1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Are you glad to be in the house of the lord today? 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:12,000 I know you got food in the back and I'm not going to get too involved today. 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,000 I did bring something special today. 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Now I've got hundreds of stories that I could tell on your pastor, but I'll only tell two. 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Love them dearly, love the family. 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:37,000 If you think for one minute that the whole family doesn't sacrifice when their dad's a pastor, you'd be mistaken. 7 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:44,000 They've all had to give of the time with dad because I know his Saturdays was always full. 8 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 I'm trying to scratch one out. 9 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:56,000 My wife always wanted a sister and she found one in Sister Kathy for our 20th anniversary. 10 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:04,000 I got a hunting trip in the mountains with your pastor. 11 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Somebody should have shouted, I killed one. 12 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,000 He can talk to turkeys as good as he can preach. 13 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:18,000 She got a cruise, what was it, 80 something day cruise? 14 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,000 She got a cruise with Sister Kathy. 15 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 There's pictures to prove this when I tell you this. 16 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,000 This Bible has been international. 17 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000 This is what I got for my 20th anniversary on a hunting trip. 18 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 I'm going to use it today in honor of that. 19 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,000 I love you, love you guys. 20 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,000 I appreciate everything that you've done for us. 21 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:50,000 If you will stand, I'm going to read you a scripture. 22 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Psalms chapter 107. 23 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000 While I'm turning there, thank you for all my family that's in here. 24 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,000 My sister-in-law over here and her sister. 25 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Who's that big tall guy? 26 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Goodness. 27 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 I'm going to read you a scripture in honor. 28 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Those two can sing the paint off the wall if they want to. 29 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 This is Brother Junior, wave your hand, him and his wife. 30 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,000 He was like a spiritual mentor to me. 31 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Did concrete for years with him here in Cleveland. 32 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Where's Sister Paula? 33 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,000 I don't fear anybody in here today because Sister Paula's here. 34 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 I don't. 35 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,000 There's a couple of young adults that are here now that was in my J-12 36 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 when I was with your pastor. 37 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 They were... 38 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 What is that up there? 39 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,000 You got him a mustache now. 40 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,000 So good to see them in the house of the Lord still serving the Lord 41 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 after they went through my class. 42 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 That's good. 43 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 That's real good. 44 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,000 If you have your Bibles, let's turn to Psalms chapter 107. 45 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:05,000 I want to get right into this today. 46 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:11,000 This is one of the greatest Psalms because of the way it starts. 47 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 But I don't want to start there. 48 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 I want to start in verse number 35. 49 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:23,000 He gives us instruction on giving thanks to the Lord because the Lord is good 50 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 and his mercy endures forever. 51 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Verse 35 says he turns the wilderness into a standing water and dry ground 52 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 into water springs. 53 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,000 And there he makes the hungry to dwell that they may prepare a city of 54 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 habitation for habitation. 55 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,000 So the fields would plant vineyards which may yield fruits of increase. 56 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,000 He blessed them also so that they are multiplied greatly and suffered 57 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 not their cattle to decrease. 58 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Again they are menaced and brought low through oppression and affliction 59 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 and sorrow. 60 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:07,000 He pours contempt upon princes and causes them to wander in the wilderness 61 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 where there is no way. 62 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Yet saith he the poor on high, saith he the poor on high from affliction 63 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 and makes him families like a flock. 64 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 The righteous shall see it and rejoice and the poor shall be glad. 65 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,000 The righteous shall rejoice and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. 66 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Whoso is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand 67 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 the loving kindness of the Lord. 68 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,000 I want to preach to you just for a few moments on building a culture of 69 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 praise. 70 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Building the culture of praise. 71 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Can we pray, Father, I thank you for the privilege to be behind this 72 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,000 sacred desk today. 73 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,000 I pray today that my lips will begin to speak words of wisdom, speak to 74 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 the house today, speak to those who are in need today. 75 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Lord, I pray today that you would touch ears to hear what thus saith the 76 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Lord. 77 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000 If we have ever been in a need for a revival, for an outpouring of your 78 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 spirit, we are in that day today. 79 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 I praise you today for just the opportunity to be here and those who 80 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 have mentored me in my ministry, I thank you for them. 81 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 And we bless them today. 82 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Father, have your way in this house and we'll give you praise when it's 83 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 said and done. 84 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 In Jesus' name, somebody say amen. 85 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 You can be seated in the presence of the Lord. 86 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:33,000 There is every time that God begins to move in the earth, it is always 87 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:39,000 preceded by something that has entered into the heavens by way of God's 88 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 people that are here on earth. 89 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 We just read it in those scriptures. 90 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 He turns, he makes, he blesses, he multiplies. 