Miracle Patterns Part 4: Harnessing the Weapon of Praise
Praise is a formidable weapon, as explored in part four of the series, Miracle Patterns. Host Carlie Terradez elucidates the profound significance of praise, asserting that it transcends mere expression of joy and serves as a potent force against adversity. Drawing upon scriptural examples, particularly the transformative account of Paul and Silas, she demonstrates how praise can align us with the supernatural power of God, even amid dire circumstances. Throughout the episode, we are encouraged to embrace a sacrificial offering of praise, especially when it is least felt, as it facilitates not only spiritual upliftment but also physical healing. Join us as we delve into the miracle patterns that emerge when we wield praise against the enemy's forces that seek to deter us.
Takeaways:
- In this episode, we emphasize the profound truth that praising God serves as a formidable weapon against adversity and spiritual turmoil.
- The narrative of Paul and Silas illustrates that even in dire circumstances, a heartfelt sacrifice of praise can lead to miraculous outcomes.
- We discuss the significance of positioning oneself in faith, understanding that our battles are not fought in our own strength but through reliance on God's power.
- The act of praising God, particularly during times of struggle, not only uplifts our spirits but also confounds the enemy, leading to spiritual victories.
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Transcript
Welcome to Power Hour, where we believe it is God's will for you to be well.
Speaker A:I'm your host, Kylie Terradez, and this podcast is created from the weekly live streams that I do every Thursday at 1pm Mountain time.
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Speaker A:Well, let's take a moment and just pray that Father God, I just thank you that you are here with us, that you are with us wherever we are watching from, whatever time of day, whatever time, time zone, whatever place that we're watching from.
Speaker A:Lord, you are with us.
Speaker A:You never leave us or forsake us.
Speaker A:You've got a grip on us.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, that you've already heard our prayers, that you already know what we need before we even ask it.
Speaker A:And Holy Spirit, we just ask that you give us ears to hear what your spirit is saying to us today.
Speaker A:Let the word come alive on the inside of us and let it penetrate deep into our hearts and influence every part of us.
Speaker A:Let it be fruitful in our bodies.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, we want to receive everything that you have for us, Lord, in the name of Jesus.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Amen and amen.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:Right, so we're going to get into this now.
Speaker A:We have talked about many things over the last, the last few weeks.
Speaker A:It's been, this series have been going on for a few weeks.
Speaker A:We had a little, a little break from it because we were traveling, we were in Africa, at a couple of different live streams in between.
Speaker A:But this, I think, is part four of Miracle Patterns.
Speaker A:And we've talked about, you know, our identity, knowing whose we are, knowing who we belong to, knowing what rights do we have.
Speaker A:We've talked about how to approach a miracle, and all these things are super, super powerful.
Speaker A:Today I want to talk about the power of praise.
Speaker A:Did you know that praise is a weapon?
Speaker A:This isn't just something that, you know, we do when we're happy.
Speaker A:We sing a little song, we have a little celebration.
Speaker A:This isn't just a word of encouragement, you know, like when we get praised or we praised somebody else.
Speaker A:No praise is given to us.
Speaker A:And if you don't like praising God, you know what heaven is going to get.
Speaker A:He's going to change your mind because.
Speaker A:Because in eternity there's going to be a whole lot of praise and worship going on.
Speaker A:It's going to be.
Speaker A:It's going to be awesome.
Speaker A:And sometimes, you know, we think to ourselves, well, the situations that I'm going through, you might be thinking, Carly, you do not know my situation.
Speaker A:You do not know how bad things are.
Speaker A:You do not know how much my body hurts.
Speaker A:You do not.
Speaker A:There's nothing to praise God for.
Speaker A:You know, you could be thinking to yourself, there's nothing in my life that I can, that I want to break into a song and dance over.
Speaker A:You know, we're not talking about praising because we feel like it.
Speaker A:We're talking about praising because there's a power in it.
Speaker A:Praising because there's, there's a.
Speaker A:Releases a power, a force behind it.
Speaker A:It in tunes us with the supernatural power of God.
Speaker A:Praise is not just something that, that we do to make us feel better.
Speaker A:Now there is a side effect of praise that when we praise, especially when we don't feel like it, it's going to have a physical effect on our body.
Speaker A:It's going to lift our spirits, it's going to better.
Speaker A:But we don't praise God to make us feel better.
Speaker A:We praise God because he's praiseworthy and it's a sacrifice.
Speaker A:You know, the scripture talks about giving up a sacrifice of praise.
Speaker A:What's a sacrifice of praise?
Speaker A:Sacrifice of praise is saying, shut up flesh.
Speaker A:I don't care how you feel.
Speaker A:We, we're built, we are created to praise God and that is what we're going to do.
Speaker A:Praising God when you least feel like it.
Speaker A:Praising God when all of the situations are against you does something.
Speaker A:First of all it gets your body's attention.
Speaker A:It stirs you up in your spirit.
Speaker A:You know, your spirit is always praising.
Speaker A:Your spirit is the God part of you that's alive.
Speaker A:But when we praise God, we are making our flesh, our physical body, which is usually where we need healing.
Speaker A:Come in alignment with what is already our spirit already knows.
Speaker A:And when we do that, there are side effects.
Speaker A:And I'm telling you, joy and healing are just a couple of those.
Speaker A:So praise is a weapon.
Speaker A:Another reason we offer up a sacrifice of praise.
Speaker A:And it really is a sacrifice when we praise God in the times when we least feel like it, when our body hurts and everything's going against us, you know, one thing that happens, the enemy hates confuses him.
Speaker A:The sound of you either praying in tongues or, or praising the Lord causes great torment to the demons of hell.
Speaker A:Great torment to the plans of the enemy.
Speaker A:He doesn't understand it.
Speaker A:It's a foreign language to him.
Speaker A:When you're praising God, remember it goes against everything that he was created for.
Speaker A:You see, the original praiser was Lucifer, Satan, he was the worship leader of heaven.
Speaker A:And when you praise God, it irritates him.
Speaker A:It's like sand under the skin.
Speaker A:And you are throwing in his face the identity that he was supposed to have.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:It's like he's.
Speaker A:It just torments him no end.
Speaker A:So it moves the enemy aside.
Speaker A:And I want to show you some things how powerful this really is.
Speaker A:Look at this.
Speaker A:We're going to look in the New Testament here in Acts, chapter 16.
Speaker A:Now, I know my husband particularly likes this passage.
Speaker A:He uses it quite a bit.
Speaker A:But this is in Acts, chapter 16.
Speaker A:And this is when.
Speaker A:This is in Philippi, when Paul, you know, he.
Speaker A:He got into some trouble.
Speaker A:Paul and Silas here, you know, they were.
Speaker A:They were preaching in Philippi.
Speaker A:They upset the fortune tellers.
Speaker A:They upset the kingdom of darkness.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:They upset them by preaching Jesus and.
Speaker A:And they were drugged before they were arrested.
Speaker A:It says that they would drug before the, the.
Speaker A:Into the marketplace, before the rulers.
Speaker A:And it says in verse 20, they were.
Speaker A:Brought them to the magistrates.
Speaker A:It says, these men, being Jews, greatly trouble our city and teach customs which are not lawful for us.
Speaker A:And being Romans, to receive or to observe.
Speaker A:You know, he'd really stirred up some demons here.
Speaker A:It says the crowd rose up again together against them and the magistrates tore the garments off them and all gave orders to beat them.
Speaker A:So they were stripped and they were beaten.
Speaker A:And it says after they had laid many stripes on them and they threw them into prison.
Speaker A:Now, you have to understand that when you got whipped or beaten in biblical times, this beating alone could kill people.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:We're not talking about.
Speaker A:They just roughed them up a bit, they beat them.
Speaker A:It says many stripes were laid on the fact that they survived.
Speaker A:This was a miracle in itself.
Speaker A:It says they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely.
Speaker A:And having received such an order, he threw them into the inner prison and like maximum security, I guess, and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Speaker A:Now, I don't know if any of you have ever been to any kind of ancient buildings, castles, things like that, where there was maybe big jail cells or you would know that the conditions were very primitive.
