uh in in Psalms 100 and also in Philippians chapter 4 Psalms 100 he says Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord All Ye Lands says serve the Lord with gladness come before his presence with singing know ye that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we ourselves we are his people and the Sheep of his pasture says now that you ought to enter into his gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him and bless his name for the Lord is good his Mercy is
Everlasting and his truth endureth to all generations in in Philippians 4 the writer Paul to the Philippian church he says in in verse four of chapter 4 of Philippians he says rejoice in the lord always and again I say rejoice let your modation be known unto all men the Lord is at hand be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto the Lord and the peace of God which passeth all understanding yes shall keep your hearts and your minds through Jesus Christ touch your neighbor
and say praise is an attitude amen amen I want to talk a little bit from praise to Thanksgiving amen from praise to Thanksgiving obviously there has to be a relationship between praise and faith has to be so because anytime you can lift up God and anytime you can extol or magnify God you have to ignore your circumstances if you were to go by your sensual perception and go by what it is you're experiencing it will lead you many times to distress and depression if you go by what you're experiencing you would probably give the devil
more praise than you would give God because anytime you deal with circumstances and situations it has a tendency they have a tendency to pull you into the negative disposition it's critical to understand this because we're affected so easily by what is outside of us and it takes an extra energy or a great power to go inside of us to find a counter measure for the things that we have to deal with that are external I have discovered that one of the great ployes of Satan is to take what is external leave vestiges and leave yes
leave certain marks and scars on my spirit that he does not have to continue the situation all he has to do is leave Mark and on my spirit and I will continually be negative even when the situation changes often times we're caught there I I don't know uh about you but I have this proclivity this tendency to be negative because of negative situations until the power of God's anointing changes or moves me from the negative to a place of strength if left to my own cognitive energy if left my own power I would continually be
negative until God moves with a word or with a song or he brings into my mind the consciousness of scripture and it then moves me from the negative into the place of strength now notice nothing has changed nothing around me is any different it is just that God through his word and by faith has brought an attitude that is not not conducive to or is not measured by what I'm going through this is the strength of every child of God and that is to have the power to overcome the attitude that the negative brings by
the power of the strength that God gives and so internally I have to have faith in God to overcome the vestages of what the circumstance caused once my faith in God begins to move and the power of God begins to evidence itself on my inner man then I by faith can praise God in the midst of negative circumstances it's is critical to see this because often times we are creatures of our circumstance and often times we are called upon to lift up the name of God and to give God praise when everything around us seems
to be so negative I have many times come to church and wondered how could I lift up the Lord how could I give him glory and I'm sure I'm not the only one there were times when we come into the house and it seems as if the praise leaders and the preachers and the pastors and everybody is motivating us to praise but how can I praise him when I look at my circumstance and I see my situation I look at my pocketbook and I look at what I'm going through and and the answer is the
only way to praise him is to have faith that God is going to change the situation and that I'm going to come out all right uh I woke up this morning and of course I was quite quite upset because not only was I sick but I reached for my father and I couldn't find him and uh and I said now I got to go to church today and and the old man is sick now uh he just has the opportunity to go to Wimbleton because he loves tennis and uh and and so he's got a
free ticket waiting for him to fly over London for the finals today and uh I got a ticket into the place which is very difficult to get and and and and it seems like just when he would have an opportunity to enjoy himself he cannot go because of sickness and I I found myself saying well isn't that just like life it's just like life when the doors of opportunity open and wonderful things can happen and then here suddenly you got you have a situation that you can't do anything about it's just like life but for
the individual who has Faith who can press past the justlike life and reach into what God has somehow you can find something to give him glory about in spite of what Satan is trying to do and and and so anytime now we move into anything that's spiritual it calls for Faith because praise and and worship obviously is spiritual because you're dealing with a god you cannot see and it is indicative of of our walk with God that we lift him up and we give him glory because that's what we were created to do and anybody
