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Now enjoy this message and I want to talk about praise We'll
talk about, praise praise has the same issue that we discussed
recently, when we talked about being led by the spirit are
being led by your soul. Okay, so, if you were not part
of that series, what did I call that series adjustment?
It's a must right. It's a must.
If you haven't heard that series, go online.
It was three weeks. It's a must, you must worship
Him in spirit, and in truth, okay?
And the word worship is not singing.
Although worship includes singing, We have this mindset
that when we hear worship, we think of slow songs.
Okay. That's not worship worship by
definition is obeying. What the king says, and that
doesn't have to be with the song, unless he's asking you to
sing a slow one. At that time, then you would be
worshipping him by obeying to sing a slow song, right?
But you're also worshiping him if he tells you to pay for
somebody's meal, That's worship. Its worship when you give
because he says, give right, it's worship when you forgive
that's worship. Okay.
But we've coined this phrase within the church body.
Praise and so it automatically praises the fast stuff, worships
the slow stuff. And that is not the case.
Praise is something we do with our mouths, will see something
that we do and there's other things that we can do in praise
and we'll break all this down. But we know that there are
churches and there are believers.
So, I'm not just saying churches as a whole because there are
just Believers as well. That can be in a Spirit-filled
Spirit Led church, but there are a whole churches that are only
led by their soul. They only make decisions based
upon their five senses they have.
Not renewed their mind and they are so Lush.
Lee, LED they go by how they feel?
There are many When Praise comes on do the same thing.
They praised out of feeling. They're not praising in the
spirit at all. So, just because you're singing
doesn't mean you're in the spirit.
Alright, and we need to examine this a little bit because if
people were engaging God in a Spirit-filled praise that there,
definitely is an environment that will manifest right.
And so with that being said, let's look at a scripture that
lets us know a situation can occur when praise takes place.
Now in Acts 16:25 and acts 16:25 right.
It says this, but about midnight, but about midnight,
Paul and Silas were praying and singing.
Hymns of what praise to God and the prisoners were listening to
them, okay? Now, as you know, this passage
of scripture that because they did this, not because they were
looking for it. So, how do I know someone's in
Soul? Praise.
They want to sing a way to make an earthquake.
Manifest. Well, Paul and Silas was not
singing for a manifestation of an earthquake.
Nor were they singing to be let out?
Because if they were singing to be let out the minute, their
shackles flipped off and the doors open, they would have ran.
So a lot of people's Praises are to get them out of something,
not that you can't praise to get yourself out.
I'm not saying that I'm just saying in this instance, he the
problem that we have with praise is that praise typically we try
to do it based upon something. We see in the Bible called, we
want it particular results. When Praise is just something we
do period. The results is really irrelevant
although there will be a result. Don't get me wrong, but I'm not
praising him for result. I'm praising him cause he is I
praise him cuz he is. And when I initiate that cuz
again, why would we be late? To a service where you can
praise e. Why would there be a growth?
I mean, we have a growth spurt, every service.
From the start of service to 15 minutes later we have a growth
boom. Miss Supernatural.
I mean, if we could just get that Supernatural growth to
manifest like constantly every 15 minutes.
We would take over the planet right now.
But we get this like boom growth that takes place why?
And it's mainly now some you know you're coming from work if
that's the case I can get that there can be legitimate reasons
but the majority of the reason is is that we don't understand
the power of our praise We don't understand it.
We don't understand what it line locks for us personally and what
it can unlock for someone else in the room.
Because again, Paul and Silas by All rights, are in no position
to praise naturally. They've been beaten and now
they're in jail, right? I mean, this is cried Tom, but
they're not crying. They're just, I just Praise Him.
Anyway, now that's not a fake because I've heard people say,
well, I'm going to praise him anyway.
You're not really praising him because you still thinking about
your problem and crying about it and In the people about it.
So you're saying something about Hallelujah, but you really don't
have a hallelujah. What you have is a complaint.
Because we get around of people that you're around your
complaining. But then he get around certain
people all of a sudden, you got a praise.
Well, as your praise for God, our praise for a person that
showed up so that you can put on to praise to make them.
Think you are praising when the reality is, you ain't praising.
What's that means you are so Lush prazer, you're praising on
how you feel, who's in the room, who you can talk with and
identify with because based upon, you know, what's going on,
all this person knows what I'm going through and they can feel
my pain and they can sympathize with it.
So I'm going to complain and whine about what I'm going
through and how hard it is. But then over here this person
wouldn't All right, that's why I'm going to say, oh, I praise
the Lord. I'm just going to praise him
anyway. Well, you're not crazy.
All right, hallelujah. Amen.
You know, I love to look at people who are on the platform
that Dupre's When they're off. I like the eye balm in any
church. I'm at.
We'll see what this person does when they're off the platform
because of that praising here. But can't praise him here.
Then their fate Fraser's. Cause now they're just
performers, right? Amen.
But you know what? I hear you.
You guys. You're like, yeah, that's right
past her, but you can come into church and praise him and then
on at work, not not do it. All right, so we got to make
sure we're actually there's a reason why we praise.
