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PRAISER YOU KNOW PAUL AND SILAS FACED AN UNEXPECTED TURN OF EVENTS AFTER THEY CAST THE SPIRIT OF PYTHON OUT OF THE YOUNG SLAVE GIRL. SHE USED HER DEMONICALLY INSPIRED TALENTS TO MAKE A PRETTY GOOD INCOME FOR HER SLAVE MATERS. LIKE MODERN DAY PIMPS, THEY SAT BACK AND COLLECTED MONEY WHILE SHE DID THE WORK. WHEN HER MASTERS SAW THAT SHE NO LONGER HAD THE GIFT, THEY BECAME INFURIATED. THEY WENT LOOKING FOR PAUL AND SILAS AND DRAGGED THEM INTO THE MARKETPLACE TO THE AUTHORITIES...ACTS 16:19... NOTICE THAT THEY DIDNT TELL THE JUDGE, THESE MEN CAST A POWERFUL DEMONIC INFLUENCE OUT OF OUR SLAVE GIRL AND NOW WE CANT RIP PEOPLE OFF ANY LONGER. INSTEAD, THEY SUDDENLY BECAME VERY PIOUS. THEY CLAIMED, THESE MEN, BEING JEWS, EXCEEDINGLY TROUBLE OUR CITY; AND THEY TEACH CUSTOMS WHICH ARE NOT LAWFUL FOR US, BEING ROMANS, TO RECEIVE OR OBSERVE...VERSE 20-21. KEEP IN MIND, PAUL WAS A JEW AND HE WAS A ROMAN CITIZEN. HOWEVER, THE LIES THE TWO MEN TOLD INCITED THE CROWD. OUTRAGED, THEY MOST LIKELY STRIPPED PAUL AND SILAS FOR FURTHER HUMILIATION, AND THEN BEAT AND WHIPPED THEM PUBLICLY. FINALLY, THEY THREW THEM INTO PRISON. THE JAILER PUT THEM IN THE INNER PRISON FOR FEAR OF THE CROWD AND MAGISTRATES, AND THEY CHAINED THEIR FEET IN SOCKS. WHAT A DAY! PAUL AND SILAS WERE ON THEIR WAY TO PRAYER. THE SPIRIT OF PYTHON ROSE UP TO STOP THEM. THEY CAST IT OUT. THEY GET JUDGED PUBLICLY, BEATEN SEVERELY, AND THROWN INTO PRISON. THEY WERE PUT INTO THE DEEPEST SECTION AND CHAINED WITH HEAVY STOCKS. I CAN IMAGINE THEM BOTH STARTING TO REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS HOURS LATER ON THAT DAMP PRISON FLOOR. THEY SLOWLY PULLED THEMSELVES UPRIGHT, NO DOUBT WITH SOME GROANING AND WINCING AS A FEW BROKEN RIBS, CUTS, AND BRUISES REMINDED THEM OF THE DAYS EVENTS. THEIR EYES ADJUSTED TO THE DARKNESS ENOUGH TO SEE A FEW RATS RUNNING AROUND, AND THE UNMISTAKABLE SMELL OF SEWAGE FILLED THEIR NOSTRILS. PAUL AND SILAS COULD HAVE STATED COMPLAINING ABOUT THEIR UNFAIR TREATMENT AND UNTENDED WOUNDS. BUT THEY DID NOT. THEY COULD HAVE COMPLAINED TO GOD THAT THEY WERE TREATED SO HARSHLY FOR PURSUING HIS CALL TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL. BUT THEY DID NOT. THOSE TWO BLEEDING, HURTING MEN SIMPLY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES AND STARTED PRAYING AND PRAISING GOD. THOUGH THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN ASLEEP, THE OTHER PRISONERS QUIETLY LISTENED TO THEIR SONG. IT MUST HAVE BEEN SUCH A SWEET SOUND TO THE LORDS EARS. IT WAS A SOUND THE ENEMY HOPED TO CHOKE OUT, BUT PRAISE BREAKS THE GRIP OF THE ENEMY AND CHANGES THE ATMOSPHERE. IT INVITES THE PRESENCE OF GOD INTO YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. THE LITTLE MACEDONIAN