Years ago we lived in a house without running water unless you want to call running to the well and running back running water. One day we decided to put carpet in the restroom and my wife liked it so good we ran it all the way to the house. Anyways, I think you are getting the picture. The winters were cold but we learned to adapt until it got down to 9 degrees and then we came out. Some would call that the good ole days, but those days were cold days to my wife and two children. Anyways I told you all that to tell you about the night I went outside to the well and asked God to help me find a better place for me and my family to live. We had decided to live there to save money to build a house; we had brought some property and had it all planned out so we thought. Things were not working out to well and I prayed and asked God to forgive me for trying to do it my way and would He please help us. He did; a few days later my Dad showed up and asked me to go and look at a house that was for sale. I did and at first glance it didn't look much better than where we were except it did have water that you didn't have to run to the well to get. The bathroom had a sink and toilet but no bathtub; so we decided to buy it and we felt like the Jefferson's, we were moving up. The days ahead were exciting to say the least and before it was all over we had a bathtub, new roof and central heat. It all start that night out by the well and that night I learned something very valuable it is a small six letter word called "PRAISE."
Psalms 150:1
Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
Psalms 150:6
Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 145:18
The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
Psalms 145:19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
When you are praising the Lord, you silence the devil. When the darkness seems to be closing in, you can literally praise the darkness away. The one place the prince of darkness will never be is in praises to the Most High God. If we aren't praising then we may be allowing the devil to get us to dwell on our past, our fears, our pain, our worries, our doubts. Right? Those areas are Satan's playground. They drown you in anxiety, guilt, discouragement and depression when we allow him to do that to us. We can choose to live in the past or we can bust out of the darkness into the Lord's marvelous light.
1Peter 2:9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: Whether or not the light or the darkness is winning in your soul is a matter of what you choose to dwell on. I can tell you. God, on the other hand, wants you to choose to dwell on what He's like, not what your situation is like.
When you're praising your Lord, you are choosing to dwell on the awesome things about Him that have never changed and never will, including in the middle of your dark moment. You're celebrating the good things He's done in your life instead of frustrating over your struggles. It's celebrating Jesus, whether you feel like it or not.
When it's the darkest, when it's the hardest to praise Him, that is when you need to praise Him the most, because praise is that blinding light from heaven that dispels the darkness and banishes your enemy. It's your choice what you choose to think on today. 1John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
But if we walk in the dark, as the enemy is in the dark, we won't have fellowship with any one, and the anxiety, guilt, discouragement and depression will keep you in darkness and doubt and never deliver you from your sin.
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