12+1 Core Values: Praise Generating | Eld Terence Atkinson

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Well, this morning, we're going to be doing another core value.

I think this is co value number ten nine number

ten praise generating, praise generating. Oh, it's a topic I love.

It's a topic I really really love. We want to

learn about praising Jesus and why this is so important

in X Church.

Why this is a core value of church.

It's because in the Book of X, when you study

the Book of X, this was.

A very very important component.

So we are going to learn from it, We're going

to be blessed by it, and we want the Holy

Spirit to speak to us. Okay, let's let's look at

what Acts Chapter two, verses forty six to forty seven says,

And it says this, so continuing continuing daily with one

accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house,

they eat their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,

praising God and having favor with all men? Is praise

something that we do only on Sunday? We had a

nice and wonderful time of praise and worship. Just now,

Is it something that we only do on Sunday.

What does the scripture say?

It says so continuing daly. And if you look, there's

comma coma come and come and comma praising God. So

scripture is saying and continuing daily. One of the things

you continue daily is what praising God? Isn't it wonderful

to praise God daily? Some of us wonder why our.

Day goes bad? Oh I heard a rumble.

Some of us wonder why we don't experience the greatness

that God tells us we're going to experience daily. Oh

that sale doesn't come in. Oh, that business fails. Oh

I don't get this client. Oh somebody's angry with me.

Ah me and oh my, oh dear, that's the dirty fly.

No, what does scripture say?

Scripture says that we have to praise God daily. Do

you realize that God has given us an opportunity to

understand a power that we have that's almost like a superpower.

How many do you like Star Trek? Oh, they're feel

praise the Lord. I love Star Trek. You know when

they say raise shields and then nothing can hit the ship.

You see, those of us who like Star Trek, we

will understand this when we praise God daily.

We are raising shields.

Those of you that don't understand star Trek, you won't

understand it as much.

Shield. What is a shield?

It is a protective covering around you. And praising God

daily will help you with that. It will help you

with that. We need all the help we can get.

This world is a rotten world. How many of you know.

We need all the help we can get.

I just read a story about this wonderful stuff, really

good stuff.

You know.

The boss was having kidney failure. So you know what

this stuff did? I donate my kidney maer so Nia

We all say wow. So she donated the kidney to

the boss. The boss recovered. But somehow this lady after

donating a kidney experience some difficulty. So because of that,

she had to take medical leave a few times. You

know what that kind boss did, He fired her. The

world is not such a nice place. You need God

to protect you, and how do you do that? Praising

the Lord? So scripture says, when they were of one

mind and one heart, they did not keep joy to themselves. Hey,

praises a joy? Do you keep it to yourself? Praise

him on the trumpet. The lionh Praise him on the

symbol line dancer, praise him with your instruments, praise, praise

him on the high symbols.

Praise him on the high symbols.

Lead everything that has breath, praise the Lord. Come you

the song, Hallayluijah, Praise the Lord, Hallayluiah, Praise the Lord.

Let everything that has breath praise the.

Lord, hallay Louiah, Praise the Lord, Halliluijah, Praise the Lord.

Lead everything that has breath, Praise the Lord that is Psalms.

One hundred and fifty. You know why I sang it

to you today because God would not let me go

when I was praying this morning. When I was praying

this morning for this service, this song popped into my

head and it would not leave. So when that happens,

I know what God wants. He wants you to know

that you have to have a Hallelujah. Praise the Lord

every morning. If you have breath, praise the Lord. If

you don't have breath, it's okay, you don't qualify. But

you know what scriptures is, if you don't praise me,

the stones will praise me. So how many of you

want the stones to take your place. You and I

got to understand. I'm sorry. I actually I'm not sorry.

Praise is something I love for all these years since

I've been born again, been loving praise and worship. You

ask Elder Mabel, she knows I start up over there

by the time praise and worship is Oh, I'm up

at the stage. There's this excitement, there's this and you

know what, You will never find me praising the Lord

like a cayu when I'm a hundred years old, I

will still be moving. You See, if God is going

to give mobility, don't you think he would give mobility

to someone who's going to use it for his glory?

