Praise Through
"true faith celebrates before the miracle happens, as if the miracle has already happened, because you know that you know that God is going to deliver on His promise."
I struggled a little with the above statement. It does not seem like we should assume that God is going to give us what we are praying for. Then I realized that the end of that statement was "on his promise."
Has God put a promise on your heart? If he has then you need to celebrate it!
I have been praying a prayer circle and this section has made me focus more on praising God for what he has done and what he will do versus only prayer.
God deserves our praise for so many things!
Sometimes our personal difficulties cloud our vision and keep us from giving praise.
Praise is mentioned about 250 times in the bible. Close to the same amount as prayer is mentioned. That is probably a pretty good indicator of how important praise is.
"Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise:
be thankful unto him, and bless his name." Psalms 100:4
"Praise the Lord. . . For His merciful kindness is great toward us,
and the truth of the Lord endures forever" Psalms 117:1-2
"Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness" Psalms 150:2
"I will praise Your name, for You have done wonderful things." Isiah 25:1
"Praise the Lord! For He has delivered the life of the poor from the hand of evildoers" Jeremiah 20:13
"And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God" Luke 18:43.
We all need to keep circling our Jericho with prayer and with praise!
3 comments:
God inhabits our praise, He wants to hear praise from us in all circumstances and on all occasions. I also had never thought about praising Him for something that hasn't even happened yet. In the chapter where it talks about the past verb tense when God tells Joshua, "See, I have DELIVERED Jericho into your hands," really made the whole idea of praising though come to life. The walls of Jericho had not fallen yet and as it says, the battle was won before the battle even began! That is mind boggling when you think about it. I know God knows the outcome before we do, but we need to praise Him as if we also already know the answer to the prayers we are offering up to Him. Praise Him for the answer He is going to give and continue to pray and praise through until that prayer becomes a reality.
I feel like this all comes back to faith. When we have faith in God all things will happen according to his will and that should be praised! We should praise God each day for all the things he has given us and for those things that are to come. This includes even trails.
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