Praise: Give Him the Glory He Deserves
October 17, 2026
Praise is not a warm-up act. It is not what we do while we wait for the real thing to begin. Praise is the real thing — the primary language of a heart that knows who God is and what He has done.
David, who knew both the heights and the valleys of the life of faith, made a declaration in Psalm 86:12: “I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forevermore” (NKJV). Not when things go well. Not when the prayer is answered. Forevermore. Praise as a settled posture, not a seasonal response.
Paul, writing from prison, makes the call in Philippians 4:4: “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!” (NKJV). The repetition is deliberate. Paul knows this is hard. He knows there will be days when the last thing we feel like doing is praising God. He says it twice because he means it twice: always. The praise that rises from a difficult place is not less than the praise that flows easily — it may be the most powerful praise of all.
Why? Because praise does something in the one who gives it. It shifts our focus from the problem to the Problem-Solver. From the size of the storm to the size of the God who speaks to storms. When we begin to rehearse who God is — His faithfulness, His power, His love, His record — our perspective changes. The circumstance may not move immediately. But we are no longer governed by it.
And praise is a witness. When the world sees a believer lift their voice in the middle of hard times, something supernatural happens. It testifies that our hope is not in our circumstances.
Friend, give Him the glory today. All of it. Forevermore.
May praise rise from your heart in every season. Amen.