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OKECHUKWU C. VITUS
A
THERAPY
OF
PRAISE
A CHRISTIAN’S SOURE OF PEACE, JOY AND HEALTH
GIFTED HANDS
OKECHUKWU C. VITUS
First published, in 2015
A THERAPY OF PRAISE
Copyright © 2015 by OKECHUKWU C. VITUS
ISBN: 978-978-898-0918-IX
Except otherwise indicated, all scriptures quotation are taken from New King James Version (NKJV).
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CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: PRAISE TO GOD IS MANDATELY
CHAPTER TWO: UNDERSTANDING WHAT THERAPY IS
CHAPTER THREE: A THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER FOUR: A THERAPY OF PRAISE AS A HEALING BALM TO ALL PROBLEMS OF LIFE
CHAPTER FIVE: PHYSICAL CRITERIA TO SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER SIX: SPIRITUAL CRITERIA TO SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER SEVEN: WHO NEEDS A THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER EIGHT: OBSTACLES TO SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER NINE: FROM THERAPY OF PRAISE TO PRAISE THERAPIST
CHAPTER TEN: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER ELEVEN: PRACTICAL DAILY THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER TWELVE: END POINT OF THERAPY OF PRAISE
PREFACE
As a bible student and as lover of God’s word, I have heard the story of David and Saul and the music that David played for Saul. It was recorded that when ever Saul fails ill David would pray his harps (music) and Saul would get well. David devoted praise to God for Saul’s sake and Saul was made whole. Grief, anger, sorrow, self dreams, negative thoughts, wickedness, hopelessness, unemployment are diseases that had no medical cure which only being alone with God in praise devotion can heal. Devotion, sacrifice of praise for the treatment of the mind, body and the soul is a therapy of praise.
As a young man I take time to talk to God as a friend. He had been more than good time. I have found several occupations and I wish to make a fortune in the gospel arena just as David got a job in the house of Saul. Praise gave him a job and in the end a kingship position. David was given from the praises he had given to Almighty God.
Beloved do not be deceived to know that if you spend ten hours a day listening to praise, and you have no intention of becoming a gospel musician that you are suffering from idleness and needs a therapy of praise. If reading is you hobby and you read for ten hours a day and you don’t have any intention writing; please go and find out what pushes you into reading and deal with it. It may be the past, failure, hopelessness, unemployment, loneliness. The moment you deal with this, you may not even desire reading again.
This book is not written for the idle man or woman. This book is written because in everyone of us is either a disturbing spirit, an enemy that needs to be destroyed, a wall that needs to fail, a prison door that God needs to open, alone needs to be alone with you in praise and worship. When you spend at least an hour in devotion to praise for joy. Peace and healing then, you are at the door of God’s mercy and provision. Dear, reader everything in life is not medicine, God had provided a therapy of praise so that every cells, nerves of yours will hear the word of God and obey and the rest of the story is you joy, peace, over flow of miracles and joy.
OKECHUKWU C. VITUS
INTRODUCTION
As a Christian counselor, it is a thing of poly to note that join among the medicines that God had provided for healing of the body and soul, praise was not mentioned. Every forms of food had been mentioned for healing of body and soul but not praise. Love therapy is a therapy that helps a child of God to love his God, love himself, and be able to love others. God created the herbs from the trees and helped man to create ways of using it as a healing. Soon, the white medicine was discovered. Readers, there is a part of God’s provision for our healing. There are unforeseen herbs and medicines that God had provided for man’s salvation. Hope is one of them. Faith is one of such medicine. Abraham had it and was able to have a child of his own at old age. Faith is God’s medicine to believe that tomorrow will be better than today.
And God provided praise to all mankind. I will tell you the truth. Praise is not just a connection to God. Praise is God’s medicine for the cure of sadness, lack of joy, worry, anxiety, insomnia, stress, hopeless conditions of life. All other thoughts. A therapy of praise is needed for the healing of the broken heart. A therapy of praise is God’s provision for enlightenment and joy. How, often would you car to be anywhere until, you come alone to God all powerful with a therapy of praise. The world of God says: “serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing”.
I will reveal one secret thing to you my dear reader, every problems of life, starts with a negative thought or positive unrealizable thoughts without God in it. Excess thought breeds worry, and stress, and then fatigue and then pains and the rest is a story of body failure and probable death. A therapy of praise is God’s food supplement, excessive supplement for joy and peace and miracles. Joy breads alone with God, when your heart is without worry and peace will fall. This physical and spiritual supplement of praise from God has no side effects, just like other medicines created by mankind praise were not provided to mankind in vain. God provided praise as a solution to life crisis.
Proverbs 17:22 says,
“A merry heart doeth good like a-medicine: but a broken spirit driest the bones”.
You probably had read of the story of the fall of Jericho and the devoting of praise that was administered. God made his children do exercise by going round the walls of Jericho and praising him the praise given to God with legs, voice, trumpets was not an ordinary praise, it was a therapy of praise.
Two men were locked up in prisons as they know their death is near. One of their members has been completely God’s enemy. And was caught by God. They knew that if care is not taken, they would be executed soon, they began to give to God all the praise. Praising God even when in danger is a sacrifice of praise. Soon, there was a miracle and they were set free.
Has everything failed you? Are you in trial of doing the works of God? No circumstances can weigh you down if you are alone with Christ. You may not have witnessed what music does to the system of man. You may not have had time to listen to good music. Do you need joy of God to crept back in your family, into your business, into everything you do, then. Engage yourself and the family in a therapy of praise. You can engage your workers with a therapy of praise.
Some Christian children of God whom had enjoyed a therapy of praise had gone round the world with praise as gospel musicians. A therapy of praise prepared them towards their destinies as praise therapists and they were earning honest wage as a gospel musicians. Unemployment died the day that David became Saul’s musician, including idle job or unpaid job. I pray that soon a therapy of praise will be held everywhere, in the school, at home, hospital, prisons, and other places.
CHAPTER ONE
PRAISE TO GOD IS MANDATORY
Praise to God is seen by many Christian children of God that in so many ways. You should note in everything you do, you should note that praise to God is mandatory and not a voluntary action. You may be asking why “praise to God should be made mandatory for every child of God”. It is important to let you know first the meaning of praise, if you are ready, let go……
One thing acceptable in the definition of praise that is prevalent is that “good dead” had been done to somebody to whom there is “need to thank the doer or the giver”. Everything that a child of God has or has given unto you is given to him or her by a supreme being, God. We praise people for doing what is good and worthy of being praised. Praising human being occurs when they had done good things for us. Yet, men can help today and forget you the next day, but there is God whose blessings last for a life time whose blessings, you cannot do without. They are the blessings of God whom all praise and adoration is made to. You do not need to be told; he alone described all the praise. We praise God for so many reasons but one thing is very certain to every child of God, if a Christian child of God praises God for his provisions and blessings only then can God do more for the said child of God. You have to give to God all the glory to be certain that you are not divided from the worship of God. Praise is more than a devolution to God. It is a way to which a child of God show how loyal and how much appreciations he had for the things of God.
Praising God helps you to life up your heart to God in worship. Praise helps a child of God to worship, adore, reverence God more God should be praised alone without objection. Before, you are begged to praise God, in this book, you must be made to understand that praising God is not an involuntary action. Praise to God is a daily activity and a mandatory action; you should never fail to do everyday or your life.
Praise to God is mandatory for you and I for the following reasons: you have heard Christians being fellow Christians to please give praise to God. Today, we would take another approach towards telling you why you should willingly praise God….
LIFE: The life you have is not your product. You are not your productions and make like your God. If you accepted withy your while heart that it’s God who created the while universe and you then giving praise to God is mandatory not optional. You had heard the story of the rich fool and what God did to him. This at least says there is no God. It is God who created Adam and Eve and everything that is on earth. Doctors do not give life and you as a Christian child of God. You had parents who had you and when you grow up, God gave you the chance to have children. You don’t need to be informed that all this are of the work of God. For this it is written in the bible in Palm 127:3 says, “Lo-children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward”.
HOLINESS: Psalm 23:3 – says “But thou are holy, o thou that inhabitant the praises of Israel”. From this verse, you would have grasped some points that only God is holy and wants us to be Holy. He had set a standard for his children to live a worthy and standard life in him, and for this praising God who is all holy and worthy a mandatory for only through him for you be made holy. Praise God who is ever holy for your own holiness which is to come from him only.
Praise to God is mandatory for you and I for the following reasons: you have heard Christians being fellow Christians to please give praise to God. Today, we would take another approach towards telling you why you should willingly praise God…
LIFE: The life you have is not your product you are not your productions and make like your God. If you accepted with your whole heart that its God who created the whole universe and you then giving praise to God is mandatory not optional you had heard the story of the rich fool and what God did to him he atheist says there is no God. It is God who created Adam and Eve and every thing that is on earth. Doctors do not give life and you as a Christian child of God. You had parents who had you and when you grow up, God gave you the chance to have children you don’t need to be informed that all this are of the work of God. For this it is written in the bible in Palm 127:3 says, “lo-children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward”.
HOLIYNESS: Psalm 23:3 says “But thou are holy, o thou that inhabits the praises of Israel”. From this verse, you would have grasped some points that only God is holy and wants us to be Holy. He had set a standard for his children to live a worthy and standard life in him, and for this praising God who is all holy and worthy a mandatory for only through him for you be made holy. Praise God who is ever holy for your own holiness which is to come from him only.
BLESSINGS: God said to Abraham, “Get thee out of thee country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that will show thee: And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and make they name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that cursed thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed, (Genesis 12:1-3).
Whose blessings do you desire for your everyday living? Are the blessings of men? You of course had heard that the blessings that men gives with sorrows and pain. God gives his blessings to you and it comes without living which comes without sorrow and pain, then you must praise God for the blessings you have enjoyed from him, so that you will fit and worthy to receive more blessings from God who is all worthy and capable of giving more blessings as he had given to Abraham.
YOUR SPIRITUAL NEED: “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth: for the father seeketh such to worship him,” (John 4:23). In (Psalm 62:1-12) it says, “my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation”. You need to praise God for the salvation that he has given to you or you are deemed.
ORGANS: Everything in your body is God’s creators. God gave you your organs to use to praise him. A brain to think and reason of this goodness and mercy, a hand to dap and work, a body to dance and walk to the church and to work, a mouth to speak out of God’s goodness to all children of God. You should praise God for the ability to use the organs that he had given unto you for your survival, for the daily bread he head given you through the working of your hands.
THE EARTH: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”. (Genesis 1:1-2). In this verse, you have gotten the evidence of who created the earth and everything in it. God created the earth and gave you dominion over it and not the earth dominion over you. The animal did not have dominion over you. You are made superior to all the things that God has created and God asked you to manage them and make them grow, for this thanking God is mandatory.
JOY: Psalm 30:11, “Thou last turned form my mourning into dancing: and thou last put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness”. Luzeph aniah 3:17. It says; the LORD thy God in the midst of thee is highly; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing”. True by comes from God and not from man, for this going God praise is a duty God deserves from you, because true joy of God is the health of your body, and soul.
PEACE: His only God that gives the peace that surpass as understanding of men. If you desired the peace of God in your life, in all you endeavors, in you family, in your relationships, in your careers, in your daily activity then praising God is mandatory for the peace that men gives are not without sorrows.
FAITH: Praising God for today and tomorrow helps you boost the faith that you had for God. It helps you to develop hope and believe in the things of God, to be with God no matter the condition that you find yourself.
FULFILLMENT: God has brought about so many things spirit and body needs for your fulfillment God gave you the ability to dream. God has his own definition of dreams just like he had given to Joseph in a foreign land. He always gave a vision as he had presented to Jeremiah. God has in this two personality shown that he has already “DESIGNED A BEGINNING AND A GOOD END TO BRING YOU TO AN EXPECTED END”. He therefore asks you to choose them and choose life, and you did, and had a fulfilled life just like Joshua, Joseph, Jeremiah, then “PRAISING GOD IS NOT OPTIONAL, IT IS MANDATORLY”.
HEALTH: Health and heading are God’s gifts to his children you would not understand it as a child of God until you fall sick and you are given a bed at the hospital. God gave you health from the very beginning. For this, you should be grateful to God fast like men of old did, so that health upon health should be added unto you. You should praise the God who made you healthy. For your health you must praise God.
GOD’S WORD: “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word,” (John 1) God has given his words and they are life. And in his words, God deserved your praise and demanded it, and if you are not praising God, you are making God a liar and you ends up becoming a disobedient child of God.
CHAPTER TWO
UNDERSTANDING WHAT THERAPY IS
A therapy is seen as the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis. In medical field, therapy is synonymous with treatment. The term may the referred to as psycho therapy. As a religious counselor, and partly an educational counselor, therapy counseling is a form of therapy administered by a professional counselor in the field best known to him or her. A therapy can take place anywhere depending to what it intends to provide to a given problems of life. There are several forms of therapy such as preventive, prophylactic, abortive, consolidation, supportive, salvage, investigational therapy. A therapy is the healing power or quality.
There are so many list of therapies used counselor’s of several careers of life, a medical doctor is a counselor in the medical field and an educational counselor in the field of education, and a man of God in the field of God’s people.
Family therapy: This therapy is used to mend family problems, stop divorce, mend broken families, and bring pence, joy, love and health to the family.
Adventure Therapy: This therapy is to help people with loss of memory through adventures to a place they have gone before recognize sights and come back to reality.
Water therapy: This therapy is done early in the morning before eating, before eating, to stop dryness of body and help in digestion of food. A body without water ends up becoming dehydrated.
Diversion Therapy: This is the therapy that Pavlov did on learning and came out with theory of learning. For this, learning is increased in the pupil, student by this strategy, everyday by day and it reduces school failures in exams.
Color Therapy: This is a therapy to understand the treatment of eye problems by use of colors, for this, the said the person had to identify a lot of colors and speak out the differences as he/she hold seen it.
Counseling: This is the work of a professional counselor who takes time to speak to a pupil/student over a given problem, and then put them at ease which means successful completing of school.
School Therapy: This earlier is thoroughly done by professional educational counselors who encourage students to desire being in school and be able to finish a grade or section of education successfully.
Dance Therapy: A dance therapy is a body movement therapy. A dance therapy helps in exercise of the body and it is creative. Some had gotten employed with a dance therapy.
Sleep Therapy; This therapy is a cure over stress, insomnia, worry and pain, for they sleep the body and the spirit is at rest which makes the person healthier when he or she wakes up.
Drama Therapy: This is the use of actions and works to deliver important message. In Drama therapy given social oil is addressed and solved using metrons and words while the audience watched, grasp the point, learn, and were happy.
Information: This is the cure to ignorance and that is the work of education. Education therefore tends to fill an individuals heart with knowledge that drives away ignorance.
Light Therapy: The light therapy is used by eye doctor’s to treat eye problems, and to test the patient’s ability to see things properly or not properly.
Massage Therapy: This is strategy is the action rubbing, kneading on hitting somebody’s body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action as in contact sports or to relieve ashes.
Respiratory Therapy: This strategy has to do with the breathing of human beings, in this a person is expected to breathe in and breathe over a checked period of times.
Respiration Therapy: This strategy has to do with the breathing of human beings, in this a person is expected to breathe in and breathe out over a checked period of items.
Sound Therapy: Sound therapy is used to check some one recognize different sounds. It is near to the music therapy and leads to therapy of praise.
Salt Therapy: This is the use of salt to recognize taste of an individual, not only salt is used, sugar, water will also be administered; the ability of the patient to notice each of other is the strategy aims.
Humanist Therapy: A humanist therapy is used to bring back people, victims of war, crime and other social problems back to reality and to appreciation of other fellow human being and to right with the law and with God.
Energy Therapy: This therapy is used and encouraged as a means of boosting energy through overall means to which secrecies and training is a good tool to boost energy ad eating of Good food.
Drug Therapy: This therapy is given to patients who are edited to drugs, patients and people who had abused drugs in several ways and need to be counseled on their drug in take.
Group Therapy: This therapy is needed to help a team achieve its objectives especially where there are several divisions, thrives, religions, careers, understanding among the said group or organization.
Insulin shock therapy: This is a therapy for sugar patients by in taking of insulin once or twice a week. This therapy is provided for the management of diabetes.
Life enrichment therapy: This therapy is needed to boost the fallen standard of life of an individual or people, by provision of jobs, careers and life enrichment support programmes.
Ply therapy: Play therapy is almost the same as drama therapy, only that the child or adult is expected to fully participate in the play as to interact with others and be useful to himself and others.
Rejection Therapy: This therapy is used to help a child of God reject what is not good and accept all the good things that God has presided for the welfare of the child of God.
Writing therapy: This therapy takes care of children’s writing problems and helps them master the art of writing. It cures idleness also.
Music Therapy: This is aimed at using music to solve life problems. This music therapy is a mind diversion therapy aimed at taking away a person’s mind from what disturbs it and fills it with substance of joy and relief. It is this present therapy, combined with almost all the therapy mentioned above to bring us to the point of therapy of praise, which you need as a child of God for your everyday living.
CHAPTER THREE
A THERAPY OF PRAISE
A therapy of praise is formed from the term, of music therapy. A therapy of praise is more than just hearing the gospel of God. It is a willing devotion to praise. A praise therapy or a therapy of praise is the use of interventions to accomplish individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a professional who had completed an approved praise, therapy programmed. A therapy of praise is a Christian allied health profession, and one of the expressive therapies, consisting of a process in which praise made solely to God is used to help children of God physically, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritually in all their endeavors of life.
A therapy of praise involves inviting God in your praise making for the peace, joy and health of your body and soul. A therapy of praise is a sacrifice of praise, praising God in all situations of life. A therapy of praise is the medicine for grief and sadness. In the words of Dr. Don Meon is a trail therapist praise and worship are therapeutic, they contribute to our mental and physical wellness. They are effective treatment for anxiety, depression, nervousness, phobias, despair, insomnia, and many other psychological and physical problems.
When people come to me for Christian guide and counseling I prescribed a therapy of praise for a troubled heart which goes on like this, listen to praise music at least one hour a day, and spend at least thirty minutes a day worshiping God.
The word of God says, “a cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones”, Proverb 17:22. Therefore a praise oriented person will enjoy better physical health. In the words of learn to, turn your eyes upon Jesus look full in his wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of his glory and grace. A therapy of praise is the healing balm, costless healing balm provided by God to his children, for all you need for a therapy of praise is sing and dance to the glory of God who made you in his image.
Praise (music) has been used as a healing force for centuries. Praise is the ancient Greek god of music and of medicine. Plato said praise affects emotions and character of an individual. Aristotle said praise affects the soul, and it purifies the soul. Praise therapy is practiced in the bible when David played the harp to rid king Saul of a bad spirit. A therapy of praise began after math the world wars I and II, when particularly in the United Kingdom, musicians are need to play music for soldiers suffering war related emotional and physical trauma.
The fall of the wall of Jericho is more than an ordinarily praise, remember the children of God have to walk around the city seven times, therefore doing Godly exercise and praising God, and with shouts of praise continued with trumpets, harps, the wall of Jericho failed down flat. You probably have known of Paul and Silas and they prayed and singed even in the midst of destruction and the holy spirit came down.