I mean it's very difficult. I've been in different places
where the minister wants to keep you in a room until the worships
over and I'm like, I want to get out there.
I want to get in the environment.
I Just Want To Praise my king. That means and I'm not saving my
voice. I mean, I'm not holding back.
I mean, I'm praising him. I mean, if we need to dance,
let's dance if we need to run. Let's run if we need to shout.
Let's shout even if I'm preaching.
Right. Cause whatever.
The expression. And I and then I can walk in a
layer of submission. Meaning, if Pastor Mark said
everybody raise your hands. Well, I guess a promise in your
path running, reason my hands man.
Okay, I got a got this service, I'm going.
I mean, even if I'm thinking on the service, how even try to
cause I'm like, did you hear what the guy said something
could happen just in the simple gesture of holy hands.
Lifted High. and if we're too stubborn to, Amen, there should
be. One hundred percent
participation when it comes to singing.
The good news is the Bible already allowed for your voice.
He said, Make a Joyful Noise. He didn't say have to be in
tune. He didn't say it.
Had to be good. He just said I ought to be
joyful which means you ought to be excited that you can open
your mouth. And praise God.
He didn't say it had to sound good.
Amen. So that's not an excuse Pastor.
If you could hurt if you only heard me, you wouldn't want me
to say anything. Well, the Lord makes it that way
he wants to hear it so I have no Pride.
Don't offend me. I mean, do you think these guys
up here always sound like their own tune No not always and
sometimes they you know unfortunately give themselves
away their life. No, facial expression.
People no, facial treasure. When Pastor Marcus and I were in
the youth ministry together for the Youth band was horrible.
Those guys would give each other way.
I mean, you could read their lips.
You know, you're an idiot. You missed it.
What are you doing? You dork.
Hallelujah. Okay, so, you know what, we did
fix that, we put all the lights on the back and they became a
silhouette, you can't even see their faces.
All right? Let's just get rid of these
guys. We don't, you want to see the
face? I just want to hear the voice,
the music, please. I don't need to see their facial
expressions. Hallelujah, are you hear me?
But it was about midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and
singing praises to who, to God. So, let's look at a few
scriptures. Again, we're going to do this
for three weeks, so I don't have to go dive too deep tonight.
I do want to kind of lay a foundation because if anything I
want to loosen your mouth, if anything, I just want to get
your mouth loose because I can't get your mouth loose to release
what the spirit of God wants to do through you, then Sunday will
be different. Sunday itself will be different.
Praise is not the answer of everything but praises and
outflow that, you know, you have the answer for everything.
Even when you're in the middle of the worst thing.
Amen. Hallelujah.
All right. So Psalms 34 1, amen.
Psalms 34, 1, this is going to be a participation sermon.
All right. All right, we're going to
participate. He said, I Will Bless The Lord
At what kind of times. How many times sometimes?
Maybe Tom's a few times only on Easter and Christmas time.
Only when I win the lotto and everything's going good, when
all my bills are paid and I'm healthy.
So that tells us situations don't dictate praise.
Praise is not dictated by a situation.
So, your praise should not change.
You shouldn't praise him more when troubles around.
Some people go crazy. Praise when there's trouble.
And then they forget him during a good time.
And in trouble shows up and they go praising again.
So then they get them in a cycle.
I praise him when I'm in trouble and he always gets me out.
Well, he'll deliver you out all your trouble.
No problem, but he wants you to praise him even in the good
promise, you go, quiet and the good.
And you open the door for trouble.
I Will Bless The Lord At what all times his.
What Praise shall what's that? Next word, continually beware in
my mouth? Continually.
Now, how do we know whether we have a continual praise?
It's going to be predicated on, do you have a continual diet of
the word because if you're not continually eating the word of
God? And what I mean by that is
reading it, keeping it in front of you.
It's not going to come out of you.
What will come out of you? What you meditate on.
So if you're meditating on your problem, meditating on your
circumstance, made it taking on perceive trouble, that's worried
or whatever the case you're going to speak.
That, that of a that will continually.
Have you been around people that said, that's they continually
talk about the sickness. They continually talk about, the
problem, the relationship, the the you know, the crisis, you
know, they continue to talk about how their victim they
continually talked about, how this situation is this way,
because of this. But if they had the word in them
then they what would come out would be different.
We're not denying wearing something.
We're just praise any because he's worthy to be praised
period. So when something happens man in
talking about doing this recently, I've been really doing
this recently because I've had this like tangible knowledge of
the grace of God that I have to have active in my life right now
based upon the new season we're in.
And it's a different season. I mean, it's an obviously
different season. It's like boom, boom, boom.
I mean, I got things coming out of hundred miles a minute from
all directions and everything that I got my hand to internally
and externally and then other issues that just want to
manifest. And when it does man I found
myself laughing. I mean forced laughter you
understand? It's not like it's there.
I have to life. Well haha, praise the Lord.
You know that shit. Hallelujah.
And you just get it out because at the end of the day, I'm not
going to say, Oh Me, Oh My, what am I gonna do?
