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Paul tells us in Philippians 4:6 to never forget to thank and praise Him for all He does and has done for us, and to pray about everything while not fretting or worrying about anything, while telling our God what we need and about our concerns, and to let our petitions and praises shape our worries into prayers and praises to God ... It's a matter of realizing that we have nothing vs God's everything, and that He can do anything and everything because of who He is! The space between our doing the best we can for Jesus and our needs is God taking His Word and sending it exactly where He chooses, and we just stand back with awe and praise Him to see how it impacts our life.
Our job is to praise Him while He works for us ... He wants us to trust Him implicitly, which only naturally then flows into praise and worship and adoration to Him, as we obey His Word telling us to love Him with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our strength (Mark 12:30).
Our God wants a people who will not only pray but to also praise Him, and the Bible is full of stories of victories won because men and women praised the Lord ... the walls of Jericho fell when Israel praised God ... Paul and Silas were delivered from prison and won others to Christ because they praised Him! If there are needs in our lives, bring them in prayer before the Lord, then by continued praise He assures us of the victory, because praise changes things ... praise Him and He will flood our souls with joy!
If we are in a testing place, surrounded by circumstances which point to defeat, praise the Lord for five minutes and praise will cure the blues and joy will come with victory as He promised ... start praising Him now to get ready for Heaven which is continually filled with the praises of God's Angels and His Redeemed!
When you're up against a struggle that shatters all your dreams, and your hope has been cruelly crushed by Satan's manifesting schemes, and you feel the urge within you to submit to earthly fears, don't let the Faith you're standing in seem to disappear, JUST PRAISE THE LORD!
He can work with 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 with 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!
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