God the Reason!

".....You are the reason, for the Life I Live, for the air I breathe, for the Song I sing......" Chris Shalom

Hello, Good Morning! It is indeed another Marvelous Monday!

Today, I’m just here to Praise and Worship my Awesome God. The King of Kings and the Lord if Lords! The Holy one of Israel. The one who has got my back always! Beeni! Oba awon Oba, atofarati bi oke!

“How do you do it”? I have been asked severally. “You don’t seem to have a care in the world"! "You are always smiling DD" (as I’m fondly called by some), “You have no stress at all”. Hmmm! little do they know!

Yes! I do have issues oh, more than you can ever imagine. I aint super human folks. Lol.

However, I find that focusing on the Almighty God, choosing to be happy every moment, staying positive minded, focusing on the good I want to see, regardless of my current matter, and most especially praising through my circumstances is sure to bring a speedy turn around for good.

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, and it’s a new week.

Yes, there are challenges, but then regardless, join me in praising through, and see a turnaround for good for that niggling matter. 

Trust me, I am a daily witness.

Stay encompassed in God’s Love. Shalom J

 You are the reason, for the Life I Live, for the air I breathe, for the Song I sing, You are the reason, Why I lift my Voice, Why I lift my hands, It’s all because of You, O Sweet Jesus, Beautiful Lord, Thank you always and forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSTQxIK-6NY

 

Winning Battles with our Praise

Give Thanks to the Lord, for HIS love endures forever. 2 Chronicles 20:21 NIV

Yay! My first post from a super duper woman @Lisa Bevere! Enjoy dearies. :)

News flash: you don’t have to be a worship leader to worship, and you do not have to be a singer to sing. You only have to be a child of God, which is a good thing, because there are many battles we win in song!

There is such power in praise. I believe that when we sing God’s Word, we make the enemy shake and tremble with fear. As we wield words of adoration and gratitude—often spoken as songs—heaven is accessed, and an audience in the courts of our Father is granted. The combination of musical instruments and song has the power to alter the very environment that surrounds us.

When we sing, God is magnified. His dominion is declared over our situation. So when we choose to praise Him in the midst of battles unseen, He fights for us. There was a time when the choir of Judah defeated three impossibly large armies that had assembled to destroy them. As God’s holy people shouted and praised their invincible God, He threw the enemy armies into confusion and caused them to slaughter one another. And what was their strategic battle cry?

Give thanks to the Lord, for His love endures forever.
2 Chronicles 20:21 NIV

What army can stand against the power of enduring love? Not one, because love cannot fail.

Another one of my favorite examples of God fighting on our behalf in the midst of a battle is told in Isaiah:

And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people playing pipes go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.
The Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.
The voice of the Lord will shatter Assyria; with his rod he will strike them down.
Every stroke the Lord lays on them with his punishing club will be to the music of timbrels and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.
Isaiah 30:29–32 NIV, emphasis added

Our part in this equation is to open our mouths and sing! But not just any song will do. We are to sing in unified joy with all our strength and might as God routs the enemy.

As you open the gates of your heart through intentional gratitude and thankfulness for what God has done, you come in contact with all that He is. Our songs in the night move Him into our day, and the enemy’s progress is arrested as we are brought into God’s presence. What a magnificent thought!

I challenge you this week to ask God where you can step out on the battlefield with your worship. Let’s sing our battle cry in praise!

To dig deeper into this subject, check out my book Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero.

Credits: http://messengerinternational.org/blog/devotional/winning-battles-with-our-praise/

Wonderful Wednesday Worship

¹ Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.² Worship the Lord with gladness; come before HIM with joyful songs... Psalms 100:1-2

So I woke up this morning with so much Joy in my Heart! Lol!'

Why you may ask? Seriously? I do not know! I just can't pin point it, I am simply happy, joyful, expectant and so in awe God's benevolent love for me!. 

But then, think about it, search deep inside, God has been faithful you know? 

You can see, you can breathe (freely I dare say!) You can move! You can eat! You have a roof over your head! 

You can try listing out a few of the seemingly simple reasons to be thankful. Count your blessings, name them one by one!

Hey! Some people are six feet under! 

I don't know who this is for, but girl, U better get get up from your cute derriere and give God some high praise and see HIM work wonders in your awesome life! God moves mightily when we praise HIM!

Have a wonderful Wednesday dearies and stay encompassed and bask in God's Love! Its a place of divine bliss!

Shalom! :)

ps: Read and meditate on Psalm 100 throughout today. It's such a kool praise and worship Psalm! 

Psalms 100:1-5

¹ Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. ²  Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. ³ Know that the Lord is God.  It is he who made us, and we are his^[a]; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. ⁴ Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise;give thanks to him and praise his name. ⁵ For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.