I'm not gonna go blame somebody. Well, if you did dump this, Now
let's just pray Z right at this point because I got an intake, I
got n. When I find that it's difficult
to want to say it, my first response is man.
You better go get in the word bro.
None of you have so much word in you that you don't need the word
daily. Because the flesh has a capacity
to press the word out of you. Your spirit and flesh battle
what daily. So too many of you are living on
a past. Praise Because you have a past
knowledge because you hadn't even been in the word for so
long. It's that when you came to
service and you're not actually in the word, when you're in
service, you're not actually in the world.
When you're in service, you are receiving by the spirit, a word
that now he holds you responsible to make it your own
You're not changed what called I'm preaching to you your change
when you make it your own and it becomes your personal revelation
and then you act on it. So again when you here today you
can walk out. But you won't be changed unless
you practice it because it's real to you.
And you're like this is how it has to be with me from now on.
And the only reason I'm like this it because I give myself to
it constantly at great effort, To be able to maintain a praise
in my mouth. Because it's easy for something
else to come out. If the Bible tells me, it should
be continually. So if it's going to be
continually, That I have to continually be putting something
in me, so it can come out. Cold.
You see me the other day when I beat that.
You okay. You know, when you first weighed
I wasn't sure if you knew it was me.
So I'm like, did I just scare him with the dogs?
I'm not sure. Okay, great.
I Will Bless The Lord At what his praise shall be.
We're in my mouth. Psalms 101, verse 1, Psalms 101
verse 1. All right, we're just trying to
loosen your mouth up, amen. Says praise the Lord.
I will give thanks to the Lord with all my in the company.
Of the upright and in which tells me personal praise isn't
enough. So we have a continual praise
that we should have and circumstances and situations do
not dictate Our Praise. Then we should have a praise
when we are in the company of the upright.
Do I have some up right in here. Do I have an assembly in here?
Which then tells me when we begin to praise him, you should
praise him. You shouldn't be like this.
Yes, it gets home. It's kind of awkward, isn't it?
Yes like say something please. That's what the Lord saying.
Say something please. Don't you know, I die for you.
I was stripped naked for you. I was being so bad, it could
tell you and you don't sit here and not say nothing.
I'm glad when checking my emails and my Twitter feeds and my
Instagram and my tick-tock. Just say hallelujah.
Yeah. See all we gotta do is open our
mouth so we are to give praise in the assembly.
There should never be a day that Pastor Mark have to come up with
ain't gonna be like, I mean, there's probably in a couple of
times and I've been struck him. I said, listen, if they don't
want to sing, you just tell me to come up, will shut it down.
Because I refuse to beg somebody to worship the king of glory.
I made if we don't have a praise then you know what, we'll just
go on to the preacher because the you need some word in you
that you ain't got something in your mouth.
And here's the problem though, a lot of people like all I needs
the word. No, you need a praise.
You don't need, just a couple. If you actually have the word,
you'd be praising. You would be doing a legitimate
praise because when you a get revelation of the word and all
that, the word says about us and about what God's plan for man is
you can't help. But go my God, he is so awesome.
I worship. I honor you God.
You're worthy. Oh my gosh.
You're worthy. You can't help but say it.
And you don't care who's around. And you're not intimidating.
Listen we keep it cranked up enough anyway that we can't
really hear you. So you're going to be all right?
you know, I've had people, that's too loud, that's why they
have little Earplugs, right. Because again when you get it
really too low people are unfortunately intimidated but
now if you know that it doesn't matter, that's not the point.
Some of the greatest voice I've ever heard in my life.
Greatest voice I've ever heard my life is in boot camp.
Man, if you've never heard boot camp, singing, oh my gosh.
When those guys get in decadence and it ain't even spiritual, but
there's something about unity in their praise.
My gosh, man, it'll do something.
And it makes me think of when David or not David, but when
they told, it might have been David somebody to help me.
I got it study, it's just coming up.
I don't remember which one memories had put appraisers in
front. Was it David?
David said, he told they put it Prater and they sang a song, I
get it, but I guarantee it being more Cadence.
And so there cuz it was like they singing the same thing,
they were probably won't probably was saying it in the
rest of them were repeating afterward and they say it again
and they'd hit it again. They may say one part and they
would say some other part You know, the part when I was in the
Army as a break it on down now and then we would go, you know,
one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.
I'm it's a genuine that's verbier, T is amazing?
It's not even spiritual. So can you imagine when the
unity of the company of the upright comes together and
begins to sing Faith filled words, that activate your spirit
man. And you, you, you, you lift your
voice in one Accord. Music is can become irrelevant.
We need it because the Bible is all about having a harp and all
that, you know these denominations.
Like we don't play music that stupidity stupidity gone to
seed. Okay, God made instruments.
All right, at the end of the day and so, you know, we can play
them, we can we can Rejoice. I mean, you can actually buy the
spirit through the instruments, get an anointing to show up and
nobody's even talking. We'll talk about that.
The the prophets like bring me a Minstrel and the minstrel was
not singing a song he would just play in and it calls the
anointing to increase so he could get a word from God.
But again, if you're coming 15 minutes too late and you're
like, I want a word from Guys, like I had it in the first five
minutes but you weren't here during the music.
