PRAISE TO RAISE!

 Philippians 4:8

Finally, brethren whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

It is needful to bring this scripture to remembrance because this is the “confidence in warfare” book. Paul writes this letter to encourage his fellow soldiers ion the battlefield to be not weary in well doing because we shall reap if we faint not. Abide in the Lord and He will abide in you. Trust in the Lord always and be confident that He who began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Rejoice in that confidence because we have hope in the expectation of the Most High. No matter the circumstance and no matter the situation the Lord will never leave us nor forsake us. We are dying daily so that it is not longer us, but Christ who lives within us. Watch and pray for the Lord indeed hears our prayers and is faithful to provide for His and to and to perform His will. Regardless of the test and trial have confidence in your Savior who is risen for you to partake in His grace. Remember your testimony of love when you're going through. Remember the righteous things and the purified love of Christ. Remember the reasons why have praised the Lord.

I thank God for giving us the invitation to come boldly to His throne of grace. I thank God for hearing the prayers of the righteous on my behalf when I wasn't strong or faithful enough to pray on my own. I thank God for the Spirit that makes intercession to give us the proper words to pray knowing the flesh cannot please God. I thank God for teaching me the righteous way to seek so that He would hear me when I call and that my words would not fall to the ground. Therefore I praise Him for His faithfulness to look past my faults and my wretchedness to meet my need for His loving kindness and His tender mercies. Some righteous prayed for me and the Lord honored their prayer. He shielded me to get me to a place of repentance. He poured His Holy Spirit and kept drawing me to seek of Him through His Holy Word. There I understood the mercy, love, and joy that was overwhelming that the shy pastor had to step aside and allow the Spirit of God to reign completely. The purified love of Jesus redeemed my life. Therein is a praise report to bear record of the bowels of mercy and the love that will continue to abound as long as you allow. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of the Lord.