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00:01 #S093 - “Crazy Praise” (Part 2) 00:19 Welcome to the Breath of Life. 00:21 Television Ministries broadcast with Pastor Debleaire Snell. 00:25 Now in today's episode, Pastor Snell preaches part 00:28 two of the powerful message, “Crazy Praise.” 00:33 Now let's go deeper into the word of God. 00:37 Oh, God, I wish I had somebody that was with me today. 00:40 How many of us know that God is not a stingy God? 00:43 That you got to pry his hands open with? 00:46 Hey, no, that is not the purpose of faith. 00:50 Faith is not prying open hands that God wants to keep close. 00:54 I need you to know that God's 00:55 hands are already open toward his children, 01:01 and he delights to supply whatever you stand in need of. 01:05 You hear me? Today, Church? 01:06 In other words, I need somebody to be clear on this truth 01:10 that God is not and type blessing. 01:12 He is not trying to withhold any good faith. 01:16 In fact, when you read Deuteronomy 28, 01:19 he says to Israel, I want you to be the head and not the tail. 01:24 I want you to be above and not beneath. 01:27 I want you lending and not borrowing. 01:30 In fact, he says, 01:31 I don't want you to run around chasing blessings. 01:34 But he says, if you obey my commands 01:37 and keep my statutes, the blessings of the Lord 01:40 will chase you down and overtake you. 01:45 Are you hear what I'm saying? 01:46 And so if you realize the way that God blessed Joseph, 01:51 the way He blessed Solomon, the way God took care of Joe 01:55 teaches us that God is not against blessing His children. 02:00 But there is a caution for us to embrace 02:03 going in your Bible's first Timothy chapter 02:05 six, first Timothy Chapter six and verse ten. 02:08 When you get there, let me hear you 02:09 say, Man, that's over there. 02:10 Toward the end of the New Testament verse, Timothy, 02:13 chapter six. 02:14 Could you just give you this one caution first, Timothy? 02:18 Chapter one and verse six. 02:20 And the reason this is critical is because we are in the age 02:25 where we might have to give up some things. 02:29 You see how you 02:31 see how you see. 02:33 You see, all we want to do 02:34 is debate this stuff in Sabbath school. 02:37 But when it's time for us to talk about living it, 02:39 you'll get quiet on that first. 02:41 Timothy chapter. Chapter six. 02:43 We might be about the age where we've got to 02:45 give up some things. 02:47 We might have to give up some things. 02:51 That's why the Bible says 02:52 Now godliness with contentment is what is great game. 02:57 But we brought nothing into this world 02:58 and it is certain that we can carry what nothing out. 03:04 And having food and clothing with these things 03:07 we shall be content. 03:08 But those who desire to be rich fall into what 03:12 temptation and a snare and into many foolish 03:16 and harmful left which drown men and destruction 03:18 and prediction for the love of money 03:24 is the root 03:25 of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the free 03:31 in their greediness 03:32 and pierced themselves through many sorrows. 03:34 The Darkest Saturday Church. 03:37 Now again, I want to be clear. 03:38 I'm not saying that money is evil or having is wrong, 03:43 but notice that the Bible says it is the love of money 03:48 that is the root of all evil. 03:50 And one of the things I simply want to encourage us 03:52 to do is to move away from the place 03:55 where we're where wealth is, our metric 03:57 for success, happiness, peace and contentment. 04:02 And what I'm saying today. 04:03 CHURCH In other words, what I simply want to encourage 04:05 the church to do is to make sure we chase God more than we 04:09 chase things. 04:11 And this is the formula. 04:13 If you chase God, you will never lack things. 04:16 So God. 04:20 And what I want to say to some young person 04:21 is, I don't want you to chase possessions. 04:25 I want you to chase your purpose. 04:27 And when you find your purpose, guess what possessions 04:30 and things are going to find you. 04:34 You see, reason Joe was able to possess things 04:38 was because he was possessed by the Spirit 04:41 more than he was possessed by things. 