If You Only Knew, "How Much Power Your Praise Has!!"
Eph. 5:18-20 MSG.
16-18. Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.
No matter what is going on in life, you can find a reason to thank God.
What comes out of your mouth, is what comes into your life, everyday everyone of us, make a choice of whether or not we will have a good day.
TBS.(the bible says) everyday we wake up with a choice,
Choose ye this day whom you will serve, will it be God or man, the choice is yours?
Whether most people will admit it or not, happiness is a state of mind and a choice that we make on a daily basis,
for some reason a lot of people, for what ever their reasoning is, choose not to live there.
Positive thoughts, bring about positive results! Negative thoughts, bring about negative results.
How many like positive results?
TBS. Be cheerful no matter what happens.
You can either focus on the problems in life, or you can focus on the blessings.
The question is: do you want more problems, or do you want more blessings?
Everyone wants more Blessings in life, for their prayers to be answered, for their needs to be met.
And you say, if I had more blessings and all my prayers answered, I would definitely be more happy, that would give me something to smile about.
Would that do it for you? You already have access to the abundant life God has promised you, are you participating?
TBS. to pray, or to praise Him all the time; to thank God no matter what happens.
This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.
If your living and constantly worried about what’s happening, or not happening in your life,
Because you think its something that you can control yourself,
I’ve got news for you and its not good, you never will experience all that God has for you!
As long as you make about what you are capable of on your own!
You see, no one has a hard time praising God, no matter what’s happening,
as long as they like, what it is that’s happening to them.
Its when your able to praise and thank Him in the midst of the storm,
and thank God and trust Him no matter what happens, or what the outcome is,
That’s where God wants you and that’s the way, God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.
Because He knows when you live there, your in the Jesus zone, in the safety zone, under the shelter of care
And no matter what comes your way, your not going to budge, your not going to be dissuaded,
you will trust Him that He will take care of it, regardless of what it is!
That means, no matter what you are facing today, no matter what’s going on in the world around you,
*no matter what anybody says, friends or foes
*no matter what the media says,
*no matter what the economic advisors say,
*no matter your doctor is saying,
*no matter what your family is saying,
*no matter what your body is saying
you should always be thanking and praising God, because the victory has already be won,
the blood of Jesus has already made us victorious over every situation!
Jerm. 17:7-8 NKJ
7. “ Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
And whose hope is the LORD.
8. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,
Which spreads out its roots by the river,
And will not fear when heat comes;
But its leaf will be green,
And will not be anxious in the year of drought,
Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
I shall not be, I shall not be moved
I shall not be, I shall not be moved
Just like a tree that’s planted by the water’s, I shall not be moved!
Christians have been singing about the answers, that their in need of for years and years,
And at some point, one has to ask themselves, do I really believe what I have heard and sang about for years and years?
Or is it just words on a piece of paper?
Will you always feel like singing a praise song to God?
When you get the news and the challenge you are sitting there facing, is like a mountain parked on your front door step,
You probably won’t feel all that much like singing anything but the blues,
You see though, the blues, just makes it about you’s,
And that’s not where the answer lies, the answer is in your Praise, Praise God!
Psalm 100:1-4 NKJ
1. Make a joyful shout to the LORD, all you lands!
2. Serve the LORD with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing.
3. Know that the LORD, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
4. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
You don’t have to wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to celebrate what God is going to do in your life.
Because if you do, you never will!
Praise is putting action behind your faith.
Praise is about what God is capable of, not what you are capable of.
The story of Paul and Silas in prison, they knew that they weren’t capable of shaking the walls of the prison they had been thrown in,
But they knew someone who was capable of that, plus a whole lot more,
Acts 16:22-26 MSG.
22-24The judges went along with the mob, had Paul and Silas’s clothes ripped off and ordered a public beating. After beating them black-and-blue, they threw them into jail, telling the jail keeper to put them under heavy guard so there would be no chance of escape. He did just that—threw them into the maximum security cell in the jail and clamped leg irons on them.
(Do you suppose, that they felt like praising the Lord at that exact moment,
They could have been in there for years, they didn’t know what would happen next,
but they knew that God did and they put their trust in what He was capable of, instead of what they were!)
25-26. Along about midnight, Paul and Silas were at prayer and singing a robust hymn to God. The other prisoners couldn’t believe their ears.
(they probably thought like a lot of people do, what good is that going to do?
What’s that going to do for your situation?
The ones we associate with, are sometimes guilty of thinking the same exact thing,
Thing is, they didn’t care what everybody else was thinking, everybody else wasn’t going to get them out of their situation,
When you don’t feel like praising Him, that’s when you need to praise Him the most, (repeat)
That’s were you faith gets stronger, when you praise Him in spite of your circumstances!
