Praise teaching

praise  noun/verb

1.      Expression of approval or admiration.

What do you know about praise?

The act of praising implies the closest fellowship with the One who is being praised. Praise, is a mark of the people of God (1 Pet. 2:9-10)

Can be personal, corporate, spontaneous (Luke 18:43)

Expression of:                                                                                               The heart                                                                                    Gladness                                                                          Thanksgiving                                                                                Goodness

Praise is commanded: Psalms 148

When should we praise? (Rev 4:8, Beasts in heaven continuously; Acts 16:22-26 Paul & Silas in Jail)

Different forms of praise

What are those?

7 Hebrew words for praise

YADAH

YAD - THE OPEN HAND, DIRECTION  

AH - REFERRING TO JEHOVAH  

YADAH - HANDS TO GOD
 

 Ps. 100:4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name.

This is why we raise our hands in church.

TODAH 

TO EXTEND THE HANDS

TO SPEAK a true THING, to make a confession or profession
 

Example: court of law swearing to speak the truth.

When someone becomes a Christian we say to them, go tell some one.

To declare openly, freely, unreservedly.
 

Ezra 10:11 “Now therefore, make confession to the Lord God of your fathers and do His will; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”

We TODAH God when we say He is God

SHABACH

1. A LOUD ADORATION

      2. THE TESTIMONY OF WHAT GOD HAS DONE

3. A JOYFUL TO OVERFLOWING ATTITUDE

BARUCH 

TO EXPRESS AN ATTITUDE OF LOVE,  SUBMISSION AND TRUST THROUGH THE ACT OF KNEELING OR BOWING, humbling ourselves before GOd

A LIFESTYLE:IT IS TO CONTINUALLY GIVE PLACE TO THE FATHER IN EVERY AREA OF OUR LIFE

Blessing God
 

Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless the Lord your God.” And all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers, and bowed low and did homage to the Lord and to the king. (I Chr. 29:20.)

ZAMAR

TO SING SONGS OF PRAISE WITH INSTRUMENTS  

IF YOU SPEAK YOUR PRAISE, IT IS NOT ZAMAR

 
          ZAMAR -- SINGING ACCOMPANIED BY INSTRUMENTS

Name some instruments or examples of someone who praised God with an instrument

Miriam : tampbourine

David : Lyre

Harp, drums

HALAH

HALAH IS TO RAVE UPON THE LORD  

TO BE CLAMOROUSLY FOOLISH BEFORE THE LORD  

THE WORD HALLELUJAH COMES FROM --"HALAH TO YAHWEH"
 
 
Example: Remember when David danced before the Lord? The non-praiser, Michal, saw David leaping and whirling before the Lord and thought he was foolish to the point of despising him in her heart II Sam. 6:14-16, 20-23.
 
 
 

TEHILLAH

TO SING HALAH
 

 If you express great and extravagant adoration to the point of foolishness in the eyes of the non-praiser or non-Christian, by loudly in song, you are giving Tehillah to the Father.

Example: Ingrid saying turn the music up, freedom, abandonment to worship with singing that may be offensive to a non-believer or worshippers
 

Oh the Lord is Good: Track 5

Todah

Shabach

Not Zamar because we are not playing instruments

Can turn into Halal

CONCLUSION:

We praise God because he is worthy.

What happens when we praise? For God inhabits the praises of His children. Psalm 22:3.