Wednesday, December 21, 2005,11:03 p.m.
Declarative Praise
Stephen Court blogged this yesterday:

"I used to disdain songs that seemed to merely declare things about Jesus or Holy Spirit. I thought that during worship we should worship. So now I sing those songs about Jesus and Holy Spirit to Father.
It works nicely.
grace,
StephenC"


Here's another option to add to that, since that kind of praise can be difficult to get your head around - how about declaring those things to the spiritual world? Declaring the majesty of God and His faithfulness (among many other things) to the unclean spirits in the world. Remind them that they ought to be trembling in their boots because of the power of God and the fact that God is for us and has shared His power with us.

While we're at it, it reminds us ourselves, too. Heck, it can be declared to those around us as well - fellow believers and pre-believers.

In fact, let's just fill up the heavely realm with a declaration of God's glory all the time - bring it on!

Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called out to another and said, "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of His glory." (Isaiah 6:2-3)

Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing." (Revelation 5:11-12)
 
posted by Karyn Baker
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