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Bishop Eric A. Lambert, Jr.: So what is it that stirs you? Get ready. Inside of your spirit is a god-placed vacuum that can only be filled by him. And since he's so holy, sin kept him out. But now you're born again. And the key to the door of that vacuum is praise. That's why he inhabits it. You can praise God and actually feel full. Like you had a good meal at a five-star restaurant. Because when he comes in, his presence satisfies every area of your life.

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Bishop Eric A. Lambert, Jr.: Do you notice Isaiah said there will be a time when the trees clap their hands? You see it all the time. The trees are clapping their hands. Do you understand the metaphor? When do trees clap? During a storm. What's God saying? That's when you should praise me during your storm. And notice Oh, glory to God. Somebody's getting this. Notice this. Notice this. When the tree claps their hands, when you come back around after the storm, some leaves are on the ground. What does God say? When you praise me, I take off dead leaves. I get rid of people that are in your life that should not be there.

The way to get rid of people who shouldn't be in your life is praise God like you don't have good sense. When you praise him, everyone of you ought to have some dead leaves at your feet. People that don't need to be in your life. Stop trying to put them back in your life. Step over them and tell God do something about it. Praise was never meant to be an individual action. It was meant to be a corporate thing. But the devil slipped in and tried to make you think you were spiritual cuz I'm going to praise him.

Watch this. If nobody else praise him, I'm going to praise him. Get out. We don't want that that that attitude in here. You shouldn't even say if nobody else don't praise him. Oh, no no no no no. Oh, no no no. What you should say is I'm going to find somebody who's praising him. And the two of us going to get together and we going to praise him. What you should say is only if there's only a few of us. Cuz you can't praise him by yourself. He's too big. You can't praise him by yourself.

You got to have some help. You got to You got to have a Simeon. You hear me, Judah? You got to have a Simeon. Now our church is filled with sophisticated people. I'm looking at you right now. How long's he going to be up there? Then this message ain't for you. This message ain't for you. You go home and and and wait for the football game. But if this message is for you, you looking around for Simeons. And after church, you going to take them over to the side and say praise him with me. I got a situation in my life.

All right. All right. All right. The object in this text in Luke's gospel is don't forget to say thank you. I know you said thank you, Lord, for waking me up this morning. But you were very generic, very passive. You probably said it through sleepy eyes. Thank you, Lord, for waking me up. But you need to get yourself together. You need to say, Lord, thank you for causing my nervous system to energize my muscles. Thank you for keeping my arteries clear so the blood can rush through. Thank you that my eyes focus and I can see outside of sleep.

Thank you for causing my ears to lock into your voice. Thank you that my house did not burn down last night. Thank you. I hear I hear the late Mahalia Jackson. I hear saying thank him for how he brought me. Thank him for how he taught me. Thank him that he never left me. Thank him that he never forgot me. I want to thank him, thank him, thank him for being so good to me. Yeah. Now watch. In Joshua chapter 6 Joshua has gone from victory to victory in the last place that he would encounter significant warfare was Jericho.

And the Bible says Jericho was straitly shut up. Means that nobody could get in or out. They were under siege from the children of God. And God said to Joshua, this is the last obstacle before you can occupy the promised land. He says but I'm giving you specific instruction. Here's what I want you to do. The city is so formidable. It has two walls. It has a all Each wall is about 14 in thick. And it's it's double And it's built on a on a slope. So the invading army had to march uphill in order to get to them.

And the first wall was was the wall that was supposed to slow you down. But the second wall was the one to keep you out. Now the children of that city were be able They were able to stand on top of that second wall and watch any invading army try to assault their position. But God said, look here, Joshua, I don't even need you to assault. Here's what he told him. He said, now listen. He said, you shall circle the city, all the men of war, and go round about the city once a day, and do it for how many days?

How many days? How many days? Read the verse. How many days? How many days? Six is the number of In other words, you try for six days. It's all I need you to do. I just need you to show up for six days. That represents man's effort. Some of you are at your fourth day, hanging for two more days. Some of you are at your fifth day, hanging for one more day. In other words, God is saying through the number six, I want you to do all you can do and all you have to do is march around the whole city once a day for six days.

and six being the number of man. He said, but when you come to the seventh day, I want you to march around seven times because seven represents me. Six plus one equals seven. Meaning God plus man is perfection and completeness. The problem The reason you're suffering so is because you're operating under the six. I implore you to add one more. Add God. In all your ways acknowledge him. And he will direct your path. That's the seventh one. Get him in there with you. Anytime God would come in to join you, miraculous things happen. He joined Paul and Silas and the prison walls came down.

