God sends Judah first. He always sent Judah first. Praise goes first. And when you want to change
the atmosphere, get out there and contend with praise. And as we're contending, the more we
contend for the outpouring, the more we praise, the more we are opening the heavens. We're opening
that atmosphere above us to make room for the glory to come down.
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Thank you so much. So today we're going to talk about contending for the outpouring in praise.
And this is something that I have been meditating on for a while. Something's been kind of bothering
me about, you know, listen, we are praise and worship leaders. So one of the things that we do
is lead people in praise and worship. And we worship just the two of us every almost every
morning. We try to do it every morning. Sometimes it doesn't work. But anyway, we are really into
worshiping the Lord and giving him the glory due unto his name. But there's something that's been
kind of bothering me lately for some weeks or months, perhaps. And that has to do with the word
praise and how we use it. So many times we find ourselves saying or hearing other people saying,
Lord, I praise you. I praise you. I praise you. We give you praise. And that's good. But I don't
think we really understand what it is that we're saying and why we're saying it and how many
other ways that we could say it. I think sometimes people use it as a to kind of hype people up to.
Yeah. You know what I mean? You know, we're going to get to this in a moment, but the word hallelujah
is a command to praise the Lord. But what I'm trying to say is, you know, for instance,
when you're talking about raising little children and encouraging them and you sometimes hear the
expression used that you need to praise them. Well, do we ever say to our children, I praise you?
No. And you hear the same thing about training a dog, you know, that when you're teaching a dog
to do a trick or to sit or whatever, and you give them a treat and you praise them.
Well, you don't say, I praise you. You say, good dog or something that is an expression
of your approval and expression of what you think about this child or this dog or whoever,
an encouragement and something to build that person or that animal up in their relationship
with you. Right. And I think that we've kind of missed that idea in our praise of the Lord
because, you know, lots of times we just say, I praise you, Lord. I praise you.
Yeah, without really. Yeah, it's like rote.
Exactly. And so I felt like it would be good for us to discuss a little bit more about what
praise really is and how praising the Lord is going to make a difference. And over the weekend,
I was listening to a YouTube video that I'll put a link to in the show notes. I hope that's okay.
It was Bill Johnson was ministering at the Jesus 2024 in Southern California, and he talked about
Isaiah 60 verse 18. Now that's been a favorite verse of mine, and I'll just read it to you.
Violence shall no more be heard in your land, wasting nor destruction within your borders,
but you shall call your walls salvation and your gates praise. And he went into this very well,
and I'm not going to repreach his sermon. So I'm only bringing it up so that if you are continuing
to be interested in the subject, you might want to go and listen to that. So he was really focusing
on the issue of your gates being praise. Well, I have often used that scripture with regard to
healing for my body and I stand on it that my cell walls will be salvation. You know, the Jesus will
occupy the walls of my cells, you know, that there'll be that much of his presence in my
body itself. But this idea of your gates being praise, one of the things that Bill Johnson said
was, and I'm not quoting it correctly, but the idea was that a city with walls, but no gates
is not in good shape. Remember when, when Nehemiah was rebuilding the walls, Nehemiah and the
Israelites that were there in Jerusalem came together to rebuild the walls and they hung the
gates. So it's not enough to have walls. You've got to have gates. And if your gates are praise,
what does that say about the value of praise? It is something that will open and it is something
that will close. So our gates, our praise is going to make a difference in our ability to go in and
out in the kingdom of God. That's very good. Okay. We're, we're looking for a city who's builder and
maker is God. And so we're focusing right now on the gates and the fact that praise
is this opening place. It is this place that will protect you. You can close it to protect you from
the enemy. And you know, something really happens when people really begin to praise from their
hearts. It causes darkness to flee. Cause you know, I think it really reminds the devil and his cohorts
of what they are now missing that they used to have. They blew it. They absolutely blew it.
And so they really hate, they really hate praise. They really hate worship. They can't stand it.
And so they're going to run away except, you know, if they're really strong and bold, they're going
to try and distract you and keep you from doing it from keep you out of praise. Yeah. And keep you
distracted so that even if your mouth is moving and singing the songs that your mind is wandering.
Does that ever happen to you? Oh yeah. It happens to me. Yeah. But the goal is that we engage. Yeah.
There's a big difference between reading the words of worships going on and engaging in it. Exactly.