Or is he going to give mobility to someone to

stand still? No praise from the lips, no shouts of Hellelujah,

Glory to God. Guys, you're young, some of you are

not so young, some of you my age, and very

few older than me. If all you can do is

move your last finger to praise the Lord, then do it.

Okay.

But as long as Lord, as God is giving you mobility,

you have to praise the Lord.

Why because it makes you a one mind with the

Holy Spirit.

One of the results of that unity, that deep shared

life in God was a continual habit of praise. Guys,

you have to have a habit of praise. They praise

the Lord daily, and you know with gladness.

And you know.

When I pray for the service. On a Sunday morning,

I go walking very early. Son is not come up,

so that my mind is just focused on God.

I can praise the Lord. I can.

I spend three rounds. Three rounds is three k kilometers

worshiping God. I always do that. That's almost thirty to

forty minute. I just worship the Lord. So if you

come to my neighborhood, sometimes you see me raise my hands. People,

my thing. There's a madman walking early in the morning.

It's okay. Not the world think I'm mad, But as

far as God is concerned, this is my beloved son.

Oh my well, please, that's the way you're gonna live

your life. Man, you want great things to happen to you,

How are those things gonna happen to you if you

don't envelop yourself with the shield of the power of praise. Guys,

I only pray, confess, I only pray for the messager

one kilometer, which is one round because after you've praised

the Lord. You don't need to stress. Whatever you ask God,

he will give you. And you see, as I'm praying,

say Lord, I need to speak to them. I need

to share with them about the power of praise. Then

the song dropped in my head and would not leave. Gosh,

it's a song that I haven't sung in thirty years.

I want you to know that songs in my heart

now and it will always lead me the time of praise.

They always leave me in time of worship. And you

know which with the best songs to sing, the ones

that are from scripture, because I'm singing the verses. Life's

challenges was not a hindrance, but an opportunity to praise

God above it all. When things don't go your way,

is it time to throw your hands up and say

I give up? I know I see many of us

shaking heads. No, it's not time for us to give up.

But you know there are subtle ways we give up.

You know how we give up. The face becomes a frown.

Things didn't go my way? You know what that is?

Giving up?

Hey, your body is telling a lot of things, and

God sees it and he can read.

You like a book. So what do you do every

time you praise the Lord?

It is an opportunity to rise above your circumstance. Don't

you want to see miracles happen in your life? Don't

you want to see great things happen in your life?

Do they happen in your life just like that? Or

do they happen in your life? Because God looks at

you and he says, this is my beloved son. Wow,

look at it. Things not going so well. He's still

praising the Lord. He's still praising me. He's still worshiping me.

It is an opportunity for you to see God work

in your life. I give you some and you think

it's big things, right, Yeah, it may be huge things.

Maybe big things. I tell you one big thing, and

I tell you a small thing. Okay, a big thing.

My father is I'd probably share this with you before,

but I'll share it again. My father is currently in

hospital and he is very serious and he may go

at any time.

Do you see me distraught? You know why?

He's given his life to Jesus three weeks ago on

the first day that he went in. Now, when to

see him in the morning, he said, Dad, do you

know Jesus loves you. I said, yes, I said, I'm

going to pray with you and if you if you

agree with this prayer, follow after me. And he repeated

every word, and he received Jesus into his heart. Yeah,

it's worthy of praise. When you go old folks in hospital,

there's no time to wait.

Okay. And I've said, and I've told this before.

If you find that you cannot get through to your folks,

your family, your old ones, your loved ones, and they

need Jesus, if you call me, I will come.

You know why, because they need to know Jesus.

So when I shared Jesus with him and he received

the Lord, then my father can say I love you Terence.

Guys, do you understand that this is real thing?

And now when I praise the Lord every day, you know,

his BIP is like a roller coaster, one forty at

his highest one sixty five or one hundred and forty.

Now today is one twenty over fifty eight and this

is his daily h Of course, my dad is ninety

four years old, all right, But it doesn't matter when

I went to meet when I went to see him

a couple of days back.

Dad, you know Jesus loves you.

Yes, I do you know the church is praying for you?