He joined Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. And while they were in the fire, the fire didn't even get on to them. But why is it that we don't have the same level of miracles in the 21st century? It's because we stopped believing and praising. We're weak in our thanksgiving, strong in our doctrine, strong in our dogma, but weak in our praise. Now I need you to see something. In verse five Joshua six verse five See, you're used to reading the Bible on the surface. And if you don't dig into beyond the surface, you'll never see the truth in the verse.

It says and it shall come to pass that when they, the priests, make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all of the people shall shout. Now this word shout is the word r-u-a and it means a splitting sound that splits the ears. It's a noise that pierces human understanding. It's a noise that will get the attention of not only people in your realm, but in the spirit realm. Notice it is accompanied by the trumpet blast. What does that remind you of? The trumpet blast, loud voice.

Rapture. Trumpet blast to get your attention. Loud voice to pull you up. What is God saying here? The trumpet blast gets their attention and the loud voice gets them into the city. You stopped your loud voice. You you you've become mamby-pamby. You become sophisticated. You say, oh, I'm an introvert. So am I. But there are times. There are times and those times are becoming more and more regular when you have to just go for it and give him a loud cry. Sometimes God will hit me when I'm in the supermarket. I'll go over to the frozen foods and open the door and put my head in and go, yes, Lord.

And all the peas melt. Notice this. He said, and the people shall shout. Now keep reading. With what? A great shout. This second shout is a different shout. The first one is a splitting cry that sounds an alarm. In other words, something is about to happen. That first shout was something is about to happen. You have a preparatory praise. Your preparatory praise is loud and aggressive. You are letting people know that God's about to do something. Something is about to break. Walk into your house one day and just have that loud praise. Just let it out.

People will run down. What's wrong? What's wrong? Say God's about to do something in this house. Too much sickness in this house. Too much bondage in this house. Too much sadness in this house. Too much oppression in this house. Now watch this. He said, and the people shall shout. This is the word which means an acclamation or battle cry. The first one gets you ready. The second one energizes you. You go into the battle now. Yeah. Slicing and dicing, slicing and dicing. You can't be a punk and praise God. Because when you praise him, you draw demons.

But because you're praising him, you slicing and dicing. The weapons about warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down. And notice what God says. You got the two shouts. He goes on and says, and the wall of the city shall fall down flat. This word in the Hebrew flat means from the foundation. In other words, when God gives you victory, he tearing up the foundation so the devil can't build it again. The foundation has been destroyed. God doesn't go after the what. God goes after the why. Why are you oppressed? Why are you depressed?

And when you shout those praises, he takes away the why. So now that thing can't be built anymore. Give him a praise like you never had before. All right. All right. Hold on. Hold on. I'm finished. I'm almost done. I'm almost done. Now David is the praise master. He's the praise master. Oh, that man could praise. He praised God like nobody else had before him. Moses wrote a couple psalms, but David wrote the majority. David could praise God until God moved. When he gets down to this section in Psalm 100 what he does in Psalm 100, we recite it.

But do we actually search it out? If you look at Psalm 100, David employs the concept of a a a relationship between two people. The object of our praise is God. And the subject of our time with God is praise. Are you with me? So he's saying here in Psalm 100, make a joyful noise unto the Lord. Not that thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. No. Make a joyful noise. We got to hear something come from you. You noticed today the song the songs that were sung back in the '60s and '70s, the music did not overpower the lyrics so you could understand the lyrics.

Are Are you with me? And it was the lyrics that you moved to. And that was fine. But now the music is so loud you can't hear the lyrics. But the music moves you. You ain't paying no attention to the words. It's the music that 's moving you. It's like the praise dancers that get up. They always play a song. But nobody paying attention to the song. They are watching the dance. Cuz it's the dance that liberates you. They go oh But I submit to you that the temps used to do that. Oh, how I wish that it would rain.

They used to do that. So what is it that stirs you? Get ready. Inside of your spirit is a god-placed vacuum that can only be filled by him. And since he's so holy, sin kept him out. But now you're born again. And the key to the door of that vacuum is praise. That's why he inhabits it. You can praise God and actually feel full. Like you had a good meal at a five-star restaurant. Because when he comes in, his presence satisfies every area of your life. I miss you, Jesus. Miss you, miss you, miss you, miss you, miss you.

Hold on, Eric. Hold on. They ain't ready for this. All right. Let me get past this. You can miss him. Sitting in your lonely room. A room filled with nothing but gloom and you're crying, crying, crying, crying, crying. How you going to get past this? Your spirit is saying praise him. Lift him up. And you still sitting there feeling sorry. When I'm alone and I need someone to talk to, I talk to your picture. Get me a pencil and paper and write all the things and say all the things I heard you say before. No.