04:44 And let me just say this, 04:45 because I'm using this word being possessed intentionally. 04:49 Because when we think about being possessed, 04:51 what do we think about? 04:51 We think about demons. 04:53 We think about the seven sons of Shiva 04:57 who are attacked by a man possessed 04:58 by a hostile, evil spirit 05:00 who overwhelmed them and beat them down 05:03 and bring them out naked. 05:04 When we think about being possessed, 05:06 we think about the man at the gate 05:08 who reads, who could not be held with a feather or chain. 05:13 When we think about somebody being possessed, 05:15 we think about the young boy 05:16 that threw himself into the fire and the water 05:19 and he found at the mouth. 05:20 And the reason we think about possession in this way 05:25 is because we realize that there can be a power 05:28 that controls your words, your minds, 05:30 your movements and your priorities. 05:34 Why am I saying that? 05:35 Because I believe that in our time, 05:37 one of the 05:38 things the devil is going to operate in is misdirection. 05:41 And he knows 05:43 that some of us are on guard for that type of possession. 05:48 In other words, we can see that type of darkness coming. 05:51 So we're not going to allow 05:52 ourselves to be possessed in that way. 05:56 But one of the things I want to pause 05:58 and stand on business and say, well, we've got to guard against 06:01 is the spirit of materialism 06:05 that literally disrupts 06:07 the character of the layered descent church 06:12 that cannot see its flaws because it says, I'm rich 06:15 and increase with good and have need of nothing. 06:19 In other words, some of us are not possessed 06:22 by an EMP, but we're possessed by an iPhone. 06:28 Some of us are not controlled by a spirit, 06:30 but we're controlled by spending. 06:33 Some of us are not in bondage to a demon, 06:36 but we're controlled by the car dealership. 06:38 Y'all not here with me today. 06:40 Some of us are not bound by the spirit, 06:43 but some of us are bound by Nike. 06:46 We're bound by Netflix, we're bound by gambling. 06:49 We're bound by sports. 06:51 We're well controlled by Instagram 06:54 than we are by Emmanuel. 06:57 Some are more possessed by Mary Kay than we are by the Master. 07:02 Some are more to Mercedes than we do to the Messiah. 07:05 Some love Michael. 07:06 Cause more than we love Michael. 07:08 Who is Jesus? 07:12 So I'm sorry. You all are going to be strange. 07:13 Oh, no, Pastor, I'm not possessed by things. 07:17 Well, how do you know if you're possessed by things? 07:19 If things become your validation, 07:22 if things bring stature, it bring. 07:26 If things connote worth, if things bring 07:30 you security, then things are what are possessing you. 07:35 Okay, 07:37 you're possessed. 07:39 If you have an innate need to keep up 07:42 with the Joneses, you're possessed. 07:49 If you have a need to upgrade devices, 07:51 that ain't got nothing wrong with them. 07:54 Oh, yeah, yeah. 07:55 I'm rolling right down your holiday. 07:56 I told you I was going to go home, but I'm not staying here. 07:58 Where are you on this? 08:00 Watch this. 08:01 You're possessed when you see other people's lack 08:04 as their problem. 08:15 I need to know it is something wrong with the body of Christ 08:18 when we see other people's lack as the curse of those 08:22 who have led, as opposed to the opportunity of those 08:25 who have abundance. 08:29 No, no, no, no, no. 08:30 Wherever there is lack, that is not their responsibility. 08:35 It is our opportunity to show forth the praises of him 08:39 that has brought 08:40 us out of darkness and into this marvelous light. 08:44 How many of us understand that God blesses you, 08:47 that God shows you favor, that God doesn't just meet 08:51 your basic needs, but God has all that. 08:54 Your needs are here. 08:55 But His supply is here. 08:58 But God has not called you to be a collector. 09:02 God has called you to be a conduit through which 09:04 the blessings of God flow earthward toward man. 09:09 Okay, let me take you out to the Bible. 09:11 Can I say something? 09:12 Got to go with me in your Bible. 09:13 To Ezekiel, chapter 16. 09:15 Ezekiel, chapter 16. 09:17 I want you to see some real quick. 