Sunday Monday

Hello all!  I hope your day is going good so far.  My blog post for today is entitled "Sunday Monday".  What I want to do is take a portion from a song that we sang in church yesterday and talk about how it really spoke to me.  I got this idea from another blog that I read, but that girl is the pastor's wife and she does a little commentary on her husband's sermon.  It is always upbeat and positive.  No preacher bashing or anything like that.  I thought I put a twist (are you singing "Come on Baby, Let's Do the Twist"?-I am) on her cute bloggy idea to fit my family dynamic and do something with the music.  I just want to start out by saying that I personally have the most awesomest Worship Pastor in the United States of America.  The boy can flat sing!!  I never get tired of hearing him.  The Lord has really blessed Craig in the area of music and I believe that he is using his gifts to bring honor and glory to our great God!!!  I will be honest in saying that all the music spoke to me yesterday, but the one that stuck out was the choir song that we did called "Giants", originally recorded by Prestonwood Church's worship choir.  The song is talking about how we have some really big "giants" (problems, obstacles, hurts, ect...) in our life, but when we worship and praise God, the song says that "they gotta come down". When I first heard the song, I was like, this is great and all but sometimes we have to live with these "giants" for a long long time. You know what I mean.  The problem or circumstance is just not going away as soon as we wanted.  But what I finally grasped is if we take time to praise God and tell Him how wonderful He is and how amazing and faithful He is (I could keep going for a while), the stinkin' problem(s) may very well still be there, but we now have all this crazy confidence in our God and the problem doesn't have the hold on us that it once did.  Maybe we take away a fresh positive attitude about our circumstance, or maybe God just comes on with His bad Self and does a work in the area we are struggling in. When our focus is on God and what He can do, Satan's chances of keeping us in that wretched place of defeat comes to an end.  I want to challenge you (and me) to worship even when your "giants" are killing you. Keep on telling God how much you love Him and how grateful you are for Him and you will see how He can make something wonderful out of something that is pretty rotten (is that an oxymoron??). "Let God arise. Giants, die!" See you next time.