Shout

 There are varying levels of acceptance in churches for shouting (yelling, screaming, dancing, running in response to a word from God or move of God).  I have found that it is a part of how I communicate with God.  Just like doing the wave at basketball games, stomping at football games, or yelling "charge" at baseball games.  Sometimes I just have to shout because it is the only adequate way that I can express who God is to me, what God has said ,or what he has done in that moment for my life.  

I mentioned in another post that I once found myself shouting in my son's hospital room.  That was two months ago.  My youngest son was hospitalized for 6 weeks after waking up paralyzed suddenly by a condition called transverse Myelitis.  Nothing that he did or we did caused it.  It just happened, and my bouncing baby boy stopped walking, talking, and even crying because his muscles were too weak.  An MRI showed swelling on his spine.  They mentioned that he might need a breathing tube, but I prayed and God was merciful; no breathing tube needed.  They mentioned that he might need a feeding tube.  I prayed again and God was merciful again; no feeding tube. By week one he started moving the left side of his body and by week two he was moving the left side, right leg, and was making sounds.  By the end of week three he was sitting up, taking steps and eating more solid foods.  By week 6 my baby was walking out of the hospital to rounds of applause. Thanks be to God that today he is walking, climbing, talking, eating, crying, and playing again with his family at home.  His right forearm doesn't know that its healed yet, but it will and you best believe there will be more shouting.  To God be the glory for the things he has done for my family.  

Sometimes I shout in anticipation.  Sometimes preachers will say in church to shout before the thing happens that you are trusting God for.  The Bible seems to agree because, in the book of Joshua chapter 6, God told the people of Israel to shout outside of Jericho city and after that the walls of the city fell down.  Sometimes I shout simply because I know God is doing something good.  I may not even know what it is, but I know who God has been to me.  I know God well enough to know that he is always up to something good in my life, and there is always a reason to shout.  I believe that when we live a life of faith in action that we begin to run toward God's blessings already established for our life at lightspeed. Praise in advance is a form of faith in action.   (see Joshua 6)



Sometimes I shout because the Devil has no idea who he's messing with.  Worship is like a battle cry to the enemy of our souls that he has no chance against the army of the LORD.  There have been moments in my life where I felt like I was losing personally, professionally, vocationally, and spiritually.  When I realized that I didn't have to keep losing, I got bold and started shouting.  I praise the Lord that I can't lose for winning when I am on God's team.  Even on my worst day I still am on the winning side of eternity and right now!  When the Devil hears God's people shouting it is a piercing reminder that he is defeated already.  Don't ever forget that if you have been added to the kingdom of God through Jesus the Christ then no matter how many battles you may feel like you have lost, the war has already been won on your behalf. 

 Corinthians 15:56-58
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

This scripture alone is enough of a reason to shout.  So shout, and watch the walls holding up your life come tumbling down to make room for your new territory in God. 


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