If you have ever taken the dosage of praise for healing and health, you will confirm with the author that when a praise devoted to God is prayed, the spirit of God comes to the spirit of the hearer and to the body and gave it harmony that the body and spirit can be one. What happens afterwards is that the cells, the nerves, the bones, the skin, the brain, the legs, the digestive systems, the eyes, the mouth and other organs in the body will hear the word of God and will obey. The rest of the story is joy, peace, health, victory and others.
“Keep your eyes on the world and you will be distressed. Keep your eyes on yourself and you will be depressed, keep your eyes on Jesus and you will be at rest”.
A therapy of praise is the exercise that your body and soul needs for your every day successful living. As you are dancing and meditating on praise everyday you are doing exercise, to your body and soul. The body fats, calories, and unwanted water, sugar and salt in your body will hear the word of God and give way for your health and everything that you desired from God. A therapy of praise is the healing power of praise that God provides for his children soon. A therapy of praise involves all other therapies, such it can help set cognitive motor skills, emotional developments social skills, and quality of life of a child of God by praise experiences such as listening, singing, discoursing, dancing.
A therapy of praise is God’s provision for joy, peace and health, for every Christian child of God. A therapy of praise if well done will give you a career and a job and take you away from unemployment to self employment. God’s people as a gospel minister, gospel musician and in our term as Christian counselors, we prefer to call a gospel musician a praise therapist.
CHAPTER FOUR
A THERAPY OF PRAISE AS A HEALING BALM TO ALL PROBLEMS OF LIFE
UNHAPPINESS: Unhappiness is the feeling of not being happy. A Christian child of God who is unhappy is not happy and is sad, not satisfied, unsatisfied, not delighted. For a child of God to be unhappy something must have caused it, but the intention of the therapy of praise is to bring back happiness to the child of God. A therapy of praise is a mind thought diversion. For this, when a child of God is having place, his or her mind is diverted from the present disturbances and taken to the presence of God, who will give it peace and joy. To use a therapy of praise for unhappiness, find the gospel praise that you loved hearing. This will help take away your mind from everything that disturbs it to God. You must be made to know that if you loved no gospel praise of God and praise devoted to God that you as a child of God needed more than a therapy of praise.
LACK OF PEACE: Peace is a state of tranquility, quite, and harmony. It is a state of free oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions. Peace signifies harmony in personal relations, state free of war, in particular war between different countries. There is a kind of peace. That the world gives and the kind of peace that God gives. What does a therapy of praise does to give you peace of body and soul. When you are having a successful therapy of praise you are not thinking of any other thing but God. The God whom you are alone comes to your spirit and give harmony to your spirit and soul and you shall experience a calm and peace that God gives to his children. Everything in your body- the cells, the nerves will hear the word of God. God has a thought for you, they are the thoughts of peace to bring you an expected end.
You must have peace as a purpose or intention, and purpose of having a therapy of praise and get it fulfilled. Romans 15:13 said of peace of God, “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, thou the power of the Holy Ghost”.
EXCESS THOUGHTS: A child of God who thinks of a particular thing for a longer time is said to have excess thought, so is a child of God who thinks too much. Be remained that you can never have peace of mind if you are divided at every given activities of your life and decided, between God and flesh. This dividedness increase your thought and lack of peace you should be rightly reminded that all the problems that Christian children starts from what they think and it leads to headache and spread to the while body, and if care is not taken it may lead to a child of God having a high Blood pressure. A therapy of praise helps you to think more of God who makes all things possible. A therapy of praise will make you not stop thinking but thinking more of God and the good things that God can do for you and you can have peace, joy and health start haring a therapy of peace to divert your mind from everything that disturbs your life and you shall surely have peace.
DEPRESSION: a state of mind producing, long term lowering of enjoyment of life and inability to visualize a happy future. Depression is a period of unhappiness which last longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self injury. My dear child of God, the only guide to depression solving is a therapy of praise. It is a long lasting increasing of Godly enjoyment of life. A therapy of praise is a joy inducement therapy. The Christian counselor cannot afford to give a therapy. Beloved, develop love for God, love yourself, love this things of God, love your family and what you do for a living. The Godly way, love to always read the word of God, make out time for praise devotions pat the praise on. Be alone with God that you hear of in the praise. Surrender that depressed you to God. Consider yourself luck to be among the living. Never forget to also dance to the praise that you are having.
PRAYERLESSNESS: A prayer less child of God lacks the key to correction with God. A child of God who does not pray regularly to God is a child of God whose life is in crisis. Those who praise God pray twice, which is a good thing in the life of God’s children and the church. Jeremiah 17:14, “Heal me, o Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise”. It is known to children of God that a child of God who is praise in a God is equally praying. The more you have a therapy of praise is the more you communicate with God. God needs you to come nearer to him as to be able to understand him and his ways to and participate in bringing God’s glory back to people and a therapy of praise can do that for you child of God.
LACK OF MORAL ETHICS: This child of God lacks the principles and guiding commands of God and is said to be living his or her life in sin. This conforms to the standard of right behavior; sanctioned by or operative on one’s conscience or ethical judgments. A therapy of praise directed towards a prodigal son/daughter can change his or her life back to God. It can change your habit for God and for God over a given topic. It can give to you as a child of God, a good reasoning and understanding towards the things of God. A gospel praise has a teaching that a child of God would grasp from. For this a therapy of praise provides a child of God with God’s principles and tries for a righteous life. Through a therapy of praise a child of God hears more of God and his ways and heart to walk and communicates to his or her creator. Every praise tack and album contains some Godly message that you need for your life, your family, your relatives, your children and all who knew and are called God’s children. It will also put in people’s heart the heart of God’s love for all children of God.
STRESS: The internal distribution of force per-unit within a body reacting to applied forces which causes strain or deformation. It is externally applied to a body which causes internal stress within the body. Stress can be emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal. When you put yourself in Godly stress, negatives results will not come to it. Remember, negative stress in your life existed when you are doing what you don’t love doing. A therapy of praise will motivate you to stress work hard in the things of God. Stress comes with pain and poor health especially when a child of God is doing what he or she hates doing. For this, the child of God should devote love for a therapy of praise, which is very important for a stable and enjoyable life of God and in the Christian ministry.
Phobia: An irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular. An Igbo proverb says that only a toad pursued by its wrong men’s when willing is pursuing it. The first thing you should do as for using and therapy of praise to cure phobia, is to know the cause of the phobia that help you. It may be fear of death, fear of failure, fear of ghost, and other things in life which puts fear in your life. Then select, a praise on while praying to god concerning the phobia, you are I experiencing. The word, of God says if the Lord is your God and your light and salvation, whom shall you fear?
This is no time to start crying over a spilt milk, go over and have a therapy of praise. The phobia may be a spiritual attack unto which praise to God can heal. God can heal all the circumstances of people’s life.
Psalm 10:3 says, “And he hath put a new song in my mouth, (even) praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD”.
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: High Blood Pressure is a common condition in which the force of the blood against your artery walls is high enough that it may eventually cause health problems, such as heart diseases. The more blood heat pumps, the narrower arteries get and the higher the blood pressure. At this point in time as a child of God, you need a therapy of praise. Everything about you will hear the word of God and shall obey the situations that cause the blood pressure and blood blockage will hear the word of God. As you have a therapy of praise. We should be reminded that the word of God says; behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth”.
LACK OF EXERCISE: Exercise is any activity designed to develop or hone skill or ability. Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness. The word of God says in Habakkuk 3:19, “The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my fell like had (feet), and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments”. As dance in a therapy of praise helps he feet, the legs, the body, the brain to go in harmony to the praise offered which meant the burning down of the calories, excess fats which leads to laziness, idleness, uncolating in a child of God’s life. Your spirit also deserved to praise God and deserved to have exercise in God for when you are praising God and your soul rejoiced in the Lord your maker, not only your body but also your spirit is having an exercise. God man dated his children to walk around the walls of Jericho for seven days, preparing their feet’s and hands for the war that they are going to face in Jericho and the long tick to victory. If you have weights, it will reduce and you will find a new you in Christ Jesus.
EVIL SPIRITS: “And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand. So Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him”. Saul was a child of God who had everything going on well with him till he became stubborn and disobedient towards the things of God. Saul was possessed by an evil spirit. Nebuchadnezzar felt too big and asked to be worshipped that he ate food meant for animals and lived with the wild. As David made a therapy unto God, the evil spirit left Saul as the spirit of God took over making Saul be able to regain himself once more again. You can also help yourself with a therapy of praise to ward off the spirits that is not of God in your life, you can use a therapy of praise invite the spirit of God in your life and your life shall be made new and constantly new everyday of your life.
EXCESS WEIGHT: Excess is the amount of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond limits. The beings of a measure bey and sufficiency, necessity or duty that which exceeds what is usually or proper and normal. As young children excess weight stops child from playing with their fellow friends and the class to do works in the school, such children often gets bullied while in school. A person with excess weight cannot do all the things that he or she loved to do. The child of God cannot go places that he or she had loved going. Sometimes, the child of God shy’s away from meeting people. Excess weight makes you. Prone to sickness, depression, weakness and other avoidable problems. You need a therapy of praise serious for a lift of the excess weight. Dance very well, not the sluggish dance and see the removal of excess fats that stops you as a child of God from partaking.
IDLENESS: An idle mind is a devil’s worship and so idleness should not be encouraged. Idleness is the state of being idle. To be is to be empty, vacant not occupied, not employed, doing nothing, of no importance, useless, worthless. A therapy of praise cures idleness especially when the child of God is dedicated to the praise in the sense that the child of God is feeling his or her emptiness with the word of God. A therapy of praise is expected to fall the hearts of children of God. God used to change everything about you including the way that you think and see things. You are man dated to have a therapy of praise. A therapy of praise cures idleness especially when it takes hold of your heart, and spirit, refusing fresh ideas into them.
LACK OF FOCUS ON GOD: “Keep your eyes on the world and you will be distressed. Keep your eyes on yourself and you will be depressed, keep your eyes on Jesus and you will be at rest”. It said, look unto Jesus, the autor and fearsher of our faith. If you understand more and more of the turn praise and think more of God you seek in praise. You should be able to understand that praise is made compulsory to God, the God of heaven who made the heaven and earth. The walking round of children of God over Jericho seems like a purnishment for children of God whose mind are away from God. God needs you to be alone with him. Remember that the topic of praise is all about God so when you are in praise your target is God. You should be able to understand except God helps you, you cannot be able to help yourself and ofcourse as it is written in psalm 127:1-6 saying that except God builds a house the said builder builds in vain. A therapy of praise that is boot held to focus on God may not be fruitful it may lead to a negative disastrous result because it was done on self.
LACK OF MIRACLES: 2nd Chronicles 5:13 said, “It came even to pass, as the trumpheters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the lord, saying for he is good; for is mercy endureth for even that then the house was filled with a cloud even the house of the LORD. My dear, reader, you need a therapy of praise, for your miracles when you devout time to a therapy of praise, that walls of Jericho hindering, your miracles and blessings from God will fall part, the prison that help everything that belonged to you will fade away, the crisis of your life will fade away, every impossibilities will turn out possible. You shall see the goodness of God in the land of the living and you shall testify.
UNHUMAND ACTS: Some children of God had gotten trumatised as a result of war, crisis and problems of life. Some children of God had seen so many wickedness that had existed on this earth some are forced to do some negative things they do regret, extreme wickedness is a case of unhuman acts, to which there is need for a therapy of praise. The word of God said, “when you hear the word of God harden not your heart”. A therapy of praise is intended to bring to people; children of God who had lost the presence of God and it had resulted into so many negative acts such as killing, prostitution, abortion, criminal acts, war crimes and so many others to the CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE LOVE OF GOD. A therapy of praise makes an inhuman, intorarable person human. For this, a therapy of praise is given in public and in private to all people including the displaced persons, thereby infusing Godly life into them and making them adaptable to new life in Christ and adaptable to general life.
IMPRISONMENT: You should have read the story of Paul and Silas and seen how God came to their rescure. Praising God in the midst of danger, death, prosecution is were than the devotion to praise but a therapy of praise. You must not be in prison physically to have a therapy of praise, you may be in prison spiritually. You may have someone who is in prison. When the things in your life are not going as it should be, they are in prison, to which there is a need for a therapy of praise. A therapy of praise devoted solely to God works miracles. God sent thounder and the prison doors and chains were made loose as Paul and Silas gave to God all the praise. Please, endeavor to be like Paul and Silas, and see the freedom that comes with praising God, who knows if it is you who will say to all who care to listen that by praise every yoke is broken.
TORELANCE: A therapy of praise if well done leads to torelance, because God needs it for your joy to be full God hates you disturbing others when having a therapy of praise. If a child of God can play his gospel album without disturbing his or her neighbours, if this child of God is motivated. Your strength is “obedience to God” and you do this by following the spirit leads. When you are obeying the voice of God, you will not want to be a naissance or trouble to your fellow neighbors God hates it.
“I am the God of heaven and of the earth, is there anything too hard for me to do”. God kept asking as this question more than often. For this, he needs co-operation with us and us with our neighbours. By torelance you can motivate your neighbors to have a therapy of praise too, you won’t be distracted having a therapy of praise. A torerant person is a humble and faithful child of God.
ANGER AND HATRED: Anger and Hatred comes to the mind. It means that a child of God did not like something or somebody and would have nothing to do with the something or somebody. God hates anyone who love his or her in anger and hatred to which a happy life takes away. God mandated every Christian child of God to love because love is good for every child of God. A therapy of praise done very well will give you love also fro God and God’s children. You will avoid everything that is a sin because it does not pay. Ask God to praise to take away everything which does make you angry and hate and you will find in while new person in you. Your old you will die away with Christ and new things which are joyful and lovely will enter.
UNSTABLE MOODS: “My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep”, (Job 30:31). Anger, sorrow, pain, remembering of the past all leads to unstable moods of a Christian child of God to which disease of the heart and body and parts of it. An unstable mood could mean anger, hatred but what whatever it is, it does no good for a child of God.
God has a thought for you and they are the thoughts of peace to bring you to an expected end. God wants you to be happy and fulfilled in life. It is for this that God provided you with a therapy of praise to give a Godly mood. A therapy of praise lifts up your spirit towards god and the things of God which are always positive to the ear and to God. When the joy that existed in a praise touches your heart, your life will never be the same.
INSOMNIA or sleeplessness is a sleep disorder in which there is an inability to fall asleep or to stay as long as desired insomnia is an evidence of a disturbed sleep. Insomnia both a medical, sign, and a syptom that can accompanied several sleep, medical, sleep disorder. It can occur in any age. It can lead to all problem which heart disease, addition is one of them. Let us be your guide to what a therapy of praise can do for you. To cure, insomnia with praise, what you must do is (1) Go and take your bath while you pray (2) invite Jesus in your life through praise. (3) Leave your insomnia problems at the cross (4) Know what caused you insomnia, is it worry, stress, veruporking yourself, based habits, high blood pressure, diabetes, room temperature, hopeless conditions, sorrow when you know this put them to the cross and nail them to the cross with a therapy of praise and when they die with Jesus, new things will resurrect to that good and wonderful life will continue and sounds sleep shall fond your eyes, your therapy is praise is not complete without dancing.
LACK OF SELF EXPRESSION: One of the basic duties and gifts that a child of God receives from having a therapy of praise is self expression. As you put on the praise to have a therapy of praise to God, the joy of God takes over your while being and you begin to sing and dance to God. A therapy of praise in singing, dancing in public and private places is all you need to build, your confidence in God, and you can express yourself any where you find yourself.
DIABETES: A group of metabolic diseases whereby a person has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, metabolize, sufficient quantities of insulin. Diabetes is characterized by excessibe thrist and excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine. A therapy of praise puts your body in harmony. The lacking insulin and its provider will hear the words of God and obey. Your system will hear the word of God and shall obey. Jesus heated his children in the bid and is still healing Christians. Take a therapy of praise and watch your body go back to producing enough insulin that will make you testify to God.
VICTORY OVER ENEMIES: “And in every place where the ground staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will fight with it”, (Isaiah 30:32). The battle to win the people of Jericho became an easy battle when children of God devouted praise to God. God took time to prepare his children in his own way. He made his children walk round the place for seven good times making them ever ready for battles”. They blew the trumpets with shouts of praise and the walls of Jericho fall down”. You can now have a therapy of praise and have the walls of your enemies fall down. The lepers were praising God as they walked to the enemies territories not knowing that God had made their feet as strong as the marching of enemies, and the enemies fled and fight each other. He vest of the story is victory. Have a therapy of praise and you shall have to experience the victory of God over all the things that you do in life.
POVERTY: Poverty is divided into two, those who didn’t have and those who have who can’t make a good a what they that they are always needing more you can use a therapy of praise to cure physical and spiritual poverty physical poverty.
As God called on Abraham and he responded to the call of God and proceeded to trigram, God gave him, his blessings and he glorified the God who made him. You need a therapy of praise to be focused on God who can bless you as he had blessed Abraham even if it meant God repositioning you as he had positioned Abraham. Above all, a therapy of praise will make you a contented person who repeats the words of Don Moen in his song, “let the weak say I am strong, let the poor say, I am rich”.
LAC OF FAVOUR: “Praising God, and having favor with all the people. and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved”. All you need to live a successful life is favor from to which you cannot do without it. If God devides to favor you, you7r life will never be the same.
God promised to bless you in the city, to bless been in land and to bless all the works of your hands that you shall lend to many nations and not to borrow. If you are called the industry of praise, have a therapy of praise, who knows if it is in such industry that God wants to bless you in. A therapy of praise will bring joy into everything that you do and in your life, and it will read like magnet to all around you, and goodness of God which surpass all understanding will attract favors upon favors in your life.
“Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the paltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound”, (Psalm 72:3).
“But I keep under my body, and bring it, into subjection: last that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast way”, (1 Corinthians 9:27).
STROKE: The loss of brain function arising when he blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted. A therapy of praise have proved a worthy instrument for stroke patients in he sense that it diverts him as from thoughts and in dancing a bit, exercise takes place. In this, the stroke patient began to love God more and more, and instead of being idle, pressed, happy active and creative, this may also make the patient make a job or career becoming a Gospel praise artist and provider.
HOPELESS CONDITIONS: “As he taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart”. (Proberb 25:20) (Acts 16:25 says “And at mid night Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them”. Your case is not the worst, God has take care of more worser conditions of life.
“That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sack but, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath seth up”. (Paniel 3:5) this children of God found themselves in a helpless condition and they continued to praise the name of God no matte rthe condition, that they were ready to die for God who made them. You would have known of how God came to their rescue.
Hannah was in a helpless conditions of life, she needed a child of her own. She went on her knees to God in prayers at the church. She has her child at the right time. No helpless conditions will be for you if you have a therapy of praise, it is either a victory after defeating Pharaoh, or the victory of Paul and Silas, or she’s blessing at the humilintion of Human. Have a therapy of praise and see how God who answers prayers will turn your life wound for good.
DISEASE; A disease an abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction; distinct from injury or dysfunction; distinct from injury in so far as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired. Isaiah 53:5, “But he was wounded for our trangressions, he was braised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. A therapy of praise is necessary for the harmonization of everything that you desires in life, everything in your body will hear the word of God and shall obey, your nevers, your cells, your legs, your immune systems, even your blood will get tire of seeing illness and disease and will associate itself with diabetes high blood tension sorrows, pain, cancer, and all other disease and the child of God will be made while and free to worship the God of heaven who created him to serve him in truth and in spirit.
