WHEN ARE WE TO PRAISE YAH?

Psalm chapter 34






Today we are walking in: When Are We To Praise Yah?






Genesis 22:5

And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, H7812 and come again to you.












WORSHIP










Today we look to the word-WORSHIP- H7812 shachah--to bow down; prostrate oneself before superior in homage; before the Most High in worship













The Torah testifies.........……






Genesis 24:26

And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped H7812 the LORD.






Exodus 4:31

And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. H7812









Exodus 34:14

For thou shalt worship H7812 no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:









Deuteronomy 8:19

And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship H7812 them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.













The prophets proclaim..................









Nehemiah 8:6

And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped H7812 the LORD with their faces to the ground.









Nehemiah 9:3

And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped H7812 the LORD their God.









Jeremiah 25:6

And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship H7812 them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.









Zechariah 14:16

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship H7812 the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.












The writings bear witness............






Joshua 5:14

And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, H7812 and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?






1Chronicles 16:29

Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship H7812 the LORD in the beauty of holiness.









2 Chronicles 7:3

And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, H7812 and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever









Psalm 66:4

All the earth shall worship H7812 thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.








Chapter 6


WHEN ARE WE TO PRAISE Yah?


Yah is worthy of our praise all day, every day, no matter what kind of a day it is.


Perhaps you’ve heard the saying that there are two times to praise the Most High: when you feel like it, and when you don’t. Any other time you don’t have to praise Him. The implication is that you are to praise the Most High at all times. This is certainly the message of the psalmist: I will bless Yahuah at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 34:1 את CEPHER


Therefore, praise is to be an everyday part of your life. No matter what’s happening—whether you are having low moments or high moments—your focus is to stay on Yah.


In the Best of Times and the Worst of Times


In other words, Yah is worthy of your praise in the best of times, the worst of times, and all the mundane moments in between.


In the Best of Times


King David dreamed of building a permanent house for the Most High to replace the mobile Tabernacle that had housed the Ark of the Covenant since the days of Moses. The prophet Nathan had even put his stamp of approval on David’s plans. Then the word of the Most High came to Nathan at night,


Go and tell Daviyd my servant, Thus says Yahuah, You shall not build me a house to dwell in: For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Yashar'el unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one Tabernacle to another. Wheresoever I have walked with all Yashar'el, spoke I a word to any of the judges of Yashar'el, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedars? Now therefore thus shall you say unto my servant Daviyd, Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth, I took you from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that you should be ruler over my people Yashar'el: And I have been with you whithersoever you have walked, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth. Also I will ordain a place for my people Yashar'el, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them anymore, as at the beginning, And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Yashar'el. Moreover I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore I tell you that Yahuah will build you a house. And it shall come to pass, when your days be expired that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will raise up your seed after you, which shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build me a house, and I will stablish his throne forever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before you: But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever: and his throne shall be established forevermore. DIVREI HAYAMIYM RI'SHON (1 CHRONICLES) 17:4-14 את CEPHER.


Wow! What a promise! Yah was giving David a house instead of David giving Yah a house. Isn’t this just like our Yah? We plan something great and Yah does something even better. True, David didn’t get to build Yah’s house— his son Solomon did—yet David was so overcome with gratitude to Yah after hearing Nathan’s report that he had his own little praise session:


O Yahuah, there is none like you, neither is there any Elohiym beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. And what one nation in the earth is like your people Yashar'el, whom Elohiym went to redeem to be his own people, to make you a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before your people, whom you have redeemed out of Mitsrayim? For your people Yashar'el did you make your own people forever; and you, Yahuah, became their Elohiym. Therefore now, Yahuah, let the thing that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have said. Let it even be established, that your name may be magnified forever, saying, Yahuah Tseva'oth is the Elohai of Yashar'el, even an Elohiym to Yashar'el: and let the house of Daviyd your servant be established before you. DIVREI HAYAMIYM RI'SHON (1 CHRONICLES) 17:20-24 את CEPHER.


Sometime later, David gave gold and silver for the building of the Temple and asked who would join him in providing for Yah’s house. The leaders of Israel gave willingly and the people rejoiced because of their generous giving. King David, overjoyed by the response of the people, again praised the Most High:


And Daviyd said to all the assembly, Now bless Yahuah Elohaykem. And all the assembly blessed Yahuah Elohai of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped Yahuah, and the king. And they sacrificed sacrifices unto Yahuah, and offered ascending smoke offerings unto Yahuah, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Yashar'el: DIVREI HAYAMIYM RI'SHON (1 CHRONICLES) 29:20-21 את CEPHER.