Because who are we to tell God, how we get our word or when we
get it now you may need a word nonetheless.
But that word may come in the first five minutes.
It could come on. The first note, they could hit
it and it just seemed like the anointing hits that note.
We just need to stay there. Pastor Hagan wrote a book called
The untapped power of praise. and it is untapped It is
untapped because true Spirit prays.
Those people are so full of joy. Those people are so full of
excitement. They are undaunted by
circumstances and situations. It is difficult to ever see,
worry manifest in their lives. You know, fear manifest, I mean,
it's like it's like I'm not saying it's not plausible, it's
just few and far between anybody ever heard me cuss before.
I'm not going to Christopher. I mean, if I still had a cuss
word right now, you'd be like shot because you never heard
that word with my voice. So what I'm saying is I'm
proficient at not doing it. So you can have a Praise by the
spirit. So proficient that you talk in
fear, are you talking worry? Are you talking doubt?
Are you complaining about something?
We'd be a shock to hear that come out of you.
Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.
I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart in.
The company of the upright in the assembly.
Can I just be honest with you? Thank you.
Our first song on Sunday is a filler.
The opener, we call an opener. You don't know that because they
don't see it. The very first song We Do.
For us, it's called an opener. You know why we call an opener
because we're waiting on the people.
Now that doesn't mean we can't take the opener somewhere.
Should the spirit of God get in it because I'm not stuck to a
formative period. I don't have to come up.
Doing that house of it. I do not have to come up.
Take offering at that moment. If there was a serious move.
And everyone was literally engaged in.
That praise. We would go.
But the reality is We're not. We're not.
Will engage in that relationship outside there.
In the foyer will hang out. Talk, we'll finish our latte
because if you drinking black coffee, you'd be in here.
You know, I'm kidding. I mean no.
But anyway, Now get is there. Anything wrong with that?
No, it's about the heart. At the end of the day I don't
want to be caught out there when The band starts, when when the
opportunity for me to get into the company of the upright and
in the assembly, and we do this thing corporately, because
there's one thing about my individual praise, there's a
whole other thing when I get around a whole lot of other
people praising. Now, again, I'm not looking for
an earthquake. But something's reverberating
when face there in our praise. Something's happening.
All right. Isaiah 12:5.
Isaiah 12:5 says this. It says praise the Lord in song.
For he has done excellent things.
Has he done some excellent things?
He said, let this be known where Throughout the Earth.
So the Psalms 34 told us that on an individual level, his praise
should be continually in our mouths continually.
Then he tells us in Psalm 111 that that praise should manifest
in the company of the upright, which is not just in church, it
could be around other believers. I mean, you should, when you get
around other believers anywhere, praise should be able to get
begin to manifest. Should be a byproduct of the
fact that you're in the company of the upright.
But then in the assembly, when we come together in the local
body church, we should be praising him.
It should be out of our mouths, we should be doing it.
Then he tells us here, when we sing these songs of praise, the
whole earth should figure it out.
So it's not limited to our personal life.
It's not limited to our church, life.
It should be even be exhibited out in the world where they see
us praising bad news. Shows up at work and you say hi.
Hallelujah. Praise the Lord, praise the
Lord. What did he praise?
The Lord. Did you hear they're laying half
of us all? Praise God.
My God. My sustainer anyway.
You understand this them bother me one bit and if we are laying
off, half is probably y'all not me anyway.
So you want me to pray for you? But if I'm gone, that means
God's already. Got another plus Ami for me
somewhere else, and they'll just blown away that you're not
wringing your hands. We're in a recession.
Inflation is at all-time high. Well, praise the Lord.
Aren't you worried? How You Gonna feed your kids?
How You Gonna, man? I just, I just praise God.
I praise him when Neo gas prices were lower and you know, seemed
like everybody economically. We're doing good.
And it doesn't matter what's going on in the economy of the
world, I just praise him anyway because I praise him.
Circumstance does not dictate my praise.
It doesn't increase. It doesn't lower.
It, I'm constant. I praise thee.
I Just Praise Him and the world should hear our praise.
Our were the world should hear our praise.
That's why you learn in certain songs and then seeing them at
work. Probably, do you good?
I used to take secular songs internal, I mean, because the
world Listen to secular songs. You know, I couldn't always pick
the radio station when I worked secularly or outside the church.
So I would just make stuff up sometimes just for fun, right?
I mean it wasn't like, making them pull their hair out, but at
the end of the day, you know, I could find a praise anywhere.
Then at some time, I had just fought their songs.
You know, I'm set up. What a lie.
I can't even believe. Saying that he don't care about
her John. You remember when we were at
Hilti? So this is this a long time ago,
but the guys listen to country music.
Sometimes probably most of the time, right?
And there was a song. Here's a quarter call someone
who care, right? Remember that.
And I was working the carousel. So it's like this thing that has
all these little bitty parts that bring them to you and you
bag, you know, the parts for each distribution center and
then you go to the next one. So I'm kind of stationary as
everybody else is flying by with their things.
And I'm like, seriously, you know, they were like hit the
brakes. And I, what I said Scott, I
don't care. He's saying here's a quarter.