That people praying for you. I am grateful, ninety four

years older. Then he talks to me a little while

he cannot keep awake for very long, and the next

thing you know, he is conducting. So, Dad, are you

hearing music? He says, yes, I hear nice music and

he's conducting. Guys, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of

cases of people who respond to things that you and

I cannot hear. And that is the time when you

know that they are coming close to meeting the Lord.

But you know how much how nice it is to

see him conducting and meeting the Lord with nice music

rather than meeting Lord with screams and yells and yelps.

Don't you see this reason to praise the Lord? I

praise the Lord every day. I worship him every day

during that tough time when my father is in hospital.

Am I prying?

No? If you want to cry, just cry praises to God. Guys,

you and I got so many stuff we're going through.

How do you go through the stuff? You praise the

Lord daily? I don't understand this world. So this lesson

is this, This subject is too hard for me. Which

subject that you find on earth that Jesus did not invent?

And when the person called him teacher, he said, why

do you call me good teacher?

You only call God good?

So the one who invented every subject, is he not

able to teach you?

So, you student, what are you finding difficulty?

Go to Jesus, praise him for being the one who.

Invented that subject, and he will help you.

Man, I do electronics with no knowledge of electronics. But

I know one person who knows electronics. You know who

that is Jesus. I praise him. So when I go

to him with the answer with the question, he comes

to me with the answer. Okay, that's the tough one, right,

Can I tell you the easy one?

My house.

Don't think my house is dirty. My house is very clean.

Let's got rats in the ceiling. I don't put the

rats there. Okay, they come by themselves. I do not

wear rats. They come in the ceiling from the sowl,

from outside the house, from neighbors. But they cannot come

into my house. And my house is probably sealed. I've

sealed every hole I can find. I don't like these

creatures in my house. So anyway, we gave them opportunity

because we believe that when we speak to them, they

have to go. This is my house. You're disturbing me

in the night. I cannot sleep. I command you in

Jesus name to go. If you do not go, I

have to remove you. So we commanded them, and somehow

they did not go. These are very naughty rats. So

it was time to deal with them. So I set

a rat trap and I put it. Well again, I'm

not in my house again in the perimeter. First they

caught one, second they got one.

That they got one. So I kill the rats. A no, Lisa.

I take them to some other place far away from

my house and I let them go.

They are just trying to live.

Man.

You know what I caught the other day?

I caught a mussang in the rat trap, small rad trap.

Big musang. I caught it inside. The mussang actually filled

the whole rat trap. When I looked at it, it is

these two b the eyes.

Looking at me.

I say, my word, is so cute. No, really, they're cute.

They're very very cute, very cute.

So what am I going to do?

So I took them, took it far away, and this son,

you gotta be careful, okay, wild animal. It hisses that you,

and you know I'm not gonna get bitten by this, okay.

So I took a long stick and then I put

the trap on the ground. It's a rat trap, ah way,

a big mussong inside one big musang in a small

red trap. And I took the stick and I opened

the cover and I waited. After a few seconds, it

comes out. Then it turns around, It looks at me,

and then it runs off. Two reasons lie look at me.

One is you could be thinking, thank you for saving

my life. The other reason you're the fellow caught me

a wait like her come up to you. The point is,

how does this have to do with praising the Lord?

I can no more noise in my roof. God gave

me the idea what to do. I didn't know what

to do, where to put the trap. I didn't know

all these things. But you know, when you trust God,

he will just say, hey, put he here, well, putty here,

get caught, putty here, get caught put here. God will

help you with anything in everything that will help you

in your daily life.

Do we sleep better?

Yes?

Now we sleep better.

We don't have the drums playing in the ceiling, you know,

louder than Alex. In fact, it sounds like ten drummers

in the roof, all at the same time. How to sleep?

Cannot sleep, but praise the Lord. God has an answer,

So you got to You gotta see that God has

an answer for every situation. It is an opportunity for

God to see him work in your life.

Guys. It doesn't have to be healing. He doesn't have

to be studies.

It could be even catching a rat that's giving you trouble.

Don't you understand God.

Is there in your life for every aspect of it,

not just for big aspects. He's there for all aspects. Okay,

let's move on. Daily posture. Oh, it's a daily posture.

