(219) "Contend for the Outpouring with Praise"

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God sends Judah first. He always sent Judah first. Praise goes first. And when you want to change

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the atmosphere, get out there and contend with praise. And as we're contending, the more we

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contend for the outpouring, the more we praise, the more we are opening the heavens. We're opening

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that atmosphere above us to make room for the glory to come down.

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God promises in Joel 2 28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity. Welcome to global outpouring,

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where we contend for that promise outpouring. We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage

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in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today. We're

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so glad that you are with us. Just like Philip just said, we are into contending for the outpouring.

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And today we're going to talk about contending in praise.

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Thank you so much. So today we're going to talk about contending for the outpouring in praise.

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And this is something that I have been meditating on for a while. Something's been kind of bothering

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me about, you know, listen, we are praise and worship leaders. So one of the things that we do

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is lead people in praise and worship. And we worship just the two of us every almost every

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morning. We try to do it every morning. Sometimes it doesn't work. But anyway, we are really into

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worshiping the Lord and giving him the glory due unto his name. But there's something that's been

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kind of bothering me lately for some weeks or months, perhaps. And that has to do with the word

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praise and how we use it. So many times we find ourselves saying or hearing other people saying,

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Lord, I praise you. I praise you. I praise you. We give you praise. And that's good. But I don't

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think we really understand what it is that we're saying and why we're saying it and how many

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other ways that we could say it. I think sometimes people use it as a to kind of hype people up to.

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Yeah. You know what I mean? You know, we're going to get to this in a moment, but the word hallelujah

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is a command to praise the Lord. But what I'm trying to say is, you know, for instance,

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when you're talking about raising little children and encouraging them and you sometimes hear the

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expression used that you need to praise them. Well, do we ever say to our children, I praise you?

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No. And you hear the same thing about training a dog, you know, that when you're teaching a dog

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to do a trick or to sit or whatever, and you give them a treat and you praise them.

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Well, you don't say, I praise you. You say, good dog or something that is an expression

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of your approval and expression of what you think about this child or this dog or whoever,

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an encouragement and something to build that person or that animal up in their relationship

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with you. Right. And I think that we've kind of missed that idea in our praise of the Lord

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because, you know, lots of times we just say, I praise you, Lord. I praise you.

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Yeah, without really. Yeah, it's like rote.

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Exactly. And so I felt like it would be good for us to discuss a little bit more about what

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praise really is and how praising the Lord is going to make a difference. And over the weekend,

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I was listening to a YouTube video that I'll put a link to in the show notes. I hope that's okay.

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It was Bill Johnson was ministering at the Jesus 2024 in Southern California, and he talked about

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Isaiah 60 verse 18. Now that's been a favorite verse of mine, and I'll just read it to you.

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Violence shall no more be heard in your land, wasting nor destruction within your borders,

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but you shall call your walls salvation and your gates praise. And he went into this very well,

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and I'm not going to repreach his sermon. So I'm only bringing it up so that if you are continuing

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to be interested in the subject, you might want to go and listen to that. So he was really focusing

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on the issue of your gates being praise. Well, I have often used that scripture with regard to

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healing for my body and I stand on it that my cell walls will be salvation. You know, the Jesus will

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occupy the walls of my cells, you know, that there'll be that much of his presence in my

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body itself. But this idea of your gates being praise, one of the things that Bill Johnson said

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was, and I'm not quoting it correctly, but the idea was that a city with walls, but no gates

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is not in good shape. Remember when, when Nehemiah was rebuilding the walls, Nehemiah and the

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Israelites that were there in Jerusalem came together to rebuild the walls and they hung the

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gates. So it's not enough to have walls. You've got to have gates. And if your gates are praise,

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what does that say about the value of praise? It is something that will open and it is something

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that will close. So our gates, our praise is going to make a difference in our ability to go in and

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out in the kingdom of God. That's very good. Okay. We're, we're looking for a city who's builder and

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maker is God. And so we're focusing right now on the gates and the fact that praise

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is this opening place. It is this place that will protect you. You can close it to protect you from

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the enemy. And you know, something really happens when people really begin to praise from their

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hearts. It causes darkness to flee. Cause you know, I think it really reminds the devil and his cohorts

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of what they are now missing that they used to have. They blew it. They absolutely blew it.

