17/03/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Praises, a perfect response to Spiritual siege and hostility

17/03/2024: Christian WATCH Exposition. Topic: Praises, a perfect response to Spiritual siege and hostility.

 Text: ```Acts 16:23‭-‬27 KJV And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.```
 
COMMENTARY
Arrested, chained up and thrown into the inner prison. What a great tragedy? Someone is in a tragic situation, perhaps the next sentence would be pronouncement of their death yet they continued to lift up their voices to a judge who is so perfect and rules over all. Praises doesn't keep you at the mercy of humans but draws down the hand of God so that grace is unleashed in place of disgrace, honor in place of dishonor. Something is compelling about choosing to praise God amid our pain, our struggle, and our desperation. The author of the Book of Hebrews calls this a “sacrifice of praise.” It’s thanking God even when it makes no sense to thank Him from an earthly perspective.

This is the key. When we live by faith, we do not see things from an earthly perspective but from an eternal one. Therefore our countenance is not at the whim of the fickle nature of the ups and downs of the natural world. Nor is the quantity or quality of our praise determined by anything other than the worthiness of God, which has not changed or been diminished at all since the dawn of time itself.

When we sing from a place of victory, like Paul and Silas did that fateful night in prison, we agree with all these truths and actively invite God to receive glory through our circumstances. Our choice to praise in the face of difficulty is an act of faith as we choose to believe in God even when we can’t necessarily see a guaranteed result. And we know that even with the smallest seed of faith, God can achieve the impossible.

Food for thought: Sacrifices of praise loses chains of oppression. No one can remain oppressed while praising God. Praises bring His presence and His presence brakes yokes.

 Prayer: ```Cause my lips to be filled with your praises, regardless of my plight, woes and challenges. Always fill my mouth Lord with praises in Jesus name.```

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