Praise: Lesson 20
We should praise God with clapping hands, and with a shout.
Psalms 47:1 Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
Psalms 98:8 Let the rivers clap their hands; Let the hills be joyful together before the LORD,
Psalms 35:27 Let them shout for joy and be glad, Who favor my righteous cause; And let them say continually, “Let the LORD be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.”
We should be willing to praise God with Holy Laughter;
Psalms 126:2 Then Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy
Job 8:21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, And your lips with rejoicing.
We should praise God with the dance. (Not as the world portrays dance, but as a Joyful Jump, a leap for Joy, not a measured step.
Psalms 30:11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness - -
Psalms
149:3 Let them praise His name with the dance;
Let them sing
praises to Him with the timbrel and harp.
Psalms 150:4 Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes!
Luke 6:23 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven - -
We should praise the Lord with other tongues (our prayer language) We magnify God – beyond our understanding.)
Acts 10:46 For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.
1 Corinthians 14:16-17 Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an inquirer, say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying? You are giving thanks well enough, but no one else is edified.
We should praise God daily, and continually.
Psalms 34:1 I will extol the Lord at all times; His praise will always be on my lips.
Psalms 71:6
From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my
mother’s womb.
I will ever praise you.
We should praise God, in church, and to all the ends of the earth.
Psalms 35:18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly; among the throngs I will praise you.
Hebrews 2:12 “I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters; in the assembly I will sing your praises.
We also need to realize that Praise is a wonderful tool God has given us to use because praise brings heaven down to earth with the presence of God. God inhabits the praises of His people.
Let us look at seven Hebrew words that portray the entire biblical portrait of praise. In English they are all translated “praise,” but their meaning in Hebrew is varied.
YADAH: The extended hand, to throw out the hand, therefore to worship with extended hands, (the opposite meaning is to bemoan, the wringing of the hands, as in defeat.) Aggressive men often ball up their hand into a fist to curse. Jesus with open hands, ministered to the needs of people to bless them.
TOWDAH: (from the same root word) extended hand in adoration, avowal or acceptance. (This word is the modern Hebrew word for Thanksgiving. The application apparent in Psalms and elsewhere, that it was used for thanking God for “things not yet received” as well as for things already at hand. A form of calling those things that be not as though they are, and they become. When TOWDAH is coupled with our conversation or attitude of life, which in the faith life, we call “corresponding actions” or “acting on your faith,” God guarantees deliverance.
HALAL: To be clear, to shine, to boast, to show, to rave, celebrate, to be clamorously foolish. Th “brag” on God at the expense of looking foolish to the world. . . . .
SHABACH: To address in a loud tone, to command, to triumph, to glory, to SHOUT.
BARAK: To bless, or bow down in a worshipful attitude - - - - while, EXPECTING to receive something.
ZAMAR: To touch the strings and is used concordantly with instrumental worship.
TEHILLAH: To sing, to laud.
Singing can be praise, and Christians are noted for their singing, but TEHILLAH is singing our HALAL. There is singing . . . and there is singing in the Spirit.
Psalms, hymns and odes are singing and could be praise and yet not be TEHILLAH. A special kind of singing. Ephesians 5:18-19 tells us about Spiritual Songs, unprepared, unpremeditated, often unlearned, that flow forth as a result of being filled with the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:7
1 Chronicles 15:16-22 Both singers and instruments were to raise sounds of Joy,
Chronicles 20:22 Now when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.
This is the Tehillah praises, that TODAY will usher in God's presence in power, to bring victory, deliverance. God fights the battle as we praise.
1 Chronicles 15:16 – 22 David taught the priests to “sing by course,” both instruments and singers were to raise sounds of joy. First and second rank. The text implies a degree, a copy, a double so a degree of ascent harmony based on the music scale. Verse 20 reveals that their harps were tuned to soprano and the Lyres tuned an octave below.
This is the highest form of praise and was in the Dorean mode; neither Western, nor oriental minor. It was a sort of chanting, whereby the magnificence of God and his might and power, his wondrous works are “Boasted in melodious joyful chanting. This is the expression of praises that the Psalmist said God inhabits. Psalms, hymns and odes are singing and can be praise, and yet NOT be the Tehillah praise were God dwells.
The same Tehillah praises will do the same for us today; miracles happen when God “inhabits the Praises of His people.”
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