An Atmosphere Of Praise

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It's great to be 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.400 with you today, and I hope you stay connected with 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.160 us during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.640 social medium, and you can come visit us in person. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:01.640 I'd love to have you be a part of one 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.720 of our services, but I like to start with something funny, 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.920 and I heard about this cat and mouse that died 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.520 on the same day and went to heaven. After a 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.040 few weeks, Peter saw the mouse and ask how he 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.959 liked it. He said, Oh, it's great, but it's so big. 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.079 I wish I could get a pair of roller skates. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.320 Peter said, no problem, got him some skates. A few 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.919 weeks later, Peter saw the cat and ask him how 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.800 he liked it. He said, Oh, it's fantastic. And just 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.360 when I thought it couldn't get any better, I discovered 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:33.520 the meals on wheels. Say it like you mean it. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.799 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.680 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.240 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.239 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.600 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:54.639 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.680 to talk to you today about an atmosphere of praise. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.639 We're all creating an atmosphere around us by what we're thinking, 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.320 what we're saying, our attitude. It's easy to go around negative. 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.600 Look at this doctor's report, This traffic is bad, and 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:15.520 these people did me wrong. Whatever you're sending out, you're 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:19.200 going to draw in If you're creating a negative atmosphere, 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:24.120 that's going to attract discouragement, defeat bad breaks. But when 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.760 you create an atmosphere of praise, when you're always thanking 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.120 God for what he's done. You get up in the morning, Lord, 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.720 thank you that I'm alive today. Thank you for my 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.400 beautiful children. Thank you that goodness and mercy are following me. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.600 Thank you that I'm surrounded by your favor. Lord, thank 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:44.000 you that you've made me invisible to the enemy. That 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:48.960 faith filled atmosphere is going to draw in favor, good breaks, peace. 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.840 Pay attention to what kind of atmosphere you're creating. You 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.720 can't complain and see breakthroughs. You can't go around talking 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.920 about problems. House is not going to work. Cow, This 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:05.000 challenge is too big and reach your potential. That negative 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:09.840 atmosphere is stopping your victory. The scripture says that God 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:15.040 inhabits the praises of his people. He doesn't inhabit complaints, 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:20.160 He doesn't inhabit worry, frustration. Why has this taken so long? 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.480 These children are getting on my nerves. That doesn't get 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.800 God's attention. But when he hears you talking about his greatness, 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.720 praising when you could be complaining, declaring his promises, when 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.279 you're up against giants, thanking him that he's working when 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:40.080 nothing is changing. That's when God says, let me step in, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.080 let me fight this battle, let me make a way, 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:48.440 bring promotion, healing, and favor. One version says God is 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:52.200 enthroned when we praise him. When you're full of praise, 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.440 you're building a throne for God to sit on. When 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.560 you go through the day, grateful, focused on what's right, 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:03.120 springing your staff, smile on your face, being good to people. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.799 That's not just having a positive attitude. You're inviting God 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:12.720 into your life, into your circumstances, into your emotions. When 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.440 you're up against challenges that seem too big, dreams that 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.880 look impossible, you'll be tempted to worry, live, stress, complain. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.640 But the best thing you can do is give God praise. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.800 It may be too much for you, but it's not 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:32.159 too much for him. David said, magnify the Lord with me. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.960 Don't magnify your problem. Magnify your God. Thank him for 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.200 who he is. Lord. I thank you that you're the 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.680 all powerful creator of the universe. I think that you're 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.440 the great I am Lord. You're my provider, my healer, 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:52.760 my protector, my deliver my waymaker. That's what causes God 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.080 to show up. Not begging him, God, You've got to 0:05:56.160 --> 0:06:00.440 do something. Not complaining God is not fair. Not worrying 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.920 what am I going to do? That's attracting the wrong things. