Power in Praise

Both of Merlin Crothers books on Praise are amazing. In his first book Prison to Praise he tells how he started praising God and how it changed his life and in this book Power in Praise he goes further and gives stories about how this worked for other people and miraculous things happened. Praising God can change your life and I know it did mine. I love these too books. I bought them for my sister too and it turned her life around as well.

This is one of my favorite books! I just gave this book to my grandaughter along with a story to prove the point. Here is the story:A Story to Remember.... "In Everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you".... I Thessalonians 5:18 This story could very well have been in your book, Power In Praise, one of my most cherished books. It is an amazing story of how God directs our lives even when we don't have a clue that He is calling all the shots and always for our own good. Your dad was a little boy about the age that he is in this photograph. Our friends, the Olsens were with us and we had just put up the tipi on the ranch and we were having smores. It was Thanksgiving night, and we had a fire going in the tipi. There was snow on the ground but we were warm as toast. Everything was going okay until Davey Olsen accidently poked your dad in the eye with the pointed end of his smores stick. Dan cried just a little bit, but then it was over... We thought it was over, that is, but it was only the beginning.... A few days later, your dad was in a swimming class at the Spa Motel, and one of the other little boys accidentally came up from under the water and hit your dad hard under his chin. It was a good hit so much so that it jammed his front teeth right up into his gums. That hurt, and that night we could tell that Dan was still really agitated, and not himself. He kept complaining about his teeth hurting, but finally he went to sleep. There was a blizzard that night and we felt that there was nothing we could do until the morning. Nothing we could do, that is. At about 12 midnight, Macey, your dad woke us up and was crying and crying....he got in the bed with us, and he kept saying..."my teeth, my teeth", and big tears were running down his face. Your grand dad David put some ice on his upper lip and gave him some baby aspirin. But NOTHING seemed to help. He just kept crying with those big tears streaming down his face. I got up and went into the living room several times that night to kneel down and pray for Dan. I knew that God had said to "give thanks in everything" but that was really hard to do when my little boy was hurting so. Finally, at about 6 AM, I knelt down in the living room once more and cried out to God. "Oh, God, with my heart I cannot thank You for this BUT, (I finally came to it.....) BUT with my MIND I WILL THANK YOU....I will, dear Lord, I will thank you." That was the hardest prayer I ever prayed. And I went back to bed. In a few minutes, Dan, still crying, said, "My eye, my eye!", and I said, "What? Your eye?" And we turned on the light, and Macey, there among all those tears were little pieces of sticks..not splinters, but little pieces, about 1/8" square on his cheek..coming from his eye. I am sitting here crying again. I will never forget that as long as I live! And, the amazing thing is that the moment that all those little sticks were out of his eye.....Dan stopped crying..immediately..nothing hurt anymore, and later the dentist said that his teeth were okay...he was good to go! God had to allow all those tears to wash those little sticks out. Later the doctor said that apparently those sticks had jammed way back into his skull, and could have caused some major problems later on if God had not stepped in and washed them out. No one else knew they were there. God knew and He handled it. Thanking God for everything became crystal clear to all of us. We could not then nor can we now see into the future...but God sees and knows the future. And we can trust God's view every time....100% of the time... "In Everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you!"

I found this book at a church library. I liked it so much l bought my own copy. The first chapter explains the science of the subconscious.like the bible is telling us. It is praising the good and the bad. We thank and be grateful for the problem (it shows us there is something out of order). Then we thank and praise and be grateful for the need for a solution and gratitude for the solution itself. This is important simple cooperating with the subconscious mind. For the religious say it is God within. For the secular or those of other faiths it is the function of the conscious (male) mind and the subconscious (female) mind. The easiest way to cooperate is to be grateful and thankful as we know. Pastor Corothers gives lots of Bible verses to support his dicovery. He also may carry on (too much for non Christians) about his church and their expression of faith. The key remains that Thankfulness and gratitude will open the way to the untapped power for goodness and stability we want to demonstrate in our lives.

This book is so readable as it keeps you attention with well written spiritually impactful positive stories of how God works through faith!! God used this book to keep me from ending my life and to reveal his plan of salvation to me in 1976.

So great this book is still in print. Very encouraging and uplifting to one's faith.

Good little. Would be good for new Christian’s.

This book was recommended by another author that stated "before you read this book you must read Power of praise" and oh how glad I did!! This book is life changing!! I instantly felt Holy Spirit in this book as I read the first two pages and all the way to the end. It was like light bulbs going off in my head page after page. I recommend it to two friends already lol. Holy Spirit definitely wanted me to read this book and I'm oh so grateful that I did. I was able to put the principles from this book pretty much to practice right away and they work. I had a situation I have been dealing with since December of 2019 and it still made me very upset when I thought about it and I would scream in anger and cry. So today as I read through the book some additional information came up and I got angry again and I started to cry. Then I immediately realized here is an opportunity to put the principles to work, so I begin to thank God for this situation. I thanked Him for the betrayal, lies and the revelation of this situation and just kept praising and thanking Him. I went on and thanked Him or every manipulator that I learned a lesson from that lead to my broken heart. I continue on, and I tell you honestly I began to gag and spit and I keep on praising Him until my heart was free. 20 minutes went by while I praised God and I am free, instead of anger I feel compassion towards that person. I forgave them and set them free and I pray when you read this book you too will experience this same freedom.

This is a very encouraging book with many wonderful stories of the Lord's bounty backed up with relevant quotes from the Bible. Why do we have such difficulty believing the Lord loves us? We have to learn to trust The Lord after learning the lesson of this world where people let us down and we in turn let people and more importantly God down. In spite of all that The Lord does for us we are embroiled with the cares and thorns of this world and forget we have such an amazing loving caring almighty God who really does care. He is Almighty so He can help us. He is all wise so he knows how to help us and He is all loving so He helps us out of His great Love. We have to pray for the grace to receive His love instead of floundering in our own pride and sin. Look at Jesus not at the problem. God bless you and thank you for reminding me of my loving Father

De Lecture facile, beaucoup d'exemples de la part de l'auteur. Il ramene la louange au centre de notre vie quotidienne.

I read two pages and KNEW that this was the missing link! I couldn’t stop reading it and will read more of these. Prison to Praise is next . We are used to the habit of thanking the Lord for the good things only . Yet, we can be grateful for our trials and tribulations . They teach us so much and strengthen us . I’ve begun , and feel confident that J will see improvements in all area of my life and my families

This book teaches how to enjoy life through the good and bad! We have ONE life and knowing how to make it the most positive experience possible - regardless of all of the horrific things that some of us have to experience, is the only way. Don't waste a second living in negative experiences or memories. Instead, take your power back and give it to the One who promises to be there through it all - good and bad! This message changed how I live my life. If you let it, it can also help you!

We look at our lives and want to understand every bit of it -and if it doesn’t fit the picture we desired it should fit, we’d be disappointed and discouraged. Read this book to know how through it all - even the worst pain you’ve had - God stretches his arms of love around you, and is making you what He’s always wanted you to be. He isn’t just making situations turn for good, He knew it all along and He has walked with you through that process.