Using Praise As Your Weapon

I want to let you know that no matter what you are going through, that you can live victoriously through your praise. I think that I need to tell someone this morning that through your exhortation and through your praise that you can tear down the walls that satan has built.

I heard someone said when the saints go to worship that’s when deliverance will take place, and when the saints go up in praise that’s when all of satan’s powers are erased.

Now I understand the psalmist in Psalm 8 when he said Oh Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth.

Because I don’t care where you go, and who you are there is no name more excellent than the Lord’s whereas you can praise.

And even if you wanted to use some other synonyms to call him, you can say, Oh Lord our Lord how great is your name, or Lord how splendid, how magnificent is thy name, how marvelous is thy name.

I know that some of you have been going through some tough times but you ought to be able to say that though it all I will bless the Lord at all times and his praises shall continually be in my mouth.

I know that some of you has been going through, but you ought to agree and say, through it all that I have been young and now I am old but I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread. Many of you can even praise God and say, no weapon that is formed against me shall prosper.

Some you may say pastor in 2020, and 21, I have seen some days that I thought that I wasn’t going to make it through, and now that I’m almost in the mist of 2022 and many of these days doesn’t seem to be any better.

But somebody in the room this morning ought to be able to say Yes, I have walked through the narrow gates of yesteryears, and I am in the middle of 2022 and headed towards 2023, but regardless of what-ever the devil had done, or has plan for me, I’m still going to enter his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise.

I know what the other years has held for me, but I have decided that even in the mist of it all I know that it is time for me to walk worthy in the vocation, the calling and the mission in which I am called for.

It’s time for me to walk in my purpose, It’s time for my destiny too manifest itself.

It’s time to be what GOD has called me to be.

It’s time for me to be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.

Somebody might say pastor that all good and fine, but why am I dealing with so much trouble? Why are the hellhounds on my tracks? Why does it seem like I’m taking two steps forward and nine steps backwards. Why does it seem like I’m losing my mind? I am here to let you know that the reason that you are going through like you are going through is because the intensity of your struggle is due to the magnitude of your anointing.

Yes you might be going through right now but you’ve got to know that the Lord will not put more on you that you can bear. And if you are dealing with a great struggle, then you ought break out with that old Baptist hymn that says.

Pass me not oh gentle savior, hear my humble cry while on others thou art calling please do not pass me by.

And Since you are already calling on others

Since you are already passing out deliverance

Since you are already passing out blessings

Since you are already passing out healing

God please remember everybody and don’t forget about me. (Pause)

I need to tell somebody that through your exhortation and through your praise you can tear down the walls that satan has built.

You see David knew something here, David knew that when he is going through that he needed to call on the name of the Lord. so, David began this psalm by magnifying the exalted name of the Lord. In Old Testament times, names represented character. Names were carefully selected, and they were often changed even in adulthood, when people’s lives were not accurately reflected in their given names.

And one of the ways God has revealed Himself is through His names. David exclaimed that the name of the Lord was excellent or majestic, and this word means wide, large, or broad.

So, David knew that he could get God’s attention. David began this psalm by simply uttering, “O Lord.” May I tell you that if you are going through, I dare you to just dry out ohhh Lord and praise him.