Before you read this study understand that we do not teach, we share and then ask all who read the following take it to God and verify it with Him. We believe a lot of the world is misled by the church of the world and religion vs the one true church. And to know the truth can only come from knowing, not just knowing of God, John 14:26, I John 2:27, Rev 3:19-22.
Many are called but few are chosen because many are misled by false teachers Matthew 7:13-15 so we help all who wants to know the truth how to find and know the truth of and by God and not of and by man.



Praise

Pastor J. R. Wilhite, author   Close Window

Faith, Prayer, and Praise is what it takes to live your life in full joy and peace.

Faith brings prayer and out of prayer comes praise. We pray, or ask, God and He delivers, but we do not go back again and again in prayer. This shows doubt which is a lack of faith. But faith comes by the word; so to have faith you must have the word (Romans 10:17) and the word comes by the Holy Spirit (John 14:26, 15:26 - I John 2:27).

So the blood of Jesus saves us and then when we know the truth it sets us free. The truth is Jesus. Jesus said in John14, "I am the truth and the way". So if Jesus is the truth and it is being set free that brings relief, peace, and joy, then we need Jesus. Jesus comes by the Holy Spirit.

Do you get it? It is a circle. You are saved by faith, faith that Jesus lived and died for your sins, and then you are set free after you know the truth. The truth only comes by way of the Spirit. By spending time with the word, faith comes. But not the physical word, the spiritual word, Jesus, and everything depends on prayer for comunication.


Job spent 9 months in a self-pity mode, then when he prayed for his so called friends, he had everything returned to him. Praying for those who offend you, or those for whom God is trying to tell you to pray will bring you great reward (Hebrews 11:6).

Job 42:10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

By faith they marched around the walls of Jericho in silence, and on the last day they sent such a shout of praise that the walls came down.

Hebrews 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

King David understood the power in praise.

1 Chronicles 23:5 Moreover four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise [therewith].

2 Chronicles 20:16 Tomorrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

2 Chronicles 20:17 Ye shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set yourselves, stand ye [still], and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD [will be] with you.

2 Chronicles 20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with [his] face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

2 Chronicles 20:19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.

2 Chronicles 20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

2 Chronicles 20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

2 Chronicles 20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Amon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

2 Chronicles 20:23For the children of Amon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy [them]: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

2 Chronicles 20:24And when Judah came toward the watchtower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they [were] dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

2 Chronicles 20:25And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.

2 Chronicles 20:26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.

2 Chronicles 20:272 chronicles 20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

2 Chronicles 20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.

They sent forth the praise team in front of the army into battle, because they were obedient and believed in the power of praise.

Notice it took them 3 days to recover the spoils of the battle, why didn't God just destroy these armies in their own homeland? Because, that would have made it more difficult for Israel to reap the spoils.

Out of praise comes victory, and then only if it has been asked for. God forces on no one.

If you asked someone for money in another state and then talked to them again on that day, you would not ask for the money again. You would thank them that it is on its way. So why do we ask and ask again of the Lord?

Unity is needed. They were with one accord, unity:

Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

But fear came in early to separate us from those who could help us grow closer to God.

Acts 5:11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.

Acts 5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.

Acts 5:13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.

First, acccept the Lord Jesus as your saviour.

Second, allow His Holy Spirit to enter and rule in your life.

Third, pray to and listen to God.

Fourth, Praise Him.

Fifth be in unity, do not judge the sinner, only judge the sin.

Pray, Listen, Praise, Praise, Praise, Pray, Listen, Praise, Praise.

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