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Hi, my name is Joe Putnam. Please leave a comment to let us know what you enjoyed from this post. I was very helped to see the difference between thanking and praising the Lord. I was particularly touched with the practice of praising the Lord.
To get out of our situation, drop all our anxieties, and just look unto Him. Not because he has done anything in particular for us although he has done much , not because it benefits us, but simply because He is worthy to be praised. He is the only one that is real! Praise the Lord. A sister sent this to me when I was asking her and others what is the difference between praising and praying… Thank you… Then I thought…Joe Putman in Irvine…that is where my husband and I had hospitality during one conference…many many years ago.
Now sure if the fathers name was Joe or the son. I know I corresponded with the daughter for awhile… Her name started with S. Praise the Lord for who He is.
Thank the Lord for His Body. A very enlightening explanation about the difference between praising and thanking. I never quite looked at the distinctions before. May we appreciate all the riches of His being and praise Him accordingly. Thanks for the comment. We thank the Lord because of what He has done and what He has given to us, but we praise Him for what He is.
We need to always rejoice, unceasingly pray, and in everything give thanks! Also, we need to Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Thank You, Lord! Stefan, You have made the distinction crystal clear: We thank God for what He has done and is doing, and will do. We praise Him for Who and What He is.
Thank you! How encouraging to know that we can get out of our situation just by praising Him. The Lord is worthy of our praise! The difference you have explained helped me to share in the Sunday preaching in the Church. God bless you. Thank you for sharing the benefit you received. Such a view greatly uplifts our prayer life and brings us deeper into the Lord, infusing us with more of His glory 2 Cor.
When we praise the Lord, we transcend our situation to touch the ascended Christ who is far above all our problems and circumstances. Regardless of our feelings or personal situations, we can praise the Lord for what He has done, who He is, and even that He is. Thank You Lord for everything, good or bad. Thank You Lord for You. Praise the Lord for this day. Hallelujah 4thanking and praising of the Lord. All of these that He has done 4 us qualified Him to receive our thanks and praises.
Thank u Lord! I praise your name because you are always gracious, merciful and patient! Teach me to follow your will with all my heart. Thank you brother for sharing these wonderful truths! He is such a marvelous and wonderful Person! He is so much! This is actually d point…. I so understand the whole concept of thanking God and praising him……a wonderful approach to it. I feel good to have know the different between thanking and praising God i thing i should now start praising God more. This really helped me understand more about how to praise and thank th Lord!
Thank you so much for this post. We had a sermon on this 2 Sundays ago and it really got my attention. This is a wonderful follow up for me. I have been trying to learn how to pray better, more appropriately and God has been good to me and has had people like my minister and you show me some true ways to do that.
Thank you very much! Thank you for your post. It is very encouraging to truly praise and thank our wonderful Savior with all that we are! I have always wanted to know how to praise my God.
I would also like to know how to worship him. He is so worthy of our praise! Praise is the expression of our sentiment to God for who He is and what He does, without regard for any benefit He bestows on us. For example, we may praise God for His glory or His wisdom.
Thanks is an expression of our appreciation for what God has done for us. We may thank God for saving us, for forgiving us, even for giving us our food and health. We, the sons of God, do not praise God very much. Usually we simply thank Him.
But when we praise God, we praise Him primarily for what He is or what He does, no matter whether or not we have received any benefits from Him. In praising God you need to forget yourself and get outside of yourself. When you are truly praising God, it seems that you do not exist. You see only God, what He is, and what He does. Therefore, you praise Him and speak well concerning Him…Oh, how we need to learn to praise Him!
This is a great article and i have a question concerning thanksgiving and praise and the question is, is it possible to thank God without praising Him? The line between thanks and praise is quite fine in experience. Some thanks may be in the form of praise. For example, thanking Christ for becoming a man to redeem you unto God is a kind of thanks with the essence of praise. However, some may give thanks in a very elementary way with little appreciation for who they are really thanking. For example, a person may thank God for helping them find something they lost—their keys, or wallet or whatever.
Thanking is mainly an expression of appreciation for what God does.
Praise is our appreciation for who God is…so it is higher. May we continue to advance in our thanks and praise. Thanks for the comment and question. Thank you for this post, it fits right in with what I have been preparing for my congregation on Praise And Thanksgiving in prayer,. Thank You so much for this wonderful article.
May the Lord bless you. I will be using some of your write up for our Sunday school bulletin.
Praise and thanksgiving be unto Thee for Thou hast guided me to the highway of the kingdom, suffered me to walk in this straight and far-stretching path, illumined my eye by beholding the splendors of Thy light, inclined my ear to the melodies of the birds of holiness from the kingdom of mysteries and attracted my heart with Thy love among the righteous. Thanking and praising the Lord are a vital part of the Christian life. The point for this section is to see the many facets or characteristics of the mature believer. During deep worship, thanksgiving is often giving, but this time it is much deeper, as from an Altar of Incense, with the most wholehearted sincerity. What a Christ! For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.
Thank you so much once again. Glad you found the article helpful. Thanking and praising the Lord are a vital part of the Christian life. Giving thanks causes us to be filled with Christ in our spirit Eph. Praising our Lord elevates us above our problems and identifies us with Him as the One Who has won the victory over the enemy and every negative thing Heb.