At some point in the praise and worship, Yah’s presence must have come to His people, for the next verse says, “And did eat and drink before Yahuah on that day with great gladness. And they made Shalomah the son of Daviyd king the second time, and anointed him unto Yahuah to be the chief governor, and Tsadoq to be priest. DIVREI HAYAMIYM RI'SHON (1 CHRONICLES) 29:22 את CEPHER.


Then they acknowledged Solomon as king.


David’s world was certainly right that day. The leaders of the people had given generously for the building of the Temple and had acclaimed Solomon as king. Then Yah’s presence had come, a joy David knew and loved above all else!


Remember, however, that this high was not a chance occurrence. I have to believe that Yah’s coming in the midst of His people was not only prompted by the praise of David and the people, but also by David’s lifestyle of p raise. David never took Yah’s goodness to him for granted. Repeatedly, he told Yah how good He was and how grateful he, David, was for Yah’s many blessings to him.


We would do well to follow David’s example. Yes, we may praise Yah for a specific blessing, but few of us have developed a lifetime pattern of seeing all the good in our life as gifts from the hand of Yah. Praising Yah in the good times—of which there are many more than most of us admit—is an essential ingredient of our praise.


In the Worst of Times


Paul and Silas, on the other hand, were suffering one of life’s low moments. For many days they had been followed by a slave girl who had a spirit that enabled her to tell fortunes. Day after day, she had shouted, “The same followed Pa'al and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of El Elyon, which show unto us the way of yeshu`ah. MA'ASIYM (ACTS) 16:17 את CEPHER. Finally, having had enough of this, Paul commanded the spirit in the name of Yahusha to leave the girl, which it did. The girl’s owners, incensed by their loss of income, then stirred up the crowd and the leaders of the city until Paul and Silas were stripped, beaten, and thrown into jail, where their feet were placed in stocks.


What would most of us have done in such circumstances? We probably would have moaned and groaned about how unfair the events of the day had been. What did Paul and Silas do? They didn’t start complaining about the darkness, the slimy moss on the walls, the stench of the urine in the hole where they had been thrown, or the rats they could hear and feel. Instead, Paul said, “Silas, let’s sing.” They spent the night praying and singing to the Most High—and not in a quiet, subdued manner, either. Their worship service was loud enough for the other prisoners to hear it.


Suddenly, Yah entered the jail through an earthquake, and the cell was too small for Yah to sit down. This is when the doors flew open and the chains dropped to the ground—and not just the chains that had held Paul and Silas in the stocks, either. When Yah moved in, things changed in that whole jail! (See Acts 16.)


What a story! I’m sure that Paul and Silas’ wounds hurt. They could have had quite a pity party. Yet, this was not their response because not only did they recognize their problem, they also knew that Yah was up to dealing with it. Therefore, they did the one thing that would get Yah’s presence into that urine-soaked cell with them. They had a prayer and praise session.


I wonder what kind of prison you are in or what problem threatens to defeat you. It’s easy to complain when you are faced with things that frighten you or circumstances that never seem to get better. Nevertheless, if you want Yah to come into your cell, you must resist the temptation to grumble, murmur, and complain. You have to make the decision to praise Him instead.


Just look beyond your feelings, your fears, and your circumstances to Yah. Praise Him for whatever goodness you have enjoyed from His hand, however small or insignificant it may seem to be. Instead of recalling everything that is wrong in your life, remember everything that is right.


If you will do this—if you will consciously choose to trust Yah and to proclaim His goodness to you—the Lion from the tribe of praise will show up and He will shatter your prison. Not only this, He’ll loosen your chains and dispel your darkness too. No, you may not feel the earth tremble beneath your feet or see doors fly open, but you will find that your attitude and your outlook change as your praise brings His presence into your life. Just try it. Start small if you have to, but start somewhere. Find something in your life to praise Yah for, then open your mouth and create a place for Him to sit with you. You just might be surprised by what He does!


In the Mundane, In-Between Times


Don’t think, however, that you have to be on the mountaintop or in the valley to have your own private praise session. Oftentimes the normal days of our life are the hardest times to praise Yah because there’s nothing in particular to draw our attention to Him. This is why we must get into the habit of praising the Most High. Most of us have habits of murmuring. What would our life be like if we used that same energy to praise Yah? How might our days go if we turned our attention to Him instead of the ball game or the advertisements or the latest best seller?
David talked to himself about Yah all the time. I don’t think we have practiced that enough. We like to sing, “Bless the Most High, O my soul,” but how often do we really do it? (See Psalm 103:1a KJV.) In truth, this phrase is a command to our soul to praise the Most High.


