Power in Praise

Both of Merlin Crothers books on Praise are amazing. In his first book Prison to Praise he tells how he started praising God and how it changed his life and in this book Power in Praise he goes further and gives stories about how this worked for other people and miraculous things happened. Praising God can change your life and I know it did mine. I love these too books. I bought them for my sister too and it turned her life around as well.

This is one of my favorite books! I just gave this book to my grandaughter along with a story to prove the point. Here is the story:A Story to Remember.... "In Everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you".... I Thessalonians 5:18 This story could very well have been in your book, Power In Praise, one of my most cherished books. It is an amazing story of how God directs our lives even when we don't have a clue that He is calling all the shots and always for our own good. Your dad was a little boy about the age that he is in this photograph. Our friends, the Olsens were with us and we had just put up the tipi on the ranch and we were having smores. It was Thanksgiving night, and we had a fire going in the tipi. There was snow on the ground but we were warm as toast. Everything was going okay until Davey Olsen accidently poked your dad in the eye with the pointed end of his smores stick. Dan cried just a little bit, but then it was over... We thought it was over, that is, but it was only the beginning.... A few days later, your dad was in a swimming class at the Spa Motel, and one of the other little boys accidentally came up from under the water and hit your dad hard under his chin. It was a good hit so much so that it jammed his front teeth right up into his gums. That hurt, and that night we could tell that Dan was still really agitated, and not himself. He kept complaining about his teeth hurting, but finally he went to sleep. There was a blizzard that night and we felt that there was nothing we could do until the morning. Nothing we could do, that is. At about 12 midnight, Macey, your dad woke us up and was crying and crying....he got in the bed with us, and he kept saying..."my teeth, my teeth", and big tears were running down his face. Your grand dad David put some ice on his upper lip and gave him some baby aspirin. But NOTHING seemed to help. He just kept crying with those big tears streaming down his face. I got up and went into the living room several times that night to kneel down and pray for Dan. I knew that God had said to "give thanks in everything" but that was really hard to do when my little boy was hurting so. Finally, at about 6 AM, I knelt down in the living room once more and cried out to God. "Oh, God, with my heart I cannot thank You for this BUT, (I finally came to it.....) BUT with my MIND I WILL THANK YOU....I will, dear Lord, I will thank you." That was the hardest prayer I ever prayed. And I went back to bed. In a few minutes, Dan, still crying, said, "My eye, my eye!", and I said, "What? Your eye?" And we turned on the light, and Macey, there among all those tears were little pieces of sticks..not splinters, but little pieces, about 1/8" square on his cheek..coming from his eye. I am sitting here crying again. I will never forget that as long as I live! And, the amazing thing is that the moment that all those little sticks were out of his eye.....Dan stopped crying..immediately..nothing hurt anymore, and later the dentist said that his teeth were okay...he was good to go! God had to allow all those tears to wash those little sticks out. Later the doctor said that apparently those sticks had jammed way back into his skull, and could have caused some major problems later on if God had not stepped in and washed them out. No one else knew they were there. God knew and He handled it. Thanking God for everything became crystal clear to all of us. We could not then nor can we now see into the future...but God sees and knows the future. And we can trust God's view every time....100% of the time... "In Everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you!"

I found this book at a church library. I liked it so much l bought my own copy. The first chapter explains the science of the subconscious.like the bible is telling us. It is praising the good and the bad. We thank and be grateful for the problem (it shows us there is something out of order). Then we thank and praise and be grateful for the need for a solution and gratitude for the solution itself. This is important simple cooperating with the subconscious mind. For the religious say it is God within. For the secular or those of other faiths it is the function of the conscious (male) mind and the subconscious (female) mind. The easiest way to cooperate is to be grateful and thankful as we know. Pastor Corothers gives lots of Bible verses to support his dicovery. He also may carry on (too much for non Christians) about his church and their expression of faith. The key remains that Thankfulness and gratitude will open the way to the untapped power for goodness and stability we want to demonstrate in our lives.

