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Kingdom Praise - Week 1

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  1. Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith.

  2. Message podcast from st. Augustine Florida.

  3. Now enjoy this message and I want to talk about praise We'll

  4. talk about, praise praise has the same issue that we discussed

  5. recently, when we talked about being led by the spirit are

  6. being led by your soul. Okay, so, if you were not part

  7. of that series, what did I call that series adjustment?

  8. It's a must right. It's a must.

  9. If you haven't heard that series, go online.

  10. It was three weeks. It's a must, you must worship

  11. Him in spirit, and in truth, okay?

  12. And the word worship is not singing.

  13. Although worship includes singing, We have this mindset

  14. that when we hear worship, we think of slow songs.

  15. Okay. That's not worship worship by

  16. definition is obeying. What the king says, and that

  17. doesn't have to be with the song, unless he's asking you to

  18. sing a slow one. At that time, then you would be

  19. worshipping him by obeying to sing a slow song, right?

  20. But you're also worshiping him if he tells you to pay for

  21. somebody's meal, That's worship. Its worship when you give

  22. because he says, give right, it's worship when you forgive

  23. that's worship. Okay.

  24. But we've coined this phrase within the church body.

  25. Praise and so it automatically praises the fast stuff, worships

  26. the slow stuff. And that is not the case.

  27. Praise is something we do with our mouths, will see something

  28. that we do and there's other things that we can do in praise

  29. and we'll break all this down. But we know that there are

  30. churches and there are believers.

  31. So, I'm not just saying churches as a whole because there are

  32. just Believers as well. That can be in a Spirit-filled

  33. Spirit Led church, but there are a whole churches that are only

  34. led by their soul. They only make decisions based

  35. upon their five senses they have.

  36. Not renewed their mind and they are so Lush.

  37. Lee, LED they go by how they feel?

  38. There are many When Praise comes on do the same thing.

  39. They praised out of feeling. They're not praising in the

  40. spirit at all. So, just because you're singing

  41. doesn't mean you're in the spirit.

  42. Alright, and we need to examine this a little bit because if

  43. people were engaging God in a Spirit-filled praise that there,

  44. definitely is an environment that will manifest right.

  45. And so with that being said, let's look at a scripture that

  46. lets us know a situation can occur when praise takes place.

  47. Now in Acts 16:25 and acts 16:25 right.

    Acts 16:25 Acts 16:25

  48. It says this, but about midnight, but about midnight,

  49. Paul and Silas were praying and singing.

  50. Hymns of what praise to God and the prisoners were listening to

  51. them, okay? Now, as you know, this passage

  52. of scripture that because they did this, not because they were

  53. looking for it. So, how do I know someone's in

  54. Soul? Praise.

  55. They want to sing a way to make an earthquake.

  56. Manifest. Well, Paul and Silas was not

  57. singing for a manifestation of an earthquake.

  58. Nor were they singing to be let out?

  59. Because if they were singing to be let out the minute, their

  60. shackles flipped off and the doors open, they would have ran.

  61. So a lot of people's Praises are to get them out of something,

  62. not that you can't praise to get yourself out.

  63. I'm not saying that I'm just saying in this instance, he the

  64. problem that we have with praise is that praise typically we try

  65. to do it based upon something. We see in the Bible called, we

  66. want it particular results. When Praise is just something we

  67. do period. The results is really irrelevant

  68. although there will be a result. Don't get me wrong, but I'm not

  69. praising him for result. I'm praising him cause he is I

  70. praise him cuz he is. And when I initiate that cuz

  71. again, why would we be late? To a service where you can

  72. praise e. Why would there be a growth?

  73. I mean, we have a growth spurt, every service.

  74. From the start of service to 15 minutes later we have a growth

  75. boom. Miss Supernatural.

  76. I mean, if we could just get that Supernatural growth to

  77. manifest like constantly every 15 minutes.

  78. We would take over the planet right now.

  79. But we get this like boom growth that takes place why?

  80. And it's mainly now some you know you're coming from work if

  81. that's the case I can get that there can be legitimate reasons

  82. but the majority of the reason is is that we don't understand

  83. the power of our praise We don't understand it.

  84. We don't understand what it line locks for us personally and what

  85. it can unlock for someone else in the room.

  86. Because again, Paul and Silas by All rights, are in no position

  87. to praise naturally. They've been beaten and now

  88. they're in jail, right? I mean, this is cried Tom, but

  89. they're not crying. They're just, I just Praise Him.

  90. Anyway, now that's not a fake because I've heard people say,

  91. well, I'm going to praise him anyway.

  92. You're not really praising him because you still thinking about

  93. your problem and crying about it and In the people about it.

  94. So you're saying something about Hallelujah, but you really don't

  95. have a hallelujah. What you have is a complaint.

  96. Because we get around of people that you're around your

  97. complaining. But then he get around certain

  98. people all of a sudden, you got a praise.

  99. Well, as your praise for God, our praise for a person that

  100. showed up so that you can put on to praise to make them.

  101. Think you are praising when the reality is, you ain't praising.

  102. What's that means you are so Lush prazer, you're praising on

  103. how you feel, who's in the room, who you can talk with and

  104. identify with because based upon, you know, what's going on,

  105. all this person knows what I'm going through and they can feel

  106. my pain and they can sympathize with it.

  107. So I'm going to complain and whine about what I'm going

  108. through and how hard it is. But then over here this person

  109. wouldn't All right, that's why I'm going to say, oh, I praise

  110. the Lord. I'm just going to praise him

  111. anyway. Well, you're not crazy.

  112. All right, hallelujah. Amen.

  113. You know, I love to look at people who are on the platform

  114. that Dupre's When they're off. I like the eye balm in any

  115. church. I'm at.

  116. We'll see what this person does when they're off the platform

  117. because of that praising here. But can't praise him here.

  118. Then their fate Fraser's. Cause now they're just

  119. performers, right? Amen.

  120. But you know what? I hear you.

  121. You guys. You're like, yeah, that's right

  122. past her, but you can come into church and praise him and then

  123. on at work, not not do it. All right, so we got to make

  124. sure we're actually there's a reason why we praise.