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:08.320 Switch over into praise. That's what attracts the most powerful 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.599 force in the universe. Victoria and I were at a 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:16.000 nursery recently. Was this huge place with several acres of 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.840 all kinds of plants and flowers and shrubs, And we've 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.240 been looking for a half hour or so and going 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.839 up and down the rows. We came to this one 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:29.000 particular type of flower. There were hundreds of bees around them. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.039 Everywhere you looked, you could barely see the individual flower. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.080 It had so many bees on it. Asked the men 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.919 working there what was different about this flower than the 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.839 ones right next to it that had no bees. He 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.760 told how that flower puts off a sweet smell that 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.000 attracts the bees. There's something called nectar that the flower 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:55.440 produces that creates this aroma that draws the bees in. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.360 We saw hundreds of different types of flowers that day 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.960 to row, but These were the only flowers that had 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.159 bees on them. There were other flowers. They looked just 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:10.680 the same. They were beautiful, they were colorful, they had smells, 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.400 but they didn't have any bees. The bees were looking 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:18.520 for this specific sweet smell of nectar, so they passed 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:23.000 over all the other flowers until they came to these flowers. Well, 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.440 the scripture says, our praise goes up as a sweet 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:31.400 smelling aroma before God. When you give God praise, you're 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:36.200 putting off that aroma that attracts God. God can smell praise. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.600 He'll pass over person after person after person. Then he 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:45.400 comes to you. He smells that sweet smelling aroma. He 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:49.360 hears you thanking him, going around grateful, talking about how 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:53.280 blessed you are, declaring his promises. This is another day 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.840 the Lord has made. I'm going to live this day 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.640 happy Father. Thank you that. As for me and my house, 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.040 we're going to serve the Lord. Yes, I have some 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.920 problems for God. I thank you that You're bigger than 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.520 anything that I'm facing. I can imagine God's saying to 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:11.640 the angels, I smell something, Do you smell it. There's 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:15.000 a sweet smelling aroma coming up. I'm gonna go find 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:19.920 where it's coming from. Your praise will attract God. He'll 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.320 pass over all these other people and find the praiser. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.520 He'll find the one that has a report of victory, 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.640 the one that's talking about how big their God is 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.360 and not how big their problem is. But I wonder 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.680 if what you're putting off is attracting God or causing 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.240 him to pass by. Well, Joel, this inflation is so bad, 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.600 and my back's been hurting. These people at work get 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.560 on my nerves, and I can't stand driving in that traffic. 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.680 Instead of a sweet smelling aroma, that's putting out an odor, 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.400 that attitude stinks. I can hear God saying, go get 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.040 me some air fresheners. Go pick up some odor eaters. 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.920 That stink pushes God away. We've all met people. We're 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.760 not around them fifteen minutes, and we can tell they're bitter. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.240 They're a worrier. They're a complainer. They're angry. Instead of 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:15.439 a sweet smelling aroma, grateful, joyful, good natured, they're putting 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.560 out an odor. Their attitude stinks. Their words are negative. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.679 They're focused on what's wrong. They're expecting the worst. Don't 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.880 let what you're putting out keep you from your potential. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.160 Other people can't stop you. The enemy can't stop you. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.120 The only one that can stop you is you. If 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:39.839 you live negative, bitter, jealous, worried, angry, none of those 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.880 things attract God. You need God to reach the fullness 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.679 of your destiny. You can't do it on your own. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.959 When you create an atmosphere of praise, you're going to 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:55.800 attract favor the right people. Healing, freedom, abundance. It's interesting 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.680 how smells work. We had an animal that died behind 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.679 our fe in our backyard, raccoon or squirrel something. But 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.480 the smell was so bad, the stint so strong that 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.960 I didn't want to go out in the yard. Sometimes 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.120 we'll eat on the back porch, but it was so powerful, 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.559 so offensive, that it drove me away. Well, Victoria used 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.400 to make this chocolate cake. It was so good, homemade, 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:25.280 right out of the box. It was amazing. When I 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.120 walked in from the garage at the back door. The 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.520 kitchen is two rooms away, it's not even close, but 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:35.199 I could smell the aroma of that cake. She didn't 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.640 have to tell me she made one. She didn't have 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.680 to come announce Joel, I cooked something for you. My 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:44.600 nose knew exactly what she'd done. That smell drew me 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.440 to it. I couldn't help it. I was attracted to it. