As we flow with the Holy Spirit, he will pray
through us. He will praise through us and fill
the atmosphere with the glory of God that makes
the devil run. Yes. God promises in Joel 2 .28
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study about how to defeat your enemy. There's
lots of strategies. God has battle plans for
every single battle. And so last time we talked
about fasting and we talked about when Jesus
appeared to his disciples after his resurrection
and he gave several, we looked at them as steps.
And the last step was about remitting sins and
about forgiving. And that's a kind of intercession.
And our founder, Gwen Shaw, was... Just an amazing
woman of God. And she was commissioned by the
Lord to write a Bible study about travailing
intercession. And when I say travail, I mean
like being in birth, having birth pangs. I remember
the first time that I experienced that. The Holy
Spirit just came over me. It was at an end -time
handmaidens gathering. It was a small gathering.
It was like a little regional thing before we
started having regional things. And I didn't
know what it was. But I found myself weeping.
I found myself groaning. I was filled with the
Holy Spirit. How old were you then? I'm thinking
I was 18. Okay. I think I was 18. And I think
I had just graduated from high school. And God
had already spoken to me about He wanted me 100
% and He wanted me right now. And so I was pursuing
the Lord and pursuing the leading that was coming
to me day by day. And this first time, it was
like I had no idea what this was. I'd never seen
it before. I'd never seen it modeled. I'd never
heard about it. But here I was, travailing. Sister
Gwen assured me that it was the Holy Spirit,
and I was really glad to know that. But then
that was in 1976. That would have been in the
summer of 76, I don't know, June, July, sometime
around that time. And then in November of 1976,
here... at headquarters, and I was off at language
school by that time. So I wasn't involved in
this, but it's in this book that she wrote called
Pour Out Your Heart. It's a Bible study on intercessory
travailing prayer. And she got this word from
the Lord, and it opens the book, right? It says,
from the throne room. So I just want to read
it to you to give you a sense of what this book
is about. And you can find it on our website.
And it's going to be life -changing for you.
If you're an intercessor, maybe you're into praying,
but maybe you haven't experienced travail. And
there's something about travail that is more
so. Okay? It'll help you to pray through. It's
not my everyday prayer. But sometimes it comes
over me. And when it does, you know, you just
got to yield to it. So here's the word of the
Lord. The time has come to weep, my daughters.
I have broken your hearts that you may know my
broken heart. I have given you pain that you
may feel my pain. Yes, I have even allowed thy
house to lie in ruins that you may see how my
heart is grieved to see my house in ruins. I
have permitted an imposter to build his house
of blasphemy in the holy place, so that you can
feel my grief and agony at the sight of the abomination
of desolation which stands in the holy place.
My daughters, my sons, your tears shall be the
beginning of travail. For the time has come for
Zion's daughters to bring forth her sons and
daughters, and only through pain and travail
can they be birthed and given life. You have
been taught by your teachers to rejoice, to laugh,
and to play. But now the Spirit of God shall
come upon you, even the Spirit of Jeremiah, and
you shall travail for the house of Israel and
for the tribes who lie dispersed. This is parentheses.
When this was written, it was still quite early
in Israel's history. You know, it was right after
the Yom Kippur War. This was 76. Come to Israel
since then. Back to the word. It is time to call
them. Only the Spirit can do that, for they are
beyond the reach of mortal voice. But my Spirit
knoweth where they are, and he shall begin to
work in end -time power and might as you travail,
and the princes of darkness shall yield up their
captives and surrender their prey. And my sons
and daughters shall come from afar, and they
shall know their God, for they shall have been
given a revelation of him in his glory. Gentile
daughters, stir thy hearts, enter thy chambers,
and seek my face, that the daughters of Jerusalem
may know their king. Yea, my spirit calleth my
daughters and sons to return to the prayer closet,
to even travail and agonize in the agony of birth
for the redemption of a people. For how can even
a remnant be saved in the time of wrath if my
people who know me will not agonize in prayer
and travail in the Spirit? This is not a work
of the flesh, and it is not a grievous thing.
