Saw this and decided to share was just what I've been pondering about...

We are Created to Praise Him
"The beast of the field will honor Me,
The jackals and the ostriches,
Because I give waters in the
wilderness
And rivers in the desert,
To give drink to My people, My
chosen.
This people I have formed for Myself;
They shall declare My praise."- Isaiah 43:20-21

Prayer is Important, but Praise is More Important.
It’s amazing. There are so many books,
CD’s, DVD’s, conferences, seminars, teachings and preachings about prayer, and you don’t see anything that emphasizes the importance of praise!
I’m not belittling prayer. To
be able to grow in any and every aspect of
the Christian walk, there is a great need for understanding. Want to grow
in the Word? Gain understanding.
Want to
increase your prayer life? Gain
understanding.
Want to bask in the glory of His presence in your moments of praise
and worship? Gain understanding.
You may wonder, why is praise more important than prayer? The first reason
is because it’s the first command from
the King found in Psalm 100:4:
"Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise."
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name,
God desires to be praised. This is why the
seraphim praise 24/7!
Those are the
angels that are directly by God’s throne
and the first of the 9 orders of angels.
They continually declare His praise as we
see from both Isaiah and John’s vision:
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw
the Lord sitting on a throne, high and
lifted up, and the train of His robe filled
the temple. Above it stood seraphim;
each one had six wings: with two he
covered his face, with two he covered his
feet, and with two he flew. And one cried
to another and said:
“ Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;
The whole earth is full of His
glory!” (Isaiah 6:1-3)
The four living creatures, each having six
wings, were full of eyes around and
within. And they do not rest day or night,
saying:
“ Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,
Who was and is and is to
come!” (Revelations 4:
I love how it says, “the train of His robe
fills the temple,” now because He is
robed in majesty (Psalm 93:1), that
means His majesty fills the temple!
Talk about remaining in the glory of God! Now the cherubim are a little bit further from the seraphim and they come in second from the 9 orders of angels.

The seraphim have a love for God no one else
can compare! The cherubim have
knowledge of God so great that it is only
surpassed by the love of the seraphim.
They stand on either side of God:
"The LORD reigns;
Let the people tremble!
He dwells between the cherubim;
Let the earth be moved!
The LORD is great in Zion,
And He is high above all the people.
Let them praise Your great and awesome
name—
He is holy" (Psalm 99:1-3)
So you can see here that the angels
continue to praise Him all the time! My
favorite picture of heaven is painted in
John’s vision in Revelations 5:11-12
Then I looked, and I heard the voice of
many angels around the throne , the living
creatures, and the elders; and the
number of them was ten thousand times
ten thousand, and thousands of
thousands, saying with a loud voice:
“ Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
To receive power and riches and wisdom,
And strength and honor and glory and
blessing!
That’s a 100 million plus angels singing
praises around the throne! Imagine how
many there are in the rest of heaven? We
have established that the heavenly beings
praise God and as his chosen generation,
royal priesthood and holy nation (1 Peter
2:9), we should do the same in order to
usher ourselves into His presence.
Thanking Him is another crucial thing to
do because it leads to praise.

When you read on how to develop a heart of
gratitude, you begin to understand why
God values that so much.

The second reason is because He is
enthroned on our praises:
"But You are holy,
Enthroned in the praises of Israel" (Psalm
22:3)
Now Israel is the nation God established
to be different from other nations and to
be holy just as He is holy (Leviticus
19:1-3). Since we are set apart (which is
what holiness is) to be His people too,
Israel is a picture of us. Therefore we
should lift Him up so He is seated on His
throne by our praises:
"I will bless the LORD at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my
mouth" (Psalm 34:1)

David praised more times a day than he
did pray:
Evening and morning and at noon
I will pray , and cry aloud,
And He shall hear my voice (Psalm 55:17)
Seven times a day I praise You ,
Because of Your righteous judgments
(Psalm 119:164)

Why did he do that? He had an
understanding of praise and exalted God
as often as he could! What I love most
about David is not the amount of times
he praised but the reason he praised. He
did not do it when things were good and
neither did he do so when things were
tough. He did it all the time . He says, “I
will bless the Lord at all times.” The
important thing to note is that he never
praised because he felt like it. If he did
he would hardly ever praise.

The scary thought about the number
of times we praise



Let’s say we only meet on Sundays and
praise and worship for 30mins (even for a
Sunday service that’s too little). For most
of us that’s the case.

What that means is
that 30mins x 4 weeks = 120mins/month
(2hrs/month). Now taking 2hrs x 12 =
24hrs/year! Suppose there was a huge
praise and worship conference (that
would be awesome) and it ran for a
straight 24hrs. That would mean
gathering for that event and then never
praising again for the rest of the year!
How dare we expect God to be obligated
(the audacity) to answer our prayers at
the neglect of all the honour, glory, praise
and worship due Him!
That’s why we are
to praise and worship first then pray.
Fortunately there are some of us that
meet more times a week so we have the
opportunity to praise and worship for
more than just 30mins/week. We should
all really be in praise and worship for
30mins/day!