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And so they really hate, they really hate praise. They really hate worship. They can't stand it.

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And so they're going to run away except, you know, if they're really strong and bold, they're going

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to try and distract you and keep you from doing it from keep you out of praise. Yeah. And keep you

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distracted so that even if your mouth is moving and singing the songs that your mind is wandering.

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Does that ever happen to you? Oh yeah. It happens to me. Yeah. But the goal is that we engage. Yeah.

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There's a big difference between reading the words of worships going on and engaging in it. Exactly.

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Yeah. Cause it's easy as worship leaders. And if you're listening that lead worship, sometimes you

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concentrate on the words and chords because you don't want to mess up. Right. And I think it's just

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amazing. There are those that can, they don't need music at all. They, they have so much of it in

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them. Of course they probably practice a lot more hours too. Just, is that what you call perfecting

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praise? Yes, I would think so. Yeah. But one day you can just, when the worship leader can just get

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lost in God or even you yourself, you know, you can be engaging even the people around you are not.

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You know, I remember you saying sometimes back, it's just like, I don't care what anybody else is

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doing. I'm just going to close my eyes and worship. Yeah. And let them engage. If they're going to

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earth, they don't, but the more people engage, the more the glory comes down. Yes. And there's times

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we've been to conventions and we would do regional conventions and some particular states were very

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difficult. You know, we would have like four meetings and the worship was like hitting a wall.

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It was like, you could feel the demonic realm is just trying to keep you from breaking through.

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Right. And that's why it's always important. You know, like it was the one with the fiery eyes,

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Finney. Yeah. Finney, you know, he would, Charles Finney, he would have his intercessor would go

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ahead and would call him when it's time for you to come now. Yeah. You know, cause he prayed through,

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he prayed through and the convicting power was there. And we would do that. Our conventions,

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we would have people go through the whole hotel and just praying and just rejoicing and, you know,

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and just any stuff that's not supposed to be there and, you know, yeah, and get rid of it.

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All of the right. And you have a real freedom, right? You have a real freedom and praise clears

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the air. Yeah. It really, really does. I see it lots of times like a drill going up and drilling

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through the darkness and creating an open heaven. Yeah. Poking holes in the, yeah. Yeah. Circular.

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Exactly. Exactly. A drill is circular. Exactly. And we'll see that in a minute. I want to just talk

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for just a few minutes about some of the Hebrew words that are involved in praise to help us get

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a better grip on what is going to open the gates. Why are we opening the gates? Let the King of

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glory come in, lift up your heads. Oh, you gates that the King of glory may come in. So the gates

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are praise. So as we're praising, as we're worshiping, we're welcoming the King to come

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in the King of glory, King of glory, come in. Exactly. So the first word that's I think perhaps

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most common or one of the most common is the word halal. This is a Hebrew word. And if you're taking

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notes and you're interested in following up on this, it's Strong's number one nine eight four.

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In the Hebrew and the usage of it is in the peel form. Now I'll just say this for you who are

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technically inclined. I use the blue letter Bible and I tap on a scripture and I go up to the place

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where it gives the interlinear slash concordance. Yeah, that's it. And I tap on that and it will

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show me all of the words that are in Hebrew or in case of in the New Testament in Greek or in the

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case of Daniel and I think it's Ezra that is written in Aramaic. It'll give you those words

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and you can tap on those and go to OK, so here's the word halal and it gives you the outline of

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biblical usage and it means to shine in and that's in one of the other forms. But in this

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scripture, it's in the peel form, which means to praise, to boast, to make a boast. And so what

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we're doing when we're praising is we're boasting on God. Well, to say I praise you isn't really a

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boast, but if you'll go back into the Psalms in particular, I've started going through the book

