Shout to the Lord
Psalm 27:6 (ESV) And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the Lord.
Psalm 32:11 (ESV) Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
Psalm 33:3 (ESV) Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.
Psalm 47:1, “Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!”
Psalm 66:1–2 (ESV) Shout for joy to God, all the earth; 2 sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise!
Psalm 71:23 (ESV) My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.
Why should we shout?
Hebrew word “shabach”, means to address in a loud tone, to triumph, to shout, to command, to glory. This is a shouting praise – you do not sing it, you shout it. A shout commands our victory. It stills the enemy. This kind of praise is a battle cry, a cry of victory.
This is the word used when the Israelites shouted and the walls of Jericho came down. A praise shout is a weapon of spiritual warfare. When we face walls in our lives, we need to give a shout of victory to see the victory.
Joshua 6:5 (NIV) “When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”
As we shout a praise to God, walls will fall – walls of sickness, walls of poverty, walls of oppression.
John 11:43 (ESV) “When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”
Lazarus, having been dead, and buried for four days, already believed to be putrefying, came out of the grave alive! When we shout in victory, the enemy is discomfited; the dead come back to life. Some people only shout out of fear; and that’s the wrong shout; ours is the voice of triumph. We shout ahead of the battle; ahead of the challenges.
Today, shout to God with loud voice.