  125. I mean it's very difficult. I've been in different places

  126. where the minister wants to keep you in a room until the worships

  127. over and I'm like, I want to get out there.

  128. I want to get in the environment.

  129. I Just Want To Praise my king. That means and I'm not saving my

  130. voice. I mean, I'm not holding back.

  131. I mean, I'm praising him. I mean, if we need to dance,

  132. let's dance if we need to run. Let's run if we need to shout.

  133. Let's shout even if I'm preaching.

  134. Right. Cause whatever.

  135. The expression. And I and then I can walk in a

  136. layer of submission. Meaning, if Pastor Mark said

  137. everybody raise your hands. Well, I guess a promise in your

  138. path running, reason my hands man.

  139. Okay, I got a got this service, I'm going.

  140. I mean, even if I'm thinking on the service, how even try to

  141. cause I'm like, did you hear what the guy said something

  142. could happen just in the simple gesture of holy hands.

  143. Lifted High. and if we're too stubborn to, Amen, there should

  144. be. One hundred percent

  145. participation when it comes to singing.

  146. The good news is the Bible already allowed for your voice.

  147. He said, Make a Joyful Noise. He didn't say have to be in

  148. tune. He didn't say it.

  149. Had to be good. He just said I ought to be

  150. joyful which means you ought to be excited that you can open

  151. your mouth. And praise God.

  152. He didn't say it had to sound good.

  153. Amen. So that's not an excuse Pastor.

  154. If you could hurt if you only heard me, you wouldn't want me

  155. to say anything. Well, the Lord makes it that way

  156. he wants to hear it so I have no Pride.

  157. Don't offend me. I mean, do you think these guys

  158. up here always sound like their own tune No not always and

  159. sometimes they you know unfortunately give themselves

  160. away their life. No, facial expression.

  161. People no, facial treasure. When Pastor Marcus and I were in

  162. the youth ministry together for the Youth band was horrible.

  163. Those guys would give each other way.

  164. I mean, you could read their lips.

  165. You know, you're an idiot. You missed it.

  166. What are you doing? You dork.

  167. Hallelujah. Okay, so, you know what, we did

  168. fix that, we put all the lights on the back and they became a

  169. silhouette, you can't even see their faces.

  170. All right? Let's just get rid of these

  171. guys. We don't, you want to see the

  172. face? I just want to hear the voice,

  173. the music, please. I don't need to see their facial

  174. expressions. Hallelujah, are you hear me?

  175. But it was about midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and

  176. singing praises to who, to God. So, let's look at a few

  177. scriptures. Again, we're going to do this

  178. for three weeks, so I don't have to go dive too deep tonight.

  179. I do want to kind of lay a foundation because if anything I

  180. want to loosen your mouth, if anything, I just want to get

  181. your mouth loose because I can't get your mouth loose to release

  182. what the spirit of God wants to do through you, then Sunday will

  183. be different. Sunday itself will be different.

  184. Praise is not the answer of everything but praises and

  185. outflow that, you know, you have the answer for everything.

  186. Even when you're in the middle of the worst thing.

  187. Amen. Hallelujah.

  188. All right. So Psalms 34 1, amen.

  189. Psalms 34, 1, this is going to be a participation sermon.

  190. All right. All right, we're going to

  191. participate. He said, I Will Bless The Lord

  192. At what kind of times. How many times sometimes?

  193. Maybe Tom's a few times only on Easter and Christmas time.

  194. Only when I win the lotto and everything's going good, when

  195. all my bills are paid and I'm healthy.

  196. So that tells us situations don't dictate praise.

  197. Praise is not dictated by a situation.

  198. So, your praise should not change.

  199. You shouldn't praise him more when troubles around.

  200. Some people go crazy. Praise when there's trouble.

  201. And then they forget him during a good time.

  202. And in trouble shows up and they go praising again.

  203. So then they get them in a cycle.

  204. I praise him when I'm in trouble and he always gets me out.

  205. Well, he'll deliver you out all your trouble.

  206. No problem, but he wants you to praise him even in the good

  207. promise, you go, quiet and the good.

  208. And you open the door for trouble.

  209. I Will Bless The Lord At what all times his.

  210. What Praise shall what's that? Next word, continually beware in

  211. my mouth? Continually.

  212. Now, how do we know whether we have a continual praise?

  213. It's going to be predicated on, do you have a continual diet of

  214. the word because if you're not continually eating the word of

  215. God? And what I mean by that is

  216. reading it, keeping it in front of you.

  217. It's not going to come out of you.

  218. What will come out of you? What you meditate on.

  219. So if you're meditating on your problem, meditating on your

  220. circumstance, made it taking on perceive trouble, that's worried

  221. or whatever the case you're going to speak.

  222. That, that of a that will continually.

  223. Have you been around people that said, that's they continually

  224. talk about the sickness. They continually talk about, the

  225. problem, the relationship, the the you know, the crisis, you

  226. know, they continue to talk about how their victim they

  227. continually talked about, how this situation is this way,

  228. because of this. But if they had the word in them

  229. then they what would come out would be different.

  230. We're not denying wearing something.

  231. We're just praise any because he's worthy to be praised

  232. period. So when something happens man in

  233. talking about doing this recently, I've been really doing

  234. this recently because I've had this like tangible knowledge of

  235. the grace of God that I have to have active in my life right now

  236. based upon the new season we're in.

  237. And it's a different season. I mean, it's an obviously

  238. different season. It's like boom, boom, boom.

  239. I mean, I got things coming out of hundred miles a minute from

  240. all directions and everything that I got my hand to internally

  241. and externally and then other issues that just want to

  242. manifest. And when it does man I found

  243. myself laughing. I mean forced laughter you

  244. understand? It's not like it's there.

  245. I have to life. Well haha, praise the Lord.

  246. You know that shit. Hallelujah.

  247. And you just get it out because at the end of the day, I'm not

  248. going to say, Oh Me, Oh My, what am I gonna do?

