I encourage every leader to change your coercing…I mean proposition on praise!
(Nicely put re-evaluate the method and approach)
1. The bible says “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
2. Then it says, "because you have REJECTED knowledge I also reject you. thou shall not be no priest (you can’t serve me.)" "The Lord said since you forgot the law of God I will also forget your children." (Hosea 4:6)
Praise is the law of God, by not adhering to it you put everyone under your lineage in danger!
3. There are 168 Bible Verses about Praise. They are all intentional!
4. We were created to praise! It’s not a choice it’s a commandment. (Psalm 150:6)
5. God requires praise because that’s where He lives, through you! (Psalm 22:3)
5. Remind or inform people that praise actually reflects the fact that we are the righteousness of God. We are to put on praise (that means it’s something we wear) because it covers the part of us that desires to buck against the truth IN us.
“We are spirit. We live in a body. We possess a soul.”
“Rejoice in the LORD, O ye RIGHTEOUS: for Praise is comely for the upright." (Psalms 33:1)
"Put on the garment of Praise for the Spirit of Heaviness." (Isaiah 61:3)
If you have to coerce people to praise then we need to either re-teach or realize that people have rejected God’s law and therefore that will cause more harm to them and their seed. That’s their choice!
The question is not why am I dancing or why am I praising? The REAL question is why are you NOT praising!?
*There are also different forms of praise so don’t get stuck in what PRAISE look like. Remember your perception in that moment is not necessarily truth. In other words it’s not always about a dance, but it is always about a Sound! Even when you praise Him with your heart (that’s with understanding) it is compounded with giving Him glory*) (Psalm 86)
So while praise is objective, your reward or lack of is subject to your actions. (Objective knowledge requires active and subjective processes.)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/829/1800
http://www.zachicks.com/is-god-inhabits-the-praises-of-his-people-really-biblical/
But whose fault is it if the people don’t understand why they need to praise informatively?