09:19 Do you know why God actually destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah? 09:23 I want you to see this thing in your Bible. 09:26 Ezekiel, chapter 16. 09:27 And I'm going to look over here at verse 49. 09:31 Ezekiel 16, when I'm with you, look at verse 49. 09:35 See, the problem is we so surface 09:37 that all we do is we look at symptoms, 09:39 but we don't never understand the virus. 09:41 We actually think the reason that God rained streams of 09:46 brimstone and fire was because God 09:49 was wanting to punish the sin of homosexuality. 09:53 I need you to know that God don't hate homosexual sin 09:57 more than He hates. Heterosexual said. 09:59 If they deserve to be all quiet today, 10:02 if they should about guess what? 10:03 We ought to be burning too. 10:06 But that wasn't really the issue is the key of chapter 10:09 16 and verse actually 48. 10:12 Look at what the word saying is. 10:13 The Bible says as I live, saith the Lord. 10:16 Neither your sisters, Sodom, nor her daughters have done 10:19 as you and your daughters have done. 10:21 Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom. 10:25 She and her daughters had what? 10:27 Pride, fullness of light 10:30 and abundance of what? 10:32 Neither did she. 10:34 Strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy. 10:38 And they were hearty and committed abomination before me. 10:42 You catch Saturday church. 10:43 Do you understand the way God created Sodom? 10:46 It is 10:47 actually compared in Scripture to being like the garden of God. 10:51 In fact, Ellen White makes it clear that God men 10:53 are decorated, solemn, with such ease 10:57 that it was so comfortable with the climate that you didn't 11:00 have to build the house you can live outside 11:03 that the city of five them actually irrigated itself 11:07 so that you did not have to dig ditches or wells 11:10 in order to here give water. 11:11 And that God blessed the trees to be of such a height 11:15 where you didn't have to climb the trees. 11:17 They actually handed you the fruit every day. 11:20 And the problem with Saddam is they got so high minded 11:23 and so full of themselves 11:25 that they kept every blessing unto themselves 11:29 and they did not help those around them. 11:34 And if they covered in judgment, guess what? 11:36 We better be praying for grace for ourselves. 11:42 You know how you possessed 11:44 is if things 11:46 change the way you praise God, 11:51 so that if the subtraction of things 11:54 creates a subtraction of praise, 11:59 if the loss of things equates to a loss of praise. 12:05 In other words, if your praise meter 12:08 is always in harmony with the abundance of things, 12:12 there is something fundamentally wrong in the way 12:15 we are doing worship. 12:16 Because the truth is, 12:17 no matter how much I possess or how much I don't have, 12:22 the truth is that God is still worthy to be praise. 12:26 And I stand here in the strength of the Lord 12:30 to declare that the exorcism that needs to take place 12:34 in the contemporary church 12:35 is that there doesn't need to be the calling out of a spirit 12:39 in the traditional form. 12:41 But what we need to be loosed from 12:43 is the spirit of comparison. 12:46 We need to be free from the spirit of competing. 12:50 We need to be loosed from the spirit of trying to have. 12:53 Some of us need to be free from the spirit of materialism. 12:57 And I stand here in the power of Jesus of Nazareth. 13:02 And I don't call out a demon, 13:04 but I rebuke the spirit of materialism 13:08 and I pray, God, that you are loosed and set us free 13:14 in Jesus name. 13:15 Today. 13:19 Third thing before I get to this, 13:22 I do want to pause and say one thing, quick thing, 13:24 and this is kind of a little bit of power from the sermon. 13:26 One thing I want to say real quick is that it is bad theology 13:30 to blame every bad thing on God. 13:34 No, no. 13:35 I need you know, that that is a bad approach to things. 13:38 So so that when you look at when the one servant came 13:41 to tell him about what happened to some of his possessions. 13:44 Notice what he said. 13:45 Now, remember, we know the behind the scenes 13:48 that Satan comes and seeks out permission to bring harm to Joe. 13:53 So the attack does not come from God? 13:59 No. This speaks to the magnitude of Job's faith. 