Have you ever thought much about how we are supposed to praise God?  I mean, literally, how….like what are we supposed to do or say that expresses our praise of Him, and to Him.  
I grew up thinking, and for much of my adult life, that I had to specifically use the word praise in order to tell Him, or others , that I praised Him. It’s really only been the last fifteen years or so that I came to realize that giving God praise is about more than a word , and it’s also been in these years that I’ve grown to recognize that my joy increases when I give God praise….more to come on this ….