Your soul is your whole self: your will, your emotions, and your intellect. (See Genesis 2:7 KJV.) Therefore, if you are telling your soul to praise Yah, in reality you are commanding your body to respond to all three.


In other words, you first give yourself a talking to and take control over your will, your emotions, and your intellect. Then, once all three are focused on Yah and attentive to Him, your body acts in accordance with the instructions it receives from them. This is why you can still praise Yah when your will is indifferent, your emotions are blah, or your mind is bored. Your body responds with praise because your will, your emotions, and your intellect —under your conscious and attentive control—tell it to do so.


We think we have to have something great in our life before we can praise the Most High. This is a lie! David praised the Most High day in and day out. Whether he messed up or had just won a battle, he talked with Yah about it. He didn’t need some special reason to sing, shout, or dance his adoration. He just did it all the time—even when things were boring and mundane.


PRAISE IS A DAY IN AND DAY OUT RESPONSIBILITY.


You too must develop an attitude where praise becomes your protection all the time as you bring Yah around you. Whether you are typing a letter, loading a truck, taking care of children, or cleaning the house, just keep making melody to the Most High. Sometimes you might be humming a tune. Other times you may need to praise Yah in your mind. Whatever you are doing, you are just going through the whole day with Yah. Don’t wait for something special to happen. Instead, make sure that Yah is with you every day and all day as you keep Him with you through your praise. Then, no matter what happens in your life, Yah is there to handle it.

Every Day and All Day In Public and in Private


Some of us wait until Sabbath on Saturday before we praise Yah, and even then we don’t come with praise and thanksgiving in our heart. Instead we come with our bad feelings and wait for someone to make us feel better.
Maybe you were up all night with the baby, you had a spat with your husband over breakfast, or your kids acted up in the car on the way to Sabbath. Whatever the reason, you come to Sabbath in a bad mood.


The apostle Paul instructs us to have quite a different attitude and disposition:


Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Most High, always giving thanks to Yah the Father for everything, in the name of our Most High Yahusha Hamachiach (Ephesians 5:19-20).


This means that before you get to Sabbath, you are supposed to be praising Yah. Even before you get into the car, you are supposed to have your own private praise service, so that when you join the rest of Yah’s family, you are ready to ascend into Yah’s presence with everybody else.


In essence, when you prepare in private for public praise, you don’t need a worship leader to make you feel like praising Yah. Yes, there is a place for worship leaders in our corporate worship, but it is not their job to make you feel good enough to tell your Daddy how great He is.


IT IS NOT THE JOB OF THE WORSHIP LEADER TO INSPIRE YOU TO PRAISE Yah.


If you have been talking to your own soul throughout the week the way you are supposed to be, you won’t need anyone to get your attention and stir you up. You will already be eager and ready to go. In fact, you will be like David, who said, I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of Yahuah. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 122:1 את CEPHER.

David rejoiced when the doors of Yah’s house were open and he could go in. He was excited to worship with Yah’s people. The same should be true for you. Your worship in
private throughout the week should prepare you for worship with your brothers and sisters in Hamachiach.


In essence, all of us are worship leaders because we are temples of the Most High (see 1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19). What we do in our own house affects what we do with everybody else. When we sanctify our house through righteous praise at home, we are then ready to sanctify the whole place when we come together.


Therefore, be careful not to come expecting something great in your public praise and worship if you haven’t had an individual meeting with Yah first. Praise in your private life is what brings power and authority to your public experience.


David had no problem dealing with Goliath because he had a worship service behind the mountain before he went out to meet the enemy. His instructions and encouragement from Yah gave him the courage he needed to fight a man who was nine to ten feet tall. (See 1 Samuel 17.) Moreover, David’s pattern of private worship had given him the opportunity to see Yah’s work on his behalf in the past. Therefore, he had the confidence to trust Yah again in these new circumstances.


Few of us operate from this perspective. If we functioned as David did, we would have a worship service at home before we go to the bank to get a loan. Most of us go for the loan first and cry to Yah if we don’t get it. On the other hand, if the loan comes through, we praise Yah for the moment, then go back to life as usual.


I’m telling you, friends, your life would be quite different if you praised Yah before you met a challenge. Just try it. Have a private worship service in your home before you go to work. Put on some music that draws you into praise and worship, then spend some time with Yah before you walk out the door. Don’t listen to the news before you go to work. Listen to Yah. Then He will fill your day with Himself because you started your day with Him.