Speaker A:It wasn't like our modern day jail.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:They didn't get to go out and play pingpong or watch TV or have hot meals brought to them.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:These were likely just stone enclosures with open sewerage.
Speaker A:There was no separate bathrooms.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:These were rough and they were.
Speaker A:And here they are, they're beaten.
Speaker A:They would have had open wounds with the, with the stench and the sewage.
Speaker A:You can imagine all of the germs and the grossness that was in there.
Speaker A:And this is to make that worse.
Speaker A:It says they fastened their feet in the stocks, they had shackles around their ankles, and they was.
Speaker A:They were secured there between jailers, it says.
Speaker A:But look at this, a verse 25.
Speaker A:I'm in Acts, chapter 16 in the middle of this.
Speaker A:And, you know, they've.
Speaker A:They're hurting, they're in pain and they've been wrongly imprisoned, they've been persecuted and they're probably, you know, thinking, what's going to happen to us is going to be the end of us.
Speaker A:How long are we going to be here?
Speaker A:But at midnight, it says Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God.
Speaker A:So doing two things.
Speaker A:They were praying and they were singing hymns to God.
Speaker A:And the prisoners were listening to them, their attitude.
Speaker A:In the middle of that circumstance, they were going through the same things, if not maybe even worse, as some of the other prisoners, but yet they were going through it differently.
Speaker A:They were singing, singing hymns to God and praying.
Speaker A:It said suddenly there was a great earthquake.
Speaker A:So that the foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's shackles were loosed.
Speaker A:Now, you know what, the jailer woke up, saw the prison doors open.
Speaker A:He was going back to kill himself.
Speaker A:Because, you know, if your prisoner escaped, which he assumed would happen, you know, all the doors were open, surely they would have escaped.
Speaker A:You know, he would have been killed by the, you know, by the.
Speaker A:His leaders in authority for, you know, neglect, for letting him go.
Speaker A:So he thinks he's going to take his own life instead.
Speaker A:So he drew himself and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners has escaped.
Speaker A:But Paul shouted, do not.
Speaker A:Do not harm yourself or we're all here.
Speaker A:And he called for lights, rushed in and fell down before Paul and size.
Speaker A:And he led them out and said, sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Speaker A:You know, this turned around a terrible situation of incarceration.
Speaker A:They offered up a sacrifice of praise to God in the middle of their circumstances.
Speaker A:Now we have the.
Speaker A:We have the privilege of reading the whole story and saying, oh, well, you know what?
Speaker A:If I'd have known that there was going to be an earthquake and, you know, angels would have come, let me out, and people would have got saved.
Speaker A:Yeah, I would have done that too.
Speaker A:Well, they didn't know that.
Speaker A:They didn't know that in the middle of their pain and their physical distress and their emotional torment, the conditions that they were in, that by Praising and praying that that was going to be the outcome.
Speaker A:They hadn't read the end of the book.
Speaker A:They were pray.
Speaker A:So what were they doing?
Speaker A:They were praising and praying to God because he's worthy.
Speaker A:They, I'm sure they didn't feel like it.
Speaker A:You know, sometimes we've got to go against what our body feels like.
Speaker A:And this is contrary to, you know, what all of the, the, the schools of thought in our modern society are about.
Speaker A:You know, we are so in tune with every bump, every bruise, every single sad thought or emotion that we, we, you know, everything around us is self help.
Speaker A:Now listen, I'm not against people getting help with things.
Speaker A:I'm absolutely not.
Speaker A:And if you're, if you need help, get help.
Speaker A:There's help available.
Speaker A:But all I'm saying is there's a balance here.
Speaker A:Because if we want to see the supernatural power of God, there's a way that we can tap into it.
Speaker A:And it's not by fluffing our emotions and, you know, reading 101 different ideas on how to cheer yourself up.
Speaker A:And, you know, we got to stop looking so inwardly and start looking up.
Speaker A:Start looking up because that's where our help is going to come from.
Speaker A:If you need some help today, you are in the right place.
Speaker A:You know what, Jesus help is a powerful prayer, but this, these guys are a huge example to me and I hope they are to you too, that we can turn our situation around simply with an attitude adjustment.
Speaker A:With an attitude adjustment.
Speaker A:And you know, we have to.
Speaker A:Our body's going to whine, it's going to complain, it doesn't like it.
Speaker A:You know, it doesn't want to move, it doesn't want to dance.
Speaker A:It doesn't work.
Speaker A:It doesn't want to praise God.
Speaker A:It wants to tell you all the things that are wrong with you.
Speaker A:Your flesh isn't going to get any better.
Speaker A:That's why it's not going to heaven with you.
Speaker A:When you get to heaven, you're going to get a whole new suit, right?
Speaker A:Your flesh here is temporary, but yet it speaks really loud to us.
Speaker A:You know, our flesh has a voice.
Speaker A:Our body has a voice.
Speaker A:And it's not just what comes out of our lips, it's every cell in our body.
Speaker A:It will start to moan.
Speaker A:Ouch, it hurts.
Speaker A:Ouch, I feel sad.
Speaker A:Ouch, I feel depressed.
Speaker A:You know, it says in Proverbs that anxiety in the heart of man causes depression.
Speaker A:And it's true.
Speaker A:What, what we, what we start to focus on, what we start to meditate upon.
Speaker A:You know, what we Think about it starts to affect our words, it starts to affect our actions, it starts to affect our circumstances.
Speaker A:Hey.
Speaker A:It starts to affect our, our physical health.
Speaker A:I remember when I was growing up, I'm a 70s baby, okay?
Speaker A:And in the, in the 80s and the 90s, there was this new word that came out called stress.
Speaker A:Stress.
Speaker A:No one had heard of stress before.
Speaker A:And people started having stress related illnesses, they started having anxiety and they started having all these different diagnoses for things.
Speaker A:Now I think honestly those things were already in the world.
Speaker A:It's just there wasn't a name for it.
Speaker A:People didn't know how to identify the problem.
Speaker A:So things weren't diagnosed.
Speaker A:And people suffered in science and they didn't get any help.
Speaker A:But there is, there is a part in society where we've kind of gone from discovering something to fully embracing it.
Speaker A:And I don't think that that's good either.
Speaker A:Somewhere in the middle is, is right.
Speaker A:We need to know how to identify things that are wrong in our life, that are wrong in our soul, that are wrong in our flesh, but not stay there.
Speaker A:The more we embrace that, those circumstances as part of our identity, the more we get stuck in it.
Speaker A:You know, for years I suffered with epilepsy for, you know, for a long time I had to spend a time in a wheelchair.
Speaker A:I had mobility issues and paralysis.
Speaker A:I had conditions that I was diagnosed with.
Speaker A:I had many physical things that were wrong with me.
Speaker A:And you know, that diagnosis was useful to a point, the medicine was useful to a point.
Speaker A:But it came a point where those, that, that human help wasn't going to resolve the issue.
Speaker A:I want to encourage you, there's a cure for you.
Speaker A:It's called Jesus.
Speaker A:When we get to the end of ourselves, when medicine can't help us, when the, when the doctors give us a terminal diagnosis, when there's nothing more that they can really do, and they've said, you know, you just have to learn to live with this.
Speaker A:You don't have to learn to live with it.
Speaker A:There's an answer.
Speaker A:It's Jesus.
Speaker A:You know, Paul and Silas were in the middle of a terrible circumstance where, you know, there wasn't anything that they could do about it in the natural.
Speaker A:They were in stocks, in the, in the worst, one of the worst prisons you could be in.
Speaker A:They were hurting in their bodies, they were hurting in their soul.
Speaker A:And yet they've set an example here that isn't in here by chance.
Speaker A:Their attitude, their actions in the middle of that circumstances change the outcome.
Speaker A:And I believe that if we can learn from this example, it can change our outcome also, right?
Speaker A:We can, we can take.
Speaker A:We can start to release praise as a weapon and see the enemy flee.