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.920 That's how powerful smells are. I was pushed away from 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.760 the stinch in the backyard, and I was drawn to 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:59.000 this sweet smelling chocolate cake in the oven. What is 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.640 your life putting off? What is your attitude putting off? 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.000 What are your words putting you off? Sweet smelling aromas? 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:11.200 Are you creating odors? Stinky attitudes, negative talk, worried all 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.800 the time. That's pushing God away. If you want to 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:19.679 attract favor, joy, peace, creativity, start sending up some praise. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.240 Start thanking God for what he's done. Start bragging on 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:27.680 his goodness, Start declaring his victory over your life. See, 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.880 you can't be neutral all the time. I'm not gonna 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:34.240 say anything negative. I'm not gonna complain. That's good. You're 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.680 not putting out any odors. But you need to send 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.679 up some aromas. Lord, thank you for waking me up 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.400 this morning. Thank you for giving me breath to breathe. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.040 Thank you that I'm healthy. Thank it for my family, 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:49.800 for opportunity, for protection, for your favor, that's creating an 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.640 atmosphere of praise. That's what attracts the most high God. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.839 And the scripture talks about making melody in your heart. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:03.160 We're all making something. Some people are making sadness, thinking 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.760 about what they've been through, what wasn't fair, what they lost. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:11.559 That's drawing in more sadness, more discouragement. Other people are 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.280 making worry, playing the negative thoughts over and over. What 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.840 if it doesn't work out? What if I don't get well? 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.040 What if I don't get past this problem? That's drawing 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:25.520 in more stress, more heaviness. Why don't you start making melody, 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.120 start having a song of praise in your heart instead 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.720 of these children are so much trouble. Lord, thank you 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.760 for blessing me with children Today. It's a pain to 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.839 go to work. Lord, Thank you that I have a job. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.240 Business is slow, I'll never get ahead. Lord, thank you 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.319 that you're my provider. You make streams in the desert. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.920 But this medical report's so bad, I don't think i'll 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.760 get well. Lord, thank you that you're restoring health back 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.839 into me. What are you sending up odors or aromas? 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.480 What are you creating an atmosphere of doubt? Worry? Mediocrity, 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.880 or an atmosphere of praise, an atmosphere of victory, and 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:06.840 atmosphere of abundance. I was watching something funny on YouTube 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.760 the other day. This man dresses up like a bush. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.320 He's covered with green leaves all over his face, his 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:18.439 whole body. He crouches on a busy sidewalk. When people 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.360 walk by, they think it's just a bush. He stands 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.120 up and scares them. It's all just for fun. But 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.120 about half of the people when he stands up, the 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.320 first thing they do is let out a curse word. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.960 Oh blak. It just comes out without them even thinking 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.760 about it. The scripture says, out of the heart, the 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:41.400 mouth speaks. Whatever is in you is going to eventually 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:45.160 come out of your mouth, especially when you're under pressure. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.240 About ten percent of the people, when they were scared, 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:53.160 instead of cursing, the first thing they screamed was Jesus. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:59.240 Same situation, but one's cursing, one's praising. What's the difference 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.960 on what you're full of? You won't be full of 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:08.680 something either worry, thou, bitterness, complaints, or you can be 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.560 full of praise, full of thanksgiving, full of faith, hope 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.560 and victory. I want us to be so filled with 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.680 praise that even in unexpected difficulties, the first thing we 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.600 do is calling the name of the Lord. We declare 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.560 his goodness, We talk about how great he is. In 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.440 my early twenties, I was driving home from work on 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.480 the freeway and it had been raining really hard, and 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.960 I went to change lanes and I hit this big 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.640 puddle of water and lost control of my car. I 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.880 started spinning around across three lanes of traffic. I hit 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.600 the inside barrier and that catapulted me, and I started 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.840 spinning back across those lanes. I looked up at one 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.400 point and this eighteen wheeler was right in front of me. 