  249. I'm not gonna go blame somebody. Well, if you did dump this, Now

  250. let's just pray Z right at this point because I got an intake, I

  251. got n. When I find that it's difficult

  252. to want to say it, my first response is man.

  253. You better go get in the word bro.

  254. None of you have so much word in you that you don't need the word

  255. daily. Because the flesh has a capacity

  256. to press the word out of you. Your spirit and flesh battle

  257. what daily. So too many of you are living on

  258. a past. Praise Because you have a past

  259. knowledge because you hadn't even been in the word for so

  260. long. It's that when you came to

  261. service and you're not actually in the word, when you're in

  262. service, you're not actually in the world.

  263. When you're in service, you are receiving by the spirit, a word

  264. that now he holds you responsible to make it your own

  265. You're not changed what called I'm preaching to you your change

  266. when you make it your own and it becomes your personal revelation

  267. and then you act on it. So again when you here today you

  268. can walk out. But you won't be changed unless

  269. you practice it because it's real to you.

  270. And you're like this is how it has to be with me from now on.

  271. And the only reason I'm like this it because I give myself to

  272. it constantly at great effort, To be able to maintain a praise

  273. in my mouth. Because it's easy for something

  274. else to come out. If the Bible tells me, it should

  275. be continually. So if it's going to be

  276. continually, That I have to continually be putting something

  277. in me, so it can come out. Cold.

  278. You see me the other day when I beat that.

  279. You okay. You know, when you first weighed

  280. I wasn't sure if you knew it was me.

  281. So I'm like, did I just scare him with the dogs?

  282. I'm not sure. Okay, great.

  283. I Will Bless The Lord At what his praise shall be.

  284. We're in my mouth. Psalms 101, verse 1, Psalms 101

    Psalms 101:1 Psalms 101:1

  285. verse 1. All right, we're just trying to

  286. loosen your mouth up, amen. Says praise the Lord.

  287. I will give thanks to the Lord with all my in the company.

  288. Of the upright and in which tells me personal praise isn't

  289. enough. So we have a continual praise

  290. that we should have and circumstances and situations do

  291. not dictate Our Praise. Then we should have a praise

  292. when we are in the company of the upright.

  293. Do I have some up right in here. Do I have an assembly in here?

  294. Which then tells me when we begin to praise him, you should

  295. praise him. You shouldn't be like this.

  296. Yes, it gets home. It's kind of awkward, isn't it?

  297. Yes like say something please. That's what the Lord saying.

  298. Say something please. Don't you know, I die for you.

  299. I was stripped naked for you. I was being so bad, it could

  300. tell you and you don't sit here and not say nothing.

  301. I'm glad when checking my emails and my Twitter feeds and my

  302. Instagram and my tick-tock. Just say hallelujah.

  303. Yeah. See all we gotta do is open our

  304. mouth so we are to give praise in the assembly.

  305. There should never be a day that Pastor Mark have to come up with

  306. ain't gonna be like, I mean, there's probably in a couple of

  307. times and I've been struck him. I said, listen, if they don't

  308. want to sing, you just tell me to come up, will shut it down.

  309. Because I refuse to beg somebody to worship the king of glory.

  310. I made if we don't have a praise then you know what, we'll just

  311. go on to the preacher because the you need some word in you

  312. that you ain't got something in your mouth.

  313. And here's the problem though, a lot of people like all I needs

  314. the word. No, you need a praise.

  315. You don't need, just a couple. If you actually have the word,

  316. you'd be praising. You would be doing a legitimate

  317. praise because when you a get revelation of the word and all

  318. that, the word says about us and about what God's plan for man is

  319. you can't help. But go my God, he is so awesome.

  320. I worship. I honor you God.

  321. You're worthy. Oh my gosh.

  322. You're worthy. You can't help but say it.

  323. And you don't care who's around. And you're not intimidating.

  324. Listen we keep it cranked up enough anyway that we can't

  325. really hear you. So you're going to be all right?

  326. you know, I've had people, that's too loud, that's why they

  327. have little Earplugs, right. Because again when you get it

  328. really too low people are unfortunately intimidated but

  329. now if you know that it doesn't matter, that's not the point.

  330. Some of the greatest voice I've ever heard in my life.

  331. Greatest voice I've ever heard my life is in boot camp.

  332. Man, if you've never heard boot camp, singing, oh my gosh.

  333. When those guys get in decadence and it ain't even spiritual, but

  334. there's something about unity in their praise.

  335. My gosh, man, it'll do something.

  336. And it makes me think of when David or not David, but when

  337. they told, it might have been David somebody to help me.

  338. I got it study, it's just coming up.

  339. I don't remember which one memories had put appraisers in

  340. front. Was it David?

  341. David said, he told they put it Prater and they sang a song, I

  342. get it, but I guarantee it being more Cadence.

  343. And so there cuz it was like they singing the same thing,

  344. they were probably won't probably was saying it in the

  345. rest of them were repeating afterward and they say it again

  346. and they'd hit it again. They may say one part and they

  347. would say some other part You know, the part when I was in the

  348. Army as a break it on down now and then we would go, you know,

  349. one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.

  350. I'm it's a genuine that's verbier, T is amazing?

  351. It's not even spiritual. So can you imagine when the

  352. unity of the company of the upright comes together and

  353. begins to sing Faith filled words, that activate your spirit

  354. man. And you, you, you, you lift your

  355. voice in one Accord. Music is can become irrelevant.

  356. We need it because the Bible is all about having a harp and all

  357. that, you know these denominations.

  358. Like we don't play music that stupidity stupidity gone to

  359. seed. Okay, God made instruments.

  360. All right, at the end of the day and so, you know, we can play

  361. them, we can we can Rejoice. I mean, you can actually buy the

  362. spirit through the instruments, get an anointing to show up and

  363. nobody's even talking. We'll talk about that.

  364. The the prophets like bring me a Minstrel and the minstrel was

  365. not singing a song he would just play in and it calls the

  366. anointing to increase so he could get a word from God.

  367. But again, if you're coming 15 minutes too late and you're

  368. like, I want a word from Guys, like I had it in the first five

  369. minutes but you weren't here during the music.

