FAITH CAPSULE: Regardless of your challenge do not suspend praising and rejoicing before God.
Psalm 9
Jesus identified Himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6) He is the way, He is the truth and He is the life. The word of God in John 1:1-3 identified, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” The word confirmed that Jesus is the Word of God. Do you receive and believe Him? Those that receive and believe Him must abide in Him. Jesus buttressed, “…If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32)
The bible documented that Jesus is the truth. Jesus is the Word of God
To abide in Him is the only way to know the truth.
To know the truth is to fully engage the truth.
To fully engage the truth is to truthfully follow the truth.
To fully follow the truth shall make man free.
A failure to abide in the Word (the truth) shall not make man free.
A man praising God without rejoicing is the lack of understanding, the evidence of failure to abide in the truth (word)
Praising God with rejoicing is the truths that shall make man free (evidence of abiding in the truth). The word testified the importance of praising and rejoicing as one together. Psalm 28:7, “The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him.”
Psalm 98:4, “Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth; Break forth in song, rejoice, and sing praises.”
Luke 19:37, “…the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen…”
The above scriptural verses buttressed that it is lack of understanding by not abiding in the truth to be praising God without rejoicing.
Is it your challenge that is denying praising God and not rejoicing God? You cannot praise Him without rejoicing, likewise you cannot rejoice without praising Him. Regardless of your challenge do not suspend praising and rejoicing before God.
If man will receive and believe all that is written in the pages of scripture for our learning, all the miracles that were testified will not escape man. Try God and see that He alone is faithful; truth to His word of deliverance and preservation in life. With abiding in the truth with understanding, praising and rejoicing will make you to walk on high places.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be abiding in the truth and open up your understanding.