{ A problem called praise (Pt. 1) - C. Lentz }

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We cannot control our circumstances but we can control our spirit.

Acts 16

When you praise and worship God, whether the people around you like with or not, chains can be broken. It also changes your perspective and causes you to love your enemies.

Praise can be a problem for your disease, lack, attack on your life, thing that wants to hold you back.

We have the power to praise our Savior and we can break chains that we can never imagine, and be hit by the unexpected.

Do you know what the enemy does not expect from you, when you are in the toughest spot, and does not necessarily feel like doing the right thing? He does not expect from you to praise God all the way through it. He expects believers to go through it and shut their mouths, letting circumstances define them rather than letting their faith define the situation. He does not expect us to give God praise no matter what.

The praise that is coming of us can change everything that comes in our life and in the world, turning it upside down.

Is our praise directed where it should be? If you give God praise when it is due, we will see a revival everywhere we go.

Praise had to overcome your preference. Preceding whatever you feel like doing. Your praise has to overcome it all no matter how you feel.

If you praise God, something in your body should be responding to your soul. And you can’t fake that.

It is not about how you feel, but about the goodness of our God, and giving praise to the only one that matters.

The praise of our God changes the atmosphere.

It is yelling not about what is wrong but what is right with our God.

If anybody has the reason to praise it is going to be us, understanding the power of praise and being in abandonment.

My goal is to be the kind of person hat praise and worship God so crazy that makes the rest feel bad.

We need nothing to praise God in what He has done in our lives, it does not matter, God is always worthy of our praise and lifting our hands.

Praise is a problem for mediocrity.

Psalm 40: I will praise the Lord at all times.

There is going to come a fight, if you do not know the power of your praise and bring it out of your own soul, you will stop dead in your tracks.

It is not the gift that keeps you there, we got this praise inside of us that nothing is going to keep it in.

It feels good to be a crazy Christian. We have been saved from death into life and everything should reflect that.

Reason 1: We get to praise God because God has already done to do more than you think He has.

He is faithful yesterday, He is faithful today, and He is faithful forever.

He has already done more, and He has already gone further  and that alone is already worthy to give Him some praise.

Rest easy because He has already done more and you don’t even know it.

Praise protects you from getting discouraged from what has not happen yet.

Disappointment and discouragement can take out a believer.

What you are concentrating on what He is done, focusing on the goodness of God, and you almost forget what you worried about.

If you let discouragement steal your joy, it will drag you from your destiny. And praise protects you from that.

You do not see it, but it is effecting your vision.

Make a decision that God has already done so much and miracles are His memorials. His memorials are alive, and reminds you that He is working on your behalf even if you do not see it.

Reason 2: God is going to do more than you think He is.

Ephesians 3:20

He always does more than you think He is going to do. He is not going to get you through it, but get you through it better.

What do you start? Just do what God says to do.

Do your job because the Holy Spirit never fails to do His. It is God super on your natural and more than you can ever ask, imagine, or dream.

None of us have anything.

If we got some seeds, our job is to sow them.

Our job is to pray not heal. Our job is to build the church not to grow them.

Sometimes we have no idea who the Harvester is. It is God who brings the increase.

You do your part, and He is going to do more.

Whatever you have, whatever you are fighting you are going to overcome it.

Just show up again.

He said to pray, and He’ll deliver.

Do not ever leave the church and focus on what He has not do and focus on who He is – Faithful, fighting for you, your god, your deliver, your strength, your help, the one who is going to push you through it, the one who is going set you free

If you feel like your praise has been muted, God is going to give your voice back. No one has the power to take it.

When you lose your voice, it is bad for you. it is worse for the rest of His people who you can change their lives. It is not about you.

You maybe in a prision and God knows you are there. Just be there, and the presence of God.

Your voice can set somebody else free.

If you are discouraged, just lift your eyes to heaven.

Your praise can be a problem for your problem.

You are going to think about the relationship that has changed your life.

Do not give the enemy the real estate that he has not own.

The muscle and voice that has been muted is going to be louder than ever.