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The Sound of Praise | Janet Brazee | World Outreach Church

June 4, 2026 World Outreach Church

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[music] Something's happening.
>> Something's happening. You say, "Well, I
don't I don't sense anything happening."
Then enter in.
>> Lift up your voice.
>> Because it starts with the voice of
praise. It's a sound.
>> But it's not [music] just, you know,
them making a sound and them making a
sound. It's one sound
>> to be heard.
>> One sound. It's all of us
>> coming together and and it's one sound.
>> It blends. Doesn't even have to be the
same note, but it's it's a sound.
>> It's a sound.
>> That goes up.
>> Yeah.
>> That he responds to.
>> He responds because it's a voice of
praise. We become one.
We're creating an atmosphere
when we begin to praise and worship
where he comes
and where the healings begin to flow.
The healings begin to flow.
Oh,
don't you know
that the healing will begin to flow?
That power reserved for this hour.
His power.
His healing power.
[singing]
[music]
Ha.
But it all starts
with that voice of praise.
That sound. That sound.
That sound.
[music]
Scripture says, "Make a joyful noise."
>> Do you know noise is a sound? [music]
>> Noise is a sound. Sometimes it's an
annoying sound. [music]
>> That's why it says make a joyful noise.
>> A joyful noise is not the same as an
annoying noise. A joyful noise flows out
of our heart and UP TO THE HEAVENS.
HA ha ha. Make a joyful noise. A joyful
noise. A joyful noise. A joyful noise.
[laughter]
A joyful noise. A joyful noise. A joyful
noise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. A [cheering] joyful noise.
WOO. A joyful noise. A joyful nose.
[music] A joyful nose. WOO HA HA ha
[laughter] ha ha.
Woo haha. Oh ho. [music]
>> A joyful noise.
>> Haha. A joyful noise.
>> A joyful noise. You know, heaven is not
a quiet place.
>> If you're looking for a quiet place to
spend eternity,
>> you might not Well, you do want to go.
You might want to get a hearing aid.
>> Because heaven is not quiet.
>> Heaven is not quiet.
>> Come on.
>> It's a place of great sound. [laughter]
>> Great sound. Great [music] sound. Great
sound. A place of great praise.
Great praise.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
>> Woo.
>> Whoa. John in the book of Revelation had
a vision and he said, "This is what he
saw. And after these things, I heard a
great voice.
A great voice.
A great VOICE
of much people. Much people. much people
in heaven saying hallelujah
salvation and glory and honor
and power
unto you Lord our God. YAY! [cheering]
HA ha [screaming] ha ha salvation and
glory AND HONOR BE UNTO YOU.
>> Woo haha
>> glor
>> woo. That's what John heard.
>> That's what they're doing.
>> Those of your loved [music] ones that
are over on the other side, they're not
just sitting around
>> twilling their thumbs. But there's a
place of great
a great place of great rejoicing,
great voice, a great voice.
[music and singing]
>> But that's not all. He said, "And I
beheld and heard the voice of many
angels round about the throne, saying
with a loud voice,
>> worthy,
>> worthy is the lamb.
>> WORTHY IS THE LAMB. WORTHY is the lamb
THAT WAS SLAIN." HAHA. WORTHY IS THE
LAMB that was slain. Worthy is the lamb
that was slain. Worthy, worthy, worthy,
worthy is the lamb that was slain. Haha.
>> Heaven's atmosphere [music]
>> is a place
>> of great praise.
>> And when we here on earth
all joined together
>> as one
>> in one accord,
corporately
>> with one purpose,
>> one goal and that is to lift our voice.
>> We lift our voice.
We lift our voice. We lift our voice of
praise.
We lift our voice of praise.
Woo!
[music]
>> What's happening? We're inviting
We're inviting God's presence to come.
>> That's what's happening.
>> We're inviting his presence to come. And
when his presence comes,
>> something
it happens.
>> Something happens.
>> [music]
>> So we lift our voice.
We lift our voice of praise
[singing]
for you are good. You are good. You are
good. And your mercy endures forever.