Yeah. Cause it's easy as worship leaders. And if you're listening that lead worship, sometimes you
concentrate on the words and chords because you don't want to mess up. Right. And I think it's just
amazing. There are those that can, they don't need music at all. They, they have so much of it in
them. Of course they probably practice a lot more hours too. Just, is that what you call perfecting
praise? Yes, I would think so. Yeah. But one day you can just, when the worship leader can just get
lost in God or even you yourself, you know, you can be engaging even the people around you are not.
You know, I remember you saying sometimes back, it's just like, I don't care what anybody else is
doing. I'm just going to close my eyes and worship. Yeah. And let them engage. If they're going to
earth, they don't, but the more people engage, the more the glory comes down. Yes. And there's times
we've been to conventions and we would do regional conventions and some particular states were very
difficult. You know, we would have like four meetings and the worship was like hitting a wall.
It was like, you could feel the demonic realm is just trying to keep you from breaking through.
Right. And that's why it's always important. You know, like it was the one with the fiery eyes,
Finney. Yeah. Finney, you know, he would, Charles Finney, he would have his intercessor would go
ahead and would call him when it's time for you to come now. Yeah. You know, cause he prayed through,
he prayed through and the convicting power was there. And we would do that. Our conventions,
we would have people go through the whole hotel and just praying and just rejoicing and, you know,
and just any stuff that's not supposed to be there and, you know, yeah, and get rid of it.
All of the right. And you have a real freedom, right? You have a real freedom and praise clears
the air. Yeah. It really, really does. I see it lots of times like a drill going up and drilling
through the darkness and creating an open heaven. Yeah. Poking holes in the, yeah. Yeah. Circular.
Exactly. Exactly. A drill is circular. Exactly. And we'll see that in a minute. I want to just talk
for just a few minutes about some of the Hebrew words that are involved in praise to help us get
a better grip on what is going to open the gates. Why are we opening the gates? Let the King of
glory come in, lift up your heads. Oh, you gates that the King of glory may come in. So the gates
are praise. So as we're praising, as we're worshiping, we're welcoming the King to come
in the King of glory, King of glory, come in. Exactly. So the first word that's I think perhaps
most common or one of the most common is the word halal. This is a Hebrew word. And if you're taking
notes and you're interested in following up on this, it's Strong's number one nine eight four.
In the Hebrew and the usage of it is in the peel form. Now I'll just say this for you who are
technically inclined. I use the blue letter Bible and I tap on a scripture and I go up to the place
where it gives the interlinear slash concordance. Yeah, that's it. And I tap on that and it will
show me all of the words that are in Hebrew or in case of in the New Testament in Greek or in the
case of Daniel and I think it's Ezra that is written in Aramaic. It'll give you those words
and you can tap on those and go to OK, so here's the word halal and it gives you the outline of
biblical usage and it means to shine in and that's in one of the other forms. But in this
scripture, it's in the peel form, which means to praise, to boast, to make a boast. And so what
we're doing when we're praising is we're boasting on God. Well, to say I praise you isn't really a
boast, but if you'll go back into the Psalms in particular, I've started going through the book
of Psalms in my Bible and I'm starting to mark the ones that are boasting. So we'll kind of hit some
of those at the end, but the idea is to boast and in other words, if it also means to shine,
it's like you're shining a light on our Father, you're shining a light on Jesus and you're just
making this brilliant flash of light as you boast about him, you know, it's like an explosion, you
know, it's like the Holy Spirit within you. Yes, is reacting. Yes. So there's something that goes on
inside of you when you actually engage with your spirit and get your spirit to come out of your
spirit and your body and your soul all wrapped up in this process of boasting on the Lord. So
a familiar word that comes from the word halal, halal being the root word, is hallelujah. Okay,
so what do we know about hallelujah? Wow, I wrote a magnificent oratorio. Oh, absolutely. Hallelujah
chorus. Hallelujah chorus. Absolutely. It was so magnificent that the king stood up and to this day
when the hallelujah chorus is performed somewhere, when they start that people will automatically
just they'll stand up and people that don't know that will look around, you know, not knowing why,
but the king did it. I should too. Yes. You know, because it was really making an emphasis for the
Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah. Yes. Oh, wow. Yes. It's so powerful. And what that word is
in Hebrew is it's a command command. Yeah. So it's commanding everyone to praise Yah. And that is a
shortened form of the name Yehovah. It's kind of like a nickname. And I guess you could say that
sounds a little funny to say it that way, but it's a shortened form, like you might call Jonathan
John. Okay, so it's a shortened form of his name, Yehovah. So it's a command. And in the English,
lots of times it'll say praise ye the Lord and the King James, it says praise the Lord. And in the
Hebrew, it says hallelujah. Okay, so here's another thing. We say that word all the time.