FAILURE: Failure is the state or the condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success, a termination of the ability of an item, to perform its required function, breakdown. A therapy of praise turns your failure in to success, as it turns your pain into relief, your mourning into joy, poverty to wealth. Ask God that you do not want to fail again, for failure is not the portion of a child of God. You must know the reason for your failure and with a therapy of praise, you shall never fail again.
STRENGTH: Psalms 81:1 says “sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob”. The more a child of God has a therapy of praise, the more he had exercise in God and the more he or she builds for every day living, and by the courage you have from it, you shall have strength to out not every to circumstances that is not of God in your life.
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou prosper and be in health, even as they sould propereth”, (3 John 1-2).
NEGATIVE THOUGHTS: Negative thought is the state of being negative. By being negative it is a child of God who is not positive and neutral, denying a proposition, pessismistic, not tending to see the bright side of things, unwanted, thoughts in your life, just like praise did in the life of Saul. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full, (John 10:10NV).
“This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Isreal after that time, declares the Lord I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. no longer will they teach their neighbour, or say to one another, ‘knew the Lord’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest”, (Hebrews 8:11NIV).
UNBELIEF: Unbelief is the absence or rejection of belief especially religious belief. The Christ did not believe in the existence of God. “The foll hath said in his heart, there is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good without believing it is difficult to please God.
There is a trace of God in attraction but it takes only the pure in heart to see that there is a trace if God in attraction but it takes only the pure in heart to see that. A therapy of praise will divelt your heart more deeper to God. A therapy of praise will make a child of God’s faith increase day by day, and day by day the said child of God will be energined you will have altered than a mustared seed, faith, which will help you move out of your life all the mountains that pose a blumbling block to your physical and spiritual life.
SORROWS: A state of unhappiness, use, an instance or cause of unhappiness what ever could cause sorrow to a Christian child of God could lead to other problems. Some sorrows is as result of losing a loved one. Eclessistis 3:4 says, “ A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance”. Have you lost a loved one and you are in sorrow, you need a mind and sorrow dicertion therapy which lies in praising God for if you are not careful in sorrow you will give yourself a heart attack. A therapy of praise takes away your sorrows “But ye are a choosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should shew for the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light”, (1 Peter 2:9) when you have a therapy of praise, the word of God says, “Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow, (Jeremiah 31:13).
DISAPPOINTMENT: Disappointment is the emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met. It is a circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met. A therapy of praise will help you to build back self esteem and confifence which is associated with disappointment. David is a praise therapist and when ever David praises God, anointing flow, deliverances are made, hearts are healed, burdens taken away;
A therapy of is a praise positioning tool to position you to the right place by God’s favor, where the right people will locate you. His God taking you to the right place where he can give you more than enough through praise. You can never be disappointed any longer again when you are closer to God with a therapy of praise because praise you will learn that by each disappointment a new way has been pared for your physical and spiritual growth.
“When you sleep off on the truth that you know, you will wake up in an unknown path; you will wake up in a lie”, it is expected that the truth shall set you free you need to be told the truth to what a therapy of praise can do in your life and you will testify to God for all the good he has done for you.
DISGRESS: Distress is a cause strain or anxiety to someone. A therapy of praise can mean a distress call for children of God to God over what pains the child of God. A therapy of praise takes your heart away from everything that has held it in chains and in crisis you would be possessed by the spirit of God most high who truly loose you with all the love in this life. A therapy of praise becomes a Christian child of God distress call to God for joy of the heart. When you make a distress call to God, your life will not be the same. Old things shall pass away and new things will replace them.
UNEMPLOYMENT: Unemployment is a situation where by a child of God who had the skills to work, had look for and applied for a job if you accept that God has blessed people like 50 cent, Rick Ross, Psquare, sinach, samsong, frank Edward, Chinyere Udoma, Don Moen in the area of music and in the field of praise then this set of people who have undertaken a therapy of praise can end up as gospel musicians, some children of God are employed as video producers (Audio producers, video camera men, editor, gospel analyst, writer, public, counselling, observers, healers, some children of God had been known as praise therapists, just like Done Moen, Kirt Franklin and others. Christian children of God have built houses with praises children of God who had been given a job in the vine yard of God as praise providers have gone round the world speaking of God’s goodness to all children of God. With a job as praise many had gotten married, and had children. Begin a therapy of praise today, who knows it might be you that God needs to give bless by promoting you to be a gospel musician.
UNCREATIVITY: When you are having a therapy of praise, tack of ideas are destroyed and uncreative abilities dies with it. A therapy of praise positions you to a life of an overflow. By singing, you became perfect in singing through. Dancing the Christian child of God learns of many dancing steps and dance in gospel or praise activities or videos. The right attitude is to welcome attraction carefully and see how we can used it fulfill a mission of giving life. “It is God who gives you the ability to master all things”. In another translation – “I can do all things through Christ which strength me, (Philippians 4:13) with a therapy of praise, you can do all things with Christ who truly loves you.
CHAPTER FIVE
PHYSICAL ENTERIAL TO THERAPY OF PRAISE
In this chapter is listed and explained physical requirements for a successful therapy of praise. You can not do without any of these items in a therapy of praise, please.
A GOSPEL ALBUM: At album is a group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group. A gospel or praise album is a group you do not just need one praise album, you need to many gospel album as to have a variety of praise to select from you can choose from foreign and the Nigerian gospel albums and buy them. Original copy and not pirated copy because piracy is Bad to God and to humanity.
AN ELECTRICITY: Without electricity your radio would not work so having electricity or its replacement a battery is very important. Where there is no electricity some people uses generators and due to pack of funds for fuels, chargeable radios are advised for people who wish a therapy of praise. This chargeable radio can play for at least thirty minutes to one hour depending on the strength of the battery your radio has.
A SPACE IN YOUR BEDROOM/LIVINGROOM: As you create a space for fouratter you need space in your bedroom/living room for a good therapy of praise, this time a therapy of praise you are having is not for everyone, for it is a private therapy of praise. This space in your bedroom/living room you can be able to dance as you liked. Little space in your room means destroying of your properties if you mistakenly fall on them, and properties are now costly due to inflation.
DANCE: A therapy of praise whether private or public is made complete with a dance. Dance involves, a sequence of rhythmic steps or movement especially in items of praise that is offered to God. Dance will help you more concentrate more with God and the therapy of praise, held.
CHAPTER SIX
SPIRITUAL CRITERIAL TO SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
This chapter is divided into two, there are human criteria to successful therapy of praise and the second is God requirement from you for a successful therapy of praise.
HUMAN CRITERIAL TO SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
A WILLING HEART, when a child of God is not forced to have a therapy of praise, praise to God although is mandatory should also be willingly done. For this, the child of God does not grudge or is complaining when praising God and producing a worthy result from the therapy of praise.
FAITH: Faith in a therapy of praise helps a child of God to believe that his or her efforts are not in vain and that forever that God to whom he or she had come to seek shall fulfill the desires of his heart and the reasons tend purpose the therapy of praise was taken.
OBEDIENCE – Obedience meant doing the right thing and understanding what God wants it’s to do at a particular time or the other the right thing. It is disobedience that made the first man and woman fall to sin. For this, your praise should not disturb others in any way.
DANCE: Without dancing a therapy of praise can not be complete. Dance in a therapy of praise is the exercise that you truly needs for your body, and spirit. It is not necessary to be a good dancer to dance in a therapy of praise, what you need is just be yourself and dance as a Christian would dance.
HUMILITY: This is the characteristic of being humble. Humble means heart to the ground, not proud. God hates those who are proud in the heat. When you are humbled only then can obedience to the rules and regulation flow. For this, you won’t be the reason for the obstacles that will befall you and mar your progress in the therapy of praise.
HOPE: Hope is believing that tomorrow will be great, and that there will be positive results from having a therapy of praise.
ALONE WITH GOD: When you are alone with God in a therapy of praise, you think only of God, and the power and goodness of God, devoting praise targeted to only God, knowing that as it is said, when a child of God thanks God for his blessings only then can the child of God receive more blessings from God.
MAKE A PRAISE DEVOUTED TO GOD ALONE – Praise in repetition is made to God alone. It is to God to all the therapy of praise you made is to. Anything outside the praise that is meant for God, when praise is meant for God alone, only then can God at wholly on your behalf because you are not divided in praising God.
PLAY GODLY MUSIC: Please never combine Godly praise and any other type of music and claim that you are having therapy of praise. God is not inside a music addressed outside him, for this you must check all the music you have selected for the therapy of praise and make them suit the occasion.
CHOOSE SONG AS LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD: By led by the spirit of God when choosing a song for your therapy of praise. It is allowing the spirit of God to help you choose a song for your therapy of praise. Not all songs is good to be used for a therapy of praise, follow your heart with truth when choosing a song for therapy of praise is concerned.
PRAY BEFORE AND AFTER HAVING A THERAPY OF PRAISE: Please it is mandatory for you to have a little prayer of at least for fifteen minutes before starting a therapy of praise. Prayer is the key and should be used at all times. This prayer acts as introducer to the very programmes of praise.
PLAN THE THERAPY OF PRAISE: When a child of God who wants to have a good and successful therapy of praise makes a plan for it, the said therapy of praise will going to be a success, because obstacles that is going to hinder the success of the praise will be looked into and dealt with so that they do not come up and spoil the therapy of praise thereby making the child of God lose interest and abundance the programme before it can produce result.
REPENT OF YOUR SINS: Any sin not handed over to God in repentance, and is forgiven by God may lurke in your heart and deprive you from deep concentration to the things of God and from God, this may make the said child of God having the therapy of praise to loose interest in the programme before it is over.
BE ORGANIZED: When you are organized, everything you are doing will fall into the right place. When you organized, you are not confessed your time, your activities, and behaviors will fall into the right time, and the result would be successful.
HAVE A PURPOSE: A good purpose for undertaking a therapy of praise is an effective tool for a successful therapy of praise. You can have purpose, love, peace, joy, health issues, blessings, miracles, past experiences as child of God, for it will help you understand why you are having a therapy of paise.
HAVE LOVE FOR THERAPY OF PRAISE: Love for a therapy of praise will make you want to have a therapy of praise for hours non stop and still want more because, you have dedicated love for the things of God. Love makes a therapy of praise all wonderful to have therapy of praise.
REMEMBER OTHERS IN YOUR THERAPY OF PRAISE: Prayer is not meant only for you to richly enjoy. So are the blessings of God. A therapy of praise you undertake to praise God is not meant only for you. A therapy of praise that is successful is meant to “suit the sorrows, heal the wounds, and wip away tears”, of not only you but of your neighbors hearing your voice and children of God you have remembered in it. Praise offered in faith on behalf of others can raise the death, heal the wounds, and bring back you to those who mourn, and make all impossibilities possible, for you and others.
CHAPTER SEVEN
WHO NEEDS A THERAPY OF PRAISE
There is a book I have read which says, who needs deliverance? I love the said book because it listed the conditions that a child of God would find and know that he or she needs deliverance. In this chapter, there are conditions that present it and one would know that he or she needs a therapy of praise.
• You are a child of God and you are always sad and lacked happiness, and joy.
• Are you suffering from fear?
• Do you have a negative thought as a problem?
• You cared to reverence God and his mighty deeds?
• Are the battles of your life battering you?
• You need a practice made perfect?
• Are you living your life frustrated with the way everything is going on in fear life?
• You have no chance for daily exercise in the morning throughout the day and you are adding weight day by day and want to have daily exercises?
• A problem has posed a great difficult in your life and becomes a mountain that you will want to move out of your life?
• Is there past experiences, you used to remember after you have confessed them which posed a threat to your physical and spiritual life?
• Are you mal nourished in the things of God?
• Are you feeling rejected and abandoned by God and man?
• Do you need a healing balm?
• Do you have God’s dream like Joseph and needs the dream to live?
• Do you need the peace of God in your life?
• Are you a shy Christian child of God and wishes to be confident in handling problems and people, and develop a better self expression?
• As a child of God, you cared to devout more time to prarising God?
• You are in so much thought that you finds it difficult sleeping.
• Are you like Paul in the bible who has an evil spirit is tormenting and would need a change from God most high through praise devoution?
• Everyone had a battle to fight just the children of God as they walked to go through Jericho. You have heard the story of what happened that day from the bible? Are you facing life battles and challenges?
• You cared to leave what pains you are in, the hands of God?
• Are you confused with life?
• Is your problem idleness?
• Are you staying indoors and away from people all because, all because of the past experiences of your life of God?
• Are you an extreme introvert?
• Do you know and believe that praising God meant getting connected to God twice?
• Do you lack words for talking to God as father and friend?
• As a child of God, you would have read the story of Naomi and the life bitter and you need God to season it with goodness and mercies?
• Has God given you song for his children?
• Is pride a problem that affects your life?
• You care for peace in your family?
• As a child of God, all you want to do is to tell the while world of God’s goodness for your life and the life of God’s children.
• You have a high Blood pressure which is as a result of thoughts, and other accumulates problems of life which only God can solve.
• Are you like Hanah, and it seemed as if joy had been stolen from your married life, and like Hanah, you need a child and the peace of your family, the excitement of the home.
• Are you in grief over a loss, especially death of a loved one?
• You are feeling heavy and obessed you want to slim down a bit?
• Are you finding yourself too heavy to do what you used to do before?
• Are you broken and heavy laden?
• Is unemployment your problem, God can grant a job after a therapy of praise in a firm, in your own firm or make you a gospel musician which in our book he or she is called a praise therapist.
• Are you a prayer less child of God?
• You mind seemed dull and cold towards all the things you used to do before and you seemed uncreative.
• Have you over worked yourself, that people are calling you a workaholic?
• Are you alone with self?
• Have your faith in God, deeply reduced from what it used to be?
• Are you a displaced child of God who needs to be connected back to God?
• You are seeking something from God?
• Are you a covetous Christian?
• You are a sinner that needs to be righteous?
• You want to draw closer to the God that never change, who said to Moses, I am whom, I am.
• You want to praise God no matter the condition of life?
• Do you want to develop more joy for the things of God?
• Talking to God over every situations of life is what you need?
• Has God called you to the ministry of praise and you did not answer?
• Do you want to be a vessel unto God, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use and prepared unto every good work?
• Healing comes from God who created every children of God in his own image and likeness, and you need healing, from above?
• Finally, is your life with out testimonies, which shows fulfillment of God’s promises?
CHAPTER EIGHT
OBSTACLES TO SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
Any activity that flows without any hindrances probably leads to nowhere neither for this; this book tends to bring out the obstacles associated with a therapy of praise. There are some examples of obstacles to therapy of praise as listed below;
UNWILLING HEART: When a child of God is forced to worship God or praise God, the said child of God’s heart will not be either in worship or in the praise devoted to God. A child of God who is having a therapy of praise without a willing heart will not produce a better result like the child of God who seeks to have a therapy of praise with a willing heart, and the God he or she came to seek will be near to him or her.
ALONE WITHOUT GOD: A child of God having a therapy of praise and not alone with God has not invited God in his or her practice. This child of God is having a therapy of praise with self, and the result may be more disturbances, more pain, more confusion, more sadness, lack of peace and poor health.
A DISPLACED CHILD OF GOD: A child of God living in sin is a displaced child of God. A prayer less child of God is a displaced child of God. A displaced child of God needs to be connected back to God first before trying to have a therapy of praise. This creates a huge gap between God and man. If God is not present in a child of God’s therapy of praise, there can’t be true joy, peace and health.
SIN: Sin displaces a child of God from the God that he had come to seek. God’s hand is not short but it is this sin that separates us from God. A child of God in sin cannot communicate freely with the God that he or she had come to seek, for this; the approval of God over the therapy of praise held by the child of God may not exist or is with held.
NOISE: When a person having a therapy of praise puts the volume of his praise to the extent that it disturbs others, then it becomes a naissance to the neighbors and to all around him or her. A person who makes noise with praise is a disobedient child of God and such a therapy may not have the approval of God.
LACK OF FAITH: Faith makes life beautiful for every child of God without faith; it will be difficult for the said child of God to believe on the therapy of praise that it will produce the needed result. It is needed to make every child of God who wants to partake in a therapy of praise that without faith will end up not pleasing God.
LACK OF PURPOSE: This is a child of God who goes into praise without any aim or desire from God. Without purpose of having a therapy of praise, the effort is wasted. A child of God who is having a therapy of praise without a purpose is like a child of God who is seeking to find a given house without a given map and address. The lack of purpose in a therapy of praise exists so this child of God may not know when God has answered the wishes of his or she for partaking in a therapy of praise may not know the beginning or the end.
DOUBT: Thamos is known as a doubter because he would not believe. He would not believe except he sees and feels it. No matter how far you preached to a doubting Thamos, the doubter will not believe. A child of God who goes into a therapy of praise with doubt will not be an effective as a child of God who into a therapy of praise with faith.
LACK OF CONTINUITY: This are children of God who starts one programme and lacked the ability to complete them. A child of God will do a successful therapy of praise today and will not do the therapy of praise the coming day or even the following week, only to continue and stop again. For this, the said child of God cannot experience a longer lasting effect from God in the therapy of praise.
IMPATIENCE: An impatient child of God would not wait for God to finish his or her work. To the impatient man, the patient man is a fool. When the result of a successful therapy of praise is not faith coming the said child of God loses interest in therapy of praise and discontinuity exist. The said child of God may be forced to abandon the whole process of therapy of praise completely.
SEASON: A child of God motivated by season in a therapy of praise will always be interested in a music that interest people instead of playing or choosing music as it suits the purpose or problems that made him or her go into having a therapy of praise in the very beginning, by this is displaced from reality.
UNWILLING PRACTICE: A willing practice in a therapy of praise will produce, a willing result for children of God. It is a wosthy thing to inform all the children of God that an unwilling practice in a therapy of praise will produce an unwilling unwanted result and by God with produce the needed result.
LACK OF LOVE FOR PRAISE: For a child of God to stay up to an hour hearing gospel praise, the said child have developed love for praise. Without love for praise in a therapy of praise, a therapy of praise becomes a dull and boring activity for the child of God, and it leads to discontinuity of therapy of praise.
LACK OF ELECTRICITY: Without electricity the said child of God cannot have a good therapy of praise and the chargeable radios cannot be charged. Generators makes a lot of noise and so is not good for therapy of praise, it leads to unwilling discontinuity to therapy of praise offered to God by a child of God.
INFLATION: This is the increase on prices of musical products such as televisions, videos, and memory cards, downloading of musics and buying of radios. A poor child of God who is still struggling to eat will then manage and buy an ordinarily radio and wait for radio stations to play gospel musics for him making a therapy of praise on irregular activity.
LACK OF TRUTH: A child of God who is not worshiping God in truth cannot be truthful to himself when having a therapy of praise, and this will lead the child of God to having a false praise made and offered to God, and this may lead to unwanted result in life.
