"How does praise and worship help us recharge and stay connected to God?"

Introduction:

Have you ever felt utterly exhausted and overwhelmed, barely able to keep your eyes open? Sometimes, life can feel like an endless barrage of demands, leaving us at our breaking point. In these moments, it’s essential to remember the power of praise, worship, and rest. Taking time to reconnect with God and recharge can make all the difference. Discover how embracing these practices can restore your energy and spirit, even during the most challenging times.

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Have you ever gotten to the point where you are completely overwhelmed, exhausted, and can barely keep your eyes open?  I had that experience today and I really just wanted to curl up beneath my desk and just stay there; lay on the floor and just stay there. 

It was already a really long, exhausting, spiritual growth week, and I'd had enough.  Do you know the "Mine moment" on Finding Nemo?  Every aspect of my life felt like that.  Kelly?  Kelly?  Kelly? Kelly? No matter what I was doing or why anyone was talking to me, that’s how it felt and I was just completely done.  

I truly felt like if that phone rang one more time or if someone asked me one more question, I was going to lose it.  It felt like I was at my breaking point and I really felt it defeated.  I talked with Anna, my Spiritual Mom, and in talking with her I remembered a few things she previously shared with me...

Praise and worship is like a garment that we wear, staying in His presence will energize you, and so will resting.  All of those things are restorative.  I tapped into that and just had a time of praise, worship, and rest for about 45 minutes to an hour.  I just got in bed in my PJs, took some time, and just simply rested.  

What a difference that time made.  We have to give ourselves that time!

You can put that in some of your affirmations. I started to. And if you can't wrap your head around it, that’s okay.  Again, what helped me was not wanting to be disobedient. I felt like, if I didn't just start one baby step at a time, one little thing at a time, 10 minutes there, 20 minutes there, three hours here, two hours there, then I truly felt like I was going to be walking in disobedience. And I certainly did not want that! 

I think if you just take 10 minutes or an hour, and pursue that thing that He has given you a vision for, that excites you and that you're passionate about, I truly feel like He honors that. And over time, I can tell you (it has been three years so far) I really don't think much about myself in a negative way.  I mean I am human, & I may question myself sometimes, but He has me in such an excited, passionate state that I don't really have a choice; I have to do this. And I have to help the people He’s called me to.  But I very, very rarely think, "Well, who am I to do this?" Or, "Why would I... Who do I think I am to be able to pull this off or be able to orchestrate these things?" Or "Who am I to think that I can pull this all together? This is so much bigger than me”.  Yeah, it is bigger than me. It's His.  

So what are we going to do? Are we gonna just keep wallowing and staying in the negative? Are we going to stay in the condemning against self state? Or are we going to get to work? Are we gonna pursue the visions and dreams and passions that The Lord has given us? 

It’s not failing to take 10 minutes a day instead of an hour.  It’s not failing to put a project down and not pick it up again for three months.  I thought it was, but it's not. Those are flesh mindsets that we're fighting and we have to come out of those mindsets and pray against those perspectives.  It's God's time frame, not ours. 

It may look completely different than we think it will but we just need to take one step at a time and let Him guide our path.  I still have a passion for this mission, just like I did on day one (probably more, actually, as He has continued to develop this passion in me) and I’m still so excited to pursue it.  That’s not flesh, that’s God.

I’m a go-getter and if this was just in my court and something I wanted to pursue versus something God is woven throughout, I would have left this journey a long time ago because I would have felt like I failed.  But in the Spirit He sends little confirmations and connections along the way that help me know to keep going.  

Sometimes those little confirmations can just put you in a state of worship.  And when we worship Him it destroys the enemy.  Worship is our warfare.  One time I heard a verse of a song that was so beautiful.  It basically said what kind of enemy can be taken down with a song?  That was so anointed when he said that.  How powerful!

Can we really fathom that?  The enemy can be taken down with a song, with our own voice.  So if those feelings of self doubt creep, lift up your voice in worship to The Father, and keep pursuing your God given purpose! Amen!