Speaker A:I know that there are people here today that have been tormented by the powers of darkness.
Speaker A:You know, we just came back from a trip in Africa and there's a lot of people in nations, African nations, that deal with the effects of witchcraft.
Speaker A:And now I'm not talking about, you know, someone dressing up in a costume on Halloween, okay?
Speaker A:Which, interestingly enough, most African countries had nothing to do with Halloween because they realize it's.
Speaker A:It's no good.
Speaker A:But, you know, I'm not talking about dressing up or something.
Speaker A:I'm talking about real demonic powers that manifest in people's lives.
Speaker A:There's something happens, you know, when we go to Africa, one of the worship in church.
Speaker A:There's nothing quite like being in an African church.
Speaker A:And when they're hat.
Speaker A:When they're engaging in worship, those people know how to dance.
Speaker A:You know what people that have been set free, they know how to worship.
Speaker A:And I've seen this time and time again.
Speaker A:You know, you go to church and you see those people, they're the crazy worshipers.
Speaker A:I'm a crazy.
Speaker A:I'm one of those crazy worshipers that I'm.
Speaker A:I'm four hands in the air kind of girl, right?
Speaker A:And I haven't quite broken out into the ribbon dancing and the flag waving, right?
Speaker A:But power to you, if that's you.
Speaker A:But I'm just saying, you know, people that have been forgiven much people that have been released from much people that have come from darkness into light, they know how to worship because.
Speaker A:And you can see in them, they are coming to a place, they are offering up a sacrifice of praise.
Speaker A:You know, I met.
Speaker A:I met a lady, a family one time, and it was the most.
Speaker A:One of the.
Speaker A:The most poignant examples of this that I can.
Speaker A:Can think of.
Speaker A:We were actually in London at a conference and this family came up to me and they've been.
Speaker A:They'd seen our testimony about daughter Hannah on TV and stuff.
Speaker A:And these people, you could just see the joy of the Lord in their face.
Speaker A:They were so excited about the word of God.
Speaker A:They were sharing parts of the testimony that they'd heard on TV that really inspired them.
Speaker A:They were quoting bits back to me.
Speaker A:They were.
Speaker A:They were just speaking the word.
Speaker A:They were just so in love with Jesus.
Speaker A:It was almost like they glowed.
Speaker A:You know, when you meet people that have been in the presence of the Lord and they just have that glow about them, these people were just, they were.
Speaker A:I could have listened to them all night.
Speaker A:They were, they were just so fun to be with.
Speaker A:And, and the way that they talked about the Lord, it wasn't something that someone that was distanced.
Speaker A:It was like, no, no, he was, he was their Lord.
Speaker A:It was personal.
Speaker A:They had been spending time with him.
Speaker A:And you could tell, you know, at the end of the conversation, I said to him, is there anything I can.
Speaker A:Is there anything I can do for you?
Speaker A:You know, is there anything that I can help you with?
Speaker A:And it's almost like they hadn't even thought about it.
Speaker A:They were so enraptured with, with the law.
Speaker A:They were so enamored by him that their problems, which actually turned out to be pretty significant, weren't the first thing on their mind, you know, and it really, it really moved me that people that when I found and heard out their story were going through quite a difficult situation could have such joy in the middle of that.
Speaker A:I'm like, that in itself can only be supernatural.
Speaker A:You know, you have a joy that is on the inside of you.
Speaker A:As part of a fruit of your spirit, your born again nature.
Speaker A:You have joy on the inside of you.
Speaker A:Your spirit is always full of joy, inescapable, full.
Speaker A:I mean, it's just full of glory.
Speaker A:It's always rejoicing.
Speaker A:Your spirit is always rejoicing.
Speaker A:Whether your body, your flesh, your soul recognizes it or not.
Speaker A:There is one third of you, the God part of you that is always rejoicing.
Speaker A:And this is what I'm talking about.
Speaker A:So tapping into that will release that supernatural power in your life.
Speaker A:And these people, they explained to me they had a little boy and he was severely autistic.
Speaker A:He was non verbal, never spoken.
Speaker A:And they said, you know, would you pray for him?
Speaker A:I'm like, yes, I'd love to pray for him.
Speaker A:So Little Daniel was 7 years old.
Speaker A:And you know, the parents explained.
Speaker A:I said, you know, what, what, what one thing.
Speaker A:This is the way the Lord led me to pray for him.
Speaker A:But what one thing, what would be a starting point for you?
Speaker A:I was just aware that by 7 years old, you know what, he was diagnosed when he was like two or three.
Speaker A:So for the last four or five years they'd been living with a circum.
Speaker A:This circumstance.
Speaker A:And you know, it was a very difficult circumstance.
Speaker A:His condition had affected the entire family.
Speaker A:And I know we have people on here that are going through similar things.
Speaker A:Okay, so listen up.
Speaker A:This is, this should encourage you.
Speaker A:This child was severely autistic, could barely stand still, never mind Sitting in the chair, could not speak a word.
Speaker A:And they said, you know, if Daniel could have the ability to communicate, if he could speak, you know, he could, he could go to a regular school, wouldn't have to go to special school, go to regular school, these siblings, you know, he wouldn't be so frustrated all the time.
Speaker A:We'd be able to understand his needs.
Speaker A:You know, it would just open the world up to him if he could just communicate.
Speaker A:I said, well that's, that's not a problem for Jesus.
Speaker A:And you know, I prayed over him and I can't even remember anything spectacular or different about the way that I prayed for him.
Speaker A:I just spoke to his brain and commanded it to function, you know, in a regular pattern and stuff.
Speaker A:And they carried on, you know, he was sitting next to me in the chair and I carry on talking to his parents.
Speaker A:And we were just, man, we were just so excited about the Lord.
Speaker A:We were sharing testimony stories and then all of a sudden I just looked back to Daniel and I forgot in that moment, I just forgot that this kid was severely autistic and you know, non verbal.
Speaker A:And I looked at Daniel, says, Daniel, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Speaker A:You know, like I'd speak to any normal 7 year old.
Speaker A:What do you want to be when you grow up?
Speaker A:And he looked at me and says, oh, I want to be a doctor.
Speaker A:And at that point it hit me, this child has never spoken in his life and here he is making eye contact and answering a question in perfect English.
Speaker A:Oh, I want to be a doctor.
Speaker A:Everyone in that moment, I mean they were just flawed.
Speaker A:His parents started crying and he's looking at me and then he starts making jokes and I mean like we're just having a regular adult to 7 year old conversation about normal 7 year old kids stuff, you know.
Speaker A:And I said to him, I think, you know what Daniel, I think you're going to be a really good doctor.
Speaker A:You should.
Speaker A:And I don't know, this was years ago, so who knows, maybe he's a doctor now.
Speaker A:He'd certainly be old enough to that mean.
Speaker A:That was like 18 years ago now.
Speaker A:So he's, he's mid-20s.
Speaker A:I'd love to be able to catch up with him at some point.
Speaker A:But you know what, what really struck me in that family, they could have come like so many other, so many other people that we minister to and the first thing out of their mouth is the gravity of the situation.
Speaker A:But yet this was different.
Speaker A:The first thing out of their mouth was praise.
Speaker A:The first thing out of their mouth was Jesus.
Speaker A:The first thing out of their mouth was a sacrifice of praise.
Speaker A:They were full of the joy of the Lord to the point where I knew who they were spending time with.
Speaker A:You know, I think anyone could have prayed for Daniel in that moment.
Speaker A:It wasn't anything special about my prayer.
Speaker A:It was just a moment of faith.
Speaker A:A moment of faith where we came into agreement and it was done.
Speaker A:But it started with a sacrifice of praise.
Speaker A:It started in them.
Speaker A:They tapped into that supernatural power.
Speaker A:They use praise as a weapon to defend their child from the plans of the enemy.
Speaker A:Think about that for a moment.
Speaker A:What would happen in your situation if out of your mouth every time you got a pain, every time you got an ache, every time you know you got a bad report, you just turned it around.
