Praise Is What I Do!

Scripture Of The Day:

"Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God." - 1 Samuel 30:6 (NKJV)
I have come to know that as the challenges and temptations of life come my way, that if I can just make my way into a praise, if I can just turn my attention to the goodness of God, if I could just position myself to praise him, it is in my praise that I find the strength to deal with whatever it is facing me.


There’s something about the praise. It’s in the praise that I recount how good God is, has been, and will be to me. It’s in the praise that the pain lessens, the struggle subsides, and the spirit begins to rise.

We spend every day, sometimes all day, tangling with temptation, fighting with frustration, following God’s voice with hesitation...and that will wear you out. Every time we deal with a challenge, we have to release a portion of what God deposited in us the last time we spent time with him. He can only deposit in us if we’re hooked up to him. We hook up to Him through worship; we hook up to Him through prayer; we hook up to him through praise. When you feel like you’re running on empty, just praise Him. When you need refueling, praise Him. When the day has you feeling defeated, the situation has you subdued, and the problem has you paralyzed, just praise Him. Praise is what I do.
 
In 1 Samuel 30, we see David and his men coming home to Ziklag after battle only to find that the Amalakites, the enemy, had raided Ziklag and burned it to the ground. In addition to this, the Amalakites, the enemy, had carried off the women and children and everyone else but without killing anyone.


What has it been like when you have come home only to find that your home has been broken into, your car has been broken into, your personal stuff taken; your material possessions messed with? The flesh rises up, the pressure goes up, your vision is blurred; you’re just angry. When you have to battle the flesh in the moment, it takes every ounce of strength you have to stay holy.

When the emotions take over, that’s when we must dig deep and allow the Holy Ghost to stay in control. The bible says in verse 3 that when David and his men saw the ruins and realized what had happened to their families, they wept until they could weep no more. What does this say to us today? There will be tears, there will be discouragement, there will be fear, but it’s through our praise that we remember “greater is He who is in us, than he who is in the world.” (1John 4:4)
 
It is through our praise that we remember that if God be for you who can be against you? It is through our praise that we remember, we’ve been through this before, we’ve seen this before. It is through our praise that we remember how God delivered us last time.

Acts 16:25 tells us that at around midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God, and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was an earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bands were loosed.

Somebody called on the Lord in the midnight hour. And when they called on the name of Jesus, he answered them.

He turned their midnight into morning. He turned their sorrow into a shout. He turned their problem into praise. He turned their worry into worship.
 
When Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God, the prisoners heard them.


There are some prisoners sitting right next to you; There are some prisoners who need the bands loosed;
There are some prisoners who need to know what to do to get loose; The answer is simple. Tell them, “Praise is what I do!”


By Pastor Marvin Moss
Be Blessed!

Dawn