October of 2018 was a very memorable month for me. Training camp for the World Race was such a special time. I met my new “family” of Sojourners, whom I would travel and minister with for the next year. We prayed together and broke things off that needed to be released. We worshiped together and realized how POWERFUL and ESSENTIAL that corporate time of worshiping the Lord, as one family, was to us. I can’t even put into words how amazing it felt, EVERY TIME we set aside our agendas, no matter where we were (training camp, launch, Colombia, Nepal, Uganda, Spain, etc.) and worshiped our Father, together!
This is WEAPONS. I was introduced to this song at our training camp, where this video was recorded, and continued proclaiming those words everywhere we went out!
I hate lies. Honesty is HUGE for me. Very recently, I have gone through some major hurt and realized more deeply that I struggle with trust …trusting people, trusting God, & trusting myself. This is something that I am talking to God about and plan to seek healing with the help of my mentors and church family. However, in listening to this song again today, these lines stuck out to me:
“Every lie will be cut down.
In the end we will be singing out.”
As I worship the Lord, my God, I am victorious and I have overcome because He IS Love, He IS worthy of all praise, He IS the Name above all names. I don’t have to do anything, He’s got me! But I choose to continue to worship and rest in Him no matter where I am, because that’s when I see the TRUTH.
But wait, there’s more?! YES!!!
God revealed to me today, as I let this song penetrate my hurting heart, that there is another meaning to the line “No matter where we are…”
I used to sing this song with the mentality that, “No matter where You take me, Father, or wherever I go in life, I will not stop singing Your praises.” I know that God has called me to be a missionary, so I would sing this song, thinking that I should be proclaiming this to be true no matter what country I set my feet upon, even when I am home. Which is good and true! But… “where” I am sometimes is not a physical place. I realized today that it can also mean an emotional state of being. BOOM!
Even in the hurting, I neeeed to PROCLAIM these words! The enemy and father of lies and hurt WILL hear me PRAISING MY GOD, no matter where I am emotionally, mentally, or physically. And how essential it is even now, while home from the race, while quarantined to my house, while hurting and seeking healing, I MUST proclaim God’s goodness and let Him fight my battles!
Papa, I proclaim to You right now, that I will praise You, I will sing Your praises, I will fight for Your fame. You are the Name above all names, and only in You am I victorious. No matter where I am physically, mentally, or emotionally, I won’t stop singing. For with every breath I have left, I will proclaim that You are Lord!
No matter where you are… if you are happy as can be, angry, excited, hurting, sick, in need of healing, stuck in your house, working and tired, missing your family, whether you are on the mission field, sent back home early, living in Texas, South Carolina, Peru, Kenya, Portugal, ANYWHERE… LET’S PRAISE OUR FATHER TOGETHER!! Let’s see the TRUTH of who He is and that we HAVE OVERCOME BY THE POWER OF THE ONE!