who does what they're created to do can't help but be blessed by the power of the Living God oh God and so now praise then has to identify God when whenever I lift him up whenever I give him glory I have to identify God I have to look through my circumstance I look through my trials and I have to come to the place where I can say to myself that God is in this no matter what I am beginning to learn now not to look for the negative in the circumstance but look for the positive
in the circumstance I I am learning that I don't look for the thing that is wrong because that's what Satan wants to to to magnify he wants to magnify the difficulty of the circumstance but for every difficult circumstance that you have gone through God had to reveal himself or you couldn't be here right now ah you've been through some rough stuff T somebody say you've been through some rough stuff yes but you're still here right now because in the middle of how tough it was God had to reveal himself something had to happen to keep
you in right mind something had to happen to keep you in Focus something had to happen to keep you from losing your place because no matter how rough it was God had to reveal himself and praise identifies God in the middle of rough circumstances it's it's praise that says I've found God even though I've lost my house I've found God even though I've lost my job I found God even though my circumstan is going crazy I've found God even though I've been rejected God has not rejected me and I have a reason to give him
glory oh God I feel your presence anytime you give God glory in the midst of negative circumstances it's a point of Praise it's it's a point that praise has located God and faith is still still working so now above situation we've got spirit and we've got truth and this is why they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth and sometimes you don't worship God simply because of what he does you got to learn to worship him because of who he is when I know who he is then I know weeping may
endure for a night but joy is coming in the morning morning uh what God does then in many instances bring us to focus on God's action in our lives and this calls for Faith because often times I have to learn who to ascribe a certain action to I have to learn that I need to ascribe to God the things that he does in my life and negative things don't always work for the negative sometimes you have to go through some negative things in order to get to the power that you really are ah some things
just test to see where you are and who you are oh God sometimes you go through some things and they and they form certain things in you sometimes you go through things that Forge and form and orchestrate and make you who you should be and then sometimes you go through through some things that are just tests to find where you are I don't always know where I am until a test comes and God brings a test into my life to bring me to realize where I am I thought I had victory over some things until
the test came I thought I had power to overcome some things until the test came it is the test that often times moves you to the next level but the test also checks to see where you are oh God but I feel the Holy Spirit uh touch somebody say is it you or is it memor uh sometimes you got to go through some things to test the authenticity of who you are and God allows us to find out who we are and in the middle of the test I've got to learn to give God glory
because he's going to reveal not only who he is but who I am oh I've got to find the source and if I can find out who it is that's bringing this then I can go to the next level of understanding it is here then that the Hebrew looks at the word abon and they use the word Eon and what it means is it's a pedestal and it emphasizes solidity coming from the root it means being strong and what the writer is saying here in the Psalms is whenever I can come to a place of
Praise no matter what my circumstance is I have shown the strength of who I am it is one of the things that really drives the devil and that's when you can lift God up because of the strength of who you are in spite of what you're going through because Satan is pushing you to complain and he's pushing you to be negative about what you're facing but God is saying to the the devil in spite of what he puts you through there is going to be praise coming out of the lip of my child oh God
because the connection that the child has to me is not simply circumstantial but I am hooked to this child in spirit have you ever discovered that when spirit is connected to God that no matter what Satan does to you he can't break your spirit and when your spirit is connected you can lift up holy hands and give God glory in spite of what you're going through the pedestal here in a bond the pedestal is actually now the base of the Tabernacle and what it's talking about now is that the very base on which the Tabernacle
