We make our boast in the Lord! Praise and thanksgiving is something you decide to do and this week we have decided to set ourselves apart to praise God; to raise our voices to Him, to declare that He is good and His mercies endureth forever. To say that indeed we have a very big God; a God who has been faithful, a God who has been true; a God who has changed our stories. I don’t know about you, but my story has been changed. I’m certainly not where I was before and I haven’t gotten quite yet to where God is taking me, but one thing I know for sure is that I’m on the right track. He has changed our story that is why we have decided to praise Him. There is no time for psychedelic praise; it is Halal all the way.
Run around praising God and taking over what God has destined for you. This is a week of destiny with no distractions, no noise! Just as we praise the voice of God and the voice of God alone.
I remember Paul and Silas. Not only were they in prison, there was extra barricade. The wardens had received instructions to set their feet in stocks, locked down, with the prison doors closed. It looked like everything was over. When they looked up they saw darkness, they looked down and there was no movement, no progress. Locked down by the authorities, locked down by the system, locked by the laws, locked down by the rules, locked down by your degree, locked down by your marriage, locked down by that sickness and that disease, locked down; but they knew one key. One key!
The chief warden had the key of the door; his deputy had the key of the stocks; his assistant had the key of the chains. They were padlocked, locked down from head to toe, but they had one key.
The government may have a key. Your managing director may have a key, your company may have a key, your husband may hold a key, even that situation in your body may seem to have a key, but there is the key. I said there is a key and that key is a master key, and you have that key.
So don’t you sit down this week looking at the padlocks on the prison door! Don’t you sit down this week looking at the padlocks or the stocks on your feet! Don’t sit down this week looking at the padlocks on your chains. Don’t think about the fact that somebody has a key.
Friends you’ve got the key!
That is the power in what is going on here this week.
If we had a healing service, there will be a healing anointing. If it’s a seminar on giving, there is a wealth anointing. There is an anointing of praise this week, there is an anointing for a master key to be in your hand and open up doors that medical reports have closed; to open up doors that your degree has closed, to open up doors that the economy has closed, to open up doors that even by your own mistakes you may have closed. When you get this key Paul and Silas prayed and they sang praises to God. They were not whispering; the prisoners heard them. I don’t believe they were praising God to get out of the stocks. They probably were praying to God to have the strength to get out of the trial, but when you use this key it is inevitable that the doors will be opened. It is inevitable that people will hear and ask about your God. It is inevitable that the stocks will fall off your feet. It is inevitable that the chains will be loosed.
Be expectant and remember that you have the key. I have the key. When you have the key, chains, prison doors and bonds become irrelevant, they melt away because God is your God. He is your Father, and this week He is ready to receive your praise. He is ready to receive your thanksgiving. He is ready for your story to change.
Stay focused, don’t be distracted throughout this week, even at work. Don’t get into certain conversations, meditate on the goodness of God and praise will be stirred up within you. So that by the time you come here even before the worship team is out, you’re already on the floor, ready, worshipping because you know that you have found the key.
I hear in my spirit, “Great things!” I just hear in my spirit, “Great things, mega things, megas, great things,” says the Spirit of God. “I’m unleashing great things. Great things, great things, things that will astound you, things that will surprise you. Great things! Megas, great things. Great miracles! Great doors of opportunities! Great doors of favour! Great healings! Great things!” Glory be to God!
As you praise a great God this week, there will be an avalanche, a downpour, and a tsunami of great things. Put your mind in park. In fact your faith is your victory, so do you believe it? Can you conceive it? Do you see it? Can you receive it? Somebody now use the key and release great things. God has put a new song in the mouth of somebody’s boss. You’re gonna testify this week. Your boss would come to you and begin to say things that are a diametrically opposite song of what they have been singing, but this song will be a song in your favour. “Great things!”
When you get home, use the key. On your way to work in your car, in a taxi, a tricycle or on your legs, use the key. When you are at lunch break, use the key. Before you go to bed, use the key. When you wake up the next morning, use the key. When you go out in the evening, use the key. It’s a master key and it opens every lock.