It's a posture of the heart towards God and not

meant for occasions alone. You mean to say, a praise

is only for Sunday. He praise only for Sunday. You know,

if you have that posture of praise every day, it

will save you. She will tell you how many accidents

have almost happened to me. She and she will always

call me La I got I got a I got

a another driver in the car who doesn't, but who

drives me. Oh, but I want to praise the Lord

that God always comes through.

See.

I'm telling you these things because I want you to

know that you need to have praise in your life

every day to create that shield about you, to have

God working in your life every day. Why is it

I've told you this before and I'll tell you again.

Why is it that when I eat food I do

not get stomach up set? When I go to bufface

because the log puts in my head, don't eat this.

Everybody will come and say, why this is wonderful? You

have to eat this. It's strange, you know, the one

that I'm not supposed to eat. At ten people will

come and tell me this is the one you have

to eat. In my heart, I'm the only one that

won't in next day, all having stomach up set.

I'm okay.

These days are at least my wife and my children day.

So when I say I'm not going to eat something

and they also will not eat, the Lord speaks to

my heart.

You mean he speaks that way, Yes he does. Okay.

Now, the power of the tongue, you see in praise

your tongue has a purpose. Okay for those of you

they think you don't have a purpose for your tongue.

It's not just to is food.

With it James three, nine to ten. It says this,

excuse me throat. Okay, with it we bless our God

and Father, and with it we curse men who have

been made in the similitude of God. Out of the

same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things

are not to be so, you see it. We cannot

have a spirit of praising God and at the same

time curse and curs and have words against the very

ones that God had also made in his image. You mean,

even that rotten boss or mine, especially that rotten boss

of yours.

How will you change that rotten boss? You praise the Lord.

In my life, I have had a boss.

Who was a womanizer.

Nine times out of ten the words of vulgar shouting

and screaming. This is the kind of boss. But you know,

I praised the Lord. I stood my ground. I praise

the Lord. I worshiped the Lord. I prayed for this person.

The same mouth that could have cused him did not

curse him, but prayed for him.

You know what happened.

He got saved, he left it all, and he became

a pastor. You mean to say God doesn't work. He works.

You mean to say, this will not work in you.

I'm something special, I am nobody special. I'm the most

ordinary of people. And I he will do it for me.

He'll do it for you. To generate, why do we

say praise generating? To generate means to intentionally use a

mouth for good and godly things.

There is both. There is both choice.

And power in what we speak, and the tongue must

be directed. How many of you remember riding bicycles with dynamos?

All the ones will remember. How many of you you

know what is a dynamower? Have you any idea what

a dynamo on a bicycle is? How many of you

do not know what a dynamo one bicycle is? Raise

your hands, don't be shy, tell the truth. You see

all the young ones, they don't know what a dynamo is. Okay,

how many of you know what a dynamo and the

bicycle is. Put up your hands. All these are the

ones who rode bicycles. Are the ones who didn't put

up their hands? Don't ride bicycles anymore. Now, go grab

god in drive all that go to the cross the

road called grab a lot of traffic for safety reasons,

for safety reasons, can't pick you up here, back out,

turn the other side and drop you there. Guys, you say,

a dynamo was a little gadget attached to the wheel,

and when you wanted light to come out of the front,

you put on this and the dynamo touched the wheel

and there was another metal wheel that will roll against

the tire even as the tire row. Now, how many

of you know that when you put on the dynamo

it was more difficult to drive, right, not? It wasn't

as easy to ride the bicycles. There's and some people

I know, I had two dynamos, you know, who are

very strong legs. I don't know why they need so

many lights. But never mind. My brother was one of them.

Yeah yeah, yeah today they got led badly charged. Nobody

puts a dynamo on the bicycle anymore. They just take it,

go home, plug it in charge it and then can

use it for ten hours, right or not? Do you

know that it's like that power comes even though there's resistance,

Power comes even though there's resistance. You want to see

the dynamo, dynamite power of God come.

In your life.

Praise makes it happen despite the resistance. It's like you

working with that dynamo and what does it produce?

Light?