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of Psalms in my Bible and I'm starting to mark the ones that are boasting. So we'll kind of hit some

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of those at the end, but the idea is to boast and in other words, if it also means to shine,

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it's like you're shining a light on our Father, you're shining a light on Jesus and you're just

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making this brilliant flash of light as you boast about him, you know, it's like an explosion, you

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know, it's like the Holy Spirit within you. Yes, is reacting. Yes. So there's something that goes on

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inside of you when you actually engage with your spirit and get your spirit to come out of your

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spirit and your body and your soul all wrapped up in this process of boasting on the Lord. So

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a familiar word that comes from the word halal, halal being the root word, is hallelujah. Okay,

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so what do we know about hallelujah? Wow, I wrote a magnificent oratorio. Oh, absolutely. Hallelujah

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chorus. Hallelujah chorus. Absolutely. It was so magnificent that the king stood up and to this day

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when the hallelujah chorus is performed somewhere, when they start that people will automatically

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just they'll stand up and people that don't know that will look around, you know, not knowing why,

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but the king did it. I should too. Yes. You know, because it was really making an emphasis for the

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Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah. Yes. Oh, wow. Yes. It's so powerful. And what that word is

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in Hebrew is it's a command command. Yeah. So it's commanding everyone to praise Yah. And that is a

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shortened form of the name Yehovah. It's kind of like a nickname. And I guess you could say that

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sounds a little funny to say it that way, but it's a shortened form, like you might call Jonathan

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John. Okay, so it's a shortened form of his name, Yehovah. So it's a command. And in the English,

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lots of times it'll say praise ye the Lord and the King James, it says praise the Lord. And in the

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Hebrew, it says hallelujah. Okay, so here's another thing. We say that word all the time.

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Mm hmm. But do we really know what it means? Do we really know that you're being commanded

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to make this brilliant, bright, shining, boastful praise about Yah? I love it. And when you travel

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in the nations and you're in the churches, it's the same word around the world. Yes. Hallelujah.

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Yeah. Every language. Hallelujah. Yes. But not everybody really knows what it means. And we've

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been a few places. We've heard we've heard it all over the world. It's true. Yeah, it's true. And

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it's a good word to say. But here's here's the deal. People who have been to heaven to come back,

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and the ones that have come back, they've been there and come back and talked about it.

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I've heard in at least some cases, somebody would get blessed and say hallelujah. And everybody

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around would absolutely stop what they're doing and start to shout glories and praises and

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magnificent words and boasts about the Lord. It's contagious. Well, yeah, but it's a command,

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you see, and everybody in heaven is perfectly obedient. So we have that from this root word,

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hallel. Another word that is from that root word is tahila. And the Hebrew word for Psalms, as in

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the book of Psalms, if you look at a Hebrew Bible, or sometimes you get just the book of Psalms in

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Hebrew or Hebrew and English together, and it's called Tehillim, which is the plural of tahila.

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So the Psalms are actually called praises. So the word tahila means laudation or a praise or a hymn.

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And so sometimes I've heard my Jewish friends say, I'm going to go pray the Tehillim, and they'll

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get together and they'll pray these Psalms, especially when the war broke out in Israel.

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They're saying, come on, let's go pray the Psalms. Let's go pray them. And I think we don't get enough

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of that in most of our understanding. I know I don't do it enough. And I'm dedicating myself

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now to push forward in my understanding and in my actions, in my habits of increasing praise,

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because it's a contending. Yeah. And many of the Psalms, the scriptures, we used to sing it.

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Yes. In the 80s, 70s, 80s. Right. And a lot of the songs, they were just straight out of the scripture.