Call someone who cares. Pay phones are 35 Cent now.
Then there was another about a Walmart, right?
They like they tore down the parking lot B of Walmart.
I'm like, they don't make Walmart's anymore of their Super
Walmart's, so then I would sing it and say, super Walmart real
fast, just Egged on, right? These are the guys John can tell
you. You know, one came up to me and
say, man, I'm going to take you to a strip club before you
leave. I'm going to take you to a strip
club. I said Son, it will never
happen. Let me tell you what happened
first. I'll get you'll get born again.
And the last night I was there, they got born again.
I never want you to strip club. Just want to do that.
Just blame her, it never happened.
But today's Minister would go to the strip club to be relevant
with that person in hopes that they can lead them to Christ.
A lot of today's ministers because they're definitely
taking them to the bars. The definitely doing that.
I'm not of this world. I said I'm not of this world.
Hallelujah I got a power me that breaks all that stuff.
It allows me to Pray Z right I'm go and I'll tell him I say
seriously you're going to a strip bar, how stupid?
So Duncan that beat? I mean I look at somebody and he
can't do nothing. I said I got a wife Rose better
than silver and gold Anytime all the time and I just walk off.
Amen, to have a wife is a good thing, right?
Better than silver and gold, right?
Amen is more than look. It is touch will stop there.
Stay with me. Go over to Psalm.
Isaiah 12 verse 5, Isaiah 12 verse 5, Amen.
I mean it's sad that people don't have a vibrant marriage.
Amen. You should have a vibrant
marriage and some of the things that me and my wife here about
how long has been the husbands of I've been together.
It's like bro. That's crazy bill.
That's just crazy bill. You don't know who you are.
That's another subject. All right, say of 12 I praise
the Lord. In song for he has done
excellent things. Let this be known throughout
what the Earth. There's not a place that you
shouldn't praise him. You can praise him anywhere.
Amen. You can say praise the Lord.
When you get in your Starbucks. It's coffee.
You can say praise the Lord. When you're checking out at
Publix you can say praise the Lord anywhere.
But that's what I love about. Pastor Jay, he literally says
that. Well, praise the Lord.
I mean, if you've been around him any he'll say well praise
the lord. Well, praise the Lord will
praise the Lord, will praise the Lord?
Amen. Well, praise the Lord.
Come on, let's say it together. It's not that hard, is it?
Amen, you're at the gym, you do a personal best, you want to get
up and go? Praise the Lord.
Maybe like what happened man, God has made me strong.
Whoo, I am strong today. I think there might be an
annoying little bit of Samson happening right now, because
last week, that didn't happen, I know there's some natural, but
it could be pretty spiritual. Maybe you want me to touch you,
maybe you could do it too. Amen.
Psalms 104. Psalms 104 verses 33 to 35.
Look at this. And said, I will sing to the
Lord as long as I live. Oh, man.
I will sing praise to my God while I have my being let my
meditation be pleasing to him. As for me, I shall be glad in
the Lord. Let the Sinners be consumed from
the earth and let the wicked be no more bless the Lord O My
Soul. Praise the Lord. so, as long as
I live, I'm supposed to sing Now I'm going to be honest with you,
it's difficult for me to sing with some things, and we'll talk
more about this in the weeks to come because as you grow in
Revelation knowledge of the word there should be some praise
songs out there. You can't sing because they are
not in line with your belief. Because you know what, there is
a praise. I had at one point based upon
what I knew. Right.
So based upon where I was at, Paul says, I forget what lies
behind I press on, right? He says we are to live to where
we have attained to so I don't go I don't listen to praise.
That's only about getting born again because I'm born again.
Feel of the Holy Ghost, I have authority as a Believer.
I know some truths, so I don't sing praises that.
Say the lord giveth and the lord taketh away.
Although that is a scripture The context of that particular song
is placing that gods in control, and there's nothing you can do
about it because if God wants to take away your blessing to, he
can do that. Now, there was a time I believed
that way, but now I know the Devil comes to steal kill and
destroy and I actually have authority over him.
Because we're job said the Lord gives and the Lord takes away
was a lie. It was truth that job said it
but it was a lie that God did it.
Because Satan took it away. The Lord says, have you
considered my servant job? And then he said he's in your
power that's the Dominion you got from Adam.
So now you're operating in that Dominion.
So if it had been accurately it says the Lord gives the devil
takes away. Now that I could see the Lord
gives the devil takes away, but I have authority over the devil
and he's under my feet under my feet and I jump to that song.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? So when we actually have done
that song, I don't sing that we changed the words because we're
going to sing to the revelation. We have of who we are in Christ.
This is why I don't listen to Christian radio.
I don't listen to Christian radio because there's too much
doubt and unbelief in the lyrics.
So I can't hook up. I can't hook up.
Now at the end of the day, if I was working outside the church,
right? And I wanted an alternative for
who was in the house, then I could put on a Christian station
that maybe is not doctrinally, correct, but it's definitely
more positive than music than me.
Going to the oldies or two, you know, you know, 70s rock.
