Psalm 32:7 ‘You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance.’
DAILY READING – • John 21; 2 Chronicles 33; Psalm 89:1-18
Darlene Deibler Rose, was a Christian missionary in Papua New Guinea and the first American woman to enter the Baliem Valley of New Guinea. She served there as a missionary with her husband during World War 2.
Soon after the Japanese declared war on America and attacked Pearl Harbor, they also attacked the island where the Deiblers worked in the Pacific, and made them prisoners of the Japanese Imperial army.
Darlene Diebler was taken to a prison so terrible that the prisoners preferred death. Yet she held on to God‘s Word and strived to be a good soldier for Jesus Christ. She risked being punished with death, by preaching Christ to the cruel Japanese officer in charge of their prison camp, telling him how much God loved him, visibly shaking the officer by her words.
A most harrowing experience came when the Japanese authorities accused her to be an American spy and summoned her to the dreaded Kempeitai prison for solitary confinement and intense interrogation. On the final day, she was led into another room where she was meant to be executed. She saw her executor begin to draw his sword, and she began to prepare her mind to meet her Maker.
At that moment, the Lord brought the song lyrics to mind, “I’ll live for Him who died for me!”
She felt confused that the Lord would bring a song to her in such moment of great despair. However, as this song began to play through her mind, at that very moment a car screeched to a halt at the front of the building where she was. Before she knew it, she found herself being whisked away by other officials and returned to Kampili, her previous camp. God had delivered her from death.
She later learnt that the Japanese officer she had preached to, was the one God used to save her. On hearing that she was about to be executed, he had lobbied for her rescue and had come in the nick of time to whisk her away.
She was later released from the prison and continued with her missionary work.
The truth is that everything visible and physical is controlled by the invisible and spiritual. And to effectively handle the visible and physical world around us, we must correctly utilize the invisible and spiritual weapons God has given to us.
Praise is a spiritual weapon that can instantly break every visible yoke and bondage and grant you speedy deliverance. It doesn’t matter how tight any situation may appear, when you engage the spiritual weapon of praise you can effectively overcome it.
We live in a world where we constantly face battles and all manner of oppositions as we try to carry out God’s assignment. This is why out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, God has ordained praise as a way of stopping the enemy and the avenger.
Praise is a covenant escape route that God has ordained for believers. This is because praise will always bring God on the scene for our deliverance.
We need to constantly maintain an atmosphere of praise and joy around us because we constantly need God’s Presence. It is not a matter of whether we feel like it or not. As a matter of fact anything that can hinder your joy is hindering your deliverance. But as we develop a grateful attitude, and constantly live a life of thanksgiving and praise, we will see manifestations of God’s power, and significant miracles in our daily lives.
PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for the grace to constantly engage the power of praise. Thank You Lord for helping me to overcome every obstacle to my joy, and to constantly live a life of praise and thanksgiving in Jesus name.
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It is only when you can see God in the light of who He truly is that you can begin to walk in the overflow of His blessings. – WORDBITE 222