Creflo Dollar Using Praise as Your Weapon

Oh je now let's join creflo dollar for today's message so we're talking about the effect of praise in the life of a believer and sometimes when you hear even the phrase praise you automatically find yourself thinking about what happens when you're at church that's not what this series is about it's about showing you that this is not a church thing it's about showing you that until praise is implemented your faith has not come to the place of completion you find in the Word of God by His stripes I'm healed you find that your deliberate you find the finished works of Jesus Christ in your life everything has been done everything has been completed and yet one of the ways by the sighs acknowledging that you already have it and it already exists on inside of you one of the ways to bring that manifestation into your life is when you begin to initiate and activate say those two words initiate and activate praise it will complete your faith it will cause your faith to begin to increase because what you're doing you are thanking God for something that has yet to manifest in the physical world it is that Thanksgiving that causes you to be able to see the manifestation manifestation of that in the physical world it is that thanksgiving and praise that brings your faith to a place of completion and yet last week we talked about it's going to be based on what's happening between these two ears that will determine the direction of your life the dominant thoughts in your life will determine where your life will go and so the enemy wants to take advantage of that time of I believe I receive and there it is he wants to come in and tell you all kinds of things and put all kinds of doubt and unbelief and say to you this is not going to happen or or that doesn't exist or notice it hadn't happened yet notice the pain had gone away and that's why faith people who already know what grace says about provided for them that's why faith people say you know what I'm not moved by what I see and I'm not moving about what I hear and I'm not moved by what I feel I'm moved by the Word of God and to a point where you just have to know what's going on in the feeling realm and know that I am I have what grace is already provided and the way you stay focused on the answer instead of the problem is you begin to move into this place of Thanksgiving and praise Thanksgiving and praise will keep you focus on the promise and complaining and murmuring will keep you focused on the problem and what you focus on the most is what you will have potential to give birth to so when you walk around thanking God for that promise and you thank God for the promise the promise that has yet manifested the promise that you can't see the promise you can't feel the promise you can't touch and yet you have the audacity to thank and praise God for manifestation that nobody can see except they see it through the Word of God and when you praise God and begin to thank God for what you know grace has already provided and yet you begin to praise Him and it hadn't yet manifested in this physical world it brings your faith to such a completion where it gets heavens attention it's an invitation of praise that God will never turn down it's an invitation of praise that angels will move quickly to when they see an individual who says you know what I prayed I believed I receive I've acknowledged I've done all the things I know to do faith wise there's only one thing for me to do to do walk around thanking God for it every day praising God for it everything and don't don't let me lift my hands up for something that hadn't even manifested yet don't let me be walking around in my office and I say Lord I just think it that I receive this thing right now it's that type of correspondence with the Word of God that causes us to be peculiar people that we can praise God for stuff that has not even appear yet and so where we want to pick up today is we want to pick up with this issue of how can we use praise we're talking about three areas number one how praise and worship will increase your faith number two how praise and thanksgiving ladies and gentlemen will run the devil away and number three how praise the praise and thanksgiving is something that ministers to the Lord now I want to pick up with this this this number two how praise and thanksgiving will will run the devil out of your life it'll run the devil off and first thing we got to realize that there is a devil a lot of people don't believe there's a devil comes a lot of people don't believe in Jesus you would think that everybody believes in Jesus but because you're surrounded by a lot of people this morning but a lot of people don't believe in Jesus and that's our assignment it's intro introduced Jesus to a dying world who thinks it's a fantasy and a joke and introduce them to Jesus but a lot of people don't believe in and in the devil they don't believe that there is a devil and I've got to make sure you understand that you have an opponent you have somebody opposing you you have someone the Bible says has come to kill and to dissing steal and to destroy your life now you've got to realize what the battle is you see we have really taken spiritual warfare to a place where it shouldn't be first of all colossians makes it very clear that when Jesus shed his blood on the cross he nailed the requirements of the law to that cross he stripped principalities and powers of all of their authority and he had an open show you know to know another word for that a parade God threw a parade before all the spiritual world so that they could see there's no longer a spiritual battle going on we've won and basically says we've opened up a can of whoop and we want everybody to see we want everybody to see that we win and here's the thing everybody the spirit world knows that that battle is over with there's a parade you know it's like when you win the Superbowl there's a parade and I'm telling you Jesus won Oh principalities and he won over power and the victor he got on the cross that day ladies and gentlemen I mean he made an open chain of them and paraded them hallelujah in the streets so when we think of spiritual warfare we shouldn't think of it like my people have done traditionally like you know I'm going to go and well I'm going to get involved in spiritual warfare no no no that that's been one spiritual warfare that we're involved in today exists between our two ears the mind is the arena of faith you will lose it or you'll win it in the arena of your mind it is what the enemy can get you to think it is the enemy trying to get you to go back to self effort trying to get you to go back to the works of the flesh trying to get you not to believe that Jesus has done it all for you it is the enemy that's trying to convince you that if anything's going to happen you're going to be responsible for making it happen instead of you receiving by faith that Jesus Christ has already made