Worship and Praise

Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him and praise His name.
Psalms 100:4 HCSB

Jesus taught His disciples the Lord's prayer, not to be prayed by rote but as an example. It opens with Our Father, holy is Your name, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The Psalmists, in the above Psalm and others, knew something, the importance of praise and worship.

Rather than only praying when in difficulty we need to come to God regularly with worship and praise, first. When the ancients went into battle, God's people went forth in song led by priests. When faced by insurmounrBle odds praise and worship were imperative to sitting in fear.

Honoring God for who He is and for all He has done is important, it sets our heart into the right frame of reference. When we come before Him with Thanksgiving we have to worship Him just because He is God and He is good. Our circumstances may be screaming "No!" However let's worship Him and see what He will do. Amen!