14:04 Because notice what he says. 14:05 It says The fire of who fell on the things. 14:09 The Bible says the fire of God fell upon them. 14:13 But understand, 14:14 a part of Satan's deception is to get you to believe 14:19 that God is responsible for his handiwork. 14:24 So I need you to know that there is something wrong with us. 14:26 See, one of the things that's wrong with us is because we have 14:29 is that we have to find a reason for every bad thing. 14:33 And so what we tend to do by nature in it is what 14:35 literally what kind of caused jobs, friends to go straight, 14:39 you know, really, they were good at first 14:41 and first they just came sat down and shut up. 14:46 And can I say, when somebody is grieving, 14:47 sometimes it's okay to come without a solution, 14:51 a word of encouragement, an answer to every problem. 14:55 Sometimes the best thing you can do 14:57 is just come sit down and be present in Jesus name 15:01 and let your presence be. 15:03 Provide the comfort. 15:05 But notice where they messed up is they had to have a solution. 15:09 So essentially what they say to Joe, man, you, 15:11 you, you, you, you got to have done something wrong 15:17 for all this stuff to be happening to you. 15:20 And in other words, there's always a need to assess blame. 15:23 And one of the things I need 15:24 somebody to understand fundamentally about God. 15:26 We heard it earlier, John, chapter ten and verse ten, 15:29 the thief comes 15:32 to steal to kill. 15:34 And what? 15:36 But Jesus says, I have come. 15:39 That they might have life and life more abundantly. 15:43 Let me be true clear. 15:45 There are some things that God allows. 15:49 But those are not things that He intends. 15:53 I, I need to know every bad thing that happens to you. 15:57 It is not the curse or the judgment 15:59 or the punishment of God. 16:01 The truth is, 16:01 we're going to have some hardships 16:03 and we're going to have 16:04 some difficulties simply because there is an enemy 16:09 who is the prince of this world, who is going to do everything 16:11 in his power to plan you away from your trust in God. 16:18 And I need somebody 16:19 to be loose and free from the anger 16:24 and resentment that you have been holding against God. 16:27 Because a mama died, 16:28 because a bill didn't get paid, because an accident took place. 16:33 And you assume that God said certain things as punishment. 16:36 When the truth is all, trouble is not earned. 16:38 Some trouble is just inherited. 16:42 Do you realize that as descendants 16:45 of Adam, we receive an inheritance 16:48 and a part of that inheritance is hardship 16:51 and calamity and death. 16:51 If you want to be mad at somebody 16:53 when we get to heaven, let's pull Adam to a corner. 16:58 Are you hear what I'm saying to the church? 17:00 And what I'm saying to somebody today 17:02 is that some of us have been blaming God for some things. 17:05 That was the work of the enemy. 17:08 It is the enemy that did this. 17:09 Do you realize that 17:10 death is the cause or the coworker of our enemy? 17:15 That calamity? 17:16 It is the work of our enemy. 17:18 That destruction. 17:19 It is the work of our enemy. 17:21 I need you to know that God is not the author of pain. 17:26 Even if He allowed it. 17:28 And even you realize that 17:30 even in God, what God allowed and he allowed a lot on Joe. 17:35 And so 17:36 sometimes some of us have the theology 17:37 that says all of us are going to be tested like Joe was. 17:39 No, actually, that's not true. 17:41 Joe was actually man and outlier. 17:44 It was written for our benefit. 17:47 Everybody is not going to go through this test. 17:49 You ought to praise God. 17:51 You ought to say, man, 17:53 it was written so that we understand 17:54 what is happening behind the scenes, 17:56 but understand 17:57 and that that the Lord even and all that he allowed 18:02 he gave the devil some restrictions. 18:05 He says, Don't you go past a certain point. 18:08 He says, You can go here and no further 18:11 that he gave trouble a boundary. 18:12 Oh, you not hear me today? 18:14 I need you to know that it would have been worse for Joe 18:18 if God didn't give His trouble some boundaries. 