The power of praise...

Isn't it ironic how you can be in a place of greater hunger for the things of God, longing for a more intimate relationship with the Father, seeking to offer genuine praise and worship from a place deep within your soul...and then life happens. One attack, then another...all designed to make you shift focus from the Problem Solver to the problem. Why are we so easily shaken? Why can't we see that there is power in our praise and worship? The enemy sees it and he attacks with the intention of stripping us of that power. If he can cause us to stop praising and worshiping, he's already won. When we allow adversity to get us away from that very special place with God, we essentially give our power away...we don't even put up a fight. We allow feelings of sadness, anger, frustration and disappointment to disillusion us and cause us to turn away from the One who has the power to deliver us. It is time to take back our power; to praise like never before, to make worship an integral part of our lives. We must praise Him for all He's done, worship Him for who He is and trust Him to make it all right. Our praise must supersede our pain. This, that and the other shall all pass, but our praise, our worship...should be here to stay.