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Yes. And that seems to have been lost. Yeah. Well, I think it's one of the best way to learn

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the scriptures as well. Yeah, that's true. You put words to it. And I know for my own self,

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there were some verses that I wanted to learn. And I just, I just put a tune to them. You know,

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I just thought up a tune. It just came out of my mind. And then as I sang it over and over again,

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as I sang it over and over again, I learned the song. Yeah. So just a few scriptures that use

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this word Tehillim or Tehillah, like Exodus 15, 11 says, who is like unto you, O Lord or Yehovah

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among the gods, who is like you glorious in holiness, awesome in praises or splendor. The

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amplified classic uses the word splendor there, but that word praises there is this word Tehillah

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or Tehillim, I suppose, because it's plural doing wonders. So fearful or awesome in praises,

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awesome in splendor, awesome in this idea of being boasted about. Psalm 9 14 says that I may show

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forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will rejoice in your salvation.

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Beautiful showing forth all your Tehillim or Tehillah. And this is a favorite one that we

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often refer to Psalm 22 three says, but you are holy. Oh, you that inhabits the praises of Israel.

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Now, a lot of people quote that as you inhabit the praises of your people. Yeah. And we as gentiles,

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Gentile believers in Yeshua and Jesus have been grafted into Israel, into the root,

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but it was originally written to Israel. Yeah. And that's one of the things that is making a

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big difference in this war that's going on in Israel. You see some of these videos of the

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soldiers before they go into battle or any kind of a break that they get. Some of them have their

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guitars there in Gaza and they'll just stop and sing some praises. They'll climb on their tanks

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and dance and sing praises. You know, there's something that's happening because they are

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singing their praises to the Lord. And I just think that's huge. Absolutely huge. So the next

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word is Zamar and the Strong's number is H 2167. And it means to sing, to sing praise, to make music,

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to play a musical instrument and sing along. So this is a really important thing. And singing

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with an instrument is a wonderful thing. I think that there is a denomination that doesn't allow

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instruments. And yeah, we won't mention it, but I found something today as I was studying, because

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I think that they are among those that don't accept the Old Testament as having any value anymore.

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But they're wrong. But they missed it in the New Testament. The thing is that they think that it's

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not in the New Testament, but the word in Greek, where the scripture says in 1 Corinthians 14, 26,

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it says, how is it then brethren, when you come together, every one of you has a psalm,

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has a doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation, let all things be done

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unto edifying the word psalm there. And the word psalm in Ephesians 519, speaking to yourselves

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and Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.

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The word psalm there is a piece of music that is I'm reading from Strong's okay, a piece of music

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that is a sacred ode accompanied with the voice harp or other instrument. So I love it. There we

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have it in the New Testament. It's in the Greek. They just didn't, they didn't study. We're really

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limited if we only read English. And I'm certainly no scholar. I've said it many times. I'm a Hebrew

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scholar wannabe, but I use these tools that we have to get more understanding. What I started

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to say earlier is sometimes you'll see these words like call, maybe spelled Q-A-L or P-L-P-I-E-L,

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or Hith-Pael. All of these are structures of the Hebrew language that I don't understand,

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but I know that when it says that it's one of those things, then I can go to that one that's

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mentioned in the Strong's or in the outline of biblical usage that then I know which one to pick

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for what this means. So I don't go far afield using the wrong structure because sometimes we

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have a tendency to say it means all of these things so we can read something into it.

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And sometimes we're wrong, but I'm learning at least that if you'll stick to using those words

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that we don't understand, it'll help us get on track. So this word, zamar, it's translated to

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praise and it's translated to sing. It's translated to sing Psalms or sing forth,

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and it definitely has to do with touching the strings of a musical instrument or playing a

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musical instrument to make music accompanied by the voice. And it also means to celebrate in song.

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So the things that we're doing when we sing to the Lord. Now, not everyone has

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a beautiful voice that everyone likes. Okay. But your sound is beautiful to the Lord. He

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gave you vocal chords and maybe you don't play a musical instrument, but you could probably

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tap on the table. And that is a percussion sound. And that is a sound that will bless the Lord.

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And that is a sound that will bless the Lord. It's you making an effort to do something

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that expresses your joy and your boasting and the Lord, what has he done for you?