PRISON CELL WAS JUST TOO SMALL TO CONTAIN HIS PRESENCE. AROUND MIDNIGHT, AS PAUL AND SILAS CONTINUED TO SING, THE WALLS OF THE PRISON BEGAN TO TREMBLE. THE FLOOR BEGAN TO SHAKE. STONES FELL. MORTAR CRUMBLED. CHAINS BROKE FREE. HINGES FELL OUT OF THEIR PLACE. SUDDENLY THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE, SO THAT THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE PRISON WERE SHAKEN; AND IMMEDIATELY ALL THE DOORS WERE OPENED AND EVERYONE CHAINS WERE LOOSED...ACTS 16:26.. THE PRISON GUARD WAS AWAKENED BY THE RUKUS. THINKING THAT ALL THE PRISONERS ESCAPED DURING HIS WATCH, HE WAS SERIOUSLY CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE. BUT PAUL LET HIM KNOW THAT NOT ONE PRISONER WAS MISSING. A LOT OF PEOPLE ENJOY PRAISING GOD IN THE SUNSHINE, BUT WHAT ABOUT IN THE DARKNESS OF A PRISON CELL? IS GOD ONLY WORTH PRAISING WHEN WE FEEL THAT HE HAS COME THROUGH FOR US? IS HE ONLY WORTHY TO BE PRAISED WHEN WE ARE BLESSED FINANCIALLY AND EVERYTHING IS GOING OUR WAY? DAVID WROTE...PS 145:2-4 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. 3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. 4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. HE IS WORTHY OF PRAISE EVERY DAY---NOT JUST ON GOOD DAYS. WE NEED TO KNOW HOW TO PRAISE HIM IN THE DARKNESS OF MIDNIGHT PERHAPS MORE THAN ANY OTHER TIME. PRAISE CHANGES THE ATMOSPHERES AND WELCOMES THE PRESENCE OF GOD. ZECH 14:17 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. ITS LIKE THIS..NO WORSHIP, NO RAIN; PLAIN AND SIMPLE. THE REASON THIS VERSE IS SUCH A GREAT REVELATION ABOUT WORSHIP IS BECAUSE RAIN IS OFTEN SYMBOLIC OF THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. PRAISE IS LIKE A CLOUD THE FORMS IN THE ATMOSPHERE. ONCE ENOUGH OF IT ACCUMULATES, IT DROPS RAIN. YOU ARE CALLED TO BE A RAINMAKER. OUR CHURCHES NEED RAIN. OUR FAMILIES NEED RAIN. OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, CITIES, AND STATES NEED RAIN. OUR COUNTRY DESPERATELY NEEDS THE RAIN OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT WILL ONLY HAPPEN WHEN PRAYER AND PRAISE CHANGE THE ATMOSPHERE. IF WORSHIP SERVICES AT YOUR CHURCH ARE COLD, DRY, AND LIFELESS--KICK IN AND GET YOUR PRAISE ON. DONT JUST FIT IN AND CONFORM. GET A SMILE ON THAT FACE OF YOURS. GET SOME ENERGY IN YOUR SONG. SING NOT JUST FOR PEOPLE BUT FOR THE KING OF GLORY HIMSELF. PSALM 150:6 SAYS EVERYTHING THAT HAS BREATH SHOULD PRAISE THE LORD. IF YOU HAVE BREATH, YOU ARE TO PRAISE THE LORD. REMEMBER THAT A PYTHON IS OUT TO SQUEEZE THE BREATH OUT OF ITS VICTIMS. HE IS OUT TO STOP PRAISE. THERE ARE MANY EXPRESSIONS OF PRAISE IN THE BIBLE. ONE IS SIMPLY THE LIFTING OF YOUR HANDS...PS 134:2. I BELIEVE LIFTING YOUR HANDS IS A UNIQUE EXPRESSION OF PRAISE BECAUSE YOUR FINGERPRINTS DISTINGUISH