Quotes from Merlin R. Carothers

To praise God is to express our acceptance of something that God is permitting to happen. So to praise God for difficult situations, as sickness or disaster, means literally that we accept its happening, as part of God's plan to reveal His perfect love for us. We

the need for purity and holiness in living. They were Wesleyan and Free Methodist and spoke of the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian.

hypnosis is potentially very dangerous spiritually, leaving the subject wide-open for impulses from the realm of Satan.

Discovering the power in praise was one of the most exciting experiences I'd ever had; yet every time I wanted to share it with someone, it was as if God was saying: "Hold it. This isn't the time.

the difference between victory and defeat was always a matter of faith.

Not only does God save, He means business when He says He can remold us and make us into His image. He can literally take away our old habits and hang-ups and impure thoughts and renew us from within!

Jesus didn't promise to change the circumstances around us, but He did promise great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

He wants to give Himself for us each moment of our lives just as completely as He gave Himself on the cross. We have nothing to give Him; we have only to receive of Him!

The very act of praise releases the power of God into a set of circumstances and enables God to change them if this is His design. Very often it is our attitudes that hinder the solution of a problem. God is sovereign and could certainly cut across our wrong thought patterns and attitudes. But His perfect plan is to bring each of us into fellowship and communion with Him, and

so He allows circumstances and incidents which will bring our wrong attitudes to our attention.

Thank God for every detail of your life and believe He has permitted all of these things in order to bring you to the place where you are now.

God is able to use even our past mistakes and failures when we release them to Him with thanksgiving.

When we trust Him, no power on earth can touch us unless it is God's will.

Now listen, my son. For the rest of your life when anything happens to you that is any less difficult than what they did to My Son, I want you to be just as glad as you were when I first asked you if you were glad Christ died for you.

learn for myself beyond any doubt how to turn every difficult situation into joy.

Satan can't do a thing to us unless he first gets God's permission. Remember God allowed Satan to test Job. The only time God gives Satan permission is when God sees the tremendous potential in the thing passing through us and coming out as joy, pure joy!

When we begin to realize this, God can bless our lives. The power of the resurrected Christ is in us. Miracles, power, and

victory will all be a part of what God does in our lives when we learn to rejoice in all things.

We are not to be blind to the very real threats of evil in our lives. Seeing them for what they are only gives us greater cause to praise and thank God for working in them with perfect control and authority. But we are not to be pre-occupied with the appearance of evil around us. See it, admit our helplessness to cope with it in our own strength, then turn to God. God

but with the intensity of a twelve-year-old I turned in fury against a God who could treat us that way.

We may not understand God's plan or recognize it as good, but when we praise Him for it, we release His power to work in the situation for our good.

I was beginning to learn that praise was not just a form of worship or prayer, but also a way of waging spiritual warfare.

The battle isn't ours; it is God's. While we praise Him, He sends our enemies scurrying.

Looking only at the good side of every situation is often a dangerous way of trying to escape the reality of it. When we praise God we thank Him for our situation, not in spite of it.