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Okay. You want to boast about what he's done for you. Oh, Jesus, you are my savior. Oh, thank you

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for saving me. Oh, you're my redeemer. Oh, you have delivered me. And you begin to say these things

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to him. And when you sing to him, there's an old saying, I don't know that it's scriptural,

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but there's an old saying that if you sing, you pray twice. Yeah. I'm not sure whether that's

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scriptural or not. I've never found it in the scripture. It's certainly not in the scriptures

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like that, but maybe we'll find something in the Hebrew that helps us to find that. Anyway, the

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point is that it's your heart. When you express your heart, when you express your gratitude,

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when you sing and boast about him, you are giving him glory. And he is exalted when we do that. And

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when we rejoice in him, it blesses him. I've heard of a number of people who have seen the Lord in

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heaven and they see that the Lord just gets almost inebriated. He gets drunk on the praise. It's not

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like getting drunk like on wine or some other strong drink, but it's about getting so loved

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and getting so fulfilled in relationship. And the thing is that as we praise him,

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our praise goes up and his presence comes down. And then we get blessed and then our praise goes

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up some more and then his presence comes down some more. And honestly, often we quit too soon.

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Yeah, I was just reading the account of Charles Finney when the Holy Spirit was just really

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working on him. And he says, this is the day I'm going to get saved. And he goes,

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walks into the woods, makes sure nobody's watching and all that, finds a place where trees had fallen,

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got down, you know, in the middle there, start crying out to God. And when the Holy Spirit hit

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him, he just became inebriated. And it was just amazing what was coming out of his mouth as the

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Holy Spirit just fell on him and he just praised God and just, you know, it was totally changed him.

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Totally changed him from that moment onward. He was a changed man.

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You know, and that was then what came out of his mouth was this, it was praise.

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Because it didn't come out of his mouth, it came out of his heart. Because once he experienced

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that joy of the Lord, you know, everything just broke loose in him like a dam, it just broke loose.

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Beautiful. Beautiful. So another word is the word renan. And it's H7442 in the Strongs. And

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it means to give a ringing cry in joy, exultation and praise.

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And it means to shout aloud for joy, to cry out, to be joyful, to greatly rejoice, to shout for joy,

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sing aloud for joy. It's about the joy that you're singing with. It's about the joy that

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you're shouting with. It's not just a shout like you're going to cry because you're sad.

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It's you're crying out because he's so wonderful. He's so awesome. Psalm 20 verse 5 says, we've

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rejoiced and that's the word renan. We will rejoice in your salvation. And in the name of our God, we

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will set up our banners. Yehovah, the Lord will fulfill all your petitions. Psalm 32 11 says, be

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glad in Yehovah and rejoice you righteous and shout for joy. The word shout is that renan, all you

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that are upright in heart. So it's rejoicing and it's shouting. These are things that we can do

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to express our praise to our father. Hallelujah. And then you have these wonderful things

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like in Psalm 150 verse 4 says, praise him with the timbrel and dance. And the word dance is

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machal and it's H4234. And it means, you know, have you ever seen those Hebrew kind of dancing,

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Jewish dancing where they're dancing in a circle? Circle, circle dance. There's a circle dance. And

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the word machal comes from the word chul, which is 2342. And it means to twist or whirl in a circular

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or spiral manner. That's why they do circle dances because they're commanded to, okay. They're just

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obeying God when they're doing these circle dances. And that's why some of us who are maybe new to

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this, you see the circle dance going on and it's like, Ooh, I want to do that. And sometimes we get

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bold enough to try it. Yeah. We see that at our convention. Yeah. People just get up and they

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would do that circle dance. So you see this in Psalm 30 verse 11, it says you have turned my

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morning into dancing. And so even if you don't have a group of people to do a circle dance with,

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you can spin. You can do your own little, like if anybody's been around me for any amount of time,

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if somebody gives me a good report, I get up and I dance a little happy dance in a circle.

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I just only go around once, but it's my way of saying, I am rejoicing over this good news

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that you've just given me. You know, I hear about somebody getting healed or somebody getting saved

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or, or some great thing that happens somewhere. I'll get up and do a happy dance. Don't I?

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You do. And even forget a, someone gives a nice donation, you know, a happy dance.

