Family of God: Re: [FamilyofGod] The Spirit of Praise

Amen good one

On Wed Feb 16th, 2011 8:18 AM EST Michael J. Knight wrote:

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>The Spirit of Praise
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>In each of the 7 glimpses of heaven given in the book of Revelation, we
>see the inhabitants of heaven continuously praising God with a loud
>voice - sometimes as loud as thunders and as the noise of roaring
>rivers. This is the atmosphere of heaven - one of continual praise,
>without any complaints or demands. And this is the atmosphere that the
>Holy Spirit desires to bring into our hearts, our homes and our churches
>as well. It is thus that Satan will be driven away from all these
>places.
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>I read of a fiery brother (who lived in the last century) who used to
>frequently praise God with loud `Hallelujahs'. One day, one of the said,
>dead Christians around him, who was irritated by his spirit of praise,
>asked him what he would do if God finally sent him to hell. To this the
>brother replied, "If I go to hell, I will keep on shouting `Hallelujah'
>and the praises of God there, until the Devil tells me to get out of
>Hell, lest I infect others in hell with the spirit of praise!!"
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>No, there is no place in Hell for those who have a spirit of praise! The
>ones who go to Hell are those who are full of complaints and demands
>against others. They were like that when they were on the earth and they
>carry that evil nature with them when they leave the earth too.
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>Satan has paralyzed the vast majority of Christians, and made them
>ineffective in spiritual warfare against him, because he has got them
>infected with the spirit of murmuring and complaining against their
>brothers and sisters, against their relatives and neighbors, against
>their circumstances, and even against God Himself.
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>We overcome Satan, when we obey the following exhortations:
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>"Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts to which indeed you were
>called in ONE BODY; and be thankful...I urge that thanksgivings be made
>FOR ALL MEN.... Always give thanks FOR ALL THINGS in the Name of our
>Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father" (Col.3:15
><http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Col.3.15> ; 1 Tim.2:1
><http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/1%20Tim.2.1> ; Eph.5:20
><http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Eph.5.20> ).
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>We see here that we are exhorted first of all to be thankful for all
>whom God has called into Christ's Body. If the choice had been left to
>us, we might not have called many of those whom God has called -
>especially those who belong to some other group than ours!!! But God's
>wisdom being higher than ours, even as the heavens are higher than the
>earth, He obviously had a different opinion about them than we have. And
>if we are wise, we will re-align our thinking in line with God's.
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>Once we have learnt to be thankful for our brothers and sisters in
>Christ's Body, we can then learn to give thanks for all men and then for
>all our circumstances. We know that our Heavenly Father sovereignly
>controls all men and all circumstances. If we really believe this, we
>will certainly praise God at all times, and thus prove that our kingdom
>is of heaven and not of this world. Then Satan will lose his power over
>us. Only then will we be able to wage an effective warfare against him.
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>There is a wonderful word written in Revelation 12:8
><http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Revelation%2012.8> that "no place was
>found in heaven for Satan and his demons". This is how it must be in our
>lives too - in our hearts, in our homes, and in our churches: SATAN AND
>HIS HOSTS MUST FIND NO PLACE IN ANY OF THESE PLACES.
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>Remember
>Only one life, will soon be past,
>Only what is done, for Christ will last.
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>The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
>communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. (2 Corinthians
>13:14)
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>Love & Prayers,
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>Michael J. Knight.
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>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-C-T-S/
><http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-C-T-S/>
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>What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
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