CHAPTER NINE
FROM THERAPY OF PRAISE TO PRAISE THERAPIST
“There is nothing I cannot master with the help of the one who gives me strength,”
(Philippians 4:13)
It is a warning please, if you have love for reading and you don’t have any intention to do with the reading, please go and find something else to do. A therapy of praise is meant not to last more than one hour. So, if you have to spend at least five hours hearing Gospel or praise, it is assume you have interest in moving over from a therapist of praise to having and becoming a praise therapist.
WHO IS A PRAISE THERAPIST?
A praise therapist is someone who provides therapy to people. A praise therapist is a Christian child of God who uses praise as a therapy to solve problems of children of God. A praise therapist is a child of God employed in the industry of praise provision to children of God: A praise leader in the house of God, a choir with its members are praise therapists. David is a well known praise therapist “who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can shew forth all his praise? (Psalm 105:2). This explains the work of the praise therapists, they take time to give to God all the praise, whether it is public or private. A praise therapist starts from hearing praise to giving out of praise to children of God who needs it. Anyone who is interested in praise and inspired in praise can go into the ministry of praise and find everlasting joy, peace, health, job and fulfillment in life.
David showed us as typical example of a young man who praised God for fun not knowing that praise by use of cymbals and music instrument is what God has given to him to make his destiny shine. He was playing gospel music to the animals that even lions fell under anointing that he was able to snatch his lamb from its mouth. You probably had heard of his journey to Saul’s palace and the incredible job that God did with him and how he led God’s people to worship God with praise. You have read a book you can never fail to read as a child of God called, the books of psalms, proverbs and ecclesiastics, they are written by David.
You probably had heard of a gospel musician by name Don Moen, and his song which says: “I am the Lord, that health thee I am the Lord, your healer. You sent your word and healed my disease you are the Lord my healer”. Would you need to be told that in the concert where Don Moen sanged and performed this song that healing took, that God touched the lives of many and the rest was testimonies.
Dear child of God, God is calling you to the ministry of praise. God has so many ministries. Ministries of sharing with the needy, ministry of preaching the word of God, ministry of counselling, ministry of prayer, and also ministry of praise. When God welcomes you with a talent in ministry of praise as a gospel musician, you are already a praise therapist. You ofcourse, knew that there are many gospel musicians in Nigeria, and from them, you do know being a gospel musician or a praise therapist is a blessing from God and a job needed by those who needed them.
The problem of becoming a gospel artist is that you become known every where you go you have your pictures everywhere. Even the people that you do not know about knows you yet, it is a good thing to excel in one’s work. In conclusion the world of God says in psalm 105:43-45 “And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness: And gave them the lands of the healthen; and they inherited the labour of the people; that they might observe his statues, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
HOW TO BECOME A PRAISE THERAPIST (A GOSPEL MJSICIAN)
1. Develop love for praising God and see if you loved hearing gospel musics.
2. This love, of Gospel praise is necessary that you can develop untiring love for praising God.
3. Buy a small recordable radio, so that any time God gives you a chores you don’t want to forget, you will willingly, record it and keep.
4. with in some days, you would have had atleast ten to fifteen chorus
5. Began to practice those choruses and be perfect to it.
6. Start writing down the verses.
7. Start saving every money you have, from your work as to pay the production of your album.
8. By God’s grace, you will find a good studio, and producer
9. saving plan: make a plan for saving and be glad with it.
10. To have and do a better praise practice; be a member of a praise team.
11. If you can’t find money up to eight thousand for a track up to atleast ten tracks which will get you eighty thousand, form a team of six maximum, and contribute and produce the album.
12. Search and pray for a better marketer who will market your music
13. When God gives you a praise marketer/producer your album will be made available to the public. Soon you will be called up to competitions, shows, gospel presentations, and by God’s grace, you do win awards and promotions.
14. By God’s grace, you will present praise shows, praise talks, your praise videos, your face will be used for advertisements, you become a Christian star and model.
15. Ofourse, you are employed and making a life from praise you can then save and live a fulfilled life, full of dedication to God, you will go to show, or praise any place you are needed in which God is praised in truth and in spirit and it will not take you away from the God, you are talking about.
16. A therapy of praise and praise making is a life time advertising. There is no stopping in praising God until one dies and goes back to the creator.
CHAPTER TEN
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE THERAPY OF PRAISE
“And David and Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing and with harps, and with patteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets”,
(1Chronicle 13:8)
Praise to God can take place anywhere. There is no significant place that is provided for God to work and for every child of God to praise God. God is spirit so that best place, praise takes place is in the spirit where you harvest connection with God. As human, it is either you are praising God at home and outside the home. Let’s go on and understand what public and private therapy of praise meant.
PUBLIC THERAPY OF PRAISE
“Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing”,
(Psalms 100:2)
Public meant a thing, or person able to be seen by everyone, open to general view, happening without concenlment, pertaining to all the people as a whole, both rich and poor, reached and unreached, open to all concerned. It is a praise made in the open where no child of God is restricted from participating in it.
A public therapy of praise is praise devotion given to God for all. It can take place in so many forms. A church crusade, and a time was created for praise. There were seminars and programmes on praise that have been held in so many churches, in the world. A public praise therapy is intending for the mass praising the lord. A public therapy of praise is made for everyone, both rich or poor, so far the person is a Christian child of God. In public therapy of praise children of God gathers together to give all the praise to God, and to lift the name of God high above any other thing knowing that as it is said in the bible that, “one wise chase just but a thousand and two will chase many thousands”.
After wining the battle-against phawah which God singley fourght the battle and gave his children victory. The book of psalms was written for God’s people by David, who won God’s heart by praising him all day and night. In some public therapy of praise some praise presenters prefers to call it praise night, praise assembly, praise day and I have a better title, A HARVEST OF PRAISE. In a public therapy of praise, people are free to dance as they wanted to.
It is in the praise therapy done in the public that the opportunity to practice the new praise which God has pattern into their hearts and use it to make impact on fellow Christians. There is no special pattern to either a public or private therapy of praise, your purpose for undertaking a therapy of praise mattered to God may be taking you to praise for a reason, for this the word of God says, THERE IS NOTHING I CANNOT MASTER WITH THE HELP OF THE ONE WHO GIVES ME STRENGTH (PHILIPPIANS 4:13)
“Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done, for them of my father which is in heaven”, (Mathew 18:19).
PRIVATE THERAPY OF PRAISE
A thing is said to be private, for it belonged to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group, not in the governmental office or employment, not publicly known, protected from the view of disturbance by others, secluded. Things or people that are private is intended only for the use of an individual, group, or organization. Things that are private are personal.
A private therapy if praise is a personal praise devotion. When it was difficult for Paul and Silas and they did not know what to do, they started a willing personal praise to God. Their was a sacrifice of praise even at the face of death. You probably had heard of the story. A therapy of praise is most suitable in the morning and at night.
Testimonies upon testimonies was recorded when children of God has a successful therapy of praise with God in the comfort of their home, anywhere, they liked. Unhappiness vanished in the life of Saul when ever David played harps, cymbals using them to thank God. Testimonies of healing had failed the Christian community with the mircals that had taken place with praising of God. A private therapy of praise can mend a broken home with need for joy because a family that praise God together is a happy home/family.
A private therapy of praise helps a child of God who wants to go into the gospel music career or praise to God career either as a singer, chorusers, instrumentalist, song writer, music editors, music analyst, praise producers, praise publishers, praise writers, in being perfect in Gospel and producing the needed result for God, and God’s children. Philippians 3:1 says: “Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe”.
“The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy, he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing”.
(Sephaniah 3:17).
CHAPTER ELEVEN
PRACTICAL DAILY THERAPY OF PRAISE
At the time of David praise was done by crude instruments which are still prevalent to this day especially, when there is no electricity. For this, praise have grown higher and higher than it used to be. In Davids time, the drummers and others makes up it complete music set but today everything that a child of God has ever needed to have a good therapy of praise is assembled in a cassette. All you need is an album of gospel musician. We want you to have a better therapy of praise, so, here is a lost of practical guide to a better therapy of praise.
• Recognize the problem, disturbances you want to solve, such as worry, over thinking, high Blood pressure and over stress, anxiety, diabetes work together. Another is the fear of death which seems to as life burdens increases.
• Remember, PRAISE IS MADE COMPULSORY TO GOD, NOT VOLUNTORY, you are not doing God a favor praising him, you are doing youself a favor for more of God’s goodness and mercies which you need for a fulfilled life. For this, you must come to God “willingly without being forced”:
• When you come to God in a therapy of praise, your heart is prepared to understand that praise is “meant for God alone and only those alone with God” can have a successful therapy of praise.
• You must have electricity and a music set or a charged radio or a radio with external battery with an album of a gospel musician.
• Begin an opening prayer and pray for about five minutes.
• Make sure there is a space in your room where you are standing so that you can dance without spoiling anything.
• Leave your worries listed in a paper, and dropped at the alter in your room.
• Leave your worries, thought and past to God so that you can concentrate and be alone with God, whom you have come to seek.
• Select a praise album concerning your worries.
• Put the album on and began to sing softly with it.
• Remember, this is a private, therapy of praise where noise is not allowed.
• Dance! This is the exercise that you don’t have time for.
• God hates disobedience, and disturbing praises. So make sure the praise you put up for the therapy of praise suits the environment and the people. It must not be noisy, God needs you not noise making.
• Pease, don’t spend the whole day listening to gospel music or praise, except you are Christians like me who praise helps work better when being alone. This is done so that you don’t say you are idle because you are having therapy of praise.
• It is only in public praise therapy that the way you dance is monitored. You are free to dance as you like in the therapy of praise, so far your dancing does not make. Your loose concentrations.
• You must be time conscious to know that in the morning a therapy of praise must not be beyond thirty minutes, and at night, a therapy of praise is limitless of time as long as the beholder can manage.
• Develop love for praise so that you can’t get tired praising God.
• Never forget that praise is meant to connect you only to God and not to your past or to the problems of your `life.
• Please, note that if you don’t have a purpose of having therapy of praise that you are, just having praise, for a therapy of praise is a devotion to praise and is a sacrifice of praise towards solving a given problem.
• God is not a failure you should not fail to complete each round of a therapy of praise, that is why a thirty minutes therapy of praise is most appropriate except you have the energy and time to do so. If you did not complete or accomplish a given time set by you, it seems as if you have failed.
• When you start a therapy of praise, you should know that there is need for a continual process. You have to make a plan that will last for a week, two or a month, atleast a week, as to have a lasting effect of the therapy of praise that you have taken.
• You should be reminded that those who comes to God must do so in truth and in spirit, for God is a God of truth and is a spirit.
• Confess your sins before the start of the therapy of praise, so that you would be at peace with God and yourself.
• You can do a therapy of praise anywhere, so far it does not disturb or cause neiussance to others.
• Be confident as you have a therapy of praise; for it is one of the gifts of therapy of praise in peoples life.
• Alone with God in a therapy of praise means concentration only on God in the praise and having at least 80% concentration.
• Never forget that praise is made to God alone and only to God.
• Desire making a career in praise either as a member in your choir, praise band, praise members in a Christian organization which you belonged to.
• Be a doer of what praising God, and good message you have learnt from acceptable gospel album that you have used for therapy of praise.
• Utilize what you have learnt from therapy of praise to make life better and more meaningful to God’s children around you.
• Expect answers from God and not from man for when God answers your prayers, you may end up a gospel musician. Romans 15:13, says, “Now the God of hope fill you with all “joy and peace” in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost”.
• Never forget that those who God pray twice. You must know that as you praise God you are praying a second time, for this, you are expected to (push) “praise God until something happens”.
• Don’t forget that a therapy of praise you had can change a sinner’s life. It can mend people’s life. You can encourage Christians to take part of it, and produce the same result as you had.
• One hour is enough maximum time for a good therapy of praise except you have an intention of becoming a praise therapist, a gospel musician. Children of God who whose clinics lies in using praise to solve problems of unhappiness, lack of peace and health develop more love for God and other.
• Read one two verse in the bible and close the therapy of praise and see the results that will pour out from it.
• Note: if after a therapy of praise and you are still disturbed. Please, go back and have another therapy of praise, your concentration is not 100% with God. Finally the word of God said in James 5:15 saying,
“And the prayer, (praise) of faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him”.
CHAPTER TWELVE
END POINT OF THERAPY OF PRAISE
Beloved after reading this book or staying alone with God in a therapy of praise and you were not able to have to joy. “Peace of life, you desired then you cannot receive health of body and soul for you stayed alone with the problems of life instead of God and you need to have another therapy of praise for peace and joy are God’s primary tools of answered prayers which leads to health”.
From the above statement it is necessary to pin point three end points of a successful therapy of praise which is being explain wider as they are being listed.
PEACE: Peace is defined as a state of “tranquility”, “quiet” and “harmony”. For instance, a state freedom from civil disturbance. In another of peace, it is a state freedom oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions. Peace is HARMONY IN PERSONAL RELATIONS. Have you ever had quiet times out side your home but in the church and what do you feel? Beloved, peace don’t find you there is a problem.
A therapy of praise takes your heart from worry, anxiety, from every thing that oppressed you, spiritually and physically, and clears your emotion. A therapy of praise puts you at peace, your body, soul, emotions at rest. As you dance to the tune of God’s praise, the pain you feel you won’t feel them again. You past won’t be remembered. All that oppresses you will be a forgotten activity and you shall have the peace of God which surpases all understanding you can only have absolute peace when you are alone with God. This peace will be felt every thing you do all round, in you relation with God and man, in you place of work, in your marriage, and the result will be success in all the things that you do in life.
Abraham despite his childlessness, he had the peace of God. Let’s do a practical work to praise. You are at work, doing other things then, you decided to go to church. As you enter praise is going on, what do you feel? Can you tell? First, you are forced to forget other things and concentrate on the present activity. Secondly, you do get settled to the present condition with your body and spirit in it. Thirdly, ask God the giver of peace to abide with you as you go through giving God all the praise and your words will be our testimony.
JOY: Joy is said to mean a feeling of happiness, extreme, cheerfulness. A therapy of praise was especially meant to give you joy of life in all things, giving your heart the freedom that it deserves. You will give so many testimonies of the joy you found as you devotes time to a successful therapy of praise. Child of god taking a dosage of praise to God is without sorrow, anger or anxiety. “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of Holy ghost”, (Romans 15:13). If praise don’t give you joy then you need to reconsider your step and have a rethink.
Joy found Moses heart after Pharaoh and his warriors had been drowned at the red sea. Should we need to measure the abundance of joy that existed in the life of Jaushua as the children of God conquered Jericho and as the wall of Jericho fall down, putting the people of Jericho in fear and panick. A young man who is suffering from idleness found joy in having a therapy of praise has become a gospel musician. David found joy giving to God all the praise and he tot a double job to serve the king and became the king and even wrote the book of psalm.
Beloved, it is when a Christian child of God has found peace with God that true joy of God can come in, and be with the said Christian and joy can flew in. This joy can then affect every activity that this child of God enderors in whether the child of God is eating, playing, working and living a better life. God needs you to serve him in truth and in spirit and when you do so, you spirit can find joy. For this, Ephesians 5:19 says: speaking to yourself in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord”. For this we are led to final end point which is health all round for all Christians.
HEALING: This is the final aspects of our concentration of therapy of praise. The word of God says in Jeremiah 17:14,
“Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved for thou art my praise”. In another verse it says, “pleasant words are as honey comb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones”.
(Proverbs 16:24)
This blessings of God are for you after dedicating a therapy of praise to God. When you find peace, joy, faith can crept in, you can be able to declear a word and it can come to pass. Healing therefore means the process where the “cells in body regenerate and repair” themselves. It is an act of “healing by a faith and a faith healer, God”. Needing health does not only meant when someone is sick. Therapy of praise is needed for all round healthy life proverb 17:22, says, “A Merry heart doeth good like a medicine but a broken spirit drieth the bones”. From this verse, one can learn that a merry heart in therapy of praise works like a medicine, mends the spirit, the flesh and the bone. Health is made complete with body, bone, spirit are in harmony with each other. A therapy of praise providing you with daily exercises for you every day living.
As God gave Samuel to Hanah, health flowed to the king and to the nation. What else would God not possibly give to you as you take a therapy of praise. Do you need to flush out a negative thought, a negative experiences, a dark past, unhealthy attitude, unhappiness, uncreativity, idleness, unemployment, high blood pressure-over thinking, stress, sorrow, failure, then my dear reader, you must begin at least a thirty minutes, morning afternoon, night therapy of praise, you will give your testimonies. Beloved, these three things are not the only things one gets from having a therapy of praise, knowing God more, developing love for the things of God and communicating daily with God are part of it you have been given one of the tools for a fulfilled life which lies in a therapy of praise, read, it, love it, live in it, try out and therapy of praise today, you will willingly observe to all how peaceful, joy your life had been, and how daily exercise you take in God has given you health.
“And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought, among the people, and they were all with one accord in Solom’s Poreh”
(Acts 5:12)
BE TRUTHFUL: Tell yourself the truth and it will help you in way step you have taken in life and you shall not end up telling lie. You heart will be open until the reality that abound from having a therapy of praise and opened toward praising God more and more.
MAKE A SACRIFICE OF PRAISE: You have found yourself in a testivebieng position, and you still had a therapy of praise is a sacrifice of praise where you have left other things to praise God have a therapy of praise no matter the condition that you find yourself in, even in pain and disturbance and you will see a better difference in life.
LEAVE YOR WORRIES AT THE CROSS: To have successful therapy of praise, you should not carry your problems around especially when you know you cannot be able to solid them yourself. Problems a the foot of Christ, dies with Christ and on resurrection better and new things shall resurrect when you leave your worries at the feet of Christ only then can your heart be free to thank more of the God you have come to seek in a therapy of praise you would not be a child of God who took his hoes to God to mend and would not allow God the change to work claiming that God is too dull and took his shoes back dean to leave your worries to God, he cares for you.
Wait for answer from god: A man or woman receives salary after he or she had worked. A therapy of praise is not meant, in vain. After having a therapy of praise, you should wait for answers, the first signs you should have after your prayers have being offered to God peace and joy of heart, body and soul. You have asked, you have knocked, at the door, and what is remaining is waiting patiently to receive from God.
GOD’S REQUIREMENT FROM YOU FOR A SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
“But the hair cometh, and new is, when the time worshipers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to worship him”.
(John 4:23)
‘And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we behind his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth.
(John 1:14)
SPIRIT: God is spirit and as he verse above in the book of John had rightly said in chapter four verse twenty three means to get connected to God is in the spirit, what God discharges is four spirit and knew if your worthy of being blessed by him. God needs your spirit to be near him, thinking about him, praising and adoring him.
TRUTH: God searches the heat of men, and it is what you say you will be judged. If you say lord, I am a sinner, save me, God will come to you aid. If you are a sinner and claimed to be holy, how God come to your aid no matter how faithful you have bee. You have read the story of Aranious and Saphira and the lies that that they told before God’s people and the result they got from it. God needs your weakness work upon, that’s why you must tell them the truth at all times, especially when having a therapy of praise when you tell yourself the truth, you won’t be living a life in lies, and what gain would you profit if you bid to he you end up like the Chuband and wife who had held to holy spirit, you would have read their story and know God requires truth form you always “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man ministers, let him do it as if the ability which end giveth: that God giveth. That God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever, Amen. (1 Peter 4:11).