Amazing truths in this book, combining two verses God works out everything for the good of those who love Him and are called according to his purpose in Romans and the verse Give thanks in all tings for thats Gods will for your life. My sister had gone to a garage sale the first time she bought and accidentally bought 2. WE read them at the same time once I finished it I noticed a bullseye rash on my butt and I contracted the famous bacterial infection Lyme disease ever since Ive been getting more into the beauty of how God made this world and his loving care in all His creation. The best antibiotic I've been using has been garlic and ginger and honey as well as avoiding sugar wheat and dairy by avoiding those three food groups you can starve out the bacteria. for Charlie Ray Jones a Lyme literate Doctor some patients were effectively treated on antibiotics for up to a year and others for up to 3 years depending on all the different circumstances such as immune systems and so on, so don't be afraid just keep digging deep and fighting this disease. God is awesome the creator of the world and the universe is love and is amazing!

This book was recommended by another author that stated "before you read this book you must read Power of praise" and oh how glad I did!! This book is life changing!! I instantly felt Holy Spirit in this book as I read the first two pages and all the way to the end. It was like light bulbs going off in my head page after page. I recommend it to two friends already lol. Holy Spirit definitely wanted me to read this book and I'm oh so grateful that I did. I was able to put the principles from this book pretty much to practice right away and they work. I had a situation I have been dealing with since December of 2019 and it still made me very upset when I thought about it and I would scream in anger and cry. So today as I read through the book some additional information came up and I got angry again and I started to cry. Then I immediately realized here is an opportunity to put the principles to work, so I begin to thank God for this situation. I thanked Him for the betrayal, lies and the revelation of this situation and just kept praising and thanking Him. I went on and thanked Him or every manipulator that I learned a lesson from that lead to my broken heart. I continue on, and I tell you honestly I began to gag and spit and I keep on praising Him until my heart was free. 20 minutes went by while I praised God and I am free, instead of anger I feel compassion towards that person. I forgave them and set them free and I pray when you read this book you too will experience this same freedom.

This book changed my worship and devotional life. My focus is now on nurturing my relationship with God, for the joy of the Lord is indeed our strength. The joy in praising, worshiping and just spending time with God turns your focus off the vicissitudes of this life. Really understanding the free gift of salvation is crucial, as it takes a whole weight off your shoulder that you have to do anything to try and please or impress God. CHRIST said, "It is finished." And it is. Simply focus on God and the work He is doing in you through His Holy Spirit who indwells you. The equation is that simple as this book makes clear: focus on God, praising and worshiping Him no matter what, whereby you would be walking by faith and not by sight. The first practical benefit is that the enemy, satan, becomes impotent in your life because you are no longer judging your life or relationship with God by things happening to you, for good or ill. You believe absolutely that no matter how things look or feel, God is working something wonderful out for your benefit because as His word says, "He who did not spare His Son...how will He not also freely give us all things." Romans 8:32. This world is not the one God planned for us; it is the one we chose. CHRIST has now rectified all that, but we must learn to wait on and trust in God and not repeat the mistake of Adam and Eve: disobedience. Brothers and sisters, let the word of God dwell richly in you...seek God with all your heart...abide in Christ the True Vine...surrender to the Holy Spirit who indwells you. As CHRIST said in John 16:33..."In the world you will have tribulation. But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." Let's take our Savior's word for it, and call Satan's bluff when he comes with his lies and deceptions. Let's choose to believe the word of God and nothing else. "Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might." Ephesians 6:10. God bless you all.

So great this book is still in print. Very encouraging and uplifting to one's faith.

Take your mind off of your problems and just PRAISE God. Carothers draws a link (like I have never heard anyone do) between praising God and trusting God. If you REALLY trust God, trust His nature, trust that He cares, trust that He is kind and good and loving, then you can actually PRAISE Him for all that is going wrong in your life, because your heartbreaks and struggles are only temporary, His love endures forever. Is He praiseworthy or not!? Is He sovereign or not!? Does He care or doesn't He? Sometimes there is NO GRAY AREA where God is concerned. God is worthy and deserving of our PRAISE in all of our turmoil, and in many cases we should be praising Him FOR our turmoil. We must trust that He is doing a work in us for the greater good of someone else and for the glory of His kingdom. Count it all joy my brothers when you face various trials. What a hard word in a harsh world, and yet, isn’t He always working in us to give us both the desire to please Him and the power to please Him, even when we're flat out broken? For the joy set before Him He endured His cross, shall we not also follow Him and endure our struggle? Can we believe that we also will overcome? And can we believe that He has placed a joyous future before us as well? Praising Him tells our soul that it’s okay to trust Him. So let us lay aside every encumbrance and sin which entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, let's not be weary and lose heart, but PRAISE Him, for He is truly trustworthy.