Praise Defeats Pain by Kandi Rose
Today’s guest blogger is Kandi Rose who is an evangelist, author, and TV Host. Kandi knows firsthand the power, love & forgiveness that comes from making a whole heart choice to live for the Lord. She was a former stripper & prostitute who had multiple addictions. Her freedom & new life began when her mother led her to the Lord over the phone in 1984. At that time she owned a strip-o-gram business in the Chicago area, as well as advertising on billboard, radio & TV commercials. This is why God is using her through her TV program, “Addiction Free.” Along with all her guests they encourage others, testifying they too can be forgiven of anything & have a brand new life. She is a credentialed minister through the Assemblies of God.
Her TV talk show, “Addiction Free,” broadcasts on three networks, four times a week to over five million homes.
VTN Victory Television Network~Little Rock, Arkansas
WHTN Christian Television Network~Nashville, Tennessee
TLN Total Living Network~Chicago, Illinois
Kandi interviews guests whose lives have been set free from various addictions through making a whole heart commitment to Jesus Christ. This is a “Traveling TV show.” Kandi brings her camera equipment to churches & interviews the pastors and his members who have been set free from any habit. She also goes to Christian rehabs & films their staff and students on location.
You can find out more about Kandi’s ministry at: www.kandiroseministries.com
Isa. 61:3 The Garment of Praise
The presence of my enemy was very evident during a very heart breaking time in my life. He orchestrated a crisis that was meant to devastate me, to spiritually wound me from my purpose as an evangelist.
As I walked into the bedroom a sick feeling overtook me. A strange woman was in bed with my husband. I yelled to him, “Who is this?”
She yelled, “Who is she?”
I said, “I am his wife and how long have you been sleeping with my husband?”
Before I was a Christian, the old me would have snatched her up by the hair of the head and beat her while cursing. I did not though and realize it was only because the Holy Spirit was in me now.
As I drove away that morning, the enemy of my soul was present and speaking into my mind thoughts of bitterness and hate. I recognized if I gave into that, I would be a prisoner of his and it would quench the anointing on my life as an evangelist. The Holy Spirit reminded me of the times I committed adultery on my first husband before I was saved, plus all the other sins he forgave me for. The word says if we do not forgive, we cannot be forgiven. So through heart wrenching sobs as I drove away, I outstretched my hand to Heaven and confessed out loud, “I forgive them.”
I went home and as I sat down, the enemy was rejoicing. His plan for bitterness may not have worked, but now plan two was succeeding. Self-pity, isolation and depression were having their way in my mind. I felt I couldn’t go to church and be my joyful self. I am thankful for the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. The scripture, “Greater is he that is in me (the Holy Spirit), than he (Satan) that is in the world” (1 John 4:4) arose deep within me. I had not sat there very long when I felt compelled to get up and get to church. I drove there in a lifeless state of shock, like a robot. I sat in Sunday school with no joy, just a numb feeling. My enemy was still present, tormenting my mind.
My God came to my rescue. When church service started I found myself taking my usual place on the worship team. The angels must have helped me get up, as I felt drained physically, spiritually and mentally.
An amazing thing happened. This once spiritually dead woman came alive. The more I sang and played my tambourine and maracas, the more joy and enthusiasm came. As I listened to the words being sung, the word of God and life sprang back into my soul. The hopelessness was replaced by hope. Heaviness was replaced with joy and peace.
When we praise and worship in the presence of our enemy, he has to flee. You see he wants our worship and when we give it to God, he cannot stand it. His plan is to depress us, but God’s desire is to bless us.
Note: Praise and Worship is one of our greatest tools against our enemy! God did heal my broken heart. It was a process but amazingly the time it took was probably not as long as it could have been because I kept worshipping My God, who I love! My husband did divorce me, but I am happy and content, fulfilling the purpose He has for me.