LISTEN TO Yah, NOT THE NEWS, BEFORE YOU LEAVE YOUR HOUSE IN THE MORNING.

Many times the Most High works all day to get into your life because you didn’t give Him the day in the beginning. He watches you go through your struggles and says, “My goodness! How I wish I could get into your day, but there’s no place for Me to sit. You haven’t praised Me, so there’s no place for My presence to be enthroned.”


Directly to Yah and Indirectly to Others


Praise is how we make room for Yah in our life. Sometimes our praise is offered directly to Yah, which is probably what we are most familiar with. We magnify and extol Him by speaking or singing our praise to Him as David did in Psalm 9:


I will praise you, O Yahuah, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvellous works. I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O El Elyon. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 9:1-2 את CEPHER.


Not all our praise is to be direct, however. Yah also wants us to praise Him indirectly. This happens when we commend Yah and express our approval of Him to others.


Yah wants you to share with others what He is doing in your life. No matter how insignificant His activity in your life may seem to be to you, talk about it. Announce to your friends, family, and coworkers how He has sustained you and brought you through a difficult time. Testify to Yah’s goodness and to what He has been doing for you. This is how He receives glory and honor.


Most of us tell people about our problems, complaints, dislikes, and misunderstandings. We are much more likely to murmur and clamor than to speak of the Most High’s goodness to us. How sad! We are no different from the children of Israel who murmured their way through the wilderness and failed to recognize Yah’s blessings and to give Him credit for everything He had done for them. Indeed, they were so disgruntled that they wanted to go back to Egypt, the land of their slavery!


Yah doesn’t want you to have such an attitude. He wants you to see and proclaim the difference He has made in your life. Again, David is a good example of a man who did this. (No wonder Yah saw him as a man after His heart!) His praise was contagious because he wasn’t content to praise Yah by himself. When he went to the Tabernacle, he wanted everybody else to praise Yah too.


I will bless Yahuah at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in Yahuah: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify Yahuah with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought Yahuah, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and Yahuah heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 34:1-6 את CEPHER.


David wanted everybody to know what Yah had done for him, and he wasn’t shy about asking others to join Him in glorifying and exalting Yah.


We readily gossip about everything else. Now it’s time that we gossip about the Most High’s doings in our lives: “Did you hear what Yah did for so-and-so? He’s just telling everyone—and he’s telling them to tell even more people!”


Please stop reading a moment and really think about this. Wouldn’t it be great if every time we saw each other we shared something good of what the Most High has done for us? How our conversation and our attitudes would change! Surely we would see even more of Yah’s activity, since when we praise Him to others, He becomes excited to do the same thing again, and even more!


Sing a New Song Every Day


This is what the Scriptures mean by singing a new song:


Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 33:3 את CEPHER.


O sing unto Yahuah a new song: sing unto Yahuah, all the earth. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 96:1 את CEPHER.


Halleluyah. Sing unto Yahuah a new song, and his praise in the assembly of the chaciyd. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 149:1 את CEPHER.


Our new song is to be a song of all that Yah has done for us. It is based on our experience with Him.


David did this on a regular basis. Because he was always seeing Yah at work in his life, his song came out of the latest thing Yah had done for him.


O sing unto Yahuah a new song; for he has done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, has gotten him the victory. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 98:1 את CEPHER.


I waited patiently for Yahuah; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our Elohiym: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahuah. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 40:1-3 את CEPHER


Yah wants such praise from you as well. He is tired of hearing the same old testimonies you have shared repeatedly. In fact, if you’ll listen, you’ll hear Him asking you, “Do you have to tell the same old story again? Haven’t I done anything for you since that wonderful time?”


Truly, your most effective testimony is to brag to other people about what Yah has done for you this week. Tell
people what He did just yesterday, or even this morning. Then your song will always be new.


YOUR MOST EFFECTIVE TESTIMONY IS TO BRAG ABOUT WHAT Yah DID FOR YOU THIS MORNING.


This is what the children of Israel did when Yah drowned Pharaoh and all his army. Moses started singing, and his sister, Miriam, picked up a tambourine and led the women in a victory procession, singing and dancing before the Most High.