It is glorious. And even though you be weeping,
thy soul shall be at rest, for it is the tears
of the Lord that thine eyes shall weep, and thy
own wounds shall be healed if thou wilt bear
the wounds of the body of Christ. This world
waiteth for the daughters of Zion to storm the
heavens. You have been taught by your teachers
to laugh and sing and clap your hands and dance
and skip for joy, and you have been obedient
children. But now I say unto thee that the time
to play has passed with the passing of time,
and you have grown into womanhood. You have been
given the token of womanhood, blood. Yes, even
from the very core of your being has this blood
flowed and now the hour of conception has come
and you must be sober and vigilant and prepare
for the hour of delivery. Yea, I call you to
be mature, and to be wise with all sobriety,
and to make ready for the hour of delivery for
pains. Even the pains of childbirth shall come
upon thee, and thou shalt have children. Yea,
even the desolate shall bring forth children.
Even the woman who knew not how to pray, and
who was spiritually barren, shall too travail
in the Spirit, and bear spiritual children. For
the time has come. Therefore I counsel you, my
daughter, who knoweth the way of his Spirit,
teach thy sisters who are new in the way that
they may be prepared for the hour that has come
upon them. For my call has gone out through the
land, and my daughters are hearing the call to
intercession. Rise up and teach them that they
may understand. Yea, and the Lord would say to
thee, As thou dost come and weep and travail,
Even at the great wall of weeping, thine eyes
shall see the glory of the Lord. For even as
thou hast stood at the weeping wall of Jerusalem
in the city of the great king, so I am building
a wall that eyes cannot see. This wall shall
reach around the world. It shall go through America.
It shall go even to the southern tip of Argentina.
It shall reach around the world and my daughters
themselves shall build this weeping wall and
shall weep at this wall and they shall offer
their requests at this wall and they shall shed
their tears at this wall and I will send the
Holy Spirit to rest over them and the Holy Spirit
shall bear their prayers before the throne and
take their answers to the Lord God Almighty and
the Lord God. shall put within the hearts of
the daughters of Israel the mind of the Spirit,
and they shall weep in the Spirit, and these
prayers shall be answered, saith the Lord. Thou
shalt now pray through, for I will give you power
to pray through, and thou shalt see the answers
of thy prayers tomorrow. Yea, even until the
tomorrow of the tomorrows, thou shalt see the
results of thy travailing prayers, saith the
Lord, for thy tears shall not be in vain, neither
has thy cry come up to a deaf God. I have seen,
and I have heard, and thy prayers shall be answered
by the throne of God. Thus saith the Lord to
his daughters and sons, who have travailed and
have prevailed in the Spirit. Amen. That's a
powerful word. It's a powerful word. That was
in 76. And Sister Gwen learned that type of prayer.
Being on the mission field like she was, it wasn't
like you could take your cell phone and text
home and say, I need prayer. Absolutely. She
was kind of a lot like Paul when he went out
after he had his visitation. He had to find God
for himself. Absolutely. That's the way it was
with our founder. She learned to press into God
through intercession, through prayer, through
fasting and praising. And so what she writes
in these books are life changers. Absolutely.
Some of these books that have been printed many
times in different languages. True. We have this
book in Spanish and French. Russian. I think
we have it in Russian. I think we have it in
Italian too. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm not sure if
there's any others, but these are significant
teachings, and we won't go into all these details.
I'm not going to try and teach this book on this
podcast, but I feel like I wanted to introduce
it to you so that as we do talk about travail
and weeping and that kind of prayer, that if
you are resonating with this, and you haven't
gotten this book, we really encourage you to
get it. We also have it on our website as a PDF
so that you can just download it and read it
immediately. So that's also an option. She tells
some stories in this book about, like you said,
being on the mission field. There was a time
in, I want to say it was in 1976, I think it
was right before this word was given, that she
and a team were about to smuggle a whole load
of Bibles. I think they were going across the
border into the Ukraine from Moldova. I think
that's where they were. And they were on their
way to Russia. And this is communist. Oh, yeah.
This is Cold War going on. This is Iron Curtain
countries. It was an Iron Curtain. Yeah. Natural
and spiritual. Yeah. It was very, very, very
strong and very anti -Christ. Anti -Bible, anti
-missionaries, anti -anti -anti -everything of
the West. And they had met many of the people
behind the Iron Curtain who were serving the
Lord in faithfulness regardless of the persecution.
