Psalm 34:1 ‘I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth..
- DAILY READING 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:16; 2 Kings 19; Nahum 1
The story is often told of an old century king who went on a hunting game with his friend, who was a Christian. While trying to shoot an arrow, the king deeply wounded himself and his thumb came off. His friend said, “Praise God because He’s in control.” The king was furious with his friend for praising God, when he was wounded.. And so he threw his friend into prison. Shortly after that, the king went hunting with some friends in another land, somehow he became lost and found himself alone in a vicinity he had never been before. Suddenly he was surrounded by cannibals. They had tied him up and were ready to cook him when they saw his hand with no thumb. Because of this defect he was seen as being imperfect and so they decided not to cook him, but rather released him.
On his return to his own country, the king went back to his friend and apologized, saying “You were right. Not having a thumb saved my life.”. His friend replied “Praise God that you put me in prison and did not take me along.’ “How can you praise God?” the king asked. The friend replied “If I hadn’t been in prison I would have been hunting with you, and perhaps we would have gotten lost together, and look, I have two thumbs. I would have been cooked”
Obviously in this illustration, the King’s friend chose to praise God at all times. No matter what happened, he saw God working everything together for his good. And indeed that is how we should view challenges. In everything, in every situation, we must learn to give glory to God. As long as you glorify God, He will cause all things to work in your favor.
Psalm 34:1 says ‘I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth’.
Especially in this year, we must choose to bless The LORD at all times, giving Him glory in every situation. Prophesies cannot be fulfilled in a depressed state and so to see a manifestation of this year’s prophecy of glory, we must be ready to continually engage the weapon of praise. Indeed to enforce our harvest and experience a forceful turnaround, we must choose to bless God continually.
Remember, praise is the birth position. When you praise, dreams come to pass and prophecies are fulfilled. When you praise, supernatural doors open. When you praise, chains are broken.
In every situation, you can praise your way to victory. When we turn up our praise, like Hezekiah, we are going to see an increase in our years and Like Jonah, we are going to break out of every fish belly of limitation and bondage and fulfill God’s call. Like Joshua, every Jericho wall of resistance will come tumbling down and we will march into our Promised Land.
It doesn’t matter how big that obstacle is, through praise, you can have the victory. If you’ll dig your heels in and refuse to complain but rather, offer up a sacrifice of praise, God will show up for your rescue.
Indeed it is your year to see beauty for ashes. And if you will only keep judging God faithful in every situation He will cause every challenge to culminate in glory for you.
PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for causing me to experience a ‘fearful’ fulfillment of every prophetic word concerning me this year. I chose to praise You at all times, knowing that indeed You are causing all things to work together for my good in Jesus Name.
QUOTE
When God places His hand upon a man in life nothing can come against him, this is because the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.