Dr Pastor Paul Enenche at the first service, Glory Dome, Abuja on ‘THE PRAISE OF FAITH’
Romans 4:20
- Praise is a major outcome of faith
- Faith-filled people are joy-filled people and praiseful people
- It is not possible to see a man or woman of faith who is not a man or woman of joy and praise
WHAT MAKES FAITH-FILLED PEOPLE TO PRAISE?
1) THE discovery of light (Romans 10:17; Jeremiah 15:16; Psalms 56:4)
- The Word of God is the foundation for faith
- When faith-filled people discover the Word, they explode in joy because Light is the strength of faith
In my personal life, I have come across Words, Scriptures and Light that caused me to explode in joy and caused me to move in excitement throughout the whole day. ChurchGist. We were on a flight sometime and I was talking with my wife who sat beside me and she said: “whatever you just saw, please share with me, just tell me.” Because she could feel the excitement and the explosion – we were going for Shiloh last year – and she was just seeing the vibes around. ChurchGist.
The Word of God which is foundational for faith, is the first trigger for explosive joy and praise in people of faith because:
- discovered Word provokes joy and praise and that provokes more discovery
- You discover the Word, you become excited, you praise and appreciate God and then it multiplies
- If you don’t want your joy to die, if you don’t want your excitement to drop, keep on locating Light
2) BELIEF in the Word (Psalms 106:12)
- Word belief provokes joy and praise
- To believe is to come into agreement with your discovery
- To believe is to praise and to doubt is to be depressed
- Anywhere you feel depression and you sense downcastedness, it means doubt is lurking around the corner.
3) THE appreciation of the previous acts of God (Psalms 103:1-5; Psalms 145:3-4)
- Faith appreciates what God has done before
- Appreciating what God has done before is the establishment of confidence in what He will do again
- The capacity to appreciate His previous acts is an installation process of the confidence to believe for the future
- If Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever, then we know what He will do tomorrow if we know what He did yesterday
- Whenever someone is unable to thank God for what He did before, that is a person that is in doubt of what God can do again.
4) THE appreciation of His current acts (Matthew 9:7-8; Mark 2:11-12)
- Faith praises God for what He is currently doing
- Appreciating God for what He is currently doing is acknowledging the source of your results and that qualifies you for continuity of results
5) THE appreciation of expected intervention (Romans 4:20; John 6:11)
- Don’t wait for God to multiply; thank Him before He multiplies
- This is appreciation in advance of expected intervention
Why Do We Praise in Advance?
a) It is the certainty that the miracle is in view
A young lady is sure that no devil can stop her from getting married; she is praising and she is shining.
A family is sure that no devil can prevent their child from coming; they are praising, celebrating and shining. ChurchGist
*We serve a God who is too faithful to fail, when that dawns on you, you praise Him in advance and that is the authentic praise of faith.
- Ordinary people wait for things to happen before they praise God but faith people praise things into happening – they praise God in advance of the happenings
- Jesus did not wait for the bread to multiply, He praised God for the multiplication of the bread
6) FAITH praises to undermine enemy confrontation
- The faith man or woman is praising to tell the devil: “you are not in control”
7) FAITH praises as a weapon of war in times of challenges (Joshua 6:20)
- Praise is a war equipment; faith people use it to wage war against the enemy
😎 FAITH praises in compliance to divine instruction (Psalms 67:5-7; Romans 10:17)
- Hearing God and DOING is faith
HOW CAN YOUR PRAISE BE ACCEPTABLE?
1) BY praising in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:23-24)
2) BY praising in the beauty of holiness (Psalms 29:2)
- This means praising in the purity and clarity of your conscience
As we praise God today, let’s trust God that everything that pertains to us in January, no devil shall stop it.
We are praising Him also for all the massive things He did at the Nations Worship.
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