Praise

praise /prāz/

verb

express warm approval or admiration of.

noun

the expression of approval or admiration for someone or something.

For some, it’s hard to “Praise” God when you look back over your most painful times in life. Often we wonder how could God allow such a thing to happen. Or where is God in all of this. I’ve had that thought more so as an Adult verses when I was a Child or Teenager. I even remember coming into Young Adulthood prior to my Salvation wondering if God truly exist.

As a little girl I was always taken to Church by both my Grandmothers and was put into Easter Programs by my best friend’s Mom but outside of them no knowledge of God once I grew a lil older. When my Mom moved I was no longer in the same city as My Grandma, so church became a distant memory. I didn’t have teenage friends who invited me to church nor do I remember anyone attempting to witness to me in my High School years. I do remember Jehovah Witnesses coming to our door, but I was taught at a young age not to answer the door for them. So at a time in my life when I needed God the Most I didn’t Know Him. My Grandma made sure I was baptized when I turned 12 because according to her, “my sins were all on me then”. So here I was still lost in a sense.

Sure I did the cliche thing and prayed when times were hard, but never taking time to praise God in advance for it. Or to even Praise God simply because of who He was or Is.

I was 31 years old when I actually wholeheartedly gave my life to Christ and 32 when I truly knew who He was and developed a personal relationship with Him. It was then that I learned the Importance of Praising Him. It was then that I understood scriptures like: psalms 34:1, I will bless the lord at all times, His Praise will continually be in my mouth; and

psalms 86:12, I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And I will glorify Your name forevermore.

It was in learning those scriptures that I began to believe and know no matter what I’m going through I need to Praise God. So now as I go through this Healing Journey, childhood trauma and pain being awakened I find myself in a place of Praising God. I Praise Him because I could of lost my mind but I didn’t. I could of became a drug addicted but I didn’t. I could of lost all hope and succeeded at my Childhood attempts at Suicide but I didn’t. Gloryyyyyy, Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus. See it’s in looking back at all these things that I Praise the Lord. I’ve been Healed, Set free and Delivered so I Praise the Lord. Things haven’t been easy these last 5 months but I Praise the Lord. It’s in Praising Him that I find my Hope and I know I can make it until tomorrow. Glory Praising Him one Day at a Time!!! Hallelujah to the Highest.