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Happy New Year!

In this post, I’ll be sharing with you “the Miracle of Praise” which will be my first post in the year 2024. My prayer is that this year shall be a year of illumination for all of us. We shall be riding on the wings of supernatural insights. Understand, revelation equals manifestation. If can see it, you can have it. May the eyes of your understanding be opened as we delve into the word of praise.

There are so many miracles in praise. Praise attracts favour; it provokes the release of God’s presence; it brings down the glory of God; It grants us victories in battles; it keeps the oil on our head fresh. But the miracle in scope is the miracle of appreciation.

Anything you thank God for appreciates. The same way the currency of your country appreciates based on how well your economy is doing. For instance, the Nigerian Naira is currently depreciating due to a weak economy while the American US dollar is appreciating because her economy is better off. Praise does not depreciate people, but expands people.

If you don’t appreciate you’ll depreciate. Until you start entering praise in your current position don’t expect to move to the next level. “And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them and they shall not be small.” – Jer 30:19

Multiplication is a product of appreciation. The reason many are few and small in life is lack of gratitude. Rather, they are consumed with the attitude of complain. Those who complain from daylight till dark never experience miracles. Complain complicates matters. “Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.” – 1 Cor.10:10

Are you unemployed? Looking for a job? All your efforts to secure one have become futile. Praise God that you’re not mad. What if you were mad, would you be able to look for a job? If you don’t have shoes, thank God that you have legs. Until you start praising God for your single room, that’s where you will die.

God detests complainers (See Phil 2:14). “Do all things without murmurings and disputing.”

This is a new year, let it be one of your goals to stop complain, let zero complain be the target. Instead, convert all complains to thanksgiving and praise, then, you’ll see the hands of God more this year as miracles will become your daily experience.

“Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee, then shall the earth yield her increase.” – Psalm 67:5-6

When you sow a seed, apart from sunshine, you need water to make it grow and to produce fruits. Similarly, Praise is the essential water that your seeds (spiritual seed, material seed, financial seed etc) need to grow and bear fruits.

Take Jesus as an example, who is our perfect example, when He was carrying out His assignment on earth, He always gave thanks, even when He was faced with seemingly hopeless circumstance, He still gave thanks. When He needed to feed the multitudes of about twenty thousand in number (plus women and children), He gave thanks for the few loaves of bread and fishes and the miraculous followed; Lazarus was dead, stinking, for four days, again, He gave thanks and the dead bounced back to life.

In November last year, I resigned from my job due to stress and unfulfillment with the hope to do something different, either to join the freelancing bandwagon or look for another job. I started freelancing but my income was too small to cater for my family and me.

Between January and July, I landed several interviews which include international opportunities and remote jobs, but none resulted into an employment. Life became to very difficult for me and my family as we could not feed, pay our bills and debts are on ground unsettled.

But I was not pressed down. Instead, I was sold out to kingdom service and praise became my way of life. Another opportunity came in August, the company reached out to me on LinkedIn, I was called for an interview. Fortunately, I was given the job that I did not apply for and no human connection was involved. My salary is now five times higher than my previous job with attractive packages and benefits to match. I’ve paid all my bills, and I’m debt free.

There’s a hope for you. No matter the situation or circumstance God can change your story within a twinkle of an eye. All you need to do is to praise Him in everything (see 1 Thess 5:18). If only you can thank God and praise Him as a lifestyle, your dead vision shall live again. You are not supposed to go through up and down in business and career; your marriage is supposed to be blissful. All you need to do is to appreciate God for every area or situation that needs a turnaround.

 “Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:  Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.  

The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.”–Habakkuk 3:17-19

Happiness happens when something good happens, but joy occurs irrespective of the situation. You don’t need to have a good car to be joyful; whether it is good or bad; in-season or out-of-season; rainy or sunny, be joyful. One thing you must not allow the devil steal away from you is your joy. If he cannot tamper with your joy, you’ve won him already.

Someone who’s reading this now, you’ve been looking for a child for several years but no headway. The devil want you to be embittered and sorrowful. It’s time to put on your garment of praise because your miracle children are on the way.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD. – Psalm 113:9

In conclusion, it’s not enough to read about the miracle of praise, you must walk in it to truly experience strange miracles. The word that you read offers you no help until you put it to work. Hence, engage with the word of praise as a new lifestyle this year and miracles will become your daily experience.

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Text recommended: Praise Warrior – Understanding the Wonders of a Praise Lifestyle