It is interesting to me, the depths the enemy will go to keep us from sharing our testimony with others. He tries to diminish the importance of our individual testimony by sending arrows of doubt as to the effectiveness of our testimony. He tries to use guilt and condemnation to keep us quiet, when the testimony of what we have been through is actually what will set others free! He tries to use fear of rejection to keep us from testifying to others because we do not believe our Christian brothers and sisters can handle the truth of our testimony.

Luke 9:24 - "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it."

When we continually stress over problems instead of looking to God for solutions, the enemy will magnify your fears. If he can't get you to worry about the present - he'll remind you of everything that could go wrong in the future! Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "All I have seen, has taught me to trust God for all I haven't seen."

The sacrifice of praise is the sacrifice God wants our "holy priesthood" to offer! How do we do that? With our heart and our mouths, by making a joyful noise to the Lord, speaking forth His praises, telling forth and extolling God's goodness. 1 Peter 2:1 says: "Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking..." You cannot praise the Lord and speak evil at the same time. Jesus said you cannot get sweet water and bitter water out of the same fountain. You cannot have evil speaking and praise for the Lord coming out of your mouth at the same time.