YOU FROM EVERYONE ELSE. WHEN YOU RAISE THEM TO GOD, I BELIEVE YOU ARE REACHING OUT AND TOUCHING HIM IN A WAY THAT SYMBOLIZES YOUR UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM. WE PRAISE HIM WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AS PS 150 DECLARES. DAVID WAS A WARRIOR, BUT HE WAS FIRST AND FOREMOST A WORSHIPER. HE PLAYED MUSIC AND SANG PRAISES TO THE LORD SINCE HIS CHILDHOOD. HIS PRAISE WAS A POWERFUL WEAPON AGAINST THE ENEMY. WHEN DAVID PLAYED HIS HARP FOR KING SAUL, THE DISTRESSING SPIRIT THAT TORMENTED HIM WOULD HE SUBDUED..1 SAM 16:23. EVERY TIME YOU PLUCK A GUITAR, HIT A CHORD, BEAT A DRUM, OR CRASH A CYMBAL IN PRAISE TO GOD, YOU SEND DEMONS FLEEING, THAT IS IF IT IS WITH A HEART SUBMITTED TO GOD, A HEART OF WORSHIP, THEN YOU ARE NOT JUST PLAYING MUSIC. YOU ARE MAKING RAIN. YOU KNOW SCRIPTURE TELLS US TO CLAP OUR HANDS AND SHOUT TO GOD..PS 47:1. A SHOUT CAN CHANGE THE DRY ATMOSPHERE. I REMEMBER MANY YEARS AGO MY PASTOR FROM WV, WOULD SAY THAT WHEN I WOULD SHOUT TO THE LORD THAT IT WOULD CHANGE THE ATMOSPHERE AND THE WHOLE CHURCH WOULD BREAK LOOSE THEN WITH MANY OTHERS PRAISING WITH SHOUTS OR SONGS OF PRAISE. YOU ALSO CAN PRAISE THE LORD IN HOLY DANCE..PS 150:4, LEAPING, AND A HOLY DANCE BEFORE HIM, AND EVEN BY STANDING TO YOUR FEET IN HONOR OF HIS PRESENCE. WHICHEVER WAY YOU CHOOSE TO PRAISE HIM, YOUR PRAISE CHANGES THE ATMOSPHERE AND BREAKS THE GRIP OF THE ENEMY OFF OF YOUR LIFE BECAUSE IT STRENGTHENS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER. BUT KEEP THIS IN MIND, IF NOTHING GOES UP, NOTHING COMES DOWN. NO WORSHIP, NO RAIN. THATS WHY THE PYTHON WANTS TO KEEP THE ATMOSPHERE DRY AND TO CHOKE THE LIFE OUT OF YOUR PRAISE. IN 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 20 YOU WILL SEE A LARGE ARMY COMING TO MAKE WAR AGAINST JEHOSHAPHAT. WHEN HE RECEIVED THE NEWS, JEHOSHAPHAT AND THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH SOUGHT THE LORD THROUGH FASTING AND PRAYER. EVERYONE GATHERED, AND HE PRAYED IN THEIR PRESENCE, SEEKING HELP FROM GOD AND WAITING UPON HIM. THEY BOWED IN WORSHIP BEFORE THE LORD AND BEGAN TO SING AND PRAISE HIM LOUDLY. THEY WERE MAKING RAIN. THE NEXT DAY JEHOSHAPHAT PUT THE PRAISES AND WORSHIPERS IN FRONT OF THE ARMY! WHEN THE ENEMY ARMIES HEARD THE PRAISES, THEY TURNED ON EACH OTHER AND DESTROYED THEMSELVES. THIS SHOULD SHOW US THE POWER OF PRAISE. IT IS CONNECTED TO THE VICTORY JESUS HAS WON OVER THE PYTHON AND EVERYTHING THE ENEMY HAS PUT IN MOTION AGAINST YOU. PRAISE IS NOT BASED ON YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. IT IS BASED ON WHO HE IS. PAUL AND SILAS W NOT JUST SUNSHINE PRAISERS, WORSHIPING GOD ONLY WHEN THINGS WERE GOING WELL. THEY WERE MIDNIGHT, DIRTY-DUNGEON PRAISERS AS WELL. YOU KNOW SAINTS PAUL DIDNT HAVE A LOT