As I am writing this post I am listening to the song ">"Praise Him in Advance" by Marvin Sapp (hence the title of this post). Praising God during the hard times is exactly that hard. When we are financially troubled, broken hearted, depressed, mistreated, used, and abused giving God praise and worship is the last from our mind. Over the last year, God has revealed to me things about myself I didn't think needed work. He showed me my strengths and weaknesses in him and one of my weaknesses was praise. You see what he revealed was I praised him during the good times, when I got an A on an exam, got a job offer, relationship was going well. I didn't praise him in spite of, just because. I always had to have some sort of praise report or good news to thank God for his many blessings. I had to pray and ask God to grow in him in order to continue to praise him in advance in spite of whatever maybe troubling me at that moment. God deserves our earnest praise no matter what we maybe going through. We need to continue to worship and give him praise because it could be worse than what it is. God is good and so merciful and deserves it ALL. If I had ten thousand tongues I could not praise him enough.
Keep the Faith!
Until next time,
~E
Thanks for this post and reminder to praise God in all things!
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