And they told stories about the persecution.
And that's really what hooked me into even following
these people because I wanted to be a Bible smuggler.
I thought, oh, that sounds like something I want
to do. And I didn't want to. No, you didn't.
But anyway, that's not the point of the story.
But there was one particular situation, and you
read about it in the Chicago Sun -Times, where
somebody found out about this and tipped them
off. That's the only way that it could have happened
because they hid the Bibles in their vehicle
in secret compartments. And, you know, only somebody
who knew to look for them there would have found
them. So somebody tipped them off and they were
arrested and they were in a jail cell. And I
think they had one toothbrush among them and
they all shared it. But they, you know, they
were flowing with the Holy Spirit and they were.
praising God in spite of their situation and
trying to maintain the presence of the Lord.
But they couldn't pray for themselves, really.
And they asked God in that moment, send the word
to the intercessors. Let the intercessors wake
up and pray for us. And they got word later from
all over the world of different people that God
spoke to. you know, even gave them visions of
Sister Gwen and her team being in jail. And they
were. And so these people got on their knees
in that moment and travailed and prayed and prayed
and prayed. And this idea of praying through,
it's kind of like a principle of the Holy Spirit
that you know when... your prayer has been...
When you got the breakthrough. And when you've
gotten a breakthrough, you know that the thing
you're asking for has been accomplished in the
Spirit, even though you don't see it in the natural.
The thing that you have prayed for, there's something
inside of you that knows. And of course, it's
the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit knows when He
has gotten through, through you. And you know,
you know that you know. And so all of these intercessors
all over the world, were praying for them. And
she had story after story of how she would pray
for people, or others would pray for her. And
you have to pray in the moment that you get the
burden to pray. Yeah, because that's the time
something's going on. Yeah. And it's not on your
time zone. Right. Very well could be in somebody
else's time zone. I remember other people that
have talked about how the Lord would wake them
up in the night. and say, please, I need you
to pray for so -and -so, such -and -such. And,
you know, you have to stir yourself to get up
and pray. It's an assignment, and it's a privilege.
It's a privilege from the Lord to be used by
Him, because what you're doing is you are partnering
with the Holy Spirit. And as I was preparing
for this episode, I was reminded of Romans 8.
In verse 19, it says, for the earnest expectation
of the creature or the creation waits for the
manifestation of the sons of God. And that word
sons is the word yos in Greek, and it means a
mature son. It's a son that is part of the family
business, you know, not a child, not a teen,
but a mature son. So the whole creation is waiting.
for this manifestation and revelation of these
sons of God who have grown up in the things of
God, walking in the spirit and not in the flesh,
okay? So, verse 20, it says, for the creation
was made subject to, King James says, vanity,
but, you know, it's talking about emptiness,
not willingly, but by reason of him who subjected
the same, and hope. You know, the whole creation
broke when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It wasn't
just that they were going to die now. It says,
if you eat of that fruit, you will surely die.
But in the Hebrew, it says, dying you shall die.
So the dying process began for them, and it affected
all of the earth. Everything began to die. You
know, I don't think there was a plan for trees
to die. But now they die. Yeah, I remember when
Dean came back from heaven, he says the earth
smells of death. Yeah. Because everything is
eventually going to die. Right, right. I thought,
oh, wow, that's another perspective. Yeah. We
don't think about that. We don't realize it because
we're used to it. But, you know, this is saying
that the creation, and verse 21 says, The original
creation of the creature itself also shall be
delivered from the bondage of corruption or decay
into the glorious liberty of the children of
God. For we know that the whole creation groans
and travails in pain together until now. You
know, think of if you're out in Africa in the
jungle or on the Serengeti and you hear the roar
of a lion that's hungry. There's no hunger in
heaven like this that makes you roar and go,
I'm hungry. Your stomach's growling or whatever.
