Praise "The weapon orf warfare"

One of the most powerful weapons that believers have at their arsonel is praise. When we begin to offer it up to God it produces an aroma that arises into the very throne room. As we do it, were inviting his manifested presence on the scene in our lives. When he shows up demons flee, sickness subsides, doubt disinigrates, fear fails, and lonliness loosens. Hes placing upon my heart in this blog the importance of seeing it as a weapon. The bible declares Let the high praises of God be like a sharp two edged sword coming from our mouths excercising judgement upon the heathen and putting our nobles and enemies in shackles and chains(Psalm 149:6-9) We see here clearly that praise is a strong weapon of warfare. There are two illustrations in the word that establish this effectively. The first is found in the life of Johosaphat. He was the leader of Judah. They just had a small army and one day they found out that they were about to be attacked by three large troups. Once this was brought this attention, he simply lifted up his head and prayed Lord we have no might power or ability in ourselves but our eyes are upon you(2 Chron 20:12) this is an awesome prayer right in the face of not knowing quite what to do. The Lord spoke through the servant to place the PRAISERS in front of the marching people as they headed toward the camp. Notice it wasent to place the millitary men in front. This in the natural seemed totally illogical. Listen to this quote, "When the Lord gives an instruction reason is never required, faith alone must answer"! As they marched toward their enemy, the three large troops got confused and confounded and turned on one another bringing great victory! The second one is found in a prison in Phillipi. Paul and Silas were there for preaching the gospel. Their feet were in stocks, and their backs were beaten. The bible said that they began to offer up praises to God so loud that the prisoners heard them! and it says that an earthquake came suddenly opening up the prison doors!(Acts 16:24,25) Praise brought their deliverence, it will bring ours too! The Lord once said to me "Praise is Hells mute button" He than quickened me to a verse that backed it up Praise stills & silences the avenger(Psalm 8:2) PTL!!!!!!!!! Are you in a waiting period in trusting for the manifestation of the promise? Praise will keep you in faith! How do I know? Because it did for a guy named Abraham. We have talked about him alot in recent blogs. one thing that we have yet to mention is what really was the defining element that kept him in faith. It was PRAISE! He grew in FAITH AS HE GAVE GLORY TO GOD!(Rom 4:20) Will the enemy attempt to steal our praise? Oh YEAH! In the remainder of this blog were going to talk about a few principles that the Lord will use to help us stay in praise. Number one, Praise must be CONTINUAL. His praises SHALL CONTINUALLY be in my mouth(Psalm 34:1) Praise him for who is is and he'll show you what He can do! Moses asked him to show him his glory and it came also with his GOODNESS(Ex 33,34) The opposite of praising is complaining. The more continual we are, the more TAMED our tounge becomes. Christianity is a life of consistency! It takes training, we've got to see ourselves as pow's of praise bootcamp! Number two, Praise must be done HABITUALLY. I WILL BLESS THE LORD AT ALL TIMES(Psalm 34:1) Zero in on the word WILL. Our habits our formed by our decisions. We decide or decide not to decide but either way we've made our decision. David said it this way This is the day the Lord hath made I WILL rejoice and be glad in it(Psalm 118:24) We've all heard "Practice makes perfect" The more we practice praise, the easier it becomes. There is a book written by Brother Lawerence entitled Practicing the presence of God. We are doing that as we habitually praise! Number three, Praise must be done Sacrificially. The bible says Offering up the SACRIFICE OF PRAISE continually being the fruit of our lips giving thanks unto his name(Heb 13:15) we have already seen the accounts earlier in the blog of three men that did it. Praise many times will go against our feelings. We covered that in the blog Thomas Christian vs. Abraham Christian. Praise is the very power that ushers divine perceptionj and perspective. Habbakkuk did this and it was intrical in turning the circumstance the the contrary. The bible said fig tree wasent bloosming neither the vine yielding fruit. Things were like dark and dismal. He kindof had Murphys law happening. What can go wrong went wrong! However it was than and there that he REJOICED in the God of his salvation and God himself made his feet like HINES FEET(Hab 3:17,18) The Lord supernaturally elevated him over the aching void of nonethingness into awesome abundance. What was the key? It was in his sacrifice of praise. Where his glory is so is his GOODNESS! The Lord spoke through the mouth of Bro Copeland saying that "the Glory will shine in 09" Isiah said that his GLORY WILL BE SEEN UPON US, even as darkness covers the earth and gross the darkness the people(Isiah 60:1-3) The bible says believe the word of God and thou SHALL be established, BELIEVE his prophets and thou SHALL PROSPER(2 Chron 20:20) Jesus said out of the mouth of two or three witnesses EVERY WORD IS ESTABLISHED! Lets recieve it! Remember that our praise will be a pertinent part in these vwonderful words coming to pass. None of us should ever enter a war without weapons! The Lord spoke something through Lindsey Roberts "The bible says to put on the whole armor of God, Who ever heard of taking armor to a picnic? No doubt this IS WAR!!!! We have the weapons of warfare that are not carnal(natural) BUT MIGHTY THROUGH GOD(2 Cor 10:4) They are the word, name blood and PRAISE!!!!!!!!!!! Do it, Do it, Do it, in Jesus name!