Mm hmm. But do we really know what it means? Do we really know that you're being commanded
to make this brilliant, bright, shining, boastful praise about Yah? I love it. And when you travel
in the nations and you're in the churches, it's the same word around the world. Yes. Hallelujah.
Yeah. Every language. Hallelujah. Yes. But not everybody really knows what it means. And we've
been a few places. We've heard we've heard it all over the world. It's true. Yeah, it's true. And
it's a good word to say. But here's here's the deal. People who have been to heaven to come back,
and the ones that have come back, they've been there and come back and talked about it.
I've heard in at least some cases, somebody would get blessed and say hallelujah. And everybody
around would absolutely stop what they're doing and start to shout glories and praises and
magnificent words and boasts about the Lord. It's contagious. Well, yeah, but it's a command,
you see, and everybody in heaven is perfectly obedient. So we have that from this root word,
hallel. Another word that is from that root word is tahila. And the Hebrew word for Psalms, as in
the book of Psalms, if you look at a Hebrew Bible, or sometimes you get just the book of Psalms in
Hebrew or Hebrew and English together, and it's called Tehillim, which is the plural of tahila.
So the Psalms are actually called praises. So the word tahila means laudation or a praise or a hymn.
And so sometimes I've heard my Jewish friends say, I'm going to go pray the Tehillim, and they'll
get together and they'll pray these Psalms, especially when the war broke out in Israel.
They're saying, come on, let's go pray the Psalms. Let's go pray them. And I think we don't get enough
of that in most of our understanding. I know I don't do it enough. And I'm dedicating myself
now to push forward in my understanding and in my actions, in my habits of increasing praise,
because it's a contending. Yeah. And many of the Psalms, the scriptures, we used to sing it.
Yes. In the 80s, 70s, 80s. Right. And a lot of the songs, they were just straight out of the scripture.
Yes. And that seems to have been lost. Yeah. Well, I think it's one of the best way to learn
the scriptures as well. Yeah, that's true. You put words to it. And I know for my own self,
there were some verses that I wanted to learn. And I just, I just put a tune to them. You know,
I just thought up a tune. It just came out of my mind. And then as I sang it over and over again,
as I sang it over and over again, I learned the song. Yeah. So just a few scriptures that use
this word Tehillim or Tehillah, like Exodus 15, 11 says, who is like unto you, O Lord or Yehovah
among the gods, who is like you glorious in holiness, awesome in praises or splendor. The
amplified classic uses the word splendor there, but that word praises there is this word Tehillah
or Tehillim, I suppose, because it's plural doing wonders. So fearful or awesome in praises,
awesome in splendor, awesome in this idea of being boasted about. Psalm 9 14 says that I may show
forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will rejoice in your salvation.
Beautiful showing forth all your Tehillim or Tehillah. And this is a favorite one that we
often refer to Psalm 22 three says, but you are holy. Oh, you that inhabits the praises of Israel.
Now, a lot of people quote that as you inhabit the praises of your people. Yeah. And we as gentiles,
Gentile believers in Yeshua and Jesus have been grafted into Israel, into the root,
but it was originally written to Israel. Yeah. And that's one of the things that is making a
big difference in this war that's going on in Israel. You see some of these videos of the
soldiers before they go into battle or any kind of a break that they get. Some of them have their
guitars there in Gaza and they'll just stop and sing some praises. They'll climb on their tanks
and dance and sing praises. You know, there's something that's happening because they are
singing their praises to the Lord. And I just think that's huge. Absolutely huge. So the next
word is Zamar and the Strong's number is H 2167. And it means to sing, to sing praise, to make music,
to play a musical instrument and sing along. So this is a really important thing. And singing
with an instrument is a wonderful thing. I think that there is a denomination that doesn't allow
instruments. And yeah, we won't mention it, but I found something today as I was studying, because
I think that they are among those that don't accept the Old Testament as having any value anymore.
But they're wrong. But they missed it in the New Testament. The thing is that they think that it's
not in the New Testament, but the word in Greek, where the scripture says in 1 Corinthians 14, 26,
it says, how is it then brethren, when you come together, every one of you has a psalm,
has a doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation, let all things be done
unto edifying the word psalm there. And the word psalm in Ephesians 519, speaking to yourselves
and Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.