The baby crying because she's hungry. There can
be a pain with hunger. Look at all the starving
children around the world. Starving in agony
because they're so hungry. And all of creation
is groaning. in pain until now. And not only
they, but ourselves also, which have the first
fruits of the Spirit. Okay, the first fruits
of the Spirit is this outpouring that came at
Pentecost as a first fruits offering. We just
have the beginnings. And the more we work with
the Holy Spirit, the more we walk with the Holy
Spirit, the more mature we are becoming in the
Spirit, right? Even the first fruits of the Spirit,
even the beginning of our walking in the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting,
eagerly waiting for the adoption that is the
redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope,
but hope that is seen is not hope. For what a
man sees, why is he still hoping? But if we hope
for that which we see not, Then do we with patience
wait for it. Likewise, verse 26, likewise the
Spirit also helps our infirmities, our weaknesses.
For we know not what we should pray for as we
ought. How many times do we know not what to
pray? It's pretty often. But the Spirit itself
makes intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered. In other words, these groanings,
these pains of childbirth that come on us by
the Spirit. It's a Spirit thing. You can't just
do it on your own. I mean, I suppose you could,
but I don't know that you get very far with it.
But when the Holy Spirit is moving on you and
putting you into this... into this narrow place
like childbirth. You know, childbirth is a thing.
And women who have birthed a child can tell you
it's a thing. There's travail. I was just listening
to Rick Ridings today on a YouTube video where
he talks about the prayer that we need right
now for what's going on in the Middle East. And
he was talking about how when his wife was in
labor with one of their children, the child was
breech. So mama had to work extra hard. And the
labor was very, very difficult. And it was so
difficult that the capillaries in her face, you
know, that's the tiny, tiny blood vessels, the
capillaries in her face began to... pop and show
these red marks on her face. And the doctor said
that if she had continued much longer, those
would have popped out of the skin and she would
have been like sweating drops of blood like Jesus
did in Gethsemane. Okay, that is travail. Okay,
she was in literal childbirth and pressing in
in that kind of way. So that's what Jesus was
doing in the Garden of Gethsemane. He was travailing
for us. He was doing a kind of intercession for
us. He wasn't just struggling against, I don't
want to go through this. He was actually beginning
to bear the burden of sin upon himself. And so
there was a travail that was going on in his
prayer in Gethsemane. So just to finish this
scripture here in Romans 8. I'll just read 26
again. Likewise, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses,
our infirmities. For we know not what we should
pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself makes
intercession for us with groanings which cannot
be uttered. And he that searches the hearts.
knows what is the mind of the Spirit because
he makes intercession for the saints according
to the will of God or according to God. And then
it goes into that one verse that we so often
quote out of context. And we know that all things
work together for good to them that love God,
to them who are the called according to his purpose.
But then the next verse. Yes. And for whom he
did foreknow. He also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might
be the firstborn among many brethren. So this
travail that goes on in the Spirit, this groaning
in the Spirit, this intercession in the Spirit,
that comes because the Holy Spirit knows what
needs to be prayed. He knows our Father's heart,
and he knows our needs. He knows our weaknesses.
He knows that we... don't know how to get over
these things. Some of these things that we're
trying to overcome, we are looking at strategies
for defeating our enemy, aligning with the Holy
Spirit in prayer, aligning with him in travail,
aligning with him and letting him travail through
us to intercede through us to go deeper than
we've ever gone before. I remember one time one
of our teachers in our Bible school was travailing.
in one of our services getting ready to, somebody
was going to teach that night. I don't remember
just who, but she began to travail. And she was
travailing so hard that she was praying inside
her head, you know, God, please send somebody
to help me. And I just felt led of the Lord to
go and take hold of her feet and begin to travail
with her and help her to carry that burden. If
I'm not mistaken, that was the night that we
had a fire that destroyed our whole office building.
Wow. And we didn't know what we were travailing
for. We didn't know. We didn't know that sometimes
there would be somebody sleeping in the building.
And that night, no one was sleeping in the building.
Glory to God. Sure. It was devastating. It was
a terrible, devastating fire. But the travail
that came by the Spirit was helping to prepare
us in the Spirit for all things working together
for good. And to help us to get into that place
of predestination. Don't think of it as predestination
like you have been destined for a certain thing.
Read it in context. We are predestinated to be
conformed to the image of his son. He's designed
us to become like him. He's designed us to walk
with him. And just like Jesus walked with the
father and did whatever he saw the father doing.
And saying whatever he heard the Father saying
and nothing else. That's the hard part. The hard
part is not putting in our own two cents worth.