Speaker A:Well, I just going to praise God.
Speaker A:I thank you Lord, that you're still faithful.
Speaker A:I thank you Lord, that I still have the victory.
Speaker A:I thank you Lord, that you always lead us in triumph.
Speaker A:I thank you Lord, that I have another report that this is the final report, but I have a report of the Lord that I can believe.
Speaker A:I thank you Lord, that I have healing power in the person of Jesus already on the inside of my body.
Speaker A:I thank you Lord, that no weapon, form is formed against me that will prosper.
Speaker A:And in Jesus name, I'm coming through this.
Speaker A:I'm overcoming this man, if you will turn it around into praise.
Speaker A:Something is about to break loose.
Speaker A:I can feel it.
Speaker A:Something is about to break loose.
Speaker A:You can change the situation.
Speaker A:I can't tell you how many times I've heard testimonies of people where they've got a loved one in the intensive care unit.
Speaker A:A loved one that's dying.
Speaker A:And yet they crank up the praise music in, in right there in icu and they put scriptures around the walls and they refuse.
Speaker A:They, they.
Speaker A:They put up a sacrifice of praise.
Speaker A:And, and it's almost like no negativity can enter that hospital room because they've already dedicated it to the Lord.
Speaker A:You know, their prison walls have to start breaking down the prison walls.
Speaker A:We don't praise to break down the prison walls.
Speaker A:We praise because God is good and he's already done it.
Speaker A:We're not praising to fight.
Speaker A:We're praising because God is worthy.
Speaker A:And because we were created to praise Him.
Speaker A:We're offering up a sacrifice of praise.
Speaker A:And when we do that, the enemy gets confused.
Speaker A:Look at this.
Speaker A:I'm going to show you this.
Speaker A:This is so powerful.
Speaker A:This is in chronicles.
Speaker A:And you know, I love this story.
Speaker A:This is the Old Testament, okay?
Speaker A:Sometimes we don't realize that the God of the New Testament and the God of the Old Testament, it's the same God.
Speaker A:It's the same power.
Speaker A:So go to Second Chronicles, Chapter 20.
Speaker A:This is the story of Jehoshaphat.
Speaker A:Now, there was a massive army that came against this king.
Speaker A:And he says, actually, I have a whole teaching that's based out there's called storm survival, which you can get on our website.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:If you want more of this.
Speaker A:But this is from 2nd Chronicles 20, and I'm going to start here.
Speaker A:In verse 12, it says, oh, our God, will you not render judgment on them?
Speaker A:For we have not strength enough to stand before this great army that is coming against us.
Speaker A:Sometimes when we get a report or, you know, that's negative, or we just, you know, so overwhelmed with physical situations or our own emotions or our own tiredness, it can feel like a great army that's coming against us.
Speaker A:But he says, look, we don't have enough strength to stand against this great army that is coming against us.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:Sometimes it's good to agree with your adversary quickly.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:I don't have enough strength.
Speaker A:You're right.
Speaker A:You're right.
Speaker A:I can't overcome this on my own.
Speaker A:I can't win this battle of mine.
Speaker A:But here's the kicker.
Speaker A:I'm not on my own.
Speaker A:I'm not in my own strength.
Speaker A:I'm in the strength of the Lord.
Speaker A:Look at what he says.
Speaker A:He didn't deny that he was weak, but he denied that weakness the opportunity to overcome him.
Speaker A:He says, and we do not know what we should do.
Speaker A:Sometimes in the middle of it, you don't even know how to pray, right?
Speaker A:Your.
Speaker A:Your emotions are all over the place.
Speaker A:Your soul's in so much torment, maybe there's a lot of grief going on.
Speaker A:You don't know what.
Speaker A:You don't know how to.
Speaker A:How to pray.
Speaker A:This is when you pray as New Testament believers, you pray in the Holy Ghost.
Speaker A:You pray in your prayer language.
Speaker A:Because when you pray in the Holy Ghost, I'm telling you, you are praying the perfect will of God.
Speaker A:He says, we don't know what we should do, but our eyes are on you.
Speaker A:They looked up.
Speaker A:They look toward.
Speaker A:Where does your help come from?
Speaker A:Your help comes from the Lord.
Speaker A:Don't look around at the army.
Speaker A:Don't measure up and count how many on his side and how many on my side and figure out, you know what?
Speaker A:There's a deficit.
Speaker A:They're stronger than we are.
Speaker A:Greater is the army.
Speaker A:That's coming against me.
Speaker A:No, it's not.
Speaker A:Greater is he who is in you.
Speaker A:You're only going to get that perspective by looking up.
Speaker A:Our eyes are on you.
Speaker A:He knew that God would have to be the one that delivered him.
Speaker A:He knew that he couldn't do it in his own strength, in the natural.
Speaker A:He wasn't strong enough, but he.
Speaker A:Our eyes are on you.
Speaker A:Going down a few verses.
Speaker A:He says, do not fear nor be dismayed because of this great army.
Speaker A:For the battle is not yours, but is God's.
Speaker A:This is a really powerful word.
Speaker A:I want you to get this down on the inside of you.
Speaker A:Say this out loud.
Speaker A:The battle is not mine.
Speaker A:It's the Lord's.
Speaker A:The battle is not mine.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's the Lord's.
Speaker A:Maybe it's a cancer.
Speaker A:Maybe that's the army that's coming against you.
Speaker A:You can visualize those cancer cells and you can say to your body, the battle.
Speaker A:It's not mine.
Speaker A:It's the Lord's.
Speaker A:He's already done it.
Speaker A:Put it into perspective.
Speaker A:Is there any battle that he can't come through that he hasn't already defeated, that he hasn't already overcome?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:And he's already leading you in victory.
Speaker A:He's already defeated them.
Speaker A:So let God fight your battles for you.
Speaker A:Stop trying to do it in your own strength.
Speaker A:You're going to wear yourself out.
Speaker A:Look at this.
Speaker A:He says, tomorrow go down against them, right?
Speaker A:And it gives them some instructions.
Speaker A:And in verse 17, it says, it will not be necessary for you to fight in this conflict.
Speaker A:Now, this is important.
Speaker A:You know, we're talking here about.
Speaker A:About praise being a weapon.
Speaker A:Here's the only fight that we have, and it's right between our own ears.
Speaker A:It's not with the devil, it's not with our body, is with our own thinking.
Speaker A:We need to get the fight that we have.
Speaker A:We've talked about laboring to enter the rest before now.
Speaker A:The fight that we have isn't with God.
Speaker A:It isn't with the Devil.
Speaker A:We're not trying to convince God to move, you know.
Speaker A:We're not trying to fight the devil with our bare hands and.
Speaker A:And make ourselves look big and powerful by many words and shouting loud, right?
Speaker A:No, our fight isn't with any of these things.
Speaker A:Our fight is to get our mind stayed upon the Lord and our eyes looking at what he's doing.
Speaker A:That's the conflict.
Speaker A:He says, take your position.
Speaker A:Stand and observe the deliverance of the Lord.
Speaker A:For you, O Judah and Jerusalem, do not fear, nor be filled with terror.
Speaker A:Tomorrow Go out before them and the Lord will be with you.
Speaker A:Take your positions, man.
Speaker A:This is, this is so important.
Speaker A:What is your position?
Speaker A:We're talking.
Speaker A:This is, this is part of a series, miracle patterns.
Speaker A:You know, miracles have a pattern.
Speaker A:We can tap into that, but we can position ourselves to receive.
Speaker A:How do we position ourselves to receive from the Lord?
Speaker A:You know, we position ourselves to receive from the Lord with our heart.
Speaker A:We put our heart before him, we put our faith in him, we put our eyes on Him.
Speaker A:We give him our lips, we give him our meditation, we give him our praise.
Speaker A:That's how we position ourselves.
Speaker A:And then we walk in our authority as children and with our identity as the healed of the Lord, we'll start to see ourselves positioned correctly.
Speaker A:He says, take your positions.
