Isaiah 61:1-3 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted.
To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn, To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.
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When the enemy is pulling out all his stops that is the time to remember that God has given us an antidote, a vaccination, if you like, to the virus of this spirit of heaviness that is prowling round waiting to pounce on us. So what is this antidote? It is the garment of praise. An antidote is a remedy when a form of poisoning is present. That is what the enemy tries to do, He tries to poison our joy to make it ineffective so we lose our strength and we all fall foul of it sometimes.
God knew there would be times in all our lives when we would come under attack but as always God is a step ahead and He's given us the way out. It is the way of praise and thanksgiving, which takes our eyes off the circumstances and grief about situations, and back on to Him and all He has done for us.
Isaiah 53 tells us Jesus has borne all our griefs and sorrows just as much as He bore our sins, and we need the faith He has already given us to to lay hold of that and declare it.
Praise reminds us of how big our God is. It reminds us that situations are never hopeless, that with God they can be turned around for good in a day and what God is looking for is our faith to reach out to Him in praise for His mercy and intervention. It may not be the way we want it to be but when we pray for His kingdom to come and His will to be done then we are getting in agreement with Him and His plans because He knows best.
Faith believes all things are possible. Faith thanks God in advance for the solution before we see it.
So can I encourage us all today, myself included, to be a tree of righteousness so that the Lord may be glorified in all that is happening in our world. God made us for such a time as this, He has equipped us by His Spirit to handle whatever comes when we keep our eyes on Him and Him only.
Let's lift up our praise to Him, giving Him thanks for all the good we see, and believe Him for the comfort for the griefs and sorrows Jesus has already born for us just like He has already born our sins away. We have much to praise Him for.😊
Let's take our antidote today. Let's get dressed in praise today.😊
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