  370. Because who are we to tell God, how we get our word or when we

  371. get it now you may need a word nonetheless.

  372. But that word may come in the first five minutes.

  373. It could come on. The first note, they could hit

  374. it and it just seemed like the anointing hits that note.

  375. We just need to stay there. Pastor Hagan wrote a book called

  376. The untapped power of praise. and it is untapped It is

  377. untapped because true Spirit prays.

  378. Those people are so full of joy. Those people are so full of

  379. excitement. They are undaunted by

  380. circumstances and situations. It is difficult to ever see,

  381. worry manifest in their lives. You know, fear manifest, I mean,

  382. it's like it's like I'm not saying it's not plausible, it's

  383. just few and far between anybody ever heard me cuss before.

  384. I'm not going to Christopher. I mean, if I still had a cuss

  385. word right now, you'd be like shot because you never heard

  386. that word with my voice. So what I'm saying is I'm

  387. proficient at not doing it. So you can have a Praise by the

  388. spirit. So proficient that you talk in

  389. fear, are you talking worry? Are you talking doubt?

  390. Are you complaining about something?

  391. We'd be a shock to hear that come out of you.

  392. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.

  393. I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart in.

  394. The company of the upright in the assembly.

  395. Can I just be honest with you? Thank you.

  396. Our first song on Sunday is a filler.

  397. The opener, we call an opener. You don't know that because they

  398. don't see it. The very first song We Do.

  399. For us, it's called an opener. You know why we call an opener

  400. because we're waiting on the people.

  401. Now that doesn't mean we can't take the opener somewhere.

  402. Should the spirit of God get in it because I'm not stuck to a

  403. formative period. I don't have to come up.

  404. Doing that house of it. I do not have to come up.

  405. Take offering at that moment. If there was a serious move.

  406. And everyone was literally engaged in.

  407. That praise. We would go.

  408. But the reality is We're not. We're not.

  409. Will engage in that relationship outside there.

  410. In the foyer will hang out. Talk, we'll finish our latte

  411. because if you drinking black coffee, you'd be in here.

  412. You know, I'm kidding. I mean no.

  413. But anyway, Now get is there. Anything wrong with that?

  414. No, it's about the heart. At the end of the day I don't

  415. want to be caught out there when The band starts, when when the

  416. opportunity for me to get into the company of the upright and

  417. in the assembly, and we do this thing corporately, because

  418. there's one thing about my individual praise, there's a

  419. whole other thing when I get around a whole lot of other

  420. people praising. Now, again, I'm not looking for

  421. an earthquake. But something's reverberating

  422. when face there in our praise. Something's happening.

  423. All right. Isaiah 12:5.

    Isaiah 12:5

  424. Isaiah 12:5 says this. It says praise the Lord in song.

    Isaiah 12:5

  425. For he has done excellent things.

  426. Has he done some excellent things?

  427. He said, let this be known where Throughout the Earth.

  428. So the Psalms 34 told us that on an individual level, his praise

  429. should be continually in our mouths continually.

  430. Then he tells us in Psalm 111 that that praise should manifest

  431. in the company of the upright, which is not just in church, it

  432. could be around other believers. I mean, you should, when you get

  433. around other believers anywhere, praise should be able to get

  434. begin to manifest. Should be a byproduct of the

  435. fact that you're in the company of the upright.

  436. But then in the assembly, when we come together in the local

  437. body church, we should be praising him.

  438. It should be out of our mouths, we should be doing it.

  439. Then he tells us here, when we sing these songs of praise, the

  440. whole earth should figure it out.

  441. So it's not limited to our personal life.

  442. It's not limited to our church, life.

  443. It should be even be exhibited out in the world where they see

  444. us praising bad news. Shows up at work and you say hi.

  445. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord, praise the

  446. Lord. What did he praise?

  447. The Lord. Did you hear they're laying half

  448. of us all? Praise God.

  449. My God. My sustainer anyway.

  450. You understand this them bother me one bit and if we are laying

  451. off, half is probably y'all not me anyway.

  452. So you want me to pray for you? But if I'm gone, that means

  453. God's already. Got another plus Ami for me

  454. somewhere else, and they'll just blown away that you're not

  455. wringing your hands. We're in a recession.

  456. Inflation is at all-time high. Well, praise the Lord.

  457. Aren't you worried? How You Gonna feed your kids?

  458. How You Gonna, man? I just, I just praise God.

  459. I praise him when Neo gas prices were lower and you know, seemed

  460. like everybody economically. We're doing good.

  461. And it doesn't matter what's going on in the economy of the

  462. world, I just praise him anyway because I praise him.

  463. Circumstance does not dictate my praise.

  464. It doesn't increase. It doesn't lower.

  465. It, I'm constant. I praise thee.

  466. I Just Praise Him and the world should hear our praise.

  467. Our were the world should hear our praise.

  468. That's why you learn in certain songs and then seeing them at

  469. work. Probably, do you good?

  470. I used to take secular songs internal, I mean, because the

  471. world Listen to secular songs. You know, I couldn't always pick

  472. the radio station when I worked secularly or outside the church.

  473. So I would just make stuff up sometimes just for fun, right?

  474. I mean it wasn't like, making them pull their hair out, but at

  475. the end of the day, you know, I could find a praise anywhere.

  476. Then at some time, I had just fought their songs.

  477. You know, I'm set up. What a lie.

  478. I can't even believe. Saying that he don't care about

  479. her John. You remember when we were at

  480. Hilti? So this is this a long time ago,

  481. but the guys listen to country music.

  482. Sometimes probably most of the time, right?

  483. And there was a song. Here's a quarter call someone

  484. who care, right? Remember that.

  485. And I was working the carousel. So it's like this thing that has

  486. all these little bitty parts that bring them to you and you

  487. bag, you know, the parts for each distribution center and

  488. then you go to the next one. So I'm kind of stationary as

  489. everybody else is flying by with their things.

  490. And I'm like, seriously, you know, they were like hit the

  491. brakes. And I, what I said Scott, I

  492. don't care. He's saying here's a quarter.