Or whatever, you know you want to listen to in that case, They
Don't Know Jack. So any exposure is good
exposure. Don't get me wrong, but that
doesn't mean internally. I'm singing the song the way
they would. I would change it as I did my
own saying or I would be singing a different song while it's on.
Are you hearing me? I do a lot of individual singing
on my own anyway, okay. Cause I'm not here to dissect
all that. I don't want to, you know,
Crusher, golden calf tonight. All right.
I'm just saying you've got to be able to release the things, you
know, in your praise. Because what everyone singing is
not what you know. At the end of the day.
Now, if you sing something, you don't see it different.
It's fine sink. It until something goes off in
your life. Hmm.
I was talking to a pastor day about a particular subject.
I won't say what call me from Ohio.
Because I communicated to this individual concerning the death
gospel, what I've called, the death gospel that you're just
asking people where they going to go when they die.
Right, because it's only about what good news.
Do you have when you die? And that Christ didn't come so
that we can know where we're going to go when we die Christ
came, so that heaven could come to us now and we could operate
in it today as a Son of God, a child of God.
And when I told them that at Tulsa, we flipped them on end
and they're like, man, I you're right well, I'm not right, the
Bible's right? And sometimes we have to rethink
some of the things we are saying, then he got over into
another subject and I haven't even priests yet.
Because jeez. Is something else.
Is something else but I'm like, you're right.
You're right. Which means now anytime he ever
hears a phrase. He'll never be at a hook up with
it again. Because they're real, he's
realized. That's wrong.
Yep. And 90.
Nine percent of all believers, say it.
Hallelujah. Amen.
Hallelujah. 99% of all believers.
Say it. And it's wrong.
I'm prove it, but it would take me a 12-week series.
And most wouldn't make it through the first two because
they love their tradition more. But it's coming.
It's coming. I've been begging you for six
months already and don't even know it.
Hallelujah will praise him. Just say, praise the Lord,
praise the Lord. Amen, don't come near before.
I haven't asked and try to get inside track, I'm not going to
talk to you about it. I'll say, get thee behind me,
Satan for you. Set your interest on your own
and not on the will of God for the release date.
Are you hearing me? So, he says, I will sing to the
Lord. As long as I live, I'll sing
praise to my God while I am now, notice that verse, 35, let
Sinners be consumed from the earth and let the wicked be no
more. Right, which think brings us to
Psalms 115, which is really interesting.
So I'm wondering 15 verse 17 and 18 because you know here we're
praising God, but we're saying the wicked and the center needs
to get out. Why is that look the dead?
Do not praise the Lord. The Dead.
Do not praise the Lord. So are you professing?
You're dead. When the words are on the screen
while the band plays are you professing?
I'm a dead person because I don't praise
The dead do not, praise the Lord nor do any who go down into
silence. But as for us, come on, is that
you. But as for us we will bless the
Lord from this time forth and forever.
What praise praise. The Lord I'm not going to be
counted with the dead. I said, I'm not going to be
counted with the dead. I'm not going to be counted with
the dead. Now, the word praise in some of
these, Psalms not all of them, but in some of these Psalms,
when you look them up in the original Hebrew, a couple of
words are associated with this word, praise.
And this will help you identify when David said, I'll be even
more undignified than this. There's a few times this word
Praises translated, as Going mad.
Going mad, insane. I mean, it's like you are so
after a praise that you look crazy.
God been around people. They like somebody's out there
like just crazy over there and they're like, what?
No world. Well, they very well could be
scriptural right now. Now, I understand some people
can do it for attention. I understand that and ultimately
God's going to figure that out at the end.
But we'll figure it out too because when a person is in a
real, I'm going after God, praise and I don't give a rip
who's looking at me and have my junk.
If I'm just, like, dancing around and sweating all over the
place and twirl in, and I'm just going after What all my might
with everything that I have, I've just moved into a place
that I look insane, but I am going to praise him.
Well, you know what? Then he annoy me can Usher in on
that deal and a lot of stuff can take place.
But I mean, I'm not going to shut down.
Somebody's Crazy. Praise now if I send some my
spirit that they're being crazy like just crazy and like dancing
around, you know, so everybody can see them, you know, they're
coming up the Al's, you know, I'll be like uh, sure go ahead
and just Help them out, because this is not a dance studio.
This is not your choreograph moment, right?
Because you're bringing the glory to you now.
Come on. Are you hearing me?
Because I mean if we gonna start dancing up, the I'll most likely
more. People are dancing up the
aisles. But I've had people get on here
because you've seen them, they get dancing here, they get up in
the corner right? Because they're you know, some
like please get out of my way because it's fixing to get crazy
right now you know, because I just need to I just man, I love
God. Cause you know, praise is not
just singing. There's some holy hands, lifted
High, there's some dancing, there's some shouting and
there's moments that take place in, here's the thing.
If you do the same thing every time I might question whether
it's the spirit Because God's too creative.
He did make one style of Praise but if there is this difference
in your praise, that's all biblical.
Well, do you know what? You're probably being led by the
spirit on how you are to demonstrate that.
But if your praise, is this, praise God, from whom all
blessings flow. Praise him.
