During the Arkansas Ladies Conference the evening speaker, Priscilla McGruder, told a story about a "garment of praise" that God told her to make when she was recovering from cancer." The idea was awesome and I felt impressed to share the story and the project with the kids in my local church prayer group. The story she told is below. Guys, it really works, God's Word, that is. It's true!!!

Priscilla McGruder's Story:

When I was too weak from chemo treatments to speak or pray, that was the time the devil hit me the hardest with some really bad family news. I felt so down and sad, so I took it to the Lord in prayer. When I finished telling Him my story, He said, "Get dressed and go to Wal-Mart." I got excited right then because I luuuuuv Wal-Mart. So I got dressed, got in the car, and drove to Wal-Mart.

On the way to Wal-Mart I asked Him what I should do when I got there. He said, "Get the largest white T-Shirt

you can find." That's exactly what I did. When I got home, I asked Him again, now what? He replied, "Write the word PRAISE as big as you can on the front and on the back, then put the T-Shirt on." I'd never heard anything quite like these instructions, but I did it anyway.

Then when I had the t-shirt on, He reminded me of the verse in Isaiah that says He came to bring a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. What this means is that when I don't want to praise, or when I don't have the energy to praise, or even when I don't know how to praise, He came so that I could put on an invisible garment of praise that would lift my spirit.

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One of the boys put on the garment of praise this past Saturday night and by the time the night was over, he was feeling better and was in much higher spirits. It works!