Speaker A:My position, when, if sickness is what's coming against me, my position is healed of the Lord.
Speaker A:You know, I ate something the other day that had.
Speaker A:Actually, it was a drink, it had orange in it.
Speaker A:And, you know, you can, you can ask my husband.
Speaker A:I have a testament.
Speaker A:I used to be severely allergic to anything with orange in it.
Speaker A:And the Lord supernaturally healed me of this, this allergy.
Speaker A:And I have not had an allergic reaction to oranges in gosh.
Speaker A:I want to say.
Speaker A:How old is Hannah?
Speaker A:So probably 20 years.
Speaker A:It's probably 20 years, I think, since I've reacted to anything like that.
Speaker A:And I mean, it used to be really severe anaphylactic type reactions.
Speaker A:And I just, you know, after I got healed, I just started to eat oranges and drink orange juice and never, never read another ingredient, looking for it again.
Speaker A:But the other day, a couple of days ago, I had this drink that had orange in it.
Speaker A:And almost immediately my tongue started to swell up and, you know, hives started to break up, my skin started to itch.
Speaker A:And, you know, that's not a good sign when you, when you have an allergic reaction and your tongue starts to tingle and it starts to swell up and you can feel it on the inside.
Speaker A:And he looked at me and he says, what are you going to do?
Speaker A:Says, I'm not going to do that body.
Speaker A:We're not going to do that.
Speaker A:I'm not going to give attention to that.
Speaker A:I'm not having it.
Speaker A:That's not what we do.
Speaker A:I'm the healed of the Lord.
Speaker A:I'm not going back to that.
Speaker A:I'm not going to be afraid of that.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And we just, we just carried on and I finished the drink.
Speaker A:I didn't even stop drinking the drink that were causing it.
Speaker A:I just kept, kept drinking It.
Speaker A:And you know what?
Speaker A:The next day I had another drink that also had orange in it.
Speaker A:And again, I didn't even think about it.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because my position is that I'm the healed of the Lord.
Speaker A:I don't do that anymore.
Speaker A:Remember, flesh, we don't have those allergic reactions anymore.
Speaker A:That's not what we do.
Speaker A:That's not who I am.
Speaker A:And so, you know, the same thing started to happen again.
Speaker A:Started to get that the bumps and the swelling started to happen on the inside on my tongue and started to fill up again and started to get the hives back on my skin.
Speaker A:I'm like, no, not going to do that.
Speaker A:Remember, I've taken my position.
Speaker A:I've taken.
Speaker A:That's not what I do.
Speaker A:And immediately, you know, those symptoms started, the itching started to go down.
Speaker A:And, you know, we're walking back home, and my husband is about 30 minutes later, he says, how is it now?
Speaker A:It's fine, right?
Speaker A:It's fine.
Speaker A:It's gone.
Speaker A:It's gone down again.
Speaker A:Because I had to remind my body I'd taken my position.
Speaker A:My position.
Speaker A:I've already been healed of that.
Speaker A:I'm not going back to that anymore.
Speaker A:Some of you need to take a position.
Speaker A:You've already overcome things and symptoms have come back.
Speaker A:You've already won a victory in these areas.
Speaker A:It's time to take your position.
Speaker A:Stand right?
Speaker A:It says, take your position.
Speaker A:Stand and observe the deliverance of the Lord.
Speaker A:For you, do not fear, nor be filled with terror.
Speaker A:These are the things that we stand against.
Speaker A:This is the fight that we have.
Speaker A:Not to allow fear creep in.
Speaker A:Not to allow things like that to creep in.
Speaker A:How do you not let fear creep in?
Speaker A:Well, you know what?
Speaker A:I have a whole book on this issue called Fearless.
Speaker A:Deals with how to break the habit of fear.
Speaker A:You know, this is really important because fear is sneaky.
Speaker A:It's subtle, and it creeps in like a serpent.
Speaker A:First appeared in the garden in Genesis, chapter three, right there at the fall.
Speaker A:You know, it says that they were afraid and they covered themselves, they hid themselves.
Speaker A:We have to nip fear in the bud.
Speaker A:We can't just stop fearing because.
Speaker A:But we have to take authority over it.
Speaker A:When you realize that you're anxious about something, when you feel your insides start getting knotted up, when your mind starts to consider, you know, what it will be like if all of these symptoms come back, if that disease comes back, if that test results come back, if the doctor's report is negative, if it doesn't work out, you know, what you start meditating on?
Speaker A:All of the things that could go wrong, you know what happens.
Speaker A:You're entertaining fear.
Speaker A:Don't feed it.
Speaker A:Catch yourself with that way of thinking.
Speaker A:Catch it.
Speaker A:You know, I had one time where I was.
Speaker A:I don't want to get too graphic here, but our kids were really young and like toddlers and sickness.
Speaker A:We had like a tummy bug that had gone round and Hannah had got it.
Speaker A:And you know, it was like, it was like a few days where all I did was wash sheets, right?
Speaker A:It was, it was nasty.
Speaker A:And the whole house just had that smell like it was just, it was just nasty.
Speaker A:If it wasn't coming out one end, it was coming out the other end.
Speaker A:It was just gross.
Speaker A:And a few days into this, kids were starting to feel better.
Speaker A:But, you know, I was the one that had been dealing with the, the mess and the, and the sheets and the towels and the buckets and, you know, all of that.
Speaker A:And suddenly I'm sitting in the bathroom and I'm feeling like my tummy is doing flips, you know, and it always starts at like 3 o' clock in the morning, right?
Speaker A:You know, when that, when that starts to happen.
Speaker A:So I'd gotten up and I'd gone to sit on the, on the bathroom sit.
Speaker A:I'm having my throne time right there and I've got that, you know, the bucket on in front of me and I've got my butt on the throne.
Speaker A:And like, it is, it is not good.
Speaker A:And I'm binding and literally binding and losing at that point and, you know, and nothing's changing.
Speaker A:I'm like, load.
Speaker A:What is going on here?
Speaker A:Why are these symptoms still here?
Speaker A:You know what, I'm taking my authority in Christ.
Speaker A:You know, I'm standing against them.
Speaker A:I'm speaking the word of my body.
Speaker A:Why is it that my, my body is not responding to the Word, but it's responding to this stomach bug?
Speaker A:And he said to me, it's just fear for the last few days that those actions of caring for other people, of cleaning up, the message had gotten on the inside of you and fear had been subtle.
Speaker A:And now you're starting to see yourself.
Speaker A:You know what, your, your body has muscle memory.
Speaker A:You are starting to see yourself with these same symptoms.
Speaker A:Before you saw yourself with those same symptoms.
Speaker A:It's just fear.
Speaker A:And like, you're right.
Speaker A:Well, right then I started to, I started to change the way I prayed.
Speaker A:Rather than speaking to the symptoms.
Speaker A:I started to go to town with fear.
Speaker A:I said, God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power and of A love and a sin sound mind.
Speaker A:I refuse to be in fear.
Speaker A:And I.
Speaker A:I mean, I started to break down any.
Speaker A:Any imaginations, false imaginations of me having those, manifesting those same symptoms.
Speaker A:I started to break that down.
Speaker A:I started to declare, you know, the different.
Speaker A:Different things, a different outcome.
Speaker A:And, you know, within a couple of minutes, all of those symptoms had left my body.
Speaker A:They were.
Speaker A:My.
Speaker A:My stomach had calmed down.
Speaker A:I didn't feel like I needed to sit in the bathroom anymore.
Speaker A:I didn't feel sick anymore.
Speaker A:But they didn't go when I was rebuking the symptoms.
Speaker A:They went when I rebuked the fear.
Speaker A:And so this is really powerful.
Speaker A:It says, take your position.
Speaker A:Stand and observe the deliverance of the Lord for you, oh, Judah and Jerusalem, do not fear, nor be filled with terror.
Speaker A:Tomorrow you're going to go out before them, and the Lord will be with you.
Speaker A:The Lord's with you.
Speaker A:How can you fail?
Speaker A:Let me just ask you this.