The word psalm there is a piece of music that is I'm reading from Strong's okay, a piece of music
that is a sacred ode accompanied with the voice harp or other instrument. So I love it. There we
have it in the New Testament. It's in the Greek. They just didn't, they didn't study. We're really
limited if we only read English. And I'm certainly no scholar. I've said it many times. I'm a Hebrew
scholar wannabe, but I use these tools that we have to get more understanding. What I started
to say earlier is sometimes you'll see these words like call, maybe spelled Q-A-L or P-L-P-I-E-L,
or Hith-Pael. All of these are structures of the Hebrew language that I don't understand,
but I know that when it says that it's one of those things, then I can go to that one that's
mentioned in the Strong's or in the outline of biblical usage that then I know which one to pick
for what this means. So I don't go far afield using the wrong structure because sometimes we
have a tendency to say it means all of these things so we can read something into it.
And sometimes we're wrong, but I'm learning at least that if you'll stick to using those words
that we don't understand, it'll help us get on track. So this word, zamar, it's translated to
praise and it's translated to sing. It's translated to sing Psalms or sing forth,
and it definitely has to do with touching the strings of a musical instrument or playing a
musical instrument to make music accompanied by the voice. And it also means to celebrate in song.
So the things that we're doing when we sing to the Lord. Now, not everyone has
a beautiful voice that everyone likes. Okay. But your sound is beautiful to the Lord. He
gave you vocal chords and maybe you don't play a musical instrument, but you could probably
tap on the table. And that is a percussion sound. And that is a sound that will bless the Lord.
And that is a sound that will bless the Lord. It's you making an effort to do something
that expresses your joy and your boasting and the Lord, what has he done for you?
Okay. You want to boast about what he's done for you. Oh, Jesus, you are my savior. Oh, thank you
for saving me. Oh, you're my redeemer. Oh, you have delivered me. And you begin to say these things
to him. And when you sing to him, there's an old saying, I don't know that it's scriptural,
but there's an old saying that if you sing, you pray twice. Yeah. I'm not sure whether that's
scriptural or not. I've never found it in the scripture. It's certainly not in the scriptures
like that, but maybe we'll find something in the Hebrew that helps us to find that. Anyway, the
point is that it's your heart. When you express your heart, when you express your gratitude,
when you sing and boast about him, you are giving him glory. And he is exalted when we do that. And
when we rejoice in him, it blesses him. I've heard of a number of people who have seen the Lord in
heaven and they see that the Lord just gets almost inebriated. He gets drunk on the praise. It's not
like getting drunk like on wine or some other strong drink, but it's about getting so loved
and getting so fulfilled in relationship. And the thing is that as we praise him,
our praise goes up and his presence comes down. And then we get blessed and then our praise goes
up some more and then his presence comes down some more. And honestly, often we quit too soon.
Yeah, I was just reading the account of Charles Finney when the Holy Spirit was just really
working on him. And he says, this is the day I'm going to get saved. And he goes,
walks into the woods, makes sure nobody's watching and all that, finds a place where trees had fallen,
got down, you know, in the middle there, start crying out to God. And when the Holy Spirit hit
him, he just became inebriated. And it was just amazing what was coming out of his mouth as the
Holy Spirit just fell on him and he just praised God and just, you know, it was totally changed him.
Totally changed him from that moment onward. He was a changed man.
Exactly.
You know, and that was then what came out of his mouth was this, it was praise.
Because it didn't come out of his mouth, it came out of his heart. Because once he experienced
that joy of the Lord, you know, everything just broke loose in him like a dam, it just broke loose.
Yeah.
Wow.
Beautiful. Beautiful. So another word is the word renan. And it's H7442 in the Strongs. And
it means to give a ringing cry in joy, exultation and praise.
And it means to shout aloud for joy, to cry out, to be joyful, to greatly rejoice, to shout for joy,
sing aloud for joy. It's about the joy that you're singing with. It's about the joy that
you're shouting with. It's not just a shout like you're going to cry because you're sad.
