Hallelujah Series #4
The chase.
This is lengthy. Maybe tomorrow's will be short. No clue why the font colors came out like they have.
Praise and Thanksgiving brighten any situation.
All the pastors from our various campuses were on a bus to VA Beach to attend the SBCV convention. I asked my husband if they sang together along the way. He laughed at me and said, “Like 100 bottles of beer on the wall?” I said, “No, like praise songs in the stand still traffic on I81.” He simply said, “No.” My reply, “Well, if it was a bus load of women we would have been singing praise and that traffic would have moved or at least the time would have flown by.” He said, “Probably so.”😂
Praise works, so why do we forget to do it?
Since March we have been working on purchasing a car that seats 7 so we can haul more grandchildren around. It will hopefully be our forever car for the rest of our lives. My husband’s 2005 Ford Pick up and my 2010 car have served us well. Two weeks ago we finally found what I had been searching for, but the car had to be picked up out of town. Between our schedules, get out of town days are few and far between, but we found one. The second part was getting money transferred in time get it in the bank by noon and us on the road to make this happen.
We had to have the money sent over night. The whole ordeal was a fiasco. I thought it was coming USPS and had arranged to meet the postmaster at 8AM. Calling to confirm and get a tracking number, I realized the money was coming UPS.🤦🏼♀️Our deliveries are usually around 10AM, so I thought we could probably still make the pickup. Nope. Tracking showed it would be delievered between 12-9PM. I convinced my husband that the UPS truck was probably up in our little town center or a couple other neighborhoods by 10AM, so we drove around for an hour and a half praying and searching.
At 11:45 I was ready to give up and guessed we were not supposed to have the car. We parked at the stop light at the main intersection where we live and I said to my husband, "Let’s sing praise" and I pulled up some songs on my phone. He was looking down at his phone and within 30 seconds the UPS truck appeared! We put our car in gear and began the chase. Within 5 minutes we had the money, made it to the bank and I was saying, “Hallelujah."
In this devotional , which came in my inbox from Crosswalk.com , Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God.
In America, we used to start everything with prayer…school, business meetings, breakfast, sporting events, etc. An election prayer of mine the past month was “Lord, please place people in leadership who will lead our nation back to being a nation of prayer. A nation which makes decisions that are pleasing to You, Father, In Jesus name.”
The Song
“A Thousand Hallelujahs” Brooke Ligertwood
