Put a Praise on It

It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat.

Joshua 6:5, NKJV

Right before my devotion one day, God spoke in my spirit one word, “JUBILEE.” I responded, “JUBILEE, Lord, when all upheaval—all hell—seems to be breaking forth in my life.” And I heard it again, “JUBILEE.”

One day during my quiet time, God led me to the song “Put a Praise on It” by Tasha Cobbs. My brothers and sisters of the Most High God, Jesus is King of kings, regardless of how your situation may look or feel, do as Cobbs’s song depicts and “put a praise on it!” Go ahead and celebrate beforehand, for your victory is surely coming.

Merriam-Webster defines JUBILEE as a special anniversary or a celebration of that anniversary. In the Bible (specifically the Old Testament), the word “jubilee” comes from the Hebrew word yobel, which means “ram’s horn, trumpet, or coronet.” For Israel, Jubilee came every fifty years:

And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field. ~Leviticus 25:8–12, NKJV

For Christians, Jubilee is every day because of the remarkable sacrifice of our Lord and Savior, taking on our sins, dying in our place, and rising from the dead to sit at the right hand of the Father. Because of what He did for you and me, brothers and sisters, we can shout now because, in the end, we are going to win—we’ve already won! In part, Jubilee can be described as the celebration of any___________.

What is your “any”? Is it passing an exam, landing a job, being healed from an illness or a broken heart, finding relief from a financial burden, or praying for a wayward son or daughter? No matter what your “any” is, go ahead and put a praise on it! You’ve already won.

In the Word: Read Joshua 6