Worshipping Breakthroughs

“Now when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.”—2 Chron 20:22 NKJV

God had already in previous verses promised He would be with the people and give them the victory. He had promised the enemy would be defeated; He had promised to fight the battle for them.  All of these promises were stirred into action by worship and praise.  It was when they began to sing and praise the Lord that He went to work. I love this!! There are promises from God for our lives in His word---promises spoken through prophetic words; when Lord is always our question.  But maybe we need to sing them into existence. We need to praise them into existence. The people could have kept asking and praying and worrying---but the promise of God was already there. Now came time to believe Him and act on that belief.  The next morning the people could have kept praying and asking God to help them or they could have believed Him and headed towards the enemy praising God for what was going to happen. They chose to do the second: they believed and praised God.  And God did what He does best---went to work!!  The enemy was defeated through worship and praise. True worship and praise defeats enemy opposition; true worship and praise opens doors to blessing; true worship and praise to God brings breakthroughs. True worship and praise answers prayer!! I have experienced this---but its difficult to be consistent in this because we always want to present our cause before the Lord. We at least want to feel we’ve told God what we need---and so we revert back to asking and seeking in prayer. Not a bad thing but we overlook God’s need to be praised and worshiped.  What if God told us we could only worship Him?? What would we do? Not an easy task but training oneself in this area is def ego busting, pride stomping, and totally God dependent challenge.  But God has promised to give us the victory. Psalm 118:7 tells us we will see our triumph.  When? I don’t know in the meantime worship and praise God in spirit and in truth. Worship Him to honor Him not to receive---worship Him because He loves it! 

Adelante!

-Bea

Generation Glory Leader