stands which has within the parameters the presence of God so praise then abound becomes the pedestal that means now if I walk into the house of God and the spirit of God is here then I come in with praise that's how I enter why because he dwells in the midst of Praise not that praise brings him but when I see him and when I sense his presence I have no choice but to lift him up can I take it further anybody who begins to pray has got to praise in prayer because when you walk in
and feel the presence of God and you feel the power of God immediately it has to move you to praise why if I come in this room and I ask you for something and and as I note your presence when I walk in and I see how wonderful you look and how powerful you are before I can ask you for anything I have have to comment on just how well you're dressed you know by the way H you you look so wonderful today you look so handsome so special I mean the suit is cut I
mean you are the last word before I ask for anything having looked at you has so completely enveloped me that I forgot what I was asking for Anytime You Come To God In Prayer the first thing once you note the presence of God is to give praise because you can't begin to ask in light of his Splendor his magnificence his his his glory his Holiness his Beauty his righteousness so all prayer begins with praise and you can't enter into the house of God and not feel praise rising in your system because what you're saying to
the devil is in spite of what I've been through I sense the power of the Living God a bond then becomes the very pedestal of of the Tabernacle and God's concern then over such detail regarding worship is a principle that can be hardly ignored because what he says is there is no church without worship you will not come in and receive anything from God without first giving him the praise you will not walk away with a blessing until you bless God for being God oh I feel it here that's why you'll never be defeated because
if you can lift up the holy hands and give God some Glory Satan will never defeat a child of God with an attitude to praise the Lord oh I feel the presence of God give somebody high five and tell him praise him and it'll make things better oh I'm going praise him till I feel better this morning I I'm preaching to myself excuse me the ritual then and and the equipment connecting uh was no light thing because what God has done now through the word Ean is he has set up the whole principle on praise
the whole principle of the house of God every everything around us is based on lifting up and giving God glory and it takes strength to praise God when you're going through all kinds of difficulties and trials oh yes it's easy to praise God when you've got a car in your driveway you've got a house full of food and everything's going your way a pocket full of money but it takes something from your soul to praise God uh when everything is going aew and you can walk in and lift him up oh I feel like Shake
somebody's hand like you going to shake it off and say neighbor it took strength for me to give God glory today if I told you what I went through this week oh you would know it took the power of the Living God and so now God then he describes and he prescribes every detail he fixes then praise to please him H I'm obligated to obey but PR praise pleases him he wants praise from the depth of my soul he want me to desire to give him glory that's why he says delight yourself in the Lord
and He will give you the desires of your heart he wants me to feel good about having a god God he wants me to feel good about knowing who he is and I refuse to let the devil keep my head down as long as I have a God to lift up and I don't care how the devil feels about it but I've come to glorify the Lord if I don't have a dime I'll glorify him if I'm sick in my body I'll glorify him woo F the Holy Ghost it is not true however that the
attention to external details at the expense of appropriate inner spiritual uh pleases God I have to have the appropriate disposition internally which means that my praise indicates that I'm not affected by what goes on on the outside as long as the presence of God dwells with in me I'm not affected you can do whatever you want on the outside as long as he dwells in me internally and I can identify the place of God so abound means then that praise becomes the Cornerstone and here now he Compares himself unto a building and he infers that
he is one who is established the Earth's footing the land the creation's corner Stone what he's saying now is that God is the base of everything and the base of all that I do should include praise I found out that I don't need to be in a relationship that I can't praise God about I I don't need to have a job that I can't praise God about I don't need to hang with people who I can't praise God about because praise becomes the Cornerstone it becomes the substr and I don't need to be involved in
anything that I can't give God glory about oh I feel the presence of God uh give somebody high five and say you need to give God the glory if you write a book God needs to get the glory if you buy a car God needs to get the glory and you don't need to be involved in anything that you can't give God the glory about oh and so then the objective of Eden is to glory is to be Mighty to make great it is it is Noble it is upper class and what it does is