[singing]
You are
ever [singing]
and ever and ever and ever and ever.
[music]
>> For you are good and your mercy endures
>> forever. Your mercy endures
forever.
Your mercy endures
forever.
>> In 2 Chronicles 20, we read the story.
Three armies, three armies were coming
against Judah. And King Jehoshaphat
didn't know what to do. So he says he
prayed and God gave him a plan. It was a
quite unusual plan. It made no sense
whatsoever, but when does anything God
asks us to do that makes sense?
Because he's way smarter than us.
And it says that Jose Jehoshaphat
appointed singers. [snorts]
Singers to go out before the army.
>> Singers that what? How would you have
liked to been one of those singers?
So he appointed singers to go out and it
says they all sang together.
They sang together corporately
>> in one accord.
>> All the same thing, one purpose, one
goal. They sang in unity. What did they
[music] sing? They sang, "Praise the
Lord for his mercy endureth forever.
[screaming]
Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise
the Lord. For your mercy endures." Your
mercy endures forever.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Praise the Lord
for your mercy endures forever. That's
what they sang all of them together. And
they went out and it says as they begin
to sing and to praise, God caused
confusion.
>> Yeah.
>> Confusion to hit those armies. And those
three armies got so confused they turned
and they killed each other.
>> Praise
will
[music]
silence
>> the enemy.
>> Psalms 8:2 tells us that

Psalms 8:2
praise
will silence
>> silence
the enemy.
>> The voice of fear.
>> Yeah.
the voice of doubt.
>> Praise will steal those voices.
>> Praise will steal [music]
the enemy.
>> And the voice of doubt, the voice of
fear is no match to the voice of praise.
>> No match.
>> No match. The voice I'll say that again.
[music] The voice of fear. The voice of
doubt is no match to the voice of
praise. To the voice of praise. To the
voice of praise. To your voice of
praise. To your voice of praise. To your
voice of praise. Not just my voice of
praise. But to you. Your voice of praise
is powerful.
Your voice. Your voice. Well, I can't
sing. It don't matter. Just make a
sound. A noise. Sound.
Woo. It's not about the notes.
>> It's about the sound. It's about the
voice of praise.
The voice of praise.
The dedication [music] of Solomon
Simple. We all know the story. It came
to pass when the [music] trumpers and
singers were as one and lifting up their
voice. You won. Get that? They were one.
Because you know I don't no matter how
many people are in here tonight [music]
when we lift up our voice of praise, we
become one.
[singing]
A thousand could become one because
you're all saying the same thing. You're
all singing the same thing. So it came
to pass when the trumpeters and the
singers were as one [music] to be heard
to make one sound. There's that word
sound again. to make one sound to be
heard in praising and thanking the Lord.
And when they lifted up their voice,
there's the voice with the trumpets and
the symbols and the instruments of music
and praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord.
[laughter]
But what were they saying? What were
they saying? They were saying, "For the
Lord is good." For the Lord is good and
his mercy endures forever.
Woo! For you're good. You're so good.
For you are good. You are good. And your
mercy, your mercy, your mercy endures
>> forever and ever and ever and ever and
ever and ever and ever.
[music]
>> For you are good. Woo!
>> Hallelujah.
>> One more. [music]
>> Thank you, Jesus.
>> Okay.
>> I didn't see any of this coming. Well,
the message I had, but not necessarily
the delivery. [clears throat]
Oh, boy. In Joshua,
in Joshua, Joshua,
God gave Joshua instructions on how to
take the city of Jericho. He was leading
Joshua's, you know, fearless leader, the
children of Israel, to the promised
land. And they come up on this
city that has a wall around it
and they like go, "What do we do now? We
turn around and go back." Nope, that's
not an option.
What do they do? What do they do? So
Joshua went to the Lord and he said,
"Okay, God, I need direction. Yours is
your plan. We're here now. What do we
do?" He gave him a plan. He said, "All
right, you march around that wall, those
wall, that wall, that city. March all
the way around. The trumpeters
blowing priest blowing their trumpets.
