Psalm 28:7 says, “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise Him.”

Psalm 148 starts and ends with, “Praise the Lord!”

Psalm 22:3 says that the Lord inhabits our praise

In 2 Chronicles 20:22, when they began to praise, the Lord set ambushes and defeated their enemies

Praise is our strategic weapon of warfare

I was thinking about praise. Animals shake off the stress after they have escaped a predator

Praise is God’s way for us to shake off the stress of adversity

Stress, even caused from negative thoughts, takes our body into fight flight or freeze. Harm!

Sympathetic. Calm is rest and digest. Parasympathetic. No harm!

Remember Paul. He shook off the viper that latched onto his hand. No harm!

Praise takes our focus off the adverse situation onto the Lord