Thoughts for the Week - Don’t Lose Your Song If there is one thing our society needs more, it is joy. Too many people go round negative and discouraged, they allow their problems and their circumstances to weigh them down. They end up living stressed out, dragging through the day, not really excited about their life. I have people say ‘I have too many problems to enjoy life’ or ‘the reason I am not happy, the reason I am discouraged is because I have all these things coming against me’ but the good news is that God has put a well of joy on the inside of each one of us. Our circumstances may be negative, things may not be going our way but if we just learn how to tap into this joy we are going to be happy, we are going to live with enthusiasm in spite of what comes against us. One of the keys is found in Ephesians 5:18 it says we should ever be filled with the spirit. Notice you don’t just get filled one time and you are done it says be ever filled. This means on a continuous basis we have to keep filling ourselves up, how do we do this? The next verse tells us ‘by speaking to yourself in Psalms, in hymns, by making melody in your heart and by being grateful’. In other words the way to stay full, the way to overcome the pressures of life is by keeping a song of praise in our heart and throughout the day we should be singing with a grateful attitude, in our thoughts we are thinking about God’s goodness or going round humming a tune to a song but throughout the day we are making a melody in our heart. Under our breadth we are saying ‘lord, thank You for this day, Lord thank You that I am alive, and thank you that I am healthy’. When we do that we are filling ourselves up. It is like a balloon, the first couple of days it is bright and beautiful, rises high, you let it go it takes off high but in the next couple of days it starts to sink down, it gets a little smaller, a little weaker, day after day it sinks lower and lower and finally a week or two it is lying on the floor, totally deflated, lost all of its life, all of its energy. But really all you have to do to give that balloon a fresh new start is to fill it back full of air, if you do that on a regular basis it will last month after month, it just needed to be replenished. It is the same way with us all through the day, the fact is we leak. In other words when the real life happens; you get stuck in traffic, a little air goes out, you find out you didn’t get the contract you are hoping to get, got home your child is not feeling well and you have to deal with that, a little more air goes out. The only way to keep the air full, the only way to keep your joy and keep your peace is to have a song of praise in your heart, if you cannot sing aloud at least in your thoughts be grateful, under your breath throughout the day you are thanking God for all He Has done. Start each day off with praise, quit dwelling on the negative, things may not be perfect in your life but with all due respect, it could be a lot worse. Quit dwelling on what is wrong and start being grateful for what is right, don’t let depression set you back, don’t allow any disappointment to put you in self pity, you need to shake this off, even if you are not happy remember the old saying? Fake it until you make it, in other words if you smile by faith then the joy would come, you have more of God’s favor. All through the day start thanking God for His goodness, start meditating on His promises, putting a song of praise in your heart. If you get your song back, if you start making melody in your heart unto God you are not only enjoying life more but you will see things change in your favor. Stand up every morning with a song of praise and keep that in your heart throughout the day when you do this God promises you will be forever filled, you will have joy, peace and you will live a life of victory God has lined up for you
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:50:00 +0000
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