What Spirit Possesses You to Sing

2Co 5:1  For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Your Heavenly Father never intended for you to dwell in the earthly realm, constantly looking at and dwelling on your problems.  You were birthed for the heavenlies. In fact, you are the only creature of earth that was birthed for the heavenlies. Everything else in the earthly realm must stay in this realm. You don’t belong down here, so shake off those earthly chains! It seems backwards somehow, but the best way to make things better when you feel bad is to worship God. Naturally, the last thing our flesh wants to do when things are bad is to thank God for His blessings and worship Him. It may not make much sense to the human mind, but it makes perfect sense in the mind of Deity. What is your natural response when things go bad in your life? Do you want to run away from the problems, run to God and cry for help, or drop to your knees and worship Him? Which choice seems most logical? Consider the illogical actions of Paul and Silas in Acts 16. The prisoners chained to the walls and locked in the stocks of the ancient Philippi prison in Macedonia probably thought the two en held in the inner dungeon were out of their minds. It is likely the old timers in that place had never heard sane men sing in that foul-smelling darkness, yet those two new comers were singing and worshiping their God so loudly their voices were hoarse! The diagnosis of insanity was even more probable since everyone in the prison heard the sickening thud of rods striking human flesh just before the strangers were brought to the cell

reserved for chief offenders. As the midnight approached, the prisoners listened to the singing and thought, what unearthly spirit possesses these men and cause them to sig and pray when they should be wailing in pain and cursing the men who beat them? What Spirit possesses you in times of pain, difficulty, or impossibility? What is the secret of worship during the dark hours of life? “When you begin to worship, in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” There is no evidence that our divine seating assignment changes with changing circumstances on earth, and there is a certain logic to the idea that when you have a big problem you should seek out a bigger solution. When you have an encounter with the precents of God, the problems that bloom so large that they block out the light of hope itself suddenly seem to be so much smaller that your perspective changed. You now view them from the eternal perspective of heaven as God always intended. That is what worship does for you. Your problems aren’t too big perhaps your worship is too small!