I'm seeing you Jersey, and that's how you do it all the
time. I'm questioning that If you
don't have a revelation of what Jesus has done for your life,
and we're going to talk about why we praise next week because
there's plenty of evidence because this has occurred, I'm
praising because of what this, what happened here, I'm praising
and again, it's not about your situation.
It's about his response in situations.
Are you hearing me? So the dead do not, praise the
Lord, nor do any who go down into silence before us.
We will bless the Lord from Tom this time forth and forever.
Praise the Lord Isaiah 38:18, Isaiah 3018 for.
She'll cannot thank you. Death cannot praise you.
Those who go down to the pit. Cannot hope for your
faithfulness. so again a person who will not open their voice
and praise is identifying themselves as a dead person.
It would be easier for me to conclude you're dead, then you
are alive unto Christ first. Now then except Pastor I am.
Well, then if you are alive to God, start opening your mouth.
Because the Bible says that we should praise him.
So again I don't praise him if I feel like it because praise is
not a feeling. Well, I feel like praising him
day, I don't feel like I'ma Praise Him.
Anyway. Right right?
This isn't about well we got moves on me to praise him.
I'll praise him. The minute you got born again,
he moved on you. And there ain't no other move.
He has to do for the view of said, to Jesus Christ.
Your lord, there's been a move. Now, you move and just act and
begin to respond. Just begin to do it by faith
even when you don't feel like it.
And you don't want to sing, go ahead and do it anyway, but do
it in Faith. Lord, I'm gonna praise this
though everything emotionally about me.
Right now. The situations are like crazy,
but I am going to praise you by faith and I'm gonna sing this
song If be completely connected to it.
I Got a lift, my voice with a voice of Triumph, I'm gonna sing
this song out with everybody else and no one around me will
know what I'm going through. Even though you know what I'm
going through and it ain't about what I'm going through because
you're just worthy period. So who am I gonna hold you
hostage with my mouth? And I praise you.
Because I'm not a bit dead person.
So by faith, I praise. By faith and there have been
many meetings. I've been in that.
Didn't want to say nothing. Doesn't matter what I want to
do. What he asked me to do.
Praise the lord. Well then I'm going to praise
him. I'm gonna praise Him.
Amen. Hallelujah, come on say,
hallelujah! Amen, let's activate the mouth.
Isaiah 43, 21. Look What the Lord says.
Just in case, you're wondering the people whom I formed for
myself okay, the people whom I formed for myself will, will
will will will will, will, will, will, will will, will will Will
will, will will, will will declare my praise.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah.
Glory to God, glory to God, Glory, Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, hallelujah.
This might be a good opportunity for you to act on the word right
now. Are you dead?
Are you alive? Have you been for this is a
proper response. Hallelujah.
Glory to your name, glory to your name, glory to your name,
glory to your name, glory to your name.
Glory to your name, glory to your name.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
Jesus, Glory Glory. Glory Glory.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Hey Glory.
Glory Glory? Glory, Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Be seated.
Now, listen.
Just so you know. So you'll feel really okay if
that makes you uncomfortable. Okay.
There was a town called Ephesus. That was really ticked off at a
apostle named Paul who came in and started preaching Christ and
him crucified. He was the only God and so the
town started burning their Idols to Diana.
And the blacksmith's that were making all the idols and that
was their company was. So upset called in all the
business guys and said, if we don't do something about these
guys that are turning our world upside down, we're going to lose
our business because everybody is abandoning our craft, and
they're going after this guy, Jesus.
So they call a meeting on unlawful assembly, and they
bring them into the place where I mean packed the place out, and
when they come Paul wants to address them, they get so crazy
and their prayer, praise for a false god that the Bible says in
Acts that they cried out, great is the Goddess.
Diana are Artemis art of whatever that a word with
whatever her name was, but Diana for two solid hours.
Did not relent. They shouted for two hours for a
fake God. Many churches are formulas, that
they're worships only 20 minutes because we got to get to
announcements. We got to get to our giving.
And then we got to do our 30-minute message, and then tell
everybody how awesome they are and send them out.
Yep. The world worships.
It's Idol called football for 3 hours and they praised They
shout for their team in their loss.
And will curse the other God. That's the other team.
What we just did should not be uncommon in this house.
Should not be uncommon. In fact, it should become so
common that even when I'm preaching and all of a sudden
some praise the Lord. People connecting with the word
that it could break out to where we just have to take a praise
break because it's about him. Anyway.
Right now we're not doing a praise break to disrupt the
anointing or to stop something. We're flowing with the spirit.
So Isaiah 43, 21 tells us exactly what the people whom God
has formed, are they are to do, it doesn't say when they feel
like it, let's read it again. The people whom I formed for
myself when they feel like it When they're living a good life,
only when they're in trouble. When they're about to die.
No, we just we just we will declare the praise.
We will declare his praise. Amen.
This word praise literally means a shining through one's actions
and words so we're not just praising with our words.
We will praise him with our actions.
Our lifestyle will signify his praise.
The last scripture I have tonight is Psalms 156.
We're just again loosening our mouths, right?
