Magnify the Lord over your trouble make His name bigger than the circumstance or problem you face.
Praise and thanksgivingīegin to worship and praise God, in the spirit of thanksgiving, while you’re waiting for your rescue, miracle, or answered prayer. Here’s how we can put our mouths to good use: 1. In times of real trouble, if you want to – or have to – use your tongue, take a page from King David. In silence, in our being still, we give God permission and make room for Him to do what only He can do. Does God have to get you right before He deals with your enemy? Plus, how smart is it to give the enemy ammunition for his weapons? When we speak out of turn, the devil will use our own words as darts against us. And, anything in God’s way, God will deal with it. When we hold our tongue, we keep our words out of God’s way. As we hold our peace, we remove every distraction and impediment to the victory we want so desperately. Our silence has a secret power that many of us have yet to tap into and unleash. He expects us to follow His lead and do what we’re told. Don’t hurt “change” by using your tongue to satisfy your flesh. How many times have we been only 2 cents away from peace and victory – and we gave it all away by opening our mouths?! We refused to be quiet and bankrupted the whole situation even more by talking too much. You’re not going to let them get away with that comment or action, are you? Think again. How many of us can admit that our complaints sound sweeter when part of a choir versus a solo act? How much louder does our complaining get when we have backup singers? Two Cents Township Was their gloom, “woe is me” complaints going to magically save them? Nope. Did they need God to deliver, like quick, fast, and in a hurry? Yes. “Didn’t we tell you this was a bad idea, Moses?!” “We were better off as slaves, at least we were alive!” “We told you to leave us in Egypt… bring us all the way out here in the wilderness to die!” In their eyes, with Pharoah and his army behind them, and the Red Sea in front of them, this impending doom made no sense, why? Here’s the earful they gave Moses: Look at the children of Israel in Exodus, standing at the Red Sea. Has your mouth run off to either of these places? Complain Island Either we’re mouthing off by 1) complaining about the situation, or 2) we’re busy fighting spiritual warfare with our natural words. There are 2 (maybe more) destinations that our mouths love to run to when we should be quiet and still. “And you? You keep your mouth shut!” (Exodus 14:14) So, to my surprise, while searching for that scripture that says, “God will fight for you,” why did Eugene Peterson have to add this tone in the Message Bible: I had something to say, a piece of my mind to give. But, I wasn’t “all the way” ready to surrender to rescue and allow God to fight my battle. The charges against me were bogus and lacked credible evidence. I was at a point where I desperately needed God to fight this battle for me.
“ God, you see what they’re doing to me… get ‘em, Jesus!”ĭon’t laugh, you’ve been there, too? We feel that feeling of entitlement for God’s rescue and recompense for others, but our hearts aren’t exactly in the right place, either – and neither are our mouths. Have you ever been looking for a “rich, on-time word” to check someone else and the Word of God smacks you in the face?
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