91 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 He doesn't allow subtraction to anything that you have. 92 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,000 He protects you from death. 93 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,000 He brings the high down low. 94 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 He sets the low on high. 95 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 And he hides us from affliction. 96 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,000 The echoing sound of a prayerful cry to receive a promise, the 97 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:06,000 penetrating power of a Pentecostal people praising God in unity, 98 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,000 reverberating through the heavens, one voice, one prayer, one mind, and 99 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:16,000 one accord in one place, from one spirit sounding into the heavens like 100 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,000 a bullhorn blasting into the ears of God. 101 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:24,000 The echoes override the angels crying out, holy, holy, holy is the 102 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Lord God Almighty. 103 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 I believe God leans over from his throne and he begins to hear the 104 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 cries of his people. 105 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,000 And in the spirit there is a sound of your praise that goes before God. 106 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,000 And this sound is the sound of somebody building a tabernacle, somebody 107 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:45,000 building a temple, the nailing of boards, the raising of walls that 108 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,000 God begins to hear because he knows that his people are building a 109 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 place, a covering for him to come and to dwell in. 110 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 The Bible says God inhabits. 111 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,000 He lives in. 112 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:00,000 He protects and he visits those who have a yearning heart and praise on 113 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 their lips. 114 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 What greater sound to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords than to 115 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,000 hear the worshipful groans of a broken people, a broken and contrite 116 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,000 people, a repentant cry of a godly people burdened with the sins of a 117 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:19,000 nation upon their face begging him to visit them in their worldwide 118 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,000 chaos. 119 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:25,000 And if you don't know that we are in a worldwide chaos right now, here's 120 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 the questions that will sometimes arise to us. 121 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Will he tarry or will he split the eastern sky and come and take his 122 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 bride away very soon? 123 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,000 What do you do when all else failed and everything we depended upon in 124 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,000 earth seems to be falling apart and turning to rubble right before our 125 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,000 eyes? 126 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 What do you do when it seems like sickness can't be healed and the 127 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 sin-sickened world that once burned with the flame of the gospel is now 128 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:55,000 shattered in pieces of broken society falling deeper and deeper into their 129 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:00,000 sins slowly, sliding down the slippery slopes of a sinfulness that it 130 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:05,000 seems that we cannot come out of an apathy instead of a burning desire to 131 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:09,000 preach the gospel, an apathy that begins to overtake us that we don't 132 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,000 even know what's happened to us. 133 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:15,000 We set in a pew sometimes and we just begin to wonder what happened to the 134 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 anointing that used to be upon my life. 135 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 I don't know. 136 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Maybe you've never been there, but I've been there in that place. 137 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,000 And all it took was for one time for me to get down on my knees and begin to 138 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 cry out to God and say, God, I can't live without your anointing. 139 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:33,000 I can't live without the power of the Holy Ghost residing on the inside of me. 140 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 I can't live any longer. 141 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 I don't want to take another step without you. 142 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000 I'm trying not to get too involved. 143 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000 What is the answer to our modern day dilemma? 144 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 What can change the course of a day that we are living in? 145 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 I just read it to you in Psalms, chapter 107. 146 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:57,000 I wonder what would happen if we really, truly turned our whole hearts towards 147 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:02,000 the Lord and we laid down every sin that so easily besets us and we began to 148 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:07,000 seek the face of the Lord and we quit drawing lines in the sand over the songs 149 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:12,000 that we sing and we quit drawing lines in the sand over who likes who and who 150 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,000 doesn't like who and who's leading this and who's leading that. 151 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,000 I wonder what would truly happen if we just said, God, come down in the midst 152 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 today and begin to lead us. 153 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,000 All this other rubbish, all this other stuff that we deal with, it is nothing to 154 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,000 the Lord. 155 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,000 The best that you can do is ask filthy rags before the Lord. 156 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 You better talk to me or I'll... 157 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,000 If you don't talk to me, I'll go back and I'll think I... 158 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:45,000 If only we could get the blazing, uncontrollable fire of a persistent 159 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:51,000 people advancing towards the presence of Almighty God, toward a victory that is 160 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:57,000 unseen and will begin to burn in the hearts of every born again believer and 161 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,000 the praises of God would arise within the church again with a passionate, 162 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:06,000 prayerful, Pentecostal, hello, power, a Pentecostal power. 163 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,000 I don't know what you was raised up in, but I was raised up in the old 164 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,000 Pentecostal power. 165 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Hello? 166 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,000 They didn't have a... 167 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,000 They didn't swim together and they didn't pray together. 168 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Go figure. 169 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,000 But when they come out of them rooms, I'll never forget. 170 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 I'm sorry, my help may show up today. 171 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:27,000 I remember coming out of the room with that guy right there and the power of 172 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,000 the Holy Ghost was on everybody and they didn't care who was in the lobby. 173 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,000 They began to pray and they began to seek God and they would come out speaking 174 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,000 in another tongue and they didn't care if the visitors were uncomfortable. 