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.960 I was facing the wrong direction. Looked like I could 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.240 reach out and touch the front of his grill. Have 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.840 time to pray. I didn't have dathe to think about it, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:07.080 but I heard myself say Jesus, Jesus. Jesus came out 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.640 of my mouth three times. Next thing I knew, I 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.960 was over on the shoulder. Somehow that truck had missed me. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.520 The driver pulled over and he came up to my window. 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.000 The first thing he said was, boy, you must be 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.520 living right, because right when I braced to hit you. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:28.520 This big gust of wind blew my truck into another lane. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.120 I'm so glad, I said Jesus, and not blinking, he blink. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.320 If I had said something else, I don't know if 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.960 i'd be here today. But when you stay full of praise, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.800 it will come out when you need it. In the scripture, 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.600 God told Jonah to go to the city of nineve 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.160 of it. Jonah didn't want to go there. He got 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.200 on a boat headed the other direction. They encountered a 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.080 huge storm and thought they were all going to dine. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.600 Jonah finally admitted that he was the problem. The crew 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.720 said thank you so much for telling us, and they 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.920 threw overboard. It should have been the end, but God, 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.880 in his mercy, had a big fish waiting for Jonah. 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.600 It swallowed him. Jonah was sitting in the belly of 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:14.840 this well. You can imagine how it smelled inside a 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:20.040 well's digestive system gases, fluids, foods. It would have reaked 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:25.040 so stinky, almost unbearable. And in Jonah Chapter two, for 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:29.120 eight verses, Jonah talked about how bad his life was, 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.840 how he was in the depths of despair, and how 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.560 he was surrounded by vast waters and how he didn't 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.120 see a way out. All of that was true, but 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:43.120 complaining doesn't get God's attention, sending up odors, God, this 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.920 isn't fair. Why did these people do me wrong? Why 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.960 did this happen? That doesn't cause God to respond. What 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:54.880 attracts him our sweet smelling aromas. You may be in 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.960 a stinky situation today, and like Jonah, you could describe 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.480 everything wrong, how you weren't treated right, how you're never 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:08.119 going to get well. That's creating an atmosphere of doubt, defee, negativity. 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.919 That's going to keep you where you are. After complaining 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.560 for eight verses, Jonah had to change your heart. He 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:19.080 must have tuned in Lakewood. He said in verse nine, God, 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.520 in spite of my difficulties, I'm going to offer up 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:27.480 the sacrifice of praise with the voice of thanksgiving. In 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.880 the middle of the well. He started saying, Lord, thank 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.680 you that you're still in control. Thank you that your 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.639 mercy is bigger than my mistakes. Thank you that you 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.000 didn't bring me this far to leave me. That what 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.600 just started in my life you will finish. I can 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.560 hear God saying I smell in aroma coming from inside 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.960 a well. It should be stinky, should smell offensive and older. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.880 But it's a sweet smelling aroma. It's a song of praise. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:59.160 It's a song of victory. The next verse says, God 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.560 commanded the well, and it's spit Jonah up on dry land. 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.560 When you praise in the midst of trouble, when you 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.320 talk about God's goodness, when you don't see how it 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.000 can work out, when you send up sweet smelling aromas, 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.560 when you're surrounded by things that stink, that's when the 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:21.080 Most High God will go to work. If God will 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.159 cause a well to take Jonah to the shore so 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.879 he can fulfill his destiny even after he made mistakes. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.879 God will cause your child to get back on course. 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.520 God will cause that medical report to turn around. God 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.119 will cause you to break that addiction to meet the 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:41.679 right person to have that baby. The question is what 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:46.040 are you sending up complaints, doubts, worry. No, be a 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.560 Jonah in the middle of the stink, in the middle 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:53.520 of the challenge. Send up an aroma of praise, Send 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.640 up faith, send up hope. Lord, Thank you that there's 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.040 nothing too hard for you. Thank you that what you 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.480 have purposed for life will come to pass. That there's 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:06.600 no person, no bad break, no sickness, no addiction, no 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.920 force of darkness can stop your plan, the Psalmist said, 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.760 Praise him for his unequal greatness. Praise him for his 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:19.000 mighty works. Praise him for his majestic power. You may 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:24.080 be limited, but he's unlimited. We're natural, but he's supernatural. 