Breaking Through to Praise

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This is the Truth Network encouraging prayer, God offers an open invitation for his people to talk with him at any time about anything on encouraging prayer Dr. James Banks, author of the best-selling product and many other books on prayer provides weekly insight help you learn to love and now today on encouraging prayer. James you want to talk about Eustis scrub left explained that when a little bit. All right, all right what Chronicles of Narnia series you first see him in the voyage of the Dawn Frederick Lewis's word. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence scrub Eddie almost deserved it only thinks about himself at least first and he is always complaining to know nothing about. I resemble that remark. Tell me, tell me more. Okay what you Narnia the magical place and wanders off one night falls asleep on dragons in the next morning when he wakes up he find himself print into a Dragon. Lewis mentioned that this is because he's thinking, selfish, greedy Dragon box all night and shortly after the character Aslan represents Jesus sets Eustis free. Basically, the boy comes out of the Dragon that will actually it is not pretty golden bracelet on the farm this way too tight because of some pain because he was just a boy would put it on a now is a Dragon arms much bigger and plan to come to this clear pool and tells him to be the first he says he has to undress. What that means is you have to take office Dragon skin so he tries and tries but useless know, sounds like Eustis wonder. Lewis meant that anyhow he is so discouraged and guiltless Dragon and then you have to admit that he needs that help them and then there's the scene where Azlan takes his claw rips through all the Dragon the water. Eustis realizes he's a boy again, but this incredible pain. You know, if you go through that he comes out of changed boy more thoughtful of others, less selfish, less of a complaint are not perfect but changed wow that's all about sin, writing, confession of sin, really Jesus giving us a new identity and baptism, the water, and salvation. While it's all right there.

What I love about that we can all see ourselves through the Jesus is always making this new after he saved us working militaries of our lives to help speed the people he created us to be gives us the spirit continues this work of making us more like him.

And sometimes that means there there are breakthroughs that we need to make with him just like you know breaking through that old Dragon skin and one of those areas where we so often need a breakthrough. I think I'm speaking for myself here in this area of thinking less of myself and more God and learn to love him more and praise him and that's the title of today's talk right actually breaking through to praise. So let's talk about that. How do we get rid of our dragons and begin to praise and more. I think that we like Eustis Robbie have to admit that we need excellent help and we need Jesus to change our hearts in this because it goes so deep.

So it starts by asking him to help us see things in a new way and make the choice to praise him sets and ask him to help us make the choice because we really can't do it in our own strength so we also have to kind of make a choice to do that. But as we do that with his help I begin to praise God more. Well, it is not just a matter of quoting versus you know that that's important and it's all part of the start even deeper than that. And so when we praise God. I think the thing we have to recognize to start this were actually walking by faith and and that means that we really are seeing things in a different way so just living in the moment thinking pretty much again mostly by myself then put everything on the short-term basis, something bad happens and it's like why God, how could you allow this not talk about larger fixed tragedies. I'm talking about. Even little things you know my door in my car has a flat tire.

My kids are just dawdling and I don't get out of the door on time so we missed the bus to take them to school and now I'm late for work. We can all get sucked into the negativity so quickly and this is where we need to take a step back and take a breath and realize okay I'm not exactly happy in this moment God is still good and to ask for his help to keep my eyes on him. That's what faith does right, it sees beyond her temporary circumstances.

So praise then is that next step of seeing beyond reaching their clouds in the sun still shines and this is helpful because otherwise we can find ourselves. Even getting mad at God right a little like Martha and Mary like Lord, tell her to help me because more and Jesus said nurtures with better but helps us to make the choices we need to form new habits we start by praying for more faith and God help us in that make up our mind reach for that breakthrough into a new way of thinking with the strength God gives so there will walking by faith. And remember, Scripture says be transformed by the renewing of your mind. If the command actually know were to choose that sort of some spell transport. We have a part in this. And the interesting thing is, right after Paul talks about offering ourselves to God as a holy sacrifice of living for him and even right before that at the end of the 11th chapter in Romans, Paul gives the statement of praise for from him and through him and to him are all things to him be the glory for ever and ever so God's word is pointing out so they're pulling us out of the Dragon skin out of our self focus anything. Keep your eyes on God no matter what because he is so worthy of it. Sometimes the time you have left.

Let's break this down breaking through praise starts breaking through to praise starts by asking God to help us to have more faith right and then by making specific choices that will help us see beyond the circumstances and just focus on him to finish up the day with a prayer, so that we can all breakthrough to praise right here is one 26 three you will keep in perfect peace. Lord, all who trust in you all whose thoughts are fixed on you.

How do we want to be like that more and more. You must increase. We must increase.

We praise you today, and we ask for more faith like this. Thank you.

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