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Miriam perhaps learned warfare from her mother. When the Hebrews departed from Egypt for Canaan. she became a prophetess. When the people were safe across the Red Sea and Pharaoh's horsemen were drowned, we see Miriam leading the people in worship--playing on a tambourine and dancing joyfully as she led the song. "Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea." (Ex 15:21) She was probably the first person to teach praise and worship as a means of warfare.

Even our tambourines and musical instruments can become weapons of war. Isaiah 30:31, 32 tells us: "The voice of the Lord will shatter Assyria; with his scepter he will strike them down. Every stroke the Lord lays on them will be to the music of tambourines and harps as he fights them in battle" (NIV).

Praise and worship are actually weapons of warfare. "From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise. because of your enemies. to silence the foe and the avenger" (Ps 8:2. NIV). When we spend an hour just praising and worshiping. we do great damage to Satan's kingdom. We thereby stop Satan's attack against us.

Praise and worship are weapons against the New Age movement, the Occult, Satanism, witchcraft, and all the establishments Satan is using today. Psalm 149:6-9 tells us: "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth. and a two-edged sword in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen. and punishments upon the people; to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord."