THE POWER OF PRAISE & WORSHIP

[Minister Connie]

How badly do you want your prayers answered? How badly do you want what you want? Are you willing to cast ALL your cares on Me? Are you willing to praise Me in the greatest and most difficult times in your life? Are you willing to come into My presence daily and enter My peace when the whirlwinds are hitting you from every direction? Are you willing to truly seek Me and My righteousness above all things? Are you willing to allow My Spirit to teach you and guide you? Are you willing to let go of all the things of this world and come to higher ground with Me? Are you willing to truly believe My Word and receive all the promises I have for you? Are you willing? Really willing? It is time for my people to step up to the plate and begin hitting home runs for a final and victorious win! It is time for My people to stop focusing on what is going on in the natural in this world and to focus on their supernatural God! It is time for My people to stop murmuring, complaining and grumbling and to come into praise and worship with Me. This is what will bring your answers in. This is what will bring My glory down. Do you not yet realize that the greatest weapon against your enemy is to praise your God? He flees when you come to praise Me. But do not praise Me with just words! Praise Me with all of your heart. Enter completely in. Forget about the things going on around you and praise Me! Praise Me in the morning, in the noontime and the evening hours. Praise Me always. Get so filled with praise and love for your Father that nothing else can enter in. It is time for restoration! It is time for victory! But you, My people, have your part to do. You are My praise warriors. Praise Me and watch the enemy flee. I have sent My Son to set you free. Come out of your prisons! Stop giving into the things that try to hit your minds. Stop giving in to the ways of men and their carnal understanding. Fill your mind with My Word. Fill your mouth with praises for your God! Are you willing? Do not be like My people who were in the desert for 40 years walking around in circles because they grumbled, moaned and complained against their God. Be filled with a big enough faith to praise Me no matter what tries to hit you. I am He who will make you victorious for I am the Victor! I have conquered everything! Hear Me well. Speak things as they should be and not as they are. Are you willing? How I love it when you praise and glorify My Son. But also remember to praise Me, your Father. Remember that you have a relationship with Me also. Take back your joy! Take back your prosperity! Take back everything the enemy has stolen from you! Praise Me! Are you willing? For if you are willing, there will soon be great rejoicing in the Land. Praise Me now! Praise Me as if the answers have already come! This is faith in action. Are you willing? Praise Me in the dance. Stomp on your enemy's head. Praise me in your homes, on your jobs, in your churches, in all circumstances. Are you willing to begin today to walk the walk of victory? Come together as one Body at every opportunity for the praise and worship as a whole are more powerful than you can imagine. Many of your enemies will be put to flight.

Psalm 100: Make a joyful noise to the Lord all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before His pressence with singing! Know (perceive, recognize and understand with approval) that the Lord is God! It is He Who has made us, not we ourselves (and we are His)! We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and a thank offering and into His courts with praise! Be thankful and say to Him, bless and affectionalety praise His name! For the Lord is good, His mercy and loving-kindness are everlasting. His faithfulness and truth endure to all generations.

We have a lot to be thankful to God about. We can thank Him that we are still here, alive and breathing. We can thank Him for the freedom we have, for the beauty around us. Let's face it, we are very blessed and the blessings are way too numerous for us to mention them all. So there is no excuse for us to not praise and worship God and develop a heart of gratitude. We would find our days would go much better if we would only get up with an attitude of praise and worship every day towards our God.

There are a lot of uncertainties in the world today. A lot of attacks coming at God's people these days because Satan's time is short and he has stepped up his assaults. But even in the middle of all this we have to get the revelation that God, who is in each one of us, is much greater than anything that is going on. What does that mean? It means that, yes we may be attacked, but God is always going to be faithful to bring us THROUGH! Every single time. That is if our focus in truly on Him and not what's going on. What is our attitude when things happen? Do we get into doubt, worry, fear, anxiety and every negative thing that is put on us? Or do we shake these things off and come to higher ground in Christ and refuse to let our faith and our peace be taken away? Whatever our attitude is, it says a lot about our Relationship with God.

The things of this world and the people in it will not be faithful to us....but God is! God is constant in assuring us that we have victory in Him. There is only One that sticks closer to us than a brother and that is God. He is to be trusted and it's time we act as His children and walk in violent faith and allow Him to restore everything that old devil has taken away from us. It won't happen folks unless we do our part. A relationship is a two way thing, not one way. God took care of His people while they were in the desert for 40 years and still under the curse, how much more now under His grace? We don't have to beg God for what we need, He already knows. Praise and worship shows Him that we have a heart of gratitude and that we truly believe He will work in our behalf. It's time we put our faith to work!

Complaining, murmuring, groaning, all these things take away our peace and joy and make us very bitter people. That is what Satan wants us to do! These things separate us from loving our God and one another. But the one thing that drives Satan away and brings down our answers, our miracles and our victories is praise and worship towards our God. That is why He created us! God is dependable because we have not only a relationship with Him but we have a Blood Covenant with Him that He will never break! God is dependable and trustworthy! Let us get this embedded deeply into our hearts once and for all so that things do not shake us up so easily. What is a covenant? It is a binding agreement entered into by two parties. Which means we should not in any way break our agreement with God. God swore by His own oath, His own promise, to love us forever. His faithfulness was seen on the cross through His Son Jesus Christ.

God's eyes are searching the earth to see if there is any of His people who will have this kind of faithfulness. It's time we search our hearts to see if we do have this kind of violent faith towards our God! God desires us to be a committed people, in all things. Not complacent. How often we speak the word, but do we live it? There are many cases where we don't. God's relationship with us is not a casual one. Neither should our relationship with Him be casual. We need to stop being complacent and laid back and be a people of action. Praise and worship is the greatest action of love that we can do towards God. Being the servant of all is the greatest action of love we can give towards one another. It's time we get rid of any form of division that comes between us and God and one another. Are we willing to step up to the plate beginning today? I pray we are. Especially if we want victory in the near future. God bless you. I love you, but Jesus loves you so much more than I ever could.