But he's predestinated us to be just like Jesus.
And it requires the working of the Holy Spirit
in us and through us to help us get there and
to help us pray through for others because we
need each other. Yes. And we need to be able
to walk with the Holy Spirit to help us walking
in these things. So, you know, you just have
to align yourself with the Holy Spirit because
when He says to pray, when He begins to burden
you to pray, you just have to stop what you're
doing. You know, in our office, we have a prayer
room. that was designed so that if the Holy Spirit
came over us at some point, we could leave our
offices and go there to pray without having to
go someplace else. It's a location so that we
can pray when it's time to pray. And you do that
by the leading of the Holy Spirit. So sometimes
we're called to weep. And sometimes... We're
called to laugh. And sometimes we're called to
praise. So Sister Gwen wrote another book called
The Power of Praise. And what's so unique about
her books, they're Bible studies. Yes. And they're
not big. Most of these are not big. Cuts to the
point. And they're also designed to... Do as
a group or by yourself. Yeah, and she puts her
life experiences in this. Yeah, so good. Because
this is what she learned. She didn't get it out
of somebody else's book. That's true. She lived
it. Absolutely. But, you know, even in praise,
you know, we kind of have a pattern. And you
go to a church. Have one praise song, maybe,
or a couple, and then go into worship. One fast
one. One fast one, you know, and have a happy,
clappy one or something. And, you know, that
just depends where they're at, where people are
at. But there's times you can, you know, like
if there's prayer or something going on ahead
of time, you can just start right in worship
because the atmosphere is there for it. But praise
is a breakthrough. Amen. Praise is breakthrough.
And even, you know, when you're going through
things, you know, it's praise is one thing that
just that can lift you up and just take you where
you need to go and get you out of where you've
been. I forget where it is in the scripture.
It's like, you know, get yourself out of the
pit. You put yourself in. Right. And that is
really one way to do it. Absolutely. Because
when you praise, praise can just lead into worship.
And that's then the glory just comes. So praise
can issue you. Into the glory. Yes. And you can
do it in your car. Yes. We have all these CDs
we used to get. We don't even listen to them
anymore a lot of the time. That's true. Because
we're always doing things in the car. We can
be praying or on the way to church, we're just
worshiping. Yeah, we have an older car that has
a CD player. We have an older car that has a
CD player in it. We don't have a new style yet
anyway. Praise can also... It destroys the power
of fear. True. Because many times when you're
going through something, or you're put into a
circumstance, and all of a sudden you're finding
it's just very fearful. And it's just, how do
I get out of this? Psalm 47, this is a psalm
for the sons of Korah. Oh, clap your hands, all
ye people. Yes. Shout unto God with a voice of
triumph. For the Lord Most High is terrible.
He is a great king over all the earth. He shall
subdue the people under us and the nations under
our feet. Amen. He shall choose our inheritance
for us, the excellency of Jacob, whom he loved.
Selah. So think about it. God has gone up with
the shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
Sing praises to God. Sing praises. Sing praises
unto our king. Sing praises. For God is the king
of all the earth. Sing ye praises with understanding.
God reigneth over the heathen. God sitteth upon
the throne of his holiness. The princes of the
people are gathered together, even the people
of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the
earth belong unto God. He is greatly exalted.
Amen. And there's excitement in praise, and that
was one of the things that was established in
the tabernacle of David was praise. Yes. He had
thousands of singers and worshipers, and praise
would just go up continually. He had the morning
sacrifice, the afternoon, the evening sacrifice,
because he learned how to praise when he was
watching sheep. Right. So David is a shepherd
over these sheep. And even in the scripture,
you know, it says where, you know, he slew a
lion, he slew a bear. Yeah. And it was with a
slingshot. Very well. There was sling, not a
slingshot. A slingshot is this little thing where
you can put a little pellet in it or rock and
pull back on it. You know, but a sling is something
that, you know, you put it in the cloth and you
swing it over your head. And we've seen that.
They can get long, up to five, six foot long.
And when that is released, it sounds like a shotgun,
like a snap. And they used to hunt like that.
That was a way to hunt. So David had plenty of
time to practice. Yes, he did. And he slew Goliath.