A THERAPY OF PRAISE(okechukwu chidoluo vitus)
OKECHUKWU C. VITUS
A
THERAPY
OF
PRAISE
A CHRISTIAN’S SOURE OF PEACE, JOY AND HEALTH
GIFTED HANDS
OKECHUKWU C. VITUS
First published, in 2015
A THERAPY OF PRAISE
Copyright © 2015 by OKECHUKWU C. VITUS
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CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: PRAISE TO GOD IS MANDATELY
CHAPTER TWO: UNDERSTANDING WHAT THERAPY IS
CHAPTER THREE: A THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER FOUR: A THERAPY OF PRAISE AS A HEALING BALM TO ALL PROBLEMS OF LIFE
CHAPTER FIVE: PHYSICAL CRITERIA TO SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER SIX: SPIRITUAL CRITERIA TO SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER SEVEN: WHO NEEDS A THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER EIGHT: OBSTACLES TO SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER NINE: FROM THERAPY OF PRAISE TO PRAISE THERAPIST
CHAPTER TEN: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER ELEVEN: PRACTICAL DAILY THERAPY OF PRAISE
CHAPTER TWELVE: END POINT OF THERAPY OF PRAISE
PREFACE
As a bible student and as lover of God’s word, I have heard the story of David and Saul and the music that David played for Saul. It was recorded that when ever Saul fails ill David would pray his harps (music) and Saul would get well. David devoted praise to God for Saul’s sake and Saul was made whole. Grief, anger, sorrow, self dreams, negative thoughts, wickedness, hopelessness, unemployment are diseases that had no medical cure which only being alone with God in praise devotion can heal. Devotion, sacrifice of praise for the treatment of the mind, body and the soul is a therapy of praise.
As a young man I take time to talk to God as a friend. He had been more than good time. I have found several occupations and I wish to make a fortune in the gospel arena just as David got a job in the house of Saul. Praise gave him a job and in the end a kingship position. David was given from the praises he had given to Almighty God.
Beloved do not be deceived to know that if you spend ten hours a day listening to praise, and you have no intention of becoming a gospel musician that you are suffering from idleness and needs a therapy of praise. If reading is you hobby and you read for ten hours a day and you don’t have any intention writing; please go and find out what pushes you into reading and deal with it. It may be the past, failure, hopelessness, unemployment, loneliness. The moment you deal with this, you may not even desire reading again.
This book is not written for the idle man or woman. This book is written because in everyone of us is either a disturbing spirit, an enemy that needs to be destroyed, a wall that needs to fail, a prison door that God needs to open, alone needs to be alone with you in praise and worship. When you spend at least an hour in devotion to praise for joy. Peace and healing then, you are at the door of God’s mercy and provision. Dear, reader everything in life is not medicine, God had provided a therapy of praise so that every cells, nerves of yours will hear the word of God and obey and the rest of the story is you joy, peace, over flow of miracles and joy.
OKECHUKWU C. VITUS
INTRODUCTION
As a Christian counselor, it is a thing of poly to note that join among the medicines that God had provided for healing of the body and soul, praise was not mentioned. Every forms of food had been mentioned for healing of body and soul but not praise. Love therapy is a therapy that helps a child of God to love his God, love himself, and be able to love others. God created the herbs from the trees and helped man to create ways of using it as a healing. Soon, the white medicine was discovered. Readers, there is a part of God’s provision for our healing. There are unforeseen herbs and medicines that God had provided for man’s salvation. Hope is one of them. Faith is one of such medicine. Abraham had it and was able to have a child of his own at old age. Faith is God’s medicine to believe that tomorrow will be better than today.
And God provided praise to all mankind. I will tell you the truth. Praise is not just a connection to God. Praise is God’s medicine for the cure of sadness, lack of joy, worry, anxiety, insomnia, stress, hopeless conditions of life. All other thoughts. A therapy of praise is needed for the healing of the broken heart. A therapy of praise is God’s provision for enlightenment and joy. How, often would you car to be anywhere until, you come alone to God all powerful with a therapy of praise. The world of God says: “serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing”.
I will reveal one secret thing to you my dear reader, every problems of life, starts with a negative thought or positive unrealizable thoughts without God in it. Excess thought breeds worry, and stress, and then fatigue and then pains and the rest is a story of body failure and probable death. A therapy of praise is God’s food supplement, excessive supplement for joy and peace and miracles. Joy breads alone with God, when your heart is without worry and peace will fall. This physical and spiritual supplement of praise from God has no side effects, just like other medicines created by mankind praise were not provided to mankind in vain. God provided praise as a solution to life crisis.
Proverbs 17:22 says,
“A merry heart doeth good like a-medicine: but a broken spirit driest the bones”.
You probably had read of the story of the fall of Jericho and the devoting of praise that was administered. God made his children do exercise by going round the walls of Jericho and praising him the praise given to God with legs, voice, trumpets was not an ordinary praise, it was a therapy of praise.
Two men were locked up in prisons as they know their death is near. One of their members has been completely God’s enemy. And was caught by God. They knew that if care is not taken, they would be executed soon, they began to give to God all the praise. Praising God even when in danger is a sacrifice of praise. Soon, there was a miracle and they were set free.
Has everything failed you? Are you in trial of doing the works of God? No circumstances can weigh you down if you are alone with Christ. You may not have witnessed what music does to the system of man. You may not have had time to listen to good music. Do you need joy of God to crept back in your family, into your business, into everything you do, then. Engage yourself and the family in a therapy of praise. You can engage your workers with a therapy of praise.
Some Christian children of God whom had enjoyed a therapy of praise had gone round the world with praise as gospel musicians. A therapy of praise prepared them towards their destinies as praise therapists and they were earning honest wage as a gospel musicians. Unemployment died the day that David became Saul’s musician, including idle job or unpaid job. I pray that soon a therapy of praise will be held everywhere, in the school, at home, hospital, prisons, and other places.
CHAPTER ONE
PRAISE TO GOD IS MANDATORY
Praise to God is seen by many Christian children of God that in so many ways. You should note in everything you do, you should note that praise to God is mandatory and not a voluntary action. You may be asking why “praise to God should be made mandatory for every child of God”. It is important to let you know first the meaning of praise, if you are ready, let go……
One thing acceptable in the definition of praise that is prevalent is that “good dead” had been done to somebody to whom there is “need to thank the doer or the giver”. Everything that a child of God has or has given unto you is given to him or her by a supreme being, God. We praise people for doing what is good and worthy of being praised. Praising human being occurs when they had done good things for us. Yet, men can help today and forget you the next day, but there is God whose blessings last for a life time whose blessings, you cannot do without. They are the blessings of God whom all praise and adoration is made to. You do not need to be told; he alone described all the praise. We praise God for so many reasons but one thing is very certain to every child of God, if a Christian child of God praises God for his provisions and blessings only then can God do more for the said child of God. You have to give to God all the glory to be certain that you are not divided from the worship of God. Praise is more than a devolution to God. It is a way to which a child of God show how loyal and how much appreciations he had for the things of God.
Praising God helps you to life up your heart to God in worship. Praise helps a child of God to worship, adore, reverence God more God should be praised alone without objection. Before, you are begged to praise God, in this book, you must be made to understand that praising God is not an involuntary action. Praise to God is a daily activity and a mandatory action; you should never fail to do everyday or your life.
Praise to God is mandatory for you and I for the following reasons: you have heard Christians being fellow Christians to please give praise to God. Today, we would take another approach towards telling you why you should willingly praise God….
LIFE: The life you have is not your product. You are not your productions and make like your God. If you accepted withy your while heart that it’s God who created the while universe and you then giving praise to God is mandatory not optional. You had heard the story of the rich fool and what God did to him. This at least says there is no God. It is God who created Adam and Eve and everything that is on earth. Doctors do not give life and you as a Christian child of God. You had parents who had you and when you grow up, God gave you the chance to have children. You don’t need to be informed that all this are of the work of God. For this it is written in the bible in Palm 127:3 says, “Lo-children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward”.
HOLINESS: Psalm 23:3 – says “But thou are holy, o thou that inhabitant the praises of Israel”. From this verse, you would have grasped some points that only God is holy and wants us to be Holy. He had set a standard for his children to live a worthy and standard life in him, and for this praising God who is all holy and worthy a mandatory for only through him for you be made holy. Praise God who is ever holy for your own holiness which is to come from him only.
Praise to God is mandatory for you and I for the following reasons: you have heard Christians being fellow Christians to please give praise to God. Today, we would take another approach towards telling you why you should willingly praise God…
LIFE: The life you have is not your product you are not your productions and make like your God. If you accepted with your whole heart that its God who created the whole universe and you then giving praise to God is mandatory not optional you had heard the story of the rich fool and what God did to him he atheist says there is no God. It is God who created Adam and Eve and every thing that is on earth. Doctors do not give life and you as a Christian child of God. You had parents who had you and when you grow up, God gave you the chance to have children you don’t need to be informed that all this are of the work of God. For this it is written in the bible in Palm 127:3 says, “lo-children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward”.
HOLIYNESS: Psalm 23:3 says “But thou are holy, o thou that inhabits the praises of Israel”. From this verse, you would have grasped some points that only God is holy and wants us to be Holy. He had set a standard for his children to live a worthy and standard life in him, and for this praising God who is all holy and worthy a mandatory for only through him for you be made holy. Praise God who is ever holy for your own holiness which is to come from him only.
BLESSINGS: God said to Abraham, “Get thee out of thee country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that will show thee: And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and make they name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that cursed thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed, (Genesis 12:1-3).
Whose blessings do you desire for your everyday living? Are the blessings of men? You of course had heard that the blessings that men gives with sorrows and pain. God gives his blessings to you and it comes without living which comes without sorrow and pain, then you must praise God for the blessings you have enjoyed from him, so that you will fit and worthy to receive more blessings from God who is all worthy and capable of giving more blessings as he had given to Abraham.
YOUR SPIRITUAL NEED: “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth: for the father seeketh such to worship him,” (John 4:23). In (Psalm 62:1-12) it says, “my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation”. You need to praise God for the salvation that he has given to you or you are deemed.
ORGANS: Everything in your body is God’s creators. God gave you your organs to use to praise him. A brain to think and reason of this goodness and mercy, a hand to dap and work, a body to dance and walk to the church and to work, a mouth to speak out of God’s goodness to all children of God. You should praise God for the ability to use the organs that he had given unto you for your survival, for the daily bread he head given you through the working of your hands.
THE EARTH: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”. (Genesis 1:1-2). In this verse, you have gotten the evidence of who created the earth and everything in it. God created the earth and gave you dominion over it and not the earth dominion over you. The animal did not have dominion over you. You are made superior to all the things that God has created and God asked you to manage them and make them grow, for this thanking God is mandatory.
JOY: Psalm 30:11, “Thou last turned form my mourning into dancing: and thou last put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness”. Luzeph aniah 3:17. It says; the LORD thy God in the midst of thee is highly; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing”. True by comes from God and not from man, for this going God praise is a duty God deserves from you, because true joy of God is the health of your body, and soul.
PEACE: His only God that gives the peace that surpass as understanding of men. If you desired the peace of God in your life, in all you endeavors, in you family, in your relationships, in your careers, in your daily activity then praising God is mandatory for the peace that men gives are not without sorrows.
FAITH: Praising God for today and tomorrow helps you boost the faith that you had for God. It helps you to develop hope and believe in the things of God, to be with God no matter the condition that you find yourself.
FULFILLMENT: God has brought about so many things spirit and body needs for your fulfillment God gave you the ability to dream. God has his own definition of dreams just like he had given to Joseph in a foreign land. He always gave a vision as he had presented to Jeremiah. God has in this two personality shown that he has already “DESIGNED A BEGINNING AND A GOOD END TO BRING YOU TO AN EXPECTED END”. He therefore asks you to choose them and choose life, and you did, and had a fulfilled life just like Joshua, Joseph, Jeremiah, then “PRAISING GOD IS NOT OPTIONAL, IT IS MANDATORLY”.
HEALTH: Health and heading are God’s gifts to his children you would not understand it as a child of God until you fall sick and you are given a bed at the hospital. God gave you health from the very beginning. For this, you should be grateful to God fast like men of old did, so that health upon health should be added unto you. You should praise the God who made you healthy. For your health you must praise God.
GOD’S WORD: “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word,” (John 1) God has given his words and they are life. And in his words, God deserved your praise and demanded it, and if you are not praising God, you are making God a liar and you ends up becoming a disobedient child of God.
CHAPTER TWO
UNDERSTANDING WHAT THERAPY IS
A therapy is seen as the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis. In medical field, therapy is synonymous with treatment. The term may the referred to as psycho therapy. As a religious counselor, and partly an educational counselor, therapy counseling is a form of therapy administered by a professional counselor in the field best known to him or her. A therapy can take place anywhere depending to what it intends to provide to a given problems of life. There are several forms of therapy such as preventive, prophylactic, abortive, consolidation, supportive, salvage, investigational therapy. A therapy is the healing power or quality.
There are so many list of therapies used counselor’s of several careers of life, a medical doctor is a counselor in the medical field and an educational counselor in the field of education, and a man of God in the field of God’s people.
Family therapy: This therapy is used to mend family problems, stop divorce, mend broken families, and bring pence, joy, love and health to the family.
Adventure Therapy: This therapy is to help people with loss of memory through adventures to a place they have gone before recognize sights and come back to reality.
Water therapy: This therapy is done early in the morning before eating, before eating, to stop dryness of body and help in digestion of food. A body without water ends up becoming dehydrated.
Diversion Therapy: This is the therapy that Pavlov did on learning and came out with theory of learning. For this, learning is increased in the pupil, student by this strategy, everyday by day and it reduces school failures in exams.
Color Therapy: This is a therapy to understand the treatment of eye problems by use of colors, for this, the said the person had to identify a lot of colors and speak out the differences as he/she hold seen it.
Counseling: This is the work of a professional counselor who takes time to speak to a pupil/student over a given problem, and then put them at ease which means successful completing of school.
School Therapy: This earlier is thoroughly done by professional educational counselors who encourage students to desire being in school and be able to finish a grade or section of education successfully.
Dance Therapy: A dance therapy is a body movement therapy. A dance therapy helps in exercise of the body and it is creative. Some had gotten employed with a dance therapy.
Sleep Therapy; This therapy is a cure over stress, insomnia, worry and pain, for they sleep the body and the spirit is at rest which makes the person healthier when he or she wakes up.
Drama Therapy: This is the use of actions and works to deliver important message. In Drama therapy given social oil is addressed and solved using metrons and words while the audience watched, grasp the point, learn, and were happy.
Information: This is the cure to ignorance and that is the work of education. Education therefore tends to fill an individuals heart with knowledge that drives away ignorance.
Light Therapy: The light therapy is used by eye doctor’s to treat eye problems, and to test the patient’s ability to see things properly or not properly.
Massage Therapy: This is strategy is the action rubbing, kneading on hitting somebody’s body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action as in contact sports or to relieve ashes.
Respiratory Therapy: This strategy has to do with the breathing of human beings, in this a person is expected to breathe in and breathe over a checked period of times.
Respiration Therapy: This strategy has to do with the breathing of human beings, in this a person is expected to breathe in and breathe out over a checked period of items.
Sound Therapy: Sound therapy is used to check some one recognize different sounds. It is near to the music therapy and leads to therapy of praise.
Salt Therapy: This is the use of salt to recognize taste of an individual, not only salt is used, sugar, water will also be administered; the ability of the patient to notice each of other is the strategy aims.
Humanist Therapy: A humanist therapy is used to bring back people, victims of war, crime and other social problems back to reality and to appreciation of other fellow human being and to right with the law and with God.
Energy Therapy: This therapy is used and encouraged as a means of boosting energy through overall means to which secrecies and training is a good tool to boost energy ad eating of Good food.
Drug Therapy: This therapy is given to patients who are edited to drugs, patients and people who had abused drugs in several ways and need to be counseled on their drug in take.
Group Therapy: This therapy is needed to help a team achieve its objectives especially where there are several divisions, thrives, religions, careers, understanding among the said group or organization.
Insulin shock therapy: This is a therapy for sugar patients by in taking of insulin once or twice a week. This therapy is provided for the management of diabetes.
Life enrichment therapy: This therapy is needed to boost the fallen standard of life of an individual or people, by provision of jobs, careers and life enrichment support programmes.
Ply therapy: Play therapy is almost the same as drama therapy, only that the child or adult is expected to fully participate in the play as to interact with others and be useful to himself and others.
Rejection Therapy: This therapy is used to help a child of God reject what is not good and accept all the good things that God has presided for the welfare of the child of God.
Writing therapy: This therapy takes care of children’s writing problems and helps them master the art of writing. It cures idleness also.
Music Therapy: This is aimed at using music to solve life problems. This music therapy is a mind diversion therapy aimed at taking away a person’s mind from what disturbs it and fills it with substance of joy and relief. It is this present therapy, combined with almost all the therapy mentioned above to bring us to the point of therapy of praise, which you need as a child of God for your everyday living.
CHAPTER THREE
A THERAPY OF PRAISE
A therapy of praise is formed from the term, of music therapy. A therapy of praise is more than just hearing the gospel of God. It is a willing devotion to praise. A praise therapy or a therapy of praise is the use of interventions to accomplish individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a professional who had completed an approved praise, therapy programmed. A therapy of praise is a Christian allied health profession, and one of the expressive therapies, consisting of a process in which praise made solely to God is used to help children of God physically, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritually in all their endeavors of life.
A therapy of praise involves inviting God in your praise making for the peace, joy and health of your body and soul. A therapy of praise is a sacrifice of praise, praising God in all situations of life. A therapy of praise is the medicine for grief and sadness. In the words of Dr. Don Meon is a trail therapist praise and worship are therapeutic, they contribute to our mental and physical wellness. They are effective treatment for anxiety, depression, nervousness, phobias, despair, insomnia, and many other psychological and physical problems.
When people come to me for Christian guide and counseling I prescribed a therapy of praise for a troubled heart which goes on like this, listen to praise music at least one hour a day, and spend at least thirty minutes a day worshiping God.
The word of God says, “a cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones”, Proverb 17:22. Therefore a praise oriented person will enjoy better physical health. In the words of learn to, turn your eyes upon Jesus look full in his wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of his glory and grace. A therapy of praise is the healing balm, costless healing balm provided by God to his children, for all you need for a therapy of praise is sing and dance to the glory of God who made you in his image.
Praise (music) has been used as a healing force for centuries. Praise is the ancient Greek god of music and of medicine. Plato said praise affects emotions and character of an individual. Aristotle said praise affects the soul, and it purifies the soul. Praise therapy is practiced in the bible when David played the harp to rid king Saul of a bad spirit. A therapy of praise began after math the world wars I and II, when particularly in the United Kingdom, musicians are need to play music for soldiers suffering war related emotional and physical trauma.
The fall of the wall of Jericho is more than an ordinarily praise, remember the children of God have to walk around the city seven times, therefore doing Godly exercise and praising God, and with shouts of praise continued with trumpets, harps, the wall of Jericho failed down flat. You probably have known of Paul and Silas and they prayed and singed even in the midst of destruction and the holy spirit came down.
