Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Let Our Hearts Sing

Singing is a beautiful thing! I know what some of you are thinking. Some of you are like me and cannot carry a tune, or at least not very well. That is okay because God wants us to offer up the sacrifice of praise of our lips. In Paul’s letters to the Hebrews, he specifically spoke to his point.

Hebrews 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Paul was telling us a way of being towards God. Jeremiah spoke of a time to come when God would stand up for His people, those that bring the sacrifice of praise.

Jeremiah 33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the Lord of hosts: for the Lord is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the Lord.

Today, let us defeat our enemies with our mouths by offering the sacrifice of praise!

Prayer
Father, I praise and thank You for being the Most High God. Thank You for rising up to defeat our enemies. Today, when You hear our sacrifice of praise, rise up and crush our enemies. In Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) name. Amen.