it happen he don't want you to understand that your healing is a finished work and your deliverance is a finished work and your prosperity is a finished work in your marriage is a finished work and your success is a finished work it is something that Jesus has already finished it's done he wants you to think that you need to go and to make these things happen so you don't realize and receive by faith that Jesus has already made these things happen and when you go to praising God for the finished works of Jesus Christ it irritates the devil because he wants that praise that you're giving God to come to him it irritates him to such a point it runs him off it's like rubbing his nose in it you understand what I'm saying and when you praise the Lord and the enemy has done his best attempt to try to get you to think differently to think according to the flesh the flesh is a way of thinking that goes against the Word of God and he wants to try to get you to the point to the point where you don't believe that Jesus has accomplished everything and so you keep going back to self work and self effort and performance the only thing that your performance and your self work will produce is guilt and condemnation and fear and you never receive that Jesus has already delivered you from all that other stuff if you want to know why you should praise Jesus it is because that he did it all for you you are here today and everything you have access to Jesus is the one that made it possible for you there is nothing you could have done possibly to put to earn the right to be saved it was by the grace of God that we're saved His grace that were healed His grace that we prosper His grace that we have victory his grace that were seated with him in heavenly places it is His grace that is positioned us there and every day you wake up you got a reason to lift your hands up and praise God for what Jesus has already done and made available somebody need to shout amen in this place somebody need to give Jesus a big thank you hallelujah turn the to people and tell them Jesus did it all any good to have Jesus at church now so you have to recognize that you have an enemy that's going to attack you in your thinking he's going to come and try to say all kinds of things to you that are not according to the word or really what the enemy does wicked comes from the word a term we are used to we turn furniture Wickard furniture because it's twisted and that's what the enemy will do he'll take truth and try try to twist that truth and try to minister that those things to your thinking and you start thinking in a twisted way and I listen to me very carefully the power of praise towards God knowing what grace is made available to you well absolutely husha look at there I don't know if I've ever used it hush up the enemy so why is that important it's the enemy the accuser of the Brethren that's trying to affect your life through what he whispers and prays will silence the voice of the devil really the only power he has is suggestions and he wants to suggest to you certain things and you got to know when the devil talking to you and you got to know when the devil talking through somebody to you some of y'all be sin my sin be sin right now did they have a topic to you you got to know that you got recognized when he running his mouth so you'll know when to thank God and praise God to silence him Oh y'all you understand what I'm saying somebody say won't understand what you say well let me give you an illustration it looks like when you come to the office for a counseling session you sit down with a counselor cause you and your wife going through some things and it's amazing how you just don't tell the whole whole truth you just tell yo truth in that something and so you begin to explain what you know you know I met my wife 20 years ago and and I loved her but I'm not in love it's like you know what don't even come with that you love her but you're not in love see I've seen this picture I know where I know how it ends because here's a piece of truth you're not telling you're not telling this truth that you met this gorgeous model who is half your age you think that I and so now that you met her you think you're in love with her cuz what anybody been talking in your ears you love your wife she'd have had five of your big head children she didn't got stretched out of shape got this going on here you know she she warm in the wintertime and you got this little ol bit of stick ain't never had no children ain't got no stretch marks nowhere and s he seen he talking to you did ever talk to you and you know you fit in yield oh you still got that old pimp going on you know still got the old pimp you know and you you you know and yeah and you just you just you need you need somebody that you know kind of help you you know deal with what you're going through and so you don't understand this is the woman who loves you hey yo chillin put up with your stuff took all your mess walk through you all these dumb ideas you had was with you when you moved in the house and back in their apartment and then back in the house and moved in the house and now all of a sudden you really think it's the law telling you that you love her but you ain't in love with her come on I'm talking to somebody somebody have some of the guys like and she let me tell you something your wife already know every time you think it's a secret it ain't a secret you wear it all over your face the head is woman who love you and taking the time with you and was willing to get a body all messed up for you and you finished choose miss miss billboard over your wife and see what you can understand she half your age so she own leaves you don't even know what your children even know what you what you what you don't you you know she wants to she was to go to the club tonight you want to go to church and she don't want to go to church she wants to go to the club tonight you understand what I'm saying she waking you up in the middle of the night you like girl what's wrong with you I gotta go to work in the morning she said now I want to get close to you you should have did that at nine o'clock I'm 51 years old because the devil has whispered between yo - is that the grass is greener on the other side and you just don't understand that the grass is green where you are but you think is greener on the other side and you let it heat talkin to you and you need to know how to shut him up before he gets you to leave your wife cuz once you go you ain't coming back Siana had his dilemma my wife took Heather at the very beginning she said to me don't nobody won't you book me in fact to be very honest she said don't know about it won't your big-haired self but me and we went to a gun range one time and she's quite the shot you know the little pitcher thing up there you know and her first shot Pam right through the head the second shot Pam right through the heart and on the third shot she blew the gun and said