Something’s Missing

Have you ever eaten food, and realized it didn’t taste right because it was missing a major ingredient? Often when times are rough, and we can’t put our finger on why we’re sinking instead of swimming, the Holy Spirit will remind us we are missing a major spiritual ingredient. The ingredient is praise. Genuine praise.

Praise brings victory, and victory causes us to praise even more. It keeps us in the protection of truth. It’s how we go from victory to victory even with heartache and trials. Some of my sweetest victories were not because circumstances changed, but because my heart did. We cannot forget to add praise, or we’ll find ourselves in a cycle of defeat.

Breathe in Isaiah 30:30-32 from the Amplified Bible,

“And the Lord shall cause His glorious voice to be heard,

and the descending blow of His arm to be seen in indignant anger

and with flame of a devouring fire,

amid crashing blast and cloudburst,

tempest and hailstones.  

At the voice of the Lord the Assyrians will be stricken, 

with dismay and terror, when He smites them with His rod. 

And every passing stroke of the staff of punishment and doom

which the Lord lays upon them shall be to the sound of Israel’s timbrels and lyres,

when in battle He attacks Assyria with swinging and menacing arm.”

We do not want to be opposing God, and rescue was to the sound of praise!

When we allow God to fight our battles instead of moving in our own strength – He is seen and glorified. He wants us in victory, and He is worthy to be praised.

“I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised,

and I am saved from my enemies.”  

2 Samuel 22:4