Praise is the prayer that changes everything

This is a passage from “The prayer that changes everything - Stormie Omartian", thought of sharing it with all my 'tummy' sisters, something that we all need to learn...

We all have a lot to lose in our lives, A loved one, a home, financial security, health, reputation, dreams, hopes, or a vision for the future. With some loses we can get over it, pick up the pieces, and move on. With other more tragic loses, it changes everything. Our lives suddenly have a big empty place in them that must be filled with something or we will collapse in on ourselves. That’s the reason many people seek God more in a time of tragedy.

However, there are others who experience great loss, disappointment, or failure and feel that God didn’t come through for them or this would never have happened. But the exact opposite is true. God has never been closer. God allows tough things to happen in our lives and only he knows why. But that doesn’t mean it’s something He willed or planned. Even if it were, indicting God for our circumstances is out of the question. That’s because blaming God shuts off the very avenue through which His redemptive process flows into our life. If God is our Redeemer and He is the only one who can redeem our situation, then blaming Him for it happening is like shooting ourselves in the foot.

When our first reaction to loss, disappointment, or failure is to go to God in praise and worship, we open up a channel through which His healing, restoration, and redemption flows. That is the hidden power of praising God.
If some tragic crisis, loss or failure has happened in your life, embrace God in it. That doesn’t mean you have to be grateful for what happened. Embrasing God in a situation doesn’t make us delusional. We are not denying our circumstances, pretending that tragedy didn’t happen, or believing that if we ignore it long enough it will go away. Rather, it’s saying that no matter what happened, God is still in control. He still loves me. He is still greater than what I am facing. He fully understands my suffering. And He is able to bring redemption to my situation.

One of the greatest sign of God’s love is His comfort to us in times of loss, disappointment, and failure. He surrounds us with His comfort in a special act of mercy and grace to soothe our grief, despair, shock and devastation. His love sustains us through to the other side. Otherwise we might never make it.