The Power of Praise • Ps Danny Brancatisano

The gospel is that God came and he became human and he took on our sin and our shame and our brokenness upon the cross two thousand years ago. So that at the moment of believing, Romans says that if we confess with our mouth and we believe in our heart that Christ died and rose from the dead, that we will be saved. And salvation is about God freeing us from the past, freeing us from this thing called sin that separates us between a a a holy God. Jesus came to to get rid of that gap so that we could have relationship. Not that that we could get stuck in the routine of religion, but we could have relationship. [00:32:08] (36 seconds)  #GospelRelationship

praise is a choice. Someone say praise is a choice. It's a choice over comfort. It's a choice over circumstance. It's a choice to praise. It's a choice to express our honor, our gratitude, and our admiration to place him in the highest place. But here's the thing about praise, we have to tell our soul to praise him. We actually have to make an intentional decision to praise him. [00:11:18] (25 seconds)  #PraiseIsAChoice

But praise it says, come on. The victory is ours. The battle is won. The end is fixed. The devil is defeated. The enemy has no power. The risen one reigns. His power reigns. His kingdom reigns. Come on. That Jesus, he's been exalted to the highest place. He's above every other name. He's above every principality and power and circumstance in situation. His name is greater. His name is higher. His name is full of power. [00:24:45] (29 seconds)  #JesusReignsSupreme

I didn't get met with a God who said, hey, you need to now measure up and do better. I got met with God's love, and I just felt his presence come upon my body, and I just started to cry. And I wasn't sad. I just felt like, man, God just wiped away all the old, all the broken stuff and gave me a brand new start. And that's the gospel, that God doesn't ask us to go and get a walk out of a room like this and go measure up and become perfect and then come back to present our life to him. [00:31:38] (29 seconds)  #GraceNotPerformance

You see, the thing about pain is that it'll either be a prison or it'll be a platform for our lives, But praise will break those prison doors. Praise makes pain a platform. When the circumstance that tells you to complain, come on, that's when we're called to praise. When the complication wants you to be constrained, that's when we praise. Come on. There's moments that sometimes I get stuck in in the roundabout of asking why. [00:16:30] (25 seconds)  #PainToPlatform

We don't praise because of convenience. We don't praise because it feels good, but we praise because we have a conviction that God comes and he rests upon our praises. You see, the truth is our hands, our mouths, and our bodies are not detached from our hearts. And we when we choose to come back to that place of praise, it shifts the complacency. It shifts the comfort that can easily creep in, and it ushers in gratitude. [00:15:21] (24 seconds)  #PraiseShiftsComplacency

drinking every weekend and partying and and drugs and just chasing all the things of the world. And I found myself more broken and empty every time I went out and and did these things, but there was a moment that I turned my life and I said, God, if you are real, I need you to save me. And it was in that moment I didn't get met with a religion. [00:31:20] (18 seconds)  #FromPartyToFaith

humility comes when we just keep giving the praise back to God. We keep verbally saying, God, it's you, it's not me. God, you you deserve all the glory. You deserve all the honor. Psalm 34 verse one says this, I will bless the Lord at all times, and his praise shall continually be in my mouth. You see, living without praise will lead us to a place where we have a lack of expectation, [00:19:31] (25 seconds)  #HumilityThroughPraise

But I know for all of us, we got we got worlds, we got lives, we got families, we got kids, we got pressures, we got stuff that we're going through, and there's moments where it can feel overwhelming. There's moments where we can feel under pressure. Can I encourage us? That's the moment we learn to lift our eyes. Come on. The Bible says, where does our help come from? Praise is not passive. You cannot passively praise God. [00:17:37] (24 seconds)  #PraiseIsActive

Come on. If we're struggling in that place of going, you know what? I feel like this is routine. I feel like I'm just stuck in the motions. Just come back and give God a fresh praise. Just come back and elevate him again to the highest place. Because I'll tell you what praise will do. It'll break the power of negativity. Praise helps win the battle. Praise helps deliver us. [00:15:45] (20 seconds)  #FreshPraiseBreaksNegativity