18:22 And I need to say to somebody that's in a dark space today, 18:25 as bad as it is, it could be a thousand times 18:29 worse if God didn't give Joe trouble a boundary. 18:34 If He didn't say here and no further. 18:37 And how many of us know that what was permitted 18:41 is never as bad as what was intended? 18:45 If you 18:46 could see what the devil intended for you, 18:49 if you could see what he intended for your health, 18:52 if you would see what was intended for your kids, 18:54 if you would see 18:55 what was intended for your faith, guess what? 18:57 You would have to be held down. 18:59 We would have to bound you to keep you from praising God 19:04 because you would realize that when the weapon formed 19:07 and the heavenly 19:08 God intercepted it before He got to the earthly. 19:13 So that what touched you was only a portion 19:16 of what was sent for you? 19:18 Can you praise him that the weapon that was found 19:22 did not get permitted to prosper 19:25 because God blocked it? 19:29 God held it back. 19:31 God gave it a boundary. 19:33 God says they can handle this. 19:36 So I can only go so far 19:42 and hang on. Like 19:44 that's the most I read story. 19:45 Joe, you know, 19:46 I said, Lord, this week I was like, Lord, I knew. 19:48 Yet because the Bible says 19:53 he has perhaps the worst day imaginable. 19:59 I mean, he just he's 20:02 just trying to eliminate him. 20:05 He's just trying to get to the end of the day, one comes 20:08 and says, all the oxen, 20:11 all the cattle. 20:13 Let me say to Joe, all your money has been taken 20:16 and I'm the only one to tell you another. 20:18 Well, that one is still speaking. 20:20 Comes and says this joke man, all the fields 20:24 have been overtaken in and that's been taken in. 20:26 And the rest of your assets they've been to 20:27 and I alone have been alone to take you 20:29 and maybe Joe can stand up under this. 20:33 But man, I mean, I think all the parents identified with this. 20:35 Listen, this is like, yo, listen, I was there, man. 20:37 When your kids I don't know if they say because I was eating 20:41 and drinking like they always do. 20:45 And a great windstorm came and knocked down the pillars 20:47 and it collapsed on all of the children. 20:50 And I alone have escaped to tell you 20:54 and friends of mine, I'm going lie. 20:56 Listen, the best part of the story 20:59 is just really jobs response 21:02 for the Bible says 21:07 that when all his stuff is taken away 21:10 and his income is stripped away from it, 21:14 and his stature as the greatest of the all the people in 21:16 the East is taken away, even when his offspring 21:21 are snatched and the twinkling of an eye. 21:25 The Bible doesn't say that. 21:27 John stood on the hill, shaking his fist 21:31 with a mouthful of curses toward the most high. 21:35 But the Bible says in Greek that Joe shaved his hair, 21:39 that he tore his robe, and the Bible 21:43 says that Joe falls on his face 21:49 and he worships 21:52 he gives God a crazy praise because the praise 21:57 is not congruent with his circumstance. 22:01 And I don't know if somebody has missed it yet. 22:04 The Bible says he believes so much 22:06 in God that when they took his stuff 22:10 and they took his name and they took his statue 22:14 and they took his kids, the Bible says that he fell 22:19 on his face and said, the Lord gives 22:23 and the Lord takes away, but I'm still going. 22:27 Bless the name of the Lord, 22:32 he says, even in my despair, 22:35 the Lord is worthy. 22:38 I said, The Lord is worthy. 22:41 When you are certain that the Lord is worthy, he says, 22:45 the Lord is still worthy to be praise. 22:51 John says, 22:53 from the rising of the sun to the going down of the say 22:57 that the name of the Lord is to be praised. 23:01 And it shows us something because we say 23:05 worship is a response, worship and a response. 23:10 Worship ought to be a reflex. 23:14 See, see. 23:15 Worship is not a response to good music, 23:19 because if the music ain't good, then I don't respond. 23:22 Worship isn't a response to God's circumstance, 23:26 because if the circumstance ain't good, I don't respond. 23:29 But when worship is a reflex, 23:31 the Bible says that John praise God regularly. 