We're going to loosen our mouths.
So Sunday should be different Sunday at 10:30.
Should look different in the sanctuary.
Because at least everyone here should be in the foyer unless
you're working a parking lot. I understand that our you're
working as a greeter, you have assignments.
I understand that. But other than that, you should
actually be early in here. Anticipating the ability to
praise with the assembly because something can break through, in
fact, I know. Because the Lord told me, he
says, because they're doing this praise now, I'm working, certain
things out for some of them right now.
And they re encounter that situation, it would be totally
different. And they'll know it's simply
because they praise me now. That isn't every time it happens
because again, praise is. Regardless of situation, praise
can bring a breakthrough, praise can cause a problem to change,
but that's not why we praise because if you start trying to
use your praise as a formula Then you're not Spirit prazer.
You're a soulish Brazier and you've lost the anointing in
your mouth. Are you hearing me?
So just so you understand, the praise is not limited to
believers. Let everything that has.
Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.
Even the unrighteous will praise him.
And many do it even here. Come on, you know?
You give something to someone there like praise the Lord and
they're not even believers. Well, God bless you, they're not
even believers. Then, I can believers.
I thought about this again. Every time I go back to Tulsa, I
think of this one story, it Bears repeating for those who've
heard it for those who haven't first time.
So, I was a student at Rhema and I was in my vehicle.
It was just me for whatever reason.
Maybe, Marcy, I already dropped the kids or maybe she didn't go
that day, cause the kids were sick.
That's probably what it was. So, I was in the vehicle, all by
myself and I was going to turn left.
Okay, to go out on to Kenosha or 71st.
Were you with me though? No, no.
You were not with me. No.
You were not with me in this one.
You remember my story? So praise the Lord, you're good.
All right. Okay.
Hmm, maybe she's right. Anyway, I definitely was in the
vehicle because I was driving. I cannot confirm or deny whether
Pastor Marcy was there or not, but I do know that whether Marsh
was there or not the Lord knows and she's usually right?
So we'll go with our story. I look to the right I look to
the left, I look back to the right because again, I have to
cross traffic right to get over and get in the Lantern and left
that. You know, this way.
This way, looked again a look one more this way because it's
crazy traffic. And I went out when I did this,
I don't know where the guy came from, but he was like right
there. I made it out, but buddy, he was
not happy right in that intersection right there.
Leaving Raymond here, the red light.
He did a u-turn in a truck. He flipped that thing around and
he got right on my rear end and he was your number one and my
rearview mirror. You tell me how is number one.
He didn't use his finger, but I was number one for quite some
time. Right.
And so he was telling us number one for a little while.
Yeah. Any hot.
He's just like kind of just mad, you know.
It's like this is like road rage.
So I was like, you know, I felt bad honestly so I pulled into
what was a convenience store and it made its called just another
hole or something. I don't know whether it's tattoo
place or whatever it is. But I turned into it park my
vehicle. I Got out, they pulled in to
pull beside me. I got out walked around, he had
his window down his truck, and he leaned back because he
thought he's knew I was coming through the window.
Right, we're fixing to throw down because I came leading with
my hand. I did, I came around.
I was like, hey man, I am so sorry.
That I did that. Honestly, I didn't see you and
he's like Listening to me now, right?
He eases up you know because it got the side of the truck, he's
ready to do one of these like, you know, he's ready to come
through the window with his fists, right?
He's like and he's like and I'm just like, man, I'm so sorry.
Honestly, I didn't see. I look both ways, man.
You just came up so fast. Please forgive me for pulling
out in front of you. He was like, Okay, bad.
You know. Well, God bless you.
God bless me. He was just a minute ago.
Tell me I was number one. And now, God is going to bless
me those every breath. Praise the Lord.
Every breath. I said, every breath.
I mean, there are things breathing besides humans and
there was a time on the planet that they talked and it wasn't a
foreign concept. Everything that has breath.
Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.
So, praise is not limited to God's children, but God's
children were made. Not made to only praise.
That is false teaching. We were made to praise.
No, you were made to have dominion, and you'll praise as a
result of your purpose. Because we're not going to go to
heaven and sing all day long. He has beings that do that.
You're not going to be part of the ones that fly around the
throne and sing. Holy!
Holy Holy you're not getting into that choir.
Okay? You're not getting into that
choir. That's not going to be your
choir assignment. Oh, I'm going to be with those,
you know, flying things that are saying.
Holy holy. Holy, I'm gonna get in there.
They'll never gonna give you a tryout.
You're the wrong creature for that.
You have a totally different assignment and we're not going
to sit around at the throne in little gowns with Harps.
Singing for eternity. That is not happening.
That is not going to happen. That's false teaching.
But we will praise him forever. I said we will praise him
forever. So again if praising him down
here is a challenge. We at like the minute we let go
of our skin suit. It's not going to be a problem.
I mean you're going to have to learn some things.
God's training us. Now we've already entered
eternal life, we just haven't left the Earth but Eternal
life's in us the third person of the godhead is in us we are
doing Throne Room activity. Now we are creating things in
both Realms when we open our mouth in Praise, thank you so
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