Bob Strom covers the gospel song "Praise the Lord" with three vocalists trading spoken exhortations and sung refrains. Strom recalls performing it 40 years ago at Gardner-Webb College. The piece weaves personal testimony with calls to reject despair and Satan's lies through active praise and faith.
This is one of my all-time favorite songs, and I first sang it 40 years ago when I was a student at Gardner-Webb College at the time. Praise the Lord.
When you're up against the struggle that shatters all your dreams, when your hopes have been cruelly crushed by Satan's manifested schemes, when you feel the urge within you to submit to earthly fears, don't let the faith you're standing in seem to disappear.
Praise the Lord!
He can work through those who praise him.
Praise the Lord!
For our God inhabits praise. Praise the Lord! For the chains that seem to bind you serve only to remind you that they drop powerless behind you when you praise him.
Now Satan is a liar, and he wants to make us think that we are paupers when he knows himself we are children of the King.
So lift up the mighty shield of faith For the battle must be won. We know that Jesus Christ is risen, so the work's already done. Praise the Lord! He can work through those who praise him.
Praise the Lord!
For our God inhabits praise. Praise the Lord! For the chains that seem to bind you serve only to remind you that they drop powerless behind you when you praise him.
Praise the Lord!
He can work through those who praise him.
Praise the Lord!
For our God inhabits praise. Praise the Lord! For the chains that seem to bind you serve only to remind you that they drop powerless behind you when you praise him, when you praise him, when you praise him. When you praise him, when you praise him, when you praise the Lord.
