Getting Ready for Shout Day
Tomorrow is shout day.  First, I want to thank you for taking this journey with me as we praised and allowed the Lord to work on issues as we marched through life this week.  We've found that we can praise when we don't feel like it and God honors it, we've found that in the silence of our life God can speak to us about deep seeded issues.  The questions of why, when, and draw me close can all be answered as we come into his presence and refuse to speak words of death in our situation.  

I admit that this week hasn't been easy for me in some ways.  There are some things that I'm waiting on the Lord for...long standing promises that are yet to come.  Part of my time just being silent before Him on our daily march was pouring my heart out to Jesus about it...and then sitting back and allowing him to speak.  Yesterday, I woke with discouragement and needed to refocus my thoughts.  The Lord brought to mind a little prayer that had been answered and though bigger problems loomed in the background my countenance rose as I became thankful for the little answer.  You see we don't always have to start praising based on all the outward circumstance rather we praise even before the big picture has come into view.  Each praise builds...and brings a victory.  Praise the LORD today before your big answer comes.  Find something today to be thankful for and let it raise your faith and hope in Him.  

Shout Scriptures
Here is a small sampling of Shout Scriptures

Numbers 10:35 
And whenever the Ark set out, Moses would shout, “Arise, O Lord, and let your enemies be scattered! Let them flee 

Joshua 6:5
 When you hear the priests give one long blast on the rams’ horns, have all the people shout as loud as they can. Then the walls of the town will collapse, and the people can charge straight into the town.”

Joshua 6:20
When the people heard the sound of the rams’ horns, they shouted as loud as they could. Suddenly, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites charged straight into the town and captured it.

Psalm 27:6 
When the people heard the sound of the rams’ horns, they shouted as loud as they could. Suddenly, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites charged straight into the town and captured it.

Psalm 29:9
The voice of the Lord twists mighty oaks and strips the forests bare. In his Temple everyone shouts, “Glory!”

Psalm 32:11
So rejoice in the Lord and be glad, all you who obey him! Shout for joy, all you whose hearts are pure!

Psalm 40:16 
But may all who search for you be filled with joy and gladness in you. May those who love your salvation repeatedly shout, “The Lord is great!”

Psalm 47:1 
Come, everyone! Clap your hands! Shout to God with joyful praise!

Isaiah 12:6 
Let all the people of Jerusalem shout his praise with joy! For great is the Holy One of Israel who lives among you.”

1 Thessalonians 4:17
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the believers who have died will rise from their graves.

John 12:12-14New Living Translation (NLT)

Jesus’ Triumphant Entry

12 The next day, the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem swept through the city. A large crowd of Passover visitors 13 took palm branches and went down the road to meet him. They shouted,

“Praise God![a]
Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hail to the King of Israel!”[b]