175 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:44,000 They prayed until God showed up and when God showed up in the prayer room, 176 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,000 he showed up at the altar continuously. 177 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Whoo! 178 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:58,000 It should be our objective as a people to create a culture of prayer and a 179 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,000 culture of praise. 180 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 There's my mama back here on the back row. 181 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Hey, mama. 182 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:08,000 If you don't know, I'm going to go ahead and let you know I'm Pentecostal ADD. 183 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,000 I will jump from scripture to scripture. 184 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,000 You just got to follow me by the way of the Spirit. 185 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:23,000 I believe that sometimes God is ready and prepared to show up to his church, 186 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,000 but I wonder if the church is ready sometimes. 187 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,000 I wonder if the church is really ready to lay down all the things that we need 188 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 to lay down so God can come in. 189 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,000 He never comes in in dysfunction. 190 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,000 He will never come in in a chaotic people unless he comes in to set judgment in 191 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,000 the house of the Lord. 192 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 If you go all the way back in your scripture and you read the book of 1 193 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:52,000 and 2 Samuel, you will see something that the Lord has been showing me here 194 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:57,000 lately is that God was tired of the way that his house was being run. 195 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,000 He was tired of the way that the priests were doing in his house. 196 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 And the Bible says that God heard a woman's cry. 197 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,000 He heard Hannah praying and Hannah said, Lord, if you'll give me a son, 198 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,000 I'll dedicate him back to you. 199 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,000 I'll give him all of you. 200 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:19,000 But really in the context of the scripture, to deal with what God is wanting to do 201 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:24,000 in his nation, he has to deal with the people in the house first. 202 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 He has to deal with his leaders. 203 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:30,000 He has to...hello? 204 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Okay. 205 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 He's got to deal with the leaders. 206 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,000 He's got to deal. 207 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 If the leaders get correct, then everything else will get correct. 208 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,000 The anointing starts from the head and it works its way down. 209 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:47,000 It does not flow until you get connected to the head and the head of this church 210 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,000 and this house is the man of God, your pastor, Pastor Waters. 211 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Amen? 212 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,000 I'm going to tell you what an old 85-year-old man at my church tells me all the time. 213 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,000 He said, you're a star. 214 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Jesus is holding you in chapter number 3. 215 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,000 That's the only way that most pastors can make it through is because Jesus is 216 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 holding them. 217 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Let me move on. 218 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 I want this to be a shouting message. 219 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:17,000 But he begins to work with the leadership. 220 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,000 And as he works with the leadership, here's one thing that just blew me away, man, 221 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,000 when the Lord showed me this. 222 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Samuel comes in and he is introduced as a prophet. 223 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:36,000 And if you ever want to get true worship, always brings forth a prophetic thing. 224 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Not just a prophetic utterance, not just tongues and interpretation, but it brings 225 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:47,000 forth a prophetic guidance and direction for not just the church but for the 226 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,000 nation and those people that are attached around. 227 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000 There's a prophetic utterance. 228 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,000 I don't know about you, but Joel chapter 2 assigns a prophetic thing to the 229 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,000 generations that are beneath us. 230 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,000 They need the prophecy and they need somebody to tell them where they are 231 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,000 headed or they will go out and they will go to the world and they will never come 232 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,000 back in the church. 233 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Hello? 234 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:16,000 The second thing that the Lord began to show me was that David himself was only a 235 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:22,000 king, but as he was being called to be a king, there's some peculiar things that 236 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 he began to do. 237 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:30,000 The Bible says that he went to a hemolec and he asked him to inquire from the 238 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Lord, to inquire from the Lord for him. 239 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,000 There's times in your leadership that you will get to a place where you have to 240 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:44,000 depend upon those who are anointed over you to be able to get something from the 241 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Lord. 242 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,000 When you come in here on Sunday mornings, you come in here depending upon him to 243 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,000 give you a word, and that is a good thing if you do that. 244 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:59,000 He was inquiring through a hemolec, the priest, to be able to come in. 245 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Second, if you go on down the chapters, you will find that David got into a bad 246 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:11,000 place, and when he got into this bad place, when he got into this bad place, he had 247 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:18,000 to call for a hemolec's son to bring him the E-pod. 248 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:23,000 And when he brought him the E-pod, there's a peculiar thing about the E-pod, and 249 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,000 when worship goes on, there's something that you don't see in the E-pod. 250 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:32,000 When you begin to look at scripture, there's something on the inside of it that 251 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:37,000 we don't ever see, and David was using this to show us that he was the prototype 252 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 of who we are today. 253 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,000 On the inside, there was a little pocket, and inside that little pocket, some 254 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,000 people over the years in history said that, I'm going to try to say this 255 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:52,000 correct, Urim and Tumim, or whoever the Hebrew scholar is, shout it out. 256 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Urim and Thummim. 