Praising God

we had a discussion a few days ago at music practice about "praise"
what does praise mean:
- looking up to someone and worship him/her
- singing
- acknowledging someone and glorify that person's name
- few other ideas tht i couldnt remember:(:( :):) perhaps u can/ want to add some ideas?? :D:D

we often think of praise as singing only in church and tend to only praise him when we're at church, but what does the bible really say about praising God?? Lets look at Romans 12:1-2: " ¹Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual^a]">[a] act of worship. ²Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."
That verses is telling us that we have to offer our body as living sacrifice which should be our act of worshipping God and in a way praising God too becoz when u praise someone u'll worship him/her too.

Then what does it mean to praise God with our body and how do we do it in a practical way??? do we dance for him, do we sacrifice our body to him??? what do we do?? Romans 12: 1-2 is urging us not to conform to the pattern of this world in viewing God's mercy and having a new mind so that we are able to understand God's perfect will. So it means that in a practical way, we are encourage to be different from this world and not following its rule. For example, if the world is telling us to show off our talent when we sing/ play music, we dont do it because we knows that if we do that we're not viewing God's mercy as we sing/ play music (even christian music/songs) but rather to gain glory for ourselves and its not an act of viewing God's mercy. To offer our body as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God means that we act differently with the world and change our minds so that we can understand his perfect will for us.
To praise God with our body means that we're using our body to please God and praise him and it doesnt only happen through singing. Singing is only oneway to praise God but its not THE ONLY way to praise God. To use our body means that in everything that we do in our day to day lifes, we praise him through doing those things and by having a new and transformed mind, we are able to discern God's will and act in a way that is pleasing him.

So to praise God with our body is to use it everyday and praising him with it through things that we do everyday and by having a transformed mind we are able to differentiate what should we do that is pleasing him.

Knowing all this, what should we do so that we'll praise God everyday through using our body???

i hope u find it encouraging guys to change the way u live knowing that we are given this body so that we can used it to praise him just as i did find it encouraging... :D:D
lets praise him becoz he is an awesome god and how do we know that he is awesome???becoz he loves us and sent jesus to died for us in the cross in our place even while we were still sinners (romans 5:8) :D:D