Speaker A:How can you fail to win when you've got the Lord on your side?
Speaker A:It's like you've already got the winning team.
Speaker A:You've already.
Speaker A:I mean, the battles already be won.
Speaker A:That's why it says we fight the good fight of faith.
Speaker A:You know, this is a faith fight.
Speaker A:This isn't a physical fight.
Speaker A:It's a faith fight.
Speaker A:We fight in the realm of faith.
Speaker A:And when you bring a symptom into the arena of faith, the enemy will lose every time.
Speaker A:You just need to bring those circumstances into that arena of faith.
Speaker A:Fight battles in the arena of faith, not in the physical realm.
Speaker A:When you bring it into the arena of faith, that's in your spirit.
Speaker A:You've always got the victory.
Speaker A:You live in victory.
Speaker A:In fact, the teaching that we're giving away today is called living victoriously.
Speaker A:If you want to enter to win that, just go ahead, share it on your platform and comment.
Speaker A:Shared.
Speaker A:To enter, to win into the drawing.
Speaker A:Living victoriously.
Speaker A:We fight the enemy in the arena of faith, and we'll win him 100% of the time.
Speaker A:But don't let him drag you over into the natural.
Speaker A:He tries to get your eyes on everything in the natural.
Speaker A:Oh, look, see, you're not strong enough.
Speaker A:You're not smart enough.
Speaker A:You're not rich enough.
Speaker A:You're not educated enough.
Speaker A:You haven't been a Christian long enough.
Speaker A:Look at all the things you've done wrong.
Speaker A:See, he's dragging you out to fight a battle in the natural realm.
Speaker A:All of those things might be true.
Speaker A:Maybe you failed before.
Speaker A:All of those things might be true.
Speaker A:But we don't fight him there.
Speaker A:We bring him back into the arena of faith and say, ha.
Speaker A:But hang in a minute, I already have the victory.
Speaker A:I've already healed his Lord.
Speaker A:He's already sent his word and healed me.
Speaker A:I don't care how you feel, flesh, I don't care emotions, what you're doing.
Speaker A:I already have joy on the inside of me.
Speaker A:I'm too blessed to be depressed.
Speaker A:We start to encourage ourselves in the arena of faith, and you have the victory of the enemy 100 of the time.
Speaker A:So he says, do not fear, nor be filled with terror.
Speaker A:Tomorrow go up before them and the Lord is going to be with you.
Speaker A:So he says, look at this, he has some instructions here.
Speaker A:But he says in a very loud voice, he got up early in the morning.
Speaker A:Verse 21.
Speaker A:He gets up early in the morning and he goes out into the wilderness of Tekoa.
Speaker A:And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said to the people, listen to me, Judah, and those dwelling in Jerusalem, believe in the Lord your God, and you will be supported.
Speaker A:Believe in his prophets and you will succeed.
Speaker A:And he consulted with the people and then he appointed, look at, at this, singers.
Speaker A:He appointed the praise team.
Speaker A:Now I'm not sure that I would have done this, but here we go.
Speaker A:He appointed the praise team, the singers for the Lord and those praising him in holy attire.
Speaker A:This is the praise and worship.
Speaker A:These are the tambourine players.
Speaker A:These are the people that, you know, the ribbon waivers and the flag waivers.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:There's a place for you in the holy attire.
Speaker A:And they went out before those equipped, equipped for battle.
Speaker A:Now how this is, this is where we make praise into a weapon.
Speaker A:You wouldn't think, you know, if you're having a, a great army coming to attack you, you wouldn't, you know, maybe you imagine the pastor of the church, you know, the great army coming.
Speaker A:And you know what?
Speaker A:We've got these, we've got these young, young people that have been working out, they've been hitting the gym, you know, we've got some people with guns.
Speaker A:If you're in America, people like that.
Speaker A:You know, we've got some, we got some armored up people that are packing, you know, maybe we're going to use those people that have been doing the taekwondo classes, you know, we'll get, get some of those people out, get some of the, the young people out, you know, the butch people.
Speaker A:How about the people that be in the military, they have some skills that are trained for war.
Speaker A:How about we use some of those people or you know what, at least grab some pitchforks, you know, a spoon.
Speaker A:You can stab someone with a spoon.
Speaker A:Get something, right?
Speaker A:Get a weapon.
Speaker A:Oh, no, the past would be like, oh no, no, we don't need any of those.
Speaker A:I want the tambourine players, the choir.
Speaker A:Bring me out the choir, the, the.
Speaker A:The flag wavers, the ribbon dancers, you know, the people in, in.
Speaker A:In the leotards that do the prophetic dancing.
Speaker A:I want those people.
Speaker A:You think?
Speaker A:Really the creative people.
Speaker A:You want to send those people?
Speaker A:You don't want to send the warriors out?
Speaker A:No, we want, we want to send out the singers and the people in the, you know, the praising attire, the creator, even the drama team.
Speaker A:Hey, what if the drama team, they can sing a bit, send them out, but then we'll back them up with the, you know, the military troop.
Speaker A:No one would do that.
Speaker A:No one would do that.
Speaker A:But Jehoshaphat knew there was something more powerful than people's physical strength, than their physical might within their years of training for war and the best equipped army.
Speaker A:And that was the power of praise.
Speaker A:He knew that they couldn't overcome this army in his physical strength.
Speaker A:The only way to overcome this army that was far bigger than they were was by, by using praise and prayer and, and, and going out.
Speaker A:And I tell you, look at what happened when we praise.
Speaker A:This is why praise is a weapon.
Speaker A:They went out equipped for battle, saying, praise the Lord for his mercy endures forever.
Speaker A:And when they began singing and praising the Lord, you know, he said, when they began singing and praising, the Lord set ambushes against Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah.
Speaker A:And they were defeated.
Speaker A:They were defeated.
Speaker A:This is so funny.
Speaker A:It says the Ammonites and the Moabites, they stood up against those dwelling in Mount Seir to destroy and finish them off.
Speaker A:And then when they had made the end of the inhabitants of Seir, each man attacked his companion to destroy each other.
Speaker A:Now think about this.
Speaker A:Their praising confused the enemy to such a degree.
Speaker A:The sound of them singing, the sound of them praising the Lord confused the powers of darkness to such a degree that the enemies, that the armies, that there's multiple armies that joined together to make a great army actually started attacking each other.
Speaker A:This is what happens when you offer up a sacrifice of praise in the middle of a world of hurt.
Speaker A:The enemy starts to attack.
Speaker A:The enemy starts to implode in on itself.
Speaker A:Those cancer cells start to attack each other.
Speaker A:Those cancer cells start to die.
Speaker A:That disease mechanism in your body when you still, when you make Your body, praise God, it starts to die.
Speaker A:It cannot stand.
Speaker A:You have offered up a sacrifice of praise and the Lord is fighting for you.
Speaker A:This is why we have to drag ourselves into the praise position.
Speaker A:This is why we have to force ourselves to worship God even when we don't feel like it, right?
Speaker A:He says, they did such a good job of killing each other, the enemy turned on itself that when Judah came, It says, it goes on, it says, and Judah came to watch to the watchtower of the wilderness, and they turned the vast army and they saw only corpses laying on the ground.
Speaker A:No one was spared.
Speaker A:The m.
Speaker A:The enemy thoroughly imploded.
Speaker A:It destroyed itself.
Speaker A:And they didn't have to fight with, you know, with one battle.
Speaker A:They just sent the praise team out.
Speaker A:It says.
Speaker A:Then Jehoshaphat and his people came together to their.
Speaker A:To gather the plunder.
Speaker A:And they found amongst them, amongst the corpses, an abundance of riches.
Speaker A:With the corpses and precious jewelry which they took for themselves more than they were carrying.
Speaker A:They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much to carry.
Speaker A:You know, this is such a great example.
Speaker A:This started out as the king having the opportunity to think, our whole.
Speaker A:Our whole village, our whole town's going to be wiped out.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:You know, we are going to be like those corpses, right?
Speaker A:There's no way that we can survive.