257 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,000 That's exactly what it was. 258 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Yes or no? 259 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 If he didn't speak, then you wait on him. 260 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,000 We don't tarry no more. 261 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:11,000 We get mad when we go to Chick-fil-A and they ain't got it ready in two seconds. 262 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,000 But the Urim and the Thummim was on the inside of the E-pod, but I want you to 263 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,000 see something, you can read this when you get home, it's not my job to tell you 264 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,000 where to read, you read it when you get home. 265 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:28,000 It's 1 Samuel chapter 21, 22, 23, 2 Samuel 6, 1 Chronicles 15. 266 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,000 There you go. 267 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 How's your notes? 268 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:38,000 The next thing David does is he goes out again and he gets in another bad place. 269 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,000 I'm just giving you the groundwork for a second. 270 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:46,000 And when he gets into another bad place, the Bible says he called Elimelech and he 271 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,000 said, give me the E-pod. 272 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:56,000 And he took the E-pod and he said, Lord, do I need to go out against my enemies? 273 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 Yes, you do. 274 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,000 All of a sudden David is now getting the revelation that was supposed to come 275 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:07,000 through priesthood, but David is offering us a different look and that is a 276 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,000 kingdom of priests. 277 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Next thing he does, you see it, we all preach this, we preach this one, 2 278 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Chronicles chapter number 15 and 2 Samuel chapter number 6, he went and 279 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:29,000 brought the presence of God back into Jerusalem. 280 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:34,000 He brought him back and the Bible says that when he brought him back, he was 281 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 dancing naked before the Lord. 282 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Ain't that what we preached for 100 years? 283 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,000 He wasn't naked before. 284 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,000 He wasn't naked. 285 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Read that scripture. 286 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:48,000 He's got the same E-pod that the priest gave him and the priest gave him this 287 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:53,000 E-pod and he put that E-pod on and 1 Chronicles chapter 15 says that he still 288 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 had his robely garments on. 289 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:02,000 What the issue with his wife was, the way that he was dancing. 290 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Don't think I can't dance. 291 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:10,000 I'm going to put on some. 292 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000 We've lost our dancing shoes in the Pentecostal church. 293 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,000 We've lost our shout in the Pentecostal church. 294 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:20,000 We've lost our power in the Pentecostal church because there's something to say 295 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:25,000 about when God begins to move and our people begin to shout and begin to cry out 296 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,000 to him. 297 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Why is he yelling? 298 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,000 Why is he yelling? 299 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Because I'm feeling this. 300 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 He's yelling too. 301 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Sorry, I got a little hair or something in my lip. 302 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,000 Chapped lip. 303 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:50,000 So my question today is how do we begin to move back towards where we were or 304 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,000 where God wants us to be? 305 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:58,000 So I'm going to give you some instructions and you can take them, you can leave them, 306 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,000 you can throw them, let them go in one ear after the other. 307 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Eat your chicken and go home happy today. 308 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Why should we praise him? 309 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Why should we praise God? 310 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Building a culture of prayer, you have to understand the reason that you praise God. 311 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Psalms 18 and 3 says, David, the servant of the Lord who spake unto the Lord the 312 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:28,000 words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his 313 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,000 enemies. 314 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:34,000 I love it in verse 3, says I will call upon the name of the Lord who is worthy to be 315 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,000 praised. 316 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:42,000 That's why you praise the Lord, because he is worthy and because he delivers you. 317 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000 You have the ability on the inside. 318 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,000 I don't like to be loud. 319 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,000 I'll get to you in just a second. 320 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Listen, daddy bought you a bike. 321 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Mama washed your clothes for you. 322 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,000 And hopefully if you're over the age of 30, she still ain't washing your clothes for 323 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,000 you. 324 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:02,000 But he gives you life and when he gives you life, you ought to have something on the 325 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,000 inside of you that says, God, thank you for letting me live another day. 326 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:11,000 I don't know about you, but the older I get, I begin to tell myself, if I creak and crack 327 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,000 one more time, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get up out of bed, but thank you 328 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,000 for another day. 329 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,000 You're worthy to be praised. 330 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Why should we praise him? 331 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,000 How should this happen? 332 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,000 Psalm 48 and one says, great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. 333 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,000 There's a way that you have to praise him. 334 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,000 You have to greatly praise the Lord. 335 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Somebody smile at me. 336 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,000 My goodness. 337 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:45,000 Did you leave your teeth at home? 338 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Show me your gums, baby. 339 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 It'll be all right. 340 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 You have to greatly praise. 341 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Why do we greatly praise God? 342 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Because he's a great God. 343 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:57,000 He has greatly to be praised because he is a great God. 344 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,000 It don't take me very long at all. 345 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,000 That song they just sung is when I think about the Lord and how he saved me and raised me 346 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,000 and filled me, when they begin to talk about that, I'm telling you there is something on 347 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,000 the inside of me that says, my God, it should have been me that was dead. 348 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 I was drunk, flipped up over on the car. 349 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,000 It should have been me that was in the hospital. 