Hello blessed people of Blogsville
I want to apologise for being out of touch for a while now. My laptop has finally given up on me and I have been in the middle of so many things.
I do trust and believe that God has everything under control and my testimony will be shared right here and you all will be witnesses to the goodness, greatness and awesomeness of our God.
Let me just leave you for now with this:
To that person that feels there is no hope and it's the end and there's no way out- Don't give up on God. Hold on to Him. He is the author and finisher of your/our faith. There is a new anointing that is being poured out and that anointing is able to silence any and every opposition that may be standing against you. The New anointing lifts every siege and removes all kinds of reproach. The new anointing transforms every situation.
To whomever this may apply to: begin to thank God for the past, the present and the future. God has it all in control.
Remain Blessed Darlings
VirtuousKelly
xxx
Saturday, 29 October 2011
Saturday, 15 October 2011
What Praise Can Do
Hello People!!!!!
I apologise for not dropping a post earlier on this week. So many unexpected things came up this week but I thank God cos in all things I am more than a conqueror through Christ who dwells in me. Somebody shout Hallelujah!!!!!
On this glorious Saturday morning I just want to drop a few lines to give you my first hand experience on what PRAISE can do.
I noticed a lot of visitors who come to my blog usually visit my post 'The Importance of Prayer' and I believe it has blessed them so I will give my experience also on praise.
Recently, a lot has been going on around me. There are some prayer requests I have and also partnership prayers that concern me that I pray about as well. Sometimes its hard to get into that zone when you want to really go all deep. In those situations I just tell myself to PRAISE God.
Now most of us (I included) have confused Praise to be that part of the singing, clapping and fast beat phase while worship is the more solemn phase. Due to my experience I beg to differ.
There are times when no song comes to your mind but you remember the goodness of God, His awesome power,His majesty and you begin to Praise Him. You Praising Him is an ACT of Worship in itself. The two are one and the same. It's more than the singing, its more than the clapping. It's more of a lifestyle of always having a reason to appreciate God for what He has done, what he is doing and what He will do. Most times Simply for who He is.
On Tuesday I had an awesome experience. At first the spirit was willing to pray but the flesh was weak because I had a somewhat nasty episode at work. All I wanted to do was follow my usual routine prayer and get it over and done with. Little did I know that God had a different plan for me.
So here I was about to go on my knees but while standing in my little room I just began to sing praises to God. Thinking back on it all those songs had one thing in common: They all had the theme of THANKFULNESS. Now at the time I didn't think of what I was being thankful for considering the fact that I didn't exactly have the best day. However that went on for about 20-25 mins. It came so easy that when I thought I was finally released and got on my knees to get my so called 'worship Phase' started all I could do was minister to God with words. His faithfulness, His kindness, His ability to always show up.
People I am glad I was not released early that night to go ahead with a routine prayer just cos I felt I had to. I am glad I was able to submit to His will and Praise Him the way I did. In Praising Him I worshipped His Majesty and the extent of His love for me.
On Wednesday morning all invigorated after such a powerful night session the day was worse than the last. I am sure you were expecting me to say all will be fine. Nope Worse I tell you. Right until getting home.
But People when you praise and worship God in the midst of your circumstances and you surrender everything to Him: I tell you THINGS HAPPEN!!!
Nothing happened on Thursday. All I was lead to do was read some Psalms for encouragement (Psalms 56: 3-4 and Psalm 144: 7 and 11.)
But people on Friday my God showed up for me in a wonderful way. How it came about I do not know all I know is that it has to be God only God. And I attribute it to the day I submitted to His will to Praise Him.
I can not begin to explain to you the level of joy I feel. God is taking me through something and after the first stage of manifestation on Friday I thanked and praised Him some more because I know He who began a GREAT work in me will be Faithful and more than Able to complete it.
People Watch This Space. More is about to come. Because when the Praises Go up, the Blessings come down.
This is my experience. Prayer is important but do not forget the importance of Praise as well.
Please share your experience with me and with visitors on this blog. You do not know who may need encouragement from your experience(s).
Stay Blessed and with an attitude of Praise
VirtuousKelly
xxx
I apologise for not dropping a post earlier on this week. So many unexpected things came up this week but I thank God cos in all things I am more than a conqueror through Christ who dwells in me. Somebody shout Hallelujah!!!!!
