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“And Jacob's prophecy began, Judah, you are the one whom your brother shall praise. The lion on the throne comes from the tribe whose very name means praise. Why is this important? Because God has a love language. And you know what love languages are? Some of y'all, it's affection. Some of y'all, it's affirmation. Some of y'all, it's words of kindness. It's all of these things. Right? And when we get married, we get stupid. We do. Because we fight against our spouse's love language. And we wonder why our marriages aren't what God wants them to be. When in fact, we just ought to get smart and speak their language. Because when you speak your spouse's love language, there's nothing that your spouse won't do in return. And so we gotta learn to speak the language. When you go into another country, in order for you to really get everything you need, guess what you need to do? You need to learn to speak the language. When you become a Christian, you know what you need to do? You need to learn to speak the language. You need to get accustomed to what is gonna get you what you need in life. And God has a love language. Yours may be affirmation. Yours might be affection. Your yours might be acts of kindness. You know what God's is? It's praise. Praise is God's love language.”

“So when we think about this, a man, you could work hard. As a man, you could work hard and and you do. You could pay the bills. You could be athletic. You could be real tough. Right? But you know what? You could be all those things and still fail spiritually Wow. Yeah. Right. If you're not leading your family towards God. You could be all those things, and all those things are good. You should do those, but you could still fail spiritually.”

“he's the one who you should rely on. Because you don't need anybody else but Jesus. And I mean that without having to clarify, you do need people, by the way. But as your source, as your dependence, as the one that gets you to God, there is no other path. There is no other way. You can try whatever you want, but you will come up lacking. You will come up short because there is nobody like him. There'll never be nobody like him. As I said before, and I'll say it again, he stands alone all by himself. Nothing else can satisfy the desire of your soul. You can try another path. You can try another person. But Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and nobody comes to the father but”

“God's position is not predicated on anything that we do or don't do. Our praise does not make God king of kings and lord of lords. Our praise does not sit God on the throne in heaven. Our praise doesn't make the earth his footstool. But our praise determines whether God's presence is in the midst of our circumstance. He is enthroned in the praises of Israel. See, every time you praise, you are putting the imitation enemy on notice. You don't reign here. God does. You don't rule in my marriage. You don't rule in my health. You don't rule in my family. You don't rule in my finances. You don't rule in my dreams or in my destination. No matter what it looks like, God's throne rules and reigns here. Whenever you praise, you set up a throne in the middle of your mess. You set up God's authority in the middle of your situation.”

“Who's on the throne of your life? The enemy is after the throne of our heart. He suddenly slides things onto the throne, a bank account, a career, a relationship, a habit, a screen, an image. Because the devil is the master advertiser. He's been running commercials ever since the Garden of Eden. And he never shows you the bondage, he always shows you the billboard. It's like the impossible burger. Y'all remember that? The impossible I don't think it's around no more. I think it it it just it didn't sell. Even though it looked like beef. So, I think it had grill marks on it and everything. Right? Looked like beef. It it smelled like big beef. They even made made it bleed like beef. I mean, they try to make it look as much like a burger as a pasta, but it wasn't the real deal. And here's what the enemy comes along and tries all the time. He tries to give us these counterfeit things, these imitation things that promise us what God wants to give us in our lives if we do things his way, but they never do measure up. Like sex outside of marriage, it advertises intimacy, but it can't deliver covenant. The the bottle, it advertises relief, but it delivers dependence. The advertising is always intriguing. It looks good until it's not. Don't fall for the imitation. Stick with the real thing. God's ways are also always better.”

“The elders fall down willingly. After all, not even Lucifer was required to worship. He had a choice to worship. And that's why when he chose to go against God, you think about that. Even in heaven, everything in heaven is still willful. It's not obligated. God wants us to be there. God wants us to see him as king. God wants to war us to worship him as king because we want to, not because we have to. This lion is after not forced compliance, but willful allegiance. He doesn't want us to surrender because he's a tyrant. He wants us to surrender because we realize he's worthy and we choose to surrender.”

“Tell you what irritates the devil. When you put a throne in the middle of a dark place in your life. And you know they begin to sing, and they begin to praise, and you know what happens? All of a sudden God hears his love language. And when God hears his love language, what happens? He is attracted. The throne the the the God of the throne is attracted to the throne that is set up, and he hears that, and all of a sudden the chains that seem to bind them drop powerless behind them. Why? Because they praised him in the middle of the situation. I'll tell you what, don't let your chains break your praise. Let your praise break your chains.”

“We have the power to choose. And when we surrender to Jesus, it's freedom. When we surrender to the enemy, when we say no to God, a no to Jesus is a surrender to the enemy of our soul. It's it a no to the lion of the tribe of Judah is a yes to the one who acts like a roaring lion. A no to Jesus is an open invitation to the enemy to live and rule and reign on the throne of our heart. When we surrender to Jesus, we're free. When we surrender to the enemy, we're in bondage. John chapter eight verse 36 says, therefore, if the son makes you free, you are free indeed.”

“The scepter is the rod of a king. Judah was marked as the royal tribe. The tribe from which the kings of Israel would come. From Judah came David, the shepherd king. From David came Solomon and the whole royal line. But notice Jacob said, the scepter will not depart from Judah until Shiloh comes. Shiloh means, he who's right it is. The one the scepter actually belongs to. In other words, every king from Judah was just keeping the seat warm until the king, the Messiah, the root of David came. So when the elders say, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David. He is saying, Shiloh has come. The promised lion of Genesis is now the prevailing lion in the book of Revelation.”

“Too many people, stuff starts happening, and all of a sudden their faith faith starts staggering. Because they don't realize with God a promise is not a maybe. I'm preaching to somebody right now. Too many people stuff starts happening, and your faith starts to teeter totter because you don't understand when God says something, God is not suggesting it. God is not hoping for it. God is declaring it. And where the word of a king is, there is power. When God speaks it, it's gotta come to pass.”