350 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 It should have been me that wasn't here today. 351 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,000 All my friends that died and all those who left me. 352 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 My God, it could have been me. 353 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,000 But God in himself, he said, I'm going to save you. 354 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 I'm going to set you up. 355 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 I'm going to put you behind a pulpit. 356 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:34,000 And that is the reason why I praise God the way that we should. 357 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:39,000 I'm telling you, somebody ought to get excited today because the God who you serve is not 358 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,000 limited to a heaven. 359 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:46,000 He can come right here in the midst of this earth. 360 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,000 That was my introduction. 361 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,000 You worship him. 362 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Psalm 47 says you worship him because he's your king. 363 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Because he's your king and he's your Savior. 364 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:06,000 When we sing praises, you should expect the King of Kings to enter into the room. 365 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:11,000 He's invisible, but when folks start crying out to him, you begin to see the power of 366 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000 him. 367 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,000 I've got Lakeview here. 368 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 I grew up at Lakeview and I've got these people. 369 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,000 I'll never forget one time, Eddie Thomas, remember Eddie Thomas? 370 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 She was singing, Eddie Thomas got up. 371 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 I had just been saved. 372 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,000 I had just been saved. 373 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,000 These ain't as tall as them. 374 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,000 And Eddie Thomas started to worship. 375 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 He couldn't run. 376 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000 And he walked around the pool. 377 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,000 He was rocking around the congregation. 378 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,000 And as he walked, I watched because I was just saved and I thought, what are these crazy 379 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 people doing? 380 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,000 This pew jumped, this pew jumped up, this pew jumped up, this pew. 381 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 I thought, what in the world? 382 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Then he started getting close to my eye. 383 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000 And it was like a tick toe effect, a domino effect. 384 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,000 I'm telling you, I didn't ask for it. 385 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,000 I thought these people was crazy. 386 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,000 And all of a sudden he's easing towards mine and I hear them shout back here. 387 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:18,000 And I hear my brother shout behind me and I thought, oh, my God, it's my turn. 388 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000 And I've never shouted before in my life. 389 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 I don't know what I'm supposed to do. 390 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,000 And then all of a sudden something jumped on me and I stood up and said, my Lord, thank 391 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,000 you. 392 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Well, that didn't go over like I thought it would, but I did bring two more points. 393 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,000 He's your king. 394 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,000 He delivers you. 395 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 He sets you free. 396 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:46,000 The Bible says in Psalms 18, therefore, David said, therefore, I will give thanks unto 397 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,000 him the Lord among the heathen. 398 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:54,000 You can even praise God among them sinful folks that you find yourself in. 399 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Anybody ever do that? 400 00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:00,000 When they cussing and carrying on around you, you ought to say, praise be unto God, the 401 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Lord most high. 402 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000 He's the king of kings and he's the Lord of lords. 403 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,000 You don't have to wait to get in church to praise God. 404 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,000 You can praise him no matter where you are. 405 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000 I tell my people all the time, if it's too crowded in the aisle at Walmart, start shouting 406 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,000 and speaking in tongues. 407 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,000 There's only two things that can happen. 408 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:24,000 It'll empty out or somebody will break out in revival with you. 409 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:29,000 So that's why we praise him. 410 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Now let's talk about who should praise him. 411 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000 This is the uncomfortable part. 412 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:39,000 First of all, second Chronicles 30 and 21, children of Israel that were present, Jerusalem 413 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,000 kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. 414 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,000 And the Levites and the priests praised the Lord. 415 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,000 You know who the Levites and the priests are? 416 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,000 In our day and time, you're the priesthood. 417 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 You're the royal priesthood. 418 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,000 The royal priesthood that David began. 419 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,000 You're the royal priesthood. 420 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,000 And it's up to you to praise God. 421 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,000 The priest was a separated tribe. 422 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Just because you're a leader don't mean that you can't praise God. 423 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 Hello? 424 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,000 I've seen your pastor do helicopter spins. 425 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 I think that was Scotty. 426 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,000 I was on the drums one time when he almost tore the whole drum cage down. 427 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,000 He was getting a little older and he went into a spin. 428 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,000 I seen him spin one time at Dunlap and he knocked one of them singing things off the 429 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:31,000 I was like, good Lord, we've got to buy stuff everywhere he goes. 430 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Just because you're the leader don't mean that you don't praise God. 431 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Hello? 432 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Well, you just don't know, Brother Burns, it is my place to bring others into worship. 433 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000 No, honey, you need to open up your mouth and praise God for yourself. 434 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:50,000 If you're going to lead me anywhere, you need to make a sacrifice unto God Almighty 435 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000 because he's worthy to be praised. 436 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Somebody give him a hand clap of praise. 