On this glorious Saturday morning I just want to drop a few lines to give you my first hand experience on what PRAISE can do.
I noticed a lot of visitors who come to my blog usually visit my post 'The Importance of Prayer' and I believe it has blessed them so I will give my experience also on praise.
Recently, a lot has been going on around me. There are some prayer requests I have and also partnership prayers that concern me that I pray about as well. Sometimes its hard to get into that zone when you want to really go all deep. In those situations I just tell myself to PRAISE God.
Now most of us (I included) have confused Praise to be that part of the singing, clapping and fast beat phase while worship is the more solemn phase. Due to my experience I beg to differ.
There are times when no song comes to your mind but you remember the goodness of God, His awesome power,His majesty and you begin to Praise Him. You Praising Him is an ACT of Worship in itself. The two are one and the same. It's more than the singing, its more than the clapping. It's more of a lifestyle of always having a reason to appreciate God for what He has done, what he is doing and what He will do. Most times Simply for who He is.
On Tuesday I had an awesome experience. At first the spirit was willing to pray but the flesh was weak because I had a somewhat nasty episode at work. All I wanted to do was follow my usual routine prayer and get it over and done with. Little did I know that God had a different plan for me.
So here I was about to go on my knees but while standing in my little room I just began to sing praises to God. Thinking back on it all those songs had one thing in common: They all had the theme of THANKFULNESS. Now at the time I didn't think of what I was being thankful for considering the fact that I didn't exactly have the best day. However that went on for about 20-25 mins. It came so easy that when I thought I was finally released and got on my knees to get my so called 'worship Phase' started all I could do was minister to God with words. His faithfulness, His kindness, His ability to always show up.
People I am glad I was not released early that night to go ahead with a routine prayer just cos I felt I had to. I am glad I was able to submit to His will and Praise Him the way I did. In Praising Him I worshipped His Majesty and the extent of His love for me.
On Wednesday morning all invigorated after such a powerful night session the day was worse than the last. I am sure you were expecting me to say all will be fine. Nope Worse I tell you. Right until getting home.
But People when you praise and worship God in the midst of your circumstances and you surrender everything to Him: I tell you THINGS HAPPEN!!!
Nothing happened on Thursday. All I was lead to do was read some Psalms for encouragement (Psalms 56: 3-4 and Psalm 144: 7 and 11.)
But people on Friday my God showed up for me in a wonderful way. How it came about I do not know all I know is that it has to be God only God. And I attribute it to the day I submitted to His will to Praise Him.
I can not begin to explain to you the level of joy I feel. God is taking me through something and after the first stage of manifestation on Friday I thanked and praised Him some more because I know He who began a GREAT work in me will be Faithful and more than Able to complete it.
People Watch This Space. More is about to come. Because when the Praises Go up, the Blessings come down.
This is my experience. Prayer is important but do not forget the importance of Praise as well.
Please share your experience with me and with visitors on this blog. You do not know who may need encouragement from your experience(s).
Stay Blessed and with an attitude of Praise
VirtuousKelly
xxx
Monday, 10 October 2011
Psalms I love: Psalms 66
Hello Wonderful People!!!!!
How did the weekend go?
Mine was fine;busy;but fine.
It seems I'll have 3 posts in this week...Somebody shout Hallelujah!!!!!
Yesterday I was re-introduced to a Psalm I must have read before. However a verse from the psalm was read during service yesterday and prompted me to read the whole psalm.
Trust me to do some research on it. (Insert what's app smiling face smiley)
'Praise is the topic, and the subjects for song are the Lord's great works, his gracious benefits, his faithful deliverances, and all his dealings with his people, brought to a close by a personal testimony to special kindness received by the prophet bard himself. Ps 66:1-4 are a kind of introductory hymn, calling upon all nations to praise God, and dictating to them the words of a suitable song. Ps 66:5-7 invite the beholder to "Come and see" the works of the Lord, pointing attention to the Red Sea, and perhaps the passage of Jordan. This suggests the similar position of the afflicted people which is described, and its joyful issue predicted, Ps 66:8-12. The singer then becomes personal, and confesses his own obligations to the Lord (Ps 66:13-15); and, bursting forth with a vehement "Come and hear, "declares with thanksgiving the special favour of the Lord to himself, Ps 66:16-20.'
