Praise and worship

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Acts 16:16-26 is a well-known passage of Paul and Silas being publicly flogged and then thrown into prison after casting out a powerful demon of divination from a slave girl. Although they were placed in the inner cell and had their legs bound to chains, they sang praises and worshipped God. The praises and worship brought an amazing miracle in the form of an earthquake that shook the foundations of the prison and threw open the prison doors and broke their chains. But it ultimately brought salvation to the jailer and his family.  When the former was about to take his own life, he realised that the prisoners did not flee and thus saw in amazement the miracle brought by Paul and Silas’s praises and worship.

I think it is good to cultivate our own time of praise and worship with just a simple guitar or piano accompaniment. We could just praise and worship God with our instrument. Or we sing along to Youtube playing our favourite worship songs. Besides bringing peace and calm to our sometimes chaotic lives, praise and worship can usher in the tangible presence of God into our midst. A lot of times, we just need a steady and confident heart to face and overcome difficult life situations, and praise and worship will help us put our faith and trust in God. We have the hope that the future will look up for us as we look heavenward towards our Lord Jesus Christ, our hope of glory.

Cultivate a personal time to praise and worship God. Corporate worship is strong and powerful as the congregation sings praises with the heavenly hosts in the spiritual realm, but our own time with God is special and personal to us. Both personal and congregational worship are good for us to be strengthened in our spirit as we bask in the glory of His presence.