Embracing the Power and Purpose of Praise

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord, praise ye the Lord, let me say that again, let everything that has breath, so to me, that's actually, well, that's everything, so in other words, when the rooster crows in the morning, I kind of think God's accepting a sound of praise when the, you know, songbirds sing in the afternoon, it's a song going unto him, oh, sure, it may be cackling to say that there's a worm over here, it may be looking to say this, but I think that it's a sound that there's a song even within nature that gives praise back to God." [01:52](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Sing to God, everyone and everything. Get out his salvation news every day, publish his glory among the godless nations, his wonders to all races and religions, and why not? Because God is great, well worth praising, no god or goddess comes close in honor, all the popular gods are stuff and nonsense, but God made the cosmos, splendor and majesty flow out of him. Strength and joy fill his place, shout bravo to God, families of the people, in all of the glory, in all of the strength, bravo, bravo to his famous name." [03:27](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "I praise him because he's worthy. I glorify him because I know what he's done and what he's capable of doing even when my soul doesn't feel like it. I may be out of my mind, I may be out of breath, I may be out maybe in pain but at the end of the day this present suffering is just for a little while soon I'll see him I'll look on his face and I'll know my Creator I'll never hurt again I'll never I'm going to a place where tears don't exist." [21:02](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Sing to God everyone and everything get out His salvation news every day I think there is a key in that to to the worship to the praise to the understanding of how to do this with God that at the end of the day I I'm thankful for what He's done I can praise Him like that I can be thankful but if I forget to praise I can just remember His salvation I can remember what He has done for me and what He's doing I can get out His salvation news every day and I don't just keep it to myself I let others know that His salvation is for them it's good news and it's for all color of skin." [23:30](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "I'll praise, I'll praise in the valley. I'll praise on the mountain. I'll praise when I'm sure. When I'll praise and when I'm doubting. I'll praise when outnumbered. Praise when surrounded. Cause praise is the waters that my enemies drowned in. As long as I'm breathing, I've got a reason to praise the Lord, oh my soul. Oh yes, I praise your name, Jesus. I'll praise when I feel it. I'll praise when I don't." [25:24](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "Now in olden times when you would go with these terms the gates the gates and the courts we would think of the tabernacle we would think of an outer court where Jew or Gentile could walk into that place and they could look around right there they would see a brazen altar that would burn sacrifices on behalf of their sin so they could be thankful that God made provision for them that he was going to do something in the future and that he was going to do something in the future and that he was going to do something in the future that my sin would be blotted out eventually that for now I was atoned for I was covered up I was a check written out but not cashed so I would give thanks thank you for forgiving my sin thank you for making a way of repentance but when I went into the courts of the house when I walked into the tabernacle now I had to fit conditions I had to have given my sacrifice I had to have washed at the brazen um labor of water I had to do these things and then I would go into the courts the inner courts within the inner courts I would see incense that would be just filling the room with a sweet smoke and this represented my praise now I am worthy to step into this place I am called out I am selected I'm still not in the holiest of holies but I'm in the inner court where not everybody could minister not everybody could walk into but I could so now my thanksgiving for what has been done turns into another dimension because I praise him for what he has done and I praise him for what he has done and I praise him for what he has done and what he is doing." [12:07](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Thankfulness is about expressing gratitude for something you've received whether it's a gift a favor or even just a positive experience it acknowledges that something good has come your way now I had already had this written out before someone in the room gave us cupcakes but I am thanking you in advance and I think you'll be worthy of what the praise that I'm actually using in this example after the fact so an analogy is this imagine you get a delicious cake from a friend thankfulness would be saying thank you for this amazing cake I appreciate it you know that that was good but praise would be saying you're such a talented baker the cake is incredible you see the difference one is I thank you for giving me the cake but the other is just throwing out something that I'm not just thankful for the cake but I'm thankful that you're good at baking the cake as well I'm thankful that I'm going to enjoy it and I'm going to enjoy it and I'm going to enjoy it and I'm going to enjoy it the cake now I'm talking about some future stuff I'm thankful that you're like this but I'm giving you praise because you're good at what you do and I know what you did is going to be good." [15:51](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "I praise him because he's a he's a solid foundation he's my hope he's my existence I praise him for his mighty acts I praise him according to his excellent greatness I I praise him how with the sound of a trumpet I praise him with a psaltery and harp I I praise him with the tambourine and dance I I praise him with stringed instruments and organs I I praise him on loud cymbals and I praise him upon the high-sounding cymbals but at the end of the day the question remains will you praise him because the commandment is let everything that hath breath praise the Lord praise ye the Lord." [18:57](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "But God gives me this. And I have to say it. place would be as it were. A final resting place. Till we don't know when. At least I don't. We know. I think somebody hides it around the time of Jeremiah. I believe. But I'd have to study on it. But at some point. The ark of the covenant is lost. It's gone. But they still have a temple. They still have a veil. The priest still goes about his ritualism. But it's empty praises. Empty thanksgivings as it were. It's a mock performance. For an empty inner court. But when Jesus died. It was opened up. The veil was torn. And the fraudulence was shown. For everyone. Not to discredit the temple. Not to discredit Moses. Or the tabernacle plan. But to show them. Not many days hence. You'll be endued with power. From on high. I know we've been talking about that a couple weeks. You'll have to forgive me. It's just it's pretty big in my life. God was saying. The tabernacle that you went to. The place that you would journey to go before. The ark of the covenant that you would give honor and respect. God has left the building. And he is now wanting to live inside of you. You're his temple. You're a chosen generation. A royal priesthood." [40:32](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "It's not God fill me with your spirit. God I want to speak in tongues. No. It's God I praise you. I praise you. I praise you. I thank you for the sacrifice. I thank you for forgiving me. I thank you. I love you. I worship you. I praise you. And before long. You're just lost in Jesus. And it'll happen. And the tabernacle will come into your heart. And that'll give you a reason. To praise the Lord." [42:18](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)