Right. And cut off his head. Right. But he learned
how to praise. Yes. He learned how to praise
on his little. nine string or however many string
harp that he had. And he just learned how to
worship. And when you read the Psalms, you can
understand, you can see that, you know, you can
see his heart. He had a heart of worship. He
had a heart of worship. Just an amazing. He must
have understood the principle of love the Lord
your God with all your heart, with all your soul,
with all your mind, with all your strength. He
must have had that revelation because he was.
That was part of his qualifications for becoming
king, was being a shepherd first, taking care
of sheep, because now you're going to have to
take care of people. Yeah. And people can be
just as ignorant as sheep. That's true. You know,
in 1 Samuel chapter 16, you know, this is when
Saul was made king, but then he's not following
the commandments of the Lord. You know, in the
scripture it says there, you know, that like
an evil spirit from the Lord. I think if you
probably read that through the Hebrew, it was
the Lord allowed this to happen to him. And so
Saul is in a bad mood, and all of a sudden one
of them pipes up. I know a shepherd boy that
plays cunning on the harp, and he's just a real
minstrel. And he says, go get him for me. So
Saul goes and gets David. And so David plays
on his harp. And we don't know how long. We don't
know exactly how everything, what it sounded
like. But it says the evil spirit that was upon
Saul would leave, and he was refreshed. It's
because David had the anointing. He had the anointing.
See, when Saul was anointed, he was anointed
with a vial of oil. Samuel anointed with a vial
of oil. When David was anointed, because... The
king was the people's idea, not God's. See, it
was not God's idea. The people said, we want
a king to reign over us. And Samuel said, this
is what he's going to do to you. When he's your
king, he's going to make your servants to fight
his battles. He's going to make your handmaidens
his maids, his concubines, all these things.
But no, we want a king to reign over us. So they
had a king over them. But David was anointed
with a horn of oil. And if you look those up
in the Hebrew, they're different. I mean, a horn's
a little bit bigger. It's bigger than a vial.
And so he anointed David with oil in the midst
of all his brethren, and in his humbleness goes
back to his sheep. So that was the secret of
David, was a heart after God in worship. Right.
You could just worship the Lord, but you have
to want to do it. I remember a story. It was
Terry Law when he lost his wife, and he was grieving
extremely. He was a worship leader, and one of
the worst things that can happen is to lose your
spouse. You've lost the joy that you've had with
all these years, and it's easy to go into a depression
over something like that. And he was in front
of Oral Roberts, I think it was, and Oral pointed
his finger at him. It reminds me of Sister Gwen.
Yeah, she would do that. She'd take that bony
prophetic finger and point it at you. You know,
you knew it was the word of the Lord. And Oral
Roberts said to him, you have to get over this.
You're the one that has to make the decision.
And he just got home. And he just started trying
to praise. Thank you, Jesus. Praise you, Lord.
And he could just, like he's hearing the devil
mock him. And now he just starts praying in tongues.
And all of a sudden, he got his breakthrough.
And he just started praising God. And the depression
lifted. And it was just days after that when
God gave him the start of what would be. another
spouse for him that would be for the next phase
of his life. But he had to choose to break through.
And we have to choose. When we go through situations,
we're being tempted. Now, if we're being tempted
with something, maybe on YouTube or something
like that, it's just that's the time you have
to choose to praise. You have to break through.
Pray in tongues. Once you start praying in tongues,
that thing will leave you. But you have to choose
to want to do it. Yes. Can I insert something
here? Yeah, go right ahead. Because I think it
fits in this place that's kind of along the same
lines. Philip's brother, Scott, who was an amazing
violinist, and his wife, Carolyn, they had a
school called the Institute of Music, Worship,
and the Arts, and they were teaching excellence
in music but in worship, you know, trying to
develop. musicians, ministering to kids, helping
them to grow in their musical skills so that
they could be good worshipers. Anyway, Carolyn
passed away about a year and a half ago, and
Scott just passed away about three weeks ago.
And it was a shock because Scott was the picture
of health. And we were absolutely shocked. We
didn't really think that he would. not want to
fight for his life. It's not that he gave up,
but he just felt like he was done fighting. And
he wanted to go to be with the Lord. So two days
after he passed, the Lord spoke to me in my journal.
