PRAISE,
POWER OF

A MAN was trying to teach his horse to obey and to stop and start on command. The man was a very religious man, so he came up with a couple of religious statements to use in training his horse. He trained the horse to go on the command words, “Praise the Lord!” He trained the horse to stop on the command word, “Hallelujah!”

One day he was riding the horse and it took off. He lost control of the horse and he forgot his words. The horse had been trained to only respond to the key words. Up ahead was a cliff, and the horse was headed there full speed. The man tried thinking of every religious word he’d ever heard of. “Amen! Jesus saves! Worthy! Holy!” Nothing worked.

Just as the horse approached the precipice, the man shouted out, “Hallelujah!” The horse stopped right there on the edge. The man wiped his head and said, “Whew, Praise the Lord!”

Praising the Lord is not some kind of casual meaningless activity. There is power in praise.698

[Worship, Motivation for]

Ps. 150:1–6; James 5:13