The priest went first [music] blowing
the trumpets. That's the only sound that
they were to make. The people were not
to say a word. So all you could hear if
you were probably inside the wall was
the sound of trumpets. Like what do they
wonder what they're doing out there?
But they marched once every day for six
days.
But then
>> then on the seventh day, he said the
seventh day. On the seventh day, on the
seventh day, [music] I want you to march
seven times.
And on the seventh time, I want you to
instruct the people to shout
at your signal,
marched around six times. On the seventh
time they got there, Joash Joshua
[music]
lifted up his voice and says, "Shout
for the Lord has given us this city."
Woohoo!
And the people begin to shout,
"Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! [music]
Glory!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
Woo!
[laughter]
Hallelujah!
Haha.
>> But it was a shout. It was a shout of
victory.
>> It was a It was a faith shout of
victory. Because you realize they didn't
just shout when the walls came down.
They shouted when the walls were still
up.
>> So many times we're waiting. Well, when
something happens, when my body feels
better or when this changes or when that
happens, I'll shout then.
>> What? Anybody can shout then. It takes a
shout of faith to cause those walls to
come down. A shout of faith. It's a not
it's a victory shout.
>> There's a difference. IT'S NOT JUST
HELP. THAT'S not the shout you want to
do. It's a victory shout. It's a victory
shout of faith. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
HALLELUJAH.
[screaming]
YAY. HEY. WOO! Ha ha ha ha. Hallelujah.
[laughter]
[cheering] Wooa.
>> Oh.
And as we do that, the walls,
>> the walls of fear,
>> of sickness,
>> of doubt,
>> whatever
those walls will come tumbling down,
>> they'll come down, but you got to shout
first. Why? He's a faith God.
>> We are a faith people. Everything God's
ever done, he's done it in faith.
>> We have to operate in faith. Where does
the faith kick in? Shouting before you
see any change.
>> That's right.
>> Don't wait. Don't wait till the battle's
over.
>> Shout out.
>> Shout now.
[screaming]
[laughter]
[cheering] Ha.
Ha. Ha. Ha!
Woo! Hallelujah!
Woo!
Yay!
Yay! Yay!
Woo! Glory!
Somebody just got healed.
>> Somebody just got [music] healed.
Somebody just got healed. And maybe it's
somebody online. I hope whoever is
watching online, you're entering in with
us and you're shouting and you're
singing and you're praising. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
>> Shy.
[laughter]
Don't wait till the battle's over.
>> Shout now.
>> Shout now. Shout now. Shout now.
Shout now. [cheering] Woo. Ha ha ha ha.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [cheering]
>> [laughter]
>> Yeah.
Hallelujah.
>> And one more. I said one more, but you
know, I'm in closing.
[music]
And when the day of Pentecost was fully
come,
>> they were all in
>> in what?
They were in one accord with one accord
in one place. And suddenly
>> suddenly
>> suddenly there came a sound.
Woo! There came a sound.
A sound from heaven.
Woo! Heavenike sounds.
>> Heavenlike sounds.
Woo! There, suddenly there came a sound
from heaven as of a mighty rushing
[music] wind, and it filled the whole
house where they were sitting. Then
there appeared to them tongues as of
fire, and one sat upon each of them, and
they were all filled with the Holy
Spirit, [music] and began to speak with
tongues. began to speak with tongues.
They began to speak with tongues
as the spirit gave them utterance.
>> That was the birth of the church.
[music]
That should be our story.
>> This is my story.
This is my song. [singing]
Praising my savior
all the day long.
This is my story.
This is my [music and singing] song.
I'm praising my savior
[singing]
all the day long.
[music]
>> So what was the first thing that they
mentioned in that passage of scripture?
Says they were in one accord.
one accord.
They weren't playing on their phones,
not wondering when is this going to be
over? I've got a lot to do yet tonight.
They were in one accord, which means the
people were in complete unity
with the same passion and the same
purpose. They were united in expectation
and their [music] focus on God.
When we [music] come together,
maybe may we be united
in our passion and in our purpose and in
lifting up our voice of praise
and in our expectation.