Guys, you and I must never be afraid to have

a little bit of difficulty in our lives. It makes

us strong people, It makes us tough cookies. Wow, if

we do not face any pushback in life as you

grow older. Can you imagine you go for your first

job but nobody has ever scolded you before, and then

your boss comes and say, why are you writing with

a red penny? It should be with a green pan?

And then you cry, cry, cry, cry, I don't want

to come to work anymore. Do you know you got

people like that? Cannot You have to be strong, you

have to be powerful. How does that happen? A little

bit of resistance is okay? God will help you. In

James chapter three, it wants us that the very tongue

that praises God on Sunday, how many of you praise

God today? I only see a few hands. It's not

a trick question. How many of you praise God today? Ah,

praise the Lord. Okay, praise God on a Sunday. Can

tell someone on Monday. You know there's one person that

can use his mouth to tap people up.

It's me. But long ago.

God taught me not to do that, because then he

shows me why you want to tell into people?

Are you not the same like them?

So, no matter how good we think we are, we

actually no different than the other person. Because God is

not looking about how we worship God on a Sunday.

You know what God is looking at. He's looking at

how we live our lives every day. Are we in

worship every day or is it just a momentary thing? Hey,

there are millions of people who worship God only on Sunday.

Is already used to that.

What he wants to see is worshipers of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

besides Sunday. What's bill or destroyed? Heal or wound, lift

or crush? What are you generating? So, praise is something

you generate even though there is adversity. Praise is something

that you need to push on and push through even

though things are not going your way. Guys, I want

to I'm just drawn to a story that about something.

I told someone This person was studying and uh hated history.

Oh I hate history. Oh I don't like history. But

you don't understand. You got no choice. You have to

do well in history. You want to go to university? Right?

And on his history? A choice?

No? So why so? I asked this person? Why do

you let it beat you? You already hate it? Then

after you flunk it and it beats you, I give

you a better way. Why didn't you study hard, beat it,

get an A and never look at it ever again?

Who want you want?

Because you hated it, but you still beat it? You want?

He did that? Guess what?

That's how you win. You win through adversity. You mean

to say, I like handling rats. I don't like handling rats,

but I have to do what I have to do.

I'm the man of the house. Well, I see the

rag jump on the chair and let el the mabel

handle it. There, I've be in big trouble. How is

God look at me? Going to look at me and

be pleased? And he cannot love?

Well?

I cannot even manage a rat. It's gonna manage other things.

Come on, guys, I don't know why I'm talking about

this rat so much.

Hey, I can tell you why. Even the rat was cute.

You know. That's why I couldn't kill it. I look

at it. It's so cute. Look at me in the face.

That that ratted two years like that, No really ratted

two years, you know.

So let it go. Praiser. You want to know something

else about praise.

Praise is a choice. It's not a feeling. You know

what praise is? A choice? Is not a feeling.

Means. Let me see what I think.

Thessalonians says here you can find it. It says here,

rejoice always rejoice in the Lord. And again I say rejoice,

rejoice in the Lord wis and again I say rejoice.

Pray without ceasing. Pray without ceasing, for this is the

will of God. Pray here without You know these songs

are not. No, you don't, so I rejoice always pray

without In everything, give thanks for this is the will

of God. In everything, give thanks for this is the

will of God. How many of you know this song?

The old ones know right in everything, give thanks for

this is the will of God.

In Christ Jesus.

Concerning you, only songs you gotta learn because it's scripture.

Man okay, and it says, yeah, in everything, give thanks

for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus

concern you, guys, We sometimes think that these are choices.

We are not choices. Huh, well, it is a choice.

It's not a feeling. Praise is not a fling. We

don't praise God when we feel good, of course we do.

Let me correct that we don't just praise God when

we feel good. Some of you think we don't praise

God when we feel bad. No, whether you're good, whether

you're feeling good, whether you're feeling bad, praise the Lord.

I think it is in Let me see it. Let

me see if we can find this scripture another scripture

sixteen nine thirty.

I think it is.

I will praise the name of God with a soul

and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Wow, magnify him with thanksgiving. Do you know what that

means or not?

It means that you're making God bigger than your problem.

