Open Heavens 29 June 2016: Wednesday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Dancing unto the Lord

Topic: Dancing unto the Lord [Wednesday 29, June 2016]
Memorise: Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. – Psalms 150:4
Read: Psalms 150:1-6 (KJV)
 1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
Bible in One Year: Acts 12:6-13:52, Song of Solomon 3
MESSAGE:
 There are many people who think that it is only when they pray to God that help comes down. The greatest victories that the children of Israel experienced manifested in an atmosphere of praise. There is always a point where you don’t know what to do again, especially when you have done all you can. This is the time when you should begin to dance to the Lord and praise Him. Paul and Silas were unjustly thrown into the prison, when they did not know what to do next, they turned to praise. The next moment, all the doors leading into the prison flung open, not for them to escape, but for the people to know the potency of the God they were praising. Are you in prison? Do you think there is something the enemy has stolen from you? Have you just lost something very precious to you? Have you just received a sack letter or a negative medical report? Whatever your case is, just begin to dance before the Lord. This is a way of committing God to rise on your behalf.
 The moment you begin to dance in the midst of your situation and circumstances, you are simply telling the whole world that you are not a victim. You are provoking God to action and when He rises on your behalf; you become the talk of the town. There are some people who cannot mind their business, they are always wondering why people dance the way they dance. When they see a rich man forgetting his wealth and dancing before His Maker, they continue to wonder why the man has forgotten who he is. The question is who are you before the Almighty God? You are nothing. If we remove God from your life, there is nothing else to see. David understood this and he danced and praised God. Dancing shows gratitude to the Almighty God. Dancing is loaded with blessings, when we dance unto the Lord; He turns our mourning into joy. There are people who only dance when the Lord has given them a testimony to share, but those who understand better will continue to dance even before the arrival of their miracles.
 When you dance before God and you praise Him with the whole of your heart, you will begin to enjoy divine favour and there will be a divine acceleration of your place of celebration. When you praise God, all your enemies become silenced because your dance will provoke God to rise in your defence.
 It is not the dance of everyone that God will rise for. It is only the dance of those who worship Him in spirit and in truth. Sin is the only thing that can stop Him from rising on your behalf because He is too pure to behold iniquity.
Prayer Point: Father, please remove everything that will stop You from rising on my behalf.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.
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