If you have ever taken the dosage of praise for healing and health, you will confirm with the author that when a praise devoted to God is prayed, the spirit of God comes to the spirit of the hearer and to the body and gave it harmony that the body and spirit can be one. What happens afterwards is that the cells, the nerves, the bones, the skin, the brain, the legs, the digestive systems, the eyes, the mouth and other organs in the body will hear the word of God and will obey. The rest of the story is joy, peace, health, victory and others.
“Keep your eyes on the world and you will be distressed. Keep your eyes on yourself and you will be depressed, keep your eyes on Jesus and you will be at rest”.
A therapy of praise is the exercise that your body and soul needs for your every day successful living. As you are dancing and meditating on praise everyday you are doing exercise, to your body and soul. The body fats, calories, and unwanted water, sugar and salt in your body will hear the word of God and give way for your health and everything that you desired from God. A therapy of praise is the healing power of praise that God provides for his children soon. A therapy of praise involves all other therapies, such it can help set cognitive motor skills, emotional developments social skills, and quality of life of a child of God by praise experiences such as listening, singing, discoursing, dancing.
A therapy of praise is God’s provision for joy, peace and health, for every Christian child of God. A therapy of praise if well done will give you a career and a job and take you away from unemployment to self employment. God’s people as a gospel minister, gospel musician and in our term as Christian counselors, we prefer to call a gospel musician a praise therapist.
CHAPTER FOUR
A THERAPY OF PRAISE AS A HEALING BALM TO ALL PROBLEMS OF LIFE
UNHAPPINESS: Unhappiness is the feeling of not being happy. A Christian child of God who is unhappy is not happy and is sad, not satisfied, unsatisfied, not delighted. For a child of God to be unhappy something must have caused it, but the intention of the therapy of praise is to bring back happiness to the child of God. A therapy of praise is a mind thought diversion. For this, when a child of God is having place, his or her mind is diverted from the present disturbances and taken to the presence of God, who will give it peace and joy. To use a therapy of praise for unhappiness, find the gospel praise that you loved hearing. This will help take away your mind from everything that disturbs it to God. You must be made to know that if you loved no gospel praise of God and praise devoted to God that you as a child of God needed more than a therapy of praise.
LACK OF PEACE: Peace is a state of tranquility, quite, and harmony. It is a state of free oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions. Peace signifies harmony in personal relations, state free of war, in particular war between different countries. There is a kind of peace. That the world gives and the kind of peace that God gives. What does a therapy of praise does to give you peace of body and soul. When you are having a successful therapy of praise you are not thinking of any other thing but God. The God whom you are alone comes to your spirit and give harmony to your spirit and soul and you shall experience a calm and peace that God gives to his children. Everything in your body- the cells, the nerves will hear the word of God. God has a thought for you, they are the thoughts of peace to bring you an expected end.
You must have peace as a purpose or intention, and purpose of having a therapy of praise and get it fulfilled. Romans 15:13 said of peace of God, “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, thou the power of the Holy Ghost”.
EXCESS THOUGHTS: A child of God who thinks of a particular thing for a longer time is said to have excess thought, so is a child of God who thinks too much. Be remained that you can never have peace of mind if you are divided at every given activities of your life and decided, between God and flesh. This dividedness increase your thought and lack of peace you should be rightly reminded that all the problems that Christian children starts from what they think and it leads to headache and spread to the while body, and if care is not taken it may lead to a child of God having a high Blood pressure. A therapy of praise helps you to think more of God who makes all things possible. A therapy of praise will make you not stop thinking but thinking more of God and the good things that God can do for you and you can have peace, joy and health start haring a therapy of peace to divert your mind from everything that disturbs your life and you shall surely have peace.
DEPRESSION: a state of mind producing, long term lowering of enjoyment of life and inability to visualize a happy future. Depression is a period of unhappiness which last longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self injury. My dear child of God, the only guide to depression solving is a therapy of praise. It is a long lasting increasing of Godly enjoyment of life. A therapy of praise is a joy inducement therapy. The Christian counselor cannot afford to give a therapy. Beloved, develop love for God, love yourself, love this things of God, love your family and what you do for a living. The Godly way, love to always read the word of God, make out time for praise devotions pat the praise on. Be alone with God that you hear of in the praise. Surrender that depressed you to God. Consider yourself luck to be among the living. Never forget to also dance to the praise that you are having.
PRAYERLESSNESS: A prayer less child of God lacks the key to correction with God. A child of God who does not pray regularly to God is a child of God whose life is in crisis. Those who praise God pray twice, which is a good thing in the life of God’s children and the church. Jeremiah 17:14, “Heal me, o Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise”. It is known to children of God that a child of God who is praise in a God is equally praying. The more you have a therapy of praise is the more you communicate with God. God needs you to come nearer to him as to be able to understand him and his ways to and participate in bringing God’s glory back to people and a therapy of praise can do that for you child of God.
LACK OF MORAL ETHICS: This child of God lacks the principles and guiding commands of God and is said to be living his or her life in sin. This conforms to the standard of right behavior; sanctioned by or operative on one’s conscience or ethical judgments. A therapy of praise directed towards a prodigal son/daughter can change his or her life back to God. It can change your habit for God and for God over a given topic. It can give to you as a child of God, a good reasoning and understanding towards the things of God. A gospel praise has a teaching that a child of God would grasp from. For this a therapy of praise provides a child of God with God’s principles and tries for a righteous life. Through a therapy of praise a child of God hears more of God and his ways and heart to walk and communicates to his or her creator. Every praise tack and album contains some Godly message that you need for your life, your family, your relatives, your children and all who knew and are called God’s children. It will also put in people’s heart the heart of God’s love for all children of God.
STRESS: The internal distribution of force per-unit within a body reacting to applied forces which causes strain or deformation. It is externally applied to a body which causes internal stress within the body. Stress can be emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal. When you put yourself in Godly stress, negatives results will not come to it. Remember, negative stress in your life existed when you are doing what you don’t love doing. A therapy of praise will motivate you to stress work hard in the things of God. Stress comes with pain and poor health especially when a child of God is doing what he or she hates doing. For this, the child of God should devote love for a therapy of praise, which is very important for a stable and enjoyable life of God and in the Christian ministry.
Phobia: An irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular. An Igbo proverb says that only a toad pursued by its wrong men’s when willing is pursuing it. The first thing you should do as for using and therapy of praise to cure phobia, is to know the cause of the phobia that help you. It may be fear of death, fear of failure, fear of ghost, and other things in life which puts fear in your life. Then select, a praise on while praying to god concerning the phobia, you are I experiencing. The word, of God says if the Lord is your God and your light and salvation, whom shall you fear?
This is no time to start crying over a spilt milk, go over and have a therapy of praise. The phobia may be a spiritual attack unto which praise to God can heal. God can heal all the circumstances of people’s life.
Psalm 10:3 says, “And he hath put a new song in my mouth, (even) praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD”.
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: High Blood Pressure is a common condition in which the force of the blood against your artery walls is high enough that it may eventually cause health problems, such as heart diseases. The more blood heat pumps, the narrower arteries get and the higher the blood pressure. At this point in time as a child of God, you need a therapy of praise. Everything about you will hear the word of God and shall obey the situations that cause the blood pressure and blood blockage will hear the word of God. As you have a therapy of praise. We should be reminded that the word of God says; behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth”.
LACK OF EXERCISE: Exercise is any activity designed to develop or hone skill or ability. Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness. The word of God says in Habakkuk 3:19, “The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my fell like had (feet), and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments”. As dance in a therapy of praise helps he feet, the legs, the body, the brain to go in harmony to the praise offered which meant the burning down of the calories, excess fats which leads to laziness, idleness, uncolating in a child of God’s life. Your spirit also deserved to praise God and deserved to have exercise in God for when you are praising God and your soul rejoiced in the Lord your maker, not only your body but also your spirit is having an exercise. God man dated his children to walk around the walls of Jericho for seven days, preparing their feet’s and hands for the war that they are going to face in Jericho and the long tick to victory. If you have weights, it will reduce and you will find a new you in Christ Jesus.
EVIL SPIRITS: “And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand. So Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him”. Saul was a child of God who had everything going on well with him till he became stubborn and disobedient towards the things of God. Saul was possessed by an evil spirit. Nebuchadnezzar felt too big and asked to be worshipped that he ate food meant for animals and lived with the wild. As David made a therapy unto God, the evil spirit left Saul as the spirit of God took over making Saul be able to regain himself once more again. You can also help yourself with a therapy of praise to ward off the spirits that is not of God in your life, you can use a therapy of praise invite the spirit of God in your life and your life shall be made new and constantly new everyday of your life.
EXCESS WEIGHT: Excess is the amount of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond limits. The beings of a measure bey and sufficiency, necessity or duty that which exceeds what is usually or proper and normal. As young children excess weight stops child from playing with their fellow friends and the class to do works in the school, such children often gets bullied while in school. A person with excess weight cannot do all the things that he or she loved to do. The child of God cannot go places that he or she had loved going. Sometimes, the child of God shy’s away from meeting people. Excess weight makes you. Prone to sickness, depression, weakness and other avoidable problems. You need a therapy of praise serious for a lift of the excess weight. Dance very well, not the sluggish dance and see the removal of excess fats that stops you as a child of God from partaking.
IDLENESS: An idle mind is a devil’s worship and so idleness should not be encouraged. Idleness is the state of being idle. To be is to be empty, vacant not occupied, not employed, doing nothing, of no importance, useless, worthless. A therapy of praise cures idleness especially when the child of God is dedicated to the praise in the sense that the child of God is feeling his or her emptiness with the word of God. A therapy of praise is expected to fall the hearts of children of God. God used to change everything about you including the way that you think and see things. You are man dated to have a therapy of praise. A therapy of praise cures idleness especially when it takes hold of your heart, and spirit, refusing fresh ideas into them.
LACK OF FOCUS ON GOD: “Keep your eyes on the world and you will be distressed. Keep your eyes on yourself and you will be depressed, keep your eyes on Jesus and you will be at rest”. It said, look unto Jesus, the autor and fearsher of our faith. If you understand more and more of the turn praise and think more of God you seek in praise. You should be able to understand that praise is made compulsory to God, the God of heaven who made the heaven and earth. The walking round of children of God over Jericho seems like a purnishment for children of God whose mind are away from God. God needs you to be alone with him. Remember that the topic of praise is all about God so when you are in praise your target is God. You should be able to understand except God helps you, you cannot be able to help yourself and ofcourse as it is written in psalm 127:1-6 saying that except God builds a house the said builder builds in vain. A therapy of praise that is boot held to focus on God may not be fruitful it may lead to a negative disastrous result because it was done on self.
LACK OF MIRACLES: 2nd Chronicles 5:13 said, “It came even to pass, as the trumpheters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the lord, saying for he is good; for is mercy endureth for even that then the house was filled with a cloud even the house of the LORD. My dear, reader, you need a therapy of praise, for your miracles when you devout time to a therapy of praise, that walls of Jericho hindering, your miracles and blessings from God will fall part, the prison that help everything that belonged to you will fade away, the crisis of your life will fade away, every impossibilities will turn out possible. You shall see the goodness of God in the land of the living and you shall testify.
UNHUMAND ACTS: Some children of God had gotten trumatised as a result of war, crisis and problems of life. Some children of God had seen so many wickedness that had existed on this earth some are forced to do some negative things they do regret, extreme wickedness is a case of unhuman acts, to which there is need for a therapy of praise. The word of God said, “when you hear the word of God harden not your heart”. A therapy of praise is intended to bring to people; children of God who had lost the presence of God and it had resulted into so many negative acts such as killing, prostitution, abortion, criminal acts, war crimes and so many others to the CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE LOVE OF GOD. A therapy of praise makes an inhuman, intorarable person human. For this, a therapy of praise is given in public and in private to all people including the displaced persons, thereby infusing Godly life into them and making them adaptable to new life in Christ and adaptable to general life.
IMPRISONMENT: You should have read the story of Paul and Silas and seen how God came to their rescure. Praising God in the midst of danger, death, prosecution is were than the devotion to praise but a therapy of praise. You must not be in prison physically to have a therapy of praise, you may be in prison spiritually. You may have someone who is in prison. When the things in your life are not going as it should be, they are in prison, to which there is a need for a therapy of praise. A therapy of praise devoted solely to God works miracles. God sent thounder and the prison doors and chains were made loose as Paul and Silas gave to God all the praise. Please, endeavor to be like Paul and Silas, and see the freedom that comes with praising God, who knows if it is you who will say to all who care to listen that by praise every yoke is broken.
TORELANCE: A therapy of praise if well done leads to torelance, because God needs it for your joy to be full God hates you disturbing others when having a therapy of praise. If a child of God can play his gospel album without disturbing his or her neighbours, if this child of God is motivated. Your strength is “obedience to God” and you do this by following the spirit leads. When you are obeying the voice of God, you will not want to be a naissance or trouble to your fellow neighbors God hates it.
“I am the God of heaven and of the earth, is there anything too hard for me to do”. God kept asking as this question more than often. For this, he needs co-operation with us and us with our neighbours. By torelance you can motivate your neighbors to have a therapy of praise too, you won’t be distracted having a therapy of praise. A torerant person is a humble and faithful child of God.
ANGER AND HATRED: Anger and Hatred comes to the mind. It means that a child of God did not like something or somebody and would have nothing to do with the something or somebody. God hates anyone who love his or her in anger and hatred to which a happy life takes away. God mandated every Christian child of God to love because love is good for every child of God. A therapy of praise done very well will give you love also fro God and God’s children. You will avoid everything that is a sin because it does not pay. Ask God to praise to take away everything which does make you angry and hate and you will find in while new person in you. Your old you will die away with Christ and new things which are joyful and lovely will enter.
UNSTABLE MOODS: “My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep”, (Job 30:31). Anger, sorrow, pain, remembering of the past all leads to unstable moods of a Christian child of God to which disease of the heart and body and parts of it. An unstable mood could mean anger, hatred but what whatever it is, it does no good for a child of God.
God has a thought for you and they are the thoughts of peace to bring you to an expected end. God wants you to be happy and fulfilled in life. It is for this that God provided you with a therapy of praise to give a Godly mood. A therapy of praise lifts up your spirit towards god and the things of God which are always positive to the ear and to God. When the joy that existed in a praise touches your heart, your life will never be the same.
INSOMNIA or sleeplessness is a sleep disorder in which there is an inability to fall asleep or to stay as long as desired insomnia is an evidence of a disturbed sleep. Insomnia both a medical, sign, and a syptom that can accompanied several sleep, medical, sleep disorder. It can occur in any age. It can lead to all problem which heart disease, addition is one of them. Let us be your guide to what a therapy of praise can do for you. To cure, insomnia with praise, what you must do is (1) Go and take your bath while you pray (2) invite Jesus in your life through praise. (3) Leave your insomnia problems at the cross (4) Know what caused you insomnia, is it worry, stress, veruporking yourself, based habits, high blood pressure, diabetes, room temperature, hopeless conditions, sorrow when you know this put them to the cross and nail them to the cross with a therapy of praise and when they die with Jesus, new things will resurrect to that good and wonderful life will continue and sounds sleep shall fond your eyes, your therapy is praise is not complete without dancing.
LACK OF SELF EXPRESSION: One of the basic duties and gifts that a child of God receives from having a therapy of praise is self expression. As you put on the praise to have a therapy of praise to God, the joy of God takes over your while being and you begin to sing and dance to God. A therapy of praise in singing, dancing in public and private places is all you need to build, your confidence in God, and you can express yourself any where you find yourself.
DIABETES: A group of metabolic diseases whereby a person has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, metabolize, sufficient quantities of insulin. Diabetes is characterized by excessibe thrist and excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine. A therapy of praise puts your body in harmony. The lacking insulin and its provider will hear the words of God and obey. Your system will hear the word of God and shall obey. Jesus heated his children in the bid and is still healing Christians. Take a therapy of praise and watch your body go back to producing enough insulin that will make you testify to God.
VICTORY OVER ENEMIES: “And in every place where the ground staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will fight with it”, (Isaiah 30:32). The battle to win the people of Jericho became an easy battle when children of God devouted praise to God. God took time to prepare his children in his own way. He made his children walk round the place for seven good times making them ever ready for battles”. They blew the trumpets with shouts of praise and the walls of Jericho fall down”. You can now have a therapy of praise and have the walls of your enemies fall down. The lepers were praising God as they walked to the enemies territories not knowing that God had made their feet as strong as the marching of enemies, and the enemies fled and fight each other. He vest of the story is victory. Have a therapy of praise and you shall have to experience the victory of God over all the things that you do in life.
POVERTY: Poverty is divided into two, those who didn’t have and those who have who can’t make a good a what they that they are always needing more you can use a therapy of praise to cure physical and spiritual poverty physical poverty.
As God called on Abraham and he responded to the call of God and proceeded to trigram, God gave him, his blessings and he glorified the God who made him. You need a therapy of praise to be focused on God who can bless you as he had blessed Abraham even if it meant God repositioning you as he had positioned Abraham. Above all, a therapy of praise will make you a contented person who repeats the words of Don Moen in his song, “let the weak say I am strong, let the poor say, I am rich”.
LAC OF FAVOUR: “Praising God, and having favor with all the people. and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved”. All you need to live a successful life is favor from to which you cannot do without it. If God devides to favor you, you7r life will never be the same.
God promised to bless you in the city, to bless been in land and to bless all the works of your hands that you shall lend to many nations and not to borrow. If you are called the industry of praise, have a therapy of praise, who knows if it is in such industry that God wants to bless you in. A therapy of praise will bring joy into everything that you do and in your life, and it will read like magnet to all around you, and goodness of God which surpass all understanding will attract favors upon favors in your life.
“Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the paltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound”, (Psalm 72:3).
“But I keep under my body, and bring it, into subjection: last that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast way”, (1 Corinthians 9:27).
STROKE: The loss of brain function arising when he blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted. A therapy of praise have proved a worthy instrument for stroke patients in he sense that it diverts him as from thoughts and in dancing a bit, exercise takes place. In this, the stroke patient began to love God more and more, and instead of being idle, pressed, happy active and creative, this may also make the patient make a job or career becoming a Gospel praise artist and provider.
HOPELESS CONDITIONS: “As he taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart”. (Proberb 25:20) (Acts 16:25 says “And at mid night Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them”. Your case is not the worst, God has take care of more worser conditions of life.
“That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sack but, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath seth up”. (Paniel 3:5) this children of God found themselves in a helpless condition and they continued to praise the name of God no matte rthe condition, that they were ready to die for God who made them. You would have known of how God came to their rescue.
Hannah was in a helpless conditions of life, she needed a child of her own. She went on her knees to God in prayers at the church. She has her child at the right time. No helpless conditions will be for you if you have a therapy of praise, it is either a victory after defeating Pharaoh, or the victory of Paul and Silas, or she’s blessing at the humilintion of Human. Have a therapy of praise and see how God who answers prayers will turn your life wound for good.
DISEASE; A disease an abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction; distinct from injury or dysfunction; distinct from injury in so far as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired. Isaiah 53:5, “But he was wounded for our trangressions, he was braised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. A therapy of praise is necessary for the harmonization of everything that you desires in life, everything in your body will hear the word of God and shall obey, your nevers, your cells, your legs, your immune systems, even your blood will get tire of seeing illness and disease and will associate itself with diabetes high blood tension sorrows, pain, cancer, and all other disease and the child of God will be made while and free to worship the God of heaven who created him to serve him in truth and in spirit.