23:35 He sacrifice regularly, 23:38 that he trained himself in worship, 23:41 that he trained himself in praise, 23:44 that he trained himself in adoration, 23:47 so that when hardship came, oh, that happened. 23:51 Is that his training kicked in 23:54 like a reflex. 23:56 It was his default setting. 23:58 And I need to know, do I have some folks 24:01 that make it up for you? Oh, my God. 24:03 That worship is going to be your reflex. 24:06 You don't praise them in the morning. 24:08 You don't praise them at the nighttime. 24:11 You don't praise them when you got money 24:13 and you go praise them when you got. 24:15 No, you don't praise them when they talk. 24:17 Well, how can you praise them when they talk bad? 24:21 Can you praise them when you got a job? 24:23 Can you praise them when you get unemployed? 24:26 Can you praise them in good health? 24:28 Will you praise them on your sickbed? 24:30 Because when you praise them like that, rush hour becomes 24:34 a reflex and your training kicks in whenever distress shows up. 24:40 And I just need to know, do I have some last day saints 24:44 that, like David will say, I will bless the Lord 24:48 at all times 24:50 and his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 24:54 My son will make His boss and the Lord 24:59 the humble John here thereof, and be glad. 25:03 Oh, good university. Church. 25:06 Will you magnify the Lord with me 25:12 and let us exalt His name together? 25:17 Do I have some that will rejoice in the Lord 25:19 always and again I say rejoice. 25:24 I said, He is a worthy God. 25:27 No, no, he's a worthy God. 25:30 He is a faithful God. 25:32 He provides, he protects, 25:36 but I praise him because he retains. 25:39 If you keep letting losing happen to you, 25:42 if you keep letting people do, he wouldn't 25:43 treat you any kind of way. 25:44 It's going to become our culture winners. 25:46 Winners and losers lose the Vision and Dream Dreams 25:49 conference has been a true blessing. 25:50 My breakout sessions for amazing 25:54 practical ways for entrepreneurs 25:55 to start their business, all of the guest speakers, 25:57 I mean, it's quite amazing calling of Dreamers, 26:01 CEOs, content creators and entrepreneurs. 26:05 We're inviting you to the second Annual Vision 26:08 and Dreamers Conference November 7th through the ninth, 26:12 right here in Huntsville, Alabama. 26:13 Last year we did it big, but this year 26:16 we're going to do it even bigger. 26:17 We're going to kick it off 26:18 that Friday night with the hip hop preacher himself, Dr. 26:21 Eric Thomas is going to be in the house. 26:23 And then that Saturday morning at 11, 26:26 I'm going to exhort you and teach you in the world 26:29 on how to crystallize and walk in the visions God gives you. 26:32 And then that afternoon, 26:33 we're going to hear 26:34 from the leadership voice of this generation, Dr. 26:37 John Maxwell. 26:38 And then we're going to close out the day 26:40 with the anointed one God's woman, Miss Tabitha Brown. 26:45 And when we come together that Sunday, 26:47 you're going to attend a number of breakout sessions 26:50 that are going to build, instruct and encourage you 26:53 and how to make those visions a reality. 26:56 And then we're going to conclude with our second annual vision 26:58 and Dreamers brunch. 27:00 Listen, you do not want to miss this conference visit 27:04 breathoflife.TV and grab your tickets today. 27:09 It's going to be epic and they'll be amazing. 27:12 And you don't want to miss this inspiring event 27:15 that's coming to Huntsville in November. 27:16 Listen, I believe it's going to be the biggest event 27:19 to hit the city of Huntsville in a long time. 27:22 So if you're in Huntsville, you need to come. 27:23 If you're outside of Huntsville, you still need to come. 27:27 And if you want to join online, 27:28 there's a way for you to register 27:30 and join from a distance as well. 27:33 I believe that we are in the age of visions and dreams. 27:38 Joel 2:28 lets us know that there's more visionary 27:40 power available now than at any other time in history. 27:45 So we look forward to seeing you at the 2025 Vision 27:48 and Dreamers conference. 28:00 (BOL Music) |
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