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Your Promise Fuels Your Praise

A promise from God is as good as it gets, there is no shortfall, no reneging, no changing his mind. God is just looking for someone who will take him at his word, and praise their way through because God will bring you out of your trouble, and he will lead you into all his goodness. The problem many of us face is the fight to believe God will come through. We read his word, we repeat and declare his promises, but we don't believe what we are saying. The Apostle James calls a person who prays but believes not double-minded man. I know when the situation seems enormous it is challenging to stay in faith, that is why God gives us a promise so we can recognize the answer forthcoming depends on him alone. 

The Bible teaches us that God inhabits the praises of his people (Psalm 22:3 NIV). God is with us all the time in the person of the Holy Spirit, but when we praise God based on his goodness, faithfulness, and love for us, we experience a manifested presence of God where miracles can happen. So when we establish in our hearts God is who he says he is, the more faith we can express in his promises, and those promises will fuel our praise.

King Jehoshaphat got the promise from God, and he believed. He set out to do what God had told him. He gathered the people the next day and gave them a pep talk based on the promise he got from God, and they got ready to take their positions for war. It is marvelous the way God calls us to war, and it is not the way of the world. The Apostle Paul tells us our weapons are not carnal but mighty through God-(2 Corinthians 10:4 NIV). In every battle, we must learn to stand in faith believing God's promise, praise him, and he will show up and fight for you.

Armed with priests and singers, they were ready for battle. To the army on the other side this might have looked ridiculous on every level, they must have thought "We have the victory in this one" and probably laughed at the situation. But little did they know this army would not fight this battle in their own strength, but the God of the universe would show up and defend them. So too, know that God never changes, and if he did it back then for King Jehoshaphat, he would do it again for you. When all else is lost, when it looks impossible, as long as you have a promise from God, you are positioned for the victory as you stand and declare the goodness of your God. King Jehoshaphat did no war chant, but they stood and gave thanks to the Lord. They focused their praise on their God and how good, faithful, kind and loving he was, establishing that his qualities would last forever. 

"When you need God to answer a prayer you ask God for a promise; and when God gives you a promise, having prayed for the promise, then you start to praise from the promise – pray for the promise and then praise from the promise." - George Muller