it speaks now of the lordship his exclusive lordship over the mountain his exclusive lordship over the waves because what it does is it elevates God above every situation or circumstance and it does now it speaks now of superiority and it gives God the superiority of anything that you can go through note how defeating it is to your enemies after they have pressed you on all sides try to destroy you in and out and you have the unmitigated goal in the midst of all you're going through to give God glory what you just said is in
spite of what I'm facing God is still Superior oh I feel it here this is why the devil had to back up from job because job said though he slay me yet will I trust him H do I have any Praises in the house is there somebody in here that knows how to glorify the Lord uh it's not because everything's going your way it's not because everything is fixed uh it's not because everything is falling in place regardless of what everything is I've got a praise in my spirit and devil no matter what you say
I will glorify the name of my God oh God it's to make Mighty it's to lift him I've got some more to go and and then he said is Barack and Barack is subjective praise it is to kneel it identifies actually a source that moves you to surrender Barack is different now that because Edon is more objective it looks at the quality of who you're dealing with anytime you see Ian it moves to the quality of the stature of the individual when you look at God and you Magnify Him because of who he is that
is now objective I can't help it I've come into His presence and when I see him in the marvelous Splendor that he is I can't help but compliment him for the rest of the morning I push back my request that's objective now Barak is subjective what it does now is it makes a comparison between who is praising and the one who is praising so Barat means to kneel i' I've got to surrender I've got to surrender because I cannot stand in his presence I've got to kneel in his presence I've got to get low because
I don't want to give the impression that I'm on the same level with my god oh I feel it here any time you get low before the Lord you are elevated above your enemy can I say that again anybody who submits themsel before God just got raised above your enemies because the enemy can't destroy anybody who gets low before the Lord oh I wish I could preach this some people think God works for us but I've got news for you you work for God and God gives you the strength to keep on giving him glory
that's why you're not dead yet cancer can't destroy you because out of your mouth comes praise for God I feel like having Church in here and so now it moves me to surrender so the eological association of Barack is to bless it is to endure with power for Success it actually means prosperity for Gund and longevity anytime you deal with Barack you're dealing now with power to go through so I lower myself before the Lord and I lift him up with great Praises it's also spoken of a verbal blessing and it's from the greater to
the Lesser a father to his son Brothers to Sisters King to subjects and and it's all generally upon departure or upon introduction so what I've got is Barak now which means that the Lesser speaks the greater rather speaks to the Lesser and so now what God does is put me in position to magnify or lift him up somebody says well I thought God was already elevated to his greatest height well whenever I lift him up I lower myself and I give him more magnanimous because anytime I live LIF him up I make him more magnificent
I I make him greater why because I lower myself and so the word now speaks to the father to the son and what God does through my praise is he elevates me to elevate him because when I speak Noble things to my God and I speak things that are elevating to my God what I've done now is I've magnifying him I've s it i' I've I've exalted but I'm still lesser but he allows me the power to speak great things about him every time I speak great things about him I send shock waves to the
negative I'm still not broken I'm still not finished I'm still not done I've struggled but I'm still not through I'm hurt but I'm still not destroyed because I still still can open my mouth and give glory to my God I can raise him to another level in spite of what I'm facing and victory has got to come my way oh I feel something pushing me this morning oh God I feel the power of the Holy Spirit touch two people and say keep on praising him touch somebody say keep on praising him you're about to move
to another level the verbal blessing was not to be despised because often times people despised the verbal blessing they would hold back their praise have you ever been around folk who would hold back their comments any comment that would speak good of you they generally don't bring it out I know some folks that are real stingy when it comes to saying how nice you have been how good you are but don't make a mistake oh they can talk for years about your mistakes but they can't talk a minute about how good you have been oh
I feel the Holy Ghost I feel something pushing me today there are folk who will put you down in a minute and take them years to get over the negative but no matter how good you are they're just brushed by it looking for the next fix oh but when somebody is under pressure in their lives and can walk into the house of God don't have a mercedesbenz don't have a lot of money in the bank left a broken messed up house and can crawl in here and lift up God and give him glory you send
