FAITH CAPSULE: Praising God is sacrifice and one with praise for God will have God.
Psalms 47, 100
God that does not sleep is available in His position for us to enter, engage and maintain His presence by praising Him with understanding. Psalmist declared in Psalm 47:7, “For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with understanding” Praising God is to enter, engage and maintain the presence of gracious and merciful God. When the soul and the heart of man becomes the habitation of praising God day and night then man will be gain entrance, engage and maintain the presence of God. Without doubt, praise is a language of faith.
Do you have praise to offer God?
Man with offer to praise God with understanding will have God. It is important to be praising God with understanding not as entertainment. Praising God with understanding is the way of getting God’s attention. In all ways of engaging God to enter, engage and maintain is presence is in understanding. With praising God with understanding, there will be a knowing-edge that provokes God’s response to man. We are to approach God on throne of grace with praise that is rooted in the heart not just in the head or mouth. Psalmist stated in Psalm 100: 4, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise…” Without doubt, there is no iota of lie, confusion or contradiction in the bible except if the reader is confused. God is on the throne of praise. Psalm 22:3 buttressed, “But you are holy, enthroned in the praise of Israel.”
With a clear understanding that God inhabits the praises of His people it is worthy to know that God is within the reach of man with praising understanding. Rendering praises unto God is a very serious matter, and it is for those that want to enter, engage and maintain the presence of God.
Praising God is rendering a sacrifice. Hebrews 13:15, “Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.” Since praise is a sacrifice to God and it also takes us to God, it is best to be sanctified before the sacrifice. The book of 1 Samuel 16:5 points out, “And he said, ’Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.’ Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.” At the time Samuel was sent by God to go and anoint David, it is clear that sanctification comes before sacrifice. A sacrifice without sanctification is a distant to God. Also, we cannot gather in sin and claim to be sacrificing unto Him in praise worship. Praise is sacrifice and it is proper to render a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service. (Romans 12:1). Sanctify self and deliver a sacrifice of praise to engage God and maintain His presence.
Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of self-sanctification to deliver reasonable sacrifice praise to God.