It's you're crying out because he's so wonderful. He's so awesome. Psalm 20 verse 5 says, we've
rejoiced and that's the word renan. We will rejoice in your salvation. And in the name of our God, we
will set up our banners. Yehovah, the Lord will fulfill all your petitions. Psalm 32 11 says, be
glad in Yehovah and rejoice you righteous and shout for joy. The word shout is that renan, all you
that are upright in heart. So it's rejoicing and it's shouting. These are things that we can do
to express our praise to our father. Hallelujah. And then you have these wonderful things
like in Psalm 150 verse 4 says, praise him with the timbrel and dance. And the word dance is
machal and it's H4234. And it means, you know, have you ever seen those Hebrew kind of dancing,
Jewish dancing where they're dancing in a circle? Circle, circle dance. There's a circle dance. And
the word machal comes from the word chul, which is 2342. And it means to twist or whirl in a circular
or spiral manner. That's why they do circle dances because they're commanded to, okay. They're just
obeying God when they're doing these circle dances. And that's why some of us who are maybe new to
this, you see the circle dance going on and it's like, Ooh, I want to do that. And sometimes we get
bold enough to try it. Yeah. We see that at our convention. Yeah. People just get up and they
would do that circle dance. So you see this in Psalm 30 verse 11, it says you have turned my
morning into dancing. And so even if you don't have a group of people to do a circle dance with,
you can spin. You can do your own little, like if anybody's been around me for any amount of time,
if somebody gives me a good report, I get up and I dance a little happy dance in a circle.
I just only go around once, but it's my way of saying, I am rejoicing over this good news
that you've just given me. You know, I hear about somebody getting healed or somebody getting saved
or, or some great thing that happens somewhere. I'll get up and do a happy dance. Don't I?
You do. And even forget a, someone gives a nice donation, you know, a happy dance.
You know, listen, you may not see it, but I do a happy dance for $2.75. You know, I do a happy dance
when I see that someone has given something because I'm rejoicing in the fact that whatever
I'm rejoicing in the fact that whatever was given is a part of what God is going to do to see to our
needs. So praising and dancing, really, it's a way of saying thank you also. So when I'm doing my
happy dance, I'm saying thank you to the Lord. I'm saying thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you. And whether it's a large donation or a small one, but I definitely do something over the
big ones. I might dance around in circle more than once. So here's another word for dance.
And that's in second Samuel six 14, it says David danced before the Lord with all his might.
And that was when he was bringing the arc back. Right. And that word is carar and it's H three,
seven, six, nine. And it means to dance and it also means to whorl. So, you know, it's to go or move
in a circle. And that's why I said earlier that I see praise as like a drill going through the
heavens, you know, that to build an open heaven over us. So then here's another one. And we've
been in Israel for like the feast of Tabernacles a number of times. Do you remember what they say
to each other? Yeah. So a hug means holiday. So any holiday is a hug. And some comes from this
word Samach, which is eight zero five five. And it means to be merry, to be joyful, to rejoice,
to be glad to cheer up. And so the idea is you're just saying happy holiday.
Happy holiday. Yeah. Right after Yom Kippur. Yeah. When they're putting up the booths everywhere,
you know, and then that's when you're hearing it. Yes. So you're telling people to be happy.
And Deuteronomy 12 seven says, and it's talking about one of the hugs, one of the holidays,
and there you shall eat. There would be where the Lord has put his name.
There you shall eat before the Lord your God, Jehovah, and ye shall rejoice in all that you
put your hand to you and your household where in the Lord your God has blessed you. So it's about
rejoicing. It's about having a happy time. You know, we say happy holidays. We say Merry Christmas.
It's wishing happiness. It's a happy new year. Happy joy. Joy to your holiday. Happy birthday.
Yes, exactly. Exactly. So it's like, have a happy birthday. It's kind of like it's a wish.
It's a blessing. So the sameach is a rejoicing in the holiday. Okay. So another word for rejoice
is the word gil, H-1523. And it means to spin around again. Okay. Under the influence of any
violent emotion, usually rejoice. Can actually be cringing fear, but usually it's to be glad,
to joy, to be joyful, to rejoice. And it means to go in a circle. It can also mean to leap for joy,
to rejoice, rejoice even to exaltation. So it's bringing joy and spinning and
glorying. And so are you getting some ideas of new things that you can do in praise?
Mm hmm. You know, I just, I want us to get out of this tiny little box that we've all been in. We
have a greater way to praise our greater God. He's greater than anyone else. He's beyond great.
And when Dean Braxton was in heaven, our friend that, you know, we have him on the podcast from
time to time, if you're not familiar with him, if this podcast is new to you, Dean Braxton was,
well, I'll say it this way. He was in heaven because he left his body and his body died
for an hour and 45 minutes. And he was with Jesus and the father in heaven. And he says,
looking at Jesus and looking at the father, every time you look at them and realize how wonderful,
how glorious, how beautiful, how amazing, and all the different words that you can say, when you
look at them a second later, it's more. They're more beautiful, more glorious, more amazing.