And here's what I got. The Lord said, you have
been moved by Bill Johnson's words when his wife,
Benny, passed into my presence. I will never
have, this is what Bill Johnson spoke, I will
never have another opportunity to rejoice in
this depth of loss like I do now. and I will
choose to rejoice, end quote. So then the Lord
said, I will grace you to rejoice in this time
of shock, grief, and sorrow over the loss of
Scott Buss in this realm. He is greatly rejoicing
in my presence with Carolyn, Dorothy Estill,
which is their Phillips parents, Scott's parents,
and all his generations. The thing that keeps
you connected is me, my presence. My face, glowing
in love for you as though you are my only creation,
connects you in the spirit realm to all my creation,
both in heaven and on earth, for I love each
one the same. My presence, my love is your life
-giving oxygen. I created earth's atmosphere
to carry my love to you and to all creation.
You can enhance my presence and love by your
praise, thanks, and worship to the end that will
bring me into focus for people who have been
in the fog of deception, pride, selfishness,
and iniquity. Don't think small about your song
or other expression of praise. You are accomplishing
more than you can imagine in bringing my kingdom
to earth. So it's in that place of sorrow that
your praise has more power. So going on, the
Lord said, Scott and Carolyn did their part in
an amazing way. They were amazed to see how I
used their offerings of worship when they arrived
here. They heard my well -done good and faithful
servant enter into the joy of your Lord. They
have entered into my realm of life and love that
is beyond their wildest dreams. You need to dream
bigger of me. and my plans to pour out of the
spirit of me. Your rejoicing, especially at this
time, brings an enhanced glory to me and to you
as you partner with me in your time of loss,
grief, sorrow, and lack of understanding of my
way. Your trust in me at this time, in this season,
exudes a glory light into your atmosphere that
makes darkness flee. Every wave of grief that
hits you brings with an opportunity to praise
me and bring my light into earth's atmosphere,
expelling darkness. I am here to give you the
grace to accomplish this with my help. This offering
helps to prepare the way for my coming. It is
helping to bring about a shift of dominion in
the earth. Oh, that's beautiful. So that is just
another aspect of the importance of praise. Like
no matter where you are, no matter what your
circumstances are, praise helps get a breakthrough.
And when you are at your lowest, when you're
depressed, when you're anxious, that's when praise
will help you get the breakthrough. Yeah. And
in Sister Gwen's book, one of her chapters is
how praise brings revival. Amen. Now the first
real move of the Spirit, you know, in the New
Testament, Happened in the book of Acts. The
Holy Spirit is poured out on the Temple Mount.
3 ,000 people get saved. And so you got this
big move going on. And I'm going to read a couple
scriptures just out of, this is the end of chapter
2, verse 45. And sold their possessions and goods
and parted them to all men as every man had need.
And they continued daily with one accord, which
is a key. Aha, there it is. Amen. So this is
the... one of the start of the first big move
of God in the New Testament. And you look back
then, they couldn't get on Integrity and download
CCLI and download some music and whatever key
they want to sing in for whatever instrument.
There was none of that. What they had is what
they sang in the synagogue was the scriptures.
Absolutely. Because they would sing, you know,
right after the upper room. Yeah, and they had
the Last Supper. They went out to Mount of Olives
and they sung a hymn. Right. It wasn't a hymn
book. Right. It was the Hallel. It was one of
the psalms they would read or they would sing
during the time of the readings during Passover
and that. Right. So that was the start. There
wasn't any... Nice instruments. There was no
guitars. The lute hadn't been invented yet. Nothing
hardly had been, as we know it. David had invented
a bunch. David had harp. He had mostly harps.
And you had flutes. You had different instruments.
You could read that. And trumpets. Trumpets.
Cymbals. Cymbals. Asaph was the worship leader,
and he played cymbals. Imagine what that would
do to a microphone in front of him. But they
learned to praise, and they just praised and
worshiped. And now we have all this available
to us that we have, and we have the scriptures
and what happens. And even in your darkest moment,
and even Paul and Silas, you know, and they were...
And come over to Macedonia and help us. And that
was the vision given to Paul. So they worked
their way there. They're in Macedonia. And then
they get thrown in jail for preaching the gospel.
