8/25/13 3:43 am - I woke up praising the Lord for who He is, what He has done and wants to do in my life, giving thanks to Him for being able to praise His name in joyous moments of my life, and for grace and mercy when I falter. I heard a preacher yesterday recalling his days as a junkie, dealer, and full time criminal. He mentioned his hatred to "church going folk" at that time because as God's people, shouldn't they behave differently from him, versus doing the same things he was doing???? HE'S RIGHT!!! He said the angel of the Lord visited him in a crack house on Feb 25, 1997. He has been a soldier for the Lord since, praise God! He is truly a new creature in the Lord on this day!
At the end of his sermon, he says these words: "I know we are in the park, but praise the Lord out loud today." These words have reverberated in my entire being since I heard them. I have been lacking in this area of my life. I had back surgery on 8/15/2013 remove a disk herniation that was pressing on my spinal chord and the adjoining nerve root. This caused me pretty good pain, plus I was losing feeling in my left leg.
I am admitting I have not praised Him adequately for His work surrounding that day and beyond!!! On 8/14/2013, I was admitted in the hospital to have surgery the next day. My wife and kids left me around 8 or 9pm. Sometime after 11pm, I was stricken with doubt and fear and dismay about the pending surgery. I had allowed lucifer to enter in and create this indescribable feeling, so much so that he was laughing at me. In my moment of tribulation, I failed to call on The Lord to deliver me!! BUT PRAISE AND HALLELUJAHS BE TO THE LORD!!!!! For little did I know that The Lord God heard the cries of despair from my soul, and moved!!! He was coming to rescue me Himself.
After being up all night, sleeping 2 hours after sun up, I was paid a visit.....by the Spirit of the Lord and His heavenly hosts, my wife and my pastor. They asked how I was doing and I broke down to tears due to the immense fear of dying on the OR table. BUT PRAISES AND HALLELUJAHS BELONG TO GOD!! We had testimony, prayer, anointing, and we all bore witness to power and majesty of God! We had church in room 7E05!
We were about to pray to close out this awesome intervention, my pastor asks if she could anoint my forehead and right earlobe, big toe, and thumb. Of course I agree readily! My wife put on her prayer cloth, my pastor grabs the oil, and they both tell me I don't have to get up. But on the grace, mercy, love, compassion, and healing power of The Father Himself, I stood. I stood with full feeling and strength in both legs, no numbness or pain nor fear at all!!! It was God's way of showing me He is always in control, and to stop allowing myself to be consumed with fear and doubt like Gideon. He was saying to be confident and reliant upon God like David, to be fearful of only God's wrath, and to move as such from then on in life while seeking His face in all I do! I knew right then I would be restored! But after being discharged on 8/16/2013 fully restored, I did not praise His Almighty works to the fullest......so I am making up for it now! I want to tell everyone who will listen! Like the song writer say, "GO, tell it on the mountain! Over the hills and everywhere!" I am a new creature in Christ Jesus!
My prayer is the 27th, 30th, and 56th Psalms:
Psalm 27
New King James Version (NKJV)
An Exuberant Declaration of Faith
A Psalm of David.
27 The Lord is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked came against me
To eat up my flesh,
My enemies and foes,
They stumbled and fell.
3 Though an army may encamp against me,
My heart shall not fear;
Though war may rise against me,
In this I will be confident.
4 One thing I have desired of the Lord,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord,
And to inquire in His temple.
5 For in the time of trouble
He shall hide me in His pavilion;
In the secret place of His tabernacle
He shall hide me;
He shall set me high upon a rock.
6 And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me;
Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.
7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8 When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
9 Do not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the Lord will take care of me.
11 Teach me Your way, O Lord,
And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries;
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.
13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed
That I would see the goodness of the Lord
In the land of the living.
14 Wait on the Lord;
Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen your heart;
Wait, I say, on the Lord!
Psalm 30:12
To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever
Psalm 56:4
In God (I will praise His word), In God I have put my trust; I will not fear. What can flesh do to me?
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