Exhausted and Refreshed

"Every day is a good day to give thanks to the Lord". This is one of my favorite praise songs by Clint Brown. This song will put a pep in your step, joy in your heart, smile on your face and the strength and courage to keep going on..

 I am strongly influenced by music, it has to be the one thing in this life I would never want to live without. 

 Music is a powerful tool that can quiet you down or pump you up, it engages us on an emotional level like nothing else does, but  none more than praise and worship songs and its not enough to just listen to it, you have to sing it too, and when you don't feel like singing that is when you really need to sing the most. There is a longing in each of us, believer and non-believer, to connect with our Heavenly Father, but sometimes in order to do that we have to disconnect from this life, and when we begin to sing His praise and worship Him, our minds turn off of us and turn on to Him. I love that feeling, that stirring up, that happens as we begin to lay everything down and just be in His presence, and the more you want to be in that moment the closer and closer you began to feel to Him, you feel both exhausted and refreshed at the same time, and there is no feeling on this earth like it. 

There are times, like yesterday, when instead of having a prayer time, worship time is what I really needed, because we can get so caught up in whats going on that our minds are racing and we can't slow it down enough to see clearly anymore, and no matter how capable we may think we are of handling the ups and downs of this life, we were not designed to walk this life alone, and we need to regularly give the Spirit of God, who lives with in each of us, some serious me time. I believe that the greatest weapon Satan uses against us is ourselves, whispering daily, "you can handle this on your own no need to bother God with that" because the last thing he wants is for us to get and stay connected to our Father, who longs to hear everything about us, who longs to be that one person we tell everything to, the first thought when we wake up and the last as we fall asleep, praise and worship keeps that truth fresh in my mind.

Well I pray that you all have a good day and that you find yourselves both exhausted and refreshed during your quiet times with God as you connect with Him and Him to you. 

My gift for you today is: "Every day is a Good Day to Give thanks unto the Lord"