Praise Prayer

Revelation 15:3 the saved ones stood on the sea of glass. They sang the Song of Moses, servant of God; they sang the Song of the Lamb: 

   Mighty your acts and marvelous, 
      O God, the Sovereign-Strong! 
   Righteous your ways and true, 
      King of the nations! 
   Who can fail to fear you, God, 
      give glory to your Name? 
   Because you and you only are holy, 
      all nations will come and worship you, 
      because they see your judgments are right.

I read a quote today..some ancient Chinese thing. (aren't those quotes always Chinese?) It said "A bird does not sing because he has the answer, he sings because he has a song."

I thought it was nice...specially since I love to sing, and love music. Praise prayer is sometimes sung...it is an act of worship in the highest form.  David, he knew what he was doing..and wrote lots of praise songs to God.  They are almost always written in prayer form.

God loves praise.  Scripture says He "inhabits the praise of His people." that's a fancy term for He is right there when we praise Him.  And He doesn't like it when we praise idols or worship other things. don't get me wrong, He does not "need" our prayers.  Scripture also says the rocks will cry out, all creation sings God's all knowing, mighty, wonderful self. So why praise? Why adoration prayers?

Well for one thing YOU are telling creation that God is great.  God created all kinds of beings.  There are people.  There are also angels.  There are demons.  They are looking at God's church to see what she will do.  Will she deny Him?  Will she praise Him?   What if we are embarrassing our Creator today by denying Him the praise He deserves?  The marvelous mystery that is the blood of Christ should be acknowledged.  The Creator should be praised by the creation. It is the way it works.

so praise prayer is simple.  Tell God what a great God He is. How wonderful it is that He provided a way we could be with Him forever.  (btw..christianity is the only religion that provides a way to be holy..other religions just acknowledge our lack of morality and do not provide a way to fix it!)  Tell Him what a great sunset He made...or how you love this weather, or praise Him for inventing colors. Little or big, He deserves our praise for everything.

Going back to the bird quote...The bird doesn't have the answer, and the bird doesn't just sing because it has a song to sing... The bird sings because it was created to sing.

We were created to praise our Creator.  So lets do what we were created for.