TENACITY IN PRAISE

TENACITY IN PRAISE

How I love Psalm 92!  Please read it when you have time and opportunity to do so.  It calls us Christians to continual worship, even as we exist in the foreboding shadows of obstacles, oppositions, sicknesses, or setbacks.  What a powerful reminder this Word of God is for us.  It mobilizes trust and praise as we visualize life through the prism of persistent faith, even while our sensory perceptions tend to promote alternative attitudes and actions. 

I have coined two phrases to describe it: tenacity in praise…or…faith-full praise.  Simply put, it means that believers have the capacity to set aside what we perceive and to grasp victory on the basis of sheer faith in what GOD says…as opposed to our sensory perceptions.  “For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.” (I John 5:4) Let’s take a look at a representative excerpt of Psalm 92.

Psalm 92

1.        It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto Your name, O most High.

2.       To show forth Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your faithfulness every night.

3.       Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

4.       For You, Lord, have made me glad through Your work: I will triumph in the works of Your hands.

Do you trust GOD enough to praise Him when you are under the weather, or while you are walking through a season of grief or temptation, or while you are regrouping and recovering from your most recent storm?

Trust is always nurtured and developed via one’s on-going experience and spiritual intimacy.  Therefore, the only way we can authentically trust God is by purposefully participating in an up-close-and-personal, Word-based relationship with Him.  Question: Do our circumstances loom larger than Christ?  If so, we must prayerfully re-evaluate our understanding of who He is.  The only way we can accomplish this is through unquestioning trust, uncompromising Word study, unceasing prayer and unconditional praise.

Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!