the devil on the Run feel like shouting in here oh I feel like having church I'm glad I stopped by didn't have have to come but I feel good about coming give somebody high five and say I've got a reason to praise the name of the Lord woo I feel it here it's a verbal blessing if you notice that M despised David's blessing when David danced before the Lord and took his clothes off and got naked Michel despised it she's spoke negatively about David you touch your neighbor say watch how you talk about folk who
like to praise God you better watch how you talk some folk need to praise him out of depression some folk need to praise him out of sadness you better watch who you pointing fingers at with folk running across the front run if you want to as long as he giving glory to God God you are to praise him oh God she looked at the man funny and she despised his praise for God and because of macau's attitude towards David when he danc before the Lord she was struck with barness she could not produce I feel
like preaching Touch Somebody and say praise means production when you can give God glory you'll produce don't let the enemy fool you if you can lift up the name of God he'll give you something to produce folk who don't know how to praise [Applause] Him somebody ought to H praise the Lord I got to give God the glory oh God the address here becomes a formalize means of expressing thanks and praise to this person because he has given out of the abundance of his life that's why the writer said when I think of the goodness
of Jesus and all he's done for me my soul Cries Out Hallelujah touch somebody say just think about it if you think about it you'll praise him if you think about it you lift him up if you think about it you'll give him glory if you think about it oh God I feel it it's where you put your mind that's going to get you through because if you think about it you shouldn't be here right now if you think about it you should have all deed a long time ago if you think about it you
should have been messed St but you got up this morning put your shoes on your feet and you're able to stand up and give God some praise I got to preach this thing here today touch two people say the devil's mad but I'm going to praise [Applause] Him woo I feel the Holy Ghost I wish I had the strength I got to rely upon so when I Barack it expresses his has head his kindness his faithfulness the attributes for which God is praised he's praised for being faithful he's praised for being kind I wish I
got some help in here Shake somebody's hand and say the Lord has been kind to me the the Lord has been faithful to me the Lord has been good to me have to give him glory the lord has brought me out the Lord has made a way and excuse me if I mess up your Sunday but I've got to praise him for all he has feel it here I feel the Holy Ghost feel like lifting him up touch two people say I got a reason to praise the Lord T somebody say I'm a miracle you're
looking at a miracle you're looking at somebody who's escaped hell itself you're looking at some that's been brought out of trials and tribulation I got to praise the name of the Lord I feel the Holy Ghost it means to rely upon the existence of a covenant between oneself and God one writer said without manifesting his nature is to bless oneself and to court disaster but when you you put it where it belongs you said Lord where I am today does not belong to me it belongs to you the money I have in my pocket is
not because I was so smart but because you were so good the job that I have it's not because I was the best person for the job but you open the door and you made the way this appointment that I had it was not mine for the making but you fixed it in the heart of the man to give me a call to open up a door and I refuse to sit here and act like it's my Ingenuity or my Brilliance but I just stopped by to tell you thank you thank you for making a
way thank you for waking me up thank you for giving me strength thank you for another day to let the devil know you can't with me cuz God is with me and greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world if there's somebody in here that's got enough Mouth left to open up and tell the Lord I'm so glad you are my God I ain't through yet there's another word here Hal and it means to boast Shake somebody's hand and say brag about your God boast about him brag every day let somebody
know you know who God is I feel something pushing me let somebody know you know how you got here you know how you got rich you know who showers blessings you know who makes a way you got to boast about God you got to brag about God you got to let the devil hear you talking about your god oh he's good to me he makes ways for me he opens doors for me don't get in my car if I can't talk to you about God because the car you're riding in he's the one who supplied
it don't get in my house because everything in here God did it for me I feel like preaching in here give somebody high five and say God did this God brought me out God made me God Lifted Me God turned me around God fix my life and can't no devil do a thing about it I need somebody that knows how to praise him can I preach like I feel it then there is hul and this mean means sincerely or deep thanks for satisfaction in landing Superior qualities great AE of object and there's audion which means