  493. Call someone who cares. Pay phones are 35 Cent now.

  494. Then there was another about a Walmart, right?

  495. They like they tore down the parking lot B of Walmart.

  496. I'm like, they don't make Walmart's anymore of their Super

  497. Walmart's, so then I would sing it and say, super Walmart real

  498. fast, just Egged on, right? These are the guys John can tell

  499. you. You know, one came up to me and

  500. say, man, I'm going to take you to a strip club before you

  501. leave. I'm going to take you to a strip

  502. club. I said Son, it will never

  503. happen. Let me tell you what happened

  504. first. I'll get you'll get born again.

  505. And the last night I was there, they got born again.

  506. I never want you to strip club. Just want to do that.

  507. Just blame her, it never happened.

  508. But today's Minister would go to the strip club to be relevant

  509. with that person in hopes that they can lead them to Christ.

  510. A lot of today's ministers because they're definitely

  511. taking them to the bars. The definitely doing that.

  512. I'm not of this world. I said I'm not of this world.

  513. Hallelujah I got a power me that breaks all that stuff.

  514. It allows me to Pray Z right I'm go and I'll tell him I say

  515. seriously you're going to a strip bar, how stupid?

  516. So Duncan that beat? I mean I look at somebody and he

  517. can't do nothing. I said I got a wife Rose better

  518. than silver and gold Anytime all the time and I just walk off.

  519. Amen, to have a wife is a good thing, right?

  520. Better than silver and gold, right?

  521. Amen is more than look. It is touch will stop there.

  522. Stay with me. Go over to Psalm.

  523. Isaiah 12 verse 5, Isaiah 12 verse 5, Amen.

    Isaiah 12:5 Isaiah 12:5

  524. I mean it's sad that people don't have a vibrant marriage.

  525. Amen. You should have a vibrant

  526. marriage and some of the things that me and my wife here about

  527. how long has been the husbands of I've been together.

  528. It's like bro. That's crazy bill.

  529. That's just crazy bill. You don't know who you are.

  530. That's another subject. All right, say of 12 I praise

  531. the Lord. In song for he has done

  532. excellent things. Let this be known throughout

  533. what the Earth. There's not a place that you

  534. shouldn't praise him. You can praise him anywhere.

  535. Amen. You can say praise the Lord.

  536. When you get in your Starbucks. It's coffee.

  537. You can say praise the Lord. When you're checking out at

  538. Publix you can say praise the Lord anywhere.

  539. But that's what I love about. Pastor Jay, he literally says

  540. that. Well, praise the Lord.

  541. I mean, if you've been around him any he'll say well praise

  542. the lord. Well, praise the Lord will

  543. praise the Lord, will praise the Lord?

  544. Amen. Well, praise the Lord.

  545. Come on, let's say it together. It's not that hard, is it?

  546. Amen, you're at the gym, you do a personal best, you want to get

  547. up and go? Praise the Lord.

  548. Maybe like what happened man, God has made me strong.

  549. Whoo, I am strong today. I think there might be an

  550. annoying little bit of Samson happening right now, because

  551. last week, that didn't happen, I know there's some natural, but

  552. it could be pretty spiritual. Maybe you want me to touch you,

  553. maybe you could do it too. Amen.

  554. Psalms 104. Psalms 104 verses 33 to 35.

    Psalms 104:33–35

  555. Look at this. And said, I will sing to the

  556. Lord as long as I live. Oh, man.

  557. I will sing praise to my God while I have my being let my

  558. meditation be pleasing to him. As for me, I shall be glad in

  559. the Lord. Let the Sinners be consumed from

  560. the earth and let the wicked be no more bless the Lord O My

  561. Soul. Praise the Lord. so, as long as

  562. I live, I'm supposed to sing Now I'm going to be honest with you,

  563. it's difficult for me to sing with some things, and we'll talk

  564. more about this in the weeks to come because as you grow in

  565. Revelation knowledge of the word there should be some praise

  566. songs out there. You can't sing because they are

  567. not in line with your belief. Because you know what, there is

  568. a praise. I had at one point based upon

  569. what I knew. Right.

  570. So based upon where I was at, Paul says, I forget what lies

  571. behind I press on, right? He says we are to live to where

  572. we have attained to so I don't go I don't listen to praise.

  573. That's only about getting born again because I'm born again.

  574. Feel of the Holy Ghost, I have authority as a Believer.

  575. I know some truths, so I don't sing praises that.

  576. Say the lord giveth and the lord taketh away.

  577. Although that is a scripture The context of that particular song

  578. is placing that gods in control, and there's nothing you can do

  579. about it because if God wants to take away your blessing to, he

  580. can do that. Now, there was a time I believed

  581. that way, but now I know the Devil comes to steal kill and

  582. destroy and I actually have authority over him.

  583. Because we're job said the Lord gives and the Lord takes away

  584. was a lie. It was truth that job said it

  585. but it was a lie that God did it.

  586. Because Satan took it away. The Lord says, have you

  587. considered my servant job? And then he said he's in your

  588. power that's the Dominion you got from Adam.

  589. So now you're operating in that Dominion.

  590. So if it had been accurately it says the Lord gives the devil

  591. takes away. Now that I could see the Lord

  592. gives the devil takes away, but I have authority over the devil

  593. and he's under my feet under my feet and I jump to that song.

  594. Are you hearing what I'm saying? So when we actually have done

  595. that song, I don't sing that we changed the words because we're

  596. going to sing to the revelation. We have of who we are in Christ.

  597. This is why I don't listen to Christian radio.

  598. I don't listen to Christian radio because there's too much

  599. doubt and unbelief in the lyrics.

  600. So I can't hook up. I can't hook up.

  601. Now at the end of the day, if I was working outside the church,

  602. right? And I wanted an alternative for

  603. who was in the house, then I could put on a Christian station

  604. that maybe is not doctrinally, correct, but it's definitely

  605. more positive than music than me.

