Sing Into Your Storm ~ Overcoming Adversity Through High Praise

The song of david part i

“entering lamentation worship”

ament is an essential ingredient of an honest faith. Lamentation worship is bringing to God your true pain, sorrow or suffering while still choosing to worship the King. It constitutes encountering a Divine embrace with the living God from the midst of your deep and personal anguish, and bearing your heart and soul unto Him, allowing God to receive your deep burden. Many people think if we force ourselves to enter this kind of place in worship that God is responsible to lift all of the pain away from you. The honest answer is that this is not always true. Jesus knew his friend Lazarus was going to die, but he also knew that it would not be permanent and that the Son of God would be glorified through it, because He prophesied unto His disciples that:

“This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” (John 11:4)

So when Jesus first received the word that Lazarus was sick unto death, instead of rushing over there to “heal” him, He chose to remain in the place He was at for two more days. Why? Because He knew what the will of the Father and only did that which the Father directed Him to do at all times.

At the appointed time of His Father, Jesus went to Bethany.

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