The Mystery Of Praise

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Did you know we were created explicitly to praise? David prophesied about this new creation.

When people do not love praise, I really wonder if they are even born again and certainly they are no part of the new day. Did you realize God's plan for the restoration of man and our home, this planet, will be fulfilled or achieved through praise, so let us take a closer look at it. The enemy, that does his best to stop our praise must be understood as well.

You see, Satan was created as heaven's musician.

He was meant to be heaven's chief musician and backup singer to Jesus Himself as He sang the songs that created the world.

Next we see, just as the Lord sang the world into being in the first place, Satan beguiled Eve into choosing him as lord and ever the clever counterfeiter, sang this soulish realm we live in today into being.

But guess what, if a song can bring something into existence, then a more powerful song can destroy it. Needless to say the songs of the Lord and His people are greater than the songs of Satan. Let us read Psalm 149:6-9 for a look at this very thing.

In fact, Psalm 22:3 says in the Old King James, "O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel". The word inhabitest means enthroned, so He sits in the praises of His people as King, renouncing Satan's right of lordship over them. The Strongs dictionary number 3427 says "inhabitest" means sit quietly as judge, sit quiet to ambush. So, the King of the universe, judges and ambushes the enemy through us as we praise!

The other side of the definition of "inhabitest" is settle down, marry. So our relationship as His wife is established through praise also. So how can we not love to praise Him? And why would we ever want to listen to the music of the world?

When should we praise? Anytime we need the Lord's presence. Paul and Silas for instance were in real danger. Let us look at how they handled their situation.

In the Old Testament God's people knew the power of music and its ability to bring the Lord's intervention. Judges 5 shows us a time when Israel was going to battle against a formidable foe. What did they do? They sang!

Now let us read verses 12 and 13.

Let us read of another time in history that the Lord came to the praises of His people.

Where is it appropriate to praise? Anywhere, anytime you need intervention from God. You may praise Him for companionship, direction, or to just give Him your love and receive His. It could even be that perhaps you too need Him to ambush your enemies. The point is, you don't need to have a special time or place. The psalms encourage us,

David sang as a child in the fields as he shepherded his sheep. He in fact sang most of the recorded Psalms in the book of Psalms from caves, the woods, his palace, etc. He praised God when he was happy, he praised Him when he was down or afraid. David was a man after God's own heart, in fact God would come through his lineage to restore man and this planet to Himself and to its original state through Jesus, who called Himself the Offspring of David.

He would come again in the end days through a generation of people He would create to praise, and through them He would sing a new refurbished heaven and new refreshed earth into being. You see, beaten and spit upon in the streets of Jerusalem, then nailed to the cross bar and hung on the tree, His body was broken. The Bread of Life was offered up, His blood was shed, the wine was poured, the sacrifice was made. The Bride was released from His side. All that is needed now for the promise of the covenant to be fully realized and established with all of creation is for her, His prepared Bride, to sing His praises, and communion will be complete! The point of contact between heaven and earth will give birth to all things new.

So we must be prepared as His Bride to praise with understanding, we must praise with wisdom and purpose. We must praise Him with love and through the Truth released for this end time. We must be united, in one accord, and speaking one language. As the Bride prophetically and spontaneously praises, the Lord sings through her, they become as one, and heaven and earth are blessed with new beginnings. A new cycle begins. As the feast of Tabernacles comes to a close, the wise virgins will be invited to stay as His Bride for Sh'mini Atzeret as the Lord's special guest.

You see, as this new generation allows itself to be shaped and molded to be His Bride, it becomes the Tabernacle for the Son of David, the Greater David. God directs His people through the time of judgment from the Tabernacle as He did in the time of David. United hearts form an ark that is the throne of the Greater David. The covenant rests there. The Truth from the closed message to Daniel and the contents of John's scroll are in this ark as once hidden, but now released fresh manna. The anointing from the budded rod of Aaron is there also for miracles to heal the nations. The laws are not only written on the fleshly tablets of their hearts, but they are cherished and obeyed in total love for the King of eternity. They rejoice in the Torah as He is the Torah, the Law. The final feast will be celebrated, Simchat Torah.

So the mystery is solved, one day as the Song of the Bride and the Song of the Lord reverberate across the universe, all heaven and earth will be blessed and will rejoice in the marriage of the Lamb and join with them in a harmonious cosmic chorus.

Let everything that has breath, Praise the Lord!