  606. Going to the oldies or two, you know, you know, 70s rock.

  607. Or whatever, you know you want to listen to in that case, They

  608. Don't Know Jack. So any exposure is good

  609. exposure. Don't get me wrong, but that

  610. doesn't mean internally. I'm singing the song the way

  611. they would. I would change it as I did my

  612. own saying or I would be singing a different song while it's on.

  613. Are you hearing me? I do a lot of individual singing

  614. on my own anyway, okay. Cause I'm not here to dissect

  615. all that. I don't want to, you know,

  616. Crusher, golden calf tonight. All right.

  617. I'm just saying you've got to be able to release the things, you

  618. know, in your praise. Because what everyone singing is

  619. not what you know. At the end of the day.

  620. Now, if you sing something, you don't see it different.

  621. It's fine sink. It until something goes off in

  622. your life. Hmm.

  623. I was talking to a pastor day about a particular subject.

  624. I won't say what call me from Ohio.

  625. Because I communicated to this individual concerning the death

  626. gospel, what I've called, the death gospel that you're just

  627. asking people where they going to go when they die.

  628. Right, because it's only about what good news.

  629. Do you have when you die? And that Christ didn't come so

  630. that we can know where we're going to go when we die Christ

  631. came, so that heaven could come to us now and we could operate

  632. in it today as a Son of God, a child of God.

  633. And when I told them that at Tulsa, we flipped them on end

  634. and they're like, man, I you're right well, I'm not right, the

  635. Bible's right? And sometimes we have to rethink

  636. some of the things we are saying, then he got over into

  637. another subject and I haven't even priests yet.

  638. Because jeez. Is something else.

  639. Is something else but I'm like, you're right.

  640. You're right. Which means now anytime he ever

  641. hears a phrase. He'll never be at a hook up with

  642. it again. Because they're real, he's

  643. realized. That's wrong.

  644. Yep. And 90.

  645. Nine percent of all believers, say it.

  646. Hallelujah. Amen.

  647. Hallelujah. 99% of all believers.

  648. Say it. And it's wrong.

  649. I'm prove it, but it would take me a 12-week series.

  650. And most wouldn't make it through the first two because

  651. they love their tradition more. But it's coming.

  652. It's coming. I've been begging you for six

  653. months already and don't even know it.

  654. Hallelujah will praise him. Just say, praise the Lord,

  655. praise the Lord. Amen, don't come near before.

  656. I haven't asked and try to get inside track, I'm not going to

  657. talk to you about it. I'll say, get thee behind me,

  658. Satan for you. Set your interest on your own

  659. and not on the will of God for the release date.

  660. Are you hearing me? So, he says, I will sing to the

  661. Lord. As long as I live, I'll sing

  662. praise to my God while I am now, notice that verse, 35, let

  663. Sinners be consumed from the earth and let the wicked be no

  664. more. Right, which think brings us to

  665. Psalms 115, which is really interesting.

  666. So I'm wondering 15 verse 17 and 18 because you know here we're

  667. praising God, but we're saying the wicked and the center needs

  668. to get out. Why is that look the dead?

  669. Do not praise the Lord. The Dead.

  670. Do not praise the Lord. So are you professing?

  671. You're dead. When the words are on the screen

  672. while the band plays are you professing?

  673. I'm a dead person because I don't praise

  674. The dead do not, praise the Lord nor do any who go down into

  675. silence. But as for us, come on, is that

  676. you. But as for us we will bless the

  677. Lord from this time forth and forever.

  678. What praise praise. The Lord I'm not going to be

  679. counted with the dead. I said, I'm not going to be

  680. counted with the dead. I'm not going to be counted with

  681. the dead. Now, the word praise in some of

  682. these, Psalms not all of them, but in some of these Psalms,

  683. when you look them up in the original Hebrew, a couple of

  684. words are associated with this word, praise.

  685. And this will help you identify when David said, I'll be even

  686. more undignified than this. There's a few times this word

  687. Praises translated, as Going mad.

  688. Going mad, insane. I mean, it's like you are so

  689. after a praise that you look crazy.

  690. God been around people. They like somebody's out there

  691. like just crazy over there and they're like, what?

  692. No world. Well, they very well could be

  693. scriptural right now. Now, I understand some people

  694. can do it for attention. I understand that and ultimately

  695. God's going to figure that out at the end.

  696. But we'll figure it out too because when a person is in a

  697. real, I'm going after God, praise and I don't give a rip

  698. who's looking at me and have my junk.

  699. If I'm just, like, dancing around and sweating all over the

  700. place and twirl in, and I'm just going after What all my might

  701. with everything that I have, I've just moved into a place

  702. that I look insane, but I am going to praise him.

  703. Well, you know what? Then he annoy me can Usher in on

  704. that deal and a lot of stuff can take place.

  705. But I mean, I'm not going to shut down.

  706. Somebody's Crazy. Praise now if I send some my

  707. spirit that they're being crazy like just crazy and like dancing

  708. around, you know, so everybody can see them, you know, they're

  709. coming up the Al's, you know, I'll be like uh, sure go ahead

  710. and just Help them out, because this is not a dance studio.

  711. This is not your choreograph moment, right?

  712. Because you're bringing the glory to you now.

  713. Come on. Are you hearing me?

  714. Because I mean if we gonna start dancing up, the I'll most likely

  715. more. People are dancing up the

  716. aisles. But I've had people get on here

  717. because you've seen them, they get dancing here, they get up in

  718. the corner right? Because they're you know, some

  719. like please get out of my way because it's fixing to get crazy

  720. right now you know, because I just need to I just man, I love

  721. God. Cause you know, praise is not

  722. just singing. There's some holy hands, lifted

  723. High, there's some dancing, there's some shouting and

  724. there's moments that take place in, here's the thing.

  725. If you do the same thing every time I might question whether

  726. it's the spirit Because God's too creative.

  727. He did make one style of Praise but if there is this difference

  728. in your praise, that's all biblical.

  729. Well, do you know what? You're probably being led by the

  730. spirit on how you are to demonstrate that.

  731. But if your praise, is this, praise God, from whom all

  732. blessings flow. Praise him.

