The Power of Praise - Rev. Barak Townsley

Give me my stuff back. There there's a lot of raised voices in my household. Maybe your kids are just dolls. That's wonderful. My kids, they like to wrestle and fight. They like like to bicker. They all live in the same room. But if if our kids are gonna hear any sort of raised voices, let them hear the raised voices of mom and dad early in the morning, plead the blood over their life, proclaiming the word of god over their life, speaking in tongues, and interceding in the spirit over their lives. [00:14:33] (26 seconds)  #PrayOverKids

It's your own carnal flesh because you won't deal with your flesh. You're you're sitting here texting. I see what you post on Facebook. I see what you reshare. I see the arguments that you get in and what I can recognize just from talking to you is that you're praying about none of it but complaining about all of it. There is power in your prayer. There's power in your praise. Not with what man can do for you. Not doesn't matter the echo chamber of friendship you can get from someone that who's just hearing about your problems, but when you let your voice ring out into the ears of the king of kings and lord of lords, he is the one who can do absolutely anything. [00:19:52] (41 seconds)  #PowerOfPrayer

I wanna tell you today, if you don't have the if you've not been filled with the baptism of the holy ghost, you can be filled with the spirit today. How can I say that so confidently? Because the Bible promises us that that it is the promise of the father. It is the gift of the holy ghost that is poured out unto all, until the lord our god shall return and last time I checked, brother Jones, he hasn't returned yet which means the promise is still valid that he wants every single person who wants it to receive it freely. [00:16:39] (28 seconds)  #ReceiveHolySpirit

Yielding your life and your will to the will of the holy ghost is the bet it's the hardest thing you'll ever do, but it's the best thing you'll ever do. Everything in your flesh will say, no. No. No. I I can't do that. I I can't give it up. Coming to church is one thing, but but doing this, doing that, stopping this, stopping that. No. No. No. I can't I just can't do that. [00:23:30] (19 seconds)  #YieldToTheSpirit

but god knew in that moment, I'm going send some of my faithful servants. They're going to experience some things but I know how they're going to respond in this time because there's some other prisoners here. There's some other prisoners here that need to hear about my power, that need to experience what I alone can provide and unless I put some people on the inside, there's no way they're gonna hear this message. So, it was an assignment sent by god. I'm gonna allow this to happen because the Bible's true. All things work together for my good. It may not make sense right now. It may not even make sense a month from now, but at the end of your days, you'll look back and say, god, truly, you were in this from the beginning to the end. [00:25:22] (44 seconds)  #PurposeInTrials

It's that I am going to choose to be at war with this flesh, and I will not let it sit in the driver's seat. I yield that back to the lord. Come on. See those those bumper stickers every once in a while. Says, Jesus is my copilot but you know, sister Carrie Underwood, she said it right. Jesus take the wheel. If Jesus is in your is your copilot, you're already in the wrong seat. [00:22:43] (25 seconds)  #JesusTakeTheWheel

If you'll just try. I promise you. What you think you're gonna lose, God will fill with something greater than you could ever manufacture for yourself. Oh, there are some chains of bonds that have been holding some of this room back for far too long, and it's not because the devil's so strong. It's not because the demons are so powerful. [00:23:49] (25 seconds)  #ChainsWillBreak

And when I tried coming back to the lord, I was overwhelmed with grief and with guilt. I found we he talked out of Luke 14 today about the the parable of the the son who took his inheritance and squandered it. And in that, he says, I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. I I identify with that so much knowing what I wasted for so many years. And for so long, the enemy would be on my tail about you can't go back. Look what you've done. Look at what the name that you've made for yourself, and it stripped from me not only my desire, but my willpower to pray, to do anything. [00:26:36] (39 seconds)  #YouCanComeBack