Sunday, October 16, 2005

praise = strength

Psalms 8:2
"From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise..."
Praise had a superscript letter on it-- and it said "strength". Hmmm. Praise. Strength. It goes on to say, "...because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

PRAISE IS STRENTH!!!! It's by praising God that we silence the devil and his tempations, burdens, troubles, etc. WOW!! Just by praising God we overcome so much!!

Take Job, for example. so much stuff happened to him that would make anyone give up any hope God. Yet he persisted in praising God, and he OVERCAME.

Remember that song "You have turned my mourning into dancing, You have turned my sorrow into joy....This is how we overcome, this is how we overcome..."

Keep praising God, he commands us.

2 comments:

whendee said...

Praise is also a form of prayer. When we're praying, we're supposed to be concentrating all our thoughts and emotions to God, loving, worshipping Him and even asking from Him.

I find that in a way praise does a lot of the same things because when we do worship and praise, it's when we get most involved in concentrating on God and not ourselves.

Teeheee.. just a lil bit o' something that whendee realized. ^^;;

Matt said...

strenth??? your missing a G

Job is the best example! cause wehn we praise God, we're focused on God, and when we're focused on God we can do anything!