FAITH CAPSULE: What does Praising and thanking God mean to you? 

1 Chronicles 16

Praising and thanking God is a calling on God.
David, identified by God as a man after the heart of God, was an ardent praise worshiper of God. (1 Samuel 13:14)
Learning from David is a way of knowing that praising God gets the attention of God. 
In the word of David, praising and giving thanks to God is a way of calling on God. 
David declared, “I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be saved from my enemies.” (Psalm 18:3) 
David identified praising and thanking God as calling on God to deliver him from his enemies. 
Praising and thanking God is an assured way of calling and provoking the attention of God.
As a believer, it is not enough to know about calling on God through praising and thanking Him but to consciously have a knowing, engaging praising and thanking God as a way of life. 
Praising and thanking God is also calling on God to appreciate Him. 
After David finally settled the ark from being moved around, he called on God to thank God. 
The book of 1 Chronicles 16:8 records the statement of David, “Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; make known His deeds among the peoples!” 
Calling on God is to make Him known. 
God wants attention round the clock, the testimony to the truth, thanking God for His doing calls on His name to appreciate Him and declare Him to the world for what He has done. 
Do not only give thanks for what God has done or what He is doing but also give Him thanks for what He can do or what is expected from Him to do. 
Are you expecting God to move concerning your confronting situation? 
The magnitude of your situation will get the attention of God if one will not stop giving thanks to God before the manifestation of your expectation. 
Also, thanking and praising God is making the declaration of God. 
Declares God with experience to be decorated by God.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego declared God and decorated with deliverance from a fiery burning furnace. (Daniel 3:16-17)
Jesus declared God by praising and thanking God as Lazarus rose from four days in the grave. 
John 11:41-43 documents, “Jesus lifted His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”   
One praising and thanking God should always be to provoke God, to decorate such for His glory.
Praising and thanking God cannot be separated. 
That is, praising God is thanking God, and thanking God is praising God.

Prayer for today: Ask that praising and thanking God shall continually be your way of life.