For you shall go out with joy, And be led out with peace; The mountains and the hills Shall break forth into singing before you, And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Palm trees lift up their palm fronds to the sun to convey vital nutrients to the whole tree. Hands lifted up in praises in like manner usher in the nutrients necessary to grow the whole new creation being.
Because we are crucified with Christ and no longer live, we can lift up our regenerate hands in spirit and in truth and lose ourselves in holy, inhabited worship. Losing ourselves in praise releases the new creation to grow and thrive as it was intended to do.
Transformation is ours in abundance through the simplicity of praising Father in the midst of for better or for worse. Becoming one with our Father is our right and our privilege. Expecting the habitation of the Holy Spirit when we praise is vital to new creation transformation.
Father is glorified through our holy expectations. Father has promised to inhabit the praises of His sanctified children. When Father promises His children something that means it is sure and certain.
He says “I will never leave you nor forsake you”, then that truth is ours for the taking. He says “many are the afflictions of the righteous, but I will deliver them from all afflictions”. Then we are pre-delivered and at liberty to praise Him in advance of His great delivery. He says “I forgive all of your sins and heal all of your diseases”.
Then we can expect to thrive in freedom and in peace and in health. Praising holds us fast to the truth and sets us free to sway in the fierce wind and torrential downpour of any storm. Let’s lift up our hands in praise more and watch as we are delivered and set at liberty and healed and transformed into the likeness of Christ Jesus.
Father, I am so grateful for Your Word. You are one hundred percent faithful to Your Word. I believe Your Word is the absolute truth. I know no other source of truth. Jesus, You are the Way, and the Truth, and the Life, and no one comes to the Father except through You. I’m extremely grateful that You inhabit my praises.
I look forward to Your presence increasing in me and pouring out of me to others. I will agree more fervently with Your promises because I know it brings You the glory that You deserve. I’m truly grateful that You rescued me from sin and death. I love You. In Jesus name. Amen.