I got the news that someone very dear to me has cancer. It was like someone hit me in the stomach – hard! Fear and anxiety smothered me. The last thing in the world I wanted to do was sing. But that is exactly what drove away my fear and hopelessness. Learn this powerful secret.
But I’ve been here before. I already had playlists of anointed praise and worship songs on Youtube. I chose an anointed playlist.
At first, I couldn’t sing along. I was too numb. I was hurting and I was crying.
A few minutes later, the words of hope and faith in a song ripped open the pain that enveloped me. I was riding the anointing of the worship leader and that anointing began to break the yokes of fear and hopelessness off me.
I mumbled a few words of a song. Then I began to worship God with all my heart. My study filled with God’s presence and fear and hopeless were gone. The King was here.”
As we begin to sing and praise, we refocus our minds on the greatness and the goodness of God. We release our pain and our fear and declare His truths. He replaces what we were thinking and feeling with gratitude, praise, and worship.
Psalm 28:7, NIV The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.
Burdens, stress, and fear cannot enter into the presence of God. We enter the gates of the kingdom of God with thanksgiving. We boldly approach His courts, the very throne room of God, with praise. (Psalm 100:4)
And there we are, with Him. In fullness of joy.