Praise the Lord, He can work through those who praise Him!

Praise the Lord, He can work through those who praise Him!

God is not finished with you! God has called you to do a mighty work in you first and then to the world. There is no one who can ever stop you from fulfilling God’s word in your life except you. 

If you have taken the word of a false minister or a false brother that really don’t know God but you thought they were from God and now you see that it was a lie. Then come and fast and pray and see the Lord is still calling you.

If you heard them say, that you’ll never make it without them or that you don’t have what it takes to make it as a preacher, The Lords to saids to you, look what I have prepared for you to do. 

If they have told you, that you don’t have the temperament to be used by the Lord in a mighty ministry you know God had put that in your heart. Then listen, stop what you are doing and pray and see the glory of the Lord open doors. 

If people have lied about your character and or they have tried in every way to take away that very God sent desire that was put into your heart to preach God’s word then this is for you. 

If you want to fulfill the calling of God in your life, but haven’t really moved forward with it because you’re afraid or you’re to depressed to do anything, then come and see what the Lord said about that to you. 

This is the word of the Lord for you, that is come and let that go and follow me Jesus said.

Praise The Lord.

My friends, there isn’t room from me here to give you an account of what I when through in my life in order to reach a place to feel close enough to see The Lord’s hand in my life and to wonder how all things worked together for those who love God. Mighty and powerful is he. I know I’m surely close to the Lord because it was in the hard times I can see now how he was walking with me against the storm, and suddenly as I write this The Lord makes me aware of how far I am and how long is the walk toward his holiness, because he is God. I will spend an eternity walk with him toward his holiness, my friend and its been an unfathomable experience so far.  

In the light within my mind I can almost see Paul the apostle writing these words. “As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia. And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not as the Lord would[a] but as a fool. Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast. For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves! For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face. To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that!

But whatever anyone else dares to boast of—

I am speaking as a fool—

I also dare to boast of that.  

Are they Hebrews? So am I. 

Are they Israelites? So am I. 

Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. 

Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—

I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea;  on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;  in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. 

And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.  

Who is weak, and I am not weak? 

Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.  At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me, but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.

I must go on boasting. 

Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.  

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.  On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses— though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, 

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

Praise The Lord!

Welcome to the true family of The Lord! Most of us who follow Jesus Christ like Paul have been attacked, slandered, betrayed, beaten, lied to, misunderstood, imprisoned psychologically and or physically, in danger by false brothers, false prophets and the like, in toil and hardship, we’ve thirst often and without food, slipped in the cold and exposed and yet through it all we believe and trust in Jesus Christ. You are the remnant of the Lord set apart to do his mighty work. 

Praise The Lord. 

Finally; I often hear believers yearn to the Lord publicly in a prayer, or in a testimony or in a sermon saying that they want to see the Lord move mightily like he promised he would, as if he hasn’t, which makes him look like a liar. They are blinded from the truth by their culture and desire which isn’t from God. They will never see The Lords promises, because God isn’t a Showmen, he is private and sacred in his workings. Holy be his name, He is more interested in changing a heart toward his holiness and for the person to truly seek him and serve him, he’s not into making a spectacle out of anyone. 

Truly, he has been working awesomely through the generations. The mighty hand of God has worked behind the scenes in the heart of men from the day of pentecost until now. His word has reached an insignificant person such as myself, with the odds set against that happening, then he is doing what he promised. O’ He’s mighty alright! I will praise the Lord and Satan is a liar. 

I hope you can join me in praising the Lord with this song. 

Praise The Lord!

When you're up against a struggle that shatters all your dreams
And your hopes have 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 seems 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 us 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 has risen so the work's already done

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 seems to bind you
Serve only to remind you that they drop powerless behind you
When you praise Him

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 seems to bind you
Serve only to remind you that they drop powerless behind you

When you praise Him

Praise Him, praise Him
When you praise Him
When you praise Him
When you praise the Lord

By The Imperials

Songwriters: ELLIOTT B. BANNISTER, MICHAEL VINCENT HUDSON

© Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.