GOING FOR HIM PHYSICALLY. HE PROBABLY DID NOT HAVE THE GREATEST VOICE EITHER. GOD IS NOT AS INTERESTED IN TALENT AS HE IS IN CHARACTER. WE ARE INTO SHOWBOATS, THESE DAYS IN CASE YOU HAVENT ALREADY NOTICED THAT. YOU SEE GOD WOULD RATHER HAVE SOMEONE WHO WILL PRAISE HIM OUT OF PAIN. HE LOVES IT WHEN SOMEONE WHO IS IN HIS OR HER MIDNIGHT HOUR STILL HAS PRAISE. YOU SEE MY FRIENDS CONSTANT PRIVATE WORSHIP EQUALS POWERFUL PUBLIC WORSHIP. YOU DO NOT WALK OUT AND CELEBRATE PUBLICLY WHAT YOU HAVE NOT CELEBRATED PRIVATELY. THE GREATER YOUR PRIVATE WORSHIP, THE GREATER YOUR PUBLIC MINISTRY WILL BE. WHAT YOU DO ALL WEEK IN PRIVATE WILL DETERMINE YOUR ANOINTING IN PUBLIC. WHEN PRAISE IS LOCKED UP BY THE PYTHON, REVIVAL IS LOCKED UP, BREAKTHROUGH IS LOCKED UP, AND VICTORY IS LOCKED UP. WHAT DOES THE ENEMY USE TO KEEP YOU FROM PRAISING GOD? COULD IT BE MURMURING, COMPLAINING, NEGATIVE TALK, OR FAULTFINDING? YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO EXPERIENCE VICTORY WHILE YOU ARE TALKING DEFEAT. YOU SEE IF PAUL AND SILAS DECIDED TO SIT AROUND IN THAT CELL FOCUSING ON HOW THEY WERE MISTREATED, HOW THEY FELT DEFEATED, OR HOW THEY WOULD GET EVEN WITH THOSE WHO BEAT THEM, THEY WOULD HAVE ROTTED THERE. GOD LOOKS FOR PRAISE THAT IS BORNE OUT OF OUR TIMES OF ADVERSITY OR AFFLICTION. SOMETIMES HE LEADS US INTO EXPERIENCES THAT ARE UNPLEASANT, DIFFICULT, OR EVEN PAINFUL. HIS WORD SAYS THAT HE TEST US IN THE FURNACE OF AFFLICTION...ISA 48:10. I DO KNOW ONE THING THAT THE LORD DOES ALLOW EVERY ONE OF US TO GO THROUGH A FURNACE EXPERIENCE. THERE IS A PARTICULAR SOUND OF WORSHIP THAT CAN ONLY COME FROM ONE WHO HAS GONE THROUGH TRAILS. MAYBE TH HAS BEEN A FIERY FURNACE IN YOUR HEALTH, YOUR MARRIAGE, OR REGARDING A FAMILY MEMBER. THE PYTHON, SATAN, WANTS TO COIL AROUND YOUR SITUATION AND TWIST THE PURPOSES OF GOD TO MAKE YOU FEEL ABANDONED AND FORGOTTEN. HE KNOWS THAT WHEN YOU LOSE HOPE, YOU LOSE PRAISE. DO NOT BE DECEIVED BY THE LIAR. SET YOUR HEART ON THE GOD WHO IS FAITHFUL, WHO LOVES YOU, WHO HAS CALLED YOU AND EQUIPPED YOU TO OVERCOME. THE HEART AFTER GOD FINDS A WAY TO PRAISE HIM, EVEN IN THE HEAT OF THE TRIAL. IF YOU HAVE BREATH, YOU CAN PRAISE THE LORD. YOU MAY NOT HAVE A JOB RIGHT NOW, BUT GUESS WHAT? YOU HAVE BREATH. YOU MAY NOT HAVE A CAR RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU HAVE BREATH. YOU SEE SAINTS THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS TO PRAISE THE LORD--WITH LIFTED HANDS, DANCING FEET, OR JUST BOWING OVER FOR THE LORD. BUT THERE IS A PRAISE THAT NEEDS NOTHING BUT YOUR BREATH. IT IS A PRAISE THAT RISES OUT OF THE FURNACE EXPERIENCE WHERE YOU HAVE LOST EVERYTHING BUT YOUR BREATH. IT IS A PRAISE THAT IS NOT ATTACHED TO MATERIAL POSSESSIONS OR SPECIFIC HAPPENINGS. IT IS A PRAISE THAT COMES WHEN YOU