In when God is bigger than your problem, can your

problem overwhelm you?

Scriptures just a said in everything, give thanks.

It did not say give thanks for everything, meaning that

oh I got a headache, Oh thank you Lord for

this headache. A praise God. It's such a nice headache.

I've never had a headache like this before. It's so painful. God,

I thank you that I cannot concentrate because of this headache.

I thank you Lord. And right now I'm seeing a

thousand stars in my head bursting all at the same time.

Is that what scripture is telling us to do.

No Scripture is telling us that, in that situation, praise God.

Why because when you praise God, you magnify God over

that situation.

God, I thank you.

That despite this headache, I will be okay. In fact,

because God, I love you so much, I do not

see the pain in my head as a problem. It

will not stop me from praising you. It will not

stop me from worshiping you.

Lord.

I yeah, having pain is bad, but it's okay because

I'm gonna still trust you. I know you are gonna

look after me. I know that this pain will go

away because I trust you. And Lord, you are great.

You're holy, You're wonderful and worshiping the next thing. You know,

there is no headache because you made God bigger than

your problem by magnifying. Oh, magnify the Lord, for he

is worthy to be praised. This is the Lord doing okay,

I don't know because all these scriptures are coming back. Oh,

magnify the Lord, for he is worthy to be praised.

Hozena blessed be the rock. Blessed, be the rock of

our Salvatian hozena blessed be the rock. Blessed, be the

rock of our salvation. Another song? How man you remember

this song? Hey, oh guys, it's okay, it's okay. Bible

says that when we're older, we are what wier Chinese say,

we eat most salt.

Why not.

Do you see that when you magnify the Lord? How

can any problem capture you? How can any problem sustain

its presence in your life? Because you get you've made

God bigger than your problem, magnifying the Lord. I think

I got no more songs. Last Ellen Mabel was saying,

you don't sing, I don't think.

Okay.

Some days this is it now. Some days we just

do not have it cracking now. Some days we wake

up on the wrong side of the bed. Everything's not working,

where head is not working, where you're not in a mode.

You're in a bad mode, so grumpy, so grouchy. Everything

that's raining outside you have to use your motorbike to

go to work. Is drenching out then and you next

day you try and start your bicycle.

No patrol.

All the kind of things that can go wrong, go wrong.

Oh no, God, bicycle, no motorcycle. Okay, all that kind

of So some days we just don't have it and

the gladness is not there because the energy is low. Crackno,

we all experienced that, right, those low energy days. Let

me give you an example of some people who went

through some tough stuff. If you refer to Acts sixteen

twenty five, it talks about Paul and Silas and they

were what they were thrown in the dungeon. I shed

this message a long time ago. Do you think the

dungeons smell nice? Got toilets and the dungeon They were

in stocks okay, they.

Were in chains.

When they needed to go number one or number two,

they just did it where they were. You think, what God,

lights are there? No, but got past controller. Every day

the past control come and they clear out the rats

and the corckriages and all the buck.

No, they were everywhere. Man, this was where Paul in

Silence were. You.

I cannot imagine no being in that kind of situation

done a dungeon clammy, dirty wet, wet from what smelling

or what?

Perfumer? No, no, toilet everywhere is a toilet disease.

People groaning mourning while you think because they serve them food. No,

they whipped them, They beat them and then throw them inside.

Paul and Silence, this was their condition. You think you

and I have it tough. We woke up on the

wrong side of the bed. We don't feel so good.

What do you think, Paul in Silence fell? They were beaten?

Put in stock? You know I put in stock. Put

in stock means you can just put them in jail

right now? Why put them in the stocks? Why buying

their hands and feet so they what I can tell

you can happen now they really you know, it's messy

and horrible.

And what did they do? Are you God? Why you

did this to me?

All I wanted to do is share with Chaid Jesus

with some money. Look where you threw me into?

Did they do that?

No?

What did they do in spite of their bad second?

How many of us have experienced that before in the

dungeon like them? No, none of us have experienced it.

He is the worst possible feeling you can have.

You know what they did.

They praised the Lord. Scripture tells me they were worshiping

the Lord. Do you know that they provided entertainment for

the whole prison. I mean, the poor prisoner's got no entertainment.

