Positioning yourself with a heart of Praise

            I am
finally posting this blog.  I have been
trying to post this and it has never let me. 
So finally here it is…

When I was in Thailand and going to
the bars every night, it was unbelievably hard on my heart, mind and
spirit.  Every night after leaving I
would feel broken down, exhausted, not really even able to speak because I had
so much going on in my head.

            One night
during worship I positioned myself into a place of constant praise, constant
worship, constant prayers of thanksgiving. 
I prayed that God would allow me to be Joy in that place.  I know there is spiritual warfare going on
and I know that normally I am constantly battling it, my mind is normally
consumed with fighting, but God has already won and I just want to go and
spread light.  So that is what I did, I
went into that spiritually dark place and I let nothing touch me, anything that
was trying to bring me down bounced right off because I was walking with
Jesus.  I was singing worship music,
dancing as I walked, praising our God, I was Light in that place, I was Joy in
that place, and nothing was going to stop me.

            That was
without a doubt the best night of ministry I had had there.  Going home I felt so light, so happy, so
hopeful.  It wasn’t that spiritual
warfare wasn’t going on or that awful things weren’t going on around me, it was
that I made the choice; before ever walking into that place, that I was not
going to let it affect me.  I was not
going to let that stop me from bringing Joy, bringing God’s love.   I did not let Satan’s darkness have any
power over me.  Because the truth is God
has Victory in that place! He has authority there and He is taking it
back.  He has already won, He is fighting
the battle, and He has won the war.