THEN sang Mosheh and the children of Yashar'el this song unto Yahuah, and spoke, saying, I will sing unto Yahuah, for he has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea. Yah is my strength and song, and he is become my yeshu`ah: he is my El, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father's Elohai, and I will exalt him. Yahuah is a man of war: Yahuah is his name. Phar'oh's chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. Your right hand, O Yahuah, is become glorious in power: your right hand, O Yahuah, has dashed in pieces the enemy. And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble. And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. You blew with your Ruach, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. Who is like unto you, O Yahuah, among the elohiym? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them. SHEMOTH (EXODUS) 15:1-12 את CEPHER.


Do you see what the Israelites sang? Detail by detail, they told the story of what Yah had done for them. Indeed, they had a big celebration because they were certain that the events they had just witnessed were evidence of Yah’s protection and of His love for them. Therefore, they weren’t afraid or ashamed to sing and dance before Him or to pass the song on to their kids, who told their kids, who told their kids, until we read it ourselves today in the Bible.


This song and dance of praise is not an isolated incident. The Scriptures are filled with testimonies to the goodness and greatness of Yah. Indeed, you can tell what Yah did by what the p eop le sang. Nevertheless, not all these testimonies are joyous. Some show that Yah’s activity did not always bring celebration. Consider, for example, Psalm 137:


BY the rivers of Babel, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Tsiyon. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Tsiyon. How shall we sing Yahuah's song in a strange land? TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 137:1-4 את CEPHER


We see here that Yah’s people had nothing to sing about because they hadn’t seen Yah work in their lives for a long time. Their disobedience had brought His judgment on them and had taken them into exile far away from Jerusalem and the Temple that was Yah’s dwelling place. So they hung up their instruments and refused to sing.
This should not be true for you—unless, of course, you too are in exile because of persistent sin and iniquity in your life. You may sometimes want to recount those high points in your life when He really came through for you, but be careful you don’t get hung up there. No new songs might lead people to believe that Yah hasn’t done anything for you lately—and you know that’s not true!


Every single day you should have a new song to sing before the Most High and to share with others. This is how it is with praisers. Songs just show up because Yah’s presence comes and stays. His anointing flows naturally through those who have learned to see and testify to His goodness. These songs of the Most High don’t have to be worked up, because they flow from the present moment, from the intimate experiences between Yah and His people. Such praise also keeps and seals the reality of those times with Him.


Therefore, if you want Yah’s presence in your life, learn to be a praiser. Don’t keep silent about His many benefits. Make it your purpose to find something new to sing to the Most High about every day. No matter what your circumstances are, surely you can find at least one praiseworthy thing each day. Then, when Yah sees your gratitude toward Him and your habit of celebrating His goodness to you, He’ll come and stay with you. He’ll make every day a blessing as He enjoys your attention and takes pleasure in your joy in Him.


In essence, Yah wants you to be bragging about your heavenly Daddy all the time. If you aren’t, it just may mean that He isn’t your Father yet. You haven’t made the connection. You haven’t established the relationship.
When Yah becomes your Father, praise becomes a natural part of your life. You don’t have to think about it. Praise just naturally flows from your lips because you are seeing your Daddy’s handiwork all the time and you just can’t help telling Him how thankful you are that He is in your life.


You are like a child who can’t wait to hear his dad’s special whistle when he comes home from work. When the child hears the whistle, it doesn’t matter what he is doing, he has to see Dad as fast as he can. So, he runs and flings open the door. Then he clings to his father, talking the whole time about everything that has happened in his day.


PRAISE IS TO BE AS NATURAL AND COMMON TO YOU AS BREATHING.


This is the way it should be with you and Yah. It doesn’t matter who else is around, or what they may be doing or thinking, when you sense the presence of your heavenly Daddy, you have eyes and ears for nothing and no one else. Your praise bubbles up from within you just because He is there. Times may be good; times may be bad. This does not change your relationship with your Daddy. Once you have found the secret dwelling place of Yah in the midst of your praise, you go to Him day in and day out because there is no place you would rather be. His presence has become your true home, the environment for which you were created.


PRINCIPLES


1. You don’t need a special reason to praise Yah.


2. Every moment of every day is a suitable time for
praise.


3. A lifestyle of praise teaches you to see and trust
Yah’s work in your life.


4. Private praise prepares you for public praise and
worship .


5. Private praise prepares you for public victory.


6. Praise in the beginning of the day gives Yah room
to handle whatever comes your way in the rest of the day.


7. Praise may be both direct and indirect.


8. When you commend Yah to others, you are praising Him indirectly.


9. Complaining destroys the atmosphere created by praise.


10. Your new song every day keeps Yah’s presence with you.