remember and I'm sitting up there light this heading up there to take the little picture down to fold it up and take out home don't you let the devil talk you out of something that's godly and something that is good and use things to try to make you think that's God talking to you you better learn how to praise God for where you are who you wit the years you've had with them and you better learn how to thank God for that and shet him up they've said you know you just need you just need you just need a new new surroundings so once you're just gonna move to New York man move to New York man get your new job new house new city you know new little model you know take on up that with you man you just need some newness and freshness you know the only problem is the old you going to a new place you know what happens when the old you go to a new place the old you are turning the new place into the old place because the old you keep showing up all that comes because of deceptive conversation that you continue to have with the enemy because you did not know how to shut him up and this thing about trying to find an excuse to leave I love but I'm not in love well you better get in love she didn't have five kids and you two might you ain't in love you better get you can get into this whole thing about well it's all abilities real working one day however one did realize I was in love yeah that's all of our Commission on the one you know when I woke up one day and found that you weren't in love just get rid of the Arkham and put your feelings right you'll be back in look go out to eat something talk right it ain't a hard thing to be in love you ain't in love with that new girl you in lust you think lust lust is like the devil talking to you telling you it's love that ain't that ain't that's not that's not love that's a loss you can get in love with your wife because what happened with most men they end up man I'm talking to somebody they end up marrying that billboard and then wishing they can come back home and a wife like oh no no I didn't I didn't realize what I was missing ain't got no clothes for you ain't got to cook I come home go right to bed oh no I ain't getting back in that Bundy's no more boy you have something good and I'm telling you I get well good I'm telling you right now that you a new Jesus let's the law say so passing you are not beat I'm just telling you the truth so before you go out in that Lobby and start something that you don't want to be responsible for you better learn how to praise the law so you can silence the enemy there's no relationship when you're willing to do your part no such thing as a relationship that can't work out if you're committed to it and you stick to it and both of you get together it will work and it can be glorious it's they don't have to be tolerating one another well I do what I got to do for the key is you know someone but I oh I don't want you doing none for the kids no no no you do it you do it because it's the right thing to do then you do it right and you locate those emotions that have been covered up by some situation some emotional thing that you never dealt with that you tuck away and you kept tucking it away and you kept tucking it away and then there's some marriage issues going on in here right now I'm telling you don't waste my time talking about there's some issues going on right now it's this thing in the church lately that you know you just conveniently just get a divorce with not even fighting for for your marriage you don't fight for your marriage anymore you just secretly go get a divorce and I think y'all still together hey how your husband between Merrin Omo pastor for real no we've been divorced for the last three years why are you tell nobody we won't nobody to know what happened accountability so you snuck off and got a divorce you sent me an invitation to your marriage but you didn't send me an invitation to your divorce yeah but see you don't understand there's somebody in this church then and went through worse times than what you think you going through but they knew how to shut the enemy up and begin to worship and praise God we got to become a praise in church and we got to learn how to praise and thank God out of situations okay and I'm not talking about listen I'm not talking about this this southern religious type of praise I'm talking about a genuine heartfelt praise that when you're at work you don't have to do a display Father thank you so much for this raise thank you Lord and then you got Jim down the hall yeah how you doing oh yeah okay I'm praising God I'm not waving Jim I'm praising the Lord you ever been in your car and you want to just take some time to praise a lot and people looking at you like I'm talking about practices set it aside everyday set it set aside the time every day to thank God in the midst of conflict thank God that you love your wife when you don't feel it thank God that you love your husband when you don't feel it you hear me feelings are not should not be the determining factor of the genuineness of what you're looking for in a relationship thank you Lord that I am attracted to my husband thank you Lord that I have the feelings of love for my wife thank you this is praise causing your faith to come to the fullest point thank you Lord that I have I have a strong desire to be with my spouse all of the things that don't exist you begin to activate and initiate praise to cause something that hasn't manifested to be manifested in your life and it'll work not only the errors of marriages it'll work it'll work in any area and when you need counseling count going to counseling should not be something that's a shameful act that's the smartest thing you can do is to take the marriage that you're invested in to another level to get the kind of help you need to make this thing work the way it needs to work you understand what I'm saying now you quiet now because you're in you and your y'all y'all know what you're fussing about but it's not over it's not over do some of the stuff you used to do it I know this ain't a family thing but obviously I'm supposed to be talking about this all right too many people in church getting divorce so I put nothing little old stuff too I mean used to be being nice little old stuff I don't know we just you know we just saying you know just ain't there just ain't dad you know seriously what ain't there well no I just said duh you even know what ain't it you can get a divorce over what ain't bad that you don't know anything that's not right you become somebody that the enemy will prey on he says I got you in this area look how easy that was I'm gonna get you in this area this area this area and I won't keep talking to you cuz you have no idea how to me and what you shut him up it's through praise worship when problems arise most people immediately allow worry and doubt to creep in instead of focusing on God's Word but 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