Promises - The Power of His Praise

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When I was younger, I worked at Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center.

One of my favorite things was to go to the firework show in the center of World Showcase Lagoon. It's a 38-acre lagoon surrounded by pavilions from different countries.

Before the show starts, people start gathering around the fencing and eventually surround the lagoon. Depending on the time of year, this could be several thousand to tens of thousands of people, all facing toward the center where the show will take place.

There was always a point in the show when the first really big firework went off and something amazing happened. For a moment, this multitude was in awe something together. The visitors to EPCOT are from different countries, have different cultures, and different languages. But when everyone around the lagoon instinctively said "WHOA" at the same time, you could feel the force of the sound in your chest. It rumbled the entire lagoon.

If that’s the force of sound when people see a simple firework, just imagine the power of heavenly praise when we see Jesus. Read these passages from the Amplified version of the Bible.

Rev 7:9-10 "After these things I looked, and this is what I saw: a vast multitude which no one could count, [gathered] from every nation and from all the tribes and peoples and languages [of the earth], standing before the throne and before the Lamb (Christ), dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands; and in a loud voice they cried out, saying, “Salvation [belongs] to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb [our salvation is the Trinity’s to give, and to God the Trinity we owe our deliverance]."

Rev 19:6-7 "Then I heard something like the shout of a vast multitude, and like the boom of many pounding waves, and like the roar of mighty peals of thunder, saying,“Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, [the Omnipotent, the Ruler of all] reigns. “Let us rejoice and shout for joy! Let us give Him glory and honor, for the marriage of the Lamb has come [at last] and His bride (the redeemed) has prepared herself.”

Why does the power of praise happen?

And why is this multitude of people all exclaiming Jesus praise? It is because He has covered a multitude of sin. His payment was for the the whole number, the whole multitude, the assemblage of all your and my sin. We have been forgiven and pardoned from sinsl past - present - and future. So, we can praise Him now and forever.

I long to see and experience the day when the power of His praise will be a physical force that will shake heaven and the universe.