437 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Now, don't take that offensive. 438 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000 I wasn't talking to your praise leaders. 439 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000 I had to be careful. 440 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,000 I'm not as polished as your pastor is. 441 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:16,000 I will offend and then I'll get you delivered at the end. 442 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Psalms 148 and 2 says, praise you, him. 443 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Who is it that should praise? 444 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,000 This is the craziest one. 445 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000 If you've got your Bibles, you need to mark this one. 446 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,000 Praise you all his angels, all his hosts. 447 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000 Praise you, sun and moon. 448 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,000 Praise you, stars of the light. 449 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,000 Praise you, heaven of heavens and waters that are above. 450 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Praise him, rain. 451 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,000 That's what he's saying. 452 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 Let the rain praise him. 453 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000 Praise the Lord from the earth. 454 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:49,000 You dragons and all the deeps, fire, hell, snow, clouds and vapor, stormy wind fulfilling his word. 455 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:54,000 You have the fruit trees and all the cedars, beasts and all the cattle, creeping things and flying fowl. 456 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,000 Kings of the earth and all the people, princes and judges of the earth. 457 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,000 Both young men and maiden, old men and children. 458 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:09,000 I'm telling you, if we had some real good young Pentecostal people begin to praise God, you might get an elder to get up and shout and try to make a lap around this place today. 459 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:16,000 You have the victory and you need to announce it to the enemy that you have not been bound anymore. 460 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,000 He has led you out of captivity and you have the power of praise. 461 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:27,000 And when you begin to praise God, I'm telling you, something on the inside changes the atmosphere where we are. 462 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,000 Glory to God. 463 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,000 Hallelujah. 464 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,000 Whoo. 465 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,000 It's okay, Paula. 466 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:47,000 Number three, where should we praise him? 467 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:52,000 Well, you know, I was going to skip over it, but I looked over and seen it. 468 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,000 I'm going to give it to you. 469 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,000 Preacher, you don't know me. 470 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000 I can't make rent this month. 471 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,000 I'm poor and I can't do it. 472 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000 The Bible has a scripture for you. 473 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:11,000 It's Psalm seventy four and twenty one. Oh, let the oppressed return, not ashamed. 474 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,000 Let the poor and the needy crazy. 475 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000 Hey, how about that? 476 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Maybe your next benefit and your next blessing is on the other side of you praising God. 477 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:32,000 Maybe he's making you a little uncomfortable trying to get you to praise him. 478 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:39,000 The Bible says that we are to give lip, not just lip service, but we are to offer him the praises of Thanksgiving. 479 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:46,000 Romans twelve says you need to offer him your whole body, holy before the Lord. 480 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,000 You know, when I was going to skip over it, I'm going to go back and give these to you. 481 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,000 So I'm sixty seven and three. 482 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,000 Who else should praise him? 483 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,000 It's very simple that all the people praise him. 484 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Oh, God, let all the people praise him. 485 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,000 I wish there was a Hebrew guy in here that knew Hebrew. 486 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:06,000 There probably is one in here, but you know what all means? 487 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:12,000 From the neighborhood I come from, it means everybody, everybody. 488 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:18,000 If you're from Manitoba, it's everyone. 489 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:26,000 That means everybody is supposed to praise him, regardless of a song, regardless of who you like, regardless of being poor, 490 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:32,000 regardless of that you don't have enough food at home, you're still commanded by this song to praise the Lord. 491 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,000 Well, somebody just give him a hand. 492 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:38,000 I'm almost finished. 493 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:44,000 The next question, if you're going to build a culture of praise, it's how often should we praise him? 494 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000 We go to church twice a week. 495 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,000 Is that the only time that I should praise him? 496 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:58,000 Psalm 145 and one says, I will extol thee, oh, my God, oh, King, and I will bless your name forever and ever. 497 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:05,000 Verse two says, every day I will bless you and I will praise your name forever and ever. 498 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,000 That's every day. 499 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,000 Seven times, seven days a week. 500 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:14,000 The psalmist in chapter number 92 says to show forth your loving kindness in the morning and every night. 501 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,000 How many times a day should we worship and praise him? 502 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,000 In the morning and in the night. 503 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,000 That's what this psalmist is saying. 504 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:32,000 Psalms 119 and 164, he goes a little bit further and he says seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments. 505 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:37,000 Hebrews 13 and 15 says, by faith him, therefore let us offer up sacrifices to God continually. 506 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,000 That is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks unto God. 507 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,000 I love it because Philippians 4 says, rejoice in the Lord always. 508 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,000 And again, I say rejoice. 509 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000 Hebrews 3 says, blessed be the Lord from this time forth and forevermore. 510 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,000 And he gives us the complete package of how we should praise God. 511 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:59,000 From the rising of the sun until the going down of the same, the Lord's name is to be praised. 512 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,000 Hello? 513 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,000 So there is never a point in time that we should really stop praising God. 514 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:10,000 There's never a point in time that we should stop praising him because God is good and he's good all the time. 515 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,000 He's good every day. 516 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000 He's good everywhere. 517 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,000 It doesn't matter where I go. 518 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,000 I can still give God praise. 