So do you understand that our praise to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are essential in our everyday walk? We praise Him for who He is: He is the creator, redeemer, savior, Lord, King of Kings, Alpha and Omega, He is faithful, just, holy, true and I could go on and on. He is worthy of all our praise in good times and bad times; because without Him we would be nothing, so did you wake up today? Then lift up your voice to praise Him and Him alone.
Psalm 100:4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him and bless His name
We thank Him for what He has done for us. Think about what has He done for you today? Why He saved me when I was lost and traveling the pathway to Hell, He will always love me, He will never leave me nor forsake me, He is faithful even when I am not, He is my provider, He watches over me in the night keeping evil from me and me from evil.
Psalm 91:5-6,10 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day 6.Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.10 No evil shall befall you. Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.
The above scriptures have taught me how to praise God and to be thankful for all He has given and done for me. Psalm 91 has been my prayer for His protection. It is this that I am praising God for and so thankful that His mercy saved me and enabled me to write this to bring Him Glory.
I live in a downstairs apartment. If you divided my apartment in half I actually have two apartments above me. As in most apartments there are times when noise from upstairs finds it way downstairs. But this time things were a little different.
My dining room table is also my desk; I use my laptop, and study the word there. Behind me is my china cabinet. You will usually find me here in the evening and then different times during the day.
At 2:30 am on Saturday morning August 4, 2012 I woke up. I said "Lord, what do I need to pray about and since my children were on the rode to Florida I prayed for their safety. Yet I just couldn't seem to sleep, I prayed, I tossed and turned and occasionally I would hear sounds of arguing from upstairs. At 5 am the thought crossed my mind "Well, you might as well get up, you aren't sleeping anyway, go get on the computer" so I sat up then the next thought came "Don't do it" so I laid down and in peace fell asleep. At 5:20 I was awakened by a loud BANG I got up and went to see what it could be. I found white powder all over my bible and laptop, so I looked up and to my horror and shock there was a bullet hole in my ceiling. It entered at just the right angle to send it pass my chair and hit and busted the door on the china cabinet the the bullet bounced into the,living room. If I had gotten up at 5 am I would have been struck by a 45 in the head. Evil of domestic violence was taking place upstairs and MY GOD spoke a word to me that caused me to lay back down.
Six weeks earlier, God had spoke a word to me to do something, I didn't do it at the time because I wasn't sure it was from me or Him. Afterward, I knew it was of Him and I said Lord I never want to disobey you again. I began to pray Lord let me be so in tune to you that when you say jump I jump, when you sit I sit, when you say move I move, when you say stay I stay. God said to me that when I began to pray for that He was beginning to work in me to prepare me to obey. You see obeying 3 little words "DON'T DO IT" would mean I would live and not die.