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.800 When you don't see a way, you'll be tempted to complain. No, 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:32.119 turn it around and praise him for who he is. Lord. 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.240 I praise you that you're bigger than this sickness. I 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.560 praise you that you're stronger than this addiction. I praise 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.399 you that you're greater than this trouble. I praise you 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.560 that you're more powerful than these people. You could be 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:50.119 sending up doubt, defeat complaints. Instead you're sending up sweet 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:55.080 smelling aromas, bragging on the goodness of God. Those aromas 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.920 set miracles into motion. That's when God will show up 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.439 and do what you cannot do. But sometimes we're waiting 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.919 for the circumstances to change and then we'll give God praise. 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:11.120 But that's backwards. We have to give God praise first. 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.640 You have to have that song in your heart when 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.639 nothing is changing. It looks like it's never going to 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.919 work out, but you're still thanking God that he's making 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.600 ways where you don't see away. See, the Israelites were 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.480 in slavery for four hundred and thirty years. Was very unfair. 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.680 Psalm one thirty seven says they wept at the thought 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:37.840 of Jerusalem. They were so discouraged, so disheartened. They used 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.920 to be joyful. They used to talk about the greatness 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:44.639 of Jehovah, how he'd done amazing things. They were filled 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.280 with praise. But now they were in captivity and things 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:51.800 hadn't worked out. They didn't just lose their freedom, but 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:55.960 they lost their praise. They made the mistake in captivity 0:20:56.240 --> 0:21:00.520 to quit sending up the sweet smelling aromas. It's easy 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:04.119 to do, and we're in difficult times and life throws 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.000 us a curve. We can look back and think how 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.119 it used to be so great and how far we 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:14.240 are from that. Now it's tempting to be negative, discouraged 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.400 and talk about how it used to be. They sat 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.400 by the rivers of Babylon when they could have been 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.800 thanking God that he was going to bring them out. Instead, 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:28.040 they spent that time weeping, discouraged, over what they had lost. 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:32.600 Verse two says they put away their harps and hung 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:36.639 them on willow trees. Well, their captors asked them to 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:40.119 sing the songs of Israel. They had heard about the joy, 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:45.119 the dancing, all these happy, uplifting songs. But the Israelites 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.040 entered back. How can we sing the songs of the 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:52.280 Lord while we're in a foreign land. Their attitude was, 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:56.920 once God delivers us, then we'll sing. Once I get well, Joel, 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:00.919 once my child gets back on course, once she goes down, 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.520 then I'll get my joy back. Then, don't go get 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:07.000 my heart. No praise is what's going to cause it 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:10.679 to turn around. While you're waiting for things to change 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:14.240 and believing for breakthroughs, the enemy would love for you 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:19.040 to hang up your heart, to get discouraged, start complaining, 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:22.920 sit around, talk about your problems. Now that's when, more 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:27.159 than ever, you need to give God praise. Praise activates 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:31.280 his power. Praise causes angels to go to work. Praise 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:36.080 opens prison doors, Praise will break chains, Praise will defeat giants. 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.520 Don't hang up your heart. You can praise your way 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:43.720 out of it if you'll start sending up sweet smelling aromas. 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:47.399 You'll be amazed at what God will do. When my 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.560 mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a few 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:53.520 weeks to live, she was tempted to hang up her heart. 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:57.920 She'd been so healthy, so energetic. Now she weighed eighty 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:01.520 nine pounds like the Israel. She didn't see a way out. 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:05.520 That sickness had her in captivity. Looked like that would 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:08.480 be the end. But she didn't make the mistake that 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:11.600 they made. She kept her heart in the middle of 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:14.760 that challenge. When every voice said she would never make it. 