PRAISE GOD IN SPITE OF IT ALL. YOU SEE, WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THE FIRE, YOU CAN SEE WHAT YOU REALLY HAVE INSIDE. DETERMINE THAT AS LONG AS YOU HAVE BREATH, YOU WILL PRAISE HIM. MAYBE YOU ARE ONE WHO WALKED STRAIGHT INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE FIRE. MAYBE YOU DIDNT PLAN TO BE WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW. GOD WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT HE HAS YOU THERE BECAUSE THERE ARE THINGS YOU CAN DO FROM INSIDE OF THAT FIERY FURNACE EXPERIENCE BETTER THAN YOU CAN DO FROM THE OUTSIDE. YOU CANT TELL HOW POWERFUL YOUR FAITH IS UNTIL YOU HAVE BEEN INTO THE FIRE. GOD WANTS TO UNLOCK YOUR PRAISE. IT CAN BE YOUR RESPONSE NO MATTER WHAT YOU MAY BE FACING RIGHT NOW OR WHAT SITUATION YOU MAY BE IN. YOU KNOW WHEN WE WERE KIDS, AND PLAYING THOSE GAMES WITH ONE ANOTHER, WE ALWAYS HATED TO BE LAST RIGHT? WE WANTED TO BE FIRST RIGHT? BUT YOU KNOW THERES ALWAYS SOMEBODY WHO IS LAST OR PICKED LAST, SOMEONE WHO DOESNT SEEM QUALIFIED TO BE ON THE TEAM. GOD WOULD SAY TO YOU, WHAT QUALIFIES YOU FOR HIS TEAM IF THAT FURNACE EXPERIENCE. IF YOU ARE IN A FURNACE, RIGHT NOW, IT IS AN INDICATION THAT GOD HAS AN ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU. DAVID WAS CHOSEN OUT OF THE FIRE. HE SAID WE WILL HAVE TROUBLES. BUT GOD WILL DELIVER US OUT OF THEM ALL...PS 34:19. DAVID DID NOT DENY THAT TROUBLE EXISTED IN LIFE, BUT HE KNEW GOD WAS THE DELIVERER NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENED. JOB WAS CHOSEN OUT OF THE FIRE. HE WAS DETERMINED TO SERVE GOD NO MATTER WHAT: THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL TRUST HIM..JOB 13:15. JOB LOST HIS CHILDREN, HIS LIVELIHOOD, HIS WEALTH, HIS HEALTH---EVERYTHING. HE HAD NOTHING LEFT BUT HIS BREATH. IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL JOB PRAISED GOD. THAT IS WHY GOD CHOSE HIM. THROUGH ALL HE HAD ENDURED, JOB WAS ABLE TO BOLDLY SAY, WHEN HE HAS TESTED ME, I SHALL COME FORTH AS GOLD..JOB 23:10... JOSEPH WAS CHOSEN OUT OF THE FIRE. HE WAS DESPISED BY HIS OWN FAMILY, REJECTED, TEMPTED, LIED ABOUT, FALSELY ACCUSED, AND PUNISHED FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT. YET IN THE END JOSEPH KNEW THAT WHAT MEN MEANT FOR EVIL. GOD WOULD USE FOR GOOD. GOD CHOSE HIM OUT OF THE FIRE, PUT HIM IN A PALACE, AND USED HIM TO SAVE A GENERATION. ULTIMATELY THE FURNACE OF ADVERSITY DOES NOT MAKE YOU, IT REVEALS YOU. THE FIRE SHOWS WHAT YOU REALLY ARE ON THE INSIDE. YOU CAN LOSE YOUR PRAISE OR FIND IT DURING A FURNACE EXPERIENCE. ADVERSITY ADDS A VERSE TO YOUR LIFE. IN A SONG THE VERSES CHANGE BUT THE CHORUS STAYS THE SAME. WHATEVER YOU ARE GOING THROUGH, YOU CAN LET IT SUBTRACT FROM YOUR LIFE OR ADD ANOTHER VERSE TO IT. JUST REMEMBER, GOD ADDS A VERSE TO