The Pathway To Victorious Praise pt.4 in the sermon series ’Lessons From Macedonia’
Acts 16:22-26
In spite of circumstances, we are commanded to praise God.The enemy will do all he can to stop us but we must battle through.
1.The enemy will use:
a.Intimidation (pressure,threats) v22 ’commanded to beat them’
b.Incarceration (locking,binding) v23 ’they cast them into prison’
c.Isolation (separation) v24 ’the inner prison’
2.Along the path to victorious praise, I need:
a.Adversity/an adversary
ex.discouragement
deficiency(lack)
disease(sickness)
The enemy means to use these things for our harm;;God causes all things to work together for our good;even those things that don’t seem good at the time..praise Him still!
Read Psalm 71:13-14
b.Awareness
Psalm 150:2
c.Appreciation
119:164 ’times a day’
d.Assurance
of who He is
of who I am in Him
Remember that:
Praise honors God
Praise helps me focus on God
Praise helps me know God
Praise breaks the enemy’s oppression
Praise confuses the forces of evil
I love the words from this song by the Imperials:
When you’re up against a struggle
that shatters all your dreams
And your hope’s been cruelly crushed
By Satan’s manifested schemes
And you feel the urge within you
To submit to earthly fears
Don’t let the faith you’re standing in
Seem to disappear
Praise the Lord!
He can work through those who praise Him
Praise the Lord!
For our God inhabits praise
Praise the Lord!
For the chains that seem to bind you
Serve only to remind you
That they drop powerless behind you
When you praise Him
Now Satan is a liar
And he wants to make you think
That we are paupers
When he knows himself
We’re children of the King
So lift up the mighty shield of faith
For the battle must be won
We know that Jesus Christ is risen
So the work’s already done
Praise the Lord!.....
Psalm 27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me:therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.
