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Monday... There is power in praise.


Psalm 35:9-10 (NLT), "Then I will rejoice in the Lord. I will be glad because he rescues me. With every bone in my body I will praise him: 'Lord, who can compare with you? Who else rescues the helpless from the strong. Who else protects the helpless and poor from those who rob them?"

Monday... There is power in praise.

Have you ever stopped and thought about how much power there is in praise? Oh, we probably remember the power of put downs especially in Junior High School. Those were difficult days for most of us and we have tried to forget them.  But a complement went a long way back them and it still does today. I remember what one of my teachers said to me. He praised me and it has stayed with me.

There is power in praise.

Over in Joshua 5:1 there is a verse that says, "When all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings who lived along the Mediterranean coast heard how the Lord had dried up the Jordan River so the people of Israel could cross, they lost heart and were paralyzed with fear because of them."


I'm sure you have heard the story of God, the children of Israel and the parting of the Red Sea.  Now that story is told all through the Old Testament of the Bible and it is a major encouragement of what God can do and here he did it again at the Jordan River. Over in Joshua 3:5 it says, "Then Joshua told the people, 'Purify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do great wonders among you."

And Joshua 4:23-24 says, "For the Lord your God dried up the river right before your eyes, and he kept it dry until you were all across, just as he did at the Red Sea when he dried it up until we had all crossed over. He did this so all nations might know that the Lord's hand is powerful, and so you might fear the Lord your God forever." Praise is telling what God has done in your life and there is power in praise.

There are many reasons why God works the impossible in our lives and one of them is "so all nations might know that the Lord's hand is powerful, and so you might fear the Lord your God forever." The Message says, "so that everybody on earth would recognize how strong God's rescuing hand is and so that you would hold God in solemn reverence always."

Let's not waste what God does in our lives, let share it. Let's praise him and tell others what he has done. Yes, there is power in praise. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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