The third reason is because of who
answers our prayers:
"And the smoke of the incense, with the
prayers of the saints, ascended before
God from the angel’s hand . Then the
angel took the censer, filled it with fire
from the altar, and threwit to the earth.
And there were noises, thunderings,
lightnings, and an earthquake."
(Revelations 8:4).
We also see it in Daniel’s experience
before engaging in the warfare fast:
Then he (Gabriel) said to me, “Do not
fear, Daniel, for from the first day that
you set your heart to understand, and to
humble yourself before your God, your
words were heard; and I have come
because of your words . But the prince of
the kingdom of Persia withstood me
twenty-one days; and behold, Michael,
one of the chief princes, came to help
me, for I had been left alone there with
the kings of Persia (Daniel 10:12-13).
From these two passages we understand
that angels take our prayers to God and
delivers His answers to us. The problem
with the delivery process is that it can be
delayed. There are opposing angels
known as demons who try to stop the
angels from delivering our answers just
like Gabriel’s experience. Many people
don’t actually understand this. They are
so ignorant of the way prayer works that
their flesh (or sinful nature) takes over.
They become impatient and allow doubt
to creep in. God told Cain when his
offering was not accepted:
“Why are you so angry?” the Lord asked
Cain. “Why do you look so dejected? You
will be accepted if you do what is right.
But if you refuse to do what is right, then
watch out! Sin is crouching at the door,
eager to control you. But you must
subdue it and be its master,” Genesis
4:6-7 (NLT)
What that means is that when we get
tempted to be impatient and
inconsiderate of what God deserves
from and expects of us, we still have the
opportunity to overcome. He will not let
temptation conquer us (1 Corinthians
10:13).
We obviously have no excuse for
falling into sin. We simply have to be
persistent with prayer.
Now when we praise, because our praise
go straight to God, He will answer us!
What can stop God? Your prayer is
guaranteed to be answered. There is a
catch, though Luke 6:38:
Give, and it will be given to you: good
measure, pressed down, shaken together,
and running over will be put into your
bosom. For with the same measure that
you use, it will be measured back to you.”


If you want God to be passionate about
answering your prayers, be passionate
about praising Him!

David was declared a
man after God’s own heart:
And when He had removed him, He
raised up for them David as king, to
whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I
have found David the son of Jesse,
a man after My own heart , who will do all
My will (Acts 13:22; 1 Samuel 13:14).

If he praised God more than he prayed,
how much more do we need to do the
same?


The fourth reason is because people in
the Bible were victorious through praise.

Let’s take a look at Judges 7:
Then the LORD said to Gideon, “By the
three hundred men who lapped I will
save you, and deliver the Midianites into
your hand. Let all the other people go,
every man to his place.” (v7)
And when Gideon had come, there was a
man telling a dream to his companion. He
said, “I have had a dream: To my surprise,
a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the
camp of Midian; it came to a tent and
struck it so that it fell and overturned,
and the tent collapsed.”
Then his companion answered and said,
“This is nothing else but the sword of
Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel!
Into his hand God has delivered Midian
and the whole camp.”
And so it was, when Gideon heard the
telling of the dream and its
interpretation, that he worshiped. He
returned to the camp of Israel, and said,
“Arise, for the LORD has delivered the
camp of Midian into your hand.” (v13-15)
So Gideon and the hundred men
who were with him came to the outpost
of the camp at the beginning of the
middle watch, just as they had posted the
watch; and they blew the trumpets and
broke the pitchers that were in their
hands. (v19)

When the three hundred blew the
trumpets, the LORD set every man’s
sword against his companion throughout
the whole camp; and the army fled to
Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the
border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath
(v22).


There you go, through praise and worship,
Gideon emerged victorious.

Now let’s see
Paul and Silas in Acts 16:25-26:
Around midnight Paul and Silas were
praying and singing hymns to God, and
the other prisoners were
listening. Suddenly, there was a massive
earthquake, and the prison was shaken to
its foundations. All the doors immediately
flew open, and the chains of every
prisoner fell off!
They both prayed and praised, and they
were set free. Clearly from these
examples we see that praise and worship
is not to be taken lightly. The same
measure you give will be measured back
to you.
It all depends on how badly you
want your prayers to be answered! I think
it will go in proportion to length.

The more desperate you need an answer, the
longer you will spend in praise and
worship.

Why are People not Teaching and
Engaging in Praise and Worship More?
In addition to lack of revelation and
understanding, people tend to put more
value on what costs them something.

Praise and worship is the cheapest way to
getting God’s attention but it’s not valued
much because you don’t have to do
much. You just praise!

With prayer, there
is a lot of teaching because it is hard
work. Imagine praying for 30mins. Most
people can’t even go past 5mins! That is
so sad. They would be amazed at anyone
who could go close to an hour. But it’s so
much easier to praise and worship for
15mins. At times that would feel like
2mins!



Make next year a year of praise and
worship. Instead of praying about your
request, praise about it. Get your favorite
Christian group together,
Then play and sing along to them for at
least 30mins. Singing alone
where you know no one can hear you is
easiest.
There is one thing that was not mentioned about the two passages mentioned above. Both events took place
at midnight! That’s the best time to pray,
fast and praise and worship. Why?
Gates and doors open and close at midnight.
You cannot enter into the next day, week,
month or year without passing the
midnight hour. The same is true in the
spirit realm.

thank u so much,GOD bless u.