Speaker A:But then when he put himself and he looked up and he started to follow the instruction of the Lord and he sent out the praise team and gave God the glory and trusted in him for.
Speaker A:For their deliverance, not only did it turn around, but it turned around so good they didn't have to fight.
Speaker A:They just went around to pick up the spoils.
Speaker A:Let me just say this.
Speaker A:The test that is coming against you is going to turn out to be the greatest testimony.
Speaker A:The very thing that the enemy has sent for your destruction will be his end and his worst day and your greatest victory.
Speaker A:Don't listen to the lies of the enemy a moment longer.
Speaker A:He who is in you is far greater than he that is in the world.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:You need to put that in the.
Speaker A:In the.
Speaker A:In the comments right now.
Speaker A:He who is in me is greater.
Speaker A:He who is in me is greater than he who is in the world.
Speaker A:He who is in me is greater than.
Speaker A:It's greater than what?
Speaker A:It's greater than what?
Speaker A:Anything that comes against you, any circumstance, any trap that the enemy has laid up for you is greater than all of those.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's right, Rita.
Speaker A:Turn your worry into worship and your panic into praise.
Speaker A:But I Love that.
Speaker A:Turn your worry into worship and your panic into praise.
Speaker A:He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Speaker A:That's right, Mary and Sandy.
Speaker A:He was in you is greater.
Speaker A:That's great, Joel.
Speaker A:Hearers and you is greater.
Speaker A:Shauna, the same.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:This is so powerful.
Speaker A:We need to turn it around with our praise.
Speaker A:Get your praise on, and it won't be long before your soul starts to feel better.
Speaker A:You know, in Nehemiah 18, it says, the joy of the Lord is your strength.
Speaker A:The joy of the Lord is your strength.
Speaker A:If the enemy can steal your joy, if he can steal your praise and he's going to steal your strength, he comes after your praise first.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:He was the original worship leader of heaven.
Speaker A:He likes to be praised.
Speaker A:Sometimes we inadvertently give the enemy so much praise by talking about everything that he's doing in the world.
Speaker A:We can't focus our time and attention and words and everything the enemy is doing because what we're doing, we're praising him.
Speaker A:Don't give him the praise.
Speaker A:Give the Lord the praise.
Speaker A:When we give the Lord the praise, the joy of the Lord becomes our strength.
Speaker A:When we give the enemy our praise, we start to feel weakness.
Speaker A:We start to feel defeat.
Speaker A:We start to feel depression.
Speaker A:Don't praise the enemy with your words and actions and your attention.
Speaker A:Give the praise to the one who's worthy to Jesus.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:And you'll start to feel a difference in your.
Speaker A:In your flesh.
Speaker A:You'll start to feel a difference in your spirit, in your words, in your actions.
Speaker A:You'll start to feel a difference in your circumstances, in the atmosphere that's around you.
Speaker A:Get your praise on.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Get your.
Speaker A:Get your happy, happy dance on.
Speaker A:And then like.
Speaker A:Like King David when the Ark of the Covenant came back, he was doing a right old dance, and he didn't care who was watching.
Speaker A:He says, hey, I'll become even more undignified than this man.
Speaker A:Sometimes we need to do some ugly praise in, right?
Speaker A:Get that worship music on.
Speaker A:Praise like you don't care who's watching you.
Speaker A:Get the ugly praise going on, right?
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Put it on in your.
Speaker A:Your kitchen or wherever you need to be.
Speaker A:Crank that up and your flesh would be like, oh, I don't feel like it.
Speaker A:I feel stupid.
Speaker A:Say, shut up or I'm going to crank it a little louder.
Speaker A:Gonna turn it up a little louder.
Speaker A:You know, we had a.
Speaker A:I had a situation one time.
Speaker A:I'm gonna tell you this one story because it's.
Speaker A:Because I like hearing it then I'm gonna pray for you, and then I have to go get a plane.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:But, you know, I was praising in my kitchen with my kids.
Speaker A:They were little, they were like newborn one and two.
Speaker A:We had them all close together.
Speaker A:And, you know, I get a knock on the door and it's this guy that's really aggressive, starts to try and beat that door of the house down.
Speaker A:An army coming against me.
Speaker A:He was a bad guy.
Speaker A:Don't break into a house.
Speaker A:And, you know, but I've been praising the Lord.
Speaker A:And in that moment, rather than being afraid and filled with fear and filled with terror, I just swung the door right open.
Speaker A:I said, basically, you want a piece of me?
Speaker A:Let me tell you how this is going to go down, Anna.
Speaker A:The word of the Lord came out of my mouth.
Speaker A:It was almost as if I'd smacked this guy.
Speaker A:I never touched him except with my words.
Speaker A:I said, who do you think you are, you uncircumcised Philistine, coming at me?
Speaker A:Who do you think you are coming against the armies of the living God?
Speaker A:You know, with every word that came out of my mouth, he stumbled like I'd hit him.
Speaker A:He stumbled backwards down our driveway until he.
Speaker A:Till he took off running.
Speaker A:That started.
Speaker A:Because it started in the kitchen with the praise, worship.
Speaker A:Praise and worship music going.
Speaker A:Praise is a weapon against the enemy.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lola.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:I thank you that your praise is in our hearts and let it be on our lips.
Speaker A:And in Jesus name, we take authority over every lie of the enemy.
Speaker A:We take authority right now over every sickness, over every disease, and we command it to get on out of our bodies.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, that we were created for you.
Speaker A:We were created to praise you, to worship you.
Speaker A:And right now I sense that the Lord is bringing strength back to people's arms, People that haven't been able to hold their hands up in worship.
Speaker A:There is an anointing right now in this moment to raise up your arms.
Speaker A:He's strengthening the arms of the weak.
Speaker A:He's strengthening the weary.
Speaker A:Right now, in Jesus name, we release strength into those joints.
Speaker A:Movement, mobility back into those joints.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, we command them to move.
Speaker A:We command those rotator cuffs to be healed and hold that.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:Those pinched nerves to leave.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:We command movement to come back from the top of the head all the way down, even to the legs to the feet.
Speaker A:We command every nerve, every bone, every.
Speaker A:There's an adjustment.
Speaker A:I see this word, adjustment.
Speaker A:There's an adjustment coming on.
Speaker A:There's new nerves that's coming Back.
Speaker A:There's nerve damage that's leaving.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:There's circular veins and arteries that are being reattached and bones that are growing and straightening.
Speaker A:There's limbs that are.
Speaker A:That are.
Speaker A:That are gaining muscle mass.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:And coordination.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, we command neuropathy to leave.
Speaker A:We command.
Speaker A:There's somebody that you've had, like, there's muscle, there's.
Speaker A:I see big scars on your legs where there's pins and different things that have been put in there.
Speaker A:Right now we can.
Speaker A:There's like no circulation in parts of the leg.
Speaker A:The Lord is bringing circulation back to you in Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:For strengthening ankles and, and feet, hips, spines, pelvis, there's shoulders, neck.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Knees.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, for bringing.
Speaker A:For bringing strength back to knees in Jesus name.
Speaker A:And where there's been swelling of the joints, where there's been arthritis, inflammation, problems with cartilage.
Speaker A:Right now there's a healing power of God working in your joint.
Speaker A:It's almost like I can see the Holy Spirit going around with like this little oiling can.
Speaker A:Look, a little metal oiling can.
Speaker A:It's oiling each one of those joints.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, for touching these people.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, for healing.
Speaker A:For healing things that have been in place for a long time, you know.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Yeah, there's lots of people responding to these things.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, for healing.
Speaker A:There's a certain amount of inflammation in the body that's just not just confined to.
Speaker A:I don't know if it's all the same condition, but it doesn't just affect the joints.
Speaker A:It's in the gut and the abdomen.
Speaker A:It's through different parts of the soft tissue as well.
Speaker A:Right now I just command those soft tissues to be as they were created to be.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, I command life and peace into those soft tissues.
Speaker A:Connective tissue disorders be gone.