  733. I'm seeing you Jersey, and that's how you do it all the

  734. time. I'm questioning that If you

  735. don't have a revelation of what Jesus has done for your life,

  736. and we're going to talk about why we praise next week because

  737. there's plenty of evidence because this has occurred, I'm

  738. praising because of what this, what happened here, I'm praising

  739. and again, it's not about your situation.

  740. It's about his response in situations.

  741. Are you hearing me? So the dead do not, praise the

  742. Lord, nor do any who go down into silence before us.

  743. We will bless the Lord from Tom this time forth and forever.

  744. Praise the Lord Isaiah 38:18, Isaiah 3018 for.

    Isaiah 38:18

  745. She'll cannot thank you. Death cannot praise you.

  746. Those who go down to the pit. Cannot hope for your

  747. faithfulness. so again a person who will not open their voice

  748. and praise is identifying themselves as a dead person.

  749. It would be easier for me to conclude you're dead, then you

  750. are alive unto Christ first. Now then except Pastor I am.

  751. Well, then if you are alive to God, start opening your mouth.

  752. Because the Bible says that we should praise him.

  753. So again I don't praise him if I feel like it because praise is

  754. not a feeling. Well, I feel like praising him

  755. day, I don't feel like I'ma Praise Him.

  756. Anyway. Right right?

  757. This isn't about well we got moves on me to praise him.

  758. I'll praise him. The minute you got born again,

  759. he moved on you. And there ain't no other move.

  760. He has to do for the view of said, to Jesus Christ.

  761. Your lord, there's been a move. Now, you move and just act and

  762. begin to respond. Just begin to do it by faith

  763. even when you don't feel like it.

  764. And you don't want to sing, go ahead and do it anyway, but do

  765. it in Faith. Lord, I'm gonna praise this

  766. though everything emotionally about me.

  767. Right now. The situations are like crazy,

  768. but I am going to praise you by faith and I'm gonna sing this

  769. song If be completely connected to it.

  770. I Got a lift, my voice with a voice of Triumph, I'm gonna sing

  771. this song out with everybody else and no one around me will

  772. know what I'm going through. Even though you know what I'm

  773. going through and it ain't about what I'm going through because

  774. you're just worthy period. So who am I gonna hold you

  775. hostage with my mouth? And I praise you.

  776. Because I'm not a bit dead person.

  777. So by faith, I praise. By faith and there have been

  778. many meetings. I've been in that.

  779. Didn't want to say nothing. Doesn't matter what I want to

  780. do. What he asked me to do.

  781. Praise the lord. Well then I'm going to praise

  782. him. I'm gonna praise Him.

  783. Amen. Hallelujah, come on say,

  784. hallelujah! Amen, let's activate the mouth.

  785. Isaiah 43, 21. Look What the Lord says.

  786. Just in case, you're wondering the people whom I formed for

  787. myself okay, the people whom I formed for myself will, will

  788. will will will will, will, will, will, will will, will will Will

  789. will, will will, will will declare my praise.

  790. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah.

  791. Glory to God, glory to God, Glory, Hallelujah.

  792. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  793. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah.

  794. This might be a good opportunity for you to act on the word right

  795. now. Are you dead?

  796. Are you alive? Have you been for this is a

  797. proper response. Hallelujah.

  798. Glory to your name, glory to your name, glory to your name,

  799. glory to your name, glory to your name.

  800. Glory to your name, glory to your name.

  801. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

  802. Jesus, Glory Glory. Glory Glory.

  803. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  804. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

  805. Hallelujah. Hey Glory.

  806. Glory Glory? Glory, Hallelujah.

  807. Hallelujah. Be seated.

  808. Be seated. Now, listen.

  809. Just so you know. So you'll feel really okay if

  810. that makes you uncomfortable. Okay.

  811. There was a town called Ephesus. That was really ticked off at a

  812. apostle named Paul who came in and started preaching Christ and

  813. him crucified. He was the only God and so the

  814. town started burning their Idols to Diana.

  815. And the blacksmith's that were making all the idols and that

  816. was their company was. So upset called in all the

  817. business guys and said, if we don't do something about these

  818. guys that are turning our world upside down, we're going to lose

  819. our business because everybody is abandoning our craft, and

  820. they're going after this guy, Jesus.

  821. So they call a meeting on unlawful assembly, and they

  822. bring them into the place where I mean packed the place out, and

  823. when they come Paul wants to address them, they get so crazy

  824. and their prayer, praise for a false god that the Bible says in

  825. Acts that they cried out, great is the Goddess.

  826. Diana are Artemis art of whatever that a word with

  827. whatever her name was, but Diana for two solid hours.

  828. Did not relent. They shouted for two hours for a

  829. fake God. Many churches are formulas, that

  830. they're worships only 20 minutes because we got to get to

  831. announcements. We got to get to our giving.

  832. And then we got to do our 30-minute message, and then tell

  833. everybody how awesome they are and send them out.

  834. Yep. The world worships.

  835. It's Idol called football for 3 hours and they praised They

  836. shout for their team in their loss.

  837. And will curse the other God. That's the other team.

  838. What we just did should not be uncommon in this house.

  839. Should not be uncommon. In fact, it should become so

  840. common that even when I'm preaching and all of a sudden

  841. some praise the Lord. People connecting with the word

  842. that it could break out to where we just have to take a praise

  843. break because it's about him. Anyway.

  844. Right now we're not doing a praise break to disrupt the

  845. anointing or to stop something. We're flowing with the spirit.

  846. So Isaiah 43, 21 tells us exactly what the people whom God

  847. has formed, are they are to do, it doesn't say when they feel

  848. like it, let's read it again. The people whom I formed for

  849. myself when they feel like it When they're living a good life,

  850. only when they're in trouble. When they're about to die.

  851. No, we just we just we will declare the praise.

  852. We will declare his praise. Amen.

  853. This word praise literally means a shining through one's actions

  854. and words so we're not just praising with our words.