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:19.560 Medically speaking, it wasn't possible. She kept sending up praises Father, 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:22.679 thank you that you can do the impossible. Thank you 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:25.800 that the number of my days you will fulfill. That 0:23:25.880 --> 0:23:28.800 I will live and not die and declare the works 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:33.000 of the Lord. The more defeat that came against her mind, 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:36.359 the more praises she sent up. You have to be 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:40.160 more determined than the enemy. When the going gets tough, 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:43.119 the tough have to get going. Maybe you need to 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:46.199 get your heart back. You let that set back, that 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.479 break up, that loss. Not just steal your joy, but 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:52.960 take your praise. You're wondering when God is going to 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:56.040 do something. God is waiting for you to send up 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:59.760 some aromas. If you'll start putting out the right things, 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:03.360 like those bees are drawn to the nectar in the flower, 0:24:03.840 --> 0:24:07.560 your praise will draw in the most high God. He 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:11.120 doesn't inhabit our fears, our doubts, our complaints, our worries. 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:14.840 Praise is what causes God to go to work. I 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:17.919 would hear my mother going through the house thanking God 0:24:18.000 --> 0:24:21.280 for his goodness, talking about how he was turning things 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:25.040 around in the midst of the difficulty. She was making 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:28.560 melody in her heart. She could have been making worry, 0:24:29.040 --> 0:24:33.760 making discouragement, making fear, but she chose to create an 0:24:33.800 --> 0:24:38.280 atmosphere of praise. She knew that God can smell praise, 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:41.680 that he's drawn to praise, so she kept her harp 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:45.880 out and she kept sending up praises. Didn't happen overnight, 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:49.440 but she started getting better and better. That was December 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:53.320 of nineteen eighty one. Here we are forty one years later, 0:24:53.600 --> 0:24:57.720 she's still going strong, eighty nine years young, still healthy 0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:02.480 and home. What kind of atmosphere are you creating? What 0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:05.240 are you sending up all through the day. I'll never 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:08.440 get well, I'll never meet the right person. I can't 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:12.120 accomplish my dreams. I don't have the connections. Do yourself 0:25:12.160 --> 0:25:15.520 a favor. Go get your heart, get your song back, 0:25:15.880 --> 0:25:19.000 get your praise back, get your vision back, get your 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:22.840 dream back. God is still on the throne. He still 0:25:22.880 --> 0:25:26.080 has a destiny for you to fulfill. What's in your 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:29.520 future is greater than anything you've seen in the past. 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:34.040 You and God are a majority. It's not an obstacle 0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:37.399 you're facing that he can't turn around, not a dream 0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:40.200 he's placed in your heart that he can't bring to past. 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:45.840 Tewod King's chapter three, the Israelites and two other armies 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:49.320 had been traveling through the desert for seven days. They 0:25:49.359 --> 0:25:52.440 were going to sneak up and attack the Moabides. They 0:25:52.480 --> 0:25:55.680 thought there would be streams or wells along the way, 0:25:56.000 --> 0:25:58.959 but they couldn't find any water. They didn't know if 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:03.320 they should continue on. King Jehasaphat asked the other two 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:06.440 kings if there was any prophet so they could ask 0:26:06.480 --> 0:26:10.480 God what they should do. They said, Elisha is nearby. Well, 0:26:10.480 --> 0:26:12.880 Elisha didn't want to have anything to do with those 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:16.840 two other kings. They didn't honor God. He was annoyed 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:20.200 by it all, But because of his friend, King Jehasipad. 0:26:20.440 --> 0:26:23.440 He agreed to do it. He said in verse fifteen, 0:26:23.840 --> 0:26:28.359 bring me someone that can play the heart. Elisha knew 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:33.440 he couldn't hear from God in that setting. He was irritated, upset. 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:37.760 He had to change the atmosphere. The scripture says, while 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:41.080 the harp was being played, the power of the Lord 0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:45.080 came on Elisha and he began to prophesy. It's amazing 0:26:45.160 --> 0:26:48.440 what God will do if you'll create the right atmosphere 0:26:49.119 --> 0:26:53.560 when there's worry, doubt, frustration that's keeping us from seeing 0:26:53.600 --> 0:26:58.080 the goodness of God. Like Elijah did, bring in the harp, 0:26:58.640 --> 0:27:02.600 turn up the praise, create an atmosphere of faith, hope, 0:27:02.640 --> 0:27:06.840 and expectancy. That's what causes God to show up. And 0:27:06.840 --> 0:27:09.320 this shouldn't be something we do ever once in a while. 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:14.040 It should be a lifestyle. David said, his praise should 0:27:14.040 --> 0:27:17.800 continually be in our mouth all through the day, under 0:27:17.800 --> 0:27:21.440 our breath. We're making melody in our heart, thanking God 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:25.040 for his goodness, grateful for what he's done, talking about 0:27:25.080 --> 0:27:28.720 his greatness. Just like that bee is attracted to the 0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:32.640 smell of flower, God is attracted to the smell of praise. 0:27:33.560 --> 0:27:38.760 My question, what kind of atmosphere. Are you creating worried doubt? 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:43.640 Complaining that's sending out an odor that's pushing away good things. 0:27:44.160 --> 0:27:48.080 God is looking for a sweet smelling aroma. You may 0:27:48.160 --> 0:27:51.720 be in a difficult situation, things coming against you. Don't 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:54.480 hang up your heart. The enemy would love for you 0:27:54.560 --> 0:27:58.280 to start complaining. Live bitter. No, keep the praise is 0:27:58.320 --> 0:28:02.240 going up. Keep thinking God that he's working. Keep declaring 0:28:02.320 --> 0:28:05.239 that you're coming out. 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