And for us, it's a reminder today that let us never lose that praise cry in our hearts to say to Jesus, Lord, save me now. God, give me your salvation. I don't know about you, but the longer I walk with Jesus, the more I need his salvation. Maturing in our relationship with God is learning to depend on him more. It's learning that we need him more. The closer I get to him, the more I realize that I'm nothing without him [00:10:11] (26 seconds)  #AlwaysNeedSalvation

The heavy things in life, and that's what Jesus is saying. When you when you come to praise, come and lay the heavy things upon me. My burden is easy. My yoke is is light. The palm branches, they speak of victory and triumph, that he came to bring victory to a weary world burdened by sin. Jesus says this in Luke nineteen ten that I came to seek and save the lost. This was my one purpose. [00:09:24] (25 seconds)  #LayYourBurdensOnJesus

And what I found on the other side of that was just freedom flowed in my life. Freedom flowed in my heart. And the the piece of that too was going, you know what? Worship and praise, it's not about my preference. God's not wondering, oh, you like this style or, you know, do you like this song? God's looking down going, are you gonna bring a fresh praise to me? [00:26:43] (24 seconds)  #FreedomThroughPraise

But I remember going into bible college and someone challenging me on this and going, come on, you gotta get your body moving. And I'm like, yeah, no. That's not for me. Like, it's not cool. I'm not jumping. Like, no. And I brought a scripture, and I wrestled with it for quite a bit because I'm like, this actually just goes against my personality, goes against what I wanna do, but the bible tells me I've gotta move my body. [00:26:17] (26 seconds)  #MoveYourBodyInWorship

When And you look at it in the Hebrew, it's a command to self. Praise. It's a command to our emotional world. It's a command to our soul to say, soul, you need to praise him. Soul, you need to lift your hands. If I'm honest, sometimes I don't feel like lifting my hands, but I do because it's a biblical conviction that I carry that that's the way God's asked me to worship him. [00:14:21] (21 seconds)  #PraiseWithBodyAndVoice

The fruit of lips that openly profess his name. See, this is what the Psalms are full of. Bringing where you currently are, good, bad, or ugly, and making a choice to lead your soul to praise. I will lift my hands. I will lift my hands. I will lift my voice. This is what the Psalms say constantly. I will lift my praise. I will dance. I will clap. I will sing. I will express with my body. [00:13:51] (27 seconds)  #PraiseEverywhereAtWork

They found salvation. Come on. What's on the other side of us learning to praise God in every part of our lives? What's on the other side of us starting to lift our eyes in our workplace and saying, you know what? I'm gonna praise God for this situation. God, I'm gonna praise you for my boss. God, I'm gonna praise you for my work colleagues. God, I'm gonna praise you for the Melbourne traffic. That's my struggle. Haven't quite, got there yet on that one. [00:24:18] (27 seconds)  #PraiseBringsHonor

we have a lack of honor, and we have a limited mindset in our lives. So today, just wanna encourage us. Come on. Where in our lives do we need to bring a fresh praise to God? Is it in our success that we actually go, you know what, God? I've gotta give this glory back to you. Is it in our failure as well that we need to go, God, I'm gonna I'm gonna praise you here in our pain? [00:19:56] (21 seconds)  #ComeAsYouArePraise

And I love this because God's not calling us to come and lay down our perfection. Yeah. God's not calling us to come and lay down everything we've got right. God's not calling us to come and bring a perfect praise to him. God's coming and saying, come as you are. Praise me as you are. Praise me with what you have. Lay down who you are. I love that the the foal, it it carries the burdens of everyday life. [00:08:55] (25 seconds)  #PraiseKillsPride

Praise it destroys pride, and it removes ego. It keeps us humble. It keeps us dependent. And you see this with Cain and Abel. One gave a sacrifice without praise attached, and one gave a sacrifice with praise attached. Yeah. One gave his best, and this is what praise is. It's giving our best. And the other came and said, oh, I'm gonna praise God how I wanna praise God. [00:18:10] (26 seconds)  #PraiseHealsTheMind