(Excerpt gotten from The Treasury of David by Charles H. Spurgeon)
This Psalm is made up of 20 verses. My favourite verses are:
Verse 3: Say to God,
“How awesome are Your works!
Through the greatness of Your power
Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.
This for some reason just makes me want to burst out with joy. My God is Awesome and not only that but through the greatness of his power which is demonstrated in the works of creation and beyond, enemies submit themselves.
Kelly's Interpretation: When I am troubled all I need to remember is how Awesome and Great my God is: in remembering how great he is every problem becomes smaller compared to Him.
Verse 12: 'You have caused men to ride over our heads;
We went through fire and through water;
But You brought us out to rich fulfilment.'
Kelly's Interpretation: Even when I go through adverse situations I will always hold on knowing that God will surely bring me out better and brighter than before. Abundance is the word.
Verse 18: If I regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear.
Kelly's Interpretation: At times when I sin the Lord does not hear and I become susceptible to the wiles of the enemy. Therefore I must always ask God to forgive me of my sins in order for my prayers to be answered.
Verse 19 and 20: 'But certainly God has heard me;
He has attended to the voice of my prayer.
Blessed be God,
Who has not turned away my prayer,
Nor His mercy from me!'
Kelly's Interpretation: Because we serve a merciful God He will attend to our prayers. We are his children created in His image. No good thing will he deny us. All Praise be to him.
The whole Psalm is power packed. I have only highlighted verses that jumped out at me. Please read the whole of it and let me know which verses jump out at you :-) or better still your own interpretation to the whole Psalm
Don't miss me
I'll be back soon
Yours with Love
VirtuousKelly
xxx
How did the weekend go?
Mine was fine;busy;but fine.
It seems I'll have 3 posts in this week...Somebody shout Hallelujah!!!!!
Yesterday I was re-introduced to a Psalm I must have read before. However a verse from the psalm was read during service yesterday and prompted me to read the whole psalm.
Trust me to do some research on it. (Insert what's app smiling face smiley)
'Praise is the topic, and the subjects for song are the Lord's great works, his gracious benefits, his faithful deliverances, and all his dealings with his people, brought to a close by a personal testimony to special kindness received by the prophet bard himself. Ps 66:1-4 are a kind of introductory hymn, calling upon all nations to praise God, and dictating to them the words of a suitable song. Ps 66:5-7 invite the beholder to "Come and see" the works of the Lord, pointing attention to the Red Sea, and perhaps the passage of Jordan. This suggests the similar position of the afflicted people which is described, and its joyful issue predicted, Ps 66:8-12. The singer then becomes personal, and confesses his own obligations to the Lord (Ps 66:13-15); and, bursting forth with a vehement "Come and hear, "declares with thanksgiving the special favour of the Lord to himself, Ps 66:16-20.'
(Excerpt gotten from The Treasury of David by Charles H. Spurgeon)
This Psalm is made up of 20 verses. My favourite verses are:
Verse 3: Say to God,
“How awesome are Your works!
Through the greatness of Your power
Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.
This for some reason just makes me want to burst out with joy. My God is Awesome and not only that but through the greatness of his power which is demonstrated in the works of creation and beyond, enemies submit themselves.
Kelly's Interpretation: When I am troubled all I need to remember is how Awesome and Great my God is: in remembering how great he is every problem becomes smaller compared to Him.
Verse 12: 'You have caused men to ride over our heads;
We went through fire and through water;
But You brought us out to rich fulfilment.'
Kelly's Interpretation: Even when I go through adverse situations I will always hold on knowing that God will surely bring me out better and brighter than before. Abundance is the word.
Verse 18: If I regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear.
Kelly's Interpretation: At times when I sin the Lord does not hear and I become susceptible to the wiles of the enemy. Therefore I must always ask God to forgive me of my sins in order for my prayers to be answered.
Verse 19 and 20: 'But certainly God has heard me;
He has attended to the voice of my prayer.
Blessed be God,
Who has not turned away my prayer,
Nor His mercy from me!'
Kelly's Interpretation: Because we serve a merciful God He will attend to our prayers. We are his children created in His image. No good thing will he deny us. All Praise be to him.
The whole Psalm is power packed. I have only highlighted verses that jumped out at me. Please read the whole of it and let me know which verses jump out at you :-) or better still your own interpretation to the whole Psalm
Don't miss me
I'll be back soon
Yours with Love
VirtuousKelly
xxx
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