It has been a rough and tumble six and a half months to start 2008, and I have been pressed so that praise has not often flowed freely from my lips let alone my heart. Yet, tonight, yes tonight, I am finding that JESUS is stirring in me in spite of myself. And while I have the “wind” or inspiration of the SPIRIT to do so, I will let my voice ring out – in written form – that “I love JESUS!”

“I praise JESUS!”

“JESUS is the most awesome & radical PERSON I have ever met, and the most understanding and kind. HE is the ONE WHO can just speak but a WORD into my life and all the seas of passional doubt & storms of angst fall by the wayside. It just takes ONE WORD from the SON of GOD, the CREATOR of all creation to quell my troubled soul.”

I find that even now in my stress, I have a span of time in which I can freely Praise HIS holy name.

How incredible it is to ponder that HE has anything to do with me at all, yet HE makes me feel as though I am the only one for whom HE made creation and the only one for whom HE died & resurrected.

In this moment, HE has wiped the tears from my eyes that I may see clearly. Out of this Job-like run of seasons, I will emerge stronger in HIM, more dangerous to the enemy’s realm, more in debt to the ONE from WHOM all blessings flow.

If there were only words to express what I understand in my spirit.

All I manage to say is……Praise the name of JESUS