Come expecting. Come. Don't just pull in
here on Sundays
>> or Wednesdays,
rush in here five minutes after the
service started so you don't have to get
into all the praise and worship. No one
does that here.
They come on Sunday. No, I'm joking. I'm
joking. Can't you take a joke?
Y'all are Loosen up. Loosen [laughter]
up.
>> But the one accord.
>> So we're one accord. We're one. Same
[music] mind, same purpose, same
passion, same expectation.
>> We're expecting God to show up.
>> I'm expecting his presence every time we
come together. Something's happening.
>> And that's happening.
>> He's coming.
>> He's coming. He's coming. And I'm
talking talking about the rapture,
second coming. I'm talking about his
presence is here. His presence is here.
[singing]
>> Your presence is here.
[singing]
>> Thank you. Thank you.
>> You come.
>> Thank you.
>> You come.
>> You come. [singing]
>> Hallelujah.
When he comes,
his peace comes,
his power comes,
his joy comes.
Everything he is
comes.
>> When he comes,
it's just the way it works. But it
starts with all of us
being in one accord.
one accord
unified
with one purpose.
We want you to come.
We create a present, an environment, an
atmosphere
for you to come.
No longer just watching the praise and
worship team do what they do. No, no
longer are a spectator but have become a
participator
in the worship.
They lead us in and we follow. But
sometimes we might even just run ahead
into his presence before you even come.
>> [music]
>> You see, corporate corporate praise
is easier to access
if we're all doing individual praise
throughout the week.
I'll say that again. Corporate praise is
much easier to access and to come
together as one if we've been having
individual praise through the week.
Yeah.
>> Otherwise, we come in and it's cold
turkey.
>> Don't even know why who created that
expression, [music] but forget it. Don't
ask me to explain it. But you know what
I mean. It's almost like it can be like
pouring pouring something on something.
I don't even know what I'm trying to
say. You know what I'm trying on
something there. There. Cold turkey.
Cold water. That's where I was trying to
get. [laughter]
Okay.
He comes.
>> He comes.
So not let's not let's just be hearers
of the word only,
but let's purpose in our heart, church,
to be doers of the word. Spend time
praising and worshiping in your car.
Every opportunity you get, spend time
with him. And then when we [music] all
come together, it's like pieces of a
building that come together
>> and they fit.
>> It's not like having this one piece that
just like it won't fit. No, we all fit
together and we build a build a
building, [music]
a habitation, a habitation
for [music] him to come and abide
>> in us [music] and with us.
Come on, lift up your hands one more
time.
We thank you Lord.
>> We thank you Lord. [singing]
We give you thanks. [music] We give you
thanks.
We give you [singing] thanks.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Hallelu.
Glory. Glory. [singing] Glory. Glory.
[music] Glory.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. [singing]
Hallelujah. [music]
Hallelujah. [singing]
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory,
glory, glory, glory, [singing]
glory, glory.
>> Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. [singing]
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
[music]
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. [singing]
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. [music]
>> Glory [singing]
to you Lord. [music]
>> Glory
to you Lord.
One voice,
one sound, [music and singing]
the voice of praise.
[music] The voice of praise.
Wow.
>> So don't try to fight your battles by
[music] yourself.
>> Yeah.
>> No.
Give it a victory shout.
A victory shout. Shout a victory.
A victory. A victory. Because you do
have the victory.
>> He provided it for us. We walk in
victory. [music] The devil tries to make
you think you don't, but you do. Make
sure you use your authority. [music] Put
him in his place. He's under your feet.
Walk on them. [snorts] Stomp on [music]
them. Don't forget where he is. Under
your feet. Not in your house.
>> Come on.
>> If he is, open the door and kick him
out. He has no place. No place. Give him
no place. [music]
>> That's the scripture, you know. Give him
no place.
>> Understood subject. You [music]
>> don't give him a place. If you give him
a place, let me tell you, if you open
your door and you say, "Hey,
>> I'm going to give you a place. You give
him place, he'll take over the whole
house."