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You know, listen, you may not see it, but I do a happy dance for $2.75. You know, I do a happy dance

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when I see that someone has given something because I'm rejoicing in the fact that whatever

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I'm rejoicing in the fact that whatever was given is a part of what God is going to do to see to our

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needs. So praising and dancing, really, it's a way of saying thank you also. So when I'm doing my

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happy dance, I'm saying thank you to the Lord. I'm saying thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,

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thank you. And whether it's a large donation or a small one, but I definitely do something over the

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big ones. I might dance around in circle more than once. So here's another word for dance.

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And that's in second Samuel six 14, it says David danced before the Lord with all his might.

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And that was when he was bringing the arc back. Right. And that word is carar and it's H three,

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seven, six, nine. And it means to dance and it also means to whorl. So, you know, it's to go or move

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in a circle. And that's why I said earlier that I see praise as like a drill going through the

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heavens, you know, that to build an open heaven over us. So then here's another one. And we've

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been in Israel for like the feast of Tabernacles a number of times. Do you remember what they say

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to each other? Yeah. So a hug means holiday. So any holiday is a hug. And some comes from this

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word Samach, which is eight zero five five. And it means to be merry, to be joyful, to rejoice,

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to be glad to cheer up. And so the idea is you're just saying happy holiday.

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Happy holiday. Yeah. Right after Yom Kippur. Yeah. When they're putting up the booths everywhere,

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you know, and then that's when you're hearing it. Yes. So you're telling people to be happy.

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And Deuteronomy 12 seven says, and it's talking about one of the hugs, one of the holidays,

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and there you shall eat. There would be where the Lord has put his name.

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There you shall eat before the Lord your God, Jehovah, and ye shall rejoice in all that you

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put your hand to you and your household where in the Lord your God has blessed you. So it's about

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rejoicing. It's about having a happy time. You know, we say happy holidays. We say Merry Christmas.

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It's wishing happiness. It's a happy new year. Happy joy. Joy to your holiday. Happy birthday.

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Yes, exactly. Exactly. So it's like, have a happy birthday. It's kind of like it's a wish.

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It's a blessing. So the sameach is a rejoicing in the holiday. Okay. So another word for rejoice

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is the word gil, H-1523. And it means to spin around again. Okay. Under the influence of any

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violent emotion, usually rejoice. Can actually be cringing fear, but usually it's to be glad,

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to joy, to be joyful, to rejoice. And it means to go in a circle. It can also mean to leap for joy,

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to rejoice, rejoice even to exaltation. So it's bringing joy and spinning and

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glorying. And so are you getting some ideas of new things that you can do in praise?

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Mm hmm. You know, I just, I want us to get out of this tiny little box that we've all been in. We

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have a greater way to praise our greater God. He's greater than anyone else. He's beyond great.

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And when Dean Braxton was in heaven, our friend that, you know, we have him on the podcast from

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time to time, if you're not familiar with him, if this podcast is new to you, Dean Braxton was,

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well, I'll say it this way. He was in heaven because he left his body and his body died

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for an hour and 45 minutes. And he was with Jesus and the father in heaven. And he says,

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looking at Jesus and looking at the father, every time you look at them and realize how wonderful,

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how glorious, how beautiful, how amazing, and all the different words that you can say, when you

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look at them a second later, it's more. They're more beautiful, more glorious, more amazing.

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And that's why our praise needs to keep increasing. It needs to keep increasing. And as the dark

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things are happening all around us, all the more reason for us to have this clamorous praise,

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this bright shining praise, because it will light us up in this darkness. It will cause the darkness

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to flee and it'll give people a revelation about how great our God is, especially when we can go

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around being happy and being joyful and rejoicing all the time because of how great he is. People

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are going to look at us and say, are you okay? Yeah. What's with you? How can you be happy right

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now? And then it opens up the door. Yeah. Opens up a door to say something about I am rejoicing

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because my God is so great and he's in charge of this thing, even though it doesn't look like it,

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he is still ruling and reigning above it all. And he is not going to let it go too far.

