When can you praise the Lord most effectively?

Is it in church surrounded by supportive people, or is it in the lonely dark times when it appears there's no reason to praise?

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Wednesday, November 29th.

For the last several sessions, we've been in a series called The Power and Practice of Praise.

If you've been listening along with us, it's probably been easy for you to nod your heads in agreement.

But what about when life happens?

During those dark and difficult seasons, it can be hard to worship God.

But as we'll hear today, it's in the most challenging times that our praise can be the most meaningful.

We've been learning over these last days that praise is important to God.

It's a priority to him, and that it needs to be a priority to us.

We've talked about the power of praise, that praise is the means by which we enter into the presence of the Lord.

It's the means by which God's glory

comes into our lives and fills these temples that we are. We are the temple of God, and when we

praise Him, his glory fills the temple. And we've seen that praise precedes and prepares for deliverance.

That praise is one of our greatest weapons in overcoming the attacks and the

assaults of the evil one. We've seen that praise is a matter of faith. It's something we choose to do.

It's a discipline. It's a choice. It's an act of our will. We praise when we feel like it.

And we need to learn to praise when we don't feel like it. The absence of

praise in our lives is invariably the beginning of a downward slide away from God. In fact, in

Romans chapter 1, where we read about the degradation and the fall of a whole culture. You know where it

starts? It starts with people who forget to be grateful. They forget to honor God as God.

When we forget to praise, we're going to become consumed with self and will ultimately be

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