PRAISE HIM

Revelation is the last book in the Bible and the book describing what is going to be happening in the end of time as we know it.  Something most people rarely realize is that it is also a book with some powerful praise unto God.  Today, let’s praise Him with His Word from Revelation exalting His power and His glory.

Revelation 4:11

You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for You have created all things and for Your pleasure they are and were created.

That’s me, Lord.  You created me for Your pleasure.  I bring you great pleasure.  I praise You.  You are worthy to receive all the glory, all the honor, all the power.  You are my great and awesome Creator.  Thank You!

Revelation 7:12

So be it!

Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be unto my God forever and ever!

So be it!

I am in You, God.  That means that Your blessing and Your glory and Your wisdom and Your thanksgiving (the way You give thanks) and Your honor and Your power and Your might are in me.  Thank You, God!  So be it!

Revelation 11:17

I give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, Omnipotent (all-powerful) One, Who is and Who was and Who is to come.  You have taken to Yourself Your great power; You have assumed the high sovereignty and the great power that are Yours.  And You have reigned.

O Lord God Almighty, you are reigning in my life.  You have assumed Your position of high sovereignty and great power in my life.  I give You thanks because You are the All-Powerful, Omnipotent God of my life.

Revelation 19:1

Hallelujah!  Praise to You Lord!

Salvation and glory (splendor and majesty) and power (dominion and authority) belong to You, my God!

FOR YOU LORD GOD ALMIGHTY ARE WORTHY OF ALL MY PRAISE AND ADORATION!

LOOK BEYOND

What do you see today?  What are you seeing with your physical eyes?  A better question would be this:  What are you seeing with your spiritual eyes?  Do you see misery or joy?  Do you see lack or abundance?  Do you see rejection or love?  Do you see death or life?  What do you see?

God told Abraham and Isaac and Joseph and many others in the Bible to look beyond where they were, to see the wonderful plan He had for them.  At the time He spoke to them He was basically saying this:  Look beyond where you are right now in your present circumstances to what I have for you.

Dare to dream big dreams.  Dare to have a impossible goal.  Dare to believe you can achieve the vision God has placed before your eyes.

How do you know it is a God dream?  The Bible tells us to delight ourselves in the Lord and He will give us the desires of our hearts.  DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD!  He will do the rest.  He will give you the dream.  He will place the desires in your heart.  He will give you the vision.  THEN, He will place you in the right place at the right time with the right people, time after time, to achieve that dream.  Step by step and precept upon precept, one by one, God will fulfill that dream.

What is our task?  To Delight, to dream, and to look beyond our earthly confinements to His heavenly reality.  What is God’s part?  To fulfill that big dream, that impossible goal, that huge desire He placed in your heart.  It is His pleasure to fulfill dreams!

What God has placed in your heart is there to be fulfilled.  DREAM AND LOOK BEYOND!

GIVE VOICE

You and I as human beings on this earth were given a voice to speak intelligible words that communicate understanding.  Animals can only meow or bark or moo or neigh or bray or crow or squeak.  They have a limited means of communicating, even though they do communicate with their movements and scent and various inflections of the sound of their voice.  BUT we humans have been given a gift by God to create by our actual words.  What an honor!  What a privilege!  What a blessing!

Every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every month of every year, we are giving voice to our thoughts, putting them into words.  We can either give voice to our circumstances and feelings or we can give voice to God’s Word.  We have been given that choice.  Wow!

God’s Word is so beautiful.  It is the essence of everything we will need, whether it is health and healing, financial wealth, Godly relationships, strong families or a vibrant life.  It is all there for us in God’s Word.  He has made provision for every area of our lives.  He has presented us with His Word so that we can give voice to His goodness and love not only for ourselves but also for others.  He has given us His Word to paint a picture of the Blessing all the time in this earth for us and for others.  Our mouth is our paintbrush.  Paint the right words to produce pictures of the Blessing everywhere you go.

What are you giving voice to today?  The world around us is speaking doom and gloom.  We must speak life and hope and faith.  And the place we start is with ourselves and those around us.  GIVE VOICE TO GOD’S WORD!