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There's going to come a moment when he's going to bring a judgment, cutting off of the darkness,

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he's going to do some amazing things coming up here. So one of my favorite scriptures is

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Psalm 97, one, it says the Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice. And it's the same word,

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Giel. So I think this is my little theory, but I think that when our father created the earth,

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he said, let the earth rejoice. And it began to rotate and it began to go in a circle. It began

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to spin and it began to go in a circle around the sun. Let the earth rejoice. Let the earth spin.

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Let the earth spin. So let the heavens be glad. Let the earth rejoice and let men say among the

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nations, Jehovah reigns. He's in charge. He is the king of the universe. Come on, let's praise him.

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Hallelujah. Glory to God. So just as we start to wind down here, I want to bring just a couple of

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scriptures to give you an idea of something that you can do when you read the Psalms,

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read through the Psalms and begin to speak them out because the angels are waiting to hear the

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word of the Lord so that they can go into action. So Philip, would you read Psalm 63,

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three through five in the Passion translation, please.

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For your tender mercies mean more to me than life itself. How I love and praise you God.

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Daily I will worship you passionately and with all my heart. My arms will wave to you like banners

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of praise. Amen. I overflow with praise when I come before you. For the anointing of your presence

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satisfies me like nothing else. You are such a rich banquet of pleasure to my soul. Isn't that

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beautiful? That's out of the Passion. That's beautiful. Sometimes it helps to read even from

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to read even from another translation so that you get more words. Yeah. And the more you use

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these scriptures, the more you're going to memorize them. And then it'll just come out of you

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spontaneously all the time, all the time, things about him, things that you're saying to him.

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Let's look at Psalm 149. I'm going to read the first five verses out of the Amplified Classic.

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Praise the Lord. Now that word there is hallelujah. Sing to the Lord a new song. Praise him in the

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assembly of his saints. Let Israel rejoice in him, their maker. Let Zion's children triumph and be

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joyful in their king. Let them praise his name in chorus and choir and with the single or group dance.

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Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and lyre. For the Lord takes pleasure in his people.

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He will beautify the humble with salvation and adorn the wretched with victory. Let the saints be

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joyful in the glory and beauty which God confers upon them. Let them sing for joy upon their beds.

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Now would you read six through nine in the Passion? This is so amazing. God's high and

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holy praises fill their mouths. For their shouted praises are their weapons of war. These warring

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weapons will bring vengeance on every opposing force and every resistant power. To bind kings

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with chains and rulers with iron shackles. Praise-filled warriors will enforce the judgment,

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doom decreed against their enemies. This is the glorious honor he gives to all his godly lovers.

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Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And what's that new song we've been singing called Praise?

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My praise is the waters my enemies drown in. I love that line. I love that. That's awesome.

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Yeah, we've been working on that song. That's a tremendous praise song. Yes. And praise will

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change your situation. It'll change you. That's the thing that's the most important. It changes me

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when I take on this challenge to praise more and not just say, Lord I praise you. Lord I praise you.

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Thank you Jesus. I praise you. And now thank you. We understand thank you. But we haven't really

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understood praise that much. And there's other words. There's words that come from the word.

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I think yada is one of them. And it comes from the word hand. The word hand in Hebrew is yad.

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Yad. And yada is one of the ways of expressing your praise. And it has to do with lifting your

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hands and it has to do with casting. Like throwing. It's like throwing your praise to the Lord.

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And the name Judah comes from this word praise. It comes from this word yada. So even the entire

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nation of the Jewish people, and that's only part of Israel, you have to understand that there are

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other tribes that got dispersed that some of them haven't come home yet. But you know, the idea that

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God sends Judah first. He always sent Judah first. Praise goes first. And when you want to change

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the atmosphere, get out there and contend with praise. And as we're contending, the more we

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contend for the outpouring, the more we praise, the more we are opening the heavens. We're opening

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the more we are opening the heavens. We're opening that atmosphere above us to make room for the

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glory to come down. All they do. Amen. Amen. If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe,

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