Praising My Way Through…
Psalm 16:7-8 (Amplified Bible)
7I will bless the Lord, Who has given me counsel; yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons. 8I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
One of the key elements I have discovered in my walk with the Lord is when adversity hits, that I need to find a vehicle by which to get me out of my present state, whether that state has come to kill, rob, or destroy I have the ability to pray, praise, worship, fast, read my word or any combination of these weapons that I have learned. They are all powerful and very effective when used properly. But in this season, I have found that my prayer, my praise and my worship are the three weapons in my arsenal that are becoming sharpened and cultivated. I am finding that when something hits me and tries to make me depressed or cause me to relive pain, I begin to pray and praise my way free from those feelings.
Have you ever been around a farm, or on a farm? Have you ever been on a farm when it is time to begin to plant? The farmer must prepare the ground to receive the seed. He usually will take a tracker with a special tool on it designed to turn over the hardened earth. As the blades rotate it flips the dirt and readies the soil to receive. Praise is that same way. Praise will turn over and even remove things out of our lives that will block us from receiving what God is trying to do in our lives, speak into our spirits and what He is trying to sow down in us for days to come that will be harvested later. We do not often understand the value of our praise. It is an offering to God and it opens us up, it clears our heart and our mind to receive the Word of the Lord. Praise helps us to be strengthening enough to stand and to endure, even when unforeseen things hit our lives.
Are you cultivating your praise? Do you even have a praise, so when things go wrong, that your praise can help, move you into right standing with God to prepare you to receive what God has and to see the significance in what is happening in your life, whether that something is good or bad? When we have the ability to praise, we have the ability to refocus and to turn over or move out things that will hinder our growth, movement and ability to function in God. Praise will make room for the Spirit of God to have His way in our lives. Our praise will ready the soil of who we are for God to plant His seeds to grow and mature us, so that when He is ready to harvest our gifting’s and callings they will have grown in fertile ground. So no matter what it looks like praise your way through it. God will speak to you through the praise and in the midst of your praise. Don’t despise your circumstance or your situation just realize that when you praise there will be a fire ignited that will burn out what is impure in order for us to get to God and God to get to us!
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