Praise God and Be Strong (Daily Devotional)

Hello and welcome to Living Supernaturally, which is the daily devotional of All People’s church and we hope you are being blessed by it as much as we are in bringing this to you today. Today, we are going to meditate on receiving by faith what God has already promised, receiving the promise what has been provided freely for us. In doing so, we are called to have faith and to receive these things by faith. We need to understand one thing that it has been provided for through the finished work of the Lord Jesus on the cross, these provisions of grace are being made available for us. For us to believe and receive, each one of us we have this responsibility to believe in God and to receive it. In what way do we believe? We can learn some lessons on faith from the kind of faith that Abraham had. When we look at Romans chapter 4, and the second part of verse 20 it says, ‘but Abraham was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.’ The question is, is my faith wavering? Does my faith seem weak today? Have I waited for so long and at the end of it I seem to lose strength and is my faith weak today? We can strengthen ourselves in the Lord the way Abraham did. It says here that Abraham was strengthened in faith even as he gave glory to God. In other words, as we praise Him, give Him honor and glorify Him, our faith is built up. Even as our faith is built up, we are able to extend our faith and not lose sight of the promise but receive it and see the promise of God unfold in our lives. So, it says here that he gave praise to God. We see that even as we thank God and praise Him for who He is, the promise giver and promise keeper, not when we see the promise being made tangible but when we praise Him in advance, even when we don’t see it happen, we don’t see the answers, still when we praise and thank Him in advance, that is the faith of Abraham. He gave glory to God and was strengthened in faith. Well, Jehoshaphat did something like this, he put the army and the team that was praising God, he put those people ahead of the army and as they marched out to battle, there was this team that was declaring God’s praise and playing on the musical instruments, it says that God set up ambush and the enemies were defeated. We see another picture of Paul and Silas in the prison at Philippi but at midnight, they started praising God, they sang praise and hymns to God and it says that there was a breakthrough. Something happened in the natural, there was an earthquake and the prison doors were opened and that can happen in the spiritual as well, that there will be a shaking and the prisons will be opened, there will be a shift in the realm that we are in. As we pray today, let’s pray that our faith will be like that, that we will be strengthened giving praise to God. Let’s pray, Father, we thank you for who you are, that you are the creator God, the one who is the beginning and the end and the one who rewards those who diligently seek you. Even today, we seek you and we believe in who you are and we thank you for who you are and for the promise. Even before we see it being manifest, we thank you in faith and may our faith in you be strengthened and made stronger and may we receive what you have already freely provided in Christ Jesus, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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