519 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000 Somebody say amen. 520 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,000 I love it in 2nd Chronicles chapter number 20. 521 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,000 Jehoshaphat goes out. 522 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:27,000 If the praise team will come back, I'm almost finished. 523 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,000 I'm just going to give you this first point. 524 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,000 2nd Chronicles chapter 20, Jehoshaphat goes out. 525 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:39,000 And he's wondering how to go out. 526 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,000 And God sends a new thing his way. 527 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:49,000 He says here's how you need to establish yourself when you're going out to praise, I mean to go out to war. 528 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Send Judah first. 529 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,000 He said get me all of the praisers. 530 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:03,000 Get me all the people that know how to play the tambourine. 531 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:12,000 You can only play the tambourine in your sanctuary if you have been through a class with your pastor. 532 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:22,000 If that makes it through his office, then you can play it. 533 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:29,000 I have hid more in the last four years of my life than I have in my whole life because I was a drummer. 534 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,000 I wasn't a good drummer. 535 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,000 I wasn't like Scotty. 536 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000 I was a drummer. 537 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000 I didn't have time to be a drummer. 538 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,000 I needed to keep time. 539 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:42,000 I don't need you off beat. 540 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,000 You don't know when to clap. 541 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,000 We don't know when to clap. 542 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,000 We don't know when to shout. 543 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,000 I'm glad you're here today, sister. 544 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,000 I don't know who you are, but I'm glad you're here. 545 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,000 Jehoshaphat, here's what I need you to do. 546 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,000 First, I need you to assemble the praisers first. 547 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,000 Do you realize that we're in a war? 548 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:12,000 Do you realize we're in a war for your sons and daughters, your granddaughters and your grandsons, all your lost loved ones? 549 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,000 We're in a battle and a war for them. 550 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,000 And here's what God told him this time. 551 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,000 Here's what I want you to do. 552 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000 I want you to send Judah out first. 553 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,000 Send the singers. 554 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,000 Send the players. 555 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,000 Send those that are anointed by God to sing. 556 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,000 Send those that are anointed to play on the tambourine. 557 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,000 Send those dancers out. 558 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:41,000 Can you imagine what the enemy looked at and said, what in the world? 559 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,000 What in the world is going to send the praisers out? 560 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:52,000 And all of a sudden, the Bible says that God sent this thing among the enemy and they turned on each other. 561 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,000 Oh, my goodness. 562 00:33:53,000 --> 00:34:00,000 Instead of the church turning on each other, we ought to come together and unite in prayer and in worship and in praise unto God. 563 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:13,000 And I'm just trying to wait till everybody in here is at the moment that I need you to be at because there is something that the Lord wants to do in your life today. 564 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,000 Just give me a seat. 565 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:23,000 I'm going to hit that. 566 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:30,000 Hit that pedal on the bottom. 567 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,000 Just stay right there. 568 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,000 You ready? 569 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,000 Scotty, I know you're ready. 570 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,000 You're always ready. 571 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,000 Psalm 150 says, praise you, the Lord. 572 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,000 Praise God in the sanctuary and affirmation of his power. 573 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,000 Praise him for the mighty acts. 574 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000 Praise him according to his excellent greatness. 575 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,000 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. 576 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000 He's gone. 577 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,000 He's getting the beans ready. 578 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:02,000 Praise him with the sound of the timbrel and the dance. 579 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,000 Check that timbrel went off until you see your pastor. 580 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:12,000 Praise him with the stringed instruments. 581 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Praise him on the organ. 582 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,000 I didn't call you yet. 583 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,000 Stringed instruments. 584 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000 Come on, give me some. 585 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000 Do it like your pastor does. 586 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,000 You got to lean into it. 587 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,000 You got to lean into it and go. 588 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000 Right? 589 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:35,000 Praise him on the stringed instruments. 590 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,000 Sorry, my nose is running. 591 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:43,000 Praise him. 592 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,000 You ready? 593 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:50,000 On the loud cymbals. 594 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000 Is that as loud as those go? 595 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000 Well, let me see. 596 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000 Praise him on the high sounding cymbals. 597 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,000 Let everything that has breath praise you, the Lord. 598 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:11,000 Notice how the atmosphere is shifting. 599 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,000 Notice how the atmosphere is shifting. 600 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:18,000 It's shifting because the enemy don't like it when you begin to praise God. 601 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:35,000 I'm sorry. 602 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,000 I just came up under a different culture of church than most people have. 603 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,000 I didn't know an organ could say hallelujah until I went to church one day. 604 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000 And I leaned over to the guy next to me and I said, 605 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,000 I think that young man playing the organ just made that thing say hallelujah. 606 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,000 Somehow he made that organ say hallelujah. 607 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,000 When you say hallelujah, she's just going to say it. 608 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,000 She ain't going to try to make it sound like that. 609 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,000 But I'm here to tell you today the one thing that the Pentecostal church needs to do 610 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:15,000 is get the culture of praise back in the Pentecostal church. 