What if your praise is part of your battle strategy?

Worship is more than what we do after the victory. Worship is how we respond while we're still in the fight.

When the enemy wants you focused on fear, worship shifts your focus back to God. When circumstances say, “It's over,” praise declares, “God is still in control.”

Jehoshaphat faced an army too great to defeat in his own strength. Yet God sent worshippers ahead of the warriors. Before the victory was visible, they began to praise.

They praised before the breakthrough.

Sometimes you have to worship while you're waiting. Praise while you're hurting. Trust while you're confused. Lift your hands when you don't yet see the answer.

Worship doesn't deny the battle—it declares that the battle doesn't hav ...