‘The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.’ Isaiah
61:3
Praise works like a magnifying glass. It causes what
you’re focusing on to get bigger, to be ‘magnified’. David said, ‘Magnify the
LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together. I sought the LORD, and He
heard me, and delivered me from all my fears’ (Psalm 34:3-4 NKJV).
It’s a mistake to wait until you’ve no problems, fewer
problems, or your problems are solved before you praise the Lord. Praise is one
of the great scriptural keys to problem-solving because it gets your focus on
God, the problem solver. Charles Spurgeon said: ‘My happiest moments are when I
am worshipping God, really adoring the Lord Jesus Christ…In that worship I
forget the cares of the church and everything else. To me it is the nearest
approach to what it will be in heaven.’ God has promised you ‘the garment of
praise for the spirit of heaviness’. It works like this. When you begin to
praise Him with a heavy heart, you experience a new sense of hope and joy.
Through worship you are reminded that God is bigger than the situation you
face; that He’s not only capable of managing your concerns but willing,
wanting, and waiting to. The psalmist wrote: ‘Seven times a day I praise You’
(Psalm 119:164 NKJV). Fill your day with praise. Don’t just take coffee breaks
and tea breaks, take ‘praise breaks’. Begin to praise God for two things: 1)
His attributes. His power, love, grace, favour, guidance, etc. 2) His acts.
Recall His goodness to you. Go ahead; take off the spirit of heaviness and put
on the garment of praise.
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