Let Your Heart Sing!

"When they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushments...and they were smitten" (2 Chron. 20:22).

Oh, that we could reason less about our troubles, and sing and praise more! There are thousands of things that we wear as shackles which we might use as instruments with music in them, if we only knew how.

Those men that ponder, and meditate, and weigh the affairs of life, and study the mysterious developments of God's providence, and wonder why they should be burdened and thwarted and hampered--how different and how much more joyful would be their lives, if, instead of forever indulging in self-revolving and inward thinking, they would take their experiences, day by day, and lift them up, and praise God for them.

We can sing our cares away easier than we can reason them away. Sing in the morning. The birds are the earliest to sing, and birds are more without care than anything else that I know of.

Sing at evening. Singing is the last thing that robins do. When they have done their daily work; when they have flown their last flight, and picked up their last morsel of food, then on a topmost twig, they sing one song of praise.

Oh, that we might sing morning and evening, and let song touch song all the way through.  --Selected

***********

22 The moment they began their shouts and praises, the Lord set an ambush(Z) against the Ammonites, Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir who came to fight against Judah, and they were defeated. (2 Chron. 20:22, AMP)

"The moment they began their shouts and praises..." In the midst of being assaulted they brought forth praise. Praise, not complaining and whining, but praise. You see, praise is reflective of your faith. When you find a believer that consistently praises God, you are witnessing the actions of authentic faith. It is not that this person sees no trouble, trouble is probably consistent in their lives, it is that there faith sees God beyond the circumstances of the moment.

Dr. Rick Wallace

The moment you began to praise, you invite God to become involved because God inhabits the praises of His people. Your praise confounds the enemy because praise stupefies the human rationale that reasons that the spirit should succumb to trouble. When the heart sings in the midst of the madness, its confuses the enemy and activates the omnipotence of God to work things for the good. When the heart sings in the midst of trouble it declares that our God is sovereign and He is bigger than our problems. When the heart sings in the midst of trouble it declares no weapon formed against me shall prosper. When the heart sings in the midst of trouble it places the enemy on notice that we are more than conquerors.



 So cast away your fears and anxieties and sing a new song of praise. Sing a song of expectation and anticipation. God is about to show up in the midst of your moment. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace