"Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name" (Psalm 63:4) "I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting." (1 Timothy 2:8) "He teaches my hands to make war, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze (Psalm 18:34)

"Come out with your hands up," a phrase we have heard many times through the TV or in the news or maybe even experienced ourselves by watching something happen in our neighborhoods. This month I am speaking to you to come out with Your hands Up, Praising Almighty God, knowing that through praise You have intimate relationship and you are walking forth in the battle with praise and worship not only in Your mouth but in Your hands. Raising our hands represents surrender to the Lord, humbling to the Lord that we look to Him from whence cometh our help. Raise your hands and fight the good fight of faith through praise.

Many of us have heard the rights given to someone who is arrested. I have listed those rights and for each one I am going to tell you Your rights through Christ Jesus and I pray with all of my heart that you will receive and believe and walk forward not as someone who has been taken captive by the enemy but someone who is truly a prisoner of Our Lord Jesus Christ. May you be blessed as you read.

1. You have the right to remain silent. The Lord says "You have the right to be called children of God when you believe on the name of Jesus Christ. You have the right to use the sword of the Spirit, which is His Word against all the fiery darts of the evil one. You have a right to enter into His throne room of grace in your time of need. Do not be silent, but speak His Word over every situation in your life.

2. Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law. "The power of life and death is in your tongue. When you confess me before men I will confess you before My Father in heaven. When you speak do not be afraid of what you will say for My Spirit will give you the words that are needed. Anything you say will be heard in heaven and when you call on the name of the Lord He will answer you and show you great and mighty things. Let [raise be continually in your mouths. Lord let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart bring glory to Your name this day. What I tell you in secret shout it from the rooftops. Sing praises to His name, Make loud noises. When we know not what to pray His Spirit makes intercession for us through groaning which cannot be uttered. Go forth and make disciples of all men teaching them all things that I have shown you. And they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of their testimony." (The point here, do not be silent but open your mouth and speak and praise and worship.)

3. You have the right to have an attorney present now and during any future questioning. "But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them."

4. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you free of charge if you wish. "For God so loved the word that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him would not perish but would have eternal life." "Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. "Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulations, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness or peril or sword? "For there is one God and One Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time."

Come out of your storm today, lift your hands up and begin to Praise the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Let Him read You Your rights through His Word and you will never be taken captive again.