611 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000 See how the spirit begins to break out? 612 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,000 See how it begins to break out? 613 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,000 It just begins to break. 614 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,000 The only thing that this really, the only people you have an issue with, 615 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,000 and this is the nervous people, 616 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,000 those that's been in church, 617 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:39,000 and they know at any moment there could be this Pentecostal explosion. 618 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000 You remember those Pentecostal explosions? 619 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:46,000 That won't hold me up with it. 620 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,000 Remember Sister Rayburn Mama? 621 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,000 She had this beehive on top of her head, 622 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,000 975 bobby pins holding that thing together. 623 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:02,000 And she would try to hold it in. 624 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,000 And then she would hit that Pentecostal groove one day. 625 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,000 Woo! 626 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,000 You know how your pastor does? 627 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,000 I can't do it all. 628 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,000 Get dizzy. 629 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:21,000 It's a praise that doesn't care how good you did your hair this morning. 630 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,000 It's a praise that does not care. 631 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,000 If you need God, she would release this praise, 632 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:32,000 and you'd have to deflect your eyes because bobby pins was flinging everywhere. 633 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,000 And all of a sudden Sister Rayburn's hair was almost down to her ankles, 634 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,000 and I said, Mama, my God, I didn't know her hair was that long. 635 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:43,000 I thought it was this short. 636 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000 A Pentecostal praise. 637 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000 Woo! 638 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:53,000 It releases something, something for you. 639 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,000 Now I know with what we're about to do. 640 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000 I'm going to pray for you. 641 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:04,000 I want you to bow your head and evaluate yourself. 642 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000 There's some in here today that you may be backslidden. 643 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,000 You may not know who the Lord is. 644 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:13,000 You may not know what I'm talking about today. 645 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:18,000 It's the benefit of serving God that I can praise him. 646 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,000 And if you're here today and you say, preacher, 647 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,000 I don't know the Lord like you're talking about, but I want to know him, 648 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,000 will you just raise your hand right there where you're at and just say, 649 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000 I want to pray the prayer of salvation. 650 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,000 I want to be saved. 651 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000 Today is my day, and I feel like I need that. 652 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,000 If that's you, will you just lift your hand right there? 653 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:43,000 Number two, maybe you've grown cold in your walk with the Lord. 654 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:47,000 Maybe you've grown cold in your walk with the Lord, 655 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,000 and you say you don't feel him like you used to anymore. 656 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,000 You don't feel that same anointing when you get down to pray. 657 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,000 You don't feel him as you're driving down the road and you begin to sing. 658 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,000 You don't feel it. 659 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,000 And you need another dose of the Holy Ghost. 660 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,000 If that's you, will you just lift your hands and just put it back down? 661 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,000 Thank you. Thank you. 662 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,000 Come on. Come on. 663 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,000 I know I didn't bring the wrong word and the wrong altar call today. 664 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,000 If that's you, we can eat chicken all day long, 665 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:15,000 but I'm telling you today is your day to get filled with the Holy Ghost 666 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000 over and over and over again. 667 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,000 If that's you, come on, I'm just going to give you another couple seconds, 668 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,000 and we're going to pray for you. 669 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,000 That's me, pastor. 670 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000 I need another dose of the Holy Ghost. 671 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,000 I need another inpouring to fill me to the top and to overflow it. 672 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000 I haven't spoken tongues, and I don't know how long. 673 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000 I need an in-feeling of the Holy Ghost. 674 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,000 Is that you? 675 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,000 Come on, hands have went up everywhere. 676 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,000 Hands are going up everywhere. 677 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,000 If that's you, run to this altar. 678 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,000 I want to pray with you. 679 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,000 I want to pray with you. 680 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,000 Come on. 681 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,000 Yeah. 682 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,000 We want it to break. 683 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,000 We want it to break. 684 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,000 We want it to break. 685 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,000 Next. 686 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:57,000 If you need healing in your body, if you need healing in your body, 687 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,000 I want you to stand right over here. 688 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,000 Come to this side right here. 689 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,000 Come to this side right here. 690 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,000 I want you to come on. 691 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,000 Come on, healing in your body. 692 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,000 Come on. 693 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,000 Me and your pastor and your elders, wherever the elders are, come on. 694 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,000 We're going to pray. 695 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,000 We're going to pray. 696 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,000 Come on. 697 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,000 Whatever you need from the Lord, don't wait. 698 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,000 Don't do that Pentecostal pause where we wait until everything goes. 699 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,000 Where we wait and wait and wait, we want to pray. 700 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,000 Pray with you now. 701 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,000 Come on. 702 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,000 Come on. 703 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,000 Make your way this way. 704 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:45,000 Amen.