Nobody else, can touch God for your need, they can’t go where you need to go,
They can’t receive what you need either,
TBS. That God in habit’s the praises of His people, there is no closer form of communication than praise and worship!
Everyone always looks at Praise and Worship differently when they have a need, bigger than what they are capable of!
There is no better way, or time to ask Him to meet your needs, then when you praise Him!!!
John 16:23-24 MSG.
23-24. "This is what I want you to do: Ask the Father for whatever is in keeping with the things I’ve revealed to you. Ask in my name, according to my will, and he’ll most certainly give it to you. Your joy will be a river overflowing its banks!
You see, As long as you think, someone else can fix your problems, it still makes it about what your capable of,
instead of what only God can do about your situation!)
Acts 16:26 MSG.
And Suddenly! Then, without warning, a huge earthquake! The jailhouse tottered, every door flew open, all the prisoners were loose.
Did you know, that God loves Suddenly Moments?, He really does, He loves to meet His Children’s Needs!
God is still the same God, that answered Paul and Silas needs, when they praised Him in the moment of their need!
And He will do the same for you and whatever need that you bring to the feet of His Son and lay down at the alter today.
It doesn’t matter what the needs are, whether there big or small, He can handle them all,
Nothing is to big for God’s Suddenly Moments!!
Each and Every time you and I praise God it is giving God an opportunity to get us ready for the miracle we are seeking Him for!
Don’t underestimate the “Power of your Praise”
*Are you ready to confuse the enemy?
*Are you ready for a suddenly moment?
*Are you ready to get back what the enemy stole and continues to try to steal from you?
The Lord stands ready, to meet your every need this morning!
TBS. to not forsake the assembling of yourselves together, everybody has some friends like Job had,
Sometimes our friends and family can be just like Jobs wife was,
Job 2:2
9 His wife said, "Still holding on to your precious integrity, are you? Curse God and be done with it!"
She told him to just curse God and die, talk about being consumed with self
Sometimes if we don’t watch it, we can even be the same way to ourselves.
When your going through something, you need to surround yourself with people of faith,
that will pray the prayer of faith and praise the Lord right along with you for your miracle!
Its time to trust the Lord for what He said He would do all along!
God is still in the miracle working business!
#1 Praise God for what He is Doing right now in your situation!
#2 Keep Praising Him, until the answer comes
If you have any questions, repeat steps 1 and 2, until you arrive at the desired result!!! Praise God?
TBS. He who started a work in you, will be faithful to complete it!
Praise is putting action behind your faith. In the middle of your situation or tough time,
Stop seeing yourself in the, What’s wrong with you Line!
And start seeing yourself in the, Ain’t nothing wrong with me line, Praise God!!
start making a list of who you’re going to invite to your,
Ain’t nothing wrong with me victory celebration.
That means if you’re in the hospital, start planning what you’re going to do when you get out.
If you lost some money when the stock market went down, start planning your coming-out-of-debt party.
Don’t think about the things your unable to do right now, start making the plans
and if God be your partner, make your plans Large! Praise God!
When things don’t look good in the natural, remember that, God isn’t tied to the natural realm of possibilities,
we serve a supernatural God of endless possibilities!
With God leading your way into the victory circle, plan for increase, plan for restoration.
Plan for a complete turn around in Jesus Name, the Name Above all Names,
The one whose Name makes it all possible, by His finished work on the Cross!
You can plan for a comeback, and you can plan for victory because He is leading and guiding you in Jesus’ name!
2 Cor. 2:14 NKJ
14 Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ,
God already provided everything we would ever need, when He sent His Son into this world,
*Every trial we face, has been provided for
*Every obstacle we come up against, has been provided for
*Every ache and pain, has been provided for
*Every sickness and decease that has been discovered and is yet to be found, has been provided for
Jesus has faced them everyone and been victorious over each and everyone of them. Praise God, thank You Jesus!
And even though sometimes, when were going through a certain situation, it seems as though we have the hard part to deal with,
When we think that way, That still makes it about us, and its not about us.
Its all about what He has done for us, to make us victorious!
TBS. in 1st John 5:3-5 NKJ
3. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
4. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
5. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Jesus already did the hard part, gave His life and has overcome the world,
All we have to do is have the faith to believe that He did,
And that He willingly did it for us.
MSG. says it this way
1st John 5:4-5
Every God-begotten person conquers the world’s ways. The conquering power that brings the world to its knees is our faith. The person who wins out over the world’s ways is simply the one who believes Jesus is the Son of God.
Believe Jesus for your need today,
You have everything He has available to Him,
because of the relationship you have with Him, He has qualified you and made you worthy to receive the grace He extends to you!
Receive it, don’t let it pass you by,
Receive it, Receive it, Receive what has been given to you,
Let’s pray and thank the Lord for the needs that are being met at this very moment!
Amen