>> He's very rude about that.
>> He has no [music] manners.
>> He's a liar, a thief. He'll steal
everything he has from you. He'll steal
your joy. He'll steal your peace.
[music]
>> Don't be a Don't be stubborn. Do
something about it. Don't have a pity
party. Do something about it. Don't give
them place.
>> Don't give them place. I don't even know
what that's about, but somebody does.
Don't [music] give him place. I can't do
it for you. You have to do it.
Don't [music] give him place. He's He's
trying to steal from you. He's trying to
set you back. [music] He's trying to
mess with you. And he will mess with
you. He will push you as far as you let
him push you.
>> That's right.
>> I had to deal with some stuff this
afternoon before I left to come home or
to come here. Just just some stuff. And
I just stopped and I said, "Devil, I
serve you notice. I take authority over
you right now. Leave me alone. Get out.
>> You mean you have to do that?" Yes.
>> Why wouldn't we? We're just like you. We
have opportunities.
>> Don't give them place.
>> I just realized I was giving them place
in this one little area. And I thought,
what? What? No. No. No. Don't give them
place. And you know what? Quickest way
to get rid of them is the voice of
praise.
>> Because praise silences
praise silences the enemy. [music]
>> Who's your enemy? Your number one enemy
is the devil. Really, your only enemy is
the devil.
>> Do something about it.
>> Don't have a pity party. Do something
about it. But
>> you know what? Don't let him walk all
over you.
>> Don't let them take Don't let them Don't
let them. It's up to you. Your home
environment is totally up to you.
>> Tell the truth.
>> We create the environment in our home.
>> That's right. That's right.
>> I'm gonna say that again. We create the
environment in our home. If you want a
home, an atmosphere of peace, then do
something about it.
>> If you want an atmosphere of joy, then
do something about it. If you want an
atmosphere of anger,
>> something about it,
>> you better change it.
[music]
>> Nobody can do it.
>> Sometimes I wonder, I wonder what No,
never mind.
>> We have to take authority. We have to do
something about things.
And we can
because we have a voice and all [music]
we need to do is make a sound,
a sound of praise.
Quiets the enemy. Don't ever forget
that. Hallelujah.
>> Hallelujah.
>> He'll run like a whipped dog.
>> Hallelujah. Might need to sing a little
louder. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Ha. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
>> Hallelujah.
>> Thank you, Father. We thank you.
>> Hallelujah.
>> My my my my
thank you for this this thought, this
these scriptures that you dropped in my
heart,
but I thank you for the anointing of God
that helped me deliver it
in power and might
by your spirit.
Father, I pray that we never forget this
night. We never we never get away from
the voice of praise.
and
the unity [music]
that comes
in one accord
by the [music] lifting of the voice, our
voice of praise. Powerful. Powerful. So
I thank you for what you've done.
I know in my spirit that
more was done
than we will ever know.
But you know, you know, and that's all
that matters.
So we thank you for it.
And we will be doers of your word and
not hearers only. We won't forget leave
and forget what we heard. No, no, no,
no, no. But we will put it into
practice. Put it into practice. We won't
let the devil steal any of this word.
No, no, no. None of it. None of it. none
of it.
But we'll put it into practice
immediately
by giving you praise and glory and honor
because ultimately it's our choice. It's
our choice. You've made us to be free
will humans on this earth. You said
before us blessing and cursing, death
and life. But you did tell us what to
choose. You said choose life. Choose
blessing. But it's up to us if we
actually choose it. What do you choose?
I say this day, [music]
what do you choose? Will you go another
way? Choose blessing. Choose life.
Choose his way.
>> His way.
>> Haha. And you'll be blessed. Blessed.
Blessed. Greater than you ever ever ever
imagined.
Blessed. Blessed. Blessed. greater than
you've ever [music] ever ever
imagined.
Thank you, Lord.
Hallelujah.
[sighs]
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Thank
you Lord.
Glory to God.
Thank you Lord for your presence.
[music] Thank you Lord for your
presence.
Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord.
SO
[music]
by Bye-bye.