He hadn't got TV a those days, no TV, no radio,

no Spotify. Just these two guys singing praises to God.

And you know what scripture says, the whole prison was

listening to them. You know why sometimes I have a

problem with marketplace. I have a problem in marketplace because

when Paul and Silas were in the marketplace trying to

preach Jesus, you know what the people did. The people

beat them and threw them in prison. And when they

were in prison and they were worshiping the Lord and

praising the Lord, you know what happened. The ones who

needed to hear Jesus heard him. You want to know,

Salvation came to that prisoner. Salvation came to the people

that everybody else had rejected. Salvation came to the prisoners,

the thieves, the robbers, the murderers in the prison.

How do I know?

This scripture is very clear that when they sang, and

they worshiped the Lord the whole and shook, and there

was an earthquake and their hands, the chains on their

hands and feet broke off, and the doors flung open.

That's the power praise. And how do you know.

That the prisoners were set free? Do you know there's

a prison that devised chains and metal bars. It's the

prison of your heart and mind that no jailor can

put us into. We put ourselves in that jail, and

that is the one that God broke that night. How

do we notice the jailer threw his sword and wanted

to kill him self. But what did Paul say, stop,

don't do it.

We are all here. Did he say some of us

are here? Did he say ninety percent of us are here?

He said? What? We are all here? Now? How many

of you know those days? No internet, no internet, no internet.

So if I run away from prisoner, from this prison,

and I run out of town and I go to

some of the town.

Do you think they know who I am?

No, they won't know who I am because there's no picture,

no photo static machine, nothing like that.

So if it was me and the prison gates.

Were open and I would run, I would run away

from there, and I run to the next time free.

What nobody knows who I am? What did scripture say?

Don't do it? We are all here. Do you know why?

Because the gates to the prison of their hearts was open,

and praise caused them to recognize the lordship of Jesus Christ,

and he saved them. So it didn't matter where their

physical bodies were because their hearts were free. Guys, That's

what praise and worship in a difficult circumstance did. So

what difficult circumstances do you have that God will not

overcome with the power of the lips when you praise him.

That's why I believe that when I share Jesus with

a person who will go home very soon, I really

believe that they will receive the Lord.

Do you know why?

Because I believe that when you praise the Lord, you

bring that those the gates that have prevented those people

from knowing Jesus will open.

And they will receive him.

Paul in silas a wonderful example of praising God even

when you don't feel like it. So what about when

we have no fruit, no harvest, no results. Sometimes we

live life like that right, we feel nothing's happening. Man,

what good is all this? I'm doing all this and

I'm just nowhere and I'm suck. It's okay to be

strugger as long as you praise the Lord. You know why,

Look at what habercat tree seventeen to eighteen Ciss says Dough.

The fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on

the vine, though the labor of the olive may fail,

and the fields yield no food. Though the flock may

be cut off from the fold, and there be no

herds in the store. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord.

I will joy in the God of my salvation. Okay,

those days they don't have cars, they don't have mansions

with swimming pool, they don't have.

All they had was God's cows sheep.

So you gotta understand what scripture is Heay, though the

fig may not blossom, that means whatever they till with

the ground they plant, there's no fruit, okay, or fruit

fruit on the vine.

How many of you even have figs.

I've eaten fresh figs, not that can you get in

our supermarket here. I've eaten them with other mabel in Germany.

Oh my word, it is sweeter than grapes. It is

the sweetest, most wonderful tasting fruit you have ever eaten.

So even if that fig doesn't bloom, no fruit on

the vine doesn't work. Do the labor of the olive

may feel. That means that even though you work, nothing

comes back. You put in a lot of hard work.

Your boss doesn't say well done. Somebody else gets the glory.

The fields ill no food, so sometimes the seals.

Don't come in.

Okay, there be no herds in the store even what

you have, so sorry, the flock may be cut off

from the foe. Whatever you have, also you lose, okay,

and there'll be no herds in the store empty. I've

run out, I've run out of money, I got no

more finances. What does it say yet, I will rejoice

in the Lord. I will joy in the God of

my salvation. You have riches that defy all these things.