FAILURE: Failure is the state or the condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success, a termination of the ability of an item, to perform its required function, breakdown. A therapy of praise turns your failure in to success, as it turns your pain into relief, your mourning into joy, poverty to wealth. Ask God that you do not want to fail again, for failure is not the portion of a child of God. You must know the reason for your failure and with a therapy of praise, you shall never fail again.
STRENGTH: Psalms 81:1 says “sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob”. The more a child of God has a therapy of praise, the more he had exercise in God and the more he or she builds for every day living, and by the courage you have from it, you shall have strength to out not every to circumstances that is not of God in your life.
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou prosper and be in health, even as they sould propereth”, (3 John 1-2).
NEGATIVE THOUGHTS: Negative thought is the state of being negative. By being negative it is a child of God who is not positive and neutral, denying a proposition, pessismistic, not tending to see the bright side of things, unwanted, thoughts in your life, just like praise did in the life of Saul. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full, (John 10:10NV).
“This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Isreal after that time, declares the Lord I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. no longer will they teach their neighbour, or say to one another, ‘knew the Lord’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest”, (Hebrews 8:11NIV).
UNBELIEF: Unbelief is the absence or rejection of belief especially religious belief. The Christ did not believe in the existence of God. “The foll hath said in his heart, there is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good without believing it is difficult to please God.
There is a trace of God in attraction but it takes only the pure in heart to see that there is a trace if God in attraction but it takes only the pure in heart to see that. A therapy of praise will divelt your heart more deeper to God. A therapy of praise will make a child of God’s faith increase day by day, and day by day the said child of God will be energined you will have altered than a mustared seed, faith, which will help you move out of your life all the mountains that pose a blumbling block to your physical and spiritual life.
SORROWS: A state of unhappiness, use, an instance or cause of unhappiness what ever could cause sorrow to a Christian child of God could lead to other problems. Some sorrows is as result of losing a loved one. Eclessistis 3:4 says, “ A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance”. Have you lost a loved one and you are in sorrow, you need a mind and sorrow dicertion therapy which lies in praising God for if you are not careful in sorrow you will give yourself a heart attack. A therapy of praise takes away your sorrows “But ye are a choosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should shew for the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light”, (1 Peter 2:9) when you have a therapy of praise, the word of God says, “Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow, (Jeremiah 31:13).
DISAPPOINTMENT: Disappointment is the emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met. It is a circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met. A therapy of praise will help you to build back self esteem and confifence which is associated with disappointment. David is a praise therapist and when ever David praises God, anointing flow, deliverances are made, hearts are healed, burdens taken away;
A therapy of is a praise positioning tool to position you to the right place by God’s favor, where the right people will locate you. His God taking you to the right place where he can give you more than enough through praise. You can never be disappointed any longer again when you are closer to God with a therapy of praise because praise you will learn that by each disappointment a new way has been pared for your physical and spiritual growth.
“When you sleep off on the truth that you know, you will wake up in an unknown path; you will wake up in a lie”, it is expected that the truth shall set you free you need to be told the truth to what a therapy of praise can do in your life and you will testify to God for all the good he has done for you.
DISGRESS: Distress is a cause strain or anxiety to someone. A therapy of praise can mean a distress call for children of God to God over what pains the child of God. A therapy of praise takes your heart away from everything that has held it in chains and in crisis you would be possessed by the spirit of God most high who truly loose you with all the love in this life. A therapy of praise becomes a Christian child of God distress call to God for joy of the heart. When you make a distress call to God, your life will not be the same. Old things shall pass away and new things will replace them.
UNEMPLOYMENT: Unemployment is a situation where by a child of God who had the skills to work, had look for and applied for a job if you accept that God has blessed people like 50 cent, Rick Ross, Psquare, sinach, samsong, frank Edward, Chinyere Udoma, Don Moen in the area of music and in the field of praise then this set of people who have undertaken a therapy of praise can end up as gospel musicians, some children of God are employed as video producers (Audio producers, video camera men, editor, gospel analyst, writer, public, counselling, observers, healers, some children of God had been known as praise therapists, just like Done Moen, Kirt Franklin and others. Christian children of God have built houses with praises children of God who had been given a job in the vine yard of God as praise providers have gone round the world speaking of God’s goodness to all children of God. With a job as praise many had gotten married, and had children. Begin a therapy of praise today, who knows it might be you that God needs to give bless by promoting you to be a gospel musician.
UNCREATIVITY: When you are having a therapy of praise, tack of ideas are destroyed and uncreative abilities dies with it. A therapy of praise positions you to a life of an overflow. By singing, you became perfect in singing through. Dancing the Christian child of God learns of many dancing steps and dance in gospel or praise activities or videos. The right attitude is to welcome attraction carefully and see how we can used it fulfill a mission of giving life. “It is God who gives you the ability to master all things”. In another translation – “I can do all things through Christ which strength me, (Philippians 4:13) with a therapy of praise, you can do all things with Christ who truly loves you.
CHAPTER FIVE
PHYSICAL ENTERIAL TO THERAPY OF PRAISE
In this chapter is listed and explained physical requirements for a successful therapy of praise. You can not do without any of these items in a therapy of praise, please.
A GOSPEL ALBUM: At album is a group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group. A gospel or praise album is a group you do not just need one praise album, you need to many gospel album as to have a variety of praise to select from you can choose from foreign and the Nigerian gospel albums and buy them. Original copy and not pirated copy because piracy is Bad to God and to humanity.
AN ELECTRICITY: Without electricity your radio would not work so having electricity or its replacement a battery is very important. Where there is no electricity some people uses generators and due to pack of funds for fuels, chargeable radios are advised for people who wish a therapy of praise. This chargeable radio can play for at least thirty minutes to one hour depending on the strength of the battery your radio has.
A SPACE IN YOUR BEDROOM/LIVINGROOM: As you create a space for fouratter you need space in your bedroom/living room for a good therapy of praise, this time a therapy of praise you are having is not for everyone, for it is a private therapy of praise. This space in your bedroom/living room you can be able to dance as you liked. Little space in your room means destroying of your properties if you mistakenly fall on them, and properties are now costly due to inflation.
DANCE: A therapy of praise whether private or public is made complete with a dance. Dance involves, a sequence of rhythmic steps or movement especially in items of praise that is offered to God. Dance will help you more concentrate more with God and the therapy of praise, held.
CHAPTER SIX
SPIRITUAL CRITERIAL TO SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
This chapter is divided into two, there are human criteria to successful therapy of praise and the second is God requirement from you for a successful therapy of praise.
HUMAN CRITERIAL TO SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
A WILLING HEART, when a child of God is not forced to have a therapy of praise, praise to God although is mandatory should also be willingly done. For this, the child of God does not grudge or is complaining when praising God and producing a worthy result from the therapy of praise.
FAITH: Faith in a therapy of praise helps a child of God to believe that his or her efforts are not in vain and that forever that God to whom he or she had come to seek shall fulfill the desires of his heart and the reasons tend purpose the therapy of praise was taken.
OBEDIENCE – Obedience meant doing the right thing and understanding what God wants it’s to do at a particular time or the other the right thing. It is disobedience that made the first man and woman fall to sin. For this, your praise should not disturb others in any way.
DANCE: Without dancing a therapy of praise can not be complete. Dance in a therapy of praise is the exercise that you truly needs for your body, and spirit. It is not necessary to be a good dancer to dance in a therapy of praise, what you need is just be yourself and dance as a Christian would dance.
HUMILITY: This is the characteristic of being humble. Humble means heart to the ground, not proud. God hates those who are proud in the heat. When you are humbled only then can obedience to the rules and regulation flow. For this, you won’t be the reason for the obstacles that will befall you and mar your progress in the therapy of praise.
HOPE: Hope is believing that tomorrow will be great, and that there will be positive results from having a therapy of praise.
ALONE WITH GOD: When you are alone with God in a therapy of praise, you think only of God, and the power and goodness of God, devoting praise targeted to only God, knowing that as it is said, when a child of God thanks God for his blessings only then can the child of God receive more blessings from God.
MAKE A PRAISE DEVOUTED TO GOD ALONE – Praise in repetition is made to God alone. It is to God to all the therapy of praise you made is to. Anything outside the praise that is meant for God, when praise is meant for God alone, only then can God at wholly on your behalf because you are not divided in praising God.
PLAY GODLY MUSIC: Please never combine Godly praise and any other type of music and claim that you are having therapy of praise. God is not inside a music addressed outside him, for this you must check all the music you have selected for the therapy of praise and make them suit the occasion.
CHOOSE SONG AS LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD: By led by the spirit of God when choosing a song for your therapy of praise. It is allowing the spirit of God to help you choose a song for your therapy of praise. Not all songs is good to be used for a therapy of praise, follow your heart with truth when choosing a song for therapy of praise is concerned.
PRAY BEFORE AND AFTER HAVING A THERAPY OF PRAISE: Please it is mandatory for you to have a little prayer of at least for fifteen minutes before starting a therapy of praise. Prayer is the key and should be used at all times. This prayer acts as introducer to the very programmes of praise.
PLAN THE THERAPY OF PRAISE: When a child of God who wants to have a good and successful therapy of praise makes a plan for it, the said therapy of praise will going to be a success, because obstacles that is going to hinder the success of the praise will be looked into and dealt with so that they do not come up and spoil the therapy of praise thereby making the child of God lose interest and abundance the programme before it can produce result.
REPENT OF YOUR SINS: Any sin not handed over to God in repentance, and is forgiven by God may lurke in your heart and deprive you from deep concentration to the things of God and from God, this may make the said child of God having the therapy of praise to loose interest in the programme before it is over.
BE ORGANIZED: When you are organized, everything you are doing will fall into the right place. When you organized, you are not confessed your time, your activities, and behaviors will fall into the right time, and the result would be successful.
HAVE A PURPOSE: A good purpose for undertaking a therapy of praise is an effective tool for a successful therapy of praise. You can have purpose, love, peace, joy, health issues, blessings, miracles, past experiences as child of God, for it will help you understand why you are having a therapy of paise.
HAVE LOVE FOR THERAPY OF PRAISE: Love for a therapy of praise will make you want to have a therapy of praise for hours non stop and still want more because, you have dedicated love for the things of God. Love makes a therapy of praise all wonderful to have therapy of praise.
REMEMBER OTHERS IN YOUR THERAPY OF PRAISE: Prayer is not meant only for you to richly enjoy. So are the blessings of God. A therapy of praise you undertake to praise God is not meant only for you. A therapy of praise that is successful is meant to “suit the sorrows, heal the wounds, and wip away tears”, of not only you but of your neighbors hearing your voice and children of God you have remembered in it. Praise offered in faith on behalf of others can raise the death, heal the wounds, and bring back you to those who mourn, and make all impossibilities possible, for you and others.
CHAPTER SEVEN
WHO NEEDS A THERAPY OF PRAISE
There is a book I have read which says, who needs deliverance? I love the said book because it listed the conditions that a child of God would find and know that he or she needs deliverance. In this chapter, there are conditions that present it and one would know that he or she needs a therapy of praise.
• You are a child of God and you are always sad and lacked happiness, and joy.
• Are you suffering from fear?
• Do you have a negative thought as a problem?
• You cared to reverence God and his mighty deeds?
• Are the battles of your life battering you?
• You need a practice made perfect?
• Are you living your life frustrated with the way everything is going on in fear life?
• You have no chance for daily exercise in the morning throughout the day and you are adding weight day by day and want to have daily exercises?
• A problem has posed a great difficult in your life and becomes a mountain that you will want to move out of your life?
• Is there past experiences, you used to remember after you have confessed them which posed a threat to your physical and spiritual life?
• Are you mal nourished in the things of God?
• Are you feeling rejected and abandoned by God and man?
• Do you need a healing balm?
• Do you have God’s dream like Joseph and needs the dream to live?
• Do you need the peace of God in your life?
• Are you a shy Christian child of God and wishes to be confident in handling problems and people, and develop a better self expression?
• As a child of God, you cared to devout more time to prarising God?
• You are in so much thought that you finds it difficult sleeping.
• Are you like Paul in the bible who has an evil spirit is tormenting and would need a change from God most high through praise devoution?
• Everyone had a battle to fight just the children of God as they walked to go through Jericho. You have heard the story of what happened that day from the bible? Are you facing life battles and challenges?
• You cared to leave what pains you are in, the hands of God?
• Are you confused with life?
• Is your problem idleness?
• Are you staying indoors and away from people all because, all because of the past experiences of your life of God?
• Are you an extreme introvert?
• Do you know and believe that praising God meant getting connected to God twice?
• Do you lack words for talking to God as father and friend?
• As a child of God, you would have read the story of Naomi and the life bitter and you need God to season it with goodness and mercies?
• Has God given you song for his children?
• Is pride a problem that affects your life?
• You care for peace in your family?
• As a child of God, all you want to do is to tell the while world of God’s goodness for your life and the life of God’s children.
• You have a high Blood pressure which is as a result of thoughts, and other accumulates problems of life which only God can solve.
• Are you like Hanah, and it seemed as if joy had been stolen from your married life, and like Hanah, you need a child and the peace of your family, the excitement of the home.
• Are you in grief over a loss, especially death of a loved one?
• You are feeling heavy and obessed you want to slim down a bit?
• Are you finding yourself too heavy to do what you used to do before?
• Are you broken and heavy laden?
• Is unemployment your problem, God can grant a job after a therapy of praise in a firm, in your own firm or make you a gospel musician which in our book he or she is called a praise therapist.
• Are you a prayer less child of God?
• You mind seemed dull and cold towards all the things you used to do before and you seemed uncreative.
• Have you over worked yourself, that people are calling you a workaholic?
• Are you alone with self?
• Have your faith in God, deeply reduced from what it used to be?
• Are you a displaced child of God who needs to be connected back to God?
• You are seeking something from God?
• Are you a covetous Christian?
• You are a sinner that needs to be righteous?
• You want to draw closer to the God that never change, who said to Moses, I am whom, I am.
• You want to praise God no matter the condition of life?
• Do you want to develop more joy for the things of God?
• Talking to God over every situations of life is what you need?
• Has God called you to the ministry of praise and you did not answer?
• Do you want to be a vessel unto God, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use and prepared unto every good work?
• Healing comes from God who created every children of God in his own image and likeness, and you need healing, from above?
• Finally, is your life with out testimonies, which shows fulfillment of God’s promises?
CHAPTER EIGHT
OBSTACLES TO SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
Any activity that flows without any hindrances probably leads to nowhere neither for this; this book tends to bring out the obstacles associated with a therapy of praise. There are some examples of obstacles to therapy of praise as listed below;
UNWILLING HEART: When a child of God is forced to worship God or praise God, the said child of God’s heart will not be either in worship or in the praise devoted to God. A child of God who is having a therapy of praise without a willing heart will not produce a better result like the child of God who seeks to have a therapy of praise with a willing heart, and the God he or she came to seek will be near to him or her.
ALONE WITHOUT GOD: A child of God having a therapy of praise and not alone with God has not invited God in his or her practice. This child of God is having a therapy of praise with self, and the result may be more disturbances, more pain, more confusion, more sadness, lack of peace and poor health.
A DISPLACED CHILD OF GOD: A child of God living in sin is a displaced child of God. A prayer less child of God is a displaced child of God. A displaced child of God needs to be connected back to God first before trying to have a therapy of praise. This creates a huge gap between God and man. If God is not present in a child of God’s therapy of praise, there can’t be true joy, peace and health.
SIN: Sin displaces a child of God from the God that he had come to seek. God’s hand is not short but it is this sin that separates us from God. A child of God in sin cannot communicate freely with the God that he or she had come to seek, for this; the approval of God over the therapy of praise held by the child of God may not exist or is with held.
NOISE: When a person having a therapy of praise puts the volume of his praise to the extent that it disturbs others, then it becomes a naissance to the neighbors and to all around him or her. A person who makes noise with praise is a disobedient child of God and such a therapy may not have the approval of God.
LACK OF FAITH: Faith makes life beautiful for every child of God without faith; it will be difficult for the said child of God to believe on the therapy of praise that it will produce the needed result. It is needed to make every child of God who wants to partake in a therapy of praise that without faith will end up not pleasing God.
LACK OF PURPOSE: This is a child of God who goes into praise without any aim or desire from God. Without purpose of having a therapy of praise, the effort is wasted. A child of God who is having a therapy of praise without a purpose is like a child of God who is seeking to find a given house without a given map and address. The lack of purpose in a therapy of praise exists so this child of God may not know when God has answered the wishes of his or she for partaking in a therapy of praise may not know the beginning or the end.
DOUBT: Thamos is known as a doubter because he would not believe. He would not believe except he sees and feels it. No matter how far you preached to a doubting Thamos, the doubter will not believe. A child of God who goes into a therapy of praise with doubt will not be an effective as a child of God who into a therapy of praise with faith.
LACK OF CONTINUITY: This are children of God who starts one programme and lacked the ability to complete them. A child of God will do a successful therapy of praise today and will not do the therapy of praise the coming day or even the following week, only to continue and stop again. For this, the said child of God cannot experience a longer lasting effect from God in the therapy of praise.
IMPATIENCE: An impatient child of God would not wait for God to finish his or her work. To the impatient man, the patient man is a fool. When the result of a successful therapy of praise is not faith coming the said child of God loses interest in therapy of praise and discontinuity exist. The said child of God may be forced to abandon the whole process of therapy of praise completely.
SEASON: A child of God motivated by season in a therapy of praise will always be interested in a music that interest people instead of playing or choosing music as it suits the purpose or problems that made him or her go into having a therapy of praise in the very beginning, by this is displaced from reality.
UNWILLING PRACTICE: A willing practice in a therapy of praise will produce, a willing result for children of God. It is a wosthy thing to inform all the children of God that an unwilling practice in a therapy of praise will produce an unwilling unwanted result and by God with produce the needed result.
LACK OF LOVE FOR PRAISE: For a child of God to stay up to an hour hearing gospel praise, the said child have developed love for praise. Without love for praise in a therapy of praise, a therapy of praise becomes a dull and boring activity for the child of God, and it leads to discontinuity of therapy of praise.
LACK OF ELECTRICITY: Without electricity the said child of God cannot have a good therapy of praise and the chargeable radios cannot be charged. Generators makes a lot of noise and so is not good for therapy of praise, it leads to unwilling discontinuity to therapy of praise offered to God by a child of God.
INFLATION: This is the increase on prices of musical products such as televisions, videos, and memory cards, downloading of musics and buying of radios. A poor child of God who is still struggling to eat will then manage and buy an ordinarily radio and wait for radio stations to play gospel musics for him making a therapy of praise on irregular activity.
LACK OF TRUTH: A child of God who is not worshiping God in truth cannot be truthful to himself when having a therapy of praise, and this will lead the child of God to having a false praise made and offered to God, and this may lead to unwanted result in life.
