Today I want to share some often overlooked biblical practices that have helped me get victory in my life. I pray they will be a blessing to you as well.

These are 3 simple practices, but I believe if you apply them they will surely change your life!

1. Praise

Unlocking Joy and Strength Through Worship

Sometimes we get so overwhelmed by the battle we are facing and the circumstances we are dealing with that we forget the power of praise.

For me personally, there are many times that I don’t feel like praising God, but I know I need to lift my hands and sing praises anyway because the joy of the Lord is our strength (Nehemiah 8:10).

Singing praise to God causes us to enter His courts, to come before Him and invite Him into our situation.

There have been several times in my life where the spontaneous, supernatural joy from the Holy Spirit came upon me while praising God.

Once I was in a church service when the worship team was singing praises and the joy of the Lord hit me out of nowhere and I couldn’t stop smiling. His joy refreshed my soul and gave me strength to keep going during a pressing season of my life.

Praise is a weapon against the enemy and that is why we often don’t feel like doing it. Praise BREAKS discouragement and depression!

Psalm 149:6

Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand.

2. Daily Repentance

The Transformative Power of Repentance in Your Walk with God

Repentance isn’t just a one time act during an altar call. It’s a daily choice to acknowledge our sins before God with a heart of transparency.

Repentance is simply changing our mind, turning from sin and turning to God.

This isn’t out of a place of condemnation, but a desire to have an honest heart before Him so He can work on us and help us change to become more like Him.

A lifestyle of repentance helps us avoid the pride of self-righteousness and having a judgmental attitude before others, because we recognize the areas where we need to change.

Repentance, along with walking in mercy toward others, sets us free and makes us clean before God through the blood of Jesus being applied over us.

1 John chapter 1 talks about walking in the light, which is acknowledging our sins before God.

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.– 1 John 1:7-9

How awesome is that? Being transparent before God by confessing our sins to Him allows us to be righteous under the blood of Jesus while we are still in process.

Two prayers I love to pray often are:

Psalm 139:23-24

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.

Matthew 6:12

And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.

3. Communion

Experiencing God’s Presence Through Communion

Jesus taught His disciples what communion was right before He was arrested to be crucified.

He gave them the bread and wine after their Passover meal and said as often as we do it, we should remember Him. His disciples didn’t quite understand it yet, but we know that it represents Christ’s sufferings for us.

Matthew 26:26-28

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”

When we take communion, we participate in the victory He won for us. We show our agreement with His body that was broken for our healing and His blood that was poured out for the forgiveness of our sins.

We agree with the full benefits of the New Covenant of salvation and reconciliation with God the Father that He paid the price for us to have.

Regardless of your convictions on wine or grape juice, bread or crackers, I believe the main priority is to treat this act as sacred and to have an attitude of reverence in your heart before the Lord.

I personally always like to repent and acknowledge my sins before I partake in communion. I also bless it and ask the Lord to apply His victory over my life.

Communion is a time to commune, to fellowship with the Lord. I often feel His presence around me as I do it and His peace comes over me.

I pray these Biblical practices encourage you and help you walk in victory in your daily life!

Victory in Life: 3 Biblical Practices You May Be Overlooking