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Have you experienced the effectiveness of praise and
fasting? Did you know that bodies have been healed,
demons have been cast out, and peace restored to
troubled hearts by simply praising the Lord?
Have you ever deliberately gone into an
impossible situation with the weapon of praise to
God, and watched God perform the miracle? O
hungry-hearted, struggling child of God, O saint of
God battling the forces of darkness, O interceding
prayer-warrior, this may be God's message to you!
Look up just now and begin to praise God. Praise the
Lord!
There is scarcely a spiritual conflict into which
we enter without some measure of prayer; but how
often do we, like Judah under Jehoshaphat (2 Chr.
20:20-21), march into battle doing nothing but
believing and praising? Oh, my Christian brothers
and sisters, let us begin to praise God more. Praise
changes things, and praise will transform you!
There is, at times, a deep sacrifice in praise.
There are times when we must praise God though
tears be in our eyes. There are times when all we can
say is, “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). There is
no sweeter music under heaven; there is no more
fragrant perfume than that which arises from a life of
suffering which is nevertheless filled with praise.
No doubt you today are facing situations not of
your choosing. Can you look up just now out of your
Gethsemane and still say, “Praise the Lord!”?
Praise Is the Language of Heaven
Praise will sweeten and hallow all that it
touches. Praise will kindle a new faith. Praise will
fan the sparks of your smoldering love into a flaming
love for God. Praise will start the joy bells ringing in
your soul; you will soon have all heaven joining in on
the chorus and will have a little touch of heaven in
your heart. Praise will pierce through the darkness,
will dynamite away long-standing obstructions, and
will strike terror in the heart of Satan.
We have praised God a little and occasionally; let
us praise Him more and more. We have praised
God in the past; come, let us praise Him just now!
Look up to heaven just now and praise your mighty
Redeemer. Praise Him for His love and
faithfulness; praise Him for His power and
goodness. He is worthy of all praise; let us praise
Him now!
The cry today is, “Fellowship! Fellowship! Fellowship!
Bring in the modernists, the agnostics, the liberals - and all the
rest! Come, let us fellowship together!” But what did our
Saviour say about fellowship?
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?” -
Amos 3:3
“Herefore go out from their midst, and be separate from
them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will
welcome you” - 2 Cor 6:17
“I have given them your word, and the world has hated
them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the
world.” - John 17:14
The idea of fellowshipping with liberals, modernists and
every “ism, schism, and spasm” of this broadminded religious
age originated in Hell - not in Heaven or in the Bible!
- Oliver B. Greene
Spiritual
Nuggets
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