YOU THROUGH ADVERSITY, THOSE VERSES ADD TO YOUR LIFE LONG SONG OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP THAT IS PRICELESS TO HIM AND ALSO YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER GLORY STORY TO TELL. WHEN YOU FIRST GET SAVED, YOU KNOW HIM AS SAVIOR. WHEN YOU GET SICK, YOU FIND OUT A NEW VERSE AS YOU COME TO KNOW HIM AS HEALER. WHEN YOU SUFFER LOSS, YOU DISCOVER HIM AS COMFORTER. WHEN YOU HAVE FINANCIAL TROUBLES, YOU KNOW HIM AS A PROVIDER. WHEN YOUR CHILDREN ARE IN TROUBLE, YOU FIND OUT HE IS YOUR PROTECTOR. AS YOU WALK THROUGH LIFE, YOU FIND THAT GOD KEEPS ADDING ANOTHER VERSE TO YOUR SONG OF PRAISE. THE CHORUS REMAINS THE SAME: GODS FAITHFUL. BUT THE LONGER YOU LIVE, THE MORE VERSES YOU ADD. A FURNACE OF AFFLICTION WILL NOT KILL YOU. IT WILL NOT DESTROY YOU. IT WILL ADD A NEW VERSE TO YOUR SONG OF FAITH. YOU MAY SEE THE PYTHON COILING AROUND, TRYING TO CHOKE OUT YOUR BREATH, TRYING TO SILENCE YOUR VOICE. LIFT UP A PRAISE TO GOD AND BREAK FREE. YOU SEE MY FRIENDS ITS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE OR DONT HAVE. IF IT TAKES BELLS AND WHISTLES TO GET YOUR PRAISE GOING, YOU HAVE LIKELY NEVER BEEN THROUGH ANYTHING OR A FURNACE EXPERIENCE. BUT IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN THROUGH THAT FURNACE EXPERIENCE OF AFFLICTION, IT PRODUCES PRAISE IN YOU EVEN IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE SINGER, THE SONG, OR THE MUSIC. YOU JUST HAVE TO TURN YOUR PRAISE LOOSE. WHEN PRAISE GOES UP, RAIN COMES DOWN. PAUL AND SILAS WERE ARRESTED FOR LIFTING UP THE NAME OF JESUS. THEY WERE BEATEN AND SHACKLED. THE OFFICIALS COULD CHAIN THEIR BODIES. BUT THEY COULD NOT CHAIN THEIR PRAISE. AS THEY PRAISED GOD AT MIDNIGHT, AN EARTHQUAKE RATTLED THE FOUNDATIONS OF THAT PRISON, AND THEIR CHAINS BROKE LOOSE. EVERY PRISON DOOR WAS OPENED. WHEN YOU UNLOCK YOUR PRAISE, YOUR PRAISE WILL UNLOCK YOU! SO, WHAT IS IT THAT HAS YOU BOUND RIGHT NOW? WHST CHAINS ARE RESTRICTING YOUR LIFE AND MINISTRY? DO NOT STOP PRAISING HIM. NOT ONLY WILL IT UNLOCK YOUR SITUATION, BUT IT WILL UNLOCK THE SITUATION OF OTHERS AROUND YOU AS WELL. ANY TIME YOU GO THROUGH A SEVERE FURNACE EXPERIENCE AND YOU BEGIN TO PRAISE GOD, IT CAN SET PEOPLE FREE WHO ARE LINKED AND CONNECTED TO YOU. OUT OF THE MOST PAINFUL EXPERIENCES AND TRAUMAS OF YOUR LIFE, INSTEAD OF INTERNALIZING AND BEING DEPRESSED, YOU CAN LEARN TO TRANSFORM THE ATMOSPHERE WITH PRAISE. INSTEAD OF BECOMING DEPRESSED, A TEAR OF ADORATION AND JOY WILL COME TO YOUR EYE TO KNOW THAT GOD WAS O FAITHFUL AND THAT HE SAW YOU THROUGH. MY PRAYER IS FOR ALL OF YOU THAT YOU WILL DECIDE THAT THE ENEMY WILL NO LONGER CHOKE OUT YOUR PRAISE.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:26:38 +0000

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