And they got stripes on them. They were whipped.
They were whipped. And so they're locked in the
stocks. They're in the prison. And at midnight,
they're singing praises and rejoicing. Praising
God. They got a bleeding back, probably. You
know, who knows? Bones are bruised. But they're
praising God. I mean, what happens if we fall
down once? Oh, wow. But can you imagine getting
whipped on your back? How many lashes? Yeah.
And they're praising God. And what happens? But
an earthquake. Yeah. And great fear fell upon
the people, fell upon the jailer. He crawls in.
What must I do to get saved? Right. What happened?
Something happened in that praise. So we unlocked,
you know, they unlocked him and all the prisoners,
they didn't run off. They took him to his house.
They dressed their wounds, fed him, you know,
a nice cup of hot chocolate maybe or something.
I don't know. And they just preached the word
and they get saved. And the next day, you know,
they get released. Yeah. But they praised God
and God met them in their circumstances. Right.
You know, and when we're in an airplane. Yeah,
I don't like turbulence. Nobody really likes.
I do. I like it. I just say, oh, it's like a
rocking chair, and I just lean back into it,
and I go to sleep. I think if it were more of
an Elijah. going up with Elijah in his chariot,
start praying in tongues, you know, Sharni, I
thought about you. You're up and you're just
bouncing through the clouds in this chariot,
you know, and it helps me get through that. But
the power and praise, we didn't touch worship.
This was the power and what happens in praise.
Right. And we have that marvelous story that
was the beginning of Raise a Hallelujah. That
song that came out of Bethel as a result of this
child that was dying. And everybody thought,
this is it. Tonight's the night. He's going to
go home to be with the Lord. And the Lord gave
them this song, I raise a hallelujah in the presence
of my enemies. And they sang it and God raised
up the child. And so we can put a link to their
song on YouTube where they tell the story. But
it's powerful that... Your praise, that word
hallelujah, it's a command to give great, glorious
glory to the Lord. It has to do with how David
danced before the Lord with all his might. Okay,
that kind of give him glory is really what hallelujah
is telling you to do. It's really two words,
hallelujah and yah, which is the shortened version
of God's name. Praise Him. And people that have
gone to heaven and come back, and I know of at
least one or two stories where they watch somebody
get blessed in heaven and they just shout, Hallelujah!
And everybody stops what they're doing because
it's a command. And everybody's perfectly obedient
in heaven. So everyone stops what they're doing
and they begin to praise. And that's one of the
keys when we are flowing with the Holy Spirit.
Whether it's the Holy Spirit leading us into
travailing, weeping prayer, or whether it's the
Holy Spirit leading us into this marvelous praise,
or whether it's intercession by using the Word,
like we have in Psalm 103, verse 20, where it
says, Bless the Lord, you his angels that excel
in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening
to the voice of his word. The angels are standing
around waiting for us to give voice to the word
of God. Yeah. And when we pray the scriptures,
they go to work. Yeah. And it's Psalm 150. Yeah.
Praise you, the Lord. Yes. That's hallelujah.
Yeah. Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise him
in the firmament of his power. Yes, and anytime
you see praise ye the Lord in English, It's hallelujah
in Hebrew. I just want to add one more verse
because this is key to what we're talking about
in defeating our enemy. Okay. Psalm 149 says,
and it starts in verse one says, praise you the
Lord. So that's hallelujah again. So in verse
6, it says, let the high praises of God be in
their mouth and a two -edged sword in their hand
to execute vengeance upon the heathen or the
nations, right? So it could also be in the spirit
realm, right? And punishment upon the people
to bind their kings with chains. And I believe
this is definitely having to do with our enemy.
that we're fighting with, because we're wrestling
not against flesh and blood, but against principalities
and powers and rulers of the darkness of this
world and spiritual wickedness in high places.
So it's verse 8, to bind their kings with chains
and their nobles with fetters of iron, to execute
upon them the judgment written, this honor have
all his saints. Hallelujah. So it's our honor.
As we flow with the Holy Spirit, he will pray
through us. He will praise through us and fill
the atmosphere with the glory of God that makes
the devil run. Yes. Amen. Amen. If you enjoyed
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