What Are You Allowing To Silence Your Praise?

What is it in your life that you have allowed to silence your praise?   Have you allowed people to silence your praise?   Have your allow sickness to silence your praise?   What about lack?   Have you allowed what you feel is not enough to cause your praise to be silenced?    How about where you live?   Have you allowed your living arrangements to silence the voice that God has given  you?    You have to learn how to press pass the trials and anxieties of life and begin to praise God right where you are.  

The thing is, we can "let" things happen.   To let means to allow, not prevent or forbid.  There are many things in life that we have no control over but UNDERSTAND, we do have control over our praise.   We just have to make up in our mind that we are going to praise God despite what we are going through.    We have to practice praising Him in the midst of every situation in life.

Yes there are times when it is hard to praise God.  When we are experiencing pain, it is hard to press pass that pain in order to give God praise.   It's like when a woman gives birth, the pain can be overwhelming.   It's hard to see past the pain in order to get to the place of praise but we have to keep in mind the promise of the blessing that comes after the intense labor.   So it is in life, we have to remember, God has made a promise and His promise says that He has a plan and His plan is filled with hope, a future, and an expected end.   We have to know and trust that God has already set in place what we need our outcome to be.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.