When we stop praising, we get stuck in the muck and mire of our own problems. All we can see is the here and now. But, something supernatural happens when you rejoice in the Lord. You are lifted out of the prison of impossibility and translated into a realm where you can do "all things through Him who strengthens me" (Phil. 4: 13). Get your praise on! Get some music pumping into the atmosphere and change the course of your day. Turn the Word on in an app. or CD, or podcast and play it in your car, in your house, at work (use earplugs, lol). There really are "Wings of Praise." I even wrote a song by the same title. The wings of praise can take us above our situation. We are never under the circumstances! We are above and not beneath. We are the head and not the tail. Satan is under our feet!
When you praise, you go into a phone booth looking like Clark Kent and you come out looking like Superman!
When you praise, you go into a phone booth looking like Clark Kent and you come out looking like Superman!
Mr. Jones called his pastor from the hospital one day and frantically said, "Oh, pastor come quickly, my son, John was just bitten by a rattle snake and is at the point of death." Of course the pastor hurried to the side of the worried father. "Pastor, pray for my son!", cried the father, " I have promised the Lord that if my son recovers, I will come back to church and bring my family and will again start living for the Lord."
Of course, the pastor prayed. He said, "Dear Lord, we come to you now in behalf of Mr. Jones’ son. We pray that he might recover from this snake bite. We want to praise your name for sending this rattle snake to bite John! This one rattle snake has done what I or the church has been unable to do in the life of Mr. Jones now for over 5 years. During all this time, he has not been interested in his spiritual well-being or the spiritual well-being of his family and this one rattle snake has turned his mind back to you. Lord, could it be, what we may need in the lives of many of our other church members are bigger and better rattle snakes?"
Of course, the pastor prayed. He said, "Dear Lord, we come to you now in behalf of Mr. Jones’ son. We pray that he might recover from this snake bite. We want to praise your name for sending this rattle snake to bite John! This one rattle snake has done what I or the church has been unable to do in the life of Mr. Jones now for over 5 years. During all this time, he has not been interested in his spiritual well-being or the spiritual well-being of his family and this one rattle snake has turned his mind back to you. Lord, could it be, what we may need in the lives of many of our other church members are bigger and better rattle snakes?"
Monday, we will look at how "Praise shatters Anxiety."
ACTION STEP: Get into the Holy Ghost Phone Booth-The Word of God. When we get in the Word, the Word gets in us just a surely as the poison of a rattlesnake gets in us if we are bitten. What's in us-is what comes out of us.
ACTION STEP: Get into the Holy Ghost Phone Booth-The Word of God. When we get in the Word, the Word gets in us just a surely as the poison of a rattlesnake gets in us if we are bitten. What's in us-is what comes out of us.
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