Reply To: Prayer Basics 2024/2025 Discussion Board 1

[Miriam IfeanyiChukwu]

I agree with you, Bro. Odinachi, you have listed great reasons why praise is important before answers are seen in the physical.
One of the reasons you stated that resonates greatly with me is that praising God before your answers are seen is an act of faith and confidence in God, which is so profound. Naturally, people give thanks when they receive things. So, praising God before the answers come is not natural; it is supernatural, it is faith.
The believer who gives thanks before the physical manifestation of his answers has closed his ears to the “what ifs” of the devil that come in the form of thought bombs and has opened his ears to the Word of God and His promises, and this pleases God (Heb. 11:6).
An example that comes to mind is Jehoshaphat and the children of Israel when three nations came together to make war against them in 2 Chronicles 20. Scriptures say in verses 21-22 that they began to sing praises to God, and God caused the people to war against one another and the people of God got their answers- they were victorious.
God loves it when His children praise Him. Scripture says He inhabits the praises of His people (Psalm 22:3).