  855. We will praise him with our actions.

  856. Our lifestyle will signify his praise.

  857. The last scripture I have tonight is Psalms 156.

  858. We're just again loosening our mouths, right?

  859. We're going to loosen our mouths.

  860. So Sunday should be different Sunday at 10:30.

  861. Should look different in the sanctuary.

  862. Because at least everyone here should be in the foyer unless

  863. you're working a parking lot. I understand that our you're

  864. working as a greeter, you have assignments.

  865. I understand that. But other than that, you should

  866. actually be early in here. Anticipating the ability to

  867. praise with the assembly because something can break through, in

  868. fact, I know. Because the Lord told me, he

  869. says, because they're doing this praise now, I'm working, certain

  870. things out for some of them right now.

  871. And they re encounter that situation, it would be totally

  872. different. And they'll know it's simply

  873. because they praise me now. That isn't every time it happens

  874. because again, praise is. Regardless of situation, praise

  875. can bring a breakthrough, praise can cause a problem to change,

  876. but that's not why we praise because if you start trying to

  877. use your praise as a formula Then you're not Spirit prazer.

  878. You're a soulish Brazier and you've lost the anointing in

  879. your mouth. Are you hearing me?

  880. So just so you understand, the praise is not limited to

  881. believers. Let everything that has.

  882. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

  883. Even the unrighteous will praise him.

  884. And many do it even here. Come on, you know?

  885. You give something to someone there like praise the Lord and

  886. they're not even believers. Well, God bless you, they're not

  887. even believers. Then, I can believers.

  888. I thought about this again. Every time I go back to Tulsa, I

  889. think of this one story, it Bears repeating for those who've

  890. heard it for those who haven't first time.

  891. So, I was a student at Rhema and I was in my vehicle.

  892. It was just me for whatever reason.

  893. Maybe, Marcy, I already dropped the kids or maybe she didn't go

  894. that day, cause the kids were sick.

  895. That's probably what it was. So, I was in the vehicle, all by

  896. myself and I was going to turn left.

  897. Okay, to go out on to Kenosha or 71st.

  898. Were you with me though? No, no.

  899. You were not with me. No.

  900. You were not with me in this one.

  901. You remember my story? So praise the Lord, you're good.

  902. All right. Okay.

  903. Hmm, maybe she's right. Anyway, I definitely was in the

  904. vehicle because I was driving. I cannot confirm or deny whether

  905. Pastor Marcy was there or not, but I do know that whether Marsh

  906. was there or not the Lord knows and she's usually right?

  907. So we'll go with our story. I look to the right I look to

  908. the left, I look back to the right because again, I have to

  909. cross traffic right to get over and get in the Lantern and left

  910. that. You know, this way.

  911. This way, looked again a look one more this way because it's

  912. crazy traffic. And I went out when I did this,

  913. I don't know where the guy came from, but he was like right

  914. there. I made it out, but buddy, he was

  915. not happy right in that intersection right there.

  916. Leaving Raymond here, the red light.

  917. He did a u-turn in a truck. He flipped that thing around and

  918. he got right on my rear end and he was your number one and my

  919. rearview mirror. You tell me how is number one.

  920. He didn't use his finger, but I was number one for quite some

  921. time. Right.

  922. And so he was telling us number one for a little while.

  923. Yeah. Any hot.

  924. He's just like kind of just mad, you know.

  925. It's like this is like road rage.

  926. So I was like, you know, I felt bad honestly so I pulled into

  927. what was a convenience store and it made its called just another

  928. hole or something. I don't know whether it's tattoo

  929. place or whatever it is. But I turned into it park my

  930. vehicle. I Got out, they pulled in to

  931. pull beside me. I got out walked around, he had

  932. his window down his truck, and he leaned back because he

  933. thought he's knew I was coming through the window.

  934. Right, we're fixing to throw down because I came leading with

  935. my hand. I did, I came around.

  936. I was like, hey man, I am so sorry.

  937. That I did that. Honestly, I didn't see you and

  938. he's like Listening to me now, right?

  939. He eases up you know because it got the side of the truck, he's

  940. ready to do one of these like, you know, he's ready to come

  941. through the window with his fists, right?

  942. He's like and he's like and I'm just like, man, I'm so sorry.

  943. Honestly, I didn't see. I look both ways, man.

  944. You just came up so fast. Please forgive me for pulling

  945. out in front of you. He was like, Okay, bad.

  946. You know. Well, God bless you.

  947. God bless me. He was just a minute ago.

  948. Tell me I was number one. And now, God is going to bless

  949. me those every breath. Praise the Lord.

  950. Every breath. I said, every breath.

  951. I mean, there are things breathing besides humans and

  952. there was a time on the planet that they talked and it wasn't a

  953. foreign concept. Everything that has breath.

  954. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

  955. So, praise is not limited to God's children, but God's

  956. children were made. Not made to only praise.

  957. That is false teaching. We were made to praise.

  958. No, you were made to have dominion, and you'll praise as a

  959. result of your purpose. Because we're not going to go to

  960. heaven and sing all day long. He has beings that do that.

  961. You're not going to be part of the ones that fly around the

  962. throne and sing. Holy!

  963. Holy Holy you're not getting into that choir.

  964. Okay? You're not getting into that

  965. choir. That's not going to be your

  966. choir assignment. Oh, I'm going to be with those,

  967. you know, flying things that are saying.

  968. Holy holy. Holy, I'm gonna get in there.

  969. They'll never gonna give you a tryout.

  970. You're the wrong creature for that.

  971. You have a totally different assignment and we're not going

  972. to sit around at the throne in little gowns with Harps.

  973. Singing for eternity. That is not happening.

  974. That is not going to happen. That's false teaching.

  975. But we will praise him forever. I said we will praise him

  976. forever. So again if praising him down

  977. here is a challenge. We at like the minute we let go

  978. of our skin suit. It's not going to be a problem.

  979. I mean you're going to have to learn some things.

  980. God's training us. Now we've already entered

  981. eternal life, we just haven't left the Earth but Eternal

  982. life's in us the third person of the godhead is in us we are

  983. doing Throne Room activity. Now we are creating things in

  984. both Realms when we open our mouth in Praise, thank you so

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