You need to have praise in your heart all the time, but it doesn't just have to stay in your heart.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Are you opening your mouth?

Are you opening your lips?

Are you speaking, singing, telling the goodness, the greatness of the Lord?

It's Friday, November 24th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Your husband can show you love in all sorts of ways by buying you gifts, working around the house, holding your hand.

Yet sometimes it's nice to hear him just come out and say, I love you.

Well, when's the last time you opened your mouth to express love and praise to God. Here's Nancy to help us consider

that question. I had an unusual experience that turned into quite a blessing. A number of years

ago when I was traveling and I was spending the night in a friend's home. The friends were also hosting a pastor

and his wife from Nigeria, and they were visiting here in the States, staying as guests in the same

home. Well, I went to bed, and in the middle of the night, I was awakened by a sound unlike anything I had ever heard before.

In the bedroom next to mine, that Nigerian couple was singing.

Now, we're talking the middle of the night.

They were singing at the top of their lungs, I mean loudly, with a very heavy accent, slowly singing, how great thou art.

I didn't see them, I don't know if they were standing up or upright in their beds or what they were doing, but they were singing together in the middle of the night, how great

thou art with this very thick accent. You know, that couple who I had never met before and I've

never seen since illustrate a lot of important truths about praise. They were not spectators when it comes to praise. They were right there on the stage,

actively participating in what is a great eternal drama of praise, where we are called to be

participants. They were performing for an audience of one. For God, they didn't know anybody else was listening. Had they

known, I don't think they would have cared. You know, so many of us have this different than that

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