Speaker A:Right now in Jesus name.
Speaker A:Where there is.
Speaker A:There's damage to the intestines.
Speaker A:I see actual damage in the intestines, Sheena, because you've had scopes done and there's actual damage on the inside from disease and burning acid and stuff.
Speaker A:Right now, the Lord's healing the.
Speaker A:There's a new lining.
Speaker A:You know, your body naturally redu.
Speaker A:What.
Speaker A:What is it called?
Speaker A:Like, reconstruct.
Speaker A:You get a new, like, stomach lining periodically anyway.
Speaker A:But the Lord's doing this throughout your intestinal tract.
Speaker A:I see this Being created for you.
Speaker A:And where there has been furrows, where there has been scar tissue on the inside, where there has been holes and.
Speaker A:And literally leaks and damaging.
Speaker A:There are some people you have, where you're supposed to have, like, little villi, they call them.
Speaker A:Like, it's like a special lining of your stomach.
Speaker A:There's a smoothness from scar tissue where the.
Speaker A:But right now, there's a recreation happening of the actual structure of your intestines that I see extra sections being added to somebody's bowel.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:To the bowel?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:There's whole sections of multiplication.
Speaker A:Thank you, somebody.
Speaker A:You got.
Speaker A:You got a strange sensation right now in your midsection.
Speaker A:There's literally things that are moving around that.
Speaker A:That's what I'm talking.
Speaker A:There's a creation happening, and you can feel something moving in this.
Speaker A:Squiggling around like butterflies.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, for healing, for moving things back into position.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:Right now I just take authority over.
Speaker A:There's been a real problem with the actual digestion process.
Speaker A:Somebody's got a slow processing problem.
Speaker A:And your body's not taking all of the nutrients out of the food before it passes through your gut.
Speaker A:And it's almost like you're very depleted.
Speaker A:There's a real lack of energy, and there's problems with anemia, vitamin deficiencies, iron deficiency.
Speaker A:And right now, in Jesus name, we command.
Speaker A:We command that absorption process to come back online.
Speaker A:Body, you absorbed all of the nutrients from these foods.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, we command body you to take that iron to.
Speaker A:To make it into red blood cells.
Speaker A:We command that anemia to leave and that the normal, healthy processing of all vitamins and minerals in these intestines.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Somebody says here that they're feeling it already.
Speaker A:There's a.
Speaker A:There's a tightening.
Speaker A:Adam is tightening up as you're praying.
Speaker A:I've had this digestive issues for 18 months.
Speaker A:I'm receiving it.
Speaker A:That's for you, Debbie.
Speaker A:The Lord's healing you, Debbie.
Speaker A:He's healing you right there.
Speaker A:I come against food allergies as well.
Speaker A:I know there are other people that have.
Speaker A:Have experienced similar things to me recently.
Speaker A:Right now, we just turn off those behaviors.
Speaker A:Body, you won't behave that way.
Speaker A:You won't react that way anymore.
Speaker A:We refuse to go back there.
Speaker A:No more allergic reaction.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, thank you.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Lynette says yes.
Speaker A:Things moving back into the right position.
Speaker A:We command that bleed in the eye to leave and disappear.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, for new Healthy lungs.
Speaker A:No more scarring.
Speaker A:Nanno from cbpd.
Speaker A:We command those lungs to open up in Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:No more coughing.
Speaker A:We command that coffin in Jesus name to go and to never come back.
Speaker A:Never come back.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:You know, Amy, the Lord is healing you.
Speaker A:In your stomach.
Speaker A:He is healing you.
Speaker A:That burning, I feel like it's almost like you need to speak to Amy.
Speaker A:I want you to do something for me.
Speaker A:Put your hand on your stomach and I want you to say, in Jesus name, burning stop.
Speaker A:Stop.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, burning stop.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Only you.
Speaker A:We agree.
Speaker A:Agreeing with your face.
Speaker A:Now let me know how it's going.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:I see amazing results, actually, when people take authority and I stand in agreement with them.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:That's a great confession.
Speaker A:I can eat all foods with no repercussions.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:Say I can eat any deadly thing that shall not harm me.
Speaker A:You, you have scripture to stand on with us.
Speaker A:In Mark 16, you can eat any deadly thing and it shall not harm you.
Speaker A:All things are good for your food.
Speaker A:All things are good.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:We command the eyelid dermatitis to leave.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:Excessive bleeding to stop.
Speaker A:Fibroids leave.
Speaker A:Shrivel up.
Speaker A:Get out of there.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We command.
Speaker A:We command that blood pressure to come back down.
Speaker A:We command speedy recoveries.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:And amen.
Speaker A:You know, you know, your body is designed.
Speaker A:It's designed to heal itself.
Speaker A:When we're praying for healing, it's just a speeding up of that natural process that's already in the body.
Speaker A:So right now, in Jesus name, we speed it up.
Speaker A:We command that healing to speed up.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, get.
Speaker A:Get faster.
Speaker A:Instantaneous.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:I see somebody.
Speaker A:You have a problem with hemorrhoids.
Speaker A:And you know that it's really just very uncomfortable for you right now.
Speaker A:We command those hemorrhoids to leave in Jesus name, be sent back in whatever is where there's weakness.
Speaker A:Somebody's had real weakness in, in a muscle.
Speaker A:Real weakness in a muscle wall.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There's a herniation that has happened.
Speaker A:We command those hernias to be sucked in those muscle walls to become strong.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:There is, there is.
Speaker A:There is a condition that I'm seeing actually in somebody's bladder.
Speaker A:And it causes an urgency.
Speaker A:It feels like you need to go all of the time.
Speaker A:And I think it's to do with the Way your brain communicates, it's like a nerve.
Speaker A:There's nothing wrong with the muscles.
Speaker A:It's like a sensation that happens to do with your nervous system, but it's just really annoying.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:I just command that communication to happen normally between the brain and between the bladder.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, we come on that sense, that urgency to leave right now and incontinence to stop.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:We command blurry vision to leave.
Speaker A:Clarity to come back.
Speaker A:Cancer to die.
Speaker A:Pain in the knee.
Speaker A:Leave, get out.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:New, healthy lungs.
Speaker A:New, healthy lungs.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Strength coming back to us.
Speaker A:Strength coming back to us.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, Marie, we command your mom's body to be at rest, to be healing, healing itself.
Speaker A:We command strength back into her body.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Every cancer cell.
Speaker A:Every cancer cell needs to die right now.
Speaker A:Every fibroid, every tumor, leave.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, disappear.
Speaker A:Get on out of it.
Speaker A:Somebody has a ganglion cyst right now.
Speaker A:We cut that thing off at the stalk.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Cut it off at the stalk.
Speaker A:We command that to shrivel up and die and leave.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's the rectum prolapse right there.
Speaker A:We command that strength.
Speaker A:We command those muscles.
Speaker A:We command those organs to move back into where that they should be.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, we command that muscle strength right there in the rectum.
Speaker A:No more incontinence.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Oh, look.
Speaker A:Angelica says one lump dissolved in my breast.
Speaker A:One left.
Speaker A:And the small ones, oh, they're going too.
Speaker A:Angelica, right now.
Speaker A:Put your hand right there.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:We command those lumps to leave.
Speaker A:Lumps leave.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:Lympoma leave right now.
Speaker A:Shrivel up, be gone.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:Spine be straightened.
Speaker A:There's somebody's had a herniated disc.
Speaker A:And the Lord is healing that for you right now.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Breasts yet?
Speaker A:Be gone.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Lord, we believe and we receive everything that you have for us.
Speaker A:All these good and precious things.
Speaker A:Your power is working through us.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:It's working through us, every part of us.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, Lord, I thank you.
Speaker A:I thank you that you've already done it, that the battle already belongs to you.
Speaker A:And we just.
Speaker A:We give up a sacrifice of praise.
Speaker A:We give up a sacrifice of praise.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Pain can't stay in our body.
Speaker A:It can't stay in our body and live.
Speaker A:It's gotta go.
Speaker A:It's gotta go.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
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