were created primarily to praise him. In a nutshell one of the reasons for our existence is to praise him. A wise man once said anything of value is a function of cost, but the mystery of praise is that it is so powerful and valuable yet it cost less so believers disregard due to its simplicity.

The bible tells a story in 2chro20 about a king named Jehoshaphat he was a man that feared God. At a point during his reign, the nation of Syria came against his kingdom in a battle. He was afraid so he gathered his people and declared a fast to sought God on what to do. During the fasting period he went in prayers in acknowledgement of how God had saved his people during the days of his fathers and also that he is still capable of doing same thing today. So God appeared in the prayer room and said to him and "Jehoshaphat you don't need to fight in this battle, set yourself, stand still and see the salvation of the lord with you. God instructed him that all he needed to do was to appoint singers unto him that will praise the beauty of his holiness as they went out before the armies of their enemies.

On the day of the battle they did exactly what God had instructed and as they began to sing praises to God, God set ambushment against their enemies and they came against themselves and they were all smitten to death. From my earlier definition of praise it validates the happening above. They didn't need to fight in the battle God himself took over the battle

........if time permits me I will also mind to share with you my friends what we call "targeted praise”...................