And that's why our praise needs to keep increasing. It needs to keep increasing. And as the dark
things are happening all around us, all the more reason for us to have this clamorous praise,
this bright shining praise, because it will light us up in this darkness. It will cause the darkness
to flee and it'll give people a revelation about how great our God is, especially when we can go
around being happy and being joyful and rejoicing all the time because of how great he is. People
are going to look at us and say, are you okay? Yeah. What's with you? How can you be happy right
now? And then it opens up the door. Yeah. Opens up a door to say something about I am rejoicing
because my God is so great and he's in charge of this thing, even though it doesn't look like it,
he is still ruling and reigning above it all. And he is not going to let it go too far.
There's going to come a moment when he's going to bring a judgment, cutting off of the darkness,
he's going to do some amazing things coming up here. So one of my favorite scriptures is
Psalm 97, one, it says the Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice. And it's the same word,
Giel. So I think this is my little theory, but I think that when our father created the earth,
he said, let the earth rejoice. And it began to rotate and it began to go in a circle. It began
to spin and it began to go in a circle around the sun. Let the earth rejoice. Let the earth spin.
Let the earth spin. So let the heavens be glad. Let the earth rejoice and let men say among the
nations, Jehovah reigns. He's in charge. He is the king of the universe. Come on, let's praise him.
Hallelujah. Glory to God. So just as we start to wind down here, I want to bring just a couple of
scriptures to give you an idea of something that you can do when you read the Psalms,
read through the Psalms and begin to speak them out because the angels are waiting to hear the
word of the Lord so that they can go into action. So Philip, would you read Psalm 63,
three through five in the Passion translation, please.
For your tender mercies mean more to me than life itself. How I love and praise you God.
Daily I will worship you passionately and with all my heart. My arms will wave to you like banners
of praise. Amen. I overflow with praise when I come before you. For the anointing of your presence
satisfies me like nothing else. You are such a rich banquet of pleasure to my soul. Isn't that
beautiful? That's out of the Passion. That's beautiful. Sometimes it helps to read even from
to read even from another translation so that you get more words. Yeah. And the more you use
these scriptures, the more you're going to memorize them. And then it'll just come out of you
spontaneously all the time, all the time, things about him, things that you're saying to him.
Let's look at Psalm 149. I'm going to read the first five verses out of the Amplified Classic.
Praise the Lord. Now that word there is hallelujah. Sing to the Lord a new song. Praise him in the
assembly of his saints. Let Israel rejoice in him, their maker. Let Zion's children triumph and be
joyful in their king. Let them praise his name in chorus and choir and with the single or group dance.
Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and lyre. For the Lord takes pleasure in his people.
He will beautify the humble with salvation and adorn the wretched with victory. Let the saints be
joyful in the glory and beauty which God confers upon them. Let them sing for joy upon their beds.
Now would you read six through nine in the Passion? This is so amazing. God's high and
holy praises fill their mouths. For their shouted praises are their weapons of war. These warring
weapons will bring vengeance on every opposing force and every resistant power. To bind kings
with chains and rulers with iron shackles. Praise-filled warriors will enforce the judgment,
doom decreed against their enemies. This is the glorious honor he gives to all his godly lovers.
Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And what's that new song we've been singing called Praise?
My praise is the waters my enemies drown in. I love that line. I love that. That's awesome.
Yeah, we've been working on that song. That's a tremendous praise song. Yes. And praise will
change your situation. It'll change you. That's the thing that's the most important. It changes me
when I take on this challenge to praise more and not just say, Lord I praise you. Lord I praise you.
Thank you Jesus. I praise you. And now thank you. We understand thank you. But we haven't really
understood praise that much. And there's other words. There's words that come from the word.
I think yada is one of them. And it comes from the word hand. The word hand in Hebrew is yad.
Yad. And yada is one of the ways of expressing your praise. And it has to do with lifting your
hands and it has to do with casting. Like throwing. It's like throwing your praise to the Lord.
And the name Judah comes from this word praise. It comes from this word yada. So even the entire
nation of the Jewish people, and that's only part of Israel, you have to understand that there are
other tribes that got dispersed that some of them haven't come home yet. But you know, the idea that
God sends Judah first. He always sent Judah first. Praise goes first. And when you want to change
the atmosphere, get out there and contend with praise. And as we're contending, the more we
contend for the outpouring, the more we praise, the more we are opening the heavens. We're opening
the more we are opening the heavens. We're opening that atmosphere above us to make room for the
glory to come down. All they do. Amen. Amen. If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe,
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