The Alpha of How Praise Precedes, Accompanies and Succeeds Victory

UV 3183/10000 The Alpha of Victory
O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory
Psalm 98 v 1

A new song of praise, victory and thanksgiving should emanate from our hearts every single day of our lives. A day on which we have praised and thanked the Lord will never be a wasted day while one on which we have omitted to do so would certainly be a wasted opportunity to be blessed, to be renewed, to rejoice, to experience the victory of the Lord. Prayer presages victory. When we cast the bread of our prayers on the ocean of Jesus, it will come back to us some day as the marvellous things the Lord does in our lives. Prayer is the seed of our faith and of miraculous breakthroughs.
Jesus said, “ Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and render unto God what is God’s.” It implies that the taxes we pay to the state are our obligation to the state while prayer and praise and thanksgiving for blessings received and receivable by faith are our pleasant obligation or duty to God that we need to render daily, regularly and as often as we remember. We need to acknowledge the omnipotent power of God at work in our lives, working constantly to deliver us from the enemy who is a thief, robber and killer. Our songs need not even be melodious for not many of us are musically gifted or at least speaking for myself. It only needs to be a joyful noise. Using our skills to glorify the Lord is also a form of worship pleasing and acceptable to God. The crucial thing is that the song should be our own, from the bottom of our hearts, the lyrics should be a refrain of our lives.
What do we praise God for and when do we praise Hi? Since He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, we praise Him from the beginning of each day till its end with our “breath praises”. If we know how to swear under our breath without anyone teaching us, we can also praise and thank the Lord under our breath. Our days and everything we are, do and aspire for are so sandwiched between the Alpha and the Omega, between the mighty right hand and the supporting left of the Lord. There is no greater guarantee of a victorious life in 360 degrees than a lifestyle of praise and thanksgiving. Every degree the Earth rotates on its axis the Lord’s presence is with us and releases His amazing power, wisdom and grace into all we do and all we speak and all we think. Every challenge, difficulty, problem, crisis is a new valley, a subject for another song to sing of the marvellous things the Lord has done. As Mary praised the Lord, “He whoi is mighty has done to me great things and holy is His name.” The power of God which is mighty and holy or pure is personalised and manifested in our lives. Every victory we realize is not the work of our own hands but the right hand of favour of the Lord upon our lives.