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Welcome to Victory Podcast.
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It's just a great honor for me to bring you these encouraging words today.
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And we are still on the topic of looking at praises and intimacy with God.
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And so we are asking ourselves, why praise, why praise God?
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We've looked at nine points and today.
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Just want to encourage you by adding another thought to why it's important to praise God.
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For I thank you that you speak to us today.
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You lift us up and we experience the impact and the effect of what you've ordained for
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You know, when you look at the word to praise God, one of the common expressions that
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go with the distanced giving, expressing your appreciation or your gratitude to God for
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who he is and for all he does, one of the wonderful reasons why it's a blessing just to be
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appreciative and be thankful to God is praising God can be an instrument of being appreciative
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of what God does in the life of others.
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So praising God is an expression of an unselfish appreciation of what God is doing or he
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has done in the life of others.
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He takes the focus from you and he said the focus on seeing the faithfulness of God in the
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life of others, seeing the goodness of God in the life of others, appreciating, enjoying,
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celebrating what the Lord has done.
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And when you know that for us to advance in our relationship with God, it is wonderful
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to have our focus on him and not on us.
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And when your focus is on him, it becomes easier to see what he is doing in the life of
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So if you read scriptures like Ephesians, let me start with, thank you Jesus.
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Ephesians chapter number five, yes, let's go then, Ephesians chapter number five and
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we are going to look at the verse twenty, it says, giving thanks always and for everything
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to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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What are we to do, give thanks always.
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Now let me back up to the verse nineteen and it says, address one another in Psalms and
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hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, with
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And that is a blessing having others, others in focus, seeing the goodness of God and giving
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thanks to the Lord for everything and always without exception, Hallelujah.
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So it becomes a constant in your relationship with the Lord, appreciation, praising the
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Lord, obscene that maybe you may not be seeing things that you are praying for happening
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the way you are praying for them, but praise is helps you to look beyond what you are
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not seeing in your own life and it brings you to a place where you can truly enjoy who
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the Lord is and what is doing in others and the more you enjoy what is doing in the life
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of others from your heart, the easier it becomes for God to rally your life to become a testimony.
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So that others will see His goodness and His mess is true.
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In Colossians chapter 3 verse 70s and whatsoever you do, in word or they do everything in the
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name of the Lord Jesus and then look at the last body, say, giving funds to God the Father
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So everything that you do, you are doing it in the name of the Lord Jesus, whether you
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are saving others, you are praying with others, you are encouraging others, you are washing
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and clothing, whatever you do.
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You do it, giving funds to God the Father through Jesus Christ, Hallelujah.
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So that should become a lifestyle, becomes an attitude, it becomes the way you look beyond
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yourself and you look to God.
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That is what praised us with us.
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In 1st Thessalonians chapter 1, the verse number 2, He said, we give funds to God always
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for all of you, for all of you, Hallelujah.
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So you can praise God for others, Paul was practicing it, he was praising God, give
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him funds, for all of you and he is speaking to an entire church, may God bring you to
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the place where you will be so full with praises on behalf of others.
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Look at them, 2nd Thessalonians chapter 1, the verse number 3, He said, we ought always
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to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right because your faith is growing abundantly
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in the love of everyone of you, for one another is increasing, Hallelujah.
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So you see what the Lord is doing, you see how the life of people are changing and that
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you move you to praise, Hallelujah.
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It's my prayer that you will be so inspired from today that you begin to look, look and
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see, Hallelujah, listing with an open heart and when you hear and you see what the Lord
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is doing, I pray that it will trigger and change your heart of praising you and as you
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become dead to the flesh and live in the fullness of appreciating and praising the Lord,
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pray that may you receive speedily your own encounters of divine testimonies and transformations.
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Thank you Jesus, Amen.