Grab your Bible and look for victory. Compare that victory with yours. Give him praise like you never did before. Don't try to figure it out. Praise him. For him Let me get to this. Let me get to this. Let me get to this. David said, make a joyful noise unto the Lord. All ye lands. Since all of us are in here today, you're all the lands. Tell your neighbor make a joyful noise. Tell your other neighbor make a joyful noise. Tell it to them until they smile. Now watch what he says. Notice the attitude that the psalmist brings.

Make a joyful noise. Come on, get happy. Come on, get happy. Come on and make that joyful noise. Now hold on now. Then he says, serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. Hey. Come before his presence with singing. Serve him with gladness. Make a joyful noise. You getting the picture? You can't serve him sad, mad. You got to be glad. Why are you glad? Cuz I'm born again. I'm in the family of God. God is my father. Jesus is my elder brother. The Holy Spirit lives in me. I'm no longer going to hell.

Come on, get happy. We going to chase all your blues away. Watch. He says, know ye that the Lord, he is God. It is he that made us and not we ourselves. You ever make something? Anything? You ever make anything? I ain't talking about your kids. You ever notice how possessive you are over what you made? You tell people don't touch that. Don't touch that. No, cuz that's sensitive. That'll break cuz you made it. That's what God is saying. We are his people. He made us. He ain't going to let the devil destroy you cuz he made us.

He made us to be victorious. He didn't make us to lose. He made us to win. Get losing off your mind. You are more than a conqueror. Praise him for who he is. Watch now. Watch the attitude. Tell somebody change your attitude. Watch this. Watch this. Now I don't care what happened at your at your house and you drove all the way here or Ubered here or however you got here and you had a bad morning. You and your spouse did not get along. You and your your wife are fighting and arguing. You and your husband are arguing and fighting.

And your kids got on your last nerve. And if you could, you put them in foster care. And you fussed all the way down here to church. You fussed when you got on Shelton Ham Avenue. You fussed at security because there's no more safe spots up here. You mad at everybody. But here's what David says. When you enter into his gates leave that mad out in the parking lot. Enter into his gates with and enter his courts with That means those of you that come sliding in all quiet, you wrong. You out of order. You ought to come in.

Thank you, Jesus. Lord, we honor your presence. Lord, we bless your name. God, you are awesome. Come in here like that. Look at this. Look at this. He said, he said, he said, be thankful unto him. And yada his name. Yada his name. You ain't got time to be arguing with people. You coming in here to praise him. You ain't got time to be fighting with idiots. You came in to yada his name. Lord, you've been good. You've been good. You've been so good to me.

Bishop Eric A. Lambert, Jr.: Well, praise the Lord, everyone. Pastor Eric Lambert of Bethel Deliverance International Church. And I want to welcome you to this time of encouragement, fellowship, and strengthening. The word of the Lord declares that without faith, it's impossible to please God. And if you're like many believers, you're struggling with faith because our faith is under assault from our adversary, Satan. He knows how important it is to believe God. In fact, the writer to the Hebrews says without faith, you cannot please God. Well, this has been a burden for me and I've been trying to develop a proper concept to share with the people of God so that they can live by faith in a victorious way, not in a theological or hard-driven mental way.

And so the Spirit of God put in my mind to write this book. And this book really will help you to understand what faith is all about. It only has seven chapters. And let me read them to you. It talks about defining faith, working What is working faith? How faith is used? How to walk by faith? Where have I placed my faith? Victory through faith and working faith in your everyday life. Now you need to get this book into your hands, Living by Faith, and understand what it means to live by faith. Now this isn't written to be a theological book.

It isn't written to be a seminary book. It is written for the everyday believer to pick it up, read it over and over again so that you will master the principles of faith. It is so important for us to live by faith. Jesus says that you and I must understand that when we place our faith in God, there is a peace that comes because we realize our heavenly Father takes care of everything we need. So I want you to get this book into your hands, Living by faith, to understand the word of God, how it gets into your mind, shifts your thinking process from cultural understanding to spiritual understanding.

Again, this is not written for the seminarian. It is written for the average believer to pick it up, read through the seven chapters, and understand what it means to live by faith. I'm very passionate about living by faith. I've come to realize faith is not difficult. Faith is not something you should stumble over, but it is so simple that Jesus, when he taught faith, he said, look at the birds and look at the flowers. Now how simple can it be? So you can go to ericlambertministries.org and get your copy of Living by Faith. Please please get this into your library because its principles are so life-affirming, its teachings are very simplistic, but the application will take you to a new level in God.

Again, you can go to ericlambertministries.org and you can get your copy of Living by Faith. Give it out as a gift to someone who's struggling with principles of faith so that their faith will grow as they place their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you. I pray for you every day because I believe God that he will strengthen you and bring you through the test that you will face as a Christian. Get your copy so you can live by faith.

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