to shout touch your neighbor say say it loud uhhuh he's God say it loud don't come in here and can't talk open your mouth like you know he deserves it and say it l it's to shout in the face of your enemies I love you I'm broke but I love you I'm hurt but I love you and I sit here praising you until you make the difference and there's salula which means to Acclaim to utter a cry and praise given to a good H maker or to a wise Diplomat somebody who knows how to take
care of business Shake somebody's hand like you going to shake it off and say the God I serve knows how to take care a business can I preach like I feel it the God I serve knows how to order your steps the God I serve knows how to bring you around the problem knows how to bring you through an ambush knows how to protect you from haters give somebody high five said he kept me from the jealous he kept me from the envious he kept me from the murderers cuz God knows how to take care
of business and then let's follow which is to recognize expressions of Praise You got to pet make a song out of it it's an attitude of delight an attitude of rejoicing it's belief and joy mixed in together they're inextricably inter because I believe I praise because I praise I believe if I'm still praising God I'm still believing God and if I'm still believing God I'm still praising God I feel like shouting those who declare Thou Art holy Thou Art the inhabit of my soul I believe so our praise I praise because I believe Shake somebody's
hand so you coming out all right Magnify Him with me let us exalt his name together you coming out all right I don't care who turn it back on you you're going to be all right because God is on your side I'm almost finished then there is which is a song of Music which is a song of praise and it talks about Deborah's song of praise to commemorate the destruction of Shah and his chots because they stepped on his head can I talk for a minute touch somebody said neighbor do you have any victory that
you want to celebrate today do you have any vict somebody said you wouldn't have made it to this age that's a victory you need to celebrate somebody said you couldn't make it without him you've been without him for 15 years 15 months that's a victory to celebrate somebody said you would be dead by now but touch two people say I'm still alive and that's a victory to celebrate somebody said you wouldn't make it but you're making it every day that's a victory to celebrate I was so sick this morning but I feel the anointing and
that is a victory to celebrate and I'm going praise him till the devil knows I can't be touched touch somebody tell your neighbor praise him till the devil knows you can't be touched and then of course there is TOA T somebody holla TOA Praise by confession I confess he is a lord I confess he is mighty but to means thanks to enter into his gates with Thanksgiving into his courts with praise can I preach like a feel it shake somebody's hand say I'm going from praise to Thanksgiving I praise him till I get it and
when I get it I thank him for it I praise him oh I'm broke and when he gives me money I thank him so I'm always either praising or Thanksgiving I feel the Holy Ghost can I get some help here touch your neighbor say I'm either praise him or I'm Thanksgiving I praise him till I get it and when I get it I thank him then I thank him and I praise him till I get the next thank him again I praise and I thank I praise him that I thank him I'm broke and I
praise him when he gives me money I thank him I'm going from praise to thank praise to Thanksgiving I feel like dancing touch your neighbor say TW step is a dance can you do the twostep I feel pring it's a praise and a Thanksgiving when he bless me I thank him then I praise him till he bless me again I thank him I thank him and I praise him I'm praising him right now touch your neighbor say neighbor it's time I feel the Holy Ghost I feel somebody I feel like lifting him up can I
preach like I feel it can you help me somebody help me touch your neighbor say neighbor what are you doing now are you praising him or are you thanking him touch somebody say little of both I I'm praising him for what I don't have yet but I'm thanking him for what he's already done so I'm jumping from one to the other I'm never downbeat I'm never sad but I am a child of the king I'm either thanking him or praising him thank him or praise him I dare you to tou somebody and said neighbor join
me let's thank him and then let's Praise Him some's getting ready to break somebody's healed somebody's lifted somebody's overcome somebody [Music] praise him everybody come on do the two step this morning either praise him or thank him but everybody do stop come on clap your hand [Music] every come on and pray Church Hallelujah W that's right come on come to your neighbor come get your praise on God hallelu [Music] [Music] God uh-huh did you hear what he said he said just think about where you could be if it had not been for Jesus and turn
to your David tell him I'm praising him and then I'm thanking him and then I'm thanking him and then I'm praising him and then I'm thanking him and I'm praising him but I'm going to praise come on and celebrate Jesus this morning y'all better celebrate Hallelujah [Music]