CHAPTER NINE
FROM THERAPY OF PRAISE TO PRAISE THERAPIST
“There is nothing I cannot master with the help of the one who gives me strength,”
(Philippians 4:13)
It is a warning please, if you have love for reading and you don’t have any intention to do with the reading, please go and find something else to do. A therapy of praise is meant not to last more than one hour. So, if you have to spend at least five hours hearing Gospel or praise, it is assume you have interest in moving over from a therapist of praise to having and becoming a praise therapist.
WHO IS A PRAISE THERAPIST?
A praise therapist is someone who provides therapy to people. A praise therapist is a Christian child of God who uses praise as a therapy to solve problems of children of God. A praise therapist is a child of God employed in the industry of praise provision to children of God: A praise leader in the house of God, a choir with its members are praise therapists. David is a well known praise therapist “who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can shew forth all his praise? (Psalm 105:2). This explains the work of the praise therapists, they take time to give to God all the praise, whether it is public or private. A praise therapist starts from hearing praise to giving out of praise to children of God who needs it. Anyone who is interested in praise and inspired in praise can go into the ministry of praise and find everlasting joy, peace, health, job and fulfillment in life.
David showed us as typical example of a young man who praised God for fun not knowing that praise by use of cymbals and music instrument is what God has given to him to make his destiny shine. He was playing gospel music to the animals that even lions fell under anointing that he was able to snatch his lamb from its mouth. You probably had heard of his journey to Saul’s palace and the incredible job that God did with him and how he led God’s people to worship God with praise. You have read a book you can never fail to read as a child of God called, the books of psalms, proverbs and ecclesiastics, they are written by David.
You probably had heard of a gospel musician by name Don Moen, and his song which says: “I am the Lord, that health thee I am the Lord, your healer. You sent your word and healed my disease you are the Lord my healer”. Would you need to be told that in the concert where Don Moen sanged and performed this song that healing took, that God touched the lives of many and the rest was testimonies.
Dear child of God, God is calling you to the ministry of praise. God has so many ministries. Ministries of sharing with the needy, ministry of preaching the word of God, ministry of counselling, ministry of prayer, and also ministry of praise. When God welcomes you with a talent in ministry of praise as a gospel musician, you are already a praise therapist. You ofcourse, knew that there are many gospel musicians in Nigeria, and from them, you do know being a gospel musician or a praise therapist is a blessing from God and a job needed by those who needed them.
The problem of becoming a gospel artist is that you become known every where you go you have your pictures everywhere. Even the people that you do not know about knows you yet, it is a good thing to excel in one’s work. In conclusion the world of God says in psalm 105:43-45 “And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness: And gave them the lands of the healthen; and they inherited the labour of the people; that they might observe his statues, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
HOW TO BECOME A PRAISE THERAPIST (A GOSPEL MJSICIAN)
1. Develop love for praising God and see if you loved hearing gospel musics.
2. This love, of Gospel praise is necessary that you can develop untiring love for praising God.
3. Buy a small recordable radio, so that any time God gives you a chores you don’t want to forget, you will willingly, record it and keep.
4. with in some days, you would have had atleast ten to fifteen chorus
5. Began to practice those choruses and be perfect to it.
6. Start writing down the verses.
7. Start saving every money you have, from your work as to pay the production of your album.
8. By God’s grace, you will find a good studio, and producer
9. saving plan: make a plan for saving and be glad with it.
10. To have and do a better praise practice; be a member of a praise team.
11. If you can’t find money up to eight thousand for a track up to atleast ten tracks which will get you eighty thousand, form a team of six maximum, and contribute and produce the album.
12. Search and pray for a better marketer who will market your music
13. When God gives you a praise marketer/producer your album will be made available to the public. Soon you will be called up to competitions, shows, gospel presentations, and by God’s grace, you do win awards and promotions.
14. By God’s grace, you will present praise shows, praise talks, your praise videos, your face will be used for advertisements, you become a Christian star and model.
15. Ofourse, you are employed and making a life from praise you can then save and live a fulfilled life, full of dedication to God, you will go to show, or praise any place you are needed in which God is praised in truth and in spirit and it will not take you away from the God, you are talking about.
16. A therapy of praise and praise making is a life time advertising. There is no stopping in praising God until one dies and goes back to the creator.
CHAPTER TEN
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE THERAPY OF PRAISE
“And David and Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing and with harps, and with patteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets”,
(1Chronicle 13:8)
Praise to God can take place anywhere. There is no significant place that is provided for God to work and for every child of God to praise God. God is spirit so that best place, praise takes place is in the spirit where you harvest connection with God. As human, it is either you are praising God at home and outside the home. Let’s go on and understand what public and private therapy of praise meant.
PUBLIC THERAPY OF PRAISE
“Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing”,
(Psalms 100:2)
Public meant a thing, or person able to be seen by everyone, open to general view, happening without concenlment, pertaining to all the people as a whole, both rich and poor, reached and unreached, open to all concerned. It is a praise made in the open where no child of God is restricted from participating in it.
A public therapy of praise is praise devotion given to God for all. It can take place in so many forms. A church crusade, and a time was created for praise. There were seminars and programmes on praise that have been held in so many churches, in the world. A public praise therapy is intending for the mass praising the lord. A public therapy of praise is made for everyone, both rich or poor, so far the person is a Christian child of God. In public therapy of praise children of God gathers together to give all the praise to God, and to lift the name of God high above any other thing knowing that as it is said in the bible that, “one wise chase just but a thousand and two will chase many thousands”.
After wining the battle-against phawah which God singley fourght the battle and gave his children victory. The book of psalms was written for God’s people by David, who won God’s heart by praising him all day and night. In some public therapy of praise some praise presenters prefers to call it praise night, praise assembly, praise day and I have a better title, A HARVEST OF PRAISE. In a public therapy of praise, people are free to dance as they wanted to.
It is in the praise therapy done in the public that the opportunity to practice the new praise which God has pattern into their hearts and use it to make impact on fellow Christians. There is no special pattern to either a public or private therapy of praise, your purpose for undertaking a therapy of praise mattered to God may be taking you to praise for a reason, for this the word of God says, THERE IS NOTHING I CANNOT MASTER WITH THE HELP OF THE ONE WHO GIVES ME STRENGTH (PHILIPPIANS 4:13)
“Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done, for them of my father which is in heaven”, (Mathew 18:19).
PRIVATE THERAPY OF PRAISE
A thing is said to be private, for it belonged to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group, not in the governmental office or employment, not publicly known, protected from the view of disturbance by others, secluded. Things or people that are private is intended only for the use of an individual, group, or organization. Things that are private are personal.
A private therapy if praise is a personal praise devotion. When it was difficult for Paul and Silas and they did not know what to do, they started a willing personal praise to God. Their was a sacrifice of praise even at the face of death. You probably had heard of the story. A therapy of praise is most suitable in the morning and at night.
Testimonies upon testimonies was recorded when children of God has a successful therapy of praise with God in the comfort of their home, anywhere, they liked. Unhappiness vanished in the life of Saul when ever David played harps, cymbals using them to thank God. Testimonies of healing had failed the Christian community with the mircals that had taken place with praising of God. A private therapy of praise can mend a broken home with need for joy because a family that praise God together is a happy home/family.
A private therapy of praise helps a child of God who wants to go into the gospel music career or praise to God career either as a singer, chorusers, instrumentalist, song writer, music editors, music analyst, praise producers, praise publishers, praise writers, in being perfect in Gospel and producing the needed result for God, and God’s children. Philippians 3:1 says: “Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe”.
“The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy, he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing”.
(Sephaniah 3:17).
CHAPTER ELEVEN
PRACTICAL DAILY THERAPY OF PRAISE
At the time of David praise was done by crude instruments which are still prevalent to this day especially, when there is no electricity. For this, praise have grown higher and higher than it used to be. In Davids time, the drummers and others makes up it complete music set but today everything that a child of God has ever needed to have a good therapy of praise is assembled in a cassette. All you need is an album of gospel musician. We want you to have a better therapy of praise, so, here is a lost of practical guide to a better therapy of praise.
• Recognize the problem, disturbances you want to solve, such as worry, over thinking, high Blood pressure and over stress, anxiety, diabetes work together. Another is the fear of death which seems to as life burdens increases.
• Remember, PRAISE IS MADE COMPULSORY TO GOD, NOT VOLUNTORY, you are not doing God a favor praising him, you are doing youself a favor for more of God’s goodness and mercies which you need for a fulfilled life. For this, you must come to God “willingly without being forced”:
• When you come to God in a therapy of praise, your heart is prepared to understand that praise is “meant for God alone and only those alone with God” can have a successful therapy of praise.
• You must have electricity and a music set or a charged radio or a radio with external battery with an album of a gospel musician.
• Begin an opening prayer and pray for about five minutes.
• Make sure there is a space in your room where you are standing so that you can dance without spoiling anything.
• Leave your worries listed in a paper, and dropped at the alter in your room.
• Leave your worries, thought and past to God so that you can concentrate and be alone with God, whom you have come to seek.
• Select a praise album concerning your worries.
• Put the album on and began to sing softly with it.
• Remember, this is a private, therapy of praise where noise is not allowed.
• Dance! This is the exercise that you don’t have time for.
• God hates disobedience, and disturbing praises. So make sure the praise you put up for the therapy of praise suits the environment and the people. It must not be noisy, God needs you not noise making.
• Pease, don’t spend the whole day listening to gospel music or praise, except you are Christians like me who praise helps work better when being alone. This is done so that you don’t say you are idle because you are having therapy of praise.
• It is only in public praise therapy that the way you dance is monitored. You are free to dance as you like in the therapy of praise, so far your dancing does not make. Your loose concentrations.
• You must be time conscious to know that in the morning a therapy of praise must not be beyond thirty minutes, and at night, a therapy of praise is limitless of time as long as the beholder can manage.
• Develop love for praise so that you can’t get tired praising God.
• Never forget that praise is meant to connect you only to God and not to your past or to the problems of your `life.
• Please, note that if you don’t have a purpose of having therapy of praise that you are, just having praise, for a therapy of praise is a devotion to praise and is a sacrifice of praise towards solving a given problem.
• God is not a failure you should not fail to complete each round of a therapy of praise, that is why a thirty minutes therapy of praise is most appropriate except you have the energy and time to do so. If you did not complete or accomplish a given time set by you, it seems as if you have failed.
• When you start a therapy of praise, you should know that there is need for a continual process. You have to make a plan that will last for a week, two or a month, atleast a week, as to have a lasting effect of the therapy of praise that you have taken.
• You should be reminded that those who comes to God must do so in truth and in spirit, for God is a God of truth and is a spirit.
• Confess your sins before the start of the therapy of praise, so that you would be at peace with God and yourself.
• You can do a therapy of praise anywhere, so far it does not disturb or cause neiussance to others.
• Be confident as you have a therapy of praise; for it is one of the gifts of therapy of praise in peoples life.
• Alone with God in a therapy of praise means concentration only on God in the praise and having at least 80% concentration.
• Never forget that praise is made to God alone and only to God.
• Desire making a career in praise either as a member in your choir, praise band, praise members in a Christian organization which you belonged to.
• Be a doer of what praising God, and good message you have learnt from acceptable gospel album that you have used for therapy of praise.
• Utilize what you have learnt from therapy of praise to make life better and more meaningful to God’s children around you.
• Expect answers from God and not from man for when God answers your prayers, you may end up a gospel musician. Romans 15:13, says, “Now the God of hope fill you with all “joy and peace” in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost”.
• Never forget that those who God pray twice. You must know that as you praise God you are praying a second time, for this, you are expected to (push) “praise God until something happens”.
• Don’t forget that a therapy of praise you had can change a sinner’s life. It can mend people’s life. You can encourage Christians to take part of it, and produce the same result as you had.
• One hour is enough maximum time for a good therapy of praise except you have an intention of becoming a praise therapist, a gospel musician. Children of God who whose clinics lies in using praise to solve problems of unhappiness, lack of peace and health develop more love for God and other.
• Read one two verse in the bible and close the therapy of praise and see the results that will pour out from it.
• Note: if after a therapy of praise and you are still disturbed. Please, go back and have another therapy of praise, your concentration is not 100% with God. Finally the word of God said in James 5:15 saying,
“And the prayer, (praise) of faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him”.
CHAPTER TWELVE
END POINT OF THERAPY OF PRAISE
Beloved after reading this book or staying alone with God in a therapy of praise and you were not able to have to joy. “Peace of life, you desired then you cannot receive health of body and soul for you stayed alone with the problems of life instead of God and you need to have another therapy of praise for peace and joy are God’s primary tools of answered prayers which leads to health”.
From the above statement it is necessary to pin point three end points of a successful therapy of praise which is being explain wider as they are being listed.
PEACE: Peace is defined as a state of “tranquility”, “quiet” and “harmony”. For instance, a state freedom from civil disturbance. In another of peace, it is a state freedom oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions. Peace is HARMONY IN PERSONAL RELATIONS. Have you ever had quiet times out side your home but in the church and what do you feel? Beloved, peace don’t find you there is a problem.
A therapy of praise takes your heart from worry, anxiety, from every thing that oppressed you, spiritually and physically, and clears your emotion. A therapy of praise puts you at peace, your body, soul, emotions at rest. As you dance to the tune of God’s praise, the pain you feel you won’t feel them again. You past won’t be remembered. All that oppresses you will be a forgotten activity and you shall have the peace of God which surpases all understanding you can only have absolute peace when you are alone with God. This peace will be felt every thing you do all round, in you relation with God and man, in you place of work, in your marriage, and the result will be success in all the things that you do in life.
Abraham despite his childlessness, he had the peace of God. Let’s do a practical work to praise. You are at work, doing other things then, you decided to go to church. As you enter praise is going on, what do you feel? Can you tell? First, you are forced to forget other things and concentrate on the present activity. Secondly, you do get settled to the present condition with your body and spirit in it. Thirdly, ask God the giver of peace to abide with you as you go through giving God all the praise and your words will be our testimony.
JOY: Joy is said to mean a feeling of happiness, extreme, cheerfulness. A therapy of praise was especially meant to give you joy of life in all things, giving your heart the freedom that it deserves. You will give so many testimonies of the joy you found as you devotes time to a successful therapy of praise. Child of god taking a dosage of praise to God is without sorrow, anger or anxiety. “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of Holy ghost”, (Romans 15:13). If praise don’t give you joy then you need to reconsider your step and have a rethink.
Joy found Moses heart after Pharaoh and his warriors had been drowned at the red sea. Should we need to measure the abundance of joy that existed in the life of Jaushua as the children of God conquered Jericho and as the wall of Jericho fall down, putting the people of Jericho in fear and panick. A young man who is suffering from idleness found joy in having a therapy of praise has become a gospel musician. David found joy giving to God all the praise and he tot a double job to serve the king and became the king and even wrote the book of psalm.
Beloved, it is when a Christian child of God has found peace with God that true joy of God can come in, and be with the said Christian and joy can flew in. This joy can then affect every activity that this child of God enderors in whether the child of God is eating, playing, working and living a better life. God needs you to serve him in truth and in spirit and when you do so, you spirit can find joy. For this, Ephesians 5:19 says: speaking to yourself in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord”. For this we are led to final end point which is health all round for all Christians.
HEALING: This is the final aspects of our concentration of therapy of praise. The word of God says in Jeremiah 17:14,
“Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved for thou art my praise”. In another verse it says, “pleasant words are as honey comb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones”.
(Proverbs 16:24)
This blessings of God are for you after dedicating a therapy of praise to God. When you find peace, joy, faith can crept in, you can be able to declear a word and it can come to pass. Healing therefore means the process where the “cells in body regenerate and repair” themselves. It is an act of “healing by a faith and a faith healer, God”. Needing health does not only meant when someone is sick. Therapy of praise is needed for all round healthy life proverb 17:22, says, “A Merry heart doeth good like a medicine but a broken spirit drieth the bones”. From this verse, one can learn that a merry heart in therapy of praise works like a medicine, mends the spirit, the flesh and the bone. Health is made complete with body, bone, spirit are in harmony with each other. A therapy of praise providing you with daily exercises for you every day living.
As God gave Samuel to Hanah, health flowed to the king and to the nation. What else would God not possibly give to you as you take a therapy of praise. Do you need to flush out a negative thought, a negative experiences, a dark past, unhealthy attitude, unhappiness, uncreativity, idleness, unemployment, high blood pressure-over thinking, stress, sorrow, failure, then my dear reader, you must begin at least a thirty minutes, morning afternoon, night therapy of praise, you will give your testimonies. Beloved, these three things are not the only things one gets from having a therapy of praise, knowing God more, developing love for the things of God and communicating daily with God are part of it you have been given one of the tools for a fulfilled life which lies in a therapy of praise, read, it, love it, live in it, try out and therapy of praise today, you will willingly observe to all how peaceful, joy your life had been, and how daily exercise you take in God has given you health.
“And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought, among the people, and they were all with one accord in Solom’s Poreh”
(Acts 5:12)
BE TRUTHFUL: Tell yourself the truth and it will help you in way step you have taken in life and you shall not end up telling lie. You heart will be open until the reality that abound from having a therapy of praise and opened toward praising God more and more.
MAKE A SACRIFICE OF PRAISE: You have found yourself in a testivebieng position, and you still had a therapy of praise is a sacrifice of praise where you have left other things to praise God have a therapy of praise no matter the condition that you find yourself in, even in pain and disturbance and you will see a better difference in life.
LEAVE YOR WORRIES AT THE CROSS: To have successful therapy of praise, you should not carry your problems around especially when you know you cannot be able to solid them yourself. Problems a the foot of Christ, dies with Christ and on resurrection better and new things shall resurrect when you leave your worries at the feet of Christ only then can your heart be free to thank more of the God you have come to seek in a therapy of praise you would not be a child of God who took his hoes to God to mend and would not allow God the change to work claiming that God is too dull and took his shoes back dean to leave your worries to God, he cares for you.
Wait for answer from god: A man or woman receives salary after he or she had worked. A therapy of praise is not meant, in vain. After having a therapy of praise, you should wait for answers, the first signs you should have after your prayers have being offered to God peace and joy of heart, body and soul. You have asked, you have knocked, at the door, and what is remaining is waiting patiently to receive from God.
GOD’S REQUIREMENT FROM YOU FOR A SUCCESSFUL THERAPY OF PRAISE
“But the hair cometh, and new is, when the time worshipers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to worship him”.
(John 4:23)
‘And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we behind his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth.
(John 1:14)
SPIRIT: God is spirit and as he verse above in the book of John had rightly said in chapter four verse twenty three means to get connected to God is in the spirit, what God discharges is four spirit and knew if your worthy of being blessed by him. God needs your spirit to be near him, thinking about him, praising and adoring him.
TRUTH: God searches the heat of men, and it is what you say you will be judged. If you say lord, I am a sinner, save me, God will come to you aid. If you are a sinner and claimed to be holy, how God come to your aid no matter how faithful you have bee. You have read the story of Aranious and Saphira and the lies that that they told before God’s people and the result they got from it. God needs your weakness work upon, that’s why you must tell them the truth at all times, especially when having a therapy of praise when you tell yourself the truth, you won’t be living a life in lies, and what gain would you profit if you bid to he you end up like the Chuband and wife who had held to holy spirit, you would have read their story and know God requires truth form you always “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man ministers, let him do it as if the ability which end giveth: that God giveth. That God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever, Amen. (1 Peter 4:11).
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