Choose To Praise

In Psalm 22, we can read the anguish of someone waiting upon God:

Verse 1: 

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I have cried desperately for help, but still it does not come. 

Verse 8:

“You relied on the Lord,” they say. “Why doesn't he save you? If the Lord likes you, why doesn't he help you?” 

And at times, this is exactly how we feel. 

When we have prayed for so long and still we are waiting for answers. When hope is starting to fade. When people around us start tormenting us and challenge us to question God's love for us.

Hope Filipino Church is currently having a 21-day thanksgiving. Three Sundays of giving thanks to God for the things that He has done. And also thanking God in advance of the things that He will do.  So we choose to sing instead of cry. We choose to praise instead of question. We choose to believe instead of doubt.

When the Apostle Paul was in prison, he did the same thing. He was singing and praying.  And in Acts 16:26, while he was doing this, SUDDENLY... 

"there was a violent earthquake, which shook the prison to its foundations. At once all the doors opened, and the chains fell off all the prisoners."

Psalm 22:26
 "The poor will eat and be satisfied.
    All who seek the Lord will praise him.
    Their hearts will rejoice with everlasting joy."

As we choose to praise and maintain a grateful attitude, I declare that we would all experience this SUDDENLY moment, that instant breakthrough that comes from God.