What is the richest thing you can ever have?

Jesus?

If you don't have anything, but you have Jesus, you

are the richest person on earth. But you see, it's

just words right to say that? Isn't just words? So

easy to say?

What you don't have anything? You just have Jesus. When

a person is on the.

Bed and unwell, cannot get up, cannot do anything, cannot

enjoy anything, cannot enjoy food, it's just.

But then they can say, I know Jesus loves me.

You know what is that? I have everything?

When you strip away all the stuff, that's you having everything.

The word is yet. The word yet is one of

the most powerful words in scripture. It is the hinge

between hard reality and living faith. The decision to praise

does not wait for circumstances to change first.

Yet I will rejoice.

Yet, I will rejoice praise generating what is your circumstance,

rise above it through praise and worship. Hey, get away yourself.

We have to get over ourselves. Oh me, oh my

things are not going well. Well, join the club. There's

so many people like that. Okay, but knowing Jesus is what.

Having everything you need is having everything you need. It's

not just words. And we are not left to do

this on our own strength. See we always think we

have to do things in our own strength. Why did

Jesus leave us the Holy Spirit for farmer? So we

can just see fire drop on some people's heads like

the fireworks. Nice fireworks fourth of July. Is that why

Jesus sent the Holy Spirit? He is the dunamis power

of God that raised Christ from the dead. Is this

very same dynamo within us? Remember I said the bicycle,

switch on the dynamo.

Man, switch it on. Power the Holy Spirit.

Praise the Lord, Worship him, Rise above your circumstance to

worshiping the Lord.

Praise is a sacrifice. Praise is a sacrifice.

In Hebrews thirteen sixty fifteen, it says, therefore by him,

let us continuously offer the sacrifice.

Of praise to God.

And that is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks

to His name, Giving thanks to His name.

Do you know that is the easiest of sacrifices. We

want difficult things to do.

Do you want God to say, before I forgive you,

you have to climb mount Everest without shoes?

Did he ask you to do that?

No?

What did he say? Praise me?

Those days they have to bring the cow, they have

to bring the lamb, they have to bring the God,

and then they slaughtered the God at the temple. And

then the praise take the blood and sprinkle on you.

And then you got all this blood of gods and

cows and sheep. Then you get into your mercades bends

and drive home. Nisa, Hey, guys, praise the Lord. We

just need to praise the We just need to praise God.

He's the easiest of sacrifices to do. Thank God, He's

made it easy for us to approach him. You say,

we don't realize. We say, oh, how can we praise God?

And I circumstanced. It's so bad.

I'm sounding like Jordah.

Guys, in spite of your circumstance being so bad, realize that.

Praise is the easiest sacrifice we have. It's the one.

It's the one that God loves. Someone is not just

ordinary thing, you know. God loves it. He inhabits the

praise of his people. The scripture says, he delights in it.

It makes him happy. It makes him joyful. And when

God is joyful, he's going to allow you to stay

in it.

So come on, guys.

It places God in the right position for us. Ah,

it is that it places when we have that position

of praise before the Lord. He puts God in the

right position before us. I can stand tall a man mees,

I can see forever on my I can have it home.

Scenes. My God can move a mountain, and all the.

Time the world's a little smaller, and I grow taller

on my knees. Listen, don't you understand when you are

in the right position, God takes his right position. And

how good is it to see God standing before you

in his godly stands. I don't know how God stands

godly loved, And you got power in your heart knowing

you're not going to be alone. He praises God in

the right position for us, but you are only enthroned

in the praises of Israel. Praise also cultivates a habit

of trusting God's and changing nature, providing peace and confidence

even through life's changes. God does not change.

He loves you. He is that father who's been looking

in that direction, waiting for you to return to him.

And when he.

Sees you coming, the Bible says, the only time God ran,

it was he ran towards.

You and me.

Praise no longer just a figment of our imagination. Praise

generating the power we need to get through life in

a world that has catered itself to destray you. But

it will never do that because you know what, when

you take your position of praise, and God takes his

position of God before your eyes. The world grows a

little smaller because you're on your knees praising God, worshiping God.

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