At 6 a.m. Sunday morning, while taking my shift in the outdoor 24 hour prayer room that we did this past weekend, I opened my Bible and it flipped to Psalm 100.
“Shout to the Lord, all the earth! Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before Him singing with joy.
As I was praying I began to ponder what it really meant to SHOUT TO THE LORD! Really, what does it mean to shout to the LORD? What does it mean to worship the Lord with gladness?
So being perched on top of the wall that surrounds the property, I literally shouted scripture, especially Psalms 97, I shouted prayers, declarations for this ministry and city, and I shouted praises to God. Wow! It was so awesome! There is something so free about shouting…especially to the Lord! Picture with me, this is six o-clock Sunday morning. There are tents scattered across the property. Most of my squad mates are still asleep, or at least they had been until I began shouting, and here I am shouting to the Lord from the mountains of Honduras.
If you have never shouted to the Lord, or if you think it’s weird, than you had better try it because if you think it’s ridiculous, then many of the Psalms that David wrote were a total waste.
Psalm 95: “Come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout to Rock of our salvation.
Not only was the Sunday of 24 hour prayer time a time of intercession for me, but it was also a time of learning what it means to shout to the Lord, and how much it pleases Abba Father’s heart to hear his children shout to Him!
So